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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1862.
THE LATEST WAR NEWS,
A certain John Vernon, of New Orleans, has had
an idea. Mr. Vernon has invented what purports
to he r decimal sustain for tho currency °f corns,
Weights, ond measures; and, tired with a tropical
teal to have hfc name imuiortal, has laid it oefore
the aligns' wisdom of tho rebel Congress. A mi
nute ‘uta’vsis of Mr. Vernon's new decimal system,
which the Charleston Courier pronounces “ per
fect in theory.** reveals its wonderful novelty,
whipii Diny he expressed in the following formula:
Ten centimes make one tropic, ten tropics make
one star, ten stars make one sol. The refrain
sounds somewhat familiar to our oar. A fancy
comes to us that we once heard something very
like it chanted in a primary school in the upper
6f this Cily, not more than oigliloen months
ago. But whether original or not, it is a very
Serious matter, and will justify much comment. It
InTolyes n principle- Llho «v®ry municipal elec
tion that ever has or ever can take place within
the United States, it threatens to convulse the
of society, and shiver into fragments a
Certain mooted “ fabric." ill Mr. Vernon pause
in his mad career, and reflect upon the conse
quences that may .How from his dread ambition?
How would the Charleston Courier itsolf feel to
tear its extra? hawked about by Glamorous news
boys with the cry of, “ 7 Kro’a the extra Courier,
only two tropics! 7 ’ Fancy an urchin going into a
grocery store for a sol ’orth of sugar, or a tropic's
7 orth of tohecco 1 Tho star idea is not quite so bad.
The Coifederacy in its “brief, though eventful
career,’ 7 has seen so many of those twinkling arti
cles! and \i declined to sec so many more, that it
by any ingenious decimal system they can be made
suggestive of legal tender, they will be at once in
vested with peculiar attraction for chivalric eyes,
and “my stsns‘.‘ ? may even become a favorite ex
pression of :etired planters with lengthy purses.
Mr. Vernon may effect a social revolution. By
His couiUiaauou of astronomy and geography ha
may gentiy hint u determination to move heaven
and eart’a in the accomplishment of his project.
Ulit if ike reljtl OoiJgi'dsJ rightly appreciates iks
yesptr.sibility to society, its response, in one sten
torian voice will be —“ Vernon, we charge thee
nwflv ambition! -
A despatch from Cairo states that passengers
who left the Tennessee river on Thursday report
that ihey heard heavy firing in the direetiAh of
Hen. KnliecVs headquarters on thatday r . It was
supposed by many that fl great battle had taken
place, hut despatches from Gon. Hnllcsk to Gen.
Strong; ccmicvniant at Cairo, dated on Thursday,
make no mention of u battle being then in pro
gie*s.
As an evidence of the dormant Union sentiment
of North Carolina, we may state that about ten
days before General Burnside captured Newbern,
gome seyeti hundred men asscmblod in Iredell
oountr, west of Raleigh, and raised and
stripes. A force was sent from Newbern to reduce
them to ike rtbel'domination, and about twelve Of
them were killed.
Our Fortre«s Monroe correspondent, under
of A cumber of flour bar
rels. marked “ Fggs—bnndlo with care.’’ came
from Baltimore this morning on tho steamer. They
were addressed ho private parties, but gome army
official smelt an animal of the rodent species, end
opened said barrels, when the eggs were found to
be msde oi glass, wiih loßg necks, and their con
tents were found to consist of the oil of corn. They
contained whisky, and of good quality. It was
iroictiliaUly confiscated.
The attack on the defences of New Orleans by
cur gunboat and mortar fleet has undoubtedly com.
tuenced. and we think that the Crescent City is now
in our possf sston. Gen. Lovell, the rebel command
er, is represented as stating that the bombardment
Of Fcrt Jacksou was terrific, but that the garrison
still bold out.
Our flotilla in t’ e Rappahannock bare succeeded
in capturing nineteen vessels, beside doing consid
erable amount of other damage to the rebels in that
General Banks' army is marching on. His ad
vanced guard, at last accounts, was nine miles be
yond HarrisonviUe, and still pursuing the rotreat-
fog Jackson.
All 13 quiet ic ibe vic'nUy of Fort Wright, and
ike bombardment is suspended, except by two of
our mortar boats, which occasionally lodge a shell
ib the rebel works.
The gunboat Hmthlfs, wbioh some time ago
cleared the Chesapeake water of vessels inimical to
©ur Government, has returned to Baltimore after
another iueeeiifu! oriaiso.
Congress Yesterday*
Senate.—Resolutions of the Ohio Legislature,
concerning rtbel prisoners confined in that State
who were allowed to retain their slaves, were pre
sented by Mr. Sherman. Mr. Wilson gave notice
of an intention to call up tho matter on Monday.
Mr. Cowan introduced a bill to amend the act of
April 3d, 1790, and gave notice that he should
move a reference of this and all other bills for con
fiscation and punishment to a Sftest committee of
five. Tho hill for tho establishment of a Una of
steamers from San Francisco to Shanghae was
passed. Mr. Wade introduced a bill concerning
private actions against public officers, which was
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
House.—The resolution censuring Vallaudig-
Lam for his disgraceful attack upon Senator Wade
WftS ruled OUfc by sons© technicality. The report
of the select committee on Government contracts,
with the amended resolutions, was taken up, and
much irrelevant debate ensued, in which poetry
and sarcasm were effectively Introduced. Little
else was done.
The Man of Action.
Tlie eyes of the people are turned upon the
Wan of Action. The mere orator, the de
claimed the wrangler, the utterers of plausi
bilities, of truisms and of platitudes, make no
more lasting impression upon the public mind
and memory than the alternate sun and storm
of “ a peevish April day.” The man who suc
ceeds in impressing himself upon the record
of this time will achieve immortality. The
feeble trail of the selfish and timeserving
politician will nevor be visible when this war
of the elements shall have passed by. Such
will deserve the charity of oblivion and obtain
it. But the Man of deeds will bs
monuments, discovering his course to the race
as it glides down the ages.
The demand of the time is for courage In
ihe council no less than in the field. The firm,
cool judgment which leads its possessor to
shoulder the responsibility will earn popular
recognition, and no other. The advocate of
a narrow, cramped policy in the final adjust
ment of these national difficulties will not be
listened to; and such as think eternal justice
can be cheated, or cheapened in Us demand,
will find themselves of less account than the
meanest worm that crawls. Absolute right
and infamous wrong will nevhr make another
treaty of alliance and fraternity in this repub
lic. The past is full of thorns, and the na
tional conscience turns from it.rent and bleed
ing. The exj-erietteek' f 6f the last’year have
educated us up to the pitch where we can
afford to do right, not only for to-day, hut for
all time. The fault of the past was, that we
permitted ihe expediency of to-day to defy
eternal light. Imperfect enactments may
now be perfected and brought to comprehend
eveuhanded justice. That is what we want
and what we must have. Such is tlie field
before the Man of Action.
Atlantic Telegraph.
The whole amount required to lay down
and put into working order a new submarine
Atlantic telegraph is estimated at .£700,000,
(*8,000,000.) of which the United States are
expected to supply a large portion. Mr.
JSewahd lias communicated to the American
minister in London, that “ the President en
tertains the most favorable views of the great
enterprise in question, and would be happy to
Co-operate with the British Government in se
curing its successful execution, and such
arrangements as would guaranty to both na
tions reciprocal benefits from the use of the
telegraph, not only in times of peace, bat even
In times of war, if, contrary to our desire and
expectation, and to the great detriment of
both nations, war should ever arise between
them.” The only arrangement upon which
this country ovghf to take up and join in this
new telegraph scheme is—that it should have
an American terminus. With one end in'lre*
land and the other in Newfoundland, Or any
other part of British North America, it,will be
Wholly an English affair, got up with Ameri
can money, and liable to be worse than use
less to us in case of war.
Iron rails versus iron Ships.
Experiments have been made, at Shoebury
neao, near London, of the resisting power Of
iron-clad ships against cannon-balls. A target,
twenty feet long by ten feet wide, exactly of
the same materials and strength as the
Warrior 7 s broadside, was llred at on tho
Bth instant, with a new gun made by Sir
William Armstroxo, fourteen feet long
twelve tons weight, and with diameter, at the
muzzle, ten and a half inches. If rifled for
tho Armstrong shot, which is two and a half
times tho length of ils diameter, it would dis
charge a fiOO-pound shot. Unrifled, it threw
round solid shot of I.VI pounds. Lord Cla
rkn'ck I’aokt, in the House of Commons, said
41 the first experiment was with a shot of 150
pounds, and 40 pounds of powder. It was fired
at tlie Warrior target, at the distance of 200
yards; but ho was bound to say that the target
had had a good deal of shaking by previous
experiment. The first shot struck the target
on n part whie.lt had burnt, he thought, rather
more shaken than tho other parts of it. The
shot entered, made a hole in the armor
plating, and passed through eighteen inches
ol backing, being stopped by tlie inner skin
of' tho ship, but it cracked that skin. The
next shot, with4o pounds of powder, hit nearly
on tlie same spot. It went tlnongli plating,
backing, skin, and all, and there were proof's
that it must have created frightful devastation
inside the vessel. The third shot Sir
Arm st ro.no requested might be fired with 10
pound of powder additional; but some doubts
were entertained, not whether the gun would
stand such a charge, hut whether so large a
charge would be burnt to give the shot greater
velocity. The third shot was fired with -30
pounds ol' powder, and lived at tnat particular
part of tlio target which represented the
strongest part of the ship. It went through
tin- armor-plating, and burled itself, he bu
lievul. at a considerable distance inside. It
went clean through the plating, backing, and
skin, and, lie believed, buried itself in the op
posite side. It was not very easy to say whe
ther tlie whole charge of powder had burnt,
but evidently a good deal more powder had
burnt, because tbc effect wax much greater.
The'fourth shot took place under the same cir
cumstances. It went through the plating and a
great deal of hacking • it wont entirely through
oiic side, and possibly through the other side
also.-'-'
Therefore, against the new gun, even un
rillod, the Warrior would have no chance. The
Times says : “ The Warrior, Black Prince,
Defence, and Resistance —the only four armored
frigates which wc have yot afloat —arc coated
with 41-inch plates of iron,with two layers of 10-
incli teak beams placed transversely, and with
an inner skin of wrought iron noarly an inch
thick. It was against this powerful combina
tion of materials that tlie 1 -id-pounder gun wa3
tried on Tuesday last with such complete
success. The now frigates building—the
.tichillcs, Hector, Valiant, Jlgincourt, Northum
berland, and Minotaur —are all to be coated'
with St-inch iron plates, with ten inches of
teak, and the same inner skin of wrought
iron.-’ But a GOO-pounder will be ready at
mid-summor, nnrl yanro making two wrought,
iron guns, unrifled, each to carry an 1100-
pound shot. The size and power of the guns,
and tlie weight of the shot can he augmented,
but six-inch iron-plates are the heaviest armor
a sea-going ship can carry with safety; where
as, plates a foot thick can he shattered, even
to dust, by tbo blow of a wrought-iron 1100-
potmd shot fired at a short range. Here, then,
is a new difficulty. Iron clad ship.-, it seems,
cannot be counted tn as impregnable. Modern
science lias wholly changed the art of naval
warlare.
Tut Bjii-a-Kis-aniot; leaders in this Yicinity
sadly lament the absence of one whom they
delight to honor, and whose counsels they im
plicitly obeyed during his presence among us.
However “ unsound” on the questions which
were warmly discussed before the outbreak of
the rebellion others may have been, he was
always right in the judgment of James lin
en an an, and his satellites and supporters.
Tlie confidential adviser of the ex-Golleetor of
tho Port, lio was deeply versed in all the mvs
teiies of patronage and proscription under the
old regime; and in Breckinridge State Central
Committees his voice was potential, and his
political views authoritative. The pressure of
“circumstances over which liu had no con
trol” finally drove him from Pennsylvania to
his native nnd loved Virginia—where, wo be
lieve, the important office of Register of the
Confederate treasury was conferred upon him.
Among tlie duties of that post is tlie responsi
ble task of superintending tho issue of the
Confederate notes. This proof of rebel grati
tude for services rendered in the free States
wat* well bestowed upon Mr. Rahkbt Tvi.kh s
and some of those he left behind, who share his
sympathies and views, have ail equal claim to
tlie rewards of treason. If Confederate notes
were not so shockingly below par in this quar
ter, he might occasionally smuggle a batch
through the lines to assist Ms eld associates
iri defraying their electioneering expenses, and
to pecuniarily recompense them for the “ aid
and comfort ” they arc striving to give to the
foes of the Republic. Meanwhile, how can
Tv i.!;k's profound knowledge of Virginia ab
stractions be disposed with? Who else can
so fully enlighten tlie voters ol Pennsylvania
on all the theories which haw been invented
to prove the divinity of slavery, and the
right of its worshippers to overthrow the
Government whenever it is not entirely subset'-
J vient to their views and purposes ? Our
Breckinridgers can only console themselves
for the loss of their commander-in-chief, who
wields his sword in Beauregard's army, and
of their file leader, who replenishes the mili
tary chest of Secessia, by recollecting tlie
important nature o/ tlieir present services to
; the rebellion.
Political antecedents are of mere nomi
nal importance, when men, in their past ad
herence to party organizations, have been go
verned by considerations of the common good.
The intelligent mass of freemen are honest and
conscientious in the discharge of their duties
as such. It is no impeachment of either their
intelligence or integrity to say that they may
be deceived by mer. who make a study 0 po
litical warfare, a-:u thus be led to inflict da
mage upon their own highest interests. But
the people are incapable of plotting the ruin
of communities. They live apart from the
low ambitions of demagogues, and care no
thing for the rise of this man or the fall of that,
in a personal point of view. They help to
wreak no man’s vengeance as an object. Their
conceptions of duty are of a higher grade.
Their selfishness is so broad and so compre
hensive that it resolves the body politic into a
class, the interest of which, in its aggregate
form, is the interest of each individual mem
ber. Such, however, is not the view hereto
fore taken of the people by ambitious partisan
leaders. The latter have misjudged the masses
In almost every respect, and misnamed their
mental quality. They have given them credit
for what is exceptional and limited, and de
nied or ignored the better qualities which are
almost universal among the bone and sinew of
the country.
It is to this latter element that the appeal
for union and patriotic action must be made.
If the Administration be sustained in the pro
secution of this war to the issue of a lasting
peace, the people, and not merely the public
men, Will have it to do. Behind the President
is the Cabinet, behind the Cabinet, Congress;
but behind Congress, and upbearing the whole
like a wall of iron, lies the great and sove
reign public, whose unity can make, or whose
disfavor can mar. The question is, Shall
this great and controlling element work to
gether to make this the greatest and strongest
Government on the globe, or shall it he rent
into impotent factions by the machinations of
traitors and the impracticability of the honest,
but mistaken t Such is the question to which
tlie people of Pennsylvania will be required to
return a practical answer next fall.
Rhode Island and Connecticut—but espe
cially Connecticut —should be our BulUcient
monitor. In the vote for Buckingham we
behold the union of men, without distinction
of party, upon whom the price of permanent
peace will fall. In the vote for his opponent
we behold the union of all the fag-ends and
factions who submit their consciences to the
keeping of the Touceys and the Seymours ;
men who make a virtue of hating what the
savage even would feel morally bound to re
pay with gratitude. The wisdom of the
masses of Connecticut extracted the poison
fangs of treason by reason of unity. No man
paused to ask Ms work-follow whether, in the
past, he had been known for a Whig, Demo
crat, or Republican. Leaving the dead past
to bury its dead, they took firm hold of the
living present, and gave their suffrages as so
j tm iiy for a inoiegloiious future. There wa
a nobleness about this action which even our
degenerate Kerns and Randalls will not fail
to appreciate tho while they invoke the pro*
tection of a Government they plot to destroy.
The vote to be given next October, if the
unconditionally loyal work together, will have
a higher and better object than the aggran
dizement of any political party. It will sim
ply strengthen the Government. As to the
men to be preferred, only so that they do not
look longingly hack to the flesh-pots of party,
it matters little. Only so that they be loyal
without an £c if, 11 and determined without a
“ but,” few patriots will inquire about their
political genealogy. 1 lie indications are that
tho people are ready in Fennsylvania. as they
were in Connecticut and in Rhode Island,
For the plain, tlie practical, the straightfor
ward, there can be but one course of conduct
consistent with a profession of patriotism.
LETTER FROM “ OCCASIONAL.’*
AVahiunoton, April -u, 1802.
” 1 repeat,” said the courageous Senator
from Ohio, bold Bon Wade, a few days ago,
t£ that, as no jurist has undertaken to define
the limits to which a man might go in the de
fence of his life when assailed, so no statesman
would undertake to limit tho powers whicli
the Government might use to preserve its life
when assailed hy traitors.” Here, now, is a
propositi/m which challenges eonlradicticn.
The written law lias never yet suggested a
punishment against any individual who, find
ing liis life in jeopardy against a sudden or
premeditated attack, resorts to every moans
to preserve that life. The higher law, every
where acknowledged, comes in to sustain him
in whatever he may do to punish, or, If neces
sary, to destroy the aggressor. The Govern
ment of the United States—the Union we so
much love, the Constitution itself —is now not
merely threatened, hut assaulted on all sides by
thousands of enemies. Shalt those who iu
thuir hearts hate tins Government-and the
Union, amt by their actions oppose, and, so far
as they can, nullify the Constitution, use the
triple agency of the Government, the Union,
and tins Constitution in order to aid them
In destroying the whole three ? This is the
question, ever present and never to lie avoided.
The groat law of solf-prosorvation comes in
to answer the arguments of theorists, and to
dispose of the casuistry of mere lawyers.
I have the utmost reverence for the Federal
Constitution. It is the product of ages of ex
perience and reflection. The men who framed
it were inspired, equally, hy the recollection
of (huh past trials and the failures of other Go
vernments; and by their wonderful prescience j
as they looked upon the future. 1 have novel’
permitted my self to doubt that aa they did not
contemplate sneli a crisis as that which is now
upon US, so, were they now living, they would
not hesitate to sustain every measure, how
ever hold, looking to (lie salvation of their
great work. It is a startling fact that the
most earnest stickler for the provisions of tiro
Federal Constitution prior to the rebellion,
and immediately after it exploded into war,
were the men who first prepared for seces
sion. and subsequently made their* prepara
tions good hy taking up arms to make it
effective on tin? battle-field. All these men are
now intent upon taking the life of the Republic,
resolved, if they can accomplish it, to destroy
the Constitution. Has this Republic no defend
ers ? Has this Constitution no champions ?
Shall wo permit them to present the Constitu
tion before us as the means to save them from
the punishment they deserve, even while they
are laboring to destroy that which they call
their shield and spear ? Shall the Constitu
tion ho used as a rampart behind which the
Secessionists may entrench themselves, or
shall it he made, hy a fair construction of its
obvious intent and meaning, a fortress to the
true friends of the Government ? It would
serin as II the sympathizers with treason in
the free States, conscious of tho. sincere at
tachment of tire friends of the Government,
hod defer mined to persevere in tlioir opposi
tion to the war and to employ the provisions
of the Federal Constitution as so many wea
pons to embarrass and to defeat those who are
responsible for the prosecution of the war.
In my judgment, lie is the tmest friend of the
Federal Constitution who does his utmost to
preserve the Uuion and to strengthen the hands
of the Administration in tho present struggle
lor its maintenance. The people in this crisis
arc far ahead of the politicians, and it would
he a most profitable investment if the politi
cians would carefully read, reflect, aud act
upon the fact.
I presume you will have some refreshing
yet mournful palinodes on the part of the poli
ticians, who not long ago parrotted on a dif
ferent key, now that the Senate have passed a
bill, in which the House will undoubtedly con
cur, authorizing the President to open diplo
matic relations with the two republics of Hayti
aud Liberia. This is to be cxpcole 1. The
vision of colored men in the diplomatic gal
leries of the two Houses representing those
two republics, will he a dntli 6tie hi the
dreams of these Cassandras. You anticipated
me in your editorial of yesterday, when you
pointed out, with great accuracy, the prece
dents for this well-timed legislation. Our
sympathizers have been, in the iiabit of look
ing to England and France for their examples
in fashion and diplomacy, and yet both these
G overnments for years past,have acknowledged
and received colored ministers from the two
r epublics referred to. Even James M. Mason,
the co-vovitgcur, fellow-conspirator and confi
dant of John Slidell, who for years has turned
up his aristocratic nose at every negro that
was not a slave, was compelled to enjoy the
delicate aroma of a close companionship with
one of flic sable diplomats on a recent occasion
ill the British House of Commons, and it
seems to us that our modern legislators need
not hesitate to about following the example of
the more rcjineii aml sensitive nations in this re
spect. Four Democrats in the Senate in the
Senate, in the face of the clamor raised against
the proposition of Mr. Sunnier, voted for this
important bilk and I put their names upon re
cord. They were Milton S. Latham and Jas.
A. McDougall, of California, John S. Hen
derson, of Missouri, and Joseph A. Wright,
of Indiana. Occasional.
Madame Mah tin is now about closing her classes
in dancing and aflliflthsnies in this aity, After a very
successful season, and will begin her regular sum
mer term. She is Also able to make one or two en
gagements to teach in schools in the country, or in
towns near Philadelphia, fis one of the very beat
teachers of this beautiful art ever in America, we
commend Madame Martin heartily to our friends.
She will now give private lessons, at her own house,
to young ladies who intend visiting watering-places
during the summer.
The Mtonnerohor Concert and Ball, on Monday
evening next, at Musical Fund Hall, the advertise
ment of which will be found in our paper to-day,
we have every reason to believe, will be one of the
most tasteful and select affairs of the kind given
this season. The managers are gentlemen whose
names are guarantee enough that nothing will be
left undone to render the evening’s entertainment
a delightful one la all respects.
Stocks and Real Estate, Tuesday- next.—
Thomas Sc Sons’ hold a large sale, comprising se
veral properties by order of the Supreme Court.
Also, by order of a decree of same court, the ** Bar
clay Railroad and Coal Company,” a number of
desirable residences, large vacant lots, Ac. See
wlvtrtimKn fa, Imd, «w( \mnyhkt c«{«-
lognes, issued to-day.
Extra Large Sale, 6tu May— lncluding the
“ Girard House,” and the splendid store late of
Messrs. Levy & Co., in same square, the “ Fair
mount Rolling Mill,” elegant country seat, Chest
nut Hill, Ac.
Orphans’ Court Sales, 13th May.—Six estates,
comprising eighteen properties. Handbills ready.
We advise you to see the inimitable Steck
square grand piano fortes, at J. R- Gould’s,
Seventh and Chestnut streets.
Public Amusements,
AeAHEJiY'of Music. —The attaches ot this establish
ment, principal among whom are Messrs. MrDongal and
Bradshaw, appeal to the public, whom their courtesy has
often obliged, with a musical entertainment, in the Aca
demy, under tlie direction of Mr. W. G. Fischer. Mr.
and Mrs. Behrens, Miss J. O’Connell, Miss M. Gill, Dr.
J. L. BroSH, Mr. BfisiM, Mr. Umslc.l, Ahd Carl fliert
ner, with a good cborns, will assist, and the whole pro
mises to be a melange, vocal and instrumental, of great
variety and merit. The price of admission (twenty-five
cents) is so lpw that no one can have an excuse for not
being there, ana me Uard-worKiug attaches are entitled
to ft bumper liouae.
The Complimkntary CONCERT to be given Signor Pa
relli by hU pupils, at the Musical Fuud Ball, ou the 29th,
ts certain to be a grand musical event. Signor Fereltf
has uo superior as an artist and teacher, and deserves
this testimonial from tfa© public and his pupils. The pro
gramme is unusually excellent, selected front the boat
composed. Tli4 Peftdll Ooncerle have* always been bril
liant!)' successful and fashiouable, aud this will eclipse
them all.
UATtMKK This Ajteknoon.— lhe matinee at the
XAsembU 1 Buildings, this afternoon, should not be for
gotten. Gorgeous scenes and excellent music. There
w ill he only one or two more m&tmtes.
THE PEES!-PHILADELPHIA, BATI EDAT, APRIL 26, 1862.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The French minister’s Richmond Trip.
ADDRESS OF IHE MINISTER PLENIPOTEN
TIARY OF SALVADOR.
Rill Concerning Private Actions against United
States Officers,
THE GOVERNMENT TO DEFEND ITSELF.
Coin. Foote arks to be Relieved from his
Command.
Special Despatches to “ The Press.'*
WASHISOTOJf, April «fl ISC'ilr
The Mission of the French Minister to
Richmond.
In Addition to whftt lias liorctoforo been «»Hurloit in
contradiction or Urn false statements of the Richmond
papers* there is good authority lor stating that Count
Mi-mcm:, the Trench minfator, had no official commti-
nicAtion whatflooyor with the Southern authorities. The
report that Lyr4 ItYWfS IIW IjOlie, Or is going to Rtoh?
moud, is as outrun as tiro meant unfounded rumor of
changes in the Cabinet.
Republic of San Salvador.
Don TjMiryzo Moxtpi-’Au pMsentid Uls mdaiiMaU to
the President yesterday in tlio character of Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Repub-
lic of Salvador. In announcing his tnisflion, Mr. Mov-
Ti'FAii iMldrfttied Iho President in tlio following lau>
ADDRESS OF THE MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY'
Sir: Thn President of tlio Republic of Salvador has
dono the favor to Accredit pie envoy extraordinary and
niimater pitniiKitcuiinry near the Government of the
United Miaten, as proven by the autograph letter which I
linve the honor to place in your hands.
My Government orders me to manifest to you that it
ciirnebtly desires tho peace, the prosperity* ftlld the
fclory of the Uailud Status, over Yriiieli you eo worthily
preside.
Tile people of Salvador, progressive and eminently
Ann rican, offer up their vows that tho great people of
the United States may ever prosper, i\nd IffHthO Repub
lic fomiOt-d by the Immortal WuaUJiiytoii may cacti day
become more powerful, andmanifost Htrongeraympathies
with the people of tlio American Continent, who profess
their principles and love their institutions.
1 am flattered by dim hope that these sentiments will
fit-.il A fiit-hJly reception, us well from you, sir, iw from
the people ol‘ the United States, and that every day Sal
vador will become bound by closer ties of friendship to
this great Republic.
REFLV Of TIIE PRESIDENT.
To which the PrcoiUvnt replied;
Mr. Mom vr.u;—-At any time tho arrival of a minister
from San Salvador would ho an intorcßting event. It is
ptculiarly so now. Republicanism in tiiis country is de
monstrating its adaptation to tlio highest interests of
i©elety the },i*©s£rvAlion of the Slate itself ikgainai the
vio'enco of faction. Elsewhere on the American conti
mnt it ia Btruggiing against the inroads of anarchy,
which invites foreign intervention. Let the American
Slates, therefore, draw closer together, and animate and
refl&6lli*e &&eh MIiAP, atill thud prove to Hi© world that al
though we have inherited some of tlio errors of ancieut
systems, we are nevertheless capable of completing and
establishing the new one which wo have chosen. On the
result largely depend the progress, civilization, and hap
pih£b& of iiL&hbihd.
Bill Concerning Private Action against
Public Officers Instance the Fierce
Butler Case, etc.—The Government to
Defend Itself.
Mr. Wa be introduced a hill in the Senate to-day,
opening with a preamble to tho effect that tho nation is
engaged in a civil war aimed at its own existence, and
tiiui ibero &re conibiniiiloiM iqjftinst tho (.overnmont too
powerful to be repressed by the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings, or by Uie powers vested in
tbe marshals by law; and the President, in the
of his duty to suppress ths «d><&Ui©b 7 etc-,
has found it expedient to cause to be arrested and
confined divers persons 'guilty of aiding the rebellion,
or suspected on probable cause of such guilt, and to
cause to be fitted property Intended to ho sent to
ike rebels to be used for their aid, or suspected of Biich
intent. Therefore, for tho prevention of vexations ac
tions against tlio officers and servants of the Govern
ment, acting in such cagOH under tho authority of the
President, it is first provided that all actions founded
upon auy such cause eh all he brought in the Circuit
Court of the [United States jbaving jurisdiction of the
paitUa, a lid not in any State eourt. Au<l all actions
founded upon any such cause which may be pending in
any State court may, at the option of the defendant, be
transferred from Uie State to the United States
Circuit Courts and tho latter shall have jurisdiction
as though the causes originated there. This transfer will
he made as follows: The defendant shall present to the
court in which the action is pending a writ 011 applica
tion for the in effect that tho action i 3 brought
ttgaiust him for mime act done by him as an officer oi tho
Government subordinate to the President ami under his
authority, these statements being properly attested by
oath; and thereupon a cel titled transcript of tho rocord
ntiail be transferred to the Uuited States court.
It is further provided, that in all suits ponding in tli
United states courts on account of illegal arrests, seiz
ures of property, etc., without a writ from auy judicial
court, hut under the authority of the President, and
done for enabling tbe latter to suppress the rebellion, iu
every such case the defendant, at his option, may have
biß cause continued from term to term, until the existing
fclvll way fehall bfe ended. In future, all actions In »u«h
cases are to be brought in the United States Circuit Courts
and not elsewhere. Every action shall bo commenced
by the filing of a petition, reciting the facts, so as to show
the relation which the cause of the action bears to the
official or ministerial character of the defendant, the
latter to be furnished with a certified copy of this by the
plaintiff. If he neglect to do this, be cannot give evi
dence in the trial. The plaintiff is required to giro
l>emis th&t hi Will b 6 liftLl© forth© costs of L!s action.
In the fifth section of this bill it is provided that any
person who shall knowingly cause to be arrested any of
ficer or servant of the Government, on civil process, for
or on account of any act done by him in the execution of
11*15 order or authority of the President, given or issued
for the purposes mentioned, he shall be considered
guilty of a misdemeanor; and, on conviction thereof ia
any United fttates court (having jurisdiction), be puuish
ed by a tine net exceeding —* dollars* or by a term of
imprisonment not longer than—months, in the discre
tion of the court.
The sixth section provides that auy person supposing
himself aggrieved,for or on account of the acts of tho
officers of the Government, such as are aforesaid men
tioned, is authorized to present his case to Congress by
petition, suppoited by affidavits of himself and others,
for reilt'dsb, Congress reserving exclusive jurisdiction iu
the premises.
Areport prevails to-day that, at his own request (on
aaeaimt of his wound rooAivsd in Iks b&Ule ©P Port
Dotei&ou), Commodore Foote has been relieved from his
command in our Western waters: but this is not so. He
baa, however, applied to be 00 relieved, but the Depart
ment* being unwilling to dispense with Mb bo important
services just now in that quarter, has ordered Captain
Chah. H. Batts, one of the first and most efficient offi-
cers of tho service, to repair to the squadron as his second
in commsiid, thin relieving him from much of the iitaysi.
col labor oi bis responsible sosition without endangering
the success of our naval operations in that quarter.
Visit of Minister Adams to Paris.
Oiiv BiJhisteF At LobJiii, Mr. Ai>Asi§, recently vUlied
Patis for an official conference with Mr. Bavton* upon
an important subject of diplomatic negotiation. The
former, by the last steamer, reports that he has returned
to biß post.
The House to-day reversed its action of yesterday on
the motion to print 25, C00 copies of the agricultural
pari of the Fftteßt Office report iu (lie German language.
Mr. Walton* or Vermont, tbe chairman of the Printing
Committee, stated that the Government printing office
has neither German type lor German printers. The
work, too, would have to be translated.
A New Rank in Washington.
A bill was presented in the Senate, to-day, organizing
a new bank in Washington, naming Samuel F. Vinton,
Wjl. Ij* Hodge* Petek G; Washixqtox, Joshua Hel-
Z.KK, fiovAun 0. Carrington, John Little, John M..
Brorbkar, John T. Walker, J. J-. Coombs, J, !■. Kid
ivkll, 5. J. Boiviuf, and William Orme, as corporator,
under tlie name of the “ Capital Bank. ll
Laud Titles iu California.
Mr. 1 atiiam presented a bill in the Senate to-day in
tended to protect all actual settlers upon the lands of
Mexican grAula m all purchases subsequent to the con
firmalion oi those grants by the Land Commissioners.
It authorizes such'settlers to pre-empt as much as they
pltase at $?1.05 per acre, miueral lauds excepted. This
bill is important to Philadelphians* a number or whom
have large land interests in California.
Nineteen Rebel Vessels Taken in Ihe
Rappahannock.
The gunboat Yankee has arrived from the neighbor
hood of Fredericksburg, V&., a&d-reports that one day
this week the Anacostia, while passing Xrisrey’s Point,
on the Rappahannock, was fired by .a small body
of nbel infantry. She threw a ih'iv shtlia, thus rapidly
dispersing them.
The flotilla is still actively engaged seizing rebel craft.
In »U, nineteen rebel vessels have been captured.
The Navy Department is uui&tiy though efficiently at
woik Increasing the means of National defence. The
Atlantis Works and Harrison Loking, of Boston, have
been awarded contracts for building iron-clad vessels
under the recent law,
. The ratification of the Seward and Lyons treaty for
the suppression of the slave trade will soon be ex
changed, The main points are a mutual right of search*
without regard to the number of vessels to be employed,
&ud,the summary trial and punishment of these engaged
in the illegal traffic.
NO PECULIAR SIGNIFICANCE IN IT.
THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY.
The IMnintilf Guilty of MUdeitifftnor,
Commodore Foote Not Relieved
The Patent Office Agricultural Report.
Tlie National Defence,
The Slave Trade.
To .Embalm the Dead.
A special order has been just issued from the War
Department, conferring upon Drs. Brown and Alexan
der, and such assistant surgeons as they may appoint,
the right to embalm the dead of the United State* army,
anywhere within the tinea, either in camp or on the
field, and to follow up the advance of the land forces.
Their remuneration will come from the friends of the
deceased.
jtt, Mercier’s Visit to Richmond
1 first telegraphed to The Press that the French min
ister visited Richmond solely on local matters, probably
with regard to the French interests in tobacco. While
there he held no oj}ioial communication whatever with
any person, except the consuls of lps own Government
at Richmond and Norfolk. He saw and conversed with
many persons whom he had known In society here, in
cluding Judah V. Benjamin; but his intercourse with
them* one and all, was wholly of »u unofficial character.
Floating Hospital for Fortress Monroe.
The Sanitary Commission will to-morrow despatch the
steamship Daniel Webster to Fortress Monroe, as a
floating hospital. She is to carry a large tupply of
hospital stores, medicines, clothing, ice, Ac., and a corps
of surgeons, nurses, and hosiiital dressers. Several
members of tIW Vopnouissiou accompany' th?Hl far ihe
purpose of completing the arrangements for the transfer
and care of the sick and wounded.
Appointed to Spain.
: It ia understood, on very good authority, that the Pre
sident has tendered the mission to Spain to ex-Lieute
nant Governor Koa*«. of Illinois.
Jiewand|lmponant Confiscation Measure
—The l'nw on Treason to be Enlarged.
sir, Vvyt a;* introfluocft a till in the Bon**® to-day
amending the act of April, 1790, to the effect that any
person found guilty of treason shall have all Ills goods,
right*, chattels, credits, and effects forfeited to the United
States hy the proper court, (in addition to the personal
pmiislmcut for treason,) the menus to be provided for by.
legal process, whether the property He in the district
where the trial occurs or not. It is provided that where
a Grand Jury And a true hill agaiust'a person for treason
who has not teen nrrwted and lisa escape", the court
glipll proceed (as enumerated in the bill by due legal pro
cess) to fotfeit his goodß,etc., and deprive him of all his
rights.
It is also provided lliat marshals shall expose to sale
and sell choses in action, belonging to convicted' or exe
cuted traitors, for the best pi ice which can be obtained
for the same ; and the purchaser shall he entitled to sue
and recover amounts due thereon. But Whenever such
chose* in action shall consist in a right lo services from
another os servant or apprentice, for life or for a term of
years, then such servant or apprentice shall he immedi
*t«ty tV««d wild dtovlmrgwl from all obligation* of duty or
hervice. Tlio deftiuluiit, in the trial, may plead not
guilty, ou the ground that he or she is included in a
general amnesty or parduo tiorn tlio President. It is
HIM I)k> net *ff«ct iron* tho lut of Wftf.
It is claimed tl at this bill comes strictly within the
Constitution, containin'; no objectionable feature iu that
respect.
The Clnua and Shu Frauciwo Steamship
The Senate passed a bill to day for a monthly steam
ship line of four vessels from San Francisco to Shang
bi..-, fM.Ji.a, via Saiidwtcb TslMlldrf Will UIV pOl'tQ)
Tiie Goveniincht is to pay the line ffsCo,oti() per year for
carrying the mails.
Another Canard
fTI»A debs&tlon joui-mJs U«ss mproiafj have sent Lord
Lyons to ItH-limoud. Of course, there is no truth in the
report.
Confirmations by the Senate*
UaiHlflß OjLinVALAlikii, i>f Hom.sylvan!*, io be a ma-
jor general.
Major Samokj. W. Crawford, of the Thirteenth In
fantry, to bo a brigadier general.
Lieut (Jnlmml Ja.c. W. Kipli:y, Oiliuince Depart
ment, to be chief of ordnanco, with the rank of brigadier
general.
Lko.nahjj V. Boss, of Illinois, to be a brigadier general.
Hoiiy A. Smith, of Kansas, to bo commissary of sub
eistence, with the rank of captain.
Chaui.ks F. Garrett, of Kansas, to be assistant
• luartcriuanter, with thu rank of captain.
Jonx STuimhle, of Tounoisea, to ha Aktaruty of tL«
United States in and for the Middle District of Tennessee,
Brigadier General George fi. Thomas to be major
Jlimi RapkaM'i of ImlianMo he brigadier general.
Col. Jinrx W. Geary, of Pennsylvania, to he briga
dier general.
Major Bknky W. Wesski.s, of tlie Sixth Infantry, to
be brigadier general.
Postmasters Appointed
J am ks Drt dk.v, postmaster at Hope, Somerset county,
Md., vice Simeon Bachakauh. resigned.
Josxru Stevens, postmaster at Pierceville, Wyoming
cewnty, ? vie® Jo.-eru W. ftIWNOIeD?) rerignOtt,
Georob W. Baker, postmaster at Jckeebnrg, Perry
comity, Pa., vice A. B. Wn sn.v, removed.
Henry Teyon, postmaster at Steuben,< 'rawford county,
Pd.., vice S\VK«'i'j rumoved,
THE WAR ON THE TENNESSEE.
HEAVY FIRING IN THE DIRECTION OF
PITTSBURG LANDINGS
surrosED general engagement.
Our Gunboats at IluutsvilJe, Alabama.
Gin cag uj April 2D—A special Cairo despatch to the
Times says that passengers arrived there by the steamer
Belle of Memphis reported that, when at Savannah,
they heard heavy firing in the direction of Pittsburg
JLfttdii>g. The cannonading was brisk, uutl gradually
grew louder, being heard for miles this side of SavannAh.
The belief was that a general engagement had been
brought on, which is strengthened by tho facL that, on
ty’edi.c'tdaj-j significant preparations were made by Gen,
llalleck for an attack.
Our gunboats on tlie Tennessee had effected the pas
sage of the Mußcle Shoals, above Florence, and peue-
a« Far as Huntsville, AluVaniftj WllVl'Q they had
captured a unantity of commissary stores.
The Reported Fight Discredited.
Chicago, April 2y,—A ppcrial dtspiitch from Cairo
to the Tribune says that the rumor that a fight had
commenced at Pittsburg Larding is discredited at head
qnarters. General Strong received despatches from Gen.
llalleck yesterday, which made no mention of tlie affair*
FROM CAIRO.
Steamboats Fired ut by Guerillas.
Cairo, April hDi —The steamers nelle n/ Memphis and
Choctaw, from Pittsburg Lauding, which they left on
Thursday morning, arrived here last night.
They were fiied into fir, miles bolow Pittsburg, by a
bond vl' guerillas, from OehiuU a dwelling ou the Iclt bank
of tho Tctiuesseo river. Tim Choctaw received seven
Bhots—her mate was killed; the Belle of Memphis twelve
shots, wounding a negro boy on board.
The ioAiis were Improving. Shlrimsbing between tbe
pickets continued.
The river there was still rising.
The Lower Mississippi is fearfully overllowed, causing
the greatest less of property avm» lUdWtk.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
FoitTHESS McwnOKi April 24—-A flag of truee was
sent to-day with despatches. A pleasure party from
Boston accompanied it. No news was made public, and
it is stated that no newspapers wore received.
On the return of the Hag qf tnWO, tIW Btfiftnwr Kelly
ISaJcer proceeded with a flag of truce to receivo a num
ber of wounded prisoners taken in a recent skirmish near
Elizabeth City. They were brought down from Norfolk
in a schooner in tow of a rebel tug. Th e Kelly Baker
look the schooner in tow and brought her hero. Arri
ving jußt as the boat is leaving for Baltimore, there was
no opportunity to learu their names.
Tlie Bombardment of Fort Wright.
Thu Gunboat Flotilla ox the Mississippi, April
23 (via St. Louis, April 23)—A1l is quiet here, if we
except Iwo mortftr boats remaining iu position, whicl)
occasionally throw shell over at the fort.
The rebels have not replied to-day. None of their
gunboats can be seen.
The weathtr ia fair. The flood has overrun all the
plantations and the houses along the river, and great
distress prevails among the inhabitants along the banks,
some of whom offer to give a'l they possess to have their
families removed from their houses, which the water
threatens to carry down the river.
OPERATIONS OF TEE GUNBOAT HERCULES.
Capture of Important Prisoners.
Baltimore, April 2D.—The U. S. gunboat Hercules
Captain Dunn, has arrived with another prize and two
important prisoners, one of whom has been long engaged
ib the wutrfrtiMi<} trade ami in passing mails anfl de
spatches between tlie Secessionists liere and rebellion!.
One of theße was captured at bis house at Annamessex,
Somerset county, Va., where he was found secreted in a
loft, and only surrendered when the captain of the Her•
cvies threatened to shoot him. The Government agents
have been looking for this man since last fall. He is
wealthy, and has been a most unscrupulous Secession
ist. His name is withheld for tbe present*
The Hercules subsequently paid a visit to the Great
Wicomoci river, and captured the schooner Algonquin,
hailing from Annamessex, which had evidently landed a
cargo in SecesMa, no doubt taken from Baltimore.
When the Hercules made her appearance, the crew tried
to make off -with the vessel, but finally abandoned her
and escaped to the *liove. Some mail matter was found
on board.
The prisoners captured were sent to Fori McHenry.
Hi be! Account of the fieuibaxdinCttt of
Fort Jackson.
To the Hon. E. M. Staxtov, Secretary of War.
Eoutueks Mosucie, April 25, 1862 —The Norfolk Day
Book of this morning has despatches from Naur Orleans*
dattd the 2cd inst.i irom which the following information
is obtained:
There was a heavy and continued bombardment of Fort
Jackson, which was ;till progressing.
The rebels in the fort represent themselves still cheer*
mi. with an abiding faith in their ultimate success.
They state that thty are making repairs as best they
can.
Their barbette gun* were still in working order,
though most of them had been disabled at times.
They assert that we fired 25,000 1C inch shells, of
which one thousand had fallen in the fort.
They thiuk our amrounitlin mu3t soon be exhausted,
but assert that they can stand it as long as we can.
The rebel Congress has adjourned.
JOHN TUCKER;
Assistant Secretary of War.
Despatch from General Banks.
Box. E. M. Stastu.n, Secretary of War'.
Nkvv Maukkt, April 2U—Onr advanced guard, Col.
Donnelly commanding, took three prisoners to *day at a
point nine miles beyond Harrisonburg.
One says be belongs to Company B, Tenth Virginia
Regiment ol Infantry. This regiment had been on the
Rappahannock, according to previous information.
The prisoner saj* it joined Jackson at Ins prosont lo
cation, near Stannardsville, from Culpeper.
N. P. BASKS. *
Official Despatch from Gen, Wool.
HeACCtuAivt-Bis:? or Virginia t>j;i*autmknt.
April 25.
To the Hod. Emvix M. Btasto.v, Secretary of War:
Assistant Surgeon Warren, unconditionally released,
with seventeen prisoners and four arrived
here thii evening from Norfolk. _
They were the wounded left on the field in the affair of
the South Mills. The troops of the United States con
gist fed. as reported, of 3,000 men, under the command of
Brigadier General Reno.
The Surgeon says the rebels reported that they had
only &G46££l& teiiiiiieiU 4hd tliFee t>lecea of artillery.
The Norfolk Day Book reports a heavy bombardment
of Fort Jackson on the Mississippi river.
Major General Lovel is represented as saying that it
was terrific. It was still continued at the laateat advices.
JOHN B, W9QL, General,
Col. Jennison^Released.
Bt. Lovis, April 25.—An order has bedu issued for the
release of Col. .Tentmon from the military prison, he
giving bonds in £20,000 to appear and answer to what
ever charges may be produced against him. The par
ticular offence which ltd to his arrest has not been made
public,"but it is presumed that all the facts will shortly
be forthcoming. . _. . , . ...
Jetiuisou, on being attested, immediately resigned tua
position in the army.
Verdict for the Heirs of Stephen Girard.
Potts vi llk, April *26.—A suit of the heirs of Stephen
Girard against the city of Philadelphia, which has beeu
on trial b'trh w»s decided itiis rooming in farorof lho
heirs. This suit was for real estate in this county, and
the recovery was sought by the heirs on the ground that
the clause in the will requiring a perpetual accumulation
of the rents and surplus was void, and it was so held by
the court.
Accident on the Philadelphia, Wilming
ton and Baltimore Railroad— Nobody
Killed.
Bai.timokk, April ft,—An ftWidTOt OS«JFJ e 4 t 9 this
afternooirs train from Philadelphia) near North East.
The wheels of the last car got off the track, and threw
the car against pome others which ware standing:ou a
sidetrack. Some six or seven persons were Injured, but
non© killed. On© man, named Otho Grant, had to have
hie leg emjvutited. The train was delayed for some !lm4
by the accident.
A Government Steamer Sunk
(Ji.N'CiNNATi, April 25 —T!ie Governmsr.i stoamor A’it- i The Swedish Frigate Nowkoping.
Rice wu tud into last night by the Co-nvnoilore Verryofl , 'ios trinC ,r«t. Ynin&imi'if i
S ° I h Hava,',a, *
mm MWSHIBST SESSION,
SLAVERY I3ST OHIO.
Act ion Wanted on the Subject.
THE STEAMSHIP LIME FBOM SAW FHAN
CISCO TO CHEKA.
A BILL PASSED IN THE HOUSE.
Beport of Committee on Governmont Contracts.
It* Defence aud l>i»cna»ion,
Washington-, April 25,1862.
SENATE.
Slavery in Ohio.
Mr. SHERMAN, (Rep.) of Ohio, presented the re*o
lutions of the Legislature of Ohio concerning the rebel
prisoners At C’clnmbns, Ohio, saying that the feeling of
the- loyal pf-opte of OM" W<T<* ?«4r»gv4 by Hi* fSGt that
the rebel prisoners at Camp Chase were allowed to retain
their slaves by Col Mtx>dy, Urns practically establishing
slavery in Ohio, and, in the name of the people of Ohio,
aclentnly protesting against the outrage on the loyalty of
tht* people.
Tito resolutions were accompanied hy a note from Gov.
Tod, pa) ing that Col. Moody did not permit this state of
affairs; that the slaves were sent there as prisoners, and
Moody was obliged to take care of them.
Mr. SHERMAN said, the fact win. tho nogrooa were
split more wiih ilioir master*, aa prisoners, and did aorta
their masters; but he believed no blame could be at*
tallied to Col. Moody or the Governor of Ohio. Major
Jones, the inspector, had reported matters all right at
Camp Chase.
Ml*. GRIMES (Rep.), Ot lowa, tutkod if any steps had
been taken to free these negroes, as he supposed them
to be free by the act of last summer, being captured in
the service of the enemy.
Mr. SHERMAN replied that no steps had been taken
that he Knew of. 110 behoved tlio negroes werß still
there.
The Matter to ho Called Up.
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of Massachusetts, said he should
call the matter un on Moudayi He tliouglt some action
ought to be had on the subject.
Lake Michigan and the Mississippi#
Mr. TRUMHULI. (Rep ), of Illinois, presented a peti
tion for the construction ol a ship canal to connect Lake
Michigan with tho Mississippi rive*-.
Land Titles#
Mr. LATHAM (Deni.), of California, introduced a bill
to quiet certain land lilies in the State of California. Re-
Fen ed.
Confiscation anil Piniislimcni
Mr. COWAN, (Rep.,) introduced a bill to amend the
art of April 3d, 1790. He said he should move to refer
this bill and all other bills for the punishment of rebels
ftnd confiscation of their property to a select
ol five
The CHAIR suggested that if the Senate meant to in
clude the confiscation bill now before the Senate, the mo
tion would be more appropriate when the bill was taken
lip.
The motion was then withdrawn for tho present.
Sail Francisco and Shunghae.
The bill for the establishment of a line of steam
ships between San Francisco and Sbanghae was taken
up.
Mr. FESSENDEN (Rep.), of Marne, said the bill
made the Government pay 8500,000 a year to establish a
line of steamships where there was no postage to collect,
and but little commerce, when we need all the monoy
we can get, and after we have ah;M(j9Dsd this
very ayaieui oa tho Atlantic COSWt While thO TtettSliry
was full.
The Bill Fussed#
After some discussion the bill was passed—yeas 20,
nays 10
Private Actions against Public Officers.
Mr. WADE (Rep.), of Ohio, introduced a bill concern
ing private actions against public officers. Referred to
the Committee' on the 'Judiciary.
On motion of Mr. WILSON (Rop). of Massachusetts
the Senate then went iuto execu.ive session. Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Resolution Censuring YaUandigham#
When the Douse adjourned yeaierihty, the resolution
of Mr. Hutchins, of Ohio, was pending to censure Mr.
Vallandigharo, for words spoken in cebate against Sena
tor Wade.
The SPEAKER stated this as a question of privilege,
oa which
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM raised a point of order.
The iu!e referred to by Mv. Vallandigham was read.
A Point of Order#
“ If a member be called to 9fder fw wwds SPOKeu in
debate, the yvroon calling him to order shall repeat tho
words excepted to, and they shall be taken down in
writing at the clerk's table, and no member shall bo held
to answer or be subject to the censure of the House, for
words spoken in debate, in answer to those which any
other member has spoken, or othtr business lias iutor
veced after the voids spoken, and before exception to
tlwrn shall have been taken.”
The SPEAKER also directed the following to be read
from the manual:
Disorderly word# fcpoktr?* !« VVWmitte© TOUSt W
written down or in the House, but the committee can
only report them to the House for animadversion.”
The SPEAKER, under all the circumstances, sustain
ed Mr. V:«llandighain*s point of order, and thus disposed
of the nueotkm of privilege.
Bounties#
The House considered for a short time, (but came to
no conclusion.) the bill appropriating six millioDsfor the
payment of bounties to the widows ami legal heirs of
such volunteers, called. Into the service under the act of
July last, aa have died or may die, been killed or may be
killed.
Government Contracts.
The Government took up the report of the select com
mittee on Government coptracts, and the amended T9S9 W
lutions.
Defence of the Committee
Mr. DAWES (Rep ), of Massachusetts, said that last
Monday, when the committee were absent, quietly, and
»s they supposed faithfully, attending to tbolr duty in
New York, a premeditated, and as it would appear pre
conn rud, attack was made upon their personal character
ami integrity. This was tho second attack of the kind
made during ilitir absence.
In Use ccut«e oi Us remarks, lie said that General
Fremont had charged that the committee had come to St.
Louis encouraging insubordination, and to create such a
public opinion there as would cause his removal: that
they had refused to receive evidence, aud had suppressed
tcfeliuioey which had been received bp them, and fhafc he
w ould offer leeliitony to sustain these charges.
He now inquired of any member of the Committee on
the Conduct of the War whether General Fremont had
ottered evidence to sustain these charges-
Mr ODELL (Dem ), of New York, replied that nothing
had been laid before that committee excepting the state
ment of Fremont himself.
Air, HAVES said the second charge is of such a cha
racter that no man, having proper self-respect, could
pass by it unnoticed. Tbe gentleman from Peuußyl
vanift (Mr. Slovens) on iagt Monday remarked that the
committee had committed more frauds than they had de
tected, and that it was a scandal* hunting committee, ex
pending the public money and bringing disgrace on the
country. He had given the gentleman notice that he
intended to notfc? tUess'rsmftiWs, but to observed that he
was absent to-day,
Mr. COL VAX (Bep.) explained, by request of Mr.
Stevens, that the latter had an engagement with sorao
gentlemen from Pennsylvania, who were going to leave
in the afternoon cars, but he would endeavor to be in
the Home before the fidjeuruiiie&t.
Mr. DAWTISj during lily elaborate defence of the
committee, said they are charged with the duty of ex
amining into contracts, and not to injure individuals
They did rot go to St. Louis as enemieß of Fremont, and
it would bo news to hU quiet neighbors to heap, at thU
lale day, that he was counted among them. lie
earnestly condemned the efforts to undermine the con
fidence of the House and the country in the commit
ter. The motived which prompted the attack on Mon
day vpie brown, 'Hie committed in their early pro*
grets. had the support of the gentleman trom Pennsyl
vania, (Mr. Stevens,) and it was only when they threw
themselves between the treasury aud Simon Stevens, the
brother of the gentleman, aud who was interested in the
rale and purchase of five thousand arms for ninety thou
sand dollars, that they encountered the opposition of tks
gbiitUtuan Fwtu Pennsylvania, which had culminated in
an attack on the integrity aid character of the Com
mittee. He could not overlook the fact of the connection
of ethers with thi9 matter. He understood that a distin
guished ex-fimet onary of the Gorernmeiit waa at that
time noiirg in this House as general issirao, and had con
gratulated Mr. Stevens on his signal success over the
committee in their absence. The same ex-functionary
had also conferred with other gentlemen from Peuusyl
vaDia—KtQllenicn who bad protested against taking
Cameron into the Cabinet, and yet were brought before
President Lincoln on tbolr knees aud made to retract
it all.
Mr. McIvNIGHT (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, remarked
that, a? the M uvt ptftifnlftrfttfL tbv* urai?
tiers of the delegation, he would state that he was one of
those who protested against taking Cameron into the
Cabinet. He had never withdrawn or qualified that
protest.
Mr. MOORHEAD (Bep.), of Pennsylvania, said he
recommended the Appointment of Mr. Cameron, and he
stood by it. Ho believed it was a good appointment for
Pennsylvania. [Laughter]
Mr. Hawes' hour having expired, it was proposed that
his time should be extended, but
Mr, BOSCoE CONKLING (Rep ) T of Ife*Tort, pb
jacted, saying that he waa tired of running comments on
attacks which nobody had made,
Defence of Mr. Cummings.
Mr, KELLEY (Rep.),of Pennsylvania, said, in the lan
guage of Blmkspearei “Good name iu man or woman is
the immediate jewel of tbeir souls.'’ in Pennsylvania*
slander is punished by reclamaU on on the estate of the
slanderer or imprisonment. He had seen the libeller in
the penitentiary with the burglar and horse-thief. It
the remark about recommending Mr. Cameron was ap
plied to him, he pronounced it false, That gentleman
did not represent his State by his vote or influence. Be
honored him as a man of the most admirable traits of
character: but as a statesman, their lines run in opposite
ditectfims. It km because the committee were net act
ing m . spirit ot candor and justice that he Hal hereto
fore presented a letter t orn a valued constituent (ilex
ander Cummings), in refutation of a serious charge
against him, growing out of a mistake of the printer,
which the committee, as individuals, refused to correct.
Hii 66fcpUlbt w&ft, not that the investigation was made,
but that the report was of such a character that Con
gress shrunk from taking action on its statements.
Mr. Kelloy referred to Mr. Cummings’ purchases,
showing the economy lie exercised in the premises.
KMr. STEELE (Pern,), of New Jersey, of the commit
tee, said tho pantaloons were not distributed, net being
sewed, aud the hata were too email. [Laughter.]
A Fair Offer.
Mr. KELLEY said he would go to the office with the
gentleman, and make a common report.
Mr. STEELE replied that he would accept the propo-
sition.
Mr. WA&HBURNK (Rep.), of Illinois, asked his col
league on the committee (Mr. Steels) to Include the hun
dred and fifty bags of coffee. f
Mr. STEELE rtftid the coffee was In the possession of
the commissary, and had not been distributed, for the
reason that it was not fit to use. [Laughter.]
Mr. KELLEY having concluded his remarks,
The Committee have Saved Public Money.
Mr. DAWES exphilund that, in 5 remarking on tho
change in the sentiments of the gentleman front Penn
sylvania with reference to the appointment of Cameron
to a Cabinet office, tbe newspapers bad made such an
nouncements, which had never been contradicted, lie
thought there was no doubt of the incorrectness of the
fcUUmeiit as to the committee wasting the public money
as charged. They bad iu one single item saved an
amount almost fabulous—namely, one miliion’three hun
dred thousand dollars. Notwithstanding the repeated
declaration of Mr. Cameron, that ho never made a con
tract, it appeared that three days before hejeft the Cabi
net lie made one for one hundred and fifty thousand
muskets, to bo purchased abroad, to be inspected by a
man especially sent out nuder 9m assumed name—a
brother-in-law of a distinguished officer of n PeuLsylva
nia railroad. In further commenting on the contracts
made by Cameron, lie a poke of i\ celebration of the return
of harmeny among old political antagonists—some of
them knowing the value of the favors they had received.
Mr. MOORHEAD (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, inquired
what reason the nentlvuiiin supposed that such persons
had who attended the altered celebration.
Mr. DAVES answertd him in the language of the
poet :
u I fanow not, 1 care not. if guilt's in that heart;
I know that I love thee, whatever thou art.”
He said, during his remarks, that the horse contracts.
Involving four hundred thousand dollars, was an o&SJ*
way of reconciling old political differences. In conclu
sion, he said the Republican party was not the ouly
participating in the plunder: but it must put torth every
offort to stop the dishonest drain upon the National Trea
jjf T . STEVENS (Ttep-j, of Pennsylvania, desired to
reply to Mr. Hawes, but he was not prepared to do so
uow, wishing first to read the gentleman's remarks, a» it
was beyond his power to be present when they were
further consideration of the euhiwt wss ppftp?? l *!
til] Stoiida)-, to wliicli Tim. tno Itoiiao Bd.ournot.
C;itnboats at Jacksonville, Florida.
Hew Yobs, Apri! 25.—Tlia achoauar Amii C. ilic
rea, from JacKiCUvilioou mo 20tb, report, that she gun
boats SrlHf.ca, J’tmMrut, and Otia tea, were at anchor
ofi- tbe town, to protect the loyal inhabitants.
The Gunboat Maggie:.
\kw Topic, April 25.—Tlw U. S. gunboat MatJijk wai
spoken ou the RMi inaU near Port Royal, leaking badly.
She had been ashore off Gape Lookout.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Suppression of the Concert Saloons —Arrival
of Wounded Soldiers from Newborn—A New
Military Hospital—Arrival of a Swedish
Frigate from Havana—Arrival from Trini
dad— Important Nnvnl ftrwfl Grnernit*
"Wives in Gotham—Arrival from Jackson*
ville, Fla# Nineteen Additional Refugees—
Tlte Chamber of Commerce Memorial on
Tnxatiou— Nows of the Sufferings &f l!nUn
Men in Florida—Relief for the Refugees—
Slocks—Dry Goods—Markets. Ac.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
Neyt Tom* April 25,1802.
After 1 had mailed my letter yesterday afternoon,
Superintendent Kennedy received the bill relating to
concert saloons, from Albany, and immediately issued
an order to the police captains of the yarioi*q preciUtC,
and iii tlio evening the police visited the leading llroad*
way hhlooiib—the Melodeon, Canterbury Hall, the Gaie
ties, Novelty lfall, and others, and those on the side
ntre«-lMj and jiotil'od the proprietor* that their
must bo brought to a closo. There was a general
compliance with the order, but in some cases subter
fuges were resorted to for the continuance of the con
certs The waiter air's were dismissed, Hnuor woe ne
louger dispensed over the bar, but the so* called musical
performances were continued under difficulties. Canter
bury was Milling to let Ihe liquor and “ ladies’' go, but
claimed to have a liqejino for theatrical performimoei.
OlliOTB gave UP the concerts), but were licensed to sell
liiiuor, and a few of the saloons were closed.
The order extends also to the saloons of the theatres.
Til? pr r 'lTi fe t°F« of WftllftCk’s iiud Winter Garden were
notified not to sell minor, and they promptly compiled
with the older. The new law is stringent, and provides
» peuulty lor violation of imprisonment for not less than
three months, aud a fine of not less than ftjQij, It ja
pn-Kunicd that the law and the energy of the Police De
partment will be sufficient to suppress this nuisance, and
it is to be hoped that the thumtiug vulgar signs which
have so long disgraced Broadway will now come down.
The Dnltrd Staton steam transport Cossach Captain
d» w. Deimott* arrived at this port last evening with
one humlred and forty.uino wounded men from Newbern
and lioanoke. A number of them will he moved to their
homes in various portions of the New England States this
afternoon, Bleeping'card have been fitted up for this
purpose.
A new military hospital has been established, to be
known as the Ladles* Homo for Sick and Wounded Sol
dieis. It is located at the corner of Lexington avenue
and Fifty-first street,
The Swedish frigate tYarrfro/tfntf* Commawlfr Adder
sparre, arrived this morning after a passage of eight days
from Havana. She mounts 32 guns, and has a crow of
340 meu.
Captain Singer, of Die bpg JrtVivMiWh Arrived this
morning ircm Trindad, reports that uu the luth JQ6t.*
when iu at 2330j40n 33 47, was boardedtrorn the sloop
of* war A lert, bound to Ship Island. On the ISth was
boarded from the United States steamer .Santiago from
Havana, all well.
Spoken, April Id, near Pori Royal, United States gun
boat Ma<3ffie y hence for Port Koyal, leaking badly \ hud
been ashore off Cape Lookout. Same day, off Charles
ton, United States gunboat Szmoset, beuce for Port
Rojal, and two other gunboats.
Wo have on hand litre iu the city now the wives 6f t&ii
of the leading generate in our armiae—including the two
comm&udei'B-iu-chief —Eastern and Western Depart
ments.
Schooner Ann C. Leverett , Squires, from Jacksonville,
20|ji ifestssti Arrived At this port this morning Left
United States gunboats Seneca » J‘cmbina\ and Ottawa.
The United States troops had evacuated Jacksonville, and
the city was iu charge of the Confederates but the gun
boats remained at anchor off tno town, to protect the
loyal inhabitants. Passengers—>lrB, Colour) Sffiim,
srandoon, und two servants* T. Iu Mather*
Mrs. 31. Mather, M. Vox, W. Fairbanks, C. Kane.
The Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting to
day, at which Mayor Opdyhe reported a memorial to
Congma, cu tl e subject of taxation by the tleneya) Qo-
ijica was adopted aud enlervd to pe transmitted
to Congress. The memorial sets forth that the masses of
the people are desirous nud ready to contribute their
quota to the ordinary and extraordinary revenues of the
country, bo that the burden may bo e>jn%liy divided
between ti;e' preeeut and coming generation, The enr*
rent expenditures of the Government demand 8250,000,-
CCO per annum ; au<l probably no less a sum will be ade
(jubte to meet the exigency.
That sum will be necessary to pay the national ex
tW'h£e,4, ilia llitaß.&t 6U the public dfabt. and the estab
lishment of a sinking fund, and will enable the treasury
to negotiate on favorable terms the requisite loaus of the
present and future years. The necessaries of life will be
so Miiver-ally and equitably taxed that the burden will
full oimuily ou all tla&sus* aeeordinu to thnir ability to
pay : and the luxuries of society uiid eujoymohU of the
rich will he made to largely contribute to the revenue.
The following is a schedule of Imposts proposed iu the
memorial:
Frcm till sales of goods und tnerchaudise and other
property, at retail and wholesale, a tax of ono pet 1 cent.,
the memorialists believe, the annual sum of 5115,0Q0,000
From the tariff, the sum of 50,000,000
Frcm au excise or tax on on cottor, of two
cchtfl per pf/iindr............... 24,000,0(0
Fiom au excise or lax on tobacco* or 20
cents per pound
From au excise or tax on whisky and other
1-ouors, of 25 cents per ga110n............
From an excise or tax on malt liquors* o
cents per gallon.. *
From & direct tax upon real and personal
property
$2&4,00Q,0W
*• The ccmmittee appointed totaKe measures for the re
lit {' of the refugees from Florida met at noon to-day, in
the hell of the Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Fairbanks, a passenger in the schooner A. C. Le
vered, which arrived this morning from Jacksonville,
u-aa piegeut, and apbfia&i ihfe 66UiBillie lUat EluiUett.
more refugees had come in that vessel from Florida.
With the exception of two German families, cigar
makers, they were all in comfortable condition, and did
net need any immediate assistance.
Mr, Francis D« Lathrop gave an account or the deiti*
tute condition of many of fho refugees, and ft member
suggested that such of the mini lor as wore not willing
to receive gratuitous aid should have funds loaned them
to meet their present necessities.
A wimnittfe to appointed to distribute the fuodi
already collected, About s2,ooowere received to-day.
The jobbing trade is not so active ns it was a fortuigbt
ajc. but there is a fair amount of business doing iu this
department. The jobbers* stocks of staple domestics
brought over from last season aye otj|j g? {§fgs ill it they
need Imt little replenishing, and there is consequently ra
ther a market in the package ti ad e foi these articles.
The importing trade at private sale is also rather dull,
except for a few things, and tho sales at aucti >ll this
week have uot been heavy. There are several buyers
fruu d ciatttuce iu the matktiU purchnsiug nacoml suit*
plies.
The following were the sal
board to-day:
17000 US 5a *74 cp... 87^*
34000 US 5s *65.
iG6o t? fc 6a 'o“,
2OOGO Ti eas T 8-10 p
TOCO IU Gen.. ..reg.. 8$
5000 Tenu Oa ’OO.-blO 55 %
BuOO Virginia 65.... 50
SCfiO do.. s&]£
IgCOON-Y St" 08’68..1U0
0000 Mich C Ss Ist mt 90%
ICOQOTcIA W 2d.... 50
5000 Atiucr gold. .»60.101^
75 Pacific Mail 55..100
sQ t? Y Cen,«,, .sOO,, 53
SCO do Sii,V|
—The market is steady ; the demand fair. For
Pots, £5.62# : Pearls are quiet: prices nominal.
Fj.ori'. .\Ni* Meal—The market for Weßtern and
Btat© Flour is again better, especially the low and me
dium grades; irado brands arc well held, but are quiet.
Tho sales are 14,400 bbls at 84.fc.0av4 95 tor snperfino
Slate and Weßtern: §o 10®5 20 for extra State, the latter
for choice old: 55.26a5.40 for fancy do; 55.15®5.35 for
the low grades of Western extra; &5.30®5.40 for North
ern round-hoop, extra Ohio, ami £5.45*6.50 for tr-vie
brands do. •
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Philadelphia, April 25,1862.
Tbe stock market is quite active, and investment secu
rities continue Ik demaud fit previous quotations. Sun
bury and Erie Railroad Sixes advauced to 83. PennsyL
vania Fives rose X» selling at United States Cou
pon Sixes sold at 05, and one year certificates of indebt
edness at QSV-
The money market U without alteration.
Messrs. Feiree A Co., bankers, Fo. 83 South Third
street, quote:
Kew York 4I«.
Boston exchange ......... parai-ll) ale.
Baltimore exchange......... par®l-10 dig.
American gold P rem '
Silrer ... 1 ® U* prern.
United States 7 3-10 10an... ........ # f .ft prem.
<Stj© year certificates. ... - ® i# dis.
Country funds. X ® ft* dis.
Messrs. Drexel A Co. furnish the following quotations
New York exchange Par tol*lo pre.
Boston exchange • • “to I "*° ,V
Baltimore oxcitange.. «• il 1° X ® iS *
Country funds. %to % **
American gold • 1% 40
One year certificates 98# to 93#
Quartermasters’ receipts # tol 7 £4n.
readers are cawtioruxi against counterfeit dree on
on the Trenton Banking Company, vignette the Kew
Jersey State Capitol; an imitation of the genuine note,
and very well executed.
Q)H4 BfclifclAtU fIVM Ail tltA Klfcl&uMilg BftilU JttftV U 9 de
tected by an \rror in tb« spelling of the name of the
bank; on the counterfeit it is spelled “Kittsning ’’—one
K being left out. The note is unlike the genuine in de*
sign any &i»pBlPAfit6.
Pcfercon's Counterfeit l>c(ector for May 1 13 already
issue* 1 , with its usual contents, indispensable in the
couuting room and on the store counter. It is no longer
cectsaary to recommend the Counterfeit VetwtoTi
Every prudent man subsciibei for it as naturally as he
seeks indemnity against fire by insuring or protection
from midnight robbers in bars and locks. The May
number is even more than usually complete.
The statements of the bents of the three principal
cities of the Union for the last week compare with the
previous one and the corresponding time of ISGI as fol
lows
Loans,
New York. April 19 8123,070,360
Boston, April 21
Philadelphia, April 21.... 23 I '-49,t38
21*2,8:10,75$ 135,701,240
“13,648,147 132,880,019
21*2.407,710 133,3:8,689
Specie. Circulation,
New York, April 19 *54,371,52S #5,004 061
Boston, April 21 ',\6.2,.*>0 5,9.4,900
Philadelphia* April 21 * 6*040 Sol) 3tO»MQi)
Ta(a| •••••«»•• 49,39*,144 11,514.960
Last week" ’ 4'.>.196,111 17,671,040
Last year.::::'.'.'. 0 : i,197,005 18,199,90*
Tlie anthracite and bituminous coal brought down ou
{he Seadjr.sy Railroad aud Schuylkill Canal tI»U week
was as follow**:
Total »
last ivetk
Last year... -
Bailroad, this week i:l 1860.........,,..,39,097 toil*.
1861 50.333 ••
•• 1562 .40,.17
du.il, WU Week U 1886 ».**» “
1881 "4,570 ••
1862 20,21'' ••
Shipments of coal over the Huntingdon end I>i"o»d Top
Mountain Railroad during tlie week ending w ednea, y,
A jriisa. 1862, anil aincu January 1.136'-.
Week. Previously. Total,
Tons. Tone. Ton*.
,QrtO 7 44S 07.005 104.40. J
increase 3.S+l a^ti;T a8 '" 5
Th. inactions of Flour and Meal in Philadelphia,
dJiTg e...fiU April 2*, 1952, were as fellow, -
Barrels of Superfine 9,38»
lid Filial i I I i 4»* • » M» ■ t«i I i a i i i I “4
do Middlings jtf
do Bye
do Corn Meal
do Condemned.
The New York Mviniup l*ost of to-day says!
The general complexion of the stock market show* as
ytt no change from what has been frequently pointed out
tor the paat fortnight—viz: great firmness and buoyancy
in Govwnmeui igeuritiai to tho neglect of the simqu*
latiVf railways, which coutiuue heavy and declining,
particularly the Western shares, these being adversely
affected by the decreasing traffic returns. It has been a
distinctive feature of the market for many days past that
business opens satisfactorily on Govertfruant bonJai and
assumes a very duii aspect as soon as the speculative
railways aT» reached. Speculation seems to run upon
Governments at present, though a decisive victory in
Virginia or in the Southwest would probably infuse new
Ufa into oilier departments of the Hat.
in Cleveland and Toledo there were heavy traasac
tioie, cud the sale* of the past three days foot up over
fifteen thoutand fbares. The price this morula? reco
vered per ceat. Of the 2 percent, decline since Mon
day.
btrUwar« snd BuJkd mw ti Co
lumbus. and Cincinnati ft-II off % per cent
Tbe bonds of the border States remain dull, especially
Tcunessees, of which there in A large supply on the mar*
ket. Mig 99lir ! 9 srp t«|ef«b!)' »t wr,aw%,
The demand Tor governments is scarcely bo active M
yesterday, but prices of thr*. various issue* show extraor
dinary firmness. The Size* of 1881 are a shade lower
then the high points of last evening. For the Coupons
94 )i was paid and hid for more, while this morning* there
fire BPllPra at 94\, Tito 7.110 note* are firmly held at
100^ moo#* and the o per cent. OfirtfHeatos ddfttl&ue to
improve, selling freely at 08 V- The Five* of 1871 and
1874 are sparingly ofletod at H7V> 033
The market after the Hoard was dulls hut steady.
Government Sixes between »r# lesi KtlYO—3lK
Tor rtgißtwre it-sls and to* ©twft for Coupon*.
Cleveland and Toledo, after the Hoard, was quoted
which is a rally of V®.*« 4? cent, from the
lowest point.
Honey is more Aotlrei or rather lens stagnant than
early in Ui« wertt. Gall loans arts find per cent., with
the hulk of the business at the insidefigure. Prims sixty
days 1 paper is wanted at&O&V por cent., and six months
at 6«bJ4'
The gold market is dull, but at 101# there are utirnar
ouii intyertj,
Kxclmnge on London 1* steady at 112 V • Prime com
mercial bills are quoted at 111^0112.
Philadelphia Stock fcxclmngr sn|n t April X'h
[n.pyrUa \, T g, SharMUßiißi Tima, XionangQi]
FIRST BOARD.
2COO N Pennft 6s.cull 71 WKlmiiii U,.. 8#
2000 d 0... 71 10 d 0.... 8 if
]OOO do lf)s.bs 86# 1000 Peuua Op 55..., 86#
fiooous onu r «i... /»ool«*iaw*l li„, ii™
ICOOO Jo 95 9000 V 6 Of Reg *81,,, 94#
s€o‘ do 95 100 TiOng Island 11... 12#
500 do ra»h 95 50 do b 6 12#
550 abtTa ss..sown 84 101) do 12#
400 dOiiiimiii 84# 1000 MorrisClnl2d m. 87
200 do 84# IOOOKChIN&VGa’Sti.. 62#
1000 Stillb ft Erie 7a.. 87# 10 Lehigh Nay 51
1000 do 88 2000 Penna R2d m,. r 93
10000 TJ 8 6 p c Debt 5 Penna H 45#
Certlf. 08# Uont4u*iaa& [» a
BETWEEN BOARDS
1000 Pcniift JJ 2d 5i.... 93 120 Wilmington R 52
LICOO Bunb A Erie 75.. SB#
SECOND
25COONrennftlOH, l *. BU#
14000 do 86#
ICUO Cum ft Ain 04 'B9 88
ICUO BchiNCti’B2. 15 62# i
10C0 do 62# I
1000 Kft'l
iiOOO (In. Ml ,mbO j
1100 U S G p c Uertir. 98# !
52d A 3d-*ts R... 01# j
5000 IVmiH It 2d m.. 93 |
6 Minehill R„ rMt 4& ,
AFTfift HOARDS.
100 North Aniericau Insurance
CLOSING PRICES—FIRM.
Bid. Asked. Bid. Asked.
U5681881...94# 95 K[m, r a R Prfm 16# 16#
VSIVTS H.ioo* 100# Rlraira 7h ’73.. 74# 70
Phiiada Ce 93# ~ L Island R cx-d 12# 12#
Phiiada 6a now. 98# 99 Le’gh Cl ft Nav 50# 61
Peuuaos 84# 84# Le Cl ft ft ay Sep 36 37
Reading It 21 i>9 21# NPenn&K..... .6# 7
Rokdxh6s ’B6 *45 64 o? r ‘ rf penon ft e»,* T ri TIM
Read bdii’M.... 00 01 N Ponna 105,,, 86# 87
Read rnt 6a *86.. 70# 80 Cafaw R Con.,, 1 # 2
Peon a R 45# 45# Catawinsa Pref. 6# 7
Penna R 1 m6s.lOo# 101 Frk ft Sthwk R. 42 46
Penna It 2 m fla 03 93# &.U Si Tbd-iif R. 61# 62
Morris CulCott 40 41 RacftAVioo-atft 8# 8#
MoirtaCnl Pref.ll2# 113 W Phllala R... 54 64#
Bch Nhv Stock. 3# 5 Spruce A Pine.. 11 11#
Sch NavPref... 10# 11# Green * Coates. 23# 23#
Boh N&y Gs ‘82,. 63 66 Giles A Walnot. SO# 81
Eiuiiraß*»»».., 8 8# Arch Street.... 18# 18#
G0,C00,000
25,000,000
8,000,000
12,000,000
tea of stock* at the second
25E1i0 n
100 Aiich Cen R. ,s3O. 53
ioo do aoo. S3 T ,'
250 Harlem R l-’ ( ‘
100 Panama R 123
lOOXllCeu scrip 58
260 do 930.. 68
100 do bM.. tt!n
:\Q C &. T01ed0....b5. 41
1200 do 41
:;00 do 539., 41*
•200 d0.......630.. 41««
75 Chi A B I H.un, 54
S o C D *V Quiu 8,,,, 02
Pewit*
$•.‘0,1.0,340
21,570.017
12,011,833
1000 Cam & Am Gs ’7O (JJ
1000 POMM U 14^
2000 Fitts, Ft Wayne
A Clilc2d m... 70
ICOO U S6s Beg *81... 04 £
20 Wfifltern JJk,..,. 60
100 city 6s New
100 do., New 93)4
4 Penna .'»s 0054
1000 Penna Cp 55..... H 7
CITY ITEMS.
II£KE AMJ TJIKJIE IN BRITAIN” Will liO tllO
subject of Mr. Gough’d lecture, at the Academy of Music,
OD tll6 6V&ning if 11A. 5.' Otll. VkoM who keari It,
weeks ago, will remember hi* spirited and ilojuent de
ficriptionfl of English scenery and English character, and
how he thrilled his immense audionce with striking fact?,
amusing anecdotes, and yuey pitting of «*bA
We recommend our readers to einbraca this opportu
nity of hearing a wonderful orator and his best theme.
A largo number of seala Already Lee-i awl
early application for tickets will he necessary to prevent
disappointment.
A Fopulah — Mr. J. W.
Piice, the popular wtillnvesl comer oF V.mvlh
and Chestnut streets, has evidently conceived the Phila
delphia idea of a Restaurant. The handsome improve
ment made in hia saloon, which we have recently had
occasion to chrouielu, haa elicited the wMtnest itp&wn»A!
of our citizens, and on several occasions within the pre
sent ween hU sp’endid now dining room lias been attacked
in force l Ills moats tiro cun at to any furnished in a
first-class hotel, and his chnrgca moderate.
Thu Phu-adem-hia (Joai, Oil EMi'Oitmr.—
The fact that the Coal oils sold by Messrs. Hulburt A
Brodhead, at their warerooms, No. 240 Arch street, aro
th'to bijt in th* marhcl) i» in their BltfOlf t(#
both city and country, which are larger thau those of auy
other house in the trade. A single trial, whether for illu
minating or lubricating purposes, gives them pre-emi
neDCO over all ether oils in the nv*Tketi Their |d*i> Of
putting up oils in cubical tin cans, with spigots, is a great
improvement, and is universally appreciated. For either
shipping, retailing, or home consumption, this can ar
rangeineilt Is really & Capital finijirAVeihaiit. Their a ales
during the present week have amounted to hundreds of
barrels per day, and the demand is constantly Increaaltg.
Charles Oakford 6c Son, in tlieir splendid
|Law PMBS, UfiiUr tli-6 G&nUneutal Hotel, are bow <lnriog
an immense trade in their several departments. Should
the weather be propitious to-day, they will probably
adr.rn the heads of at toast a thousand gentlemen of taste
and fashion with their inimitable bats and oapu-tlw
most beautiful in the market—aud ladips ate flocking fc>
their ware-rooms en masse for Children’s Headgear, o*
which their assortment is unequalled in this city. We
are authorized to say that they are now selling off their
elegant stock of PAris-made Ladies 1 Slites, at far beldw
the cost of importation, wi‘h a view' to relinquishing this
branch of their business.
desirous op obtaisii-vo the Choic
est (.'oStj:' ! in.v.s, always patronize Vansaut, corner of
Ninth and Chestnut. His delicious Cream Bon-bons,
Cream Chocolates, Cream Walnuts, French Nauget, fine
French and American Mixtures, and choice Fruity in
cluding New Hots Prunes, New Figs* Oranges* Grapes, cf
cetera , are a real luxury.
Spanish Olives and Simmer Frltts.—Mr.
O. H. Matlsou. dealer in fine groceries, Arch aud T§flk|i
streets, baa now in store a superior lut of Spanish Olives,
also a good supply of green corn, tomatoes, and peas, of
his own preserving, which, we believe are the finest in
the ma;ket.
E, C.'Wiiitman & Go’s Confections, (Se
cond street, telow Chestnut,) are considered, by connois
seurs in this department of manufactures, to be the ttc
2’lus ultra of’excellence. They use ouly the finest and
ptireai materials in manufacturing, keep ahead of ail
rivals in the production of popular uoveltie?, aud sell at
irrices to suit the people. Their choice chocolate,
cream, aud various fruit preparation, brought out
Within, tlie lasi few da>=, are worthy of attention, awl
nhould find their way into every weU-rognlatel family.
Bitter and Cheesi:.— Slocomb &, Bassettj
at tho Cheese Stand in the Eastern Market, corner of
Fifth and Merchant streets, are constantly supplied with
the best Cheese that can be found In tkecouutry. Amo us
their many fancy dairies may he found the celebrated
“ Jackson & Coon” Cheese, so well known at tho old
“ Red Curtain,” Fourth and Market streets.
Their fine new Uniter is just the lliing our housefceep*
era now want, and their fresh Tomatoes are aa nice m
these just from tbe vines.
Charles TYh9 f9T thirty y«8»
furnished our cltlwms with Bread and Hasped HoUfl. haa
resumed business, in connection with his son, at his old
established stand. No. 1021 Pile street, between Tenth
and Eleventh. His advertisement will he found in our
columns.
BlVLI.su AND CJIEAP CIOTHISO. —To gen
tlemen whiling to purchase garments of the neatest cut
and malm, at llu lowest cash rates, we take plmure la
recommending Messrs. Grigg A t nn Giinten, 704 Market
street, three doorß above Seventh, south Bids. There is
groat folly in paying S3O on Chestnut street for what
nitty he had at this medal establishment at half the tas
ney, perfect fit and tasteful make warranted on all
occasions.
Parson Brown-low lias repeatedly assured
Prenlife that he never stvere »ti vatlii never plated a
card, never took a drink of liwor. never went to tha
theatre, never attended a horse-race, nevor told a lie.
never broke the Sabbath, never wore whiskers, never
kissed any woman but his wife, aud never wore any other
garments; -when \»v could ejel iliemj thou those mww
factund at the renowned Clothing Bazaar of Granville
Stokes, No. 609 Chestnut street, who has now on baud
the finest assortment of Bprinff and summer garments iu
llie country; At prices to stilt t!i£ HfiL££.
Something Concerning Telegraphing*—
Caaselt’s pentelesraph, an instrument which is said to be
capable of use iu tepyiss sutesrsphsi desisusi ftfid »r
-traiti, bo that a man can semi his lady.love a luster in
his own baud, mid recelva her picture iu AusWer over
wire* hundreds of miles long, is pronounced by our
scientific men a more imitation of a process patented in
this country, and by means of which a correct clew of
the splendid Brown-Stone Clothing Hall of RochbiU *
Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut street, above Sixth,
was telegraphed all over tha country, tosethar with a
notice of the elegant garments for gentlemen and youtlii
made there.
Prentice and the “Secesh” Ladt.—
Prentice, it appears, has revived a note frem a womau,
UiMabuins hint with aiianiuatlom she signing liaraetf
.‘Charlotte Corday,” after the name of the French
heroine. Prentice replies that, as her namesake stabbed
Murat ill his bath, lie feels safe, If she iutends doing the
stabbing part he is iu tho habit of locking hU
iloor ill going through his ablutions, We mtorm him of
the Louisville Joumai, however, that he may noth,
sale after coming out ot' his door unless he should pro
vide himself with the celebrated Bullet-proof Vest, sold
by Mi 1 . Charles gtokes, under the Continental Hotel, in
this city. That will effectually protect the regtdil tllSat
vulnerable to female attacks—that is, the heart.
MARRIED,
SMITH—CLARKSON —On Thursday dotting. WMi
iiiat.. at the Church of the Epiphany, by the Right
Rev* Vi Ham B. Stevens, D. I)., the Rev. Heury R. Smith,
of r*hllitde!f»lir*r to Grace, daughter of the late Gerardus
Clarkielli of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. *
OItABAM— fcbky —Oil the 3Sd inst., by tbe Kev.
Arcliibiild Beatty, William Graham. Ben., of Denver
city, Colorado, to Mias Annie Kurey, of Philadelphia. *
DIED.
At FLICK On the 24th instant, James P. AfUlck,
in the 62d year of hi 3 age.
Funeral iron. Ids late residence, aud For
tieth streets, West Philadelphia, ou Monday afteruorn,
m 2 u’lilnck. **
H 0 UGL ON —Ou the 22d instant, of disease contracted
in the service cf the Vuited States, while attached to the
Culf r,madron, Captain James H. Hodgdon, aged 31
> friemlß are invited to attend tin funeral Bsrvicea,
at tin'AHxander Presbyterian Church, corner of Nine
teenth »ud Green streets, ou Sabbath next, at half past 2
o’clock P M.» precisely. *
IkIeKINNKY.—On Thursday morning, 24th Instant,
Dfulfi McKiuney, in the 70th year cf his age.
HU relatives andlrtendsare invited us attendllia
ral, from his late residence, BHtenUoiuetomu near Ger*
umutown, cn Monday n ornhig next, at 9 o’clock, with*
out further notice Funeral service at St John sChurco,
Ulsuayuuk. t .
MNUSAY —On the evsnlug of the -4th Inst, Robert
0 i-indsay, la the “5°- . .
The relatives stud frittpi* of the family ; ai*i, the m«m
beisofthe Neptune Bose Company, are respecttnUy
iuvited to attend th» funeral, from his late residence,
Fiaukliu and Wood streets, on Sunday a ?* ri Vs Q
o'clock, wUhov.4 fviiiher notice. 13 pPSOMII tJ Oil Fol
lows* Cemetety. "
OBITVABY
Mr. LINDSAY was nC»rrbr of Tkt /’CCM from tbs
irsV.o'cf'its first uunj’sr, m August, 13a., am. bi
pioniptuess »ud couttisy with which h« «mf.imvy dm-
Chsrgfd his duties, iu this aud every other retatiou af
life, securrd for him the confilence and re.p*.-t or all
»hu knew him. Tim sad loss experienced hy his family
In hi. deall.l, sbsfsd by a tug* ttPeU if Msmte. tuhd
kmw hia vtwili »« gntxttnplary ctt'f-in »« !an.U6tm4t
cep ;