(Jiljt Vrtzs. SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1862. THE LATEST WAR NEWS Important despatches have been received from General Rant:nit, announcing the evacuation of Corinth and its occupation by the Union troops. The rebels do not appear to have retreated as far as Okolona, as was at first reported, bat aro in great force in front of General Eta Hook's left wing. Governor Curtin has sent a force of surgeons anti nurses to Williamsport, to care for the wounded Pennsylvanians in General Banks' division. General Beauregard's official report of the battle of Shiloh sets down his lose at 10,000 men, of whom 1,800 were killed. General Fremont's army is in motion, and will be beard from very soon. Details of the Bight of General Banks from Stras burg to Maryland continue to arrive. The rebels appear to have gained vet) , little by their raid, six hundred English rifles being the most important capture made by thorn. The capture of two rebel steamers on the coast of Florida is announced. IN rum incomprehensible system of military events we are only enabled to judge of deeds by results. A tattle only becomes respectable when we see an extended mortality list, and a campaign when we can traverse the occupied territory by leagues and furlongs. When the rebels lft Yorktown we ap plauded it as a glorious triumph of military strategy, and justly so. We obtained com mand of the -peninsula ; we invested Rich mond; no lives were lost. Genius triumphed over gunpowder. We sae the same thing at Co rinth. There was a terrible and fruitless battle; the enemy assumed a new position, fortified, and held it. Then came weeks of silence, skirmishes, and flags of truce, and a war with newspai, er correspondents. The public began to be inn . atient ; a - great battle was anticipated —we might almost say, desired—when the news comes that Corinth is evacuated. With out a blow, in the taco of their braggadocio and bluster, after defiance and menace and preparation, the rebels have fal!en back, and are now retreating thrbugh the Cotton States. He nor to General lIALLEOK ! He has or ganized victory by combining the elements of victory—he has achieved a triumph undimmed by blood ; and this is the highest glory of the soldier. TEE 'LETTER front Judge. Rose to Ur. YAN CEY, dabAl Madrid, Match 22, and published in the True Della, at New• Orleans; by desire of General BUTLER, completely shows the rebels' hopelessness of aid from Europe. Mr. ROST frankly says that when Mr. YANCEY left Europe none of the Confederates there ex pected that the rebel Government at Rich mond, under JEYWERSON DAVIS, would be re cognized, but that they et had a well-grounded hope that the blockade woul t be set aside." Not so very well grounded, after all, as.the next sentence states that the British Parlia ment had sustained Earl R cassia:a declaratim • that lite blockade is efficient, and the French Chamber of Depu ies had endorsed, by a large majority, a similar declaration by M. Tumm ies'. This," Mr. ROST continues, "destroys the last hope we had that those Governments wou'd do justice between the belligerents." Be it remembered that this frank confession, quite as much in anger as in sorrow, was made by one Traitor.to another,ia s!rietcontidence. Of course; to the deluded mass, the mere rank . and file of the Confederacy, a different story has been told. Indeed, after this letter bad been received by Yander at Richmond, Jar- PERSON Mavis, who knew iti hopeles royale tions, issued a Proclamation, one of his pr.,- cious -melangee of braggadocio and blasph i emy, in which' he assured his dupes that Rebellion was thriving, that the God 'ot armies smiled upon the Treason, and that the loading Pow ers of Europe would speed,ly admit the South ern Confederacy into the great family of inde pendent nations. . Mr. Bon, with the frankness which charac terizes his epistle, ackuowlLdges to Mr. Yax car that "It must. now be nusoifeit to every ohe thatewe have to rely exclusively upon our selves and our internal resources to establish our iudependenee. Atter we succeed we will owe the European Governments no thanks, and a war duty on imports, sufficient to pay the interest of the debt r which their course forces us to incur, and create •a sinking fund, must be levitd." It is to be hoped that The Times will no tice this statement. After all the groat promise held out to Europe by the South, of a tariff so liberal as to satisfy even the - Free Trade ideas of GLADSTONE, COBDEN, CLIRTA- Liza, and Co., we Lid a leading Secessionist, a man sufficiently important to represent cc the so-called Confederacy" in Madrid—we fled lam saying, to meet the interest of its debt, and create a sinking fund for its final extinc tion, the South, if ever it sneered, must levy a war tax upon all imports. Why, the Morrill tariff, which England and France denounced as prohibitory of foreign produce "and manufac tures, was a mere flea-bits Os Mr. Drsaar.u . would say) to a tariff such as this. No North ern editor bolds out this threat, but one of r JEFFERSON DAvis' own commissioners takes it for granted in a confidential letter to another commissioner, bearing on its face proof that it was equally int:nded to be read by the arch rebel Davis himself. - • Mr. RosT fo lows lip his confession that the Confederacy had lost its cc lust hope" of E& rorean recognition by lamenting that the news of Northern success's in Secessia had. as done great injury" in Europe to the Rebel cause. If so over two mouths ago, when he wrote, bow much more so now ? In fine, the Rebellion is nearly played out, and the most fortunate among its • enders are undoubtedly such men as Swim., MASON, and Roar, who are safe in exile. They dO not merit, and they will not meet, with pity or sympathy from honest people, at borne or abroad. ' • Tux rummy of civilization is not the his-- tory of man alone. The purpose of its record is, indeed, the'record: of mans purpose, and the great bulk of its pages is filled with chroni cles of the accomplishments and the fAilnres of national policies. But in history's view . the race is not a vast human machine, Isolated in space, and carrying out intricate moveniera without being antlected to extrinsic.influero On the contrary, there Is a .physipal factor'in this great problem—forevej 'solving, never solved—and it forms its constant quantity. It is the great brute earth—or,rather, the genial mother earth—whose expression never varies, whose influence never declines. Whatever antagonism between races may be engendered by other causes, she draws her own lines of demarcation ; here she cancels the closest ethnic affinities, there she merges all social distinctions; and alien a land has been so torn by civil war that its reconstruction s3ems impossible, it is her steady sanatory power that heals all fratricidal wounds. Does a Ha ger, a Buctxrar, a G 1/IZOT imagine thailie has proved the absolute, freedom of the human will, and, with undue glorification, throw his historic cap high in air ? Material nature quietly reminds him, by flinging the flimsy head-covering into the mud, that her gravi tating power is not abieed. In other wards, when we ask for national characteristics or explain a national history, a most essential part of our investigation relates to the physi cal geography of the Sta.° in hand. If• the 'history of our Republic should ever bo written as a 'thing of the past, the varied natural features of the land would go fir to- wards accounting for the diverse character's- tics of its inhabitants. But such a history never can be written.; the preponderance of geographical evidence is against it. If we have within our boundaries a greater variety of physical qualities than any other country in . the world, the boundaries themselves give such explicit unity to this variety that they forbid to the soil any other than a single and simple Government. Our variety in given to us bectui i L tV e are working out the higheit phase of vi e ° ,, etien: . 'We need it ; it is our wealth..., re complex is more perfect, and a multi city of parts implies a unity in the re lating.energy. Our land is diversified with ery alternation of mountain and.valley, prai se and water-course, but these are scatterel broadcast, not condensed at a few points, and made natural barriers ; while two oceans clasp arms around us, not only shutting, us out from. the rest of the world, but typically showing us that we may shut ourselves out by uniting the opposite ocean-strong powers that seem to gird our political being—individual indepen denee and governmental supremacy. We are already beginning to evince that we rightly appreciate our geographical peculiari ties by conquering them, making them sub aerre our plans, and thus turning physical diffi culties into intellectual triumphs. The pre sent war is conducted on a scale so enormous that all pest military- operatiods sink into insignificarice. Men and means have never before been enlisted in such force ; but these arc nothing cothpared witl,the vastness of the atratcgic field. English captain of a gala day, imagine a-base lino 'fifteen hundred miles long, runiang a wavering comae from the At lantic Ocean to the Rocky afauntains. Ima gine, if your amooth• shaven lawn will letyou,the endless variety of physical features which such a line encounters: rivers that run up from the sea into the heart of this mighty land, and fling out branches so innumerable that it is cat into myriad grotesque shaping-; mountains that stretch away, range after range, with defi ant precipitousness; prairies where armies might wander and perish; forests that seem impenetrable ; swamps that seem impassable!. Perhaps -you will be inclined to give some slight meed of praise when you.read that "the rebels are driven out of Missouri and Arkan sas," and remember that those States are twice as large as England, and present topical diffi_ culties to which England's most rugged heights are bowling-greens. Perhaps you will not wonder that East Ten nessee and Kentucky aro yet infested by guerilla bands, if you remember that the great Appalachian chain might, at stress, give them a hiding hole or two; or that a quarter of a million of men march up and down through Virginia without seriously damaging each other, if yon will believe that Virginia is Wales, with all its mountain; multiplied eight times. It is all well enough to sail out to the Isle of Man, all talk about the duty of raising the blockade ; but suppose you had to guard a sea coast sweeping from Maryland to Florida, and from Florida to extremest Texas! It might take even all of John Bull's wooden walls, and then have a thbusuid miles to spare. Such are the physical difficulties which we are rneoting. Are we subduing them, and, by making them subserve our idea, forcing them to contribute to our unity 7 Let Forts Henry and Donelson answer. We wanted to • batter down some old-fashioned stone walls, a. thou sand miles from the sea. We, made boats alter some anomalous pattern, covered them with iron, against all precedent, and crumbled the walla of said forts into sand—that they might help to make the Union cement we are so ra pidly mixing. The Cumberland,' the Tennes see, the York, the James, the Mississippi, con fess that rivers are conquered; and in regard to the ocean, we take the word of the Lon-' don Times, when it speaks of America as being invincible wherever a bhip can float. Curiously enough, we have not yet disco vend any magic way of getting over, under, or though the mountains. But these mouatains always had a trick of defying human muscle and of frowning down upon the human faces that frowned up to them. So, we have con cluded to let them stand, as big sand-bags for gymnastic practice. It is a pleasant thing to 'see in this mastery of the sea and the water-courses, of forests ant swamps, an index of more than Yankee tact. It evinces that the physico-geographical factor of our national life is taking its due place, and that history will not write America as an aggrega lion of separate units, but as an organization of according though distinct vital parts. LETTER FROM. "OCCASIONAL." WaalnaaToN, May 30,1862. A few words about Military Governors of disaffected districts. They are never very ac ceptable to Secessionists or traitors,, but they are a rare comfort to the friends of good go- vernment and cnustitutional liberty. A. good Military Governor is frequently of more service than a victorious general; indeed, he cannot be successful in his mission if _he Is not a thorough soldier. But he most also be - a statesman. He must know the prejudices of the people who surrouud him—their peculiari ties, their wants, and their relations to each other. The two Military Governors at pre sent the objects of general interest are James S. Wadsworth, who has charge of Washington city, and Benjamin F. Butler, who has charge of the city of New Orleans. Wadsworth is a New Yorker, well known in Philadelphia as a gentleman of immense fortune and high position. lie is a fine laws er, and has been distinguished in politics—having always been a Democrat until he saw that slavery had taken command of the Democraticparty, when ho cut loose and identified himself with the Republicans. On the first indication of hostilities ho offered his' services to the Go vernment, and after the destruction of the railroad connection with Washington, and in the midst of the blockade, he chartered a large vessel and filled it with provisions, and brought it safely into Annapolis, being him self on board. The President appointed hips a brigadier general, and be discharged his duties so ably and so industriously, that he was promoted to a major generalship, and afterwards selected as Military Governor of this District. We feel the efficiency of his rule every hour of the day. Of course, he has given offence to disloyal slave "holders. He will not allow them to use his guard to arrest and return their fugitives. So far as ho is concerned, Washington will not be • made a hunting-ground for the Secession Jay. hawkers of the adjacent counties of Maryland and Virginia, who, after helping the traitors in every conceivable way to break up the Government, now invoke the Constitution as a protection against the consequences of their Own faithlessness. There is very little sym pathy for this class. Even the Annapolis Gazette says df them : "We candidli confess that the condition of slavery in Maryland is a serious and perplexing one. We think Congress has acted inextureably in abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, be cause they have thus, indirectly, injured slavery byre. But it Is beyond dispute that this state of affairs could not have 001U11 about but for the in sane efforts of the . Secessionists, And it is equally beyond dispute that an exceedingly large majority of the slave owners in Maryland aro Secessionists, and have"aided 'the rebels in every way in their power. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.' Verily, by their aid to the rebels have they sown the wind,' and, in the destruction of the value of their slaves, aro they reaping the whirlwind.' "But, criminal as has been their course, no man in Maryland desires to see slave owners deprived of their property. If slavery must perish here, let it be with the least poesible loss to . the owners of slaves. In justice, they have forfeited all claim to remuneration. But our nation is, we hope, too magnanimous to punish them to such a way for their treason." . Benjamin Butler, now in civil and mili tary cominand•of.New Colleens, is also an ob ject of the 'detonation of the traitors. His task is more'vexatious and trying than General Wadsworth's;and the remedies he adoPts are necessarily, more severe. He finds himself and his compatriois In possession of a city which abounds in treasons and conspiracies, where midnight , assassination succeeds to the sullen and scornful bearing of the traitors in the open day, and where to insult a Union man is believed to be' the refinement of, chivalry. It is said that General Butler has adopted a somewhat harsh measure in regard to the Se cession ladies of New Orleans. Let us see what these gentle creatures have done and are doing before we convict and sentence the Ge neral. How do they act in Balthnore, in Nor folk, and in Nashville ? Among . their cour tesies are: ribald abuse and open expressions of the heir that our army may be slaughtered like wild beasts. I myself beard a woman in a railroad car announce, in the hearing of a dozen persons, that she would rejoice to'see a passing train, that was filled with a regi ment on its wriy'to Washington; throWn from the low Gunpowder bridge, and every soul de stroyed. The same daughter of Eve expressed a desire to make the food for the Yankees. To fold up their skirts in order 'to avoid •the contaminating touch' of an American , uniform is a practice of daily occurrence ; to refuseto lit at the same table with a Union soldier; to, decline association with his family ; and to de.. nonce him to his face as a coward•and l a ruffian—are some of the moderate manifesta tions of their, feelings. Fiequently they far: get themselves so isr as to spit upon the pass ing volunteer. It is hard to submit to these delicate attentions ;•• but the . spirit that always regards a woman with ,respect, and that never allows a gentleman to enter into a dispute with a lady, prevents any. retaliation. No doubt,General Buller has been called upon to endure all these things, and more. There are no more dangerous spies than the Sece ssion women. The weakness of their sex makes them strong for evil; and, as many evidencis, have established, some of them bait at no equirocation or deceit 4q, betray the Go'Vern ment and to help the rebellten. Gen. Butler's remedy may look to ,bo a rough ; one, at this distance'; but; - as be is not the man to tike a step without good reaeons to strengthen his course, let us hear his statement before rush ing into a condemnation of his policy. Butler was a lawyer of powerful - influence and immense practice in Massachusetts when the war began. His ability, boldneii, and skill, as a pleader, his ingenuity as a counsel. tor, slid his great moral and physical courage, made Lim a terror to his opponents. Ise was a decided Breckiuridge Democrat in the last Presidential campaign; but every step he has taken in the preseut struggle; and every speech he has made, exhibits his pro found contempt for the rebellion, and his manly acorn of thole who sympathize with it SD the loyal States. Fortunate it is for our country that such men as Wadswirth and Butler are to bo found among the voluntary and disinterested chain• pions of her cause. OCCASIONAL. ROM GEN. MCLELLAN'S DIVISION. Brecial Correspondence of The Press.] BIJ9IIIOB FARM, OM TUE 011101CAII0Mttrf, May 26, 1862. 5 Our pickets have been along the Chicicattominy creek, 'end, from the demonetratious made by the rebels on the other aide, it is expected that our men will moot with con siderable opposition in crossing. Col. Irwin's 49th Penn sylvania bas had the post of boner during the morning. Ihe whole regiment has at limes been out guarding the creek. Their orders were not to fire unless the robots attempted to crops the river, and this they had not the daring to attempt. The party doing picket duty on the other side was part of a regiment of Zoutived,.unitormed in red caps and breeched, and white shirts—a fiery conspicuous uniform. They wore posted in an open field, and, as soon es'our men advanced to the creek, would withdraw into a dense wood and ,attempt to draw them on, but our officers n -01111110 them. Our Octets .esveral times attempted to draw the ene my's Lire, as many as twenty of them grouping together for the purpose, but tho rebels refused. Their pu:pose evidently is to draw our nion'on into the woods on the opposite side of the creek, and then attempt to snare them. The Chlckabominy at this point is absut seventy feet wide, and at the site of the burnt New Bridge is about twelve feet deep, though at other pstiota it ie considerably less. The other side ia very swampy, and the bridge t 3 be erected will be she hundred and thirty feet long. The engineers made an examination of the banks this more leg, in order to ascertain the inoat puitable place for the new bridge. They did to under the protection of our pickets. but the rebels made no opposition. The old bridge was built on piles, which are burned or down to the water's edge, and the engineers thought it would be better to build a new bridge on pontoons, than to recon struct the old one, and are now diligently at work to ac complish their object. • 71:11CSDAT MontNo, May 27, 1862.—The storm of yes terday continued until this morning, when the wind veered round to the north, and the sun thous oat in ail . his wonted glory. 'The rain fell in each copious quantity, however, that it was allo to think of msrcbing any dis tance, especially as our route would lie through an eno my's country, so that the order was countermanded. The sun being out so bright during the day, will am dry up the roads, and, as the pontoon bridge is ready, we will no . doubt match this afternoo'n. Dining the night a battery of artillery was sent to the creek to protect the working party, but no annoyance was given by the rebels. For about the last thirty minutes—it is now about 2 P. 111.—we have hoard sharp firing oft to the right, some six or eightmiles distant, in the direction of Gen. Porter's end have no doubt but that wo will be ordered to advance some limo during the night or morning. • If so, aid the rebels offer a determined resistance, a general battle may be brought on before night. Just as I finished tho above paragraph a lull began be tween the report!, and in few minutes they mimed. About hail' an hour afterwards wo heard some tea or twelve reports, when they ceased altogether. About seventy report. were • heard: The mail will. be closed before I will he able to uncertain the canoe. Foote complaint is mado here, in the army, about the treatment:of the patients in the army hospita's to your city, many of the sack and wounded having been returned Yo their regiments before they were entirely recovered. The consequence wee, that they had to be placed in the temporary hospitals in the rear of our army, and where they can be, at hest, supplied with but few of the accom modations Decently,- for their comfort and speedy re covery. Dleasurce should be promptly taker' to remedy this evil, as any considerable ;mber of disabled men following an army Is a vast inctunbrance. Besides, we will soon have a plentiful supply on hand if is an encounter between the opposing forces for the powlession of Richmond. 7 his cannot be avoided, however, for Richmond must be taken if but ono man lives to occupy it. I==l A few minutes later, after occasional stiots, the affair on oar right le becoming somewhat serioue. The re ports of the tischarge and explo3lon of the shells can be beard very distinctly, white volley after volley - of mus ketry peals upon the ear. The firing of artillery is very sharp, while the sound of the musketry is at times almost continuous. The balloon is up, on a line almost dirostly to tho west of our encampment, and apparently in the vicinity of the engagement. • Our men are beginning very much Interested, and stand in excited sroops iu v triorm parte of the en min p menttycatching the operations of the balloon, listening to the reports of the mnaletry and artillery, and de bating on the prospect of an immediate advance. A abort time fte,O, when the pickete worn relieved, and wore leaving the creek, the robe!a brought up a piece of artillery and threw fonr *Molls after.them, bat without doing any damage. Our fresh pickets .occupy the saute line, but have not been molested. -The uton'are in good spirit', realy and spoiling for the fight. W. H. FROM. WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to "The Press." WAsnileezolt, May 30,1862 Property on the 11Igtt Seas. BerifttOr VESSENDIM introduced a .biU, to.day, in the Senate, providing that auy person not being an owner, who Bball, on the high seas, wilfully and corruptly cast sway, bun), or otherwise destroy any reseal which be, longed to any citizen of the United States, shall, on being convicted, be prinblicd by a fine not exceed ing ten thousand dollars, and imprisonment not ex• ceeding ten years; and it any person destroy any vessel on the eel, of which ho le the owner, in part or Whole, with intent to prejudice . any per eon that has underwritten any policy of insurance there- On, or any merchant who has geode thciein, shall, on. conviction, be similarly fined and imprisoned: The law in this•case, as it now stands, is punishable with death, and some of the district attoroeya have been obliged to abandon the prosecution becaaaethe severity of the punishment rendered it improbable thiet a CODYiC , tion could he obtained. The imancipation of Slaves in the Ms- trict . oi Columbia • jorix M. Enemalb, of the District of Colombia, has been. appointed by the President one of the commission ers nudtr the act for the emancipation of Flavea in the District of Columbia, nice Vutros, decease& The Cir cuit Court to-day formally refused II writ of habeas cor pus for the s discharge of an alleged fugitive slave: Sub scriptintis aro being pledged to employ eminent conniel to test the legality of the aprtication of the fu si five- el sve law to the blitrict of Colombia, before the Supreme Cowl of the United States. The claimant of the female * gave recently wrested front Marshal LASION, by the null tary authorities, is about entering a suit against him for the recovery of the value of the woman. Arrests for Slave Trading. The Secretary of the Interior, in response to the reso lution of the Senate for information relative to, and the persons who have beenecrested in the anathema digulet or New York, frcm the -let of May, 1852, to the Ist o 11ay, 1862, charged 'with being engaged in the' slate trade, with the names and number of the Tease's arrested and bonded, charged with being engaged in that tratilc, gives the names of forty-one persons, none of whom were convicted, or their bonds forfeited, which ranged from $250 to $20,000. In 'some cases they were tried and ae; Quitted ; one or two escaped ; but moat cases are marked. . 1 bend not forfeited—complaint dismissed." - Rebel Prizes. On the 12th instant, the United States steamer Hatte. :as captured the rebel steamer Governor A. Menton, in Ilsraiek Bay, bound there from the Sabina Pass. She vim loaded pith Confederate Government provisions. Also, ou the let inetant, the robot schooner Magnolia, while attempting to leave Berwick Bay. She wee leaded with tWo hundred and fifty-two notes of cotton and tur pentine. ' • °tithe Bth instant, the same IL 8. steamer chluaml on shore the rebel steamer Fashion, aloe loaded with cotton and turpentine. She was then fired by her own-crew. The Tariff 13tH. The Committee of Ways and Means will not compete • ly frame their tariff bill . until that for laying Internal taxes - shall have been dispored of, as the policy is to lay OD foreipn prodocte the same rates as those impised on domestic articles of similar character, .New York Collectors. The Committee on Commerce of the Senate to-day re isirted a bpi providing that the salaries of the surveyors of customs at.h Many and Troy, Now York, be five hum tred dollars per annum, with a depnty collector or in spector who.may act for both porta, under the direction of the collector at New York. Adjutant General's Office Mr.WWlLsoir, from the Semite Military Committee, reported a bill to-day providing that there shall be added to the Adjutant General's department, by iege . lar promotion of its present °Moors, one colonel, two lientenant,colonels, and vino majors' and that the grade of 'captain in - said department shall thereafter be abolisbed,"and all vacancies occurring in the grade of major shall be filed by selecting from captains of the NM% Compensation of Congressmen The Judiciary Committee reported a bill to-day In the Senate, providing that the salaries of Senators and mem— bers appointed to fill vacancies, shall commence at the time that of their immediate predecessor ceased. • Severe Law on. Frauds: The Penste Judiciary Committee reported back to the Renate, today, a bill providing that frauds i4tke Govern: mint during the prosent rebellion rid! be :punishable with death, on trial and. conviction by military court martial. Casualties in the 2d idassachusetts Itegi- BOSTON, May 30.—A swig despatch to Ilia Boston ',Unmet/ states that nine were killed, forty-three wound ed, and one hundred and sixty-three miming, in the 24 .11 assachusetts Regiment, sunder General Batiks. Supposed. Suicide. unknOwn man waa Beni.mivroN, N. J., Nay kJllod on the Camden and Amboy railroad, near Beyer)), this meruing• lie was walking towards the approaching train, and „ every Oren wee made to atop its progress, but aithoutavriii. The coroner ea-endued tkie conductor and engineer. and .entirely, exonerated them from blame. The impression is that the unfortunate maw committed TEE L'EfIANT STECK PIAITOSexceI all ethers in volume; and quality of tone, and dalioaoy of touoh. Sold by J. B. Gould, Scrota and Chestnut. TBE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1862. THE RETREAT OF GEN. BANKS. Information Hitherto Suppressed. A REBEL FEMALE IN THE AFFAIR AT FRONT ROYAL WlLLleaSronv, May 28.—1 t ir anything bat gratify ing to the correspondent, who labors and toile day and night to obtain and lay before the country the asthma and most important features of the war, to knew that hie reports aro to meet inertt4bly with suppression if he dares to mention facts, the knowledge of which is but due to the public. The latter are a tow aware of what has bren concealed from them, though known to:theononlY, rtapoctirg hue department and can properly estimate the leading causes of the disastrous retreat from the valley of Virginia. Itie no longer contraband to state that from the . hone of the recall from the Pursuit of Jackson beyond -Har risonburg and the p gobbling up" emit Gen. Batiks' army except two smell infaLtry brigades, fourteen guns, and two tegimente of inexperienced cavalry, that every offi cer In the command was firmly imbued with the belief that thould Jackson and Ewell 'combine to assail us we were ehmuletely at their mercy : And even the small force mentioned could not be con centrated to repulse the enemy in case of attack. At least one half of the infantry were required for special eervice, each as guarding the trate@ of wagons, bridges, railroads, de., while the cavalry were required to be cm limvally the ecout to guard against surprise. Weakness of Banks' Command. When your correspondent left the camp at Strasburg, on Sunday previoue to the bloody affair at Front Royal, it was known that hordes of gowning were swarming the mountains end the valleys of the North and South forks of the Shenandoah, on our rear and flanks, but no infer• motion could be obtained of a concentrated attack. Still, the very meekness of our army would, if kuown to the rebel commanders, be sufficient to induce an onslaught with even equal numbers. No Help from Washington. No favorable responses baring been received from NBbitigtOil as to reinforcements, an officer Arms specially despatched thither to lay the case before the War Do partmect in person ; but before he had completed hie duties, the news came of the attack at Front Royal, and a few hours later, of the rcireat of General Bauks' entire army towards Maryland. At the hotel iu Front Royal, on the night of thelfltht year correspondent saw au accomplished prostitute who has figured largely in the rebel cause, and having seen her but a abort time previous at fdartinsbarg, her presence at Front Royal at a thee when the rebels were surrounding It, moused so3piclotia that abe meant mis chief. She was pointed out to the military commanders there, and her emit advised. It Is now known that she was the bearer of an extensive correspondence between the !chile inside ard outside of Mir /loos. I have tho following statement from an officer who participated in the . battle at Front Royal : After you left Front Royal, Bello Eoyd made a trip to Winchester, "in company with a cavalry officer. While there, she was arrested by the military authorities; but, with her newel adroitness end assumed innocence, sbe got clear of any charge of treachery, and returned to Front Royal again. An hour previous to the attack ou Col. Kenly, Belle went ant on a rise of ground, south of the town, and was seen to wave her hamikerchisf towards tho point from which the centre of the attack was made." You' correspondent cannot vouch for the strict accu racy of all of the fin egoing, but undeniable proof exists of her treason. Belle now reposes on her laurels in the Confederate camp. The Flight from Winchester. no first intelligence of the attack.on Front Royal was thought to Winchester by one of the Ira Harris Guard, and was tehgrapheil to Gen. Banks at Strasburg, by Captain Flagg, Assistant Quartermaster, 11 'B. d. But fifteen minutea elapse] after the robes were disco vered before Colonel' Keely , s commend was completely surroundeil. The details of this murderous affair haring been I.ubliebei, they are omitted in this nor rtnontlonce.. The large quantity of medicines, surgiesliestruments, and hospital stores at Winchester, were destroyed by Mcdical Purveyor Bnkttr, while the enemy were in the town. Dr. Baxter premed through a storm of' bails and shells, and was several times fired on from the Taylor Souse, where he had boarded for.weeke. - . Collis' Zouaves Cut Off. . . Collis' Zouayes DtAfrique; a battalion of the Ira Bar ris Guard, under Colonel De Forrest, Captain Illimptou, of the Pittsburg battery; with a few of Ids mon and a small body of infantry, were cut off by the matnbody of the enemy between Middletown and Winchester. 'lbe whole %yeti consisted of less then 1,000 men, The Zonavea and cavalry had been detailed to deatroy the bridges after our retreat. Capital's Hampton, after securing his guns, went to the rear to bring off his bat tery wagon and forge. Finding their retreat out off, they retraced the toad to Strasburg. Several times Captain maintop checked pursuit by the enemy's cavalry by mounting a stovepipe on his carriage, and placing it in waltion till the infantry had passtd ahead. The ruse wasnot diacovered by the enemy. On reaching Strasburg this force collected thirty-five abandoned wagons loaded with Commissary. Thence they took the mountain road north, and by a clrcuitons route came in night of Winchester only to find them . - relves in the enemy's rear. Taking the road to Bath, followed by a battalion of railed cavalry, they finally reached tho Potomac, near Hancock, and arrived here last night with not salmi! loss. On one occasion the Holum!' d'Afelque, who were only shoal() in number, kept at bay, for a Quarter of an bonr, a brigade of the enemy, and thus, pothers, saved tiro whole force. The Zonaves are General Banks' body-guard, and appear to have been well selected for ench an importantduly: The following is their Wee: • •• Killed—Jaques Laurier, Wm. McClane, and James M. Britton. IYounded--Glisrlee Yedalen. dossing-None. • At jianceck the Zourtves found secreted and brough off six cases of EiLeas than fifty wagons oat of about five hundred, in eluding many that wore considered worthless by General Shields when be left this column, have been Met, and the enemy hove derived but little benefit front wh.t was abandoned on the road. A large amount of old camp equipsge, turned over as 13F01015 to the quartermaster, wail burnt. One of the principal acquisitions of the enemy was between six hundred and a thousand Euro pean rifles, left there by General Shields when he left General Bents' command. The eatety of so large a portion of our transprtation arid etr roe is undoubtedly attributable to the experience of Captain Holabird; chief quartermaster, and Captain Beckwith. chief commissary. • Brigadier General S. M. Crawford, late eiurgeon under Anderson; at Fort Sumpter, and afterwards inspector general undir Bosecraos, in Western Virginia, baa been appointed to, the brigipde of General die_ sloe, recently commanded by Colonel Bonnet's,. Ifieseengers have just arrived, at three o'clock, this afternoon, reporting heavy firing between Harper's Ferry and Ohrtriestotin. Our pickets on the Virginia side of the Potomac have teen driven in by a superior. SOICe of the enemy. The Loss of the Maine Regiments in Gen. Banks' Command. PORTLiND, May 30 —The following despatch basin:en' reccivtd to Goy. Washburn : W1LL1.13151.0117, May 20.—Tho loss to the Maine regi ments under Gen. Banks was as follows: Ist . Maine Cavalry, Major Cilley, * mortally wounded, and left at Middleton. v • v - Assistar&Surgeon flaky taken prisoner, And left with AT•aj.r Gilley. Acting Assistant:Surgeon Itoword taken prisoner. • Ot tine rank end tile there aro 71 miming. The number of killed and wounded is not known. In the loth Maine Infantry there wore none killed, and six wounded. seyent)-50101 1 are mitering, but this number will be re- duced. • The officers of this regiment are all sAfe. The Wounded Pennsylvanians in Gen. Bipntenutto, May 30.—Intelligence baring. been re calved of the arrival at Williamsport and Frederick, Hd., of the wounded P001311,liattl& • soldiers ermiged under Gen. Banks, in the retreat from Sthunton, the Governor immediately ordered Major 0. W. Lees, accompanied by two surgeons from the hospital at Camp Cartier, to pro ceed to the aboie-uamed points, with all the appliances necessary to insure their comfort and safe conveyance to Harrisburg, where hospital accommodations are prepared• They will probably arrive here on Monday and Tu.eday. The active exertions and benevolent interest taken in this mutter by the Governor Is most praiseworthy, and is a sure guarantee that everything that ~money oan ef fect will be brought to bear in relieving the wants' of our brave soldiers. Ho battle is fought in which Penn svivaulans are engaged but competent parsons are imme diately despatched to relieve their waste and bring them. home. No other loyal State can show so fair a record in' this particular. Arratigementit have been effested with the War Department by which every facility to furnished to persons on Missions of this character by officers in different divisions of the army. A list of the killed and . Wounded will be furnished for publication at the earliest possible moment. The War in the Valley of: Virginia—Rebel Accounts of Banks' Retreat, Ittchmond Examiner,. of Tuesday, May 27th, " Gee. Jackson's forces entered Winchester yesterday, the 26th instant, capturing all the enemy's commissary and ordnance stores. They (the U. B. troops) -tried to burn the town, but were too closely 'pursued. We Oak the let Maryland Regiment, Ooi. and the lit Vermont Regiment of cavalry, at Front Royal, prisoners, and two thousand prisoners at Winchester. Our law is one hundred killed and wouhded. Our troops are still in pursuit. The enemy are completely rented.' The Ezewairlef ea/ a In addition to the above, we received early in the de , a private despatch, dated at Staunton, announcing the capture, by the united commands of Jackeon and Jewell,: of Flout Royal and Winchester, with four thousand pd. Boners, and stragglers still coming in, with the enamel accomplished at a sacrifice of, one hands* men killed and wounded. The victory was regarded ea very complete. Of subsequent movements and reaultewi . are without information, but we are moil convinced they • have been progressive." . The.'Examinir thus refers to the " new eensation" ex t : peeienced in Richmond on the arrival of the foregoing , intelligence : • • • • tt RlCLinea yesterday experienced a decided and whole atom° feeling of elation and rejoicing in vice of the im 'portruat and most timely rep,rts of the glorious success,' of General Jackson in the valley of Virginia. The old epirlt oi.cortgratulatiori was revived, and the elasticity of the public mind seemed to spread equally among civl liens and soldiers. It was earnestly hoped the achieve mental', the velley.might speedily find their counterpart nearer Richmond, in the dispersion of the Yankee hosts that anYfrozYthe capital of thejlonfederricy." . • . TEE very handsome cottage and grounds on Locust etieet, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty ninth, West Philadelphia, to be sold on Tuesday next, June 3d, at 12 o'olook, at the•Exobange; by Pd. Taomas 3ons, is well worthy the attention of those wanting to purchase. Oen be seen at any time. • • AUCT/021 NOTICE- - SALII OP 130018 AND SHOES.---. The attention of bnyere . ie oalled to the large and liandsome",leaortment of 1,000 oases lic;oti, shoes,. to be offered , at auction on Monday morning, at 10'ojelOok;by;Pkilip Ford &, Co., auctioneers, at their, gime, N0e..525 Market and 522 Otitikrtieroe streets. A Secesh Ainnzon The Battle at Front Royal. Destruction of Stores. Loss of Wagons Banks' Army. FROM GEN. BUICK'S ARMY: CORINTH . E ACITATED. ADVANCE OF THE ARMY. Our Flag Waving Over Corinth! BEFORY CORINTH, May 29—Midnight.—No additional movements wore made to-day, except ploket skirmishing esd strengthening our position. General iledleck veered hie camp two miles forward to-day. Lieutenant Webb, aid to Geneva] Donelson, was among the prisoners captured yesterday. • IcSIAR CUILINTII, May 30.—General Pope's advance, the 3111). Ohio: Regiment. occupied Corinth at 6.40 this morning, and planted our flag on the courc house. The enemy evacuated the position last night, retreat ing down the Mobile and Ohio "{unread. The telegraph line is now occupied with military bud neer; but the details will be sent as soon ae pulsate. LATER—THE EVACUATION OFFICIALLY CONFIRRED. WAR DEPART3IRNT, May ao—A. despatch joist received fully corroborates the former message, that Corinth is evacuated by the rebels and occupied by oar troops. Prieontre say that the enemy left last night for Okolona, lilissiselppi, a point sixty-seven miles south of Oorioth, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad. THE PARTICULMIS. GENVAAL nALLECK'S HEADQOARTBUS, May 30.—Da ring nearly all last night the moving of care and the suppressed sound of steam whistles betokened that some movement was going on in the enemy's camp; but, this not being any extraordinary occurrence, it was not con sidered worthy of mere than passing notice. About five o'clock this morning, several explosions were dietinetly heard. Immediately afterwards skit ruirhers wore thrown out, and a general advance.of the United Statee army commenced, whoa it was found that the enemy had loft hie western stronghold end fled.., A. very large amount of railroad iron was loft un touched. There being some twelve or fifteen tracks of railroad running from the depot to the entrenchments, With tide tracks and switches, the enemy was enabled to move MI with great rapidity. From all information that can ho gleaned' from the prisoners token, it to thought that the evacuation was commenced at sundown, last night, the enemy retreating in three direCtioni—east, west, and south. Feanregard statod to the citizens of Cor:uth, last night, that he intended to throw himself on both our Saida,. At this hour, Corinth is held by our army as an out post. Our cavalry are seeking for the enemy. The force eent (rem General Pope's command came upon, and ala rmed, the enemy, eight miles below Corinth, on the Mobile and Obio Railroad, while in the act of burning the bridge at that point. Forty prisoners were captured. The enemy's rear guard destroy - ed the railroad depot at Corinth and a church, and intended to destroy the entire village, but the inhabitants saved come fifty of the houses. A few bales of cotton were consumed. They also broke open many, of the stores and burned the contents. , A large force of United States cavalry, under Colonel Elliott, wee sent out on Wednesday morning by a cir cuitous routs to destroy a bridge on the Dl.obile and Ohio Mai!road south of Corinth. Though the expedition Mu; not yet retorned. we learn from the prisoners that it wee known in Corinth last night that a largo bridge had been destroyed, forty miloa south, by a body of our cavalry. They also state that one of the twenty-pounder Par rott shells, find from General Pope's column, exploded in their camps, killtvg eighty men and a hundred horses, and that a thirty-pounder Parrott abell throwo into Corinth as an experiment, by General Pope, destroyed a locomo. tire and killed its engineer. It is thought among military men that the destruction of the bridge south of Corinth, tho uncomfortable proxi mity of our falling shells, and the possibility of a Federal succees on the Mississippi, were the causes of the mica alien. The enemy's works wore certainly of ',Try groat strength and capable of a stout resistance. '7P AR - xJ T I N" Despatches from General Halle& WAR DEPiRT/lIINT, WASAtiNGTOIf, May 30.—The fol lowing deepatebea were recavod this afternoon : (RAR CORINTH, MAI 30, 1882. To the Hon. Edwin 4f. Stanton, Secretary of War: Gen. Pope's heavy batteries opened upon the enemy's onlrenchmeate yesterday, about 10 o'clock A. M., and soon drove the rebels from their advanced battery. Major Gen. W. T. Sherman established another tumor battery yesterday alternoan within one thousand yards of their works, and skirmishing parties advanced at day break this morning. ' Three of our divisions are already in the enemy's ad vanied 'works, about three quarters of a mile of Corinth, which is now in flames. The enemy has fallen back to -the Mobile railroad. H. W. HALLECK, Major Goneral . 1S OEM DESPATCH.J Nnan COMMIT, Ray i 0,1862 To the lion. Edwin M. Stanton, S'eeretary of War: Our advanced guard are in Corinth. There are conflicting accounts at to the enernv'e move ments. He is believed to be in strong force on our left prank, some four or fin. miles touth of Corinth, near the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. H. W. HALLEOK, Major General. The Metal Account of the ReeonnotB sauce near Corinth on Wednehday. ' W•it D./PARTYS:4T, WASIIIIKUTO3,I Dies 30 1 1862. ' The following hen just been received at the War Di BHA DQOARTIIRS DNPAR 7 / 1 111,7 7tlrsstssrePt, 2. (DAMP ON 0081,4711E0LN May 28, 1862. To the Hon. E. AL Stanton, Secretary of War: Three strong reconnoitring winning' advanced this morning, on the right, centre, and left, to feel the enemy and unmask his batteries. The enemy very hotly con• tested his ground at each point, but wag driven back with considerable foes. The column en the left encountered the strongest omeition. Our lose was twenty-five killed and wounded. The enemy left thirty dead on the field. 'Our losses at other points are not yet ascertained. Some five or *ix officers and a number of privates were osp tured. The fighting will probably be renewed to. morrow morning at dto bnalt. The whole country is so thickly wooded, that we tae compelled to feel our way.' atajor General FROM THE : lOUNTAIWDEPARTMENT Fremont bid. - ed to Support Banks Bushighuchers Punished The Wheeling ligeiligeneer. gives the following late and interesting Iniolligenee from General Fremont , a derni went " °Lea oils editeital corps returned last evening from Fr.uklin, Pendleton ounty, eighty miles south of New . Creek, which wee; uj to Sunday last, the headquarters of General Fremont.l It is distant twonty-four miles from blobterey, and sixty-five front Staunten, and is 'on • the same line of latitude with. New Market, General Banks' former headquarters in the adjoining valley. It is is place hard i f access from New great, by rea— son of two rivers ink.rvenieg, and also on acconet of the miserable ' coulitiou of the lest twenty miles of the road along the mountains that skirt the South Bran cb. "On Saturday last, isle in the day, General Fremont received a despatch fromthe Secretary of War to fall back with - his entire e and to the support of General Banks, and at daylight Sunday the troops cmumenced breaking camp by regia nts, and by twelve o'c:oek in the day that whole arm ,of over twenty thousand men wore on the move. Wilda the lest twenty-four hours they bad succeeded in jetting full rations, something which they had not had fin several days previous. They were eaxer for a fight, andtbe whole line Bang exultant songs as they filed out iatOthe main road. . b , ls'o one outside of the Gineral'a confidential advisers, of comae, knew the object 4 the more, but the guttural'. Ifeerculaikably accurate. Some said tho idea was to get nearer onr supplies; othertgto get in the rear of the rebels. and, in coojunction with McDowell,' bag' them after they had chased Bankse i t enough. Others imp- Dosed it was to protect our' munication with Now Creak and Cumberland by in ne of a lino thrown out from klooreteld to Green tareleg Bun, which will proba bly turn out to be the correcteuprosition. . " The people in Hardy - Mindy, along in the Talley, in cline to be loyal. In Pendia , county, farther on, they incline the other way. There a vast amount or igno rance to be met with in a d 'a journey. Indeed, the backwardnete of the people In l_that makes up advance. meat and progress is iu etriki contrast with the bean ties,-and capacities of the ntry. Very few school. Lougee are to be aeon . e The 9 nearly all wear home. spun, talk a whining Temecula, and are anything and everything in their politics, cording as they find you are. There ere many exceptionof retiree — for there are the very strongest exceptions toe met with both on the side. of the Union and Sem-sale\ —especially among the female persuasion, who, as elbow re, are quite violent in their feelings and expressions alic t the war. , 't Bushwhacking seems to be j cleverly commencing, and Gen. Fremongie nipping it lathe bud as promptly as Possible. Mit scouts have made rhort work of some of the whackers, end wilimake even ihorter work of all who are caught. We may expectto hew of exalting incidents along the line of his command, boll in the guerilla line end in other respects, in a few day sl,' General Butler Getting SareaStte. ' It was rebel impudence, in the a erlative degree, for the Mayor and Alderbien of New . O can s to extend, as .. they did, an invitation to French -of-war to accept of the freedom of the city; but By 'gave thorn a Ito land for ea Oliver in the followings racteristic letter : To the Mayor. and Gentlemen of i City Cannel/ of , New Orleans: In the report of your official actin published in the - 24 . 04. of the 10th instant, 1 fled the • flowing extracted • reeoluteo. I r.ses with th e action of part o your body there- on--vin: • . • The folloWing preabibis itila reaoltail, offered by Mr. Stith. were . read . twice and adopted. The rules being titispendedi they * ere, on motion, Ben to the Assistant' "I' a a e—lttesere. DeLeharxe, Forestall, nobles, Bodin, and Stith-5: . ' ...,:. • . , Whereas, It has come th est th e knewle of this Cann- i cil that, for e first thneln.tha history this city, -gs • large fleet of the navy of !Francais abo to visit NSW Orleans—of which fleet, the Glatluet, noel li k our port, is the pioneer—this tiouncil, bearing in t,eui r ea min 7 bream) the many ties of amity and goodeeling which unite the mortis of this city with thos e France, to wiume paternal protection New. Orleans veil its fnieda lion and early- prosperity, and to whet-it is •espe chilly graternt for the jealousy.with whichA the eeltnon of the State, it guarantied all the rights of &party, per son, and relieiousfreedom of its citizens— fteit resolved, That tbe freedom and hoep • Weser the city of New Orleans be tendered, through th commander of the Gettnet, to the French naval fleet 4 M its g so t Mm uin our port, and that a committee o live of this Connell be appointed, with' the 'Mayor, to aka such tender nod such other arrangements as ma fie necessary to give effect to the same. • . Moons. ktith and . Forestall were nano on the committee mentioned in the foregoing nandion. This action is au insult, as well to the ited States, c i la a,' to th e. friendly and . powetful nation to rds whose officere it is erected. The offer of the edom of a captured city by the captives weiold meet otters pa tent for its novelty, wore there not double its useful ness as an invention. The tender of its hos alines by a Goveremeet to which police ditties and sae cry rogue latent only are entrusted, is pimply an Welts n to the calaboose or the hoepital.' Tr.o United Stat authori ties are the only ones here capable of deali ith MM.: sable or unarnteablo natione, and will sea to i hat snots sots of courlee, or aeelatauco are extended to y armed, 1 vessel of the Emperor of "ranee as shell testif the Ms -1• Moat, treditioneland hereditary re/allege of g el re I roccubrence With which the Unit 4 Butes - GoV! meat' end people appreciate the early aid of France,'4l her many acts of .frieudly regard, thoWn upon so ~ a y us- Gone! and fittingeocasions. • ' • The action of the Oily Councilto this behalf .• at be revissd.. Respectfull • B. Y. BUTLER, Major Gen. Gamma , lig. "Letters patent`' is geed.. Bo le the " invitatio the calaboose or the himpital.'? - Governor Stanley at Hatteras. RATTIRAS /SLET, Nay 2.7.—Tbe steamer G., rat Bute side arrived hero yesterday with Governor St . ..y, who will leave for Newborn, N. 0., in thionorn , f in the Mesmer Jersey Blue. ' UM INGRESS-FIRST SESSION, WASIIENGTON, May 30. SENATE. indemnity Asked. Nr. CLARK (Rep.), of Now Hampshire, prownted a Petition from George r. iihrlOsooB. ankieg indemnification for the alleged seizure of Ids TOBECI see hor cargo. Petition•from a Slave Err. WILSON (Sep.), of alassachntetts, presented Petition from Elizrt Diggs, a female dove, who we, owned in the Ihstrict, but hired out in Maryland, nod her owner had not placed her name in the list of those to be eman cipated wider the act Of Congress. The Military Bill. Mr. WILSON, of hlmsachueette, from the Military Committee, reportod beck e bill for the better organization of the Adjutant General's office. Report Asked For. TEN EYOR (Rep.). of New Jeraey, offored a re— solution that tbo Secretary of War bo instructed to com municate to the Sonata a croy of the official report of General Booker relating to the recent battle at burg. Public Lunds• Also, a resolution that the Committee on Public Lands be inttructrd to inquire into the expediency of donating let du for the benefit of antiquarian societies. • Correspondence Asked For. Mr. WILSON ..Rep ), of Massachusetts, offered a redo:. lotion that the Secretary of the Interior be requented to communicate to the Senate a copy of the correspondence with the Wai Department CM the emAjoct of the imprison ment ot soldiere In the poniteati try of the leietriet, and also a copy, of the opinion of the Altt,ruey General on toe subject. Ho nnderetood there were seventy or eighty soldiers new imprisoned in the Penitentiary hero. The Tax Bill. Mr. CLARK (Rep.), of New Ilampahirn, anggetted that it wee the understanding that they should try to finiph the tax bill this work. Mr. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, did not see any necessity for extra haste In passing the tai bill. This session of Congress was uct bound to aijourn at any particular time, and he did not think Congress ought to adjourn in the present condition of thing+ and leave the peat of duty. Be wee opposed to any attempt to push the bill through by night sessions. Mr. SUMNER (Rep.), of Maasachusetts, was also op posed to any haste. Thera were 'very important princi ple. involved in this bill. Mr. DIXON (Rep.), of Connecticut, spoke in favor of early *salon on the tax bill. Congress had been in ses sion for six months, and during the whole period had been delaying a tax bill. Why delay it longer than is nenialte for wise Congressional action 4 As to the ne cessity of Congress remaining in 506810E6 he believed that if the public buriness wee properly finished, the nljourn meet of Congress would be a relief to the country. Mr. SIMMONS moved to amend the tax oa whisky, so as to mate it twenty cents until July, and after teat thirty-five COI to per gallon. Mr. SHERMAN opposed the amendment as being too high a tax on one article, and operating injuriously on the agricultural int. rests. Mr. HARRIS (Rep.), of New 'York, said there . was 50015 difficulty to know how to vote.. The people were willing and anxious to have a proper tax bill, He had beard verieue etoriee about the great debtof thOcountry, but he never believed them. He bad made some inqul riea and found that the whole debt of the country, on the Ist of July next, would not vary dye millions from What the Secretary of the Treasury (animated, which was five hundred and seventeen million°. He hsd also heard a g oat deal about debt to. the army, but he.found on Inquiry that the army had been paid up to the first of the present month, and the money wan in the hands of the paymaster'. Mr. YESSENDEN said, that at the extra session and this eessiou there had been appropriated five hundred and thirty.five miliinne, and over. Since March we 'made the regular appropriation of sixty millions, and the debt then was a hundred and twenty millions. He thought, taking all odds and ends, the debt, on the Met day of July, week) be about seven hundred and twenty millions. Mr. HARRIS Said be would assume that the expendi tore would go on and the debt become one thousand mil lion. That was ceinduly enough to satisfy anybody. He thought this hill was calculated to raise more than wee actually needed to pay the current expenses of tho Go vernment, besides au interest ou the debt, and to crests' en ample sinking fund. He was willing to vote every dollar that was necessary, but no more. Re would not sdd to the Wready henvy load on the people The rib:cession was continued by Messrs. Chandler, and McDougall. of California, the latter speaking at length upon.the merits of the bill, contending for the su periority of the substitute offered by bite, which raised sufficient revenue and taxed only those things , which were legally 'subject to taxation ; whilst taw hill from the House taxed everything which should be encouraged, and by the groat mass, machinery and detail renders it • self impracticable. • The Evacuation of Corinth. Mr. 81126111 d N (Rea ), of Ohio, sent to the Clerk's deidr, to bo read, a deebatcla concerning the evacuation of Corloth. • The bill dona'ing !arida for the benefit of agricultural alliance, &c., wee taken up and discusetd until 1 o'clock, vrben the tax hill was taken up. Mr. TRIISII3IILL (Rep ), of Illinois, moved to ad journ. Rejected. Yeas—ifeserg. Brownine, 'Horrid, Ring, Saulsbury, Suniner, Trumbull, Wade, and Wil mot-8; nays 28. Mr. Simmons' (Ron.), of Rhode Island, amendment was rejected—yeas 15, nays il. Mr. CRANDLAR (Sop ), of Michigan,. moved to ad. bonze ; but, on the vote being taken, there , was no quo rum present. Mr. FOOT (Rep.), of Vermont, moved that the Ser. scant. al• Arms be directed to notify the absent members that their presence was lamina to perform the public business. Mr. TRUMBULL honed not ; be thought there would be nothing gained. Adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tho House is not iu 86#81011 to. day. Public Amusement NHS. BHADIIICS.—From dawn to noonday! From tender grace of greening to ripened fatness of fruitage ! From chaste wood-flowors, innocently drow. sing and dreaming in the huge arms of osk-shadows, to vines of IttiM and lustrous leafage, and growths that feint pot in noon's hottest fervor! From Jaques to Dog. berry! From Adam to Verges From Rosalind to 'Beatrice f From the forest of Arden to 'Messina! And so, from "As Yon Like It" to !! Much Ado." As already hinted, the characters of "Much Ado" are more pronounced in their limtiog; but individual die- Unotnee. does not aid their representation, becsueo: pro porliOnate with their separateness is the difficulty of giving them any Col4patlblo relationship. In this play we have the ordinary trouble of fair portrayal of the dramatis persona., and a special trouble in giving them mutual relalioul that shall comport with their indivldn alitiee, and, at the same time, fulfil the requisitions of plot. The criticisms that have been made upon the character, would not help Mrs. Komblo much. Schlegel is short and general; liszlitt ; short and only partially explicit: "Bentdick," he says, "is a proressod and staunch wiener to marriage, and gives gory plausible reasons for the faith that is in him. .As to Beatrice, she turns him and all other things late ridicule, and is proof against every thing serious." Campbell has somewheie condensed his opinion of Beatrice into "an odious woman ;" the sharp and lit ely rattle of her wit • rather shocked the dignified placidity of Gertrude of Wyoming, who requires three and a half natty Sptuserian stanzas to finish hdr life in, though half that amount would have been amply suffi cient to finish our patience with. Hudson thinks Hens chel.: squally-removed from a woman-hater and a lady'. man; makes his wit " in great part the offspring of re fection, and, therefore, apt to come off second best in wit• combats;" and &Ives a great deal of discoursing upon the character, all very nen in point of antithetical periods, but not so well if it protend to be accurate Shakspeatian analyeic . dirs. Kemble marked out a path last night, la detiamo of all criticism—unless, indeed, it were her desire to be a counterpart at Campbell, as quoted above. We are too much amazed to express oar regret that one 'who showed such artistic capability in thedellcate portraitures of Rosalind and Celia, should have made such en utter Misconception and such en outrageous transcription of Benedick and Beatrice. The rendition was, throughout, falso where it was not insufficient. A brief examination will substantiate both charges. Mrs. Kemble read Beatrice with exquisite . paint and brilliancy, but gave her an inexhaustible flow of good humor—making her raillery, in every instance, good natured, and oven eondesceodingly kind. Wi s have al ways thought that Sirs. Jameson ensiled her apology for Beatrice to the farthest extreme; yet she has the frank nees to say of the lady, "There is &alight infusion of the termagant in her temper ;" speaks of ' , her scornful airs, her biting jeits,' the pertinacity and bitterness of her satire; her haughty, excitable, and violent temper." It has been reserved for Km Kemble to portray Beatrice es the most deliciously-charitable, the most evreetly sympathetic, tender, and benignant creature that ever, out of a bountiful benevolence, fascinated us with a laugh. Every scene • bears the same impress. No matter how peovoking Beeedick'r cuts and in innualions may be, this incarnation of beneficent womanhood receives them with a courteous smile. It is true, she is replying, all the while, with sarcasm of terrible intensity and bitterness. if Mrs. Kemble did not take such elaborate pains to disguise it. But this form of address isirobably only another indication of ber de licately ,tender diets:mitten: she kindly wishes to relieve Benedick of"the embarrassment which he would naturally feel after making rude speeches. Yet, no. For Benedick is made a rough, edify fellow, weak ;as clownish, and one only wants to boar the crock of the carter's whip to assign him his proper social station. The largeness of his man hood, the fineness of hie breeding, the unvarying grace of his courtesy, were not only lost but flatly contradicted. Be gets Into a rego beneath Beatrice's angelic smiles, se (bat one le at a leas whether to call him brute or idiot. He swaggers about with coarse boasting at his sweet tempered, forgiving friend's expense; he—but what does be not do after whistling with carter•like boleteroasams, and making soma anomalous internal burets of nasal sound, intended, perhaps, for explosive laughter. And •hie ie Benedick The courteous gentleman, the chivalrous scildi.r, the open, generous, self-reliant men the man whom every woman would instinctively 80-- lea from a crowd, assured of his willingness to tumid her, while one glance would reveal him to be worthy of confidence!" Ab, hirslismble, in the name of every lover of Slink ware, we beg lon to keep to characters of lees calibre and more negative toning, if this be a specimen of yoar poweie in presenting these of more vivid coloring.' There is not time, now, to establish at length onr se; a t u ti Kemblo—iuffi at c e le h a e c d Y id W no e t c9angndoepotituentl g o a u i r n Ine s t M ao r i s . . give wi the faintest hint that alto appreciated the key note of the relations' of Binediek and Beatrice; theft' bidden's-salmi partiality for each other, even at the open fog of the play. This is , the only juatifladlon of the plot's issue, and the only bads for the interaction of Be ttedick- and Beatrice's natures . . ' It is not, cif Morse, lo"ve, but a decided leaning towirds each other, which makes theseieerings, and floutings, and baudyingsof wit mortify ing to both partiee—more to tholiking they bear each other than even to their .elf-love. The sensitiveness that is time made to each other's wit has a reflex influence in augmenting their wit's poignancy, and this eupedldal cause keeps the merry pair apart till it is broken through by artificial meant., and tut opportunity is thee given for their real feelings to find true expression: There is, in all Sballspearo, no wijusuneat of means to ends more exquisite than this ; and yet Dim X emble showed no tip predation of it. She read merely, forpoints, aud, there tore, her rendition wee full of the moat vicious of clap trap and stage tricks. If, hoWever, it is Dirs. Kemblee de liberate :esthetic judgment that whistling, clucking, and grunting are legitimate adjuncts to the elocutionary art, we have no right. to do More than emphatically ex- Drees our diseint ham her canons of taste. Bat when, for this mite ,of bolstering up a 'false and instiMeient rendition, she purposely vidatee the text, we must pro.. teat, in the name of everything that is honest and scho larly. If . Shaksyssarc wrote: "And her hair eball be of :vrbat color it please,Ood,";what rtaht has Mrs. Komble to. read, "And her hair shall be—what will I have her bairl—what color it please God:" Or it our master poet thought, "she will rather die than give any signs of af fection," expressed his meaning, bow an Mrs. Kemble dar : et to say, "Rather die—lab, die, die, We, die, poor thing}--than give any sign of affection." The " Dilemma= blight's Dream " is to be road this aftersoon. We devoutly hope with Not as entire a Mia sprrehoneton. as murdered w Binch Ado about Nothing." Tnw OPxnA.—Eyery indication poititl to the sploada performance of Lochs di Lammermoor" this evening. Meeers.ltrignoli and Gottschalk have made arrangeMeute to ptcaont title opcns is "gorgeous style, with all the 114 , 7 pliahces of the magnificent academy of Music, and the talent or the mquisite artiste now attached to their eon:t— winy. We are anxious to show Madame de Lumen, who will not appear In Lucia, having been amigos' to the heel act in L. La Favorite," ae a speciality. de we said before, this lady, although a etranger to Philadelphia, is well known in musical grcles, having achieved (sulk( a reputation In Parts, New York, and Washington city. Indeed, we bare seen flattering oommendat ion a of her style of singing (rem tbo journals of those cities, and we are almost afraid of the impossibility of her realizing the truth of her commendatore. We do not know whether Motors. Brim:ion and Gottschalk intend to close the sea son with the performance of this evening. The weather is getting too warm, awl our people are too much troubled about buntline and weary days to attend to music or the fine arts. In a few weeks our fashionable people will be On the hlii.top or by the sea-aide, exchanging the inhale of the orchestra 'for the music of the winds and waves. and the song of the birds. We trust, however, that those enterprising gentlemen, who deserve com mendation both as artiste and managers, will receive a Warns encouragement, and that they will find it to be their Interest to come again to deligtit Ptdiadeligrie with their kiiikt sounds. WALNDT.STIMKT TtlitATlte.—Mies }timber!) , le under lined to appear on Monday evening. We shall Bar more of this lady when we see her. TfiIiATRY —We are to have a new order of things at the Arch-street Theatre. Mr. Ohaufrate a very agreeable but commonplace actor, will make hie appearance upon our hoards. This will be glad sows to the boys, especially thole of pea-nut proclivitlee. NT_ Cheinfrates style of acting is very pleadng sod very unique, and while it may not gratify the teato of seine or our refined theatre-goers, and certainly will not replace the. exqnieite genius of Mr. John Drew, it le very peplum and must be largely patronized. Mr. Cheerer ie versatile and accomplished, and can always he depended upon. lie Is, perhaps, the most agreeable theatrical sensation wo can experience in the coming summer months, and we hope that he with receive that patronage which has always been extended tohim by Lbe people of Philadelphia. LETTER FROM NEW YORK. The Bark Reindeer—A New Order in Refer• race to Prisoners from the Navy , Depart. meat—Surrender of Carson—Losses of the Williv.msburg Fire—The Flint-Glass Mann. facturersThe New Volunteer Force of New York—Commodore Foote's Flotilla—lnterest ing Letter from a New Orleans Merchant-- Dry Goods Market—U. S. Marshal's Sale— Stock Market—Markets, &c. Nsw YOBX, May 39, 1862. The proprietors of the bark Reindeer, the vessel seized by Marshal Murray, a day or two since, on the charge of being fitted out for the slave trade, have gone to Washington to make an effort at headquarters to recover their vessel. The authorities there, however, are not likely to be able to interfere in the business of the court. 11 meatier, persona captured on vessels ruuntng or attempting to run the blockade, will be held isubjeat to the ordere of the Excretory of the Navy. Foreigners and posiangere having no counerAlon with the intention to run the blockade, will be released. Ofil.lers and crew, citizens of the Coiled States, will be held in custody. This morning, United States Mandrel Murray mod De puty Marshal William Feel, went down to Fort Lafayette to release such of the prisoners as come under the fore going terms. jams a Carson, who shot Major Watrotus on Thursday evening lost week, surretidei ad himself to the Eighth precinct police yesterday afternoon.. Be was taken to Jefferson Market and held to bail in the sum of $5,000. lie alleges domestic wrong as the occasion. Major. Wstrons still survives, and nosy recover. • Just after I had mailed my latter yesterday, a dielis tines, fire occurred iu Willison,burg. L. 1., by which property to the value of between 8300.000 and $400,000 wee deetroyed. The. total tosser the nears. Schieffelin . is animated at from $75,000 to 880,0*0—fnlly insured in a large number of city companies, in sums of from $1,500 to *5,000. The oil was received on conaignineut by Meseta. Schieffilin Bios. & Co., from the well-owner, in Penney !vents, to be sold for their account. The bark Silver Cloud, belonging to Messrs. Jewett Jr Co., was burned to the water—loss $25,000. A lighter took fire, was towe d out into the river and scuttled—Mao si.0.1)00. Mr. Ralph W. Kenyon lost, in lumber, about sa.soo— in the Rings county and Williamsburg city in surance companies. The new dock, at the foot of North Third sheet, belonging to the corporation, was totally dvitroycd, together with a quantity of lumber; loss 810.000. Loss of Flint & Ball, lumber dealers, $3000; loss of Fisher, Ilicard, & 00., *lO,OOO. The bark be_ longing to Jewett & Co. was worth $25,000 i insured. Two piers belonging to the Waterbury estate were de stroyed—loss $6,000; and the Arm of E. Rine 00. hat 83,000. A convention of flint glass manufacturers from diffe rent parts of the United Mates met this morning at the Astor House to take into consideration the , proposed tax on the article and the wisdom of increasing prices. Colonel Bliss ' since the new call for additional regiments of volnnteers from this State, has granted authority to forty acting. captains, each of whom is confident of his ability to orgonize a full company of recruits. The bush:mei of recruiting for these new volunteer comeatilea sae been very dull during the petit weak, on account of the opportunities offered for men to connect themselves with the militia ropiments which will be in the service for a period of only three months. ' Commodore Foote writes to a friend in Brooklyn that hie flotilla Is finished. Ixtenslvo improvements and al tee shone have for some time been making in toe severed veetele. The smooth ordnance formerly used has been replaced by the beet rifled guns of the Parrott pattern. New projectiles have also been obtained, and In the pre tent order of things the ordnance can throw shot and shell five miles with great accuracy. In souse of the boats small ptrt.holes have been made in the wheel boom; cover to accommodate riflemen . The following letter from a Neer Orleans merchantaa a business man in tbie city, commends Itself to the pe rusal of all who are inteivst.. d in the prugrees of the war. It is Just to say that it was written by an exten sive tdaveholder : Now ORLEANS, Btay 15, 1852 C ENILEMEN We have now passed • crisis In political affairs in this city. Most of the-tree Unionists and patriots have been victims; have suf fered in properly and business, and still more in feeling, under the most vindictive persecution. Our city is destitute of everything. -It is useiess to expect anytbiug like a safe business, or personal safety, in any Part of the dare States, unless the whale couotry 54 held by military tics upaucy and by mtlatary power. One third of our population must be expelled from the country and their places supplied by Northern colonists. It will take 3 ears to subdue the proud despots, and overthrow dually the social tyranny which has always ruled absolutely wilet ever slavery exists. !:.•• I have lived here forty'years. I know almost every Cue and something of a verythiug that is going on. I think there will be a flue opening for commerce here. New Orleans will inevitably become a greater centre of business in future than heretofore. * * * My pro perty is lying idle. I sin making nothing by my bust Imes, and ant tosieg the raltOutleuf ordinary times. * Our currency is useless for all business purposes We hope General Butler will compel our banks to resume eya etc pay ment soon, and scatter the Confederate trash to the winds. • - • ""I repeat, there mist ban strict military occupancy of this winter country for yeeni•, , the population must be changed, and slavery be abolished, petere peace and eefety can be entabliehtd to any part of tole country. The old pirates and buccaneer& have only , been driven ashore from the gulf by steam passer on the tea. Tory have vastly multiplied in numbers and increased in vil lainy by the change." • In the dry-goods businem many of the jobbers are still doing a fair trade and are buying moderately of amenable styles of goods. Their trade is mostly for cash, and witty the money market as easy au it is, they prefer to pay cash for the goods winch they purchase. • Thus. the greater portion of all the goods ceiling either with first 'or s, coed hand., are paid for within thirty d eye. To such a large eaten tis this the case, that some of the importers would prefer to sell on time, iu order to ,ay tail:: interest on the amount of tales. Nearly all classes of goods which were wanted last week arc still in de mand. . - . I'D morrow the United Stalin Marshal will eel! at auc tion, under the direction of the United States Prize Ootn miesionere, the bark Sallie Magee" cud the echooner " Stephen Hart" FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. THE. MONEY MARKE T rHTLAHRLP/1//, May 30,1362. Operations on the strait warn a little elan this mor:ing, a general cisinclination to deal being apparent. At the Stock BOard a batter foaling was manifested, and a large business was done at en advance in most of the stocks. The news of the evacuation of Coriuth bad au exceed ingly lively effect, and Beading rose from 24%-1( ad vance on yesterday's bid—to .24%, and afterwards de clining X, closing on that bid. 'United Stales 63,1851,. sold well at 104% ; seven-thirties-advanced from 104% bid to 105 arid 1055—bids then declining to 101%; a pretty large business was done in thorn. Oantiou and Amboy Bs, 3570, brought 06—an advance of lon last sales; Harrisburg Railroad 56 Suenhohanna Canal scrip 30 ; Pennsylvania Railroad 47%, selling firmly; Morris Canal, buyer 5, was firm at 48%; Lehigh scrip advanced X ; Norristown Railroad sold for 475 f, old price; Schuylkill Navigation preferred 15X Reimer Meadow Railroad 58X, an advance; 2,000 Philadel phia and Erie Sc told for 91%, no , change; Long Inland Railroad 6s 95, old figure; city 6s, new, sold well at 103, and declined to %-102% being bid for more. ;North Pennsylvania Railroad brought 8%, yesterday's rate, acid Minehlll Railroad 45%, a decline. North Pennsylvania Railroad 10s were firm at an advance of X on yesterday's bid. Pasaeuger railways were active and firm. Arch-street brought 22X, an advance; Second and Third 04X0,65; Girard College 20, old figure; Green and Coates 26X, no change; 45 was bid for Frankford and Southwark; 7% for Race and Vino ; 64 for West Philadelphia ;12% for Spruce and Pine; and 33% for Chestnut and Walnut. But little was done in hank shares, Philadelphia sod Girard only changing Lands; tho former brought 107, the latter 40%. Altogether, a large business was donoat the Board, about 64,000 bonds and 1,600 shares changing holders. Gold was active at y eeterday , s figures, 3,tc premium buying, 3% Benin. No change to notice In money mat ters. - • Mews. Drexel & Co. furnish the following quota/Cm: New York exchange Par to 1-10 ere. Boston exchange " to i4O " Baltimore exchange " to X die. Country funds 3E to ts- 10 44 A131011C841 gold 3 % to 3% or. 7.3-10 Treasum notes _ 105 to )ob% ... T.J. B. coupon bonds, 1681 104 X to 105 Mawr,. M. Schultz St Co. (root° foreign exchange for the steamer City of Baltimore as follows: .Lonoon, 604 ay s night 14X 015 " 8-days do - 16 x elf% Paris, 60-days sight • • 4f90m4f92x 6.. 3-days do 4137%04[90 Antwerp. 60 -days sight 4f92X . Bremer, 60 days eight • - 82%083 Cambers, 60 das s night 88x Cologne, 60-da)s sight 75 ,s; 076 Leipsic, 60-days night...—. ........... 76X 076 Berlin, 60 da) a sight ..... ..... ' 76%076 Amsterdam, 60-day a sight ' 43 ebl3)( Frankfort, 60-days night. 43 0.53% Peterson's Detector 'amid no the following &scrip ion of a now counterfeit "3" dollar note on the Williamebtirg City Bank of New York : 3a, vig. tomato sitting with a shield under her arm, both hands renting on a scroll; Niagara Falls in distance ; right end, State arms and 3 above; left end. Indian on a cliff, 3 below. . A new conftecation bill has passed the House of Repre sentatives which Meets with universal favor. It • pro vide 4 that nll persons found In the civil, military, or naval service of the so-called Confederate States, shall have their property, real or personal, subject to seizure and forfeiture to the United States. The bill also pro vides for judicial proceedings in the premises; and finally authorizes the President to Wine a proclamation calling on the rebels to lay down their arme, which, if they fail to de in sixty days thereafter, alt their property is sub— ject to contlecation. All amendments to the bill affecting slaves were defeated. Provision is included for. the be nefit of loyal creditors, so that the latter may reelahrtthe amount of their debts after the rebel property has passed into the hands of the Government. To guard against freight uponjthe Government, and to nature the just rights of holders, the foilowing rules, for the redeMption of mutilated United States * notes,- are hereby established by the Treainrj Departuient at Was i h r i s n t. L4on First. Mutilated notes, which have been:to rn,..no matter how much, but of which It hi evident thatsil the fragments are returned; or defaced, no matter how bad ly, but certainly satisfactorily genuine; will be redeemed at their full face value on presentation. Second. Fragments of notes will be redeemed in Pal only when accompanied by an affidavit stating the came and manner of the mutilation, and that the 'sassing part of the note is totally destroyed: , The good character of the affiant must, also, be fully vouched by the ofncer be fore whom the affidavit is taken. Third. In tbo absence of such affidavit, fragments of notes will not be paid hi full, but the tittle presented Will he redegruttl in their propottion to the whole note; reek. ohing, as a paella rule, by twentieths. Fourth. Lees than hezif of a note will not be redeemed, except by payment of tit,* full value of the not , under the eeeond rule: or by paymsot of the proportional value of the minting part, when pree►oted under the fifth rule. Fifth. Frage. elite of notes , . for which less than the , full lace value has been paid, will be retained for a year, to the end that the owners, who here received lees than the value of a full note, may bare opp:rtunity to return the miming part and rtcel►e the amount proviousiY withheld. 'Sixth. Until forth/Jr order, nentihted notes and frag ments will be redeemed only at the , Treasury of the United State, at Washington, whither,they can be sent, addreesed to the 44 Tree:weer of the United States," by meil,free of postage. 4 draft on the neeiamot Trea surer at New York for the amount allowed w,ll be re turned, in the game way, to the address of the per.on remitting the same. • The inspections of Flour and Heed in Philadelplds, during the week ending May 29, 1882, were ae fellows: Barrels of Superfine 17,388 do Fine.... 94 do Middlings ...... 3 do Bye 71 do Corn Meal.... ........... 472 do Condemned 308 The anthracite and bituminous cosi brought down en the Reeding Railroad and Schuylkill Quist this week wee as follows: Railroad, this week in. 1660...... 36,551 tons. • • 1861 41,946 •• • • 1861 .38.725 •• Canal, this week in 1860 40,719 •• •• • • 1861 33,988 •• • • - • 1862:.............33,6?. •• ' lreeldentreltOn, of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, anti Baltimore Railroad, baa been appointed by the Gvvernor of Massachusetts, and confirmed by the Council, one of three commissioners,-under the act of the Legialature, in regard to the Boone Tunnel We annex a comparative statement of the export, (exclusive specie). from the. port of New York to foreign ports for the week ending May XO, and sine. January 1: 1860. 1861. 1862. ' For tbe week £1,717,631 $2 632,600 82.0 6 3,460 Previcauly rep0rted•32.221,222 99,820,699 48..848.406 Since January 1—U3,944,863 $52,453,289 $48,916,868 The Erie Railroad eomrany glees notice of Ira root& nese to pay, on the let of June, the coupon of the fon: tk mortgage bonds. due April I, 1861, with intereat from. May 1, 1881, to June 1; 1862, and the maturing coupon on the fifth mortgage hoods. Thumb 0111,09 in arrears only the beck coupons on the fifth mortgage and the 8475,006 ateerament scrip. The St. Louis Daily Democrat of tbe . 26th sage Scarcely a thing was done in t be money market to-day. Exchange Is steady at Saturday's rate—%o S 1 premium. and gold 3%64, atilt no demand. But little is darns in Government vouchers, for there are but few off,ring. CI ecke are not being Issued, and payments, we under stand, will hereafter be made in money in Chit dep trt • meta. Missouri defence , warrants are in demand at former rates, and there is some inquiry [or uncurrent Miseouri money. The New York Evening:Poe of thle evenlog esre Tbo stock market presents nearly the same features as for several days pact. The Government list is very firm, w bile the speculative shares seem to be etaggeriug under the damaging effects of tbo Indiana over.iesne. The supply of stocks this morning was; however. scarcely attenuate to the demand, and at the close prices improved. The evacuation of Corinth, just announced, tends to strengthen the market. New. York Central, Yrie,.(old stock.) and Rock Island, are among the ateadlestof the railway shares. New York Central, after the Board, was 88 ( bid: Pacific Mall La firm et 112 X ; Panama at 1606131. The list of railroad bonds shows great firmness, and the leading mortgages comm end high prices. Second mortgagee are also growing in favor. The bonds of the Toledo and Wabash are firm at 88090 for the firsts and 63X for the seconds. Michigan Southern encomia sold at B]. Chicago and Northwestern Imeols are lelX per cent. higher. New York Central sixes solo at 10u; the sevens at 106. Nita follabß Mr, X per cent. bettor. Southern Slate Macke are weak, Pepeetally Virginias and Louisiana's. Tent:lessen• and Miseonria also dull at %cif per cent. decline. Northern femme aro firm end higher. Illinois coupon sixia are coerce. The old United States demand notes are in demand far custom house purposes, at X per coot. premium. The Mx per cent. ter tillcates of indebtedness are firm at 1000 100 X, vial sales at 100 X. Money is very easy again, and 4 par cent. /s now the. ruling late of the market. There is considerable Leaned% 'however, hoth above and below this figure. Philadelphia Stock 15.1... [Reported by S. E. SLAY FIRST I 200 City 61 new 102 X 1000 do iesw Gae..lt 0 1000 do new Goa c 100 10000 II S 6e ID WO int 4 p ct 1043( 6000 do 104% 10 Philadelphia 8k..167 400 C & Am 6a 'BO. ...96 10 Harrisburg R..... 55 20 do 55 20 do 55 260 Snag Canal Scrip. 3d 1000 Hooding 6e, '44..100 15 Arch Sr B . 22X 6 2d ec d.et R.. 20 do Firm 65 50 Girard College B 20 30 do 20 61 Peens B 47k BETWEES 10 Morrie Canal ..b5 48% 2000 Pfeil it Erie 60... 9134 500115 7-30 T N bPk.lO5 500 do .. 105 SECOND 61 Hazleton Cl Own 45% 15 Cathedra. R pref 9 4000 Vt . Brooch Saud. 88 6000 Lone Island It Be 95 - 1600 Sc 14av 8,082..... 69 49 Pep n o R........ 4734 41 oo 47x 600 Oily fie new 108 5000 do new 103 AFTER 4 Minehill B 4644 88 do 4534 10 Lehigh Scrip.... 4071 CLOSING P - Bid. Asked. II S fle 'Bl 10494 104% S Tr 7 3-10 .N .1047 i 105% Phileda 8e 9974 100 Philada 6e naw..lo2X 103 Peons 5.2 88 8874 Beading R 24X 21% Bead in 65'80'43.100 Read bds '7O. . 93% Read mt 6.9 8634 Peuus It ex dor. 47% 4744 Penns 111 m 65..104 • I Pennon 2 ni 68.. 98X 99% Morrie CnlCon.. 4854 49 Morris Cull'reS.ll7)4 129 Sch NOT Stock.. 5 514 Bch NM Pref... 151( 15% Scb Now rie '82.. 68)( 69% F.lndra B 1054 11 CITY ITEMS. Immense Sunday School Gathering Six THOUSAND CHILDREN IN THE AO&PNXT OF MUSIC. One of the mutt interestiug eights ever vritneesed in Philadelphia — wits the gathering of the Sunday School children , of this city, at the Academy of Nude yestlrday afternoon, to greet the delegates to the State Sabbath School Convention, which hold its concluding business ecesion at the Church, Broad and George streets, yester day morning. The hour announced for commencing the exercises wee three o'clock P. in., at which time the Academy contained within its walls more than six thou sand human beings, auddhe number of these who wore alined to leave, for want of room, was more than enough to fill the large churCh of Dir. Ohambora, on Broad street, the latter having bean also filled to overflowing by the 'overflow of the Academy. Of course, the six thousand were not all feared, although the seatiageapagity of that edifice was never more fully tested. The entire area of the stage was made available for seating adults, of whom not less then a tbonsand were there, seated and standing, including the Sabbath School Convention in a body, the clergy of our city, almost en muse, and a large number •of ladies. All the other parte of tho house were occupied with Sunday School chltdrem and their teachers, to the extent of every loot even of standing room in the building. She scene presented front the stage was picturesque beyond description. The blazing chandelier of the Aca demy never shone upon such an amphitheatre of flatter log, lisht-hearttd, gaily-dressed humanity. If the en tire walls and Jolla: des had 'been soddenly transfonnal into bouquets of natural flowery, with the audible life of a collosal bee-hive breathed into them, the spoutede could scarcely have been more unique and floral. The singing by that immense company of happy children 4117. passed, in effect, anything that we had over listened to, and the Profusion of flowers brought there by tiny bands to compliment the speakers, added slitting fragrance to the harmony of six thousand voices. The task of securing a sufficient degree of quiet for any single voice to be beard, either in prayer or speech making, and of formally introducing the children to the members of the Convention, devolved upon George H. Stuart, Esibs chairman of the Philadelphia Sabbath school Association. His introductory address was as full of enthusiasm as such a Kong could inspire even in as ardent a Sunday-school champion as kir. Stuart. He stated to the gentlemen of the Convention that before them there were represented the 370 Sabbath schools, the 7,0til teachers, and the 60,000 Sabbath-school scholars of the city of Pliiledelphils. ]lie. Stuart concluded by pre senting, on behalf of the schools assembled, a mnulticent bouqust to Hon. Tx-Gov. Pollock. The latter in accept ins this beautiful token, and in reopense to the intro ductory address, on behalf of the Convention as its chair man, thanked the children for their courtesy, and in a few eloquent sentences completed the fennalittes of the openieg. The singing on the occasion vas conducted by Mr. John Bower, assisted by Mr. John M. Beans, Mr. A. Bachman presiding at the piano. The programme of exercises was announced by Hr. John A. Neff, of this city. The exercises consisted of staging Snndayschool pieces, making and heating speeches, and sundry other" et )sta rs, which the exi genciee of the occasion rendered necessary. Without attempting to notice in eatento what they said, as that would unduly protract our sketch, we may state the names of the speakers. The first address was made by the Bev. Mr. Conrad, of Lancaster, who was followed by the Bev. 'Edwin H. Nevin, of Penneilvania, formerly of Pliosachusetts, the clergyman who made the closing ed dri ea at the anniversary noticed in this column yesterday. At the close of the latter's speech there was an out break of mischievous juvenility, which, however annoy ing it may have been to the more staid and Bober, was perfectly natural, and, we think, excusable. On taking hie seat Dr. Nevin was honored with a sprinkling of bouquets from the parquet and parquet circle. But, as Dile division of the Sunday-school army wee amply pro vided with that sort of ammunition, the sprinkle sud denly attained the dignity of a !shower, and for a fow seconds those on the front part of the platform and vicinity were in some danger of being inundated, not to say unmercifully pelted, with them) fragrant tokenk of juvenile regard. . ETbe next speaker was Hr. R. G. Pardee, who was in .trodrickd as "the Snrulay-school man from New York" Hereminded the children, in opening, that in the emote of Our city they were sometimee called «Yong Amorica4l , but he desired that Io that groat gathering they should act the part of a " Young Israel." He then told the children a few anecdotes in the highest pitch of voice he could com mand, and sat down, the chatter of the children almost drowning his voice. Here followed another volley of bouquets, intended for Kr..Pardee, we presume, but badly aimed. The parnuet, having the most exposed poeltion, fared the woret, ex cepting, perhaps, the " forlorn hope," on the front of the platform, who: , bore (with commendable patience) their blushieg honors thick upon them;' in more than a poetic sense. Lovely bonnets wore thus, In more instances than one, made an unwitting target by those little sinners in the upper tiers, to the chagrin of their lovely wearers, no doubt. • ' Nr. William 'White Willimns, from the Holy Land, wee the next greater. He showed himself a philosopher. He held utile.' ten•inch square box, in view of the audi ence, the contents of which,.he 'aid, he would show tta them presently, if they would keep perfectly quiet. 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