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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1862
THE LATEST WtR NEWS
By the arrival of lhe steamer Cahawba from
Port Royal, at Now York yesterdar, wa ham im
portant intelligence from the fetmer place. Gen.
Bunter, the military commandant of the Dapsrt
moot of the Nat'l, eomnosvd of the Statea of Gram
gia, South Carolina, and Florida, his lased a pro.
clatuati‘n, deolariog that, as the existence of mar
tial law, lately nrocluinied in his department, is
incompatible wi h slavery, those slaves who are
within the dominion of his department are now,
and will be hereafter, free men. For 8 440 time
previous General Bunter had been issuing papers
to those slaves Who were in employ of the rebels,
guroantying them their freedom ) but the last pro•
olsmation of General Bunter, on account of its
general terms, had caused a great deal of joy
among the contrabands. General Hunter is or
ganizing a negro brigade, and had detailed some
officers to train the contrabands to the use of arms.
As soon as they aro sufficiently drilled it i 8 of
petted that they will garrison the Port Royal
fortifications.
From nalteck's army we learn that several
of the Border State regimeets in Beauresard'a army
are in a state of inEubordirm ion, and are anxious
to attach themselves to the Union cause. 04 M e .
day, two re g iments, one from Tennessee and the
other from Kentucky, mutinied, and attempted to
desert en masse to Gen. flall,ck's twa ritir t em
but were prevented. Several or our regiments were
sent over to tlaeirrescue, but only succeeded in cap
turing sixty of the mutioeers, who give a dolefu l
account of affairs in Beauregard's army..
The steamers Naugatuck and Monitor, wheinThe
beard - from, sP,V,Paclay last, were at beyond City
Point, steaming up tows s , The re
leased Union prisoners, who came down that day:
passed them on route, The iron•elad steamer Ga
lena, which went up last week, had got off the bar
en which she was stopped, and was steaming on
after the Naugatuck and Menimr, oil the same day,
toward Richmond. The Galena had been in range
of several heavy rebel batteries, hat her iron coat
of mail saved her from any injury, tha halls
glancing off her sides.
'Yet hundred Union prisoners, who were re
leased from the Richmond prisons, have arrived in
Washington. They state that the citizens of Rich•
mond have been holding three or four public meet
inns, at which they disouised the quaatiark about
surrendering or burning the city on the approach
of the Federal troops. It was, at last, decided to
surrender the eity on the appronoh of tha getlaral
forces. Provisions are very scarce and high, and
the prison fare was of the most miserable descrip
tion. The Union sentheent 14 strong, and its de-
velopment was on the increase as our troops neared
the city
IT Is PROBABLE that, in the course of this
day or to-morrow, we may bait) two or three
days later news from Europe. The Great
Eattern wa.s tv Icivfv• afford llavott
on the 6th. This is a port in the southwest of
wales, somewhat lower down than Cape Clear,
the most southern oart of Ireland, whence a
vessel can steam right OM into the Atlantic.
The sometimes dangerous, and always dilatory
passage Boni Liverpool, down the Irish Sea,
between Ireland and Reghttol, is avoided by
departure from Milford, which is said to be
the finest harbor, the Cove of Cork excepted,
in the British Islands, and the Great Eastern
will save a day by not having to pass through
the intricacies of the passage from the Mersey.
If she sailed on the adverdsed day, she is
almost due now.
Important intelligence may be expected by
ber mails. Perhaps something dofinito as to
the rumored interference of France. and Eng
land in our nearly-finished civil war may have
transpired between the departure of the Ni.
agara (from Queenstown, on the 4th) and that
of the Great Eastern, two days later from Mil
ford. Perhaps, also, Sir GEonou C. LEWIS,
even in that brief interval, may nave fulfilled
his promise—amazingly like a threat, all things
considered — of wiling Parliament for leave to
bring in a bill for increasing the National
Debt of England by another loan, to defray
the cost of national defence.s, and may pnctien
larly state their nature. We may bear, also,
of NAPOLEON'S new policy towards Rome,
now dimly shadowed out, by the last advices,
as less protective of Papacy than heretofore.
In truth, there are so many interesting subjects
now on the tapis in Europe that even one
day's Later news may startle us. Not more,
however, than the intelligence of our recent
successes,—there-occupation of New Orleans,
Yorktown, and Norfolk,-will astonish Eu
rope, in a week or ten days from now. The
Times so occupies Europe, like the Old Man
of the Sea perpetually clinging to gialliSid. the
Sailor, in the Arabian Nights, that its false
hoods and sneers against this country have
been - widely credited, It cannot say, at all
events : that Nev.- Orleans, Norfolk, and York
town have become ours by «a drawn battle."
'ars ISE3IOIII7ATIODI of, the HOD. JAMES
DrxoN, by the Republican and Union caucus
in the State of Connecticut, is a merited
compliment it. a 1441 e-tried sad raitsrat pulylio
servant. Senator Dixon is one of those men
who go into political life from a conscientious
desire to do their duty, and.mho gaNt'd the
State from patriotic, and not from personal,
motives. As a Senabor, he has been honest
and unostentatious ; a Republican, but not a,
partisan—acting with his party when he con
sidered it in the right, and bold enough to
differ phen he considered it in the wrong.
During this war he has been undeviating In
the support of the Admieistration, and the
State of Connecticut can do no more grateful
ant than return him to his seat in tha gallata.
Mr. Senator Dixo - s is now in the 48th year
of his age, having been born in the town of
Enfield, Connecticut, in 1814, He was odu•
cited at Williams College, in Williamstown,
Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1834.
he adopted the law as his profes,lon, And rose
to eminence as a member of the Connecticut
bar. lie entered public life in 1837, when he
was chosen to the State Legislature—serving
in the State Senate in 1849 and. 1661. From
1845 to 1849 he was a member of the National
House of Representatives, and in 1857 was
chosen to the Senate of the United States.
His term expires with the present Congress,
and as a candidate for re-eleetion he has now
been placed in nomination. There is no doubt
that he will be chosen.
WE ARE VERY GLAD, indeed, that the mem
bers of the Common Council t...bled the reso
lution of MT. Councilman QUIN with reference
to Col. Wm. F. SMALL, CoMMall4ing the
Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Regiment, int
now at home with his family suffering from a
slight wound. We do not doubt the bravery
Of Colonel SMALL, and we know of no reason
why he should not be a brigadier general.
But we think it is in wretched taste for a mu
nicipal body like the City Councils to force a
gallant soldier upon the attention of the Com
monwealth or the Administration, by a series
of fulsome resolutions. Colonel 37.txm, need
not fear any neglect at the hands of the Presi
dent or cf Governor CURTIN. He has done
his duty in this last light, and those whose
province it is to reward and to promote will
remember him.
NoW that the atrocious barbarity 6f the
rebels at Bull Run and Yorktown has become
a matter of record through official investiga
tion, and 14 testified to by such witnesses es
Governor SPILACUE, it was but reasonable to
expect that not even the Breckinridge organs
would permit the disgraceful fact to pass with
out some werds of condemnation and abhor
rence. These reasonable expectations have
not, we regret to say, so far been realized.
_Against the wickedness of was, cohatiaeel in
strict conformity with the laws of civilized
warfare, they have omitted no opportunity, to
inveigh. They hare not failed to fill their
sheets with doleful lamentations whenever the
slave of a rebel has discovered the road to free
dom and followed it. They have constantly
protested against riel'ing upon ig cite deluded
Southern brethren " any of the rigors of war.
But - where is their indignant protest against
'the fiendish atrocity of these rebels at Bull
Run and Yorktown ?
WE learn that Adams' Express Company will
commence sending freight to New Orleans on the
28th test_ The company will also opals an agency
at Norfolk in a Pew days.
Is Ma. Manx HassLan's grand farewell en
tertaintallet, which will shortly take place, A rich
treat is promised the public. The announcement
eyill be given to-snerrow.
Tun rwanicvsorts which are mot &Mind con
stitute an overwhelming majority of all that
are delivered. We have repeatedly shown
what a bad prophet Mr. RILUMLL WWI- The
Times itself, .‘ thunderer" tbtiugh it be. has not
been more successful. On the 28th ult. it pub
lished a long anonymous communication, p:ir•
porting to have been written in Liverpool,
but evidently a communication from Mr.
Rtissam , himself, This has some statennincs
and predictions which subsequent events
have played the mischief with. Let its see.
First, this letter assumes that New Orleans
was to be approached only by the Federal
troops being transported from Memphis, when
reached, down the Mississippi, a jourenv of
IkeVtink hundred and el 6 hty ...ilea., with N.ktel.o.a,,
Vicksburg, and Baton Rouge to pass, and with
the country , on both sides of the river in the
possession of the enemy. Secondly, sup
posing New Orleans to be reached, there Fs no
hor.e for the Unionists, in this letter-writer's
opinion. His words are:
And the end of this unpromising voyage would
be Ntw Orleans—a city of 160.000 iohlhitaf,ta,
fire-eaters to a man, spurred by a Vigilance Omn•
=Wee, with large resources, inspiriting traditions
of successful defence, and n large French element
in its population—a race little Itkeho to h.nlii h.tek
from a barricade or any other kind of Arktiasr.
- Here, in addition to its own resources. would be
accumulated all th e stenmers and 4050110t....es
driven dawn the river by the Federal edverioe. ft
is not improbable that the fleet of gunboars, iron
roofed batteries, and stoom rains, under the com
mand of such men ae HWY and others of the
twat cams of the former navy, will egesAd in
',umber std power the force coming to 'Walk
them. On land, fortificatinn., peep.Leed long .4 odo ,
will be defended by numbers equal to those of the
a_ TV/
06..12 .1 0134 a. r , /.& rho pro/n4Orty of
such an enterprise is, tho reader may jodgm for
himsall Great stress is, indeed, laid On the etf,at
of ihe mortar-boats; but shells. a powerful auxil
iary in an steak, cannot decide a cattiest •ritAra
leas been ample time to provide for them, and,
wherever earth, bagging, and timber can be found,
shelter may be provided; the supply, also, will
be limited, as it proved to be at Swettl'org, and
there will be no moans to replenish the magazines.'
On the contrary, New Orleans Was not at
facUd by an arm ainent transported dowa tha
river from Memphis, but surrendered without
a blow—without more resistance than a stupid
letter or two from a rebel Mayor—on the ad
'ranee of a natal force steaming up instead of
down the river. The vaunted rebel force,
warranted not to shrint: from any kind of
Voiding, did not fix a hayonot, pull a trimar 7
fire a cannon, or make any but what Sir lisorcs
Rome would call a retrograde advance ! Mont
probably When news of the bloodless sur
render and occupation of New Orleans and of
Norfolk reaches 'England, the Times will say,
as it did of Pittsburg Lauding, that each was
g‘ II drawn battle."
THE PROCLAMATORY . efforts of General P.
T_ BaLtunr.oartn, both in 'vatic, and estylo,
deserve to form a literature by theruselve4.
The nearest approach to them whicirPoccurs
to us just now is the literature which a long
succession of revolutionary lec&ders in Mexico
have left behind them, sole reminders of their
existence to posterity. Unjustifiable revolu_
- Lion would seem prolific in bombast and un
mitigable 6 c highfalutin." We presume, how
ever, that BEAtinEGARD is greatly indebted to
his clever adjutant, Captain THOS. JORDAN, in
the production of his addresses and procla
mations. JORDAN, if he is to be believed,
would have annihilated the opposition to King
Cotton, and proved the divine right of that
personality in the autumn of '59, had the edi
tor of the North American Review not been
afraid to publish the Captain's argument. A
specimen of his grammar and style may be
seen in his letter of condolence, to General
STONY : soon after the fall of the lamented
BAKER. The reader of that letter may find
some resemblances in Style between it and
many of Runuanclan's lucubrations. If the
latter wished for a worthy coadjutor in trans
forming mole-hills into mountains, he found
one in Jorttann. No man can matte the most
of little things so successfully as he, and the
conjunction of BEAUREGARD and JORDAN may
be considered a happy adaptation of mean.; to
ends.
THE RIGHT MAN in the right place is one of
the happiest coiheidences possible in these
times ; and that ANDREW JOHNSON'S adminis
tration of affairs in Tennessee is one of the
bappieSt ilitiStratiOns of such a coincidence,
will be conceded by all save the deluded fol
lowers of JEFF DAVIS. It his proclamation
of fife foldrestitution and retribution la not
the embodiment of a new idea, it is good,
which is more than can be said of every new
idea. It is necessary to subject such men as
he has to deal with to great rigors before
their minds open to conviction. The (er
g-Mt/10M alt limittetn is the only Made that
can pierce the callosities which wrap
around and overlay their understandings.
As soon as they understand that they
cannot purchase civil absolution by the cheap
investment of the oath of allegiance, they will
set about mending their ways. .4 strong - in
fusion of ilisplirts JOHNSON juitice into the ad
ministration of affairs in other bocali . ies wilt
hare a like beneficial elect. Appeals to the
humanity and gratitude of traitors who hang
unresisting men, and maltreat women and
children, are the extreme of folly. The insti
gators of and actots iii the scenes or outrage,
involving the lives of non-resistant citizens in
rebel neighborhoods, cannot be reached by
such treatment as obtains butwaPri
men. Let them be scourged into decency.
TUE SECESSION ARMIES are as cruel as they
are cowardly. Each battlefield affords a new
illustration of their savage and inhuman spirit.
They commenced the_practice of shooting our
plekets aloe s the line of th:s Po - Loa/op, and de
lighted in the cold-blooded murder of the brave
guards of our outer lines. At Bull Run they
killed defenceless prisoners, and made &hik
ing cups of the skulls of their defenceless vie
tims. At Pea Ridge they employed Indians,
who repeated all the atrocities of savage warfare,
At New Orleans they fired upon an unarmed
crowd of Union men, women, and children.
At Yorktown, recently, they followed the
practice they mlopted al Columbus, of leafing
behind them torpedoes and infernal machines,
for the purpose of wounding or killing a few
of our soldiers. War, at best, is horrible
enough, but the unnecessary slaughter of
human beings, against the rules of warfare
which all civilized nations respect, or to gratify
a mere blood-thirsty spirit of revenge, without
aiming at or expecting any military results, is
as essentially sheer murder during the exist
ence of hostilities as it would be in time of
profound peace. The enemy, have displayed
all the instincts of rude and reckless bar
barians, Arid few or none of the traits or gal
lant soldiers. They are as sanguinary where
their power is unchecked as they are timorous
in the presence of equal or superior fordo.
They are as ready, to commit outrages, which
noble spirits Would prevent at the hazard o f
their lives, as they are to flee at the approach
f danger.
silt. &moan Wlisom, of Massachusetts,
has written a letter to a friend in Boston de
nying the charge, which many newspapers had
made," tbat he has attempted to embarrass the
operations of General Metir-amart. As chair
man of the Senate Military Committee, Mr.
WILsoN, to use his own words, ct acted upon
the, belief that it was his duty, as a member of
the Senate and chairman of the Military Com
mittee, to support General MCCLELLAN and
cater military commanders, and to place at
the disposal of the War Department the re
sources of the country, and to leave the re
apen.kibilities of action with the Executive
Departments and the military commanders."
Those whb know Senator Wtr.sox, and have
watched his patriotic course, will not need this
assurance as to his patrioti , m and devotion.
SALE. OP CARPETING, MATTING, &o.—The early
attention of purchasers is requested to the general
assortment of 200 pieces velvet, Brussels, ingrain,
cottage, hemp and list carpetings. Also, superior
w ll 4 4 litiid resl-cliocked'Otzton and con% matting%
including 150 pieces partially damaged, to be pe
remptorily sold, by catalogue, on a credit of four
months, commencing this morning, at 10 o'clock
precisely, by John B. Myers S auetionears,
Nos. 232 and 23A, Market street.
TnONAS e SONS' SALES TEEIS DEL - P.—ELEGANT
Werarcr-011111P.T linnlnntdOk A.No Pultarrruns on
the premises, No. 1219 Walnut street, at 10 o'clock.
LAW lanno.nr, at 4 o'clock, at the auction rooms.
See catalogues and advertisements of both sales.
STeCics ARD iIkAL FAIWIT, Tuuerair !NeXT_
Comprising a number of building pots, &0., (late
Kensington) by order of Orphans' Court; several
other estates, by order of executors, &v. See ad
verticementa. Pompillat eataloguec to-morrow.
NEw READINGS elr MR. MURDOCII —Mr. MU.
docb, we are pleased to learn, will give three of
next wink, The pro-
WA reading in this city
gramme will have the attraction of embracing
fresh seleotions from Shakspeare, Byron, Scott,
Longfellow, Dickens, Read, Boker, and others.
The entertainmenta will be given at Cowart Hall,
on 'Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings,
and bespeak orowded houses.
LETTEAK knOffil ••OulumslonAL.•,
WASHINUTOS, May 15, 1862
Washington Irving's favorite story of ‘l Rip
Van Winkle," who went to sleep in the reign
of George 111, and awoke under the adminis
tration of George Washington, unconscious of
the change, might be read with profit by many
who, in every one of their acts, show that they
are unconscious of the transformations and re
forms of the hour. They sleep on through
great organic social earthquakes, or adhere to
the faded theories of two years ago, amid the
I,l...seoteing orcLard aor a MVP creation. Hereto
fore, a change of Administration h►s been
merely a change of men in place—a change
of ihe Collectorm of the Ports of PhllA,,f,
phia and New York, and the removal of one
set of clerks in the departments so that an
other might come in, And when Abraham
Lincoln was chosen President little more
would have resulted from his Administration if
the slaveholders had not willed it otherwise,
Indignant at what they themselves had pre
pared-for and invited, they began a revolution,
which, however expensive to the Government
they attempted to overthrow, was in no one
element so effective as in its operations upon
slavery cad all the owners of slaves, and adve
cedes of slavery. In trying to revolutionize
the Government they revolutionized them
selves. In laboring to overthrow the Go
vcinnicnt they find themselves overthrown.
Ilow strangely unconscious these classes
seem to be of the unparallelled innovation!
Ilere in Washington they appear to forget
that all things are undergoing the process of's
magical metamorphosis. They will not believe
that they are passing inte a now world.
Although merrouncled by practical proofs of
the presence of agencies which are upturning
customs and usages which have been held to
be immutable, they maintain the same air of
self-assumed superiority, and look down with
contempt upon the means by which they have
been rescued from tho eznsequencos of the
Rebcliionr Unforairiately, however, they are
no longer a majority. The truths they re
ject, the changes they will not recogniie, are
seen and accepted by the people; and it is on
this that all good men may build their best
hopes in antieipation of the Future of the
allele South.
But the Bourbons are not confined to the
South. They are scatteredover the free
States, and do not hesitate to exhibit their af
fection for Treason in the midst of the most
undoubted manifestations of its tyranny and
its dow.,fall, Insensible alike to the solem
nity of the issues involved in this struggle
tor Liberty and Law, and to the suffdrings
of those ...rho aro making this struggle the
grandest that has taken place since the begin
ning of the world, their hearts are only fitted
with respect and veneration for a erunl and
ungrateful aristocracy. For, after all, it is
just such an aristocracy against which our
armies are now contending_ Look ar,mnd
you, in Philadeli hia, and you will easily per
ceit e that those who lead in these de=uonstra
tiwas of sympathy with treason aro the lead•
ers of coteries and cliques, who have
always been reg - rded as desirous of being
eta sid, red cc the better classes of society."
I do not wish to pivrticul sr , oC, but is it
not so ? There are many honorable and pa
triotie exceptions ; but wherever a man has
assumed a superiority over his fellow. men,
and has gloried in his exclusivenesq, that man
is, at this moment, doing everything to embar
rass the war, and to show his sympathy, with
the rebellion. There is, indeed, a natural
harmony between all such persons and the
aristocrats who have flourished .upon slave
labor.
The marvel is that these aristocrats should
attempt to wear the cloak of Democracy in
the hope of deceiving the honest masses, who
are, in all things, progressive, intelligent, and
liberal. Can it be that these masses will follow
leaders who continue to reverence and to
contend for the armed traitors to the Consti
tution and the Laws ? OCOASCONAL.
THE New Yerk World, of Wednesday-,
thus candidly withdraws its deliberate accu
sation against the integrity of Hon. CALEB B.
3ecntary of the Interior
t• Our readers may remember that some few
weeks ago charges of malfeasance in office and
improper Fpeculationa aga'nst the Secretary of the
wire curreni in Washing on and this city,
and were repeated in tbis and other journals. We
have made a careful examination into the truth of
these allegations, and have been satisfied that the
obsrers arose from a misapprehension of the ftets
in the ease upon which they were based, and that
the Secretary of the Interior has admini.tered his
department with as much purity and economy as
efficiency."
THE LUTHERAN SYNOD ON THE WAIL—A com
mittee of the General Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in the United States, were On
Tuesday introduced to Prelident Lincoln by the
Secretary of State, and communicated the resolu
tions of that body, adopted at the late session in
Lateatter, Pa., eotoinencllng the courso of the
Government in the prosecution of the war. In pre
senting the resolutions the Rev. Prof. Sternberg
end the Bev, Dr, Pohlman, both of the State of
New York, made brief addre.;ata, to which Presi
dent Lincoln responded as follows :
G sarLE:s ON : I Nvolcome here the representatives of the
Evangelical Lutherans of the Vnited nates, I accopt 4
with gratitude, their asonrancea of the sYmeathy and
support of that enlightened, influential, and loyal class
of toy fellow-eitizens in an important crisis, which in
volves, in lily judgment, not oily the civil and religioll3
liberties of our own dear land, but in a large dogma the
civil and religious liberties Of Mankind in many coun
tries and through many. ages. You well know, gentlemen,
and the world knows, how reluctantly I accepted tihs issue
of battle forced upon me, minty advent to this place, by the
islSsttial enemies of our country. You all know, the
- perm grows' the forces and the resources the public
agents have brought into employment to enetain a Go
vernment against which there has been brought not one
cempleint of real injury committed against satiety at
home or abroad, You ad May mallet that in taking
up the mord thin forced into our hands, this Go
verment swam to the 'prayer& of the pious and
the gond, and eaclared that it placed its whole de
pendence Uroll the favor of God. I now humbly and
reVerently, in your hreSelaje, reiterate the avitnewledg_
meat of that dependence, not doubtino, that, if it shall
Please the Divine Being who determines the destinies of
nations that this shall remain a united people, they will,
loudly seeking the Divine guitlance, make their pro.
longed national existence a source of new benefits to
alle elv tut their hucce.,6oi,,, and to all claws and
conditions of mankind:
The New Governor of North Carolina
Ben. Yeteikeil wravod
York on Wedoesday, by the San Francisco steamer. Mr.
Stanley is en route for Washington, where be will re
ceive hie inetillefioes prior to entering upon his duties as
Governer of North Carolina, to which position h e ha d
been appointed by President Lincoln. Mr. Stanley is a
North Carolinian by birth, and at one time repreeebted
the bitiwbern district in Congress.. He was subsequently
Atior.ey Ge..erat ct,t o steto, *ma while in that peetion
die inguisbed himself by his great legal abilities. He af
tera arils removed to California, and was elected the City
Attorney of tan Francisco, a position which he held at
khe tline of hla appointment to hie preeeni position. Hr.
Stan ey was formerly a conservative old•liCie Whig, nut
since the recent change in parties he has not taken a
very prominent part in politics. The following reply of
Mr. Stanley to a letter from prominent Minns of Cali
fornia, asking him to accept the compliment of a publio
dinner, is especially interesting at this time:
SAN Fiwthisco, April 17,186 g,
To lions, 67,1, Eetii, W. W. Coro, iYarton.Lgtand
Stanford, J. Ogden andOtherS:
GENTI.I,;3Ik:S :.I have received, With deep' sensibility,
your communication of yesterday, expressing in terms
too flattering. your approbation of my pastpliblie career
as a firm friend of 11 ljuiou, pad your confidence in my
toture good coulluet, in discharging tile great responsi
bilities of the tract confided to
Believe nie, gentlemen, this expression from mon of
elevated position, the purity of whose ermine lets rolled
honor :Ala., on iln.tnselves out on their Stato, and from
citizens of aell-arproved integrity, will he cherished
Ni MlO 1 exist its the greatest honor of my life.
The short time avowed mo since I received notice of
my appointment di mends every moment I can spare, agd
fox - bide my acre ranee of your invitation.
I am fully impressed with the great importance of the
task assigned me, but I go from this 'lmmo favored
land with a heart overflowing with gratitude, to the Au
thor of Peace, that there is a hope even tio humble en
instentimut es I am Wei contribute a Mite toward a re
etoration of the blessings of peace to millions of my
countrymen. I go with a confidence "that knows no
such word as fail," ready, I humbly trust, to do all that
becomes a patriot in behalf of his country,
I go to a people long loved by roe, for many evidences
of confidence, which, though undeserved, were always
gratefully remembered, and whose interests, though
feebly, were always faithfully served. Igo to a people
ho sustained me in many a hard contest, when I war
advocating principles now avowed by you, irrespective of
all pally associations. Igoto a people always patriotic,
and ae remarkable for their modesty and devotion to the
Union as for patriotism and bravery ; to a people whose
fortfightre, with mine, poured out their blood and tree.
Figs to Were the permanence of our institutional whose
forefathers, knowing no sectional prejudices, In leading
the our to natiocal independence, declared, in
1775, "that the cause of 809 ton was the cause of all."
They have always hated secession: always were devo
ted to the Union, and never freely yielded to evil influ
ences, or consented to a separation, until made to believe,
by 'wicked stratagem. that their own Government had
declared war against them. Igo to hold out the olive
branch of peace on terms such as a man endorsed by you
could afrr., - and ouch the a brave people can honorably ac
cept. 'With a SIM reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence, I return, temporarily, to my old home, on a
mission of love, to a State among whose citizens I hope I
have not a single enemy ; whose wide borders contain not
...Ingle man to whom IL would not afford me pleasure to
do a kindness. I return to old friends. whose favors
compelled me, in the performance of sacred duties, to
leave the heart. corroding cares, and the impoverishment
of public service.
Mace the day that Men were eon* forth to pesuh
"glad tidings of great joy to all mankind," has man had
a nobler mission than that of one called to aid in re
storing unnumbered blessings to millions of his fellow
men
Put ill leaviog friends dear to mei I dleeharge not °AY
a duty to my native land—to North Carolina—but to
California. Though my name would not have been
thought of for this honorable trust, bad I not brought
here the evidences of an honorable discharge from my
constituents, in my old home, yet this would have availed
nothing, had I been deemed unworthy the confidence of
the people of the state of our adoption,
Without the mantle of their approbation I should have
now been pursuing the even tenor or my way, in the
walks of private life.
To them, and especially to you, my gratitude le duo and
it sincerely offend.
Believe me, gentlemen, the heart of California, justly
proud of the übriniant achievements of some other sous:
shall not be grieved by any disposition to do my whole
duty to our country and to her.
Relieve me, I will come back it with my ahield, or out
MY shield."
With the highest rupee, very truly vonre,
EDW. IST &NLET.
TIIE PIIFASS. - PHILADEL•FtfIA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1862.
FROM WASHINGTON.
FiIII Passage of the Homestead BUI,
TILE PBXBIDENT WILL SIGN IT.
MR. LOVEJOY'S BILL FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.
A Vote of Thanks to the Heroes of New
arrival of Wounded Eoldiere from Yorktown.
OEN. DIX TO GRANT PASSES TO GO SOUTH.
iv'pecaal Despatches to 6 . The Prem."
WAIMINOTON. May 15.
The Ifomektend PassaCe ofthe
A c,,,m,ltice of confcrvace agreed this morning oti the
homestead bill, and I , olit boast . * have ailopteil their re.
rotl, thug st.ettring thr pa.age of the bill. It provides
that any person who is the head of a family, or who has
orri, ti age of twenty-one, awl is a eitiVell of the
United States, or who shall have filed Ids declaration of
his intention to 'weenie a citizen, and who has never
borne anus against the [MUM States, or given aid and
comfort to the enmity, shall, after January I, Hag, he en
titled to enter one-quarter section (160 acres) or the
unappropriated public lambi, upon which said person
may have filed a pre-emption claim. It is alto provided
that all C9lldtdc , idOill'd, non-conunissioned OthPerg,
musi
cians, privates, ete., in the military or naval Service of
the United States, during the present war, shall be enti
tled to the right of homestead seemed by . the act, with,
out any limitation. The other 'features of the art simply
relate to the legal course to he pursued in catering the
Tlwre is no doubt that tho President will sign
ClTat credit is due to MPSSIII. ALDRICH and POTTiln,
V* were on the committee of conference, and who
have ever been among the ino4 ONTO laborers in behalf
or this measure, which has been pending In Cougve., 110
many years.
Mr. Lovrjoy's Bill for the Prohibition of
- Slavery,
Illiffwalan, from the Committee on Territories, in
tbe Senate to-day, reported back the House bill de
daring "that slavery or involuntary servitude, i I all
Leers whateciever, - other than in the rinnikhkoook or
crime, whereof the party -shall be duly conricseti,.shall
henceforth cease and be forever prohibited in all the
Territories of the United States, now existing ot here
after to be formed or acottirtd in any wsr," With dos,
f o llowing as a substitute for the bill: That front and
after the win& of tnis act there shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude itt any of the Ter
ritories of _the United States, now ei lHsg, or whiou
may at any, time hereafter be formed or acquired by
the United Steles, otherwise than in the punishment of
crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convieted.
The Leutationni Nystem in Vogue at Port
Royal.
PAannottaz. of the arm!, who has just returned
from Port Itoyal. states teat the elucational syattim that
hut, imen Iropotrlsed for the benefit Of contrahands - doe,
not work well, but that some two theasaud acres of land
are in cultivation by tb.m undir the en pervision of suita
ble Mullio , pernoan, fanjet P, Matta twat nundretia of
the army Intend 10 locale thonuelcos apart the "Sea
Islands'' after the close of the war.
Amid reginra of saarops are found large and fertile
On.thijons• wlncti ire ne blOoming gardens of fruitii and
flouern. The grand old outni•ions have been deserted
by their owners, but oue has been protected by the raili—
tary en account of its being the propf•rty of descendants
of General GRERNE, of Rovolutiontv.y roma. The rood
en which it is lueaTed was granted to him by the drate of
&nth Carolina, for his great service in freeing the South
from the control of the British forces.
The Peb.uhru of eels. McClellan
As General MCCLELLAN is reported to beet Cumber
land, ou the Pathunkey river, it looks as if he cities not
inierd to advance directly upon Richmond by the old
ratite, which bag AeVANki *amps „Ear Lt. e po o f 0. . f > 49
river whi re the teidge crosses. Cumberland le above
the " White House, on the Pamunkey. To the latter
Place our gunboats have already, reached. If General
mCCLELLAN takes a detour Routh of the PaineelLey., IL
will be favorable to hie junction with General Md.
Dowsta.'s corpe d'arrnbc, should it advance.
The Heroes at New Orleans,
The President sent a message to the Senate to-dar, re
commending the passage of a vote of thanks to Captain
1 , 1 , A OCT for his services in the fight below New Or
lana. and reemmentlinp. a himilm , 6,16.0”tal to Cap
tains BAILEY, MORRISS, CRATEN j Commanders BELL,
LER, SWARTOPT, SMITTI, BOGGS, CAMP, ALDEN, POR
TER, WAINwnIGHT, RENSUAW j Lieutenants Com
uthauling lIABAHLL, DONALDSON, PUEBLA, ITte,tot.s,
WAINVeIiIOIDf, GUEST, CALDWELL, HARRISON, SMITH,
CROSBY, RANSOM, SMIPH, RUSSEL, QUSEN, BunesE;
and Acting Lieutenants Commanding WOODWORTLI and
BALD-IT/N.
WADH, from the Committee on Territories, in the
Senate to-day, reported bitch the House Arizona bill,
with the simple amendment rsonirinn the Clok-ero.s:
pelf( tin the duties of Superintendent of Indian Anil s,
without extra salary. and providing that the capital
shall be at TUCtell• and that the session of the Territorial
iosislature shell not tweed forty days.
The lattentione of Generals inecienan
and , naitechi-
It is considered here, by ttme qualified to speak on
military points, that generals Illoant..tit and
LEM: are advancing slowly and strongly, from the fact
that they ccneider that the enemy is in front of them in
strength. Where fortificstiOna are encountered,. they
aim throw up fortifications, to the end that the advan
tages of artillery shall not be all on one fade.
A late reiolutton of Ciongreee emiterobbitt4 the keep
ing, at the Census Other., of a registry of all heads of
families in the 'United States. It is through the Census
011 ice that the residences, &c., of great numbers of por
tions are found. who, from miefortnat, become tempo
rarily loot to their relatives and friends.
Oath Required.
The House 'passed Senate bill, ta•tittit remitting all
Totere here, who Tote at the ensiling election in Jane, to
take the oath of allegiance on being challenged by any
legal voter on the question of loyalty.
Ed nettling Calawatl 01.11.1ieu
The HOUBO passed the Senate bill today setting aside
the taxes collected of colored property-holders for the
establiettnent of schools for their owriuse In the District
of Columbia. no bill pulp made the Als...t.ee a the
President to become a law.
The Telegraph to Fortress Monroe
The wire for a submarine cable frNgq ir g a ren &woo
acrests the Lbebnpeeke Bay haa beollAbinOd from New
York.
Ordered, That all applications for passes to visit For
tress Monroe, Norfolk, Yorktown, or other places on the
waters of the chef-111 1 mile, be hereafter math) to
_Major
General Tolm A. Dix, of Baltimore.
E. M. STANTON,
Secrehary'of 'War.
Arrival of Rebel and Union Wounded-
In addition to the steamers Hero and Kent, which
brought hither the released Union Prisoners from Rich
mond, last night, the Kennebec has arrived, with, ne
wer& of 450 wounded rebela from Wllliaaishnrg. The,o
men are, for the greater part, slightly wounded, and are
attended by rslwl surgeons and notate. A strict guard
ie kept over this boat, and no visitors are permitted.
The Siemer Stair of Maine bag alto arrived. (Atli 340;
the J. P. Warne, with 400; and the r.lm City, with 450
sick and wound, d, from the various Union regiments.
They are being removed to the various hospitals to-day.
The Latest War Newts,
The news received at the War Department to-day, by
despatches which are dated yesterday, from the armies
of Gm NOCbbbiditt and MILLEGNI indicates that as.
Live preparations are being made in both commands, but
no movement or engagement of Importance had yet
taken place-
The Christian Danner is the name of a: paper pub
lished in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which was suspended
by the rebels on the 9th of May of last year, on account
of the vell-known Union sentiments of its editor. Tho
first number, since the occupation by one troops of that
remarkable city, was issued on the 9th inst., and con
tained several wen written articles, breathing a spirit of
loyalty and doTotion to tlio Republic, and condemns, in
the strongest terms, the lenders of the rebellion, and
their cowardice in leaving, the city to the mercy of
those whom they denounced as heartless savages.
The President has recommended to congress the peso
ease of a Note of tbsake to Captain FARRAO LIT, And deo
to thirty other officers by name, for their gallattry and
services in the capture of Forte Jackson and St. Philip
and the oily of New Orleana 7 and olookruotion of th 9
TBllOllB rams and gunboats.
The Navy Department has appointed the.tollowing as
acting master's nudes BRIM F. BITTER, of Philadel
phia j JOHN L. Eto.nm of itampton Ronda j Jeora4 Troaa
and Jolla L. STAPLES, of Washington, and FREDIMICK
F. Bet wr, of Boston.
The Howe Committee on Commerce has reported it
Ti'pill facilitate thy collection of customs at New Yerhi
and establish the Wilco of Solicitor of Customs there, the
consideration of which was postponed.
The sick who arrived to-day in the steamer 'Elm City
under the charge of the Souitary 1,/ I) CHUM art re•
coning every attention, and prompt pioviiion hat been
made for their reception into the hoepitele here. The
pomp wee made with comfort. There h§y9 tirriyo,
within the last two days, snout fourteen hundred of our
tick front the South, and others are soon expected.
RAVSAH C 17 1 97 May 10.—The gents Pe mail has ar
rived, Olives from Furt Craig to the 28d of April.
Gem Cabby was at that place with hie command, whence
it w6B premed Mot be would more to Mimi& in '' a
abort time.
The Texans were in full retreat down the river. They
bad abandoned thirty-five of their wagons and buried
tome of their gunt. When they craned the Puerto
river, near its junction with the Rio Grande, they sepa
rated into small parties and fled to the mountains, aban
doning their sick and all those who could not travel with
the requisite epeeti, It ie thought thtit the enemy will
not make another stand in the Territory, but would en
deavor to get home.
A hundred wagon loads of provisions. whleb had been
collected at Banta Fet were sent to Fort Union on the 231
The Pennsylvania Troops—The Line of
HARRISBITRO, Nay 15.—The following general order
bee just been issued :
GENERAL ORDER NO. 21.—General Order No. 17, of
tbeee headquarters, is so modified that--
First, All promotions of line officers shah be made In
the order of eaelorlty iti the 0911/Paniell In which UP*
cantles may occur.
Second, Sergeant majors of regiments shall not, by
reason of their appointment as such, lose their right of
seniority in the company to which they were previously
.41aekid. B i.iatto el A- a_ CURTIN,
Governor bud Commander-in-Chief.
A. L. Ressitt.L, Adjutant General.
From California.
SAN FRANCISCO. MaY 12.—Sailed, Ships Lotus, for
Hong Kong;'Joseph Peabody, for Callao, and Sunshine,
tor Vidpiirelso.
OPIPIkLiI ReCOMISSEhdd.
The Arizona Bill
The Census Office
Posses to Fortress 'Monroe.
WAR REI'ART3EHNTI W4MINGTO MIT;
lilay 14, 1862,
Miseeltaneoug.
The War is New Memo.
Promotion.
FROM GEN. HALLECK'S ARMY.
Two Rebel Regiments Attempt
to Desert..
I BIMINI IN BELIJIIECIRIPS AMIN.
Border• State Troops Anxious to Join our Army
Onissoo, M.,11.5__A. x pnu.wl ri. , ep.tett hy the interne'
pity of Memphie, trim Pitteburg Landing, BIM'S that, on
Monday, two rebel regiments from Kentucky and Ton-
Delete attempted to desert and come over en massy to
the tinted t tams 11.4 , m> Tke eneemy 6etd 46. n, la et,euh,
and a mutiny eunutd. A strong forco from our advanced
H. es was sent over to interfere, and in a short time re
turted-vt nit eixty pritonerti, modly front the ranks of the
dtretttlun ILLay 15 -ava a cl.yhdal esc want sHr
ettaire iu Beauregard'e army, and confirm the previews
accounts that the troop, from the Border States are
abalone to return to their former allegiance.
The desortura uay th-ro F, pl.mir of eaUnietaoco ak
Corluth.
Canto, May 15—[Ppecial to the Tribune.]—Wien
Geurrel Mitchell jOiMli forces with General Pope, he
bronaht with 2,506 prios.uera. M6ey will oc Demi 'W.
Cairo as Soon as tranammtattou call be ohtaiaed.
In the battle of Farmington. one rebel general (811P
poerd to be Gene el Brago was killed.
YiWon Ctll3ertera, who came into. our linen from
Corinth, report that several more regiments in Bemire
ivard's army have mutinied—B=lns them the First
Lmthiens, Vint Alabama, and Second. Tennesma Bee
ruevie.
Cain°, May I.s.—An expedition, consisting of six
squadrons of the. First Wisconsin Cavalry, from Cape
Girnidt mu, went to Bloon-field on Saturday. Early on
Sowlay znewell.g. they Pollution Out. I' helan's rebel camp,
scattering the enemy in every direction.
A large number of home and a quantity of camp
equipage and ammunition were taken.
A 1,1,01 r..-rce, mum/Paring six i11111:1arelli men, infest
Chalk and Poplar bluffs, Impreming all the men, and
sweeolna the country of its horses and cattle supolina,
which are sent South. That section of country is tcpro
puma to lie In a outdo of great terror.
GEN. BANKS' ARMY.
STRANBURO, Hay 15.—The rebel eavelry, in mall
tiee, appear in our front otoseionally, their enreese being
apparently to watch our movements and hunt up do.
An attempt to flank our advanced post at Narrow Pu
rim; creek was frustrated last night by Gen. Hatch, chief
of cavalry, without an eniagement.
There ere no later advlces from Gen. Milroy than have
been nut bent d.
The skies are clouded and threatening rain. The rail
road bridging is progressing rapidly, and through coca.
mbolcation will he established this week.
The Latest from Gen. McClellan's Army
CI:3IBI3I:LAND, VA., May I.4.—Gen. McClellan's head
quarters were established here yesterday, and are now
filmignntl! loetitod on the Lanka of the Y mloekA4 WW or.
The main body of the alilly is rapidly concentrating at
the point designated by tho commanding geaerat, Tho
quartermaster and commissary suppliez are in ahntidance,
Tho :aklanoo-!natal of its mine, ooder Geo_ fttmenaan t
still ream ins at White House, within sight of tho enmity's
position.
A contraband who arrived from Richmend yesterday,
Oates that between that der- awl the Chicka,homirty
river, a dietance of some seventeen miles, the enemy ate
encamped in large force, where they expect to await the
arrival of the army of the Potomac.
relatifs fall beck the>. drive before them moat or
the cattle, ebtep, and huge, leaving only such things as
they cannot remove.
'lwo explosions were heard yesterday in the direction
of the GPichnhorainy. They wore suppoaed to be canoed
I,y the blowing up of the railroad bridge.
From Fort Wright
YOU-, cur, Nay 13, ♦in CiLICAG 0, Xay la.—Last
evening the rebels commenced;shelling a place behind
Craighead Point, which, until yesterday, was occupied
by our mortar boats. They kept up theft() during the
night. the shells exploding wide of the marl, Th., rote!,
are prosided with mortars equal in weight of - metal tI
those need by the United States fleet.
Captain.'Winslow was despatched by the mail steamer,
Yesterday, to St. Louie, for the DILITOSO of bringing one
rams to this place as soon as possible.
The gunboat Louisville, which has been stationed at
Hickman, has joined the fleet.
Preparations have been completed on all of the g na
boats now here, which, in the opinion of the ablest engi
neers, will moot effectually render usoltms any rebel con
trivance of the ram species.
A Curious Document—Jelf Davis' Confi
dential Circular.
CIIICAGO, Mar /i .—A special despatch from Cairo, to
the Trading, Mg! Tho subjoined circular explains
itself.
[PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL.]
CAPITAL CONFEDERATE STATES OP AMERIOA,
RICEUNCDp April 18,
SIR: It cannot be denied that the prospects of - ,StMean
for the Southern Confederacy are gloomy and foreboding
on every hand. Whether through lack of skill, or the
ern treitCliell of officers or oqr SfPA7 ttust nun, it
Matters not, We meet with disaster and defeat. With a
continuance of anch results, ere three months shall
elapse and pass away, our boaeted Confederacy will
'gilt only in history.
trite peat allows that we need larger displays of marls
etteeo, military skill, personal bravery, and firm spirit of
devotion to the just cause is which we have enlisted.
15.1,„„ th e ,e ren lout§ dm+6l,4, fietilielres Co a Pngining
xwe tight in vain. Unless we have more clear
Indications that the great heart of the people is with U 9,
our efforts will be futile. The Government is impatient
to -retrieve the a-hatters have befallen net, and that
yet stare 119 in the face on every band, unless the people
rally to Its standart
Ideelellan is already moving on the Pototnae. Hal
leek!. or ,..tious In the gmitlmAkt ate it eery aiep ear
ceseful ageina us. The Federal army and navy era
already menacing the metropolis of the Southwest and
the key to our granaries. Florida is overrun by North
ern invaders, while wherever we look we geee
upon them, and they are advancing. In this try
ing emergency, the Government appeals to tho peo
ple, to the brave 'hearts and sturdy wills of
the South. It cries, A we're : Your hands
hove been put to the plough. Will you now look back
and repent your past act? You lowa struck nobly for
plvilgitig your lITV4OIIII fortuueo to its
yroeurement; will you gulquit quietly to the inration
and desolation of your homes, the destruction or confis
cation of your property, the abandonment of your Chris
ton instiOqions ? Arise, and convince the worm that
the boasted chivalry of the South is more titan a mere
myth.
Tits apreal_is made to the country, not openly for
obviolis reasons. Wo mako the appeal to tha Poolila
through the irir 0 Van Oril of the Staten comprising the Con
federacy, and the officers in command of our armies.
To these mediums the circular is sent, 'with the urgent
request that its spirit and intent, if its letter, be con•
rued to every citizen of our struggling Republic.
First cf all, we ask for material aid in money, or snob
an equivalent therefor as will enable us to maintain our
army. Clothing and proyiaions will be acceptable ae
subpiliutes for money, when the latter cannot be ob•
tained.
Second. We need men, The ranks of our army in the
field nro fast being thinned by the ensualties of Nada,
the sickness incident to canto life, and the expiration
of the terms of enlistment. We cannot close our eyes
to the fact that the places nro not filled so p rom ptly as
They the bo. Let us sec the desire to help our mi l)
by their a dilemmas to fight its battles, and, if need be,
pour out their blood in its support.
Third. Wo need the encouragement of the people by
a more liberal display of patriotism than had yet been
made. The tame miUmiusion yielded to the invader
wherever he appears is in striking contrast to the boast
we have hitherto heard, of the readiness that prevailed.
OD every band, to welcome the hirelings with bonfires
Composed of the Property of the people, If oar
land is to be overrun, and our people subjected,
let ns be our coon conquerors, and leave
a tmetilderiag ruale to reward them kr their
toll and pains. Burn every hamlet, village, and city I
Give the torch freely to your cotton and houses! Let
the orodnct of your lives be laid waste! Fly yourselves
before the invaders where resistance shall no longer
avail I Thus, by determination and spirit in the cause
for which we are all enlisted, you will give encourage
ment to continue the struggle!
Wherever the enemy gains a victory, let it be a boot
less one, so thew the tangle now, led on by the hope of
plunder will be disappointed and discouraged, and we
shall bo cheered by the manifestations of patriotism.
Once more we expest you to awake! Shake off the
lethargy that image over you. Strike tor the freedom 9A'
yourselves and your families, and for your homes.
Strike promptly and boldly, and our Confederacy may yet
be firmly established.
This le our last end only recourse. Those who receive
this circular will also be commiceioned as agents of the
Government to advance the purposes indicated. Full
letters of instruction will be furnished them.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the C. S. A.
The circular is said to be a hoax.
. .
Coicezo, May 16.—The Times' !pedal Cairo despatch
eaya the forum it Secret Circular." littrportioß to emit+
note from Jeff Davis, was got up in this city as , d a sell,"
by a reporter.
The Destruction of Property in the South.
Lou.. max, May 16.--A. gentleman living in Augusta,
Ga., who left there on the sth, says the property owners
of that . State have advertised a circular relative to the
deetrustion of their goods, HOBS that none had been
destroyed as yet, and that nobody favors Duch destruc
tion but reckless persons who are without yioperty
themselves, and whose designs will be thwarted by the
oseneki of ed,-411113,
From Louisville
LouieviLia, May 15.—Major (not Colonel) Coffey,
shown Messed by Morgan oil hie parole, arrived hero
to , daY, on Lie way to Washington, to endeavor to effort
an exchange of birueelf for Lieutenant Colonel Wood, of .
Morgan's band.
COPIIVIGOCIAt / P OMO%
NM W HAYSN, WAY 16.—The Union and Itepublican
caucus of to ktato Legislature unanimously nominated
James Dixon fur United States Senator, this evening.
onAnGMSIF NS OF TUB Na., TORT diaiAl.s.—ni• TO
cent act of the Legislature of New York, placing its ca
nals at the service of the Government, so far as to allow
the enlaraement of its canal locks to a alas - adequate to
the passage of vessels able to defend the lake from hos
t& sitscir, vra. plawal on eliO t. 610 or 00.130FFOS yeeterclay,
accompanied hr a leiter from Captain Ericsson, and also
by evidence furnished by extracts from the London
Ti m es, ',homing the defenceless condition of American
commerce on the lakes, and the ability of England at
aay time to taltoimmediate and complete &Mira of thein.
Governor Horgan, acting under a joint resolution of the
State Legislature, has especially appointed the lion.
Samuel B. Buggies, late canal commissioner, to attend
at Washington and invite the attention of the General
Government to the great importance of the uptictufd We
rests Mrolred in the measure.
OUR READERS will be pleased to learn that Mrs
F. Nemble will give a few readings in this city, the
first of which will be for the benefit ot e one of our
valuable benevolent institutions, the Union Tem
porary Home. Due notioe will be given of the
time and place.
"Vazira," whose advertisement fora puma
appears in another column, ia known to us as a
merchant of honor, large aolusintance, and
thorough business habits, The onneotion Rhioh
he seeks &add, no doubt, be aocepted with suirm
tag*.
XXXVIITE CONGRESS-FRU SESSION.
The ncergetewa and Washing - sea Ball•
road VIII Passed by the Senate.
CLAIMS E LOYAL CITIZENS UPON THE GOVERNMENT.
Their Proposed Adjudication
TX - 1 - BILL ii'CPS'l'_l"ol\TEl...
Beath of Representative Bailey Announced
itl Both Houses,
SENATE.
Mr. WADE (Epp.), of Ohio, presented petitions in fa
rm• of the confiscation meltsnre.
Mr. OM 11l ES (Rep.). of lowa, presented, a petition for
the ronstriiction of a ship canal from Lake Miclann to
111
the
Mr. W A till, of Ohio,. from the Committer on Ter
ritories, reported back the House bill, providing a tempo
rary Government for the Territory of Arizona.
aeported.
Tar.ITITANINSON II ph.), of Mitttkesota. from the same
committee. reported back the bill to amend the :let pro
viding a Territorial Government for Colorado. Th. hill,
which makes the Clovernor'm veto qualified instead of oh-
Rotate, watt 111144Ni_
Mr. It It.OINNING (Rep.), of 'Minnie, from the name
eGnunitlee, reperti.d hank the lionee bill to secure 'rea
dout to the people of the Torritorien. with an amend
ment which thong., the languep,e of the hilt to that of
the °Min/ince of 1787,
Dir. MORRILL (Rep), of Maine, from the commit
tee of conference, reported the bill for the incorpora
tion of the City But!rood from Wahhingtou to George
town.
➢lnsere' GRIMES, FESS EN Ire Pi, and 00p0..a
the utlootiou 01 the repiet, but, after a long dlacus6lon,
it was agreed tn—yeas 24, nays 13.
A Message from the President.
A mesaege from the President wee recelVelt recom,
th6ha3ia,e w vote of thettire to. thaptein Fisrrttgat and
other officere commending the expedition against new
Ottetthe and the torte on The 11118.1feippi.
The Homestead Bill.
Mr, HUIIiAN (Rep.), of lowa. from the ALPiShilk6i, or
cantmence 11111 the llonmstead hid, made a report, which
was agreed to.
Resolutions Offered.
Mr. DOOLITTLE (EeP), of WieCenein t ofreroi a re
soltitict, eallh on ibe 8-0,0t0,7 of Filo P4V) , to roport
to the. Ntmate what number of iron clad gunboats were
tinder Contract, what armaments they wilt h ave , w h en
they will he ready for crevice, Ar.c. Laid nv.r.
Nr. HARRIS (Bop.), of New York, 0 livred a resole.
..Ado,, or :Bate i r [-Ama to no , Serrate
what are the rights and obligations of the United States
and Great Britain in regard to Hie nutilitenanne of arma
ments on tbe northernfles. Laid over.
The 4:p opriation
The Inalan appropriathat bin . 01;u taken up and c.n
sideret/ at some length.
The Dc 11111 of Representative Bailey.
A me-sitge was received from the ill rmuncing
Oa , drat], of P. of 11fivi5itclithettit.
Mr. i=d!..MNER (It,p.), of Mussuelupwtts, delivered tt
brief eulogy on the character of the derealed, paying a
tribute to his worth, purity, mut pure devotion to free
dom.
;'-'vntits pi - v.,‘,1 cubtmuary resolution , and ad
jourued.
1110II8E OF . REPRESENTATIVES.
The Claims of Loyal Citizens.
On motion of ldr. FENTON (Rep.), of New York, the
13011 PG proceeded to the consideration of the bill in
troduced by him for adjudication of °pallid for the lose
aid d.otrneden of property l+rlongiiig 10 LOYtti
abd toe daroult:a done thereby by the troops Of the United
States dories the present veto Lion. It provides fur the
appoiramem by the President and Senate of three coin
miedonere, together with a clerk and marshal. The
commissioners are prOnnittal from taking cognizance of
..ahoe ter males, while the bill le guarded to prevent die.
loyal CiliZeDB from being benefited by the 'act. The
debits ascertained are to be reported to Congres4, to - the
cud that ends provieiou may ho made for their relief as
shall be dermtd tug and proper.
Explanation of the Dill
Mr. FENTON (Rep.) paid this bill bad boon maturely
comities ...4 by the Committee of Claims, tied wad bated
on the pi ii.cipka of t quisy apd While sincerely
aeeiraaan ox mdeomif>ing the Union men for the losses
',untamed, he was anxious that Cooureas should pass the
cobfincatien bill prcMding special pains and penalties
against the leaders of the rebellion, who, having plan
doted loyal men and setttu.st.red their estates, snould
not. Pecan° ramndimont Tloof tro o .rfy and euhacanea
should be mad to pay the Sit Penses locldeet to the tap
esbion of this oust wiokid and causeless rebellion.
Amendments Offered.
Mr. WEBSTER (U.), of Alkalised, inured an arnand.
making It the cint7 of she coulmjeolptiur6 cO %MO
coshi'zrame of the loofas of slaves, which the bill, 88 re
poi tt d, prohibits.
The Report Adopted.
Mr. MORRILL (Rep.). or Vermont, mewed a post
ponement of ebtk bill till Met.day smelt. It should 6e
maturely considered. as it involves an expenditure of a
humittd millions of dollars, and, if psssed, might super
...go the Court of Claims..
Me. 1M...141014 an adjcctcated claim
hove to be reported to uongress, *Po is to control the
appropriatifms.
Mr. Morrill's motion was adopted.
A Coinage Department in the United States
Assa y [Wive.
Mr. ELIJAH WARD (Dem.), or New York, from the
Committee on Commerce, reverted a bill eatabliahing a
Coinage Department in the United thaten Aiwa, Offinn at
New York. Ordered to be nrinttd and recommatod
the committee.
Medical Storekeepers.
'the House tweed the Senate bill authorizing the ap
pointment of medical atorekeepere far army, and hospital
0111116 in%
District of Columbia Business.
The Home then proceeded to the consideration of the
special order—namely, business pettaining to the Dis
trict of Colombia.
Amain thlt MAMA were 4h. knowing,
'T be senate bill setting apart lt) per cent of no tnxes
paid by colond persona to be appropriated to educating
entered children in the District.
Iho Senato hill reouirina the oath of allaNianr6 04 1,6
administered to Insons offering, to vote, whose loyalty
shall be challenged.
The house bill requiring the oath of Allegiance taken
by attorneys and solicitors in tho courts within the viii
trict of Columbia.
Report on Romestead Bill.
bfr. POTTER, (Rep.) from committreof conference on
the homestead bill, made a report, which was adopted.
Walk of Representative Bailey
Yr. THOMAS (Rep.), of Maggriehti . 46lts, announced
the desalt of his colleague, Mr. Goldsmith V. Bailey, in
terms of fitting eloquence, and iutlonittett tho usual rcio
lutions of condolence and resreet.
Jr. ASHLEY (Hop.), of nhin, attI'TRAMV mat
ELIOT (ilops.), of llltisaelittveib, also paid a tribute of
resreet.
glio resolution vras adopted, and the Ifouse adjourned.
Important Proclamation of ben. Banter.
Re Declares the Slaves in his Departmmt do
nee' Xell.
NEW YORK, May 15.---The steamship Cahawba, which
arrived at this port from Fort Boys! tQ•clgy, WU& tile
ropowing copy of a proclamation Maned by Gen. Hunter,
eimmander of the Deparment of the Ssuth:
" DSADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TEI SOUTH,/
IDI.TON EAU, U. Nil V,
dennata. OnoEnei live 11,—The taro Mateo of
Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the
military department of the Smith, having deliberately
declared thelneelves no longer under the protection of
the. United States of America, and raving takell liD arm
".1...t t - cired Sw.tetl i it beceinte a military no.
nevelt) , to declare them under martial law. This was ac
cending.ly dune on the ,6th day of April, 1602. Slavery
and martial law in a Tree country WO altogether income
Petihie j the PPrecills in these Um() •atato3—tieorgio. Flo.
rir a, and S,nith Garolina--hrruteiere held at slaYee, era
therefore declared forever free.
(Official,). "DAVID MINTE a,
"Major General Commanding.
«Ed, W. Acting tkeristmit Gel:torah"
An Important Proclamation or Governor
Johnson of Tennessee
On Friday last Governor Johnson, of Tennessee, la
mmed the folioNvlng proclamation 4
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, t.
NASHVILLE, Tenn , May 9, 1862.
Whereas, Certain persona, unfriendly and hostile to
the Government of the United States, have bsgded
theroseiven together, and are now going at large ittrengli,
many of the counties in this State, arresting, maltreat
ing, end plundering Union citizens wherever found :
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnt•on, Governor of the
State of Tennessee, by virtue of the power and authority
in me vested, do hereby proclaim, that in every inptance
in ,Lich a Union man is arrested and maltreated by the
marauting bands aforesaid, five or more r. belt from the
moot pi - eminent in an, immediate neighborhood shall be
arrested, imprisoned, and otberaite 4 , 041; rah, Al
netore or 000 case may require, And further, In all
catea in which the property of citizens loyal to the GO
vernment of the United States is taken or destroyed, full
and ample reronn.rAiou shall be made to them out of
the property of such rebels in the vicinity FM have
sympat6lzed whlv, and given aid, comfort, information,
or encouragement, to the parties committing such clepre.
dei ions.
'lbis order will be executed in letter and spirit. All
citickne are hereby warned, under heavy penalty, from
Mit614.4111115§.. t4ebNltsg, at‘ aheaiivaitibe, each iser.ons eo
banded together, or in any wine connected therewith.
By the Governor,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
EDWARD H. EAST, Seerehry . of Staff.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK
The Gubernatorial Nomination—The Great
Eastern Loobeit 'Per—Officers of the Na'
Donal Academy of Design—Parson Browns
low at the Academy of Music:"The Parson's
Story of a Methodist Preacher South—List
of. Passengers by the Callawba—flepublicau
and Union Fusion.
[Correspondence of The Prem..]
New Toast, Mew it, UM.
There is much excitement here in reference to the
coming political canvass. It is supposed by those whom
judgment we may accept as authoritative that there will
Ise a ante. of the Doodles Democracy and the D.:publi
cans on the State ticket. In this event, I shall not bo at
all surptised if the Hon. John B. Hoskin, of West
chester county, will receive the nomination for Governor.
Ha was one of the lo.aiset lu tha tail-Lseassetoh
and among the truest friends of the lamented Douglas.
Me nomination will be acceptable to the Union men at
all parties.
Th. etosanetlp Crest r. astin.rx le expeciod bore to
night, or early to-morrow morning. Arrangements
have been made for visitors to go on board and visit her
great proportions, machinery. &c.
The following gentlemen have been elected officers of
tho Nat1....1A.:1...y of Sl,eign for the ensuing year:
D. Huntington, president Henry Pettis Pray, vice pre
sident T. Addison Richards, corresponding secretary'
J. B. Stearns, recordieg secretary ; T. B. Cummings,
treasurer.
•
The gathering at .the Academy of Mute to-night, to
hear Damon Brownlow, will be very lance. Permit me
to pive you a atm y, which I heard the Parson tell teat
night, at the Astor House: A Rev. Mr. Harrison, in
Tennessee, in preaciiinp, had declared that the Saviour
and all his apostles were Southerners. excepting Jaw
and he was a Tank.e. The same preacher had al so
elated that he would never preach from a text id a Bible
printed north of Mason and Dixon's line ; he would
rather nee a Bible printed in hell. The Parson said that
two numbers of hie own family beard the preacher make
me of the language while he was in prison.
The United States steam transport Wombs arrived
bore this morning from Port Royal. She had on board
0,982 bags of uuginned cotton She brought the following
pageengere;
Colonel Noble, Colonel Woodman, Captain Hemming
way, Captain C. Perry, Captain Baum, Captain C.
Smith, Captain A. Blaney, Captain Moore, Dr. eluliford,
lieutenant J H. McDonald, F. W. Wheeler,Mrs.
Beard, Mr. Longfellow, of United Stelae Coast rray'
N. Bellows. Mr. Bollerare, Mr. Wright, William D.
Urann, acting master United States navy ; Dr. Hough
ton and servant, United States army; S . I. South, E.
Ahern, Z. Eilton, Captain Ackerman, William H. Do..
grew. Mr. Bates, Dr. Itemdyvah. United States army-
The State Republican Committee an 4 the Legislative
Vnloa Cornsultiee incubated, at the from
seven o'clock last evening till two o'clock fhb morning,
at which time they "lased."
STATUE' Op QUERN VICTOR/A. IX hiONTIIIIAL.--TheX
PP , 091 it to erect to 1490119 . 141 la the Pirm tr Awe, tt
statue et ctileuuTlGtOrio. 'Om last royal statue that
stood there, a line marble effigy of George In, was
thrown down by the Americans daring their occupation
of that city in the Revolutionary War, but the head was
911, 4 1 .eqUeligr r9VIIVA ig red!, in 4 le tow Pt"farved
In
the Lierati Of the liatutal History Satiety,
IN Switzerland, English traveller[ will hereafter be ex+
empted from the woad berm
11411. IDSi4l6lila cm- ,q smith, I nca swami r6ttai.l
DECEASE OP HON. CHARLES JARED
INGEBSOLL.—The Hon. Charles J. Ingersoll expired
at has residence In IMO city on Wednesday morning, at
half. past 2 o'clock. The deceased was in the BOth year of
his axe, and was well known as a patriot, statintortn,
iftrifft Fr, Re was a lending number or the
lionocratic party, hod wee often celled upon to pre.dde
over its sessions. Ile was a meld able and interesting
orator, claiming attention by the force and attracUrenees
of his meaner, arid the depth and 01011/0111 or tila
reaming.
Be was born in Philadelphia, the 3d of October, 1782.
His father, dared Ingersoll. though belonging to a fault-
IY whet for the meet part, adherrit tq the Mallet, in the
HautlntiOnary conieet4 (hie father, Jared Unroll, of
Cot.necticut, being Bounpmaster General ender the set
((Parliament which troy , d the American ttevolutiond
was an active ed'vocatv of the popular side, 111:i1r1I1••
brr or the Gehvention which formed the Irw)eral Conon
'Mien .
WASIIINGTON May 15.
Mr. Ingersoll received a liberal education, and on tie
cm elusion vita. d Europe, where he travelled lrl orriP4R7
with Int Eiwgi the Atherian minister to London. In
1812, at the age of 30 sears, he was elected a member of
the Dense of It epresentativee. Ile took hie seat at the
SpeCial main Called in May, 1813; to provide for the
conduct of the war. Ile mute one of the youngeet mam
bos of that bcdy, and more youthful in appearance even
than In years, so that at his first entrance the door
keeper refused hint adniittence. Ile was an enruent ad,
Tecate of every measure brought forward for the lige
roue proeecution ol the war. In 1314, lu an elaborate
speech. he proclaimed and enforced the American version
of the law of nations, that "free ships make free geode"
a CO( trine, now generally recognized aa ((great peace mea=
sure, bed at that time but few advocates Ou the expi
ration of his term of service, the same year, he was not
re• elected to that position, but wee appointed by Pre
sident MBOMOU Pletrict attorney of this ritate—an office
übich be held for fourteen years, until big rermval by
Geo. Jackson at the commencement of his first Presi
dential term.
In JON, at a Contention of the advocates of State
internal iniprovemente, Mr. Ingersoll preiented a repo
luticii in favor of the introduction of railrowlif worked by
st*am power, similar to those which had met Made their
appearance in England. The plan was rejected by a
large roa;ozily. As a member of the Legislature in 1830,
ore of the first railroad bills in the United States was
enacted on his motion and report. 1.4 MN en
active member of the house of Ilepresentativ a Irma
Thati to 1819.
Ilia writings and speeches showed an accomplished
and cultivated mind. In debate, bin irony wan amr
ielielming and DM HUMOR Heathin4. Unbl within aNg
years pia, he has been f ugaged in public life in various
capacities. The following is a list of his principal literary
od tuitions which biqu WO him lama both in Rum
and America:
A prom called ‘i Clilomara" was pehliileed by him in
Me, in the Port Polio, edited by Joseph Donnie; in
3EO/ a tragedy in five EiCilli called Fdwy and Elgivy, pees
formed at the theatre formerly on Chestnut street i in
3808 a pamphlet on the international disputes, cello/ the
Rights Ord Wrongs. Power and Policy of the United
Palea of America i 1810 a volume entitled tt Inshinnin
the Jesuit's letters on American Literature an 4 Poli
tics." A review of this In the London Quarterly was
answer, d by James K. Paulding in his United States and
England, published in 18H, From the years 181 l to
1815 be furniklud numerons anonymous eentributione to
they : Democratic press of this city, and the National
Inlellig , ncer of Washington, on, the controversies with
3ih laud , Whin produced the war declared in 1812.
Front 1811 to 1815 several of his pamphlet speeches is
Congress, concerning rho then existing war, appeared.
In 1823 a discourse hefore the American Philosophical
Lioeittr, to the influttiea of Am,idea on the ,mas t
which was republished in 'England nod France. In
1827 the address of the Assembly of Friends of Do
mestic Manufacture, and (1829) most of the address
a the National Aetittiohly. A tranalati.n of a Prench
work on the freedom of. navigation and commerce of
neutral nations in time of war, vindicating the law of
nations that free shine make free goods, was published in
the Amen:con Law *karma in the same year. lu 1830,
a review of Bourriennete memoirs in the Anise:con
Quarterly ReviJw, and in 1831 a dramatic-tragic poem,
in five acts, called "Julien." In 1818, an article on the
Supreme Court of the 'United States, lie judged aid
juriedictiout In the ifnitui States Magazine and
Democratic Review. In 1535, a pamphlet entitled
A View of River Ilighte, and, in 1837, in the 0011 , 7012-
tion to reform the Constitution of rounolvania,
Broom ell currencY, amebas published in paniphlete
on the judiciary and leeislatlve power over bank char
ters. In lEtl,-42, '44-48 . reiryte and speeches in Con
gress publish , ti in pamphieta on the tariff, the
Mexico, Texas, and. Oregon, with numerous other dis
courses and orations on various subjects. From 1835 to
'1 , 2 he published his greatest work, the Ui,tory of the
. War of 181g-1, between Great Britain and the United
butes. The Loudon Athentrum says of this work that
"it is a rough, energetic atyle, notdeficient in happy and
vivid expreeeions, but we have rarely met with American
Writing more contemptuous not only of Englisli 1141C01
hut of the veatierit rteyiretary conveniences The book
is bard to read because of the uncouthness of
its forms." The general character of this history
is that of a book of memoirs strongly influenced by the
N....ratio partisan views of the narrator. II Contains
numerous details of the ptinciplos and measures of pub
lic policy in which he was an eminent participant, with
many matters of a more strictly personal character, es
.
I,ealaili: B...p.rie Nujir, or whom,
iron his long Iritndellip with Joseph Bonaparte, he had
original sources of information. Some three hundred
pages of the Ifistory are thus occupied with the fortunes
of the Napoleon dynagy. One of the most noteworthy
of the American topics dismissed is the defence of the
system ot pricatearing, which has been since substan.
tially get forth by Preaident Pierce, In hie message of
1814.
Mr. Ingersoll, at the time of his death, was engaged
on a Hietoi y of the Territorial Acquieitione of the United
Otater, COlnillenre4 in 181 G.
Mr. Ingersoll's iast aprearanco lli public wile at the
Brtckinridge meeting in 1861, held to endorse and ratify
the nomination of that distinguished traitor. In the
course of his remarks he made an allusion to the fact
that he bed moved the reeolutions in favor of the tweed
war for independence, at a niece rebating held In Inde
pendence Square in 1812. Mr. Ingersoll was one of the
earliest to embrace the Breckincidge ealise, end was
among the most sincere eupportere of that ill• fated states
man. We are glad to know, however, that in the closing
years of his life he wee open and earnest in hie devotion
to Ik. u=do. or th.
THE CITY.
MEETING OP THE BAR
Yeatereay morning a large meeting of the members of
rbilado4bla Dar was bold to tho Law Library; to
take proper action to testify the reaped entertained for
tbe late lion. Charles Jared Ingersoll.
Josiah Randall, Esq., presided, and Peter lEtetlail, Esq.,
acted al Eecrotary% Gen. Huntll.in introducing the
felloth g reeelittiona. gave a brief review of the life of
Mr. Ingersoll, and paid an eloquent tribute to his literary
ability and love of country. The reaolutione were as
follows ;
Re.telesd, That tre 'hew+ learned with deep regret of
the death of our venerable fellow. citizen, the lion.
Charles Jared Ingersoll, long an eminent member of the
Philacelphia Bar.
Rerelerel. That we beret, toatler the irilttate of oqr
bleb respect to Lie talenta as a statesman, a lawyer, a
writer, and as an accomplished scholar and worthy
patriot.
Received, That his memory belongs to the political
nittl Ilketaky history of his coluttry.
Resolved. That while we syMpathize in the social loss
of his friend,we feel a satisfaction in the fact that his
valuable life ias been protracted to the age of eighty—
that he has been garnered like a ripened shack, and that
his name is associated with the morel dignity of an up
right and useful career.
Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be gunmen
ideated to the family of the deceased, with the hope that
they may find consolation under their melancholy but
HieVilithle borrurrinent,
Tontine it. keel and - Peter aLcuall ruldressod the
meeting.
The committee appointed under the resolution. con
sisted of lion. Garrick Mallory, General Hubbell, St.
George T. Campbell, William H. Reed, and chorim (a
top., 6
..eto Ch4l4 - /WOO raid t`Ccrtiory wtrc added.
DEATH OF GEO. W. BETHUNE, D. D.
Rte Dr_ Bethune, an prokient milked , mid dbilia.—sini_
nent alike for his fervent piety and devotion to the cause
of religion, and for deep learning and varied acquire
muds—has departed this life. We would that this sad '
Intelligence admitted of a reaaonabla doubt. It relehat
us by the last steamer, having been telegraphed from
Florence to Paris; and although no particulars are given '
but the date of the melancholy occurrence—April 28—we
apprehend that it is true,
Wo mourn Dr Bethune as a Philadelphian. For
fawn y, are las labored in our Midst with unabated
zeal, and found a sweet reward in the cOnaeioUeneeS that
his toil heal reared up a flourishing and extensive congre
gation. No prouder tribute to the ability and wortk of
any pastor exists anywhere in our city at the present
day. The death of a distinguished divine it always a
slid es eat. and fraught with solemn lessons and reflec
tions; lint when his memory is endeared to us by local
annfintifins, we hamlet fall to he Impressul with a feeling
of solemnity and awe. We gather wisdom from his
death, as his life was to us continually a rich fount of
precept at il example.
lir. Bethune was holm in the city of NeW yar4, jil
- alavvli, l' B e; , , nil will S'OII ,,, iIWWIIY ill 11l 1111)-Vitt - hilt
year .if his age. Though Past what is termed the prinio
of lire, he had not exceeded the prime of hiB usefulness,
and a as in as full enjoyment of vigorous mental faculties
ile ill the commencement of his Clerical career, In the
year 1 no, 111: entered tile 111111iStry of the Freabytarian
Church. A few months afterwards he became connected
with the Reformed lintel' thitryli id was settled at the
village, of Rhinebeck, on the Ilith and
river. This field,
boVeier, Vile too contracted to niford room for the exer.
tier of 'Moo' taltlint which filiorily after displayed them.
selves to such allTillatage, 111111 yet without a semblance of
ostentation. A few years having elapsed, he removed to
;'ties, N. V., where he took charge of a large Clalgrega
ta.lir rPfirr his PiletOrithiP it rapidly arm to a 110111ialta
lug cinvliiiuit,
In the year 1834 he accepted a call to thin city, and
succeeded to the Third Deformed Dutch Church, at the
collier of Tenth and Filbert streets, recently 11111.1.1 vacant
by the resignation of Dr, Taylor, Die labors here WITS
speedily requited with the fullest Westin) of SIIITM, cur
the reason that his abilities were appreciated and ac
knowledged. Dr. Bethune possesstsl the rare merit in a
clergyman of being an artistic reader. lie read poetry
Vali uusurnassed grace and spirit, Wo might hear a
]veil a linialred times frOM loss eloquent lips; and fail to
notice its beauties. But the rich elocution of De. Bethune
unfolded to the ear exquisite harmonies till then miry
' cognized, and wholly unappreciated. ills poetical read
ing '9.07 in I*i . , w artistic, Mitt it high been said to be
“ a limning commentary on the sense of the verse."
In 1849 be Went to Erookly it, where he assumed control
of a church. Under his care it was reorga sized, and a
new edifice erected, now known as the Church on the
Belethts. lie tealdped the pastorate of that church alittle
Cana than three year. More, to visit El.-grope for ille
kairth time, in search of health; and on his return he
-
come emaciate pastor of the church in Twenty-first
street, New York His health becoming more preca
rione, be left again for Europe during the last year, and
~ ~,, Li s nay to PIOVOEZI , at Die data of the, lAA pub
lished ethicist. concerning him. Mrs. Bethune, who has
been an invalid for many years, was also with him.
Dr. Bethune has been favorably known as an author.
Among hie prose works are the t. Fruits et the . Spirit,"
e. Early Lnat—Early Saved,u It History of a Penitent: ,
and several volumes of sermons, orations, and occasional I
discourse?. An elegant edition of haat Walton's
as Complete Angler," published anonymously in 1847,
wee (porn hie pen. In 1848 he published a volume of
poems entitled at Lays of Love and Faith," and he has
. , . ..
, .
given to the Church some beautiful hymns which Will
live as long as music Is a part of worship.
As a F.cliolar, lie was also Justly celebrated. Its had a
hearty love for the classics, and Was all especial admirer
of the old Greek poets. Ito read the modern Europee%
languages with great Miner, and slake French with
more elrglltire thanntatty indices. But it was as a bolted
letters scholar thud lio was most widely known, teal we
believe, he had us superior in this country ill trot de
partment.
For thirty-tilt years he has been conneChn2 with the
Befornicti Dutch Vlitirch, and prominent in emery movm,
mod to 1111r1111111 its illiriTettl. 11l social lair, 110 was uni.
versa lly beloved for his warm friondsbii.p., his genial hu
-1:r.l lisPi Playful
lamps,
lremiyayihatlyinidl
that aieeta7 ttetarr tioevzonndbimltutada
fountrhable bellFe Of propriety, and could entertain the
gayest circle with a fund of aa•lt and mimeo that ge m t o t t
exhaustlcss. without once forgetting the dignitY awl Sit.
ereduces of isle calling.
FRANKLIN INSTIT - Vl2 MOW :ALT MEV*
ING.—The monthly meeting of the rrinaklirl lmtitnb
ettll heft) kilt evening at the budding, in iiiinnth atteett
ripevn
li w inetrnment called . 6
lihnstuut. An intern/OMM 11141,11
Warner's temreotoille .Tablat."
IT le to he need for the computation of eartbworg. Re atria
exhibited a eat-of models explanatory cre late method
Ofter.. irt , IPA iht auntie of ear th work. Therm mretela ere tril
conlTlVed that Pea Min Metteadlatitit it hetehlai Whin
*aced together they form part of a flue of ralthlef. The
4416j4..Ct le to tecilltate the comprehension of thovierball
coatbiaatim n of &dies to earthwork, no that tho'relfftnenst
mai readily form an Idea at Ma r t ad &ref orefre
patill hitt) which any dittion moat be nabdividied , frow
error:Me cementation.
W. W. Wood, req., Chief Engineor of the Ilia M'
States Navy, exhibited a model of his improved argot ,
for shine of Win. Hie method of niuthil 1.414,
glilittlitted IA the lending tutkitieera and slip-ho lirys ate
the city, who have deefored it imperier to any of the ntr ,
1111.rolie I,llole prforOentl for accomplishing the name ob.
ket; the plating being btronger in proportion to the
Wright or metal; mum neratninieaL mut era ha attael.&l
to the Aden With hthrh ghltter f acility than by other
methods. The most important feature Is the method by
which the plates ore h n ite a lII , ' YesHel, without expos
ing the lioadli of the !malt, V/111.11, they ran be etruok by
omi t thug Triplyrlng the ctrinniutt off of the plate by t in
1111.11116
Mr. Malmo exhibited s bowie knife taken from Fort
nonelPon, two dale after the bathe, and cent to W. F.
Kan.. of St. Lontn, Mr. 11. Wild that the weapon
Pun lvtll word• the attention of the mombere on walla
or too peculiarly moo workmanship tilsplat hil hi Its con
struction ; that. it was orfkinallY un ordinary tile, and
NM a rough hickory handle and a guard attached to tb•
emit
Mr. Homan alna oxidliltod atoolmooo of tho Abroe of 9}
TJAIit 114 nibd ILe Hibiscus hlaschenios, or l'aiustris.
Jt would be a ddlirult matter to dietiegnieh thespdci-
MEDD of rope mare of this fibre from tn. beet homeea
rote, which it equals in strength and durability.
brrviurable mattirif and exrellant varier eau ha wads
fit in the Orr. nblch 4 it fa believed. elm by the old Of
proper machinery and apparatus, be converted Into
valuable textile fabrics.
The bibincun went Futon grown wild in (lie marshy
Fronde of mold of the Northern Stitt% and In NI/Antall,
abundant in New Jemmy.
A breech loading cannon. the invention of W. 0. B.
hirrrill, of this city, WAR exhibited by Mr. Eowslo.
Mr Fletwy exhibited and expkined drawing., of as
arpntatini ler prodficalt carbonic acid gam, the invontiet
of m. itio , rbbnupl, of Ili /lin.
Gtortte lllr.llvxin, FAtj , of thisclfy exhibited seem for
gm, 111 , 0 h‘ dranb Nte pm In pavemente. madeof terra mato.
to.d much mote durable than wood, and not liable to
PO, fil Ofi in came the toe of the emu to minds
above the hovemeot
Jacob Ruth, Eitu.,Pxh'bitcyl an [separates Tor rien , wint
hivatids. Zr kan apparatus by which the heevieet pe!-
Con can he moved with ease by one person, with no pain
to the luvalfd.
rrer. Metrom 07hlhitPd Precimone lof eutiron, INA
by bimaelr, according to tho Ressmor process.
N ELEPHANT IN A Frx•—The mon—
nror t.lethisiA belonging to Von e,,nnergt, l jt•
CON liknegerie, came near losing hit life, a few days
PittCP, while travelling front Enyport to Freehold, in New
Toney Hie keeper lied token him off from the rood to
older to avoid an unsafe brides. when, in creating Pi
tree. of o.lata,lo, lot.d, }Lear...A Fay., vray beneath tam
lit.d the enormone an mel monk up to the middle of his
sides td the yielding mud, where he floundered away for
acme time without befog able to extricate himself; his
num/plea, en the contrary, resulting in retetering
annuli/4...4.4, re...J...1., more .looserone, until it wet
feared that it would be impnyeible to nave him. The
I,fIVY shoelace, with which he wan fetteret, preventing
a free mov.meot of hie limbs, made hie poeitiou stub
mote cti'tcal until beip Rrriyf l when, hi Oltifilliff tin.
front of np , l eround him, be wilt tanatiled. after
time to extricate blunt , If. At fire', he wan very mach
f , bell:trued, Mir peting loudly, and strugeli nit wlldt , bat
after the umber. were placed within hie reach lit went
to woik more Ci titermitleally, and micti int,dut
Otkin In op-rrqoptl, plum.
pally upon hie 'tithe to TAW , himself. W hen exhausted
by bin exertions he would throw himself over upon one
Fide, in order to pain at the to tyancY plusible until ho
became en mewhat reeled. whop) hi would remtmo nn no.
eft. se mmovny to worn 'igloo, Elm etc
forte were finally crowned with I+IIVCCHP, no line to hit
own eatnfattion than that of hi, owners, to whom Lie
IncP won d have been irreparable, eiti be it much the
largstt elephant ever cam in this country,
AID FOR THE bOLDlEßS.—Yestordifty,
the Indice of the Soldiere' Ceetral Relief Aseociatioo, irre
spective of religious se it, met 01 qrnsv Otvir.7l . l corner or
and ?Merry ettreith to TlMlie np Ouch matorlal
BB µi . .provided for shirts, drawees, and other comforts
that the wounded edifiers who have been brought hers
almost invariably need. Canton Hamlet, eel thinnet.
drupgPt for slippers, a chili It n rIIf rr the fever widen%
eon money, are /mono tee prominent rPotitireinenta
of the foetety of Wive who have iindertahett toss sacred
miselon of mercy towards the disibled defenders of nor
GOA erne eta am ri homes. They meet weekly, on rridaYe
at Creep Church, a oi thongh they have already rtiratib
ol tllnittal•do of 111`titil0 to 14.1!oe. those, thev
Denafttlifill dive hot windy, kt,o cenetent arrive' of
new Bufforote front the hattl , -field invitee the centlni l e4
lib. relit of our citizens towards the humane and patriatia
effort in which these ladies are enattged.
POT YET ARRIVED.—The bodies of
Torre ace 11. Murphy unit Juhn Proctor, formerly of Col,
roginiont, who were at the liattio of \Veit
Point, bare not yet arrived ill thin city, oithoihrh tiler
lucre Wa KAM
tlitst hoth the. unfortunate young men wont buried fit
Fortress Monroe, in spite of the remonstrauen of their
friends. who offurod to defray all , Orr , OIAPS in /WOOS
111111) fOrWardelli The MOIlliaVX Of tint IVilithingtdit En
gine Foninftnyi Witli which the ulpcoaxo,t wope formed,
connected, held a meeting, and hare alltilarized Hear(
IL Dobbs, Esq., to go to Fortr..ss Monroe, ku..rnre th•
hndin and bring thorn to thin city. Mr. liohlai Isms se
cured two air - tight c9l)illiti and Will loran this morning,
Public Amusements.
ITALTAN best Conlin operas,
namely "II Darbiore di Siviglia," was Oared
visLt - s.ittt tee 1,--tbe pert or Roanti by a Cans
tralto, for which voice it was Written. mat Don Basitio
by Amodio the Bent d. Madame D'Aniri is the mar
Rosins, with the exception of Allioni in 1813, whom we
lieovA slog - witneut tronepoting the music The
hebt soprano who has pla:ed Rosind here wts totgranges
with Leboretta as the Count. Gapr•ier as Figaro. Reece
es Doctor Bartolo, and Artaclot as Bastiio. Last night ?
the L'it et TP-Aoriii tri won that One fora
gem that Rostra ought tn be a young girl. Drltmoll.
in splendid voice indeed, (though he several times rem
into a fitletto,) wits the Count. Ahmed tIM Ilselp,
(JoAnne, tool ntitllsing an ilia harbor, aryl Andel, why
hat little to du as Bartolo, ilbl that littlo well. Amodio,
who took the part of Rua-ilia, in which his late brother
exrdled, its about lutlf slight. thin man.
deed, with good oyes, expressive hot Hither sharp tea
tures, and a very good coke, having in execution what
it 'wants in volume, Ho can act, which his brother
PUN not, Ilia Tory bandit act, and the dramatis groat
of his celebrated solo, La eitlantnia,” 14 a &hint to
be praised and remembered. We most any that D'Ammi
also netsbetter than singing ladies in general, In the duets
tint other concerivd Piuccs, the Will effective, but the
gems of tho night were her opening solo, it Una coca
pace fa," and in the singing lemon. In the last she sub.
stituted the ‘i Elena" waltz, written by her 111.1vhatI,
Irgon Abelln, who Wand the I :aeeentteteinient..
roll, we have mid, was li, g.et voice, lint we cannot,
point out any solo by hint worthy of especial 'mark.
In the concerted pieces ho was even and tneliallottit.
al g r.+., r - eir.-
ce•llent Figaro, which was Eultilled. To-morrow oven
ing, l c La Favorita" will be played, with this cast
D'Angri no Leonora; liriqumli ns l'ernando; Mancitei.
so The. King) tittgint as ilaintranth Thin ParfaPettlll66
will he the lest, this season, we are informed,
WALNUT• STIIBET 7 EttATIIN.— ,, Diana. the Levelers,"
a new play, by Ur. Barton 111 11, the actor•author who
Pt 'neves] RA Pa 441931 to the strength of VIA coruptni, wit;
producei here on Wednesday evening, Me. and Hrs.
Conway taking the leading characters, and completely'
Identifying themselves with them. It was played again
laa n 461, with conaderAte ouccese,sirp, Oonwfrr, pwp
a lively Faraian of rank and , . fashion, ineliard to 00.
marry, made a decided hit. This was follOWeil by the live
ly. force of The Governor's Wife," with Mr. Johnson,
tic, }fining acnverr, eel NVdi Cued in the leading parts,
Mrs. Cowell, as Lefty Briggs, adds to the attraction by
singing her popular song of Dixie,"—emphatically it
is kers, for we believe that each stanza in the present
-version is her ow;; co:1;1 , 040011; and, night atter t4ghtf
she introduces a new verse or two upon the telegraphed
new events of the day.
TO-11101ToW evening, Mr. Conway takes his benefit, sp•
peariuy., not as John Iffhimay, in teliteh he
but a. Sir narcourt Conriley, in "tendon Assurance."
Mrs. Conway as Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Cowell a*
Grace Harkaway, and J. S. Wright as Dazzle, The
aftemdere will lie Ii liuh ROY." in which Me. mid Mrs_
COliway bill iippettr. Coosiderlng Mr. Conway as a
Philadelphian, in some manner, foe his best stage expert
enee was gatumt among us, he ins very special claital
n 5 fin alibi of as6nrill Ills enmtcombnt is near
IN elope, hle old ftiotdA and patrons should not loss
this opportunity of rallying to greet him.
ALCII-STIMET THEIATII2,—This evening, that genuine
escobtele ~111 I% I,lllonr, appenr
ug as Caleb Cushman, in "Nationalities," and Masa,
in the bni:lesulte (Attie tt Bride of Aby dos." Frank Drew,
in bin 01Q1 lillyt which is by lie 110 , 0115, limited, has scarcely
guporitit , HOW. 111 AOlll4 JOlallftl6l.,i'A int: no 00,11
emiaeully gleSvrVeS, whet he expects, ono of the fullest
houses of the season.
Jon:t DitEw.—The friewhi of Mr, Drnvr tnret, two
vyviiiiig, at Burney Fielicgi MTh otrinti, to urritogo nhout
giving Lilo a voniplinintinivy bouglit aid return to ful
fil engogrlntilts i» Ertropt.;.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
TIIE MONEY MARKET.
PHILADELPHIA, 21.t.r 15, 1862
natal glitfaa 7 11-10 sa4t ooht. laan iond tho per
cont. loan of 1861 hot It gold to-lay nt 105 i anti the cortfliv
eates of holelitoilness at ono-eighth or one per cent, shore
reaasilyltaia livv* wrre titva.ly at SD3S, ORY
siNns nl 1110 imam tbnillita , ll I pot , eotit., at , tlg,
and the now 1,4it0 sold at 1011.3. Pennvylvania . Railroad
ihare, roooveroil and sold, again at 47, Lehigh terip
lrae rtvail y at lUt Elm .1011 ht
Elmira heren•acr.cont. 1
%%aped u. watiaL? Aiatvo4 mtvaiteed 4 21,111,
6.11. d Sclto lk 11 Navigation preferred to 15X.
Me,srs. Prexel & Cu. report:
Messrs, prnel & Co. furnish us with tho following
utiolstions
ew ark exchange...
Bustan exchange
Baltimore exchange...
&mull funds
COl4
7 3.10 Treasury notes,
One year certificates.
Tiro till 9 9s 1119 ithnsi grnnt Itnti crib@ r n Von%) and
ililwatikee Railroad has ben adioUrned to the 28th
July. This has been done for the purpose of allowing
commissioners to apportion the earnings of the road and
rifest their titles to the lands.
The "MY( Turk Times mu t“
Tbe deposits of demand notes with Mr. Cisco, for eon.
version into six per cent. stock, hare been moderate
to-dray, rend the aggregate since the commencement to
DP, Alit, 9YOF halt a million. bomo of tha 611 e and /001,
cotillion blanks, go forward tomorrow, A portion of tho
registered bonds have already been forwarded. Mr.
Oisco will probably soon issue a circular, giving directions
in regard to the process of conversion.
VW IT HIP inn WI notion that 'hut Mom win rosily
to lino oil the fr ir cent, syndicates of deposit whiols
were payable iu what are milted cruitom house notes,
Dlr. Cisco bee redeemed a email amount. In most cases,
hos ever, the deposit has bees continued without change
of the rate of interest, as the privilege has Lem ggcciphd
to depositors to -withdraw the custom hoiese notes and
subetitute the present legal tender issue. This very
liberal course upon the part of the treasury enables the
depositor to sell his custom house notes at the current
premium, while he stilt continues his deposit at 5 iir
cent. hoiereik, it 1 milt. above the street rate
on Government securities.
The St, Louis Democrat of Nay 13 says
In this locality we Itava nothing now, tows* tits mur
murs of sown parties against the intluit of Eastern hank
e .WYetioy. !Naito im apoiskoomloi, mi this rtwe,
for the people getierolly are averse to tho circulation of
said currency, outl fluda Ha way buck East about ad feat
as it is tittered.
Government soctiritteo are still in groat &tumid at the
Western rates, and holders cannot go atnis4 of
purelmsers. Gehl is quoted nominally nt 3 per cent.
buying, and aj¢ per cent. selling, with nu transactions.
A SUIT MUM YOURITIIN OlNTS.—There has
been somewhat of a novel snit just argued before the
Court of Appeals, in which the enormous emn of four
teen rents l involved It to aamof a Itoetholder li
the Obattenango Bank against tno Moors. A few rem^
ago a dividend was declared by the directors of the barge.
The stockholders, in taking up their dividends, book
wide, and exchange on New York, and when the igiga.
tiff celled for hie dividend, which amounted to litti.elx
dollars, they banded ban New York Nate esiaranori
which was then at one fourth per cent. illsontuit. This
the stockholder retused to swept, and. ggE I
pm prem.
rl- t0 prem.
, pyr el-10 Ms.
abo 10 all.
....Viczaj- prem.
..,.104h ®IOS.
parqe,hi: prom.