Ujt Vre,554. MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1862. Tun nF.ATII of one man is not such an un usual event as to create surprise. Even to -die by violence is much too common to re ceive more than . ordinary attention. Hun- , alreds are daily bereaved of their beloved ones :in a viihatt manner, and we may mike no note of it beyond a brief line in very small type. 'Misery and happiness, pain and be zeavement, widowlmod and orphanage to thousand* are crowded into a densely-filled .column ; the world .folds over the page, and reads the glowing account of special cor respondents, and the world, satistled , that we MO a great people, thinks no more about it. Our only regret is; that our instruments of war aro not more effective—that our shells do not hill and Mangle and cause, more destruc tion—that we cannot range our cannon to greater distances. . This is death as a profes sion, and we lose sight of its horrors in the glory that surrounds it. It is only when death : comes to our own homes by the hands of the murderer and assassin that we teel its awful terror. Happily, we have few such visitations in Philadelphia. It is rarely we are startled with a narrative like that printed recently is the report of a Coronet's inquest on the body of a distinguished citizen. We a-e introduced by it to the worst phases of city life. We see evidences of that spirit of rowdyism 'which, in other days, darkened the fair fame of our city, and the duty is pressed upon us of taking measures to repress any, ,further attempt to bring shame upon the community. As we uulerstand the - circumstances of this sad affair, it seems to have occurred in this nay. At one of our suburban retreats, where lager beer is sold, and there are . occasionally merry gatherings .of men and women, who dance, and sing, and enjoy themselves after a rude and boisterous fashion, there was a gathering a few days ago. We do not know that there was any particular attraction. It was a pleasant May day, and the retreat was on one of the most beautiful parts of the Schuylkill river bank. It seemed that there wascongregation of people, belonging to some 'Assembly or Association, who had-re paired thither to participate in a pic-nie. The day passed on, and in the course of the day many of the people becam'e intoxicated, arid there were occasional distutbauces, .and per sonal conflicts. A very large number of rowdies had obtained admittance, and were disposed to be quarrelsome and vindictive. In one of their quarrels they took occasion to insult and assault some of the women in at tendance, going so far as to push one of them down the hill, and . bruise her person, and -to inflict upon another the grossest indignity. 'A citizen who was standing by, Mr. Kleiman M. BEnny, well.known as a member of Councils, and a most estimable citizen, interfered to pro tect the Women from insult. The rowdies turned upon him, with fiendish malignity, and beat Lim so severely that he very anon ex. pired. Be) and this we know very There has been n small excitement, son) proper com ments in the newspapers, and a reward from his Honor the Mayor. The whole story will very soon be forgotten ; but it brings a lesson with it which we should remember. In . the death of Mr. Barmy we have an admonition to our rulers to take means to prevent a repeti tion of the sad scenes surrounding it. We shudder at the idea of returning to the reign of the rowdy. We bad an experience of it in former times, sufficient to last forever.. We can ,think of nothing more fearful than the l'hiladelphia rowdy. He is a type of -the worst class of men. Without honor; courage, or courtesy ; wedded to the most degrading vices; vulgar in his tastes; offensive in his habits ; profane and murderous) the terror of the community in which he moves, and a disgrace to an honorable and self-sacrid dug zrofession—he delights in rapine and brutality. The death of Mr. BEERY illus , trates the character of this representative scoundrel. It was unrelieved in its• shame. The rowdy was the assailant of a woman; he bad visited upon her grosS insult; he had wounded her person until she was covered with blued. c , A man came up and pushed me down the hill," said one of the Ibmale witnesses, who bad been maltreated, cc my friend wiped the blood off my face." It may be questioned as to the propriety of females' being in such assemblies. That is a question • of taste, however, which cannot admit of our jurisdiction. We might not care about our wives and daughters going to Egglesfleld, ;but other people may, and it is no reason why they should be shoved down a hill, wounded and bruised, and covered with blood. /t is no reason why a citizen, who sought to do the part • of a gentleman, shonld be brutally assaulted snd . rnurdered. We trust that no effort will be spared to arrest the murderers of Mr. BERRY. We trust that the adrienis trators of justice will visit 'them with prompt and condign punishment. A crime like this should be speedily repressed. It is a crime against all social order and security. Like the era of highvias men, in the earlitimes, it is murder and robbery in every public place and on every public road. If these rowdies are permitted to do such deeds at a pleasuring place on the banks of the Schrtylkill, we'may expect them to 'do deeds equally heinous on Chestnut street and Independence Square: We may expect to see the bowie-knife and the, bludgeon at every corner, in the pity. house, the public gathering, and in the sane-, tuary. We shall have it at the ballot-box more fearfully and frequently thaa it has ever been before. The law must punish summarily all such manifestations of disorder and riot, or our people may be compelled to take strin gent measures for preserving the public peace. LET vs RAT a word about the present leaders of the Democratic party in contrast with those who are accepted as the leaders of the Union or Administration party. It is a text Sugges tive of a thousand wholesome reflections. We have, for instance, CHARLIS J. BIDDLE as a Democratic leader, and WILLIAM D. KELLEY as an Administration leader—the one reared In the lap of luxury and aristocracy, in heriting no sympathy with the masses of the people ; the other born to toll, penury, and privation, with every instinct of his nature sMve to the interests of the Democracy. Wm. B. REED is a Democratic leader, and Joni Hies- MAN a Republican leader. Mr. REED is an honest and genuine hater of everything that savors . of liberality and progress. There "is not ,a. drop of Democratic blood in his veins." litaxmAN has received from his Quaker ances try the largest toleration and the most fearless devotion to the rights of man. Geoaos M. Wnerrozr is-a Democratic leader, and &mow Cemvatoll a Republican lead of. Mr. MrnArt- Tom's political experience has been the experience of coteries, the experience of a slats, the experience of prejudices; while that of Mr. CAMERON has been the ex perience of early poverty, enterprise, and constant intercourse with his fellow-men. Jostmt RANDALL is a Democratic loader, and DENBY SmresoN a Republtoan leader. ' Mr. RANDALL Is one of the old-scboel gentle men of our city. Never a Democrat until the nomination of Mr. Bocuerux, all the best years of his lite were spent in the bitterest op position to the apostles of Democracy. HENRY Suirson's Democracy was never questioned: in the bitterest trials of the past until JANES . BUCHANAN became one of the chiefs of that party. lona C. BuLarr is a Democratic leader, and DANIEL DOUGHERTY a Union leader; and yet Mr. BULLITT'S prejudices and convictions have always been with slavery and against the glorious Democratic creed of JACKSON and JEFFERSON, while DOUGHERTY, springing from the loins of -the people, self-educated, and reared without adventi tious aids to fight his battle with adversity, glows with moot generous impulses. In Berke .county Mr. SYDENIIAM E. ANCONA, who votes with Mr. VALLawzmouan in the Congress of I -the Unita States, is a Democratic leader, avhile lltssyn.a H. Mmutatintrao, the son of an patriot, and . . : tliai.'derendant of 4 163 •of Revolutionary . ]heroes,: is, a Union lende;i: Beenlivar. is' a .Derriaqatia leader, Without:a single feeling or instinct that is not against hie country, while - the:venerable JOHN DAVIS, of Bucks comity, distiegiiished in'Congress and beloved by ail men, speaking; and acting is every crisis on the side of hls country, giving his only son as a champion to the flag, is a Union leader.' We might run the contrast through many columns, but we have said enough to awaken reflection, tullijittOw our readers into what bands theTemocratio party has fallen. Tuts wAn has brought into bold roliuf ono great question of political,and social economy.We have sought te,avoid'it ; it has at no time been a welcome guest. We turned it out ot doors, but it came in through the window; we put out the Ere, but it sat and - smiled over the smelting embers on the heagth. It was slain and buried; but it came from the grave In complete steel—not wish marrowless bones and spectral aspect, but a thing of form, and life,,and.power. - We dosed our ears, but it would be heard.- We sought to-weary it with delay, bait was patient; to worry it with ha- poittitlit, but it was impnimbable. We an swered-iti friendship with Men% and when it spoke of reasoning together we laughed it to scorn, and turned away in mockery. It came to us in peace; it comes to us in war. It brought with it the pen; it brings with it the sword. It is with us in all ways and at all times. Soma call it a fiend, and others call it an angel; but it Is forever knocking at the door and asking to come in. All it asks is a fair hearing and a fair judgment upon its words when spoken. We have played the part of cowards in avoid- ing it heretofore. Shall we not play the part of men, in meeting 'it now, fairly and , finally—in determining its case and deciding it forever ? Now it has a new importance. -Before it'was the mere theme of general discussion. Now it is an admittcd prinaipletof national policy, and as such we are discussing it. The euiancipation of slavoryin the District of Columbia was one of the most suggestive events of the age. It was an example and au illustration. The great idea of the past cen tury, the idea which had associated and iden- tided itself with our institutions, was at last ied by a practical test. Good results Came rem it ; none of the evils dreaded and prophe- sied have been manifested. it was a simple meaEnre of legislative polic4 , , and was esta blished mid great opposition and feeling. Yet it was succeeded by no agitatioa, no outbreaks of popular prejudice District of. Clumbia is now a free terri- ory by the easy operation of a statute aw—by what enemies of the measure called forcible emancipation—and yet the Dis trict of Columbia is as pleasant and prospe- rous as at any pellod of its history. There has been no negro saturnalia, no violent out- break of social disorder, no attempt to invade those barriers of social distinction that must forevcr exist between the African and Anglo- Saxon. It , was s •id that property would de- preciate—that there would be excesses and violences, that the negro would become inso- ent and unbearable—that the city of Wa,shing- ton would become a desolated metropolis—that negro labor would become valueless—that hundreds of the emancipated negroes would flock to the Northern States. We have seen no such result as yet ; we know that nothing of the kind is anticipated. Mr. Fsa- TON does not find his travelling receipts di minish. Mr. Mayor WALLACH has had no ad ditional trouble-in managing his pdlice system. We Lave yet to bear of the first emancipated negro coming to Philadelphia. - Labor moves on .in its accustomed way, with the usual supply and demand. Negroes perform the da ties they performed when slaves ; they wait, and drive, and pol%h boots, and carry trunks to the railway station, and plant c rn, and cook the meals of white men. We do not think a white woman has been insulted by, an emancipated negro ; we are confident that no emancipated negro has sought the hand of any fair damsel of marriageable age and condi- Society is the same In Maryland and Ken tucky. In accomplishing emancipation in the District . of Columbia, we were shown: the timid that. their fears were but of the imagi- nation,' the more prejudices of education. Slavery has been the cancer of the Southern social system. We employ an old metaphor * , perhaps, but it is a forcible and appropriate illustration. It rooted itself into the body of Southern society, attacking the glands, termi nating in an ill-conditioned and deep disease, and causing the Republic exerntiating pain. It became schirrus and indurated. it brought disaster and grief upon them, and tha sorest of evils upon us. It brought us blood and civil war, ruined commerce and desolated fields, blockaded ports . , and rivers that swarm with gunboats instead of merchant vessels, It was tolerated as .a necessary evil, until its ex tent and virulence make it incumbent upon us to terminate it, as snob, or be terminated by it. The champions of this institution, not content with submitting to the toleration and protection •of our great Northern fres. com munity, have made it the pretext for aggres sion and insult, and by their own acts are ac complishing its downfall. The emancipation of slaN'ery in the District of Columbia was the necessary add natural result of the Southern rebellion. It is but the beginning of the re sults the rebellion must surely bring. The "wedge has only entered the log, and heavy blows are falling upon it day by day. r. President LlNconer has only announced a policy, and not established it. If we turn over the leaves of our national history we shall find that in announcing this policy he is but carrying out the suggestions of the great statesmen who have passed away, and who's° memory we revere. He is but reaffirming the principles of WARMNOTON, JEFFERSON, MADI SON, atdlWOlO3.OE. He draws his lessons from that great Virginia school from which so much of our political inspiration has come. Ile reproduces what the Southern statesmen thought before the advent of that gifted and pernicious statesman, Cammex. Those pure men of the early days regarded slavery as a social evil, to be tolerated, but to be termi nated by the gradual operation of the laws of Nature. It was a sad necessity, which could be endured, but which should not bo extended. Mr. CALELOWI declared slavery to bo a necessary good, and contended that this Republic could only exist when based upon it. His followers have drawn the sword in defence of that doc l trine, committing treason on its behalf. In the eyes of Mr. JEFFERSON, slavery was a mere industrial interest, to be protected and pre served only as it became necessary to the in dustry and agriculture of the South. In the eyes of Mr. Cautoun, slavery was the source ofpolitical Power. It enabled him to overmatch the growing wealth and importance of the North, to control the Electoral College, and keep the Southern politicians in power as the repre sentatives of a small, exclusive, and easily-ma naged minority. With this view, he favored the war with Mexico and the annexation of Texas. With this view, his followers sustained the Kansaa-Nebraska bill, and endeavored to dis tort it from the_ wise purposes of Senator DOUGLAS by opening the Territories of the whole Union as a slave nursery, and protect ing them by Congressionalpower. Then came the troubles in Kansas; the border ruffian forays ; the Consolidation of Northern sentiment into enmity to their lawlessness ; the overthrow of Senator DOUGLAS ; the assas sination of the Democratic party; the triumph of consolidated Northern sentiment—and Southern treason. Then came war. President ascots says to the people of the Southern States : You have been misled by false teachers and bad men. You have brought this misery upon yourselves by worshipping straffle gods and straying away from the pre cepts of your fathers. I bring to you the gos pel of a purer time, the wise teachings of Free dom's apostles. I ask you to return to the principles of our country's founders, to those who suffered to establish liberty upon this con tinent. We know that the President, in making this proffer, is strictly following the lessons taught by the early statesmen of the Republic. "Virginia," saysMr.licentor, "did all that was in her power to prevent the extension of . sla very, and to mitigate its evils. If emancipa tion be possible, I Took to the Union to aid in effecting it." This was in a Convention where such men as Marmon and MARSHALL sat. Bolder words were spoken by others in that Convention. " I wish, indeed," said an emi nent Virginia statesman, " that I had been born in a land where domestic and negro Oa very is unknown." Men have been denounced as Abolitionists in these later'years for speak. ing milder sentiments than those of these emi: nent statesmen. But we are beceming bolder in dealing with the sublect. We are ceniing . back again to the days .when bravery of thought and speech watt companion to bravery ,of heart and hand. In following the Wise course of President LocoLx we but carry out the necessary result of the rebellion. The rebels are the Aboli tionists of this war. They.have virtually ter minated the institution, and it is for the peo ple so to act that it may pass away without violence and misfortune to the South. It is for the people to say whether they will accept the Kind assistance of the General Govern ment, and enjoy all the blessings of free testi intim and free society. It is for them to sty. ‘rliether free labor shall be honored and elle risked, or become the viclimof , a lower and more exclusive labor system; whether the white laborer of. ,the 'South shall- he free, happy, : and respected, like ids brother ,in the North, or the wretched and despitel mudsill ho is now deemed to be. It is net' 'Abolitionism ; it is not the defence of a mere humanitarian theory. :We do 'not ,bring up an old issue. It is living, active, and just. It is involved in. the destiny of _our country; it is felt in every life we give - to the rebellion ; .in every dollar it takes from our pockets; in the friends wo lose and the sacrifices we make. It is the duty of the hour; and we; who are sharing its glory and responsib.lity should to act that it be faithfully performed. LETTE It, FltOfel " OCCASIONAL." WASII/NOTON, JtitaQ 8, 1802, While politicians wrangle and statesmen dis pute the common sense policy ef our coransom; sense President, gradual emancipation, with compensation to loyal slaveholders, is steadily winning its way. Wallach's Evening Star has commenced the discussion in support of the President's proposition in arguments of es hanstive ability ; and tho National Intelli gamer, of this morning, takes up , the subject 'with characteristic dignity and candor. The point of the Star's argument is the removal of slavery tram the Border to the Cotton States, and the occupation of all the domain thus purified by the brawny , sinews, energy, and capita], of the Anglo-American, or white race. The Intelligencer adopts the' same theory, and clinches its opinions by quoting from the old. est and best leaders of the Virginia school. It is a fact that cannot be successfully con tested, that opposition to slaver'y originated in Virginia. Mr. Jefferson always regirded it with dislike and apprehension, and his cotem poraries were deeply imbued with his own sincere philosophy. The great mind of Mr. Madison, the tranquil and lucid judgment of Mr. Monroe, inclined them strongly -to the Jeffersenian theory, and in the Convention which assembled at Richmond, in October of 1829, for the purpose of remodelling the Con stitidion of that State, both these venerable men, Monroe and Madison, together with Chief Justice Marshall, took part in the discussions, and advocated nearly the same remedy now recommended by President Lincoln to the people of Sim South. The Inielligencer quotes from the remarks of James Monroe, in that Convention, some most significant opinions. He speaks of shivery as a great evil; and one of his arguments is to show,that the legisla tion of Virginia had been consistently directed against the spread of the institution. The ft). lowing paragraph is a specimen of his argu ment "'What was the origin of our slave population? The evil commenced when we were in our colonial state, but acts wore passed by our Colonial Legis lature prohibiting the importation of more SlaVeg into the colony, These were rejected by the Crown. We declared our independence, and the Itohihition of a further importation was among the first acts of State sovereignty. Virginia'was the first State which instructed her delegates to declare the colonies independent. She braved all dangers. From Quebec to Boston, and from Boston to Sa vannah, Virginia shed the blood of her sons. No imputation then, can be cast upon her in this mat ter. She did all that was in her power to do to prevent the E:ViC??StO7b of slavery and to. mitigate its evils." Is it not a most viole'nt and - unnatural con trast to these counsels, that a set of leaders who have professed a devout reverence for the school of Madison and Monroe should have thrown themselves upon the heresy that slavery is an unmixed and divine good, and that they should have been strong enough to initiate and prosecute a bloody war against the• central Government, and to convert the State of JetTerson, Madison, and Monroe into the bloodiest theatre of that war ? An ideal ist like John C. Calhoun, who dreamed Utopian visions of an independent South, draw ing its vitality from slavery, and who convinc. ed himself and others that that which cor rupted both white and black, which weakened and destroyed the moral sense, would make a people not only powerful, but virtuous, suc ceeded in demoralizing the example of the really wise and patriotic men of the slave States, and in making their posterity alike ungrateful to thep, and ungrateful to their country. I kngiiithat it s is pleaded by the men who attempt to excuse this inhuman con spiracy, that Secession had never been dream ed of until the Abolitionists began to agitate it The answer to this sophistry is so easy that it scarcely deserves repetition. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe did not expect that when they spoke against slavery their words would find no echo in Northern hearts, and that that which they esteemed to be -vile should not seem to be, more vile to those who regarded it from a dis tance. - In fact, the Abolitionists have always been looked upon with ""a degree of favor -by. the pro-sle.very apostles. These latter used the indignant metaphors of Garrison, and Wendell Phillips, and George Thompson, to in flame the ignorant prejudices of their follow ers; but when slavery assumed the fascinating aspect of being the source of opulence and polite cal power—when cotton became one of the greot elements of commerce and manufacture here and elsewhere, they resolved to make an empire of their own, and no longer to submit to the Govern meat which had fostered and protected them. That mischievous and pestilent pamphleteer, De Bow, the mouth-piece .of the conspirators, frequently stated in his Review that the South cared nothing for Abolitionism, and looked to independence, not because it feared it, but be cause, in an isolated position, it would become more powerful. The Abolitionists Were always in a minority in the free States, and they are in a'minority to-day; but the sharp politicians of the South insisted upon calling the Repnbli- cans Abolitionists for their own mercenary purposes. These desperadoes have, however, played out their •dark game and have lost it, and now, with their broken army lying before our triumphant columns, in the face of the proof of their savage brutalities, inflicted equally upon the soldiers of the North and their own people, and with the fact of the utter failure of their perverted creed of State Rights, the intellect and patriotism of the Border States gratefully revert to the whole some teachings of the trusted statesmen of Virginia. President Lincoln offers no more and no less than was offered by Jefferson, Madi son, and 'Monroe. He does not speak as an Abolitionist, nor even as a Republican. Ile addresses the Southern people as a friend and a counsellor. It is not surprising, there fore, that his recommendations, at first rejected; should begin to be favorably received. !, The signs of the times'? ,to which I have refer red are proofs of this change in the Southern mind. And how are the leaders, who assume to control the Democratic party, treating the President's emancipation policy ? They see how it is working in the slave States. They behold the evidences in its favor among the men who own slaves, and yet, with this example and this stimulant to patriotic action, they deliberately place themselves in opposi tion to emancipation, and assail and misrepre sent the Chief Magistrate who recommends it. The moat candid and sincere 'man in this or ganization is John C. Breckinridge himself, for he followed his party into the rebel army, and disdained to oppose our cause by mere words when he could prove his fidelity by taking up arms against it. OCCASIONAL. THE PARIS CORRESPONDENT of the London Daily Telegraph affirms that instructions hid been sent to M. MERCIER, the French Minister at Washington, to pay a second visit to Rich mond, when ho was to offer the united inter vention of France and England to obtain the termination of the rebellion on the following terms : A lull amnesty, the,revlsion of the Constitution, compensation by the United States Congress for Southern losses sustained by the retirement of c( contrabands," and the immediate return of the Confederate States to the Union. The surrender of Yorktown and other Union victories have summarily nullified this project; if it ever was intended. . 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THE PRESS.-PfEILADELPIII.A., MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1862. LATEST WAR NEWS. BIRTHPLACE OF TREASON BESIEGED!, GEN. HUNTER. ADVANCING ON ,011ARLESTON. BATTLE NEAR THE CITY. [Special Despatch to The Presal , Batrratonn, June B—P. M. I-Snd the following importard despatches in my Southern files : t , The enemils gunboats are moving np, as if to ongiae our batteries. The greatest excitement prevails in tho dip, as the gunboats.,are in sight at times. - Nvery con fidence is exprmsed. in Gen. Gist's ability to drive the invaders off." The enemy has landed 2,060 strong at James Island; opcosite tho city. A. !State took plato, in which the enemy were repulsed with a loss of twenty man taken prisoners by the forces of General Gist. They wi Ibe sent to Selma, Alabama, immediately. There is still heavy tiring In that direction, and it is rumored that a hundred more of the. Yankees have been cut off and captured. General Gist's last despatch- says The prisoners Wien this morning report that the enemy has landed 1,700 strong on Battery Island, and in considerable force on Johnis Island. Be is now in front of me in force and under cover of his gunboats. An advance is imminent." VERY LATE FROM THE SOUTH. LATEST NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE FLAG OF TRUCE FP THE . JAMES RIVER. FOREIGN CONSULS LEATE CHARLESTON Beauregard Writes to Prentiss. OUR PRISONERS P,T AEI, MA, General Ben Huger In Trouble. CORCORAN, WILCOX, AND BOWMAN TO BE RELEASED REBEL LOSS AT FAIR, OARS WHAT JEFF 'DAVIS SAID WHEREABOUTS OF LIEUT. FLEMING Amateurs at the Battle of ,6 Zuni." GENERAL WOOL'S VISIT. TO THE HYGEIA HOSPITAL, BIS DEPARTURE FOR BALTIiIORE• &c., Special Despatches to The Press.] This has been emphatically an eventful day at Old Point Comfort, The Baltimore boat -brought down Generals Prim and lililan de Bosch, who paid their re spects to Major Generals Wool and Dix at an early hOur, General De Bosch is quite a republican, in principles, and has recently written a letter in which he opposes the Mexican polierrecently initiated by the Braperor Napoleon, and it is said that this old hero goes my far as to admit publicly that should Napoleon interfere with the United States Government in its present endeavors to crud' the rebellion, he would favor the idea of. having Spain render us whatever assistance she Eighth New York Militia. • The National Grays, Bth Now York State Militia, at tired here this morning, all safe and sound Col. Varian prceeeded at once to Camp Hamilton, where th'e regi rnent is to be situated temporarily. The Bth Militia Is a splendid-looking body of men, and will, no doubt, be of great service during the next three months. Arrival of Rebel Prisoners. The canal propellor Trenton arrived here this after noon, *with about one hundred rebels, who were taken at the recent battle of Eleven Pine's, or Fair Oaks, as Gen. 'McClellan has been pleased - to term ft. These prisoners are still very defiant and atincy, and not at all grateful for the kindness received at our hands. - About noon, your correspondent stepped. upon the steemboatilancocas, formerly of Philadelphia, Captain Binder, and by special invitation of Oaptaiu James Maxim), Jr., Captain of the Port and Harbor Master, I determined to - accompany him to. City Point undera flag of truce. For a year pest OaptSitt Millsvard has acted as executive flag of trine officer far the Govern ment at this point, and as a proof of his energy and ability, no further notice is necessary. . The Congress and Cumberland, An hour's Bail brought us opposite to Newport News, now .almost abandoned as a military posT, but :ever: memorable sm being the spot where the Idorransc sunk our two frigates,-the Congress and the Cumberland. Bat little can now, be seen of the wreck of the former. It boa Boated upon Abe besoll, just below the polnt, , and presents little else to the view but a masa of ragged. naval hteaming on some five miles above Newport 'News, we met the Stepping Stones, one of our gunboats, up the 'Seines river. She was bard aground on an. oyster bed. She sent a boat to as, and Captain lifiltward proceeded over to "her. Subsequently; upon, consnithig with the commanding officer of the Stepping Stones, the remain of the port learned that she had held communicationa with the rebels at City Point, under a flag of truce. Charleston too Hot for the Foreign Con- On board the Stepping Stones, among others whOqoul come down on the rebel flag-of-trues train from Rich mond, I observed Monsieur J. Da Pruyn Kona, vice consul of the Netherlands at Charleston, and his family, and M. De Comte tie Ohoiseint, French consul at Chalks ton, accompanied by his wife, child, and servant. I made inquiry as to the reason of their leaving their posts at this present moment, when they are so much needed to look after the interests of their countrymen in Secessia, But I could not obtain any satisfaction; as these foreign nabobs are strong in their sympathies for the South, arid seemed to have their mouths Sealed with red tape or so mething. Two things are pretty certain: First, they did not leave the Confederate ship until she:was sinking, and, secondly, they did not leave without .itiiiiructions from their respective Governments, and it may yet ap pear that M. Mercier's recent . visit toßichmond had something to do with this matter. Gut poor soldiers who wore captured at the battle of Shiloh aro mostly confined at Selma, Alabama, to the number of 1,700, including 150 commissioned oincers, among Mein Brigadier General Prentiss, who, with hie fellow-prisoners, is said to be in excellent health and Write. Col. Madison Miller arrived down in the S'opping Stones, being the chairman of the commission appolntel by the prisoners, and paroled for a limited period to pro reed to 'Washington to negotiate for an ogchango. This commission to composed of the followineoffioprp Colo nel Madison Miller, of the 18th fdieeonri Volunteers, for merly &judge in ht. Louie; Major Stone, 3d lowa Volun teers; and Captain Gregg, of the 58th Illinois Volunteers. Colonel Miller bpi, already gone to .)Vasbington, and the other roembere of the committee will follow hint as soon as possible. Om. Bummer& telegraphed to Gen. Prentiss to act as agent in the matter, but for some reason or other Prentiss objected and recoMmended Colonel idiller to act . in his stead. • I bring a letter from Captain William McMichael, one 'of the Shiloh prisoners, to his father Morton hichflohiel, Bic, editor of the North American mid U. S. Gazette. As a brave and accomplished native of Pht:acielphia, our :citizens will be pleased to learn that Captain McMichael µ ell, hopeful, and in the enjoyment of excellent :spirits, taldfig the circumstances of his case into (onside .ration. 'lke 0.8. A. War Depaktient accuses Major Generai . Benjamin Huger of arrogating powers to himself which do not belong to him, andof misconstruing and violating orders concerning the exchange of prisoners. linger is said tohave stood in the way of the prompt reletiatiOr Colonels Corcoran, Roos, and Bowman. He has been: ordered to take the field for active Service, and is now in. command of what is called a division of rebel troopaii Port WaMall Junction, on the line of the Richmond ea Yetetaburg Railroad, between those two cities. Military Governor of Petersburg. Gen. Lamson Is now in command of the Department of Petersburg, lately vacated by Gen. Huger. Gen. Lam son told Col. Miller that be bad no confidence M the United States Government at all. Corcoran to be Released. The people will be delighted t hear that Col. Corcoran and hie brave fellow-priaonere will be releaged Imme diately by the rebel Government, and that a fair ex change will be made for the privateoremen. The latter pill be taken to City Paint to. day, under a flag of trace. The James River Fleet Is edit employed in perusing the enemy and making reconuolheances, but stand, ready at any time to assist in the taking of Richmond, es emu as !depletion gives the order. The Richmond Dispatch estimates the number of men wounded in the battle of Saturday and Sunday at over four thousand. The Spottswood, Rxehengo, and other hotels have been occluded as hospitals, besides all or the public and many of the private buildings. Tlie Rich mond and Petersburg papers have been crammed with the lists or tho killed and wounded, continued fro" day to day, alma Monday lest. • . What Jell Davis Says. . • Jefferson Davie was on the battle field at Far Oakii,' and ho has leaned a brief but flaming address to the rebel troops, which was published in thelalchmend Examiner of yesterday, 6th Instant. He thanks them for their in domitable courage in charging the enemy, and driving him back at ovary point with great slaughter, captur ing twenty. three or his guns, many prisoners, and a vest amount of valuable camp equipage. He, lam:wanton with th e re pl e , felt .proud of ench heroism and 'valor. Elesigicludes by saying : ;"Dofendera' of a just cauea. may nm -- have 011 I waykom , img! - JEST/SW.ION D 4 V.1.."n bia The Petersburg Ezpress notices the arrival in town of Lieut. Fleming, and nine other Yankees, who were re cently captured while making a reconnoinance . up the Biackwater, by the SUMO,. County Light Cavalry." hearty dinner at Jarratt's Hotel, on Tuesday last. Lieut. Fleming haa been let out on parole. and ate a Gen. Wool Visits the WOunded.: Before making his thud arrangements to leave Fortress Ideates.; this afternoon, General Wool determined to visit the sick and wounded soldiers In the 'Lysol*: hotel Hospital• lie entered the hospital about 11 o'iffock this morning, accompanied by Drs. Cutler and Booticon, sad glassed from bed to bed,' elniking. Lamle witti each Peer sufferer that bad a dexter limb left The cheering words and' kind accents of the veteran hero of a hittle " . 91,14111,E5T0N, 711118 3, 1862. SECOND DESPATCH CHARLMSTON, June 4—A. DI THIRD DESPATCH ORARLESTON, JUDO 111 FORTRESS I.I . ONILOE,'SIIIIO P.' Tii. Via BALLTIMORk, Jane 8, P. hI An Eventful Day. JAMES RlrElt, JllllB 7, P. DI Leaving the Fortress. Our I,xeursion Curtailed Our Prisoners at Selma General Ben Huger in Trouble The Rebel Wounded Whereabouts of Lieut. Fletning dred battles gave an encouragement to the sick and wounded which, at times, partookOnf the nature of OD, ME= By this ant General Waal exhibited that loftier attri bute of sympathy for the:anffering not usually:accorded to generals; and that axiom which says that generals are made only to destroy mankind Ands an exception in Mejor General John E. Wool, who, while helms always fought his man to desperation in battle, did it . purely, 10 aubserve what he deemed a just and holy cause; and not from a morbid thirst for glory, or an ambitious desire to bo known as a bloody or heartless commander. iDeparture from Fortress Monroe. Generat Wool ieft hie headquarters about half past four °Webb' this afternoon; and _was atttnded to4he Long wharf by quite a handsome military esoort,.which moved as a procession from the Fortress, in the following or. der: Band o f:ths Fecond Artillery. Major Cohorts, commander of the Fortress, and of the escort. Company D, Fourth Artillery. Batteiies Tbree and Four let Wieconeiti Artillery. Hajar General Wool, Hajar General Dia, Colonel W. D. Whipple, amistant adjutant general, Colonel J. Cram, Liehtenant Do Witt Clinton, . and Captain Wm. Jay, Colonel' Madison Niger, Major Hayner, and °there. Richardson Light Battery, Capt. P. A: Davis: Company D, Union Coast Guard, 99th N. Y.: 8. V., Captain Bates. Arriving on the wharf, the. troops were halted and faced to the front, presenting arms. General Wool lifted his chapeau, and bowing gracefully to the men, idmplY said Good bye." lite band pia) ed national airs until the G.eorgianna moved from the deck With the General and hie staff on boatd. When our steamer was passing the Brazilian corvette raraet se, the officers appeared, on deck acid bowtd their adieits to the General add staff. Arrival in Baltimore. The Georgians arrived at Union Dock this (Sunday) morning, about half past seven o'clock. When the Ge neral landed ho was met by Major the Baron Von Her. Lieut. Carneross, of his staff, who bad preceded him hither, and many of hie friends. Entering private conveyances, the whole party were driven to the Eataw Route, where General Wool make his headquarters temporarily. A Disappointment: Te National — Guards, 7th Regiment 'Mew York State Militia, Col. Isitirholl Lefferts, turned. out hand somely equipped, early this Morning, to aot as an escort 'io Gene:lid Wool, but owing to conic oversight, the Gene ral was not apprized of the honor intended. Be recti fied the matter very gallantly by having' the ‘i 7th" march in his review in :front of the Eutaw House, and after they bad rimed paid this regiment a real compli ment in view of their efficiency in drill, and soldierly bearing. The 7th is uoyr stopping -at the western limit Last Turn of the Screw of Treason. The AdP:starit General of the Confederate States pub. Mlles a general order from the rebel War Department, directing recruiting °Mears, duly accredited, to draft every white or mulatto wale found throughout the South who is able to bear arms, and who is between the ages of twenty and fifty. fire years, whether such persons may. have obtained substitutes for themselves or not, and wit» ful evasion of this order is to be severely punished. What 'the Amateurs Did. _ Borne of the Southern newspapers have recently teemed with fulsome praises of what certain " amateur soldiers" did at the battle of Fair Oaks, or Zona, as the rebels cell it. General Bill writes a communication in answer to this "wishy-washy bosh," as he calls it, to the Ex• aminer, in which he asserts that said " amateur sol diers" took gocd care to keep away from the trout, and 'would run when a . shell fell within half a mile of them. Ile says they were so conspicuous, however, in stea tiny plunder irorathe deserted camps of General Casey, that he had to arrest about a hundred of them, and punish A Ant for T. G. B. to 'Crack. The rebels gettbe Herald quite regularly and fresh, and they copy. General. McClellan's order to his troops uhen crossing the. Chicahorniny from that delectable sheet. Who has charge of the uaderground railroad Down on General Wool. She rebel neirspapers e full of abusive articles about Gtn. Wool, in coneennenee of his harsh treatment of the ptonie of Norfolk, nho, they say, he ia endeavoring to force into loyalty by cruel starvation, and eicedlar spa eielot nnheard-cf tyranny. No word is eat of relhor ing "the poor, dear people of Norfolk," by the palsied arta' of the Confederacy . , however. L. W. W. FROM THE ARMY BEFORE RICHMOND OCCASIONAL CANNONADING; Wasn't:N=ox, June B.—Despatches received at to War Department up to noon to-day state that all is Quiet in front of Richmond, except occasional can nonading at our forces employed in bridgo opera' ions, .but 'Which does not retard their progress. BEADQUARTBRS AR3Ir OF THE POTOMAC, } SUNDAX, JIMO 3. The rebels opened with artillery yesterday afternoon, on the pickets of Gen. Stunner, they baying atlyancel to a new position. No harm was done, and the firing, soon A Richmond paper of 'Friday has been received, but it gives no details of the late battle. They claim, at usual, a brilliant victory. It states that the Federate vete driven into the GhickahOunny and White Gag swamp, and-that Gen. licehltau bad sent flags of truce asking :nertnistion to bury his .'deadt—all. of which ie false.: It gives the toes in one tegiment at-d 4.0 killed and woundesh -evidently showing that they mouldered it their interest to disclose, the news7of the defeat to the public - by:degrees, thereby preventing a panic. Gen. Prim and staff; of Spain, arrived to-day, and paid their respects to GordlitrOloltati. • Three deserters, who arrived to.dsy from Richmond, stab that there was groat excitement in that city, for fear that the Jatnes river would rise sufficiently 41 allow our gunboats to pass over the 'obstructions. The excite ment was so intense that many citizens were leaviag. The deserters confirm the wounding of Gen. JOB Johnson. This being Sunday everything is quiet. THE KILLED, WOUNDED, -AND Room AT THE BATTLE OF FAIB,• MS, OFFICIAL STATEMENT: WiFnmarmr, June B.—The following etatement of the lose in the battle of Fair Oalm has been received at the War Department : To the Bon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War Statement of the killed, 'wounded, and missing on the Slat of Nay and let of June, IS62,in front of Rich mond Xilied.. Wounded. Missing, Gen. Buinner's 2d c0rm..... 183 894 146 Gen. Ideintzelinan's 3d corps. 259 980 155 Gen. Kayo' 4th corps 448 1,753 921 Total ' 820 2,621 1,232 Grand total killtd, wounded, and missing 5,739 nominal list will .he furnished as soon as the data can be received. G. B. krutnALLA.IT, Major General Commanding. FROM GEN. SHIELDS' DIVISION. 'JACKSON'S REBEL FORCES DISPERSED. ONLY FIVE TEOVSAND BENAIN/NG. FRONT ROYAL, June 8.--Nows from Comore! Shields' division state that a scouting party crossed the river at the Columbian bridge, and went to New Market, but found that Jackson had retreated through there three days ago. Jackson's army had been reduced to about 5,000 mon, the remainder having scattered through the mountains to save ttemselves. General Fresnont's army had followed them all the way, capturing prisoners, wagons, and supplies. FRONT ROYAL, June 7.—Some excitement was OCCR stoned last evening by a report that a foraging party .were fired upon by some rebel cavalry, some six miles out of town. The report also stated • that some rebel troops were encamped between the two hills eight or nine miles dlstent. A body of inikotry and cavalry were started this morning to see If they could find them, but no signs of the enemy were discovered. Three meo were drowned In attempting to cross the Shenandoah, last : night, namely, John brown, sergeant company A, 12th Massachusetts Regiment; Sergeant Fuller, company 0, 17th Massachusetts ; the other name unknown; he be longed to -the 98th New York Regiment. A boat, with fllyeen men, was earned away, but went ashore some two miles below—all saved. • THE WAR IN KENTUCKY. Depredations , of Rebel Guerilla Rands. FIGHT AT TOMPKINSVILLE. CAPTAIN M'CULLOUGH, OF PENNSYLVANIA, KILLED Locust! Lt, June 7.—A letter to the Democrat, from Clinton county, says Champ. Ferguson's men, of Mor gun'ectivalry, are murdering' illd robbing, end commit ting ravages of all kinds. At Tompkinsville, Monroe county, Ky., yesterday, Captain McCullough, of tbe 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, with sixty-five meu, was attacked by a hundred of Mor gßleb men, under Captain Hamilton. Both McCullough and Hamilton were killed. Three were wounded on each side. The rebel cavalry were driven off. FROM WASHINGTON Special Despatches to "The Press." WASHINGTON, Juno 8, 1882. Ratification of the Slave Trade Treati- Lord LYONS'CAIIed at the Blate Department yesterday, on the occasion of the arrival of the Britith ratification of the mew treaty in regard to the African slave trade, and, by direction of his Government, axpress•d their sense of the service rendered by Mr. SE WARD to both countries and to the cause of humanity, by hie agency in that transaction. Diplomatic Difficulties at Nevi' Orleans. ri clan y consultations hays taken pane between the Secretary of State and the members of the Foreiga Legs- Gone here, concerning the di-faculties which occurred. be tween Meier General BWILDB and the foreign consuls in Now Orleans, OD his taking military possession of the city. The fact le ascertained that it hat been made the suldece of an amicable . correspoodeuce between the Secre tary of State and Mr. Veit Lamina, the minister from the Netherlands, and that Hon. BETHILDY JOHNSON will pioceed to New °deans as a commiatimer of the State Department, for the purpose of taking the necessary .proofs for a final conelderadon. All the reperts from ,Europe are satisfactory.., .. • . . • - Naval Promotion. Acting Mester it.twori, HOWARD, of Rhode Island 'attached to the United Steles bark Amanda, who volunl teered hie cervices On board tile Monitor, during tier (n: .gegement with the Merrimac, wee yesterday Promoted to name volunteer 'lieutenant. Acting Lieutenant E. BRODIMAD hill been 'ordered to the receiving ship at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Burgeons . A commission, consisting of leading physicians of Pitts burg, Pennsylvania,. viz: Drs. DixoN, CoYszv, 1100 in n and ItouLvoN, sent by the eaultary ateociatien 'of that citY to aid in ministering to the wants of sick and wenn:do:l eoldiera, arrived hero yesterday, and, having bten furnished by the surgeon general with all the no facilities, left this morning for tho battle-deld sou Ittotanoad, A DESPERATE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT, MEMPHIS CAPTURED. FORTS WRIGHT, PILLOW, AND RANDOLPH EVACUATED, THE REBEL FLEET DESTROYED. WASIIINGTON t Jane 7.—The following despstch was received at the War Department to-day : Conialts, June T. To the Hon. Edwin:lf. Stanton, S'ecretary of Fear: Deserters from the enemy report , that Forts Pillow and Randolph were evacuated on the 31st MI, and that Capt. Davie' (late Poole's) ftot la reaehed Memphis the next day, and found the town nearly abandoned and many huiklinge destroyed. IL W. RA.LL cox, Ilajor General. The News fully Confirmed—Aa Arrival from Memphis. NEW MADRID, June 7.—Ths steamer Platte Talley has just arrived from Memphis. Ells reports that all is quiet there. The city surren dered to the V. 8 Sloth's without resistance. CAIRO, Juno 7.—The operator at New Madrid tele graphs that the steamer Platte Valley had passed there direct from Memphis en route for Cairo.' Our forces are in indisputable possession of the city of Alenephis. Further Particulars. Sr. LOUIS, June T.—A special despatch to the Repel , - bicatt, dated Fort Pillow, June 5,11 o'clock A. M., saYs w The rebels really evacuated the fort on Wednesday night, leaving one mortar and two guns to answer us. The work of destruction has been complete. The barracks hospital buildings, horse-sheds, forage barns, and three large commissary -houses full of stores, are horned. Over a dozen heavy guns were left. A. part of them were spihed and the balance burst, and the car A reconnoissance to 'Fulton, two miles below, does not reveal any signs of the enemy in, that vicinity. Cembim• tildes are homing at several pointer, and it is feared Mat the fortifications are mlned. The fort 'woo unusually strong. Several beavl guns were easemated by heavy woodwork thrown over tbem in the form of covers on the, river bank, all of which were destroyed. No small arms or camp equipage re- The Cairo correspondent of the Rena - Mean says, tt Fran all the information I can gain Utah le no doubt that our fleet steamed directly on to Xempbis.' , Later refugees from Memphis say that Dr. Finkes, of the ,dvafanche, will be one of the first to hoist the &uteri can flag on the approach of the 'United Senates They say that be has preached Secession doctrine under protset for eeTeral tnoptha, and has been twice imprisoned for his , fearless denunciation of the rebel authorities. Official Report of Com, Davis, liVasonforoxi Juno 8 —The following despatch was received at the Navy Department : UNITED STATES &Lotman BENTON, OPT MEMPHIS, / Jnne 6. To Hon. Gideon Seoretary of the Navy: Elk : I arrived here last'evening, at 0 &clock, steam. parded by the mortar fleet, under Captain ELaynadier, the ordnance steam storeships, .tem, and anchored a mile and a half above the city. This morning I discovered the rebel fleet, which had been reinfcrced, and now consisted of eight rams and gunboats, lying at . , the levee. The engagement which commenced at $0 A. M.. and ended at 7 o'clock, ter minated in a running fight. I was ably eupported by tire ram fleet, under command of Colonel Ellet, who was conspicuous for his gal lantry, and is seriously but not dangerously wounded. The result of the action wee the capture or destruc tion of seven Teesels of the rebel fleet, as follows: 'rbe. General Besuregard was blown up and burnt; the General Sterling Price had one wheel carried away.;;:the Jeff Thompson we a set on fire by a-shell and burned, and her magazine was blown up; the Sumpter was badly cut up by shot, but. will be repaired; a little rebel steamer had her boiler exploded by shot, and was otherwise injured, but she will be rcpairad. Be sides this, one of the rebel boats was sunk in the begin ning of the action; her name is not known. A boat, supposed to be the Van Dorn, escaped from the flotilla by her impurior speed. Two rams are in pursuit of her. The . officers and crews of the rebel boats en deavored to take to the shore. .: Many of their wounded and prisoners are now in our hands. The Mayor surrendered tb city to me after the engagement. Col. Fitch came down at eleven o'clock, and has taken military porsesslon of the town., C. H. DAVIS, Flag Officer. WASHINGTON, June B.—The folloiving medsage, is re- cation to the action of the rams in the naval engagement off Memphis, was received at the War Department this OPPOSITE MEMPHIS, June 6; via 0.11110, June 8. To the lion. E. Itt. Stanton, Secretary of War: The rebel gunboats made a Etand early this morning opposite 'Memphis, and (meted a rigorous fire, upon our gunboats, , shioh they returned with equal spirit. I ordered the Queen, my flag ship, to 'pass between the gunboats and run down ahead. of them, upon the two rams of the enemy, which, at first, boldly stood their ground. Lieutenant Colonel Ellet, in the Monarch, of which Cant. Dry den is first mister, followed gallantly. The rebel rams endeavored to back down stream, and then to turn and run, but the movement was 'fatal to them.' ne Queen struck one of them fairly, and for a faw minutes was feet to the wreck.