L I ,e. ~ z ezz.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1862.
Fox sumps after the commencement of the
Civil War in this country, a tragedy of which
the last act Is . now being performed, the in-
suiting taunt Of 'the Evgl ah press, harked on
by the notorious and profligate Times, was
that all efror's Oa by the North to crush the
,rebellion must be useless, for want of money
to purchase even the most ordinary muni-
vents of war. Over and over again The Times
deeTared not only tha'. the United States must
go into the European money-market to raise
the wind, but that they had done so, and
without success. It wai singular, however,
that no proposal to borrow 'money was made,
at any time during the present warfare, on
the part of the United States, either in Lon
don, Paris, or Amsterdam. If
,such had
been, the BARINGS, the ItOTLISCIIILDs, the
Mores would surely have heard of it. The
truth is, no attempt whatever hasboen made
on the part of the United States Government
to, obtain one dollar by: lead from European
capitalists since the war began. The wealth
and the patriotism of the country have supplied
,the needful money, and so curtain is the pay.
ment of the interest, as well as the ultim%te re
turn of the capital advanced, that tho Govern-
meat Stock and the Treasury Bonds aro being
more frequently quoted in the money-articles
of the newspapers at a premium than at a dis-
count, or even at par. It is not unreasonable
to anticipate that, ere long, American stock
will be In demaud abroad, to be sought for by
those who, having money to invest; naturally
look for a higher rate of interest than they can
obtain at borne, and only want assurance that
this country is able and willing tripay it. Of
both there can be no doubt. ',When the war is
ended, the taxation of the country, direct and
indirect, will probably yield ari annual income
of from one hundred and eighty to two hun
dred million dollars, out of which the necessary
expenses of the State will be paid as well as
the interest upon the national debt.
It would be impossible to arrive,With any
degree of certainly, at an approximation to
the total cost of the war when all is ended and
we have to square up accounts. At present,
it is estimated at about $500,000,000, or one-
eighth of the whole amount of the national
debt of England. The interest payable in
England, averages 8.50 per cent., while
,the
average interest upon our debt, is exactly 4.85
per cent. This , will astonish many, who have
the idea that our borrowings, during the last
fifteen months, have been made at a fbarlul
sactitice ; but, we repeat, the plain fact is that,
though $120,528,450 were borrowed at 7.80,
the average interest, pa)-ab'e upon our whole
debt, is only 4.95 per cent. Is this likely to
break us? Does this : • show any reckless ex
travagance in our national tioance ?
It behoves us, whether as a people -or as
Individuals, to look closely 'at our expendi.
turn, and carefully examine into what Parlia
mentary diction tersely calls te the ways and
means." The nation has contracted a debt
of some five hundred millions. Say that,
when the rebellion is over—and even now it
is in its death throes—our whole indebtedness
amounts to $760,000,000. It will be little
more than England expended, in our War of
Independence, in a fruitless effort to keep
America in pupilage and thraldom ; less than
England wasted, in the fifteen years between
the recognized Independence of the United
States and the putting down of the Irish
Rebellion of 1708; nut much over a third
of the expeediture from the Peace of
Amiens, in 1802; to June, 1815, in battling
against lisectmlox and for' the Bourbon dy
nasty;.. and only agt the whole cost, in
twenty-one months, of that cc bloody and most
bootless" terife with Russia, into which John
Bull was seduced and induced, with astonish
ing adroitness, by Lours Neroelow. The
Emperor Thenotas, replying to a letter from
NAPOLEON, contemptuously addressed him as
Non ami, (my friend,) instead of in the usual
style of Mon frirc, (my brother;) and though
Nat:neon joked, saying that friendship was
sometimes stronger than fraternity, not the
less did he declare war with Russia, cunningly
involving England in the same contest, at a
fearful expenditure of blood and treasure. '
Our national debt has been unavoidably
contracted. It was inevitably a necessity—if
the country desired to have the Union main
tained in its integrity. The people freely
arose to repel the Treason and the Fraud
'Which bad caused this necessity,—freely shed
their blood; freely ,expended their money;
freely pledged their credit to have the Union
preset ved, and Secession crushed. If it were
needed, they would make any further sacrifice
to pay the interest on the debt; but that can
be met, with the greatest ease, for the re
sources of the country have never been
checked, and indeed are well nigh limit
less. The. tide of emigration, which had
gone back for a time, is again in full flow. From
Ireland, especially, it comes rapidly and strong
ly. The emigrants, too, are of a higher class
than ordinary—They consist mainly of compa
ratively wealthy persons, small farmers who
clung by their almost hereditary holdings
while - they could live by them, and now come
hither, with their savings, to avoid having
their pockets emptied by heavy poor-rates
and other excessive fiscal exactions. They
clung to the green sod to the last, and aro
coming hither, not as mere paupers, but as
men of some means, with education better
than ordinary, with strong hands and bold
hearts, and, it is to be feared, undying anti
pathy to that cruel step-mother, England,
whose misrule has ruined them and de
populated their beloved father-land. For
them, and for all • who desire to live by
honest labor, there is welcome, and there is
ample room in this country. When the next
census is taken (in 1870), we shall probably
have a population of 45,000,000, so wonderful
is the increase under free institutions, which
allow all Men to enjoy the fruits of their in
dustry, talent, enterprise, and labor. The
West is teeming.with the wealth which the
ploughshare has only to extricate from. a soil
abounding in exhaustless fertility. Our mines
abound in riches. Our artisans, our mecha
nics, our strong-armed citizens can develop
these resources. Already, by comparison, with
white-winged commerce, we rival the auccoss
ful enterprise of England. In all that makes
a nation's prosperity, we have abundance of
possession as well as of promise. Therefore,
. were our Debt twice as much as it possibly can
be, it can be promptly met to the last dollar,
to the last dime. Even now, if we had to go
a-borrowing in Europe, we could do so on
better terms than France or Prussia, than
Italy or cc the sick man," Turkey. Precisely
in proportion to our not wanting loans from
Europe and to our getting them from our own
citizens, is now the confidence of the million
aires irfour capacity to pay. We believe that
$260,000,000 for the American Government,
at 4 per cent., could now be raised at three
days' notice in the London money market.-
As VIE NEED of hospital accommodations is
growing from day to day, eligibly-located
buildings, the use of which can be obtained
for this purpose, should be at once placed at
the disposal of the proper . authorities. The
citizens of the Twentieth ward, in compliance
with this demand, have expressed a desire
that the Wagner Free Institute building—a
large new brick edifice, admirably located
tor the health of invalids, in the beautiful open
country north of Columbia avenue, west of
Fifteenth street—might be thus appropriated,
and a number of ladies in that elegantly-im
proved section of our city have already ex
pressed a patriotic willingness to tender their
services in ministering to the wants of the
sick and wounded there, providing the bui'd
lug can be obtained. We hope that no objec
tion will be interposed to prevent them from
carrying out their praiseworthy purpose.
that:
WE STATED yesterday, inadvertently,h
the Senate of the United States had nevei but
once in its history formed itself into a high
court of impeachment. Another case was that
of SAMUEL CHASE, an associate judge' of , the
Supreme Court of the United States; who was
•• impeached on the 4th ef February, 1805, for
misconduct at the trial of JOHN Farss,who
bad been arrested for bis participation in the
Northampton county riots at 1709:i
TUE FAIR or 0001.11 R Boor REIPRISIMIXT
SL-
Loop opened on Monday night under brilliant auspice'.
The crowd was immense, and all the arrangements not
more beautiful than complete. The Bowere, and fruit,
and flags, have treineformed Concert Hall into a bewilder
ing bower of beauty. Contributions (if flower' are mo
tioned; and, judging from the extenalve aaloe already
made, the most liberal supply will not more than meet the
demand. -
IT HAS BEEN KNOWN for s me time, as
fact, that the commissioners sent to Euppe
by gi the so-called Southern COnfederacy,"
made cerain proposals, or rather .cer t ain:
, ,
promises, as the basis upon whic h
spective Governmeits of Frande and England
might be induced to
. : violate their publicly
pledgui neutrality and ackaewledge the na
tional independence of Secessia. We say
this has been known—because Mr. YANCEY'S
correspondence with Earl Rrssein has been
published, by eirditz Of 'the Rouse . of Commons.
Mr. YAiwar promised, for:the South, that in
return for 'such recegnition,, several conces
sions should be made by the mushroom cabal,
at ".Rieltmond,,' calling itself a Crevernment,
and chief among these concessions 'were two,.
of particular significanCe... In,'the first place,
the commercial systeMof. Free Trade was to
be established in the Sionth; in the next,
although the immediate' abolition of 'C the
peculiar institution" could not take place, a
new system was to ,be established by which
slavery in the South was to be gradually
done away, with, within a prescribed term of
twenty five years. It did not suit the interest
of France and England to accept these terms,
and Mr. Yartory returned home, an unsuc-
Cenral diplomatist. • •
At the same time, _as
. our
.readers know;
another' Southern emissary found his way to
Madrid, where his mission was equally un
-successful. We lately published his long letter
to bis c triend YANCEY, announcing this, and
suggesting, with the vindictiveness of anger at
baffled diplomacy, that, when the South be
came an independent nation,.irs proper policy
would be to-punish nnsympathizing' Europe,
by laying on the heaviest import duties-, in
order to meet 'the expenses of the rebellion,
and establish a sinking fund for the payment
of the national debt. The writer of that let
ter, the unsuccessful ambassador to Madrid,
was Mr. J. P. Roar, wbo, unhappily for his
cause, is afflicted with the disease called
cacoethes scribendi. In plain English, he has
a fatal predilection for writing long letters.
Ills missive to YANCEY, already before the
public, is by sto means so lengthy' or communi
cative as an extended despatch, dated Madrid,
21st March, 1862, and addressed to R. M. T.
.131 INTER, in which he gives full particulars of
an interview with Signor' CALDERON COLLAN
TEa, the Spanish Secretary of State for Fo
reign Affairs. That remarkable letter, now in
the State Departnient at Washington, we pub
lished in full yesterday, and therefore need
only glance at here: It is destined, or we are
greatly mistaken, to make Earl RUSSELL and
M. Tnonvstar. greatly rejoiee that England
and France placed no reliance la the gloaing
statements and fine promises of Messrs. Yea-
OEY and SLIDELL. It shows the world how
adroitly the South Alight to adapt itself to
different latitudes. In Paris and in London
there was held out a pledge that, within a cer
tain period, slavery would be abolished in the
South, surely, if slowly; while in Madrid the
contrary inducement was that slavery was to
be protected and preserved. PamasitsroN and
Russia', will scarcely,be gratified when they
read Mr. Roar's letter, at learning that he de
nonuced them to the Spanish Minister as vio
lent Abolitionists,•and sneered at their coun
cils for being it tainted with Puritan fanati
cism."
Mr. ROST, evidently thinking that the Spanish
Minister knew nothing of American affairs,
even within the last teu years, boldly denied
that the South, save as taking up a Northern
idea, ever bad any desire or intention of get
ting possession of Cuba—though he admitted
that the South did want it cc to make three new
States of it, and thus obtain in the Federal
Senate six more members, which would, for a
time, have equalized the:power of the free and
slaveholding States in that body." He con
tinned—reconstruct the Union, and the South
will still covet Cuba, for this political purpose,
which "does not now and' never will again
exist, provided that tha independence of the
Confederate States is recognized and securely
established."
We have mentioned the promise to France
and England, that, if recognized as inde
pendent, the South would gradually extinguish
slavery, within twenty-five years. To Spain,
however, another pledge was held out. 4, The
South," Mr. Rosr said, cc the _South would
then - deem it its interest that a great country
like Spain should continue a slave Power. The
two together, meth Brazil, would have the mow
poly of the system of /abar which alone can make
intertropical almsrica and the regions adjoining
it available to thi uses of man, and to a great
extent of the rich products of that /abor." A.
very pretty programme, this, for the perpetua
tion of slavery, but somewhat different from
that submitted ; bY Yatterr and SLIDELL ,to
England and France.
The Spanish Minister must have been as
tonished at Judge Roar's declaration that, in
the war with NA_por-tow, ec when the Span
ish armies had been nearly destroyed, the en
tire people rose in their might and drove the
imperial legions beyond the Pyrenees." His
tary tells a different story—namely, that that
war, from 1808 to 1814, was mainly carried
on by British gross and British gold, the
Spaniards doing comparatively Rttle to rescue
their country from the French invaders.
After all, Mr. Rosr took nothing by his mo
tion, and his letter to Mr. HUNTER concludes
very sensibly, as follows :
,4 This is the substance of what mejbe considered
of some importance in a long and cordial interview.
I infer from it that this (the Spanish] Government
will not not separately from •England and France.
Owing to the enormous preparations made by the
North to subjugate ns, I believe that nothing is now
to be expected from any of them until the North
ern Government is ready to treat with ns as an in
dependent Power. If it be so, and the war is to
last many years as the President intimates in his
inaugural, it will be for him to determine whether
it is consistent with our dignity to keep longer abroad
commissioners who, be knows, are under Ito cir
cumstances to he rectmed or listened to."
After the appearance of this letter in Eu
-repoove suspect they will be wholly ignored,
and never again treated with, personally or by
letter, as reliable or honest men.
IT 18 NOT OFTEN that we have occasion to
speak of the rotations existing between this
paper ar.d, its cotemporaries. We prefer to
submit all such matters to our friends, who can
best judge of our efforts to entertain and in
struct them. A circumstance of recent occur
rence, however, asks from us a word of com
ment. In our Monday's iS31:10 we printed a
special despatch from Fortress Monroe, by
way of Baltimore, announcing the fact that
General HUNTER had invested Charleston, and.
was actively besieging it. We received the
news fromour Fortress Monroe correspondent,
who was' at great pains and expense to obtain
it exclusively for Tux PEWS. No other paper
in the North besides Tux Pxrss published it.
In the New York and Philadelphia papers
:of yesterday, however, we find the same
news reproduced, literally," from this pa
per, and without a word of credit. It
is rather a matter of congratulation than
Otherwise that we find ourselves so generally
copied by the newspapers of the country; and
of this we do not complain. Our cotempo
raries are welcome to any opinions we utter,
or any intelligence we print; but we do not
ask too much in requesting at their hands the
necessary credit. It is a courtesy we always
take pains to extend whenever the occasion
arises.
IT WILL GRATIFY the numerous friends of
Hon. P. FRAZER SuArra, of West Chester,
father of the gallant Major G RORGE F. Slum,
of the 61st Pennsylvania Volunteers, reported
to have been killed in the battle of Chicka
hominy, to learn that the report of his death
Is not confirmed. Dr. LINDAL, the surgeon
of the 61st, writes to Mr. Sims that, after the
greatest bravery on the field, he was wounded
and taken prisoner, and expresses the hope
that he may'be restored in safety.
TEE following paragraph, which we cut from
last Sunday's Dispatch, is taken from the reli
gions intelligence of that paper. The member
of Congress who performed this act of prompt
benevolence was the Hon. WrraLur D. ICEL.
LEY, who is unwearied in his patriotic and
charitable labors, and is not only an eloquent
tribune in the National Legislature, but also
vigilant in looking after the interests of his
constituents :
"A little incident was related to ns that is de
serving of acknowledgment. A once popular mi
nieter of this city left a widow and orphan eon,
several years since, to battle against the opposing
ourrente that daily beset them. Some years Inter
vened of struggle, and, when the widowed mother
was resting trustfully upon her loved and loving
one, be was. through the misfortune of war, sud
denly taken from ner. She appealed to several of
his father's friends to intercede for and secure
Several months' salary which she was assured was
owing kin . Tbey promired, and forgot it, until, in
despair. sbe despatched a letter to a Congressman,
stating her distress and the urgency of her demands,
and in three days afterwards she was greeted with
Goren:anent order for several hundred dollars.
Her boy ' s body lies beneath the waters of the Ilia
'
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
Washrscirox, ? Tine 10, 18G2.
. .
Virginia promiins to-be tho:.greatest, and:
probably the last, battle-tlele,of+ . the war.
making it so the - traitors confess their des
peration, and • furniish..an - opportunity to the -
Federal Government to develcop and. display
its resources and strength; op:the grandest
scale. I have no doubt thit large reinforce
ments have been,-tind are being, sent to all the
columns of the enemy. The sharp att:ack:ot,
Jackson upon the pursuing army of
..Fremont,
on the 6th, fully established this faq. Ai against
these demonstrations, including the bitter fe-.
rocity of the rebels in and near . ,Riehmond,
our troops cannot move with the celerity that
is so generally desired. Besides, we can afford ,
to take our time, while they; as their sudden
dashes and unexpepted attacks abundantly
prove, dread the menacing and measured ad
vance of McClellan as the certain sign of
their overthrow. On several occasions I have
called your attention to the remarkable change
that has come over many leading Democrats
in the army, , owing to the cruelties and
treacheries of the rebels. The barbarism of
these conspirators against the liberties of
free people are proved by witnesses on both
sides, by Northern and by Southern men.
The late Governor of Tennessee, the Hen.
Neil S. Brown, who earnestly assisted Seces
sion when it was first threatened,• has been
fired by a sense of duty to himself to denounce
it as a dead failure, and to hold up the measures
which have been resorted to to maintain it as
inhuman and disgraceful. A. single extract
from his speech at Columbia, Tennessee, on
the 2d instant, will suffice :
'• I want this war'etoppid ! Whose heart has not drop
ped blood who has a eon in the Southern army 'I I know
something of that unspeakable sorrow. Think of tide,
you who - stay at home and bluster about Whippilig
Yankees and establishing a Southern Oonftderacy. Lot
us atop this wanton, hopeless war. I would say this
now, even though I had been in the habit of eating fire
five times a day. It is ruining us. Thereinto ero burn
ing up the cotton. Why, in the name of reason, why 7
Don't it impoverish the people and the Govorament?
Don't it kilt their credit and their banks? Don't it ruin
our hopes abroad 7 Then this conscription law. I will
not swallow it until 1 swallow aloes, gall, and wormwood.
It is a base fraud upon those brave boys who had en
listed for a year, and who were packing up their dear
mementoes of borne in their knapsacks when this infa
mously tyrannical law came to arrest them on the eve
of their departure and drive them back,, in violation
of all faith, into the hardships and sufferings of a sol
dier's life. It' binds our boys hand and foot against
their will. It seizes mpcin the poor soldier who has been
dreaming of nights for returning to his wife and children,
and dashes his visions of bliss cruelty to the ground. It
places the gallant Tennessee volunteer on a level with the
ccnecripte of Austria. This whole policy woe unjust and
111i1101:111. Now look at things just as they are, and notes
you might wish them. If I wee the rankest Secessionist
alive I could not resist the conviction that this rebellion
cannot be successfully managed with Southern re
sources. Will you wait till an overwhelming force
drives you into the ground? Will you struggle against
this hope 'I Yon worn deceived in this matter, and facts
show themselves in a strangely different light front that
which colored them a year age. - Now, if I am employ
ed as your lawyer and yon make tee a highly favors•
•hlo fiction of your case and your evidence, I tell you
•yon can gain it. But it turns ont, on investigation, that
the facts ore wholly different from your representation
of 'them, and then it is my duty, as an honest counsellor,
to tell you to desist. I commit a fraud if I tour you' on
to year own ruin.".
If this is so of Southern statesmen, why is
it that Northern politicians continue to plot
and conspire against a good government, and
to aid and comfort the vile spirit of rebellion ?
Why is it, when °aliment men hie Governor
Brown desert and, denounce the traitors, that
around the peaceful homes of the loyal - States
parties are organized who stubbornly refuse to
acknowledge the infamy of this great treason,
and as stubbornly withhold all encouragement
to those who are .risking their lives to put
it down? But, if ouch politicians can find
no. motive for espousing the cause of their
_country; can 'see no inducement to array
themselves against the enemies of that coun
try, it is not so with many thousands
of men now in the army, and heretofore recog
nized as chiefs in the Democratic party. Yo,p
have already printed the eloquent letters of
Col. Henry L. Cake, and Col. Joshua T.
Owen, in which. they appeal to their former
political friends not merely to unite in execra
tion'of the rebellion, bat forever to. dissolve
all association with the Breckinridge leaders.
Tbe,truths they utter will sink deep into every
honest heart.' I care not what mere partisan
conventions may say. Painful as it was to con
template the false and disloyal spirit that per
vaded the late meeting ofthe so-called Democra
tic Convention of Schuylkill county,headed by
the Hon. F. W.• Hughes, who, as a delegate
to the Charleston National Convention in
1860, gave all his energies to the men who
were even then plotting the overthrow of the
Den3ocratic party as one of the means to con
summate the overthrow 'of the Union, I re
*eice that there is another tribunal, before
which the great issues involved in this fearful
struggle, are to be tried. A convention is not
an election, and the chiefs of the Breckinrldge
organization in the loyal States % must prepare
to render an account of their stewardship
to an indignant people. I have another
letter before me, written by one of the heroes
who fought under our flag at Pittsburg Land
ing. He says :«I am a Southern man by
education. I cast my ftrstvote in the Stairs'
of Tennessee. I was born and raised a Demo
crat of the straightest sect, and I have known
personally for the last sixteen years many of
the leading men of the South ; but when I
see whet I have seen the tiger is aroused in
my nature. - Every ridge is rough with graves,
and such graves ! It makes me shudder to
think of them. Itis by no means an unfrecittent
sight to see the blackened hands of the dead
extending from the soil, as if in supplication
for a decent burial. I feel as if it would be a
delight to turn sommon hangman, and spend
the balance, of my days in choking to death
the instigators of this infernal rebellion. It is
doubtless a crime to murder one's neighbor for
gold ; to burn his house; to commit piracy upon.
the high seas; but, in my estimation, the than
who commits one or all of these crimes is an
angel of light compared with the instigators of
this rebellion. And yet we are called upon
to consider this war a mere difference of poli
tics, and honorable members of Congress lift
up their bands in holy horror when you talk
even of so mild a punishment as confiscation..
There is but one way to close this rebel
lion, and that is to crush it out with
an iron bind. The slaveholding South,
with the eXception" of such loyal men
as you find in Eastern Tennessee and Western
North Carolina, and in Missouri, Kentucky,
Maryland, and Western Virginia, is rotten
with treason. Slavery breeds treason as cer
tainly as a miasmatic swamp breathes ague.
It is a foul upas tree, polluting everything
that comes within its shadow. Let us tlein
destroy that tree—not at once, for it might
crush us in its fall; but, at least, let us girdle
it and cut Oft its top root, and it will die by
degrees. Its leaves are already withering,
and, as its branches shriiel, they will
drop to the ground, enriching the soil
upon which they fall. The black race
is loyal, docile; and patient. My policy
is to exclude slavery from all the Territories
of the Union, present and prospective; to
free the slaves of the rebels, and give them
the lands of their former masters in lease,
with privilege of purchasing in fee simple,
upon the payment of a fair valuation. We
must adopt. this polies , or maintain an im
mense army in the seceded States for the
next one hutdred years."
And now hear Col. Robert M. Lee, of your
city, another Democrat, who writes, over the
dead body of his gallant son, these honest
words:
" The individual wbo could witness the ocenet I have
witnessed since my arrival here, and hesitate before the
twist stringent measures the Government can adopt, to
bring to speedy judgment the traitors to our Government,
le unworthy the name or a man. Morey to them is
cruelty to civilization ; and ai for patience with the sym
pathizers of traitors in oar own oommunitios—this is lit
tle short of treason ! They should be driven from our
midst, or compelled to abandon their treasonable prac
tices and conversation, and that at once."
These are better arguments than the resolu
tions of party conventions—better testimonials
in favor of the right and against the wrong
than the intrigues of politicians, the sneers of
disaffected demagogues, and the utterances of
the delicate dilettanti of the club houses.
HON. J. T. Nixon, Representative in Con
greas from the First New Jersey district, de
serves great credit for his resolution that thl
commander•in chief of the army and navy of
the United. States shall instruct all officers in
the rebellious districts to notify the people
thereof that the army of the Republic shall
subsist upon the Property of those in rebellion
and of all those aiding and giving comfort to
the enemy. This is the true doctrine, and we
are gratified to note that the House s ef Repre
sentatives adopted Mr. NIXON'S resolution by
a large majority.
TRE PRESS.-PRITAAI)S willA; WEDNESDAY. JUNE 11, 1862.
FROM - WAS.II,
Sp!cial Deopatotieo to ".
Te President has sent' a message Congress. saying
that it is desirable that each legialatio as may be neces
sary' to carry the Seward-Lyons treat . for the 'moues
sion of the dare trade, into effect, s Il be enacted as
soon as may comport with the conven i ence of Congress.
The Danish Government Ofere to Take
• Our Negroes. ,•*. ' •
Colonel BAARTOFF, charge d'affaires of Denmark, hie
addreeeed a letter to the Secretary of State upon the sub
ject of the advantages offered hd the Is‘nd of dt. Croix
for the employment of persona of this reentry of African
extraction, and negroee found on board'Veissele captured
by our anthers. The island, he lays, his been
chocked in progress for want of mina labor, and he
invites the United States to enter into a Convention
whereby the contemplated emigration, may be placed
under the p-otection and guarantee of the two
Governments. The Geveroor of the Delilah West Indies
has oleo appointed a special agent, who has strived in
this country, to makdtho necessary arrabg . emente. Freer
transportation is offered to all who will 'engage to labor
on the sugar plantations for throe years, at the same coin.
pulsation as Is given to the ,native popelation. Recap
tured Africans, being semi-eavagee, mutiluiwever, un
dergo apprenticeship.
Secretary SEWARD, in replying, says he is not autho
rized to accept the proposition at this tone for a Conven
tion. The dieposition of recaptured Africans is now
prescribed by law. It is probable, however, that Con
gress may be disposed en to modify the exieting legislation
upon the subject as to meet the wishes °Title Danish Go
vernment. lie has submitted copies of the correspond
• snot to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee iu each
Renee of Congress.
0011111 bl RSASTOPF, in reeponse, says the place ho had
furnished would be entirely satisfactory front a Christian
and humane point of view, and would, moreover, relieve
the United States from a great moral responsibility, and
from the very large expense which, it, be was correctly
informed, is contracted aith the preempt arrangements
for the transfer of the recaptured Africans to the Repub
lic of Liberia,
Naval Expedition to Georgetown, S. C
he Navy Depaitment 11113 rcceived dospatchoe from
which it appears that Corn. PRENTISS, of the Albatross,
recently sailed up the interior water of South Carolina
to G orgetown. Be crossed the bar on the 21st nit. with
his own veteel and the Norwich, tient. Com. Duscsis,
anti enti.redWittyon Bay. After passing several deserted
sedoubte, near the light house, an extensive fortification
.was obeerved on South Island, with apparently several
large guns mounted, which turned out to be Quakers.
This fort was found to be deserted.
Another fortification was found on Cat Island. On
the 22d be stood up the bay for Georgetown, entered
Swampit creek, steamed past the city's wharves, but not
being prepared to hold the Place, he abstained from en
attack, knowing that a contest with the artillery and
cavalry in the place would compel him to destroy the
town.
He afterwards ascended the Wiseman river to a point
ten miles above Georgetown, through a tine eonntry,
and meeting no resistance. He brought off eighty con.
trabands. The rebels were leaving their plantations,
driving their negroes before them in all directions.
Information has been received at the Contrast Office of
the Poet Office Department which leads to the belief that
ell the mail e despatched from the East for the Pacific coast,
by the overland route via St. Josephs and Placerville,
between the let and 211 of April last, have been lost or
detained )9 depredations committed by the Indian's at
some point east of Belt Lake City, and that the mails sent
from the racific to the Tam by the same route, between
March 20th
.and April 27th, have also met with deten
tion, and from the seine source. Thin information to
given that correepondeuce within the date mentioned
may be duplicated, if thought proper, by those interested.
The mails are, for the present, despatched from Now
York, for the Pacific, by steamere, via Panama, on the
Ist, Bth, 16th, and 24th of each month. An agent has
been directed to go over the route from St. Josephs, for
the purpose of recovering the missing matte, if.oractioa
hie, and forwarding them . to their declination.
t nn early stage of this session it was proposed, in the
House, to create the office of solicitor of customs for the
large ports of . the North, on the plea that the suits
arising from the enforcement of the revenue laws were ao
numerous as to•be too laborious for the district attorneys
who now have charge of them. It was proposed to make
this a salaried office, at fire thousand dollars per annum,.
and to detach a portion of the custom-house clerks for
the office of the solicitor. Tho bill met with much oppo
sition from the press and commercial men, and to-day
was taken from the Clerk's table in the Henna,' and post
poned until the Beat session of Congress, thus defeat
ing It.
An ofncer of the 4th lowa Cayalry, who was released
from prison in Richmond four deys ago, visited the
Capitol to-day. He is unable to give much information
owing to hie confinement, but heard enough to rather
him that the rebels intend to make a stand in front of
Richmond, and to yield Up if the maul was against
them: He could not say whether the rebels had been
ieinforced by portions of BILIIREGARD'S army, brit moat
probably had not. The rebate complain diet we noire
tanned to carry out the agreement for an exchange of
prkonere, and alts as an instance that .we declined to
exchange General BllcaNlin for General Passris3.
They, therefore, will not giro up Colonel COROOILLN for
any colonel of their army whom we may have.
Admission of Utah.
The memorial and Constitution for the admission Of
Utah into the Union as an independent State, drawn up
in General Convention at Salt Lake City, were presented
in the Senate to-day. The memorial sets forth that the
Territory bag sufficient population to entitle it to be
formed into a State, and that the people aro prepared to
thus change their form of government. The Conetitu•
tion seems to be in the venal form of most State Gonstita
Gone, and distinctly provides that there shall be no in
terference with religion, freedom of Speech or of the
pima --these to be governtd by the dictstes of conscience.
The accompanying documents are drawn up with great
taste and care.
Repreaentative BEDOITIOK. of New York, returned
to-day from a visit to the army in front of Richmond.
Re reports affairs as in a very Satisfactory condition, and
adds that all of the wounded in the late battle have been
remoled from within the lines of the army to the hos
pital steamers, most of which had departed for Northern
The senate passed a bill today donating lands to each
Elate and Territory for agricultural and mechanical par-
Poser, at the rate of thirty thousand acres tor each Sena:
tor and Bepresentative. By this bill. Pennsylvania will
receive nearly one minion acres.
New Hospital. . •
OCCASIONAL
WASIIIKOT
Prebident's Ittemmge to
Pacific Mails Missing
Solicitors of Customs.
The Exchange of Prisoners
The Wounded of the Late Battle
Agricultural Colleges
Mr. IVILsos, of Misaachusetts, introduced a bill into
tla Senate today, appropriating seventy-five thousand
dollars for the purchase of the late residence of Senator
Donctes, and adjoining buildings, for hospitals. They
are now used by the Government for that purpose.
Additional Surgeons.
The Senate Military Committee, to-day, reported fa-
Torably on the bill published in to-day's Press for one
hundred and sixty additional surgeons of volunteers.
.Not Used Hospital for Hospital Purposes,
Numerous complaints have been made, that, while the
vacant white house, owned by the rebel General LEE,
was guarded by soldiers to prevent trespass, our
wounded lay ou the ground and In tents In reply - to
these, it has officially been stated that no reuuisitiod bid
been made by the medical authorities for then a of. that
residence, and that, iu addition, it Is email, and not so
comfortable for the wounded as tents.. i
Arrival of Rebel Prisoners. .
One brindred and Ofty-nine rebel prisonereiprhrobilly•
of the Ocorgia Tigers, and lgth Virginia Seglnient;•osp.
timed recently at Front Itejal, were brought here tottlai..
and transferred" to the Draveit guard, by whom they
'were escorted to the Ohl Capitol military prison.
Naval Appointments.
.Acting Assistant Surgeon Thomas Welsh has been OP.'
dared to the bark Fernandina; Henry E. Rhodes 'loe .
been appointed acting first assistant ongineer, s antrar,
dered to the gunboat Sonoma, at Portsmouth,ik
James L. Donne° has been appointed acting eallidabi
engineer, and ordered to the same poet on duty.. ,
Miscellaneous.
Colonel filn.tua, of ono of the 1111nole regiments in ,
the command of General PRP.SSISS, captured at Shiloh,
reached Washington on Sunday night, and last evening
bad an interview with the President. He bore a propo
sition for a general exchange of prisoners, and, being
paroled himself,' was exceedingly Anxione to be included
in the excbarge. He lett Captain WILLIeu Ho Meagan
at Montgomery, Alabama, in excellent health, and had
a letter from him to hie brother WALTER, in this city,
which was delivered to-day.
Gen. Burnside at Fortress Monroe.
BALTIMORE, Juno 10 —The Old Point boat arrived this
morning, with advices from Fortress Monroe to last tie-
Mug.
Major General Burnside and staff arrived at an early
hour yesterday morning, having come through the Albe
marle and Chesapeake canal in the small gunboat Port
Royal, leaving Newborn on Saturday..
The Port Royal came through both cute of the canal.
The lower one, connecting the Curranck and Albemarle
Seattle, bad been obstructed by piles and sunken vee
eels, and the previous arrival. by the inland route have
avoided this cut by traversing the whole length of the
Corrituck Sound.
The progress of the Port Boyal was considerably de-'
layed by obstructions, but General Burnside succeeded
in blowing them up, and opening the canal. Norfolk was
reached at midnight,. and, after communicating with
General Plate and procuring a pilot, the Port Royal came
to Fortress Monroe. The object of General Burnelde'e
visit was to have important communications with the
Government, and, having meat despatches and received
replies, he will return.
There is but little news In the Department of North
Carolina.
The 24th Massachusetts Regiment, at Washington,
N. C., wee attacked from an ambush by a North Carolina
regiment on Wednesday last, while on a 'coat, and lost
six men killed and a number wounded, three of whom
subsequently died.
Several cavalry skirmishes have recently taken place
in the vicinity of Washington, in one of which one man
was wounded and two were taken prisoners; and in
another of which fifteen of. our cavalry, only having one
man wounded, put to flight a rebel force of cavalry and
infantry ten times their strength
The gunboat Albany arrived from Hatteras on ha
day night, but brings no news.
From Memphis
CnicAuo.Juna 30.—.1 special despatch from Memphis,
dated the Bth 'natant, says it been decided by the
Federal authorities not to allow runaway , negroea to
come into cur lines under any circumstances, and that
they have no control over them outside the lines.
The Memphis Post Othee
OAIXO, Jane 10.—A. H. Markland, special agent of the
Pat Office Department, left here, to•day, for Memphis,
to 'Dien the Pat Office at that place
Arrival of Wouuded•at Harrisburg
IlAtiuisnoso, June 10.—Fifty wounded men arrived
here this morning in charge of two surgeons. They were
conveyed to the hospitals, where preparations had been
made to receive them.
The Steamer North American.
MONTREAL, June 10.—The steamer North •Amerioutt
paned Father Point at 11 o'clock test night.
FROM .GEN. FREMONT'S' ARMY.
GTON.
Boot of tho Rebels on the Shenandoah.
, June 10, 1862.
DEATH OF THE REBEL GEIV.ASFIBY.
ongress.
Another Battle with
Rebel Army.
SEVERE LOSS ON BOTH SIDES.
RETREAT OF THE ENEMY.
lIIS POSITION OCCITPIEDRY OUR TROOPS
WA SiIMOTON, June I.o.—The following was received at
the War Department this morning:
. .
14 lee-VELD,
HA BRISORDUISG; JIIIIO T-9 P. M
• -
To the Ron. R. if. Stanton, Secretary of War:
The attack upon the enemy's roar, yesterday, precipi
tated his retreat. Their toes in killed and wounded.wea
wry severs, and many of both were left on the held.
Their retreat , is by an almost impassable road, along
which many wagons were left in the woods; and Wagon
loads of blankets, clothing, and other aoninments are
piled up in all directions, Doting the evening many of
the rebels were killed by shells from se battery of Gen.
Brigade
Gen. Ashby, who covered the retreat witly hi.* whole
cavalry force and three regiments of infantry, and who
exhibited admirable skill and audacity, was among the
killed. _
Gen.. Milroy made a reconnoissance today, about
'seven miles on the . Port Republic road, and discovered a
portion oe the enemy's force encamped in the timber.
GRNORAL FRZAIONT'S HRADQUARTURS,
HARRISONBURG, Juno 7, 1862;
In the skirmish yesterday, beyond the town, the rebel
loos is ascertained to have been very heavy. Most of
onr sounded here been brought in.
Colonel Tisme, of the Bucktail Regiment, is in. the
enemy's hands. The body of Captain Raines, of the
Bev/ Jersey cavalry, bee been found.
Captains 81161131 re and , Clark, of the same rogimenty
are prisoners and•tot wounded.
Col. Ashby, tbe famous rebel cavalry leader, Is iindoubt.
edly killed. This is ascertained from people living man
and from the prisoners taken. Major Green, of his re..
&tient, was shot by Captain Broderick, of the Now
Jersey cavalry.
8 miles beyond Harrisonburg, Va., Juno 6, 1862.
Can. Fremont hae• overtaken the enemy, of whom ho •
haa been in pursuit for a week, and bas forced him to
fight, and driven. him, with. heavy loss, from his chosen.
position. He left Harrisonburg this morning at 6 o'clock,
and advanced in pursuit of Jackson by the road loading
to Port Bepublie. On the left of the turnpike to Stanton,
7 race beyond Harrisonburg, the, advanced guard dis
covered the enemy posted in the woods, to the left and
front, apparently in force.. Artillery was sent to the front
and commenced•ehelling E without eliciting any reply.
Jackson having at last been forced to make a stand
with his whole army, had completely masked his position
in the woods, and various. sksrmialtars and cavalry were
sent forward. The whole column came rapidly up, and
a line of battle, extending nearly two miles, was promptly
formed under the direction of Colonel Albert, chief of the
staff Before itwas completed, General Stahl with the
Garibaldi Guards, beCame engaged with the enemy on the
extreme right, and forced him to fall back. ,
At hell paint 12 o'clock a general advance was d`rdarod,
and the whole line moved forward. Gen. alilroy had the
centre, Gen. Schenck the right, and Gen. Stahl, with all
hie brigade except the Garibaldi Guards, the front. Gen.
Blenker, Gen..Bahlen, and Col. Steinweickher's brigadee
composed the reserve.
The line moved down the elopes of three hills into the
valley, anclnp tho opposite accents, which at the BUM..
nifty were covered with woods. In these woods, and in
the belts and heavy limber beyond, the enemy Were
posted.
General Stahl, on the left, wee first engaged. General
Milroy and General' Scherick found the enemy soon after,
and the battle almost immediately become general.
General Stahl, after Serivner's battery had shelled the
rebel position, advanced the tlth and 45th New York Re
giment's through' the woods into an open Sold, on the
other side of which the enemy's right wing wee con
cealed in the woods The Pith advanced gallantly under
a heavy fire, but being so long unsupported by the 45th,
and largely outnumbered, were forced to retire.
Colonel Wietehell was severely wounded, and the whole
regiment badly cut up, being not lees than three hun
dred, more than half of its strength. The enemy's pur
suit was chocked by the artillery. General Stahl finally
withdrew his brigade to a strong position, ropulaing a.
flank movement and holding his wing firmly.
Gen. Milroy advanced hie centre, the artillery fire•
compelling the enemy to give ground.
Gen. Schenck, en the right, twice drove back the rebel&
who attempted to turn his position.
Along the whole line our artillery, under Colossal
Fll9oll'll direction, was served. with groat vigor mid
.precision, and one final success was largely duatodia
effect, -
"The enemy snuereo - man - severely. - One rebel regl-
ment lost two-thirds of its number in an attempt to
capture Widrich% Battery; which cut them to Pieces
with canister jat fitly paces. The rebel batteries were
repeatedly, silenced and forced to abandon their posi
hens.
• Colonel Chrsret, with his weak brigade, took and held
the centre of the enemy's position, and has his encamp
ment thine tonight.
Our forces were outnumbered at alrpointa, but have
occupied the rebel lines, and forced them to retreat.
Tbo loss is heavy on both sides, the enemy suffering
especially from our artillery.
The Garibaldi Guards lost nearly 200, the 25th Ohio
60. The total loss is estimated at from fiod to 800 killed
wounded, and missing. Col. Van Use, of the DeKali
Regiment ; Capt. Paull, of the Bth New York ; Capt.
/Wiesner, of the 29th New York; Capt. Stellate, of the
88th New York ; Capt. Charles Worth, of the 25th Ohio,
and Enirgeon Courtwell, of the 82d Ohio, are all wound
ed. Many other offices are 'wounded or killed.
The rebels fought wholly under cover, while our troops
were forced to advance through" Open fields. The enemy's
advantages of position and numbers were counterbalanced
by General Fremont's skilful handling of his troops and
the coolness and determination with which he pressed hie
success.
The fight was futiooe for three hours, and continued
till ntarly dark.'
Oar army sleeps on the field of battle
OFFICIAL DESPATCH OF GEN. FREMONT
The Battle at Union. Church.
HRLDQUARTERS AMIT IY TITS FIELD, /
RAMP NEAR PORT REPUBLIC, JUDO 8, 9 P. M. S
To the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War :
•
[Nu. 403
The army left Harrisonburg at six this morning, and
at bait past eight my advance engaged the rebels about
seven miles from that placo, near Union Church. The
enemy was very advantageously posted -in the timber,
haying chosen his own position, forming a smaller circle
Ulan cur own, and with his troops formed la masses.
It consisted, undoubtedly, of Jackson's entire force
The battle began with heavy firing at 11 o'clock, and
lasted with great obstinacy and violence until' 4 in the
afternoon. Some skirmishing and artillery firing con
tinued from that time until dark. Our troops fought oc
casionally undpr the murderous fire of greatly-superior
;numbers, the hottest of the small-arm fire being on the
left sing, which was held by General Stahl'a brigade,
consisting of five regiments.
p Bayonet and canister shot were used freely with great
effect by our men.
The lose on both sides is very great, and ours is very
heavy among the °hirers. A. full report of those who
distinguished themselves will be made without partiality.
I desire to say that both officers and mon behaved with
I plendid gallantry, and that the service of the artillery
was especially admirable.
We are encamped on the Geld of bottle, 'Atoll may be
renewed etany moment,
The Pursuit of Beauregard by lialleck's
Army—Official Despatch.
Walnut:o7'ot, June 10.—The following message wee
received at the War Department this morning : .
COMNTLI, Juno 9.
To the Hon. Edwin H. Stanton, Secretary of )Par:
The enemy has fallen back to Tupelo, fifty miles by
railroad, and nearly seventy by wagon road.
Gen. rope estimatee the rebel loss from casualties, pri
soners, and deserters, at over twenty thousand, and Gen.
Buell at between twenty-five and thirty thousand.
A person who was employed iu the Confederate com
missary department says they had one hundred and
thirty thousand men in Corinth, and that now they
cannot muster much over eighty thousand.
Porno of the fresh graves on the road have been
opened and found filled with arms.
Many of the prisoners of war beg not to be exchanged,
sating that they purposely allowed themselves to be
tell OP.
Bueuregard idcoeeit retreated from fieldwin, on Satdr
.day afternoon, to Okolona. 11. W. lIALLECK,
Maier General.
•
Relief for Starving Women and Children.
SS: LOUIS, June 10. —Jamas E.Zealmsa, esident of
the Western Sanitary Commission, this morning motile
despatch from Gen linileck stating that hundreds of
*oaten and children in the vicinity of his operations are
fn a starving condition, their husbands and brothers hay
all been pressed into the rebel service mid robbed of
eVerything, and appealing to the citizens of fit. Louts
t4r relief for the sufferers. Mr. &adman laid General
*Heck's deepatch before the Union Chamber ot Com
niuce, and $2.000 worth of provisions were. immediately
subscribed, and a committee appointed to receive and
millect food or money to buy it with. Similar proceedings
were bad at the old Chamber of Commerce, and liberal
subscriptions of provlsione.and money made.
Ina citizens generally are ale° furniehiog large sup
plies, and, from the present appearances, the hospital
steamer Empress, which will leave for Pittsburg Land
ing to-morrow, will be heavily laden with food for the
Buffering Poutheiners. Contributions from other points,
adereesed to Brigadier General Callow,
chief of staff, at.
Conon), will be properly distributed. Money fa not re.
'united, as there are no provieions in the country to pox
'three
J4 - YERSON CITY, Jane 9.—ln Convention, tcoday, the
bill lethal's the qualifications of voters, as reported
back b
4 0
y the Committee on Elections, being before the
Con hoe Mr Moss' eubstltnte, postponing all elec..
Hoes ' 118 84, wee withdrawn, to allow a direct vote on
disfralchising rebels. •
Mrkireckinridgv, r f St.l.ouis, then moved an amend
ment,
i ti
substance the same as. the provision struck out
by DI Ores amendment last ',Belt, upon which a long
discus a n ensued, finally resulting in the adoption of the
amen ent—yeas 35, nays 31. This result shows a great
chaos since Friday, when the same provision was
Wick out by a vote of 44 yeas t 0 .24 nays.
On adoption of this section, as amended by Mr.
Brecki age, disfranchising the rebels, the vote stood
eyes 30 1 says 27, Kr. Orr voting in the affirmative.
Mt. eckharidge's amendment disfranchise' all per
pg.nn "mimed in , the rebellion since the 18th of Doccunber
last. I
HAsnlinusq, June 10.—It is not generally known that
the grea
ti
ation.l Horse Fair-will be held at the Key
stone P k, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, September 2d
to the 5t inehusive. Arrangements have been made to
secure tl .finest assemblage of imported , blooded, and
native b of homes that baa ever been collected in this
country. , a Rat of premiums will be large, ringing as
high as ~ . • 'Liberal arraugements have been and will
be mule ,th the different railroads Williamsport is
situated I the magnificent valley of the Susquehanna,
and a0c...• ,le by railroads from all parts of the United
Stater!, , is eminently well suited for the exhibition.
, i' •
J. 0. FREMONT,
Major General Commanding
Death of Ashby Confirmed.
GENERAL. FRRYONT'S HEADQUARTERS,
JOHN 0. FBRISIONT,
Major General Commanding
Missouri State Convention
National Aurae Fair.
METH CONGRESS-FIRST SENA
Mr. WILSON (Rep.), of Massachusetts, from thesU!-
tern COkrunlitee, reportrd back the bill proylthns for ant
increasotn the Medical pepartruent of Volunteers:,
Claims for Damages.
Jackson's
Mr. MOIIItTLL (Rep.), of Vermont, offered a resolu
tion, asking the Secretary of War to Inform the donate
whether nay claims have been mule by eitizeue. of the
trriited &stem for destruction of property by the (federal
army, and whether any measures have been taken to
a certain the actrod demesne In each casee•, and if 80,
what le the amoant of, such damage. adopted.
ThWDouglas Ifentital.
Mr. WILSON; of Maeattchusetls, Introduced a bill to
Varchato the lioapiteD known- as Miry Douglas Hospital.
"Referred.
College Lund Wit. • •
The bill donating lonia for the benefit of agricultural
colleges wee taken up.
Ainendznent *rine. Lane ASierpSed.
Ti, amendment offered by Mr. Tape, of Kansa*,
was adopted, limiting the Member of acres to be taken
frostrony one state to 1,0001990. The WS , wee (MC1144811
at some length by illeaara.lkinKon, Pomeroy, Howe,
and ot:Aere, a number of nmandthente adopted, and
pasaod—ye as 32, nay s 7,
Meraage froth ISe Prealdelm.
A , menage from the Pres!dent wee received', trans
mitting the treaty, io reforeuctrto the slave trade with
Great Britain, and a copy of the , correepoudencer thai
subject. 'Referred to the' Committee on Foreign• Ada-
Guns.
The VIQD• PREBIDENT oreee4ed a memorial'or the
citizens' of IA ab, asking edmiision•ae a State tirribr the
title of the 'state of Deseret.
Mr. LATlltal (Pain.), of Califc:7nle, moved to print
tho memoriam bon,. also, that tho two. gentlemen • here.
claiming to be &meters from that &kite be admitted. to•
the floor of the Senate.
On motion of Mr, LANE (Rep.), of , Ransab, the me
morial was refound tcr the Committee on Territottee.
Contingent Ptiveensee et the Department nt
Mr. TRUMBI3Lti (tßep.), of I.llinoie,offi3red a resolu
tion instructing the Committee on Foreign Relations to
'moire. whether. any, further legialttlan is necessary
for the moper control of the contingent =pewee of the
btate Departments Ile said he offered the resolution
from seeing items ion hils, from the Horse, like.the fol- •
lowing: Paid, A. Dudley Mann, for diplomatic services
in Switzerland, $4;500 another one—paid, William:
Gasohol c se special agent, $0,200 and again, $1,799
making i 7,000 for special agencies, and to William Pres
ton, minister to Spain, for extraordinary oxpenees, fol
lowing the Queen , to A'regna, $4,000. The resolution
was adopted.
On motion of Mr. FRSSWORN (lim), of mains, the
bill making further appropriations fur sundry civil al . -
ponses for /862 and 1883"warr taken up.
Commissioners and Consul Generals-for Li
beriamrs& Hayti.
Mr. SUMNER (Nap.); of Massachusetts, offered an
amebdment appropriattoggliktXt for a commissioner and
consul general to lilayti, and' 114,500 for a like officer to
Liberia. Adopted—yeas PI nayti, Messrs. Gentile,
Davif t Noemit4, - Paiva,l3autabury, and Btarka--6.
Tho bill paBhed.
The INleNtal Approsoritition Bill.
Mr. FESSENDEN, from- the CAnntittee on leinince,
reported beck the naval npproprietion bill with amend
.
went°.
Mr. 'WILSON (Rep.); of bEassechnsetta. moved to
take u➢ the bill making an amendment to the fugitive•
Nave bill. Agreed to—yeaa nays 10.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Fraudulent Otintracters.
Mr. THOMAS (Rop.), - of Massaohmette, reported, from
the Committee on the Judiciary, a bill to pnoiih fraudu
lent contractors, funnelling supplies to the Government.
Indian Agenoy.
The Bowie paseod the bill .for the appointment of
another Indian agent for Now• Mexico, there belog.al
remly six in that territory.
Adjournment.
Pending the conaldoration of the - bill the Homead—
jonrued.
River Shipments to Memphis and New
•01NOINNITt, June I.o.—The Secretary of the Treasury
bits tblegraphed the president of the Chamber of Com.
mere* that shipments can be made to Memphis and. New
Orleans as soon as the river is clear, subject to the raga..
lations of the commanders at the portwof destination.
Another Conflagration at. Qatebee:
QUEBEC, June 10.—Our city was visited With:anotbor
large Ate this morning. A hundred house, principally
of vrocd, and the Property of workmen,in the ahlp.yacda,
were burned.
The Evacuation of Fort Pillow
(correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial, June.s.l
In the east, and directly over Pillow . , where we re
cently obeerved the clouds of whits smoke, now, with tile•
darkness of night, may be Been the red, lurid glace of
conflagration, indicating the burning (Atha enemy's gun
boats. The big sheet of dancing, dickering flame, how-.
ever, does not recede with the Mississippi current. The
Are is on the main shore—the enemy , having evacuated,.
with the torch are destroying all they eannot pos
sibly remove. The rebels,. in. r od riot, are destroying
their own existence.
THURSDAY, June sth, 6 A. SI., when the "Ilam" flock
with ene nuivereal whereas and a furious dash, shake.
their hailers and "go in"—hoad on. They advance "Lim
force upon the enemy's worke.". Colonel Eliot, of the
"Same," is entitled to distinguished consideration, hav
ing first planted hie foot and flag on.rebel soil, recently
occupied by the valiant Itillipigde. The colonel, how
ever, commando an independent " Sam" institution—She
peculiar favorite of the great Secretary Stanton. Com
modore Davis, commanding this flotilla. being a man of
limited practical and scientific knowledge, as le the emus
with all naval officern..for ooaor Stanton knowe or cares
a...icor , . Rams" with ekill and grace, and an
ounce or two of Webster's impudence, precedes or pilots
the Commodore's flotilla into the rebel land. The
ee Rams" are safe! No lives lost !;
Fort Pillow was evacuated, and, although understood,
it way be gratifying to the friends of our Seaman and
soldiers to know that, thus far, we have not lost a single
lite by accident or otherwise.
Citizens residing in this vicinity say the enemy have
retreated to Grenada, Miss., ae noted in our last letter.
Their gunboats expect to get up the Yettowbrisha river, a
tributary of the Yazoo.
LETTER MUM NEW YORE
[Coireepondence of The Yrssed
This morning, Clements Herring and Barbara Herring
were brought up in custody to the Marehal'e office, hav
ing been detected in the passing_of several counterfeit
three-cent pieces of the coin of the United Stateaof
Ame
rice. The officers proceeded to the place where the pri
soners said they lived; and there discovered a number of
coins and coiEing materials, and among the latter a litho
graphic plate for printing bogus twenty-dollar notes on
the 6- Confederate" States of America, all properly
ready, with the sign-manned of Jeff Davis and other
officials of that bogus government. It is doubtful whether
the possession of this plate is any offence in this latitude,
but the prisoners will bo held for the passing of the bogus
three. cent pieces of United States coin.
..One fif the finest Ornaments of which any navy yard
can boast has Jost keen tinished et Brooklyn. It is the
armamental square, fronting the Lyceum, on which a
complete battery of cannon, of all dimensions, is mount—
ed on skids. An ordnance house is erected in tie centre,
where delicate jobs—such as repairing the mailer work
of guns— aro performed. The square is about three
hundred feet iu circumference.
krs. Stoddard, wife of the poet, has a novel in Mese of
George W. Carleton, entitled "The idorgesons." This
is a novel of New England life, written ea an autobiogra
phy by its supposed heroine. The scene is on the sea
board, and in a few iuland towns. The characters are
the men and women with whom the heroine comes in
contact.
The United States transport 'Eastern State has just
arrived from Hatteras, having on board one hundred and
fifty-two reloaard Union prisoners.
Trow's New York City Directory for the year ending
Nay 1, 1883, is now out. This work contains 153,188
names, against 152,825 last Year, showing an actual in
crease in spite of the war.
One thousand bides of cotton wore sold today for
Government account, at the corner of. Wall and 'Front
streets in this city. About six hundred and fifty bales
were the Lea Island variety; the cotton having been
gathered at Fort Royal, mostly by the contrabands. The
aggregate amount of money realized by the sale is not
far from 1250400. One thousand bales New Orleans
confiscated cotton will be sold to-morrow at noon, at
Lambrler's, Atlantic Dock.
The bodies of Col. James Miller, of the 81st Pennsyl
vania volunteers, and John Lafayette Riker, of the 82d
New York volunteer?, both of whom wore killed at the
battle of Fair Oaks, Lave been Ii leg in state in the Go.
vernorie room, at the City Hall, to day, and throngs of
people have been pouring in to take a last look at teem
ever since ten o'clock this morning. The flags on the
B all and principal buildings in Broadway are at half
lOW. The military procession u was formed at throe
o'clock ibis afternoon, and the remainuremoved from
the City Ilall to Greenwood.
On Thursday, the Gaited States marshal will sell at
auction the cargo of the schooner Sarah and Caroline—
turpentine; the cargo of the schooner Hattie Jackson—
molasees and the cargo of the schooner Joanna Ward—
assorted cigars, soap,
The new Cremorne Gardens were open to the public
_last evening with groat eclat, and the numerous visitors
expressed their delight at the ample arrangements fur
the comfort of guests. The entertainments in the Temple
.of Music were enthuslaitically applauded. When the
present "cold term" ehall hare snbsided the gardens
will bo thronged with visitors.
From W. B. Zieber,—The Edinburgh Review
for April, containing eleven articles, of which the
beet are a biography of Richard 111. , Modern Do
mestic Barrios, Public Monuments, and a "slash.
ing " ovitieism upon Aidison's Lives of Lord Cas
tlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart. '
From S. C. Upham,—" A Compilation of Pen.
'ion, Pay and Bounty Laws; with instructions,
forms, and decisions," published by - the Tribune
Company, Chicago.
From Samuel S. White,—The June number of ilia
Deltera Cosmos.
From Willie P. Hazard,—" Replies to Rings
and Reviews,' " by Seven English Clergyinen,
with a preface by the Bishop of Oxford.- 1 vol.,
438. Appleton k Co., New York. The Itiehop'e
preface is what might have been expected from
his pen, for he announce/1 that he wrote it without
haling had time to read any one of the Replies he
endorses. The.s., however, are able and deer,
and worthy of being considered equal to the
"Aida to Faith "lately published.
THE CONTINENTAL MONTHLY.—From T. B.
Pugh, corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, wo
have received the June number of this magazine,
completing the first volume. In it is commenced
a new serial story, by Mr. Kimball, author of "St.
Leger," which promises well. The other most
readable papers are Mr. Henry Leland's " Maca
roni and Canvas," giving lively sketches of artist
life in Italy; "Recollections of Washington Ir
ving ;" a further portion of the intense Southern
tale, "Among the Pines," and The Editor's Table.
This last is an agreeable melange. One of its best
• hits is the sequel of Bulwei's "Strange Story," in
which Lilian appears in matronly character, weigh
ing thirteen stone ; Fenwiok, still in Australis,
father of a large small family; Faber married to
Mrs. Ashleigh ; Louis Grayle selling detersive soap
in the streets of London, and Mrs. Colonel Poyntz
patronizing Secessionists in London, the world of
fashion having shaken her oil. The fault of this
magazine is the preponderance of political matter.
Politics are for newspapers, literature for magazines.
ENGLISH PICTORIALS.—From S. C. Upham, 403
Chestnut street, we have the Illustrated News of
World, and the Illustrated London News, of the
24th May. The first of these bee a sne portrait,
engraved on steel, of the Countess of Shaftesbury,
as she was thirty years ago. The illustrated Lon
don .News is especially attractive. It gives the usual
supplement, with a colored supplement having two
views of the Groat Exhibition, and a new map of
London, four feet by three. There aro also* twenty
five engravings on wood, and a graphic account of
run by rail from Washington to St. Louis, written
by Frank Viletelly, the special artist of that paper.
WiBIII46SOI, Jae
SENATE. ]7
The Medical Department.
TAn State ot.Etseret
Sundry ,C 1 Expenses.
Fugitive-Slave Bill.
Orleans
New Toxic, Juoe 10, 1883
Publications Received
LATER - FROM EIIROPE.
.Arrifal of the City of Washington
at New York.
The City of Walhingtou brings us London detettto
the 26th The yofeeirlog extract' will be real with late•
teat :
ONNUAL VP/Las's MIL TART MILE
[From the London Times, 28th ]
Were the task of subilkiing and enfolding in subjection
the Posthorn States of benerica less gigantic than ft is,
the steps now daily-gained might give pronase of a soeeaY
consummation. Seen thronsh' the ningntrying medium
of the official reports of the North, every tfay bee its vic
tory and its new area of conquest. .But, even after ma-
Mpg exterishe allowance for' the fervor of the Federal
imagination, great facts do loom out into wdistlnctuees
nor to be mormderstood. _So In , as the American eaters
are concerned, the conquest—be It temporary or perma
nent we bare yet to leerneeeme Mmest complete. Nor
folk ie now tickled to,the Federal captures. A dIVIMon of
6,000 men sufficed', without a fight; and : by a ranee de
monstration; to drive the ContodeMstes from their only
ezieig. Barrette, upon which, at the commence
ment of this war, so mach reliance was placed,
11 now like a little • Bebattopol after Sebastopoi bus
fallen. he navy 'aid, with all the stores end ma
chinery, barbeen tketroyed, and the vessels which it
sheltered Mite been szok or burned Ncifolit bee fallen,
. . . .
how ever, not, like Sebastopol, after a glorious resistance,.
but Without :robot fired; and the nuns shovr , nothinrbta
the deferminotiOn• of the aloutherfars to destroy what ,
they cannot d#end. Here Is au mid t;l* the Confederate
avy. Hero le an end,•ollie, to all oar hopes er lean:dug
something more from the prerwesa of the Merrimac: That.
celebrated Iron. clad ship; which was the first to test in ,
real battle the !dub of thrnew invention, has perished'
ingloriously. Bar destrnottent Is announced with •an
apology. She wearso bitiokaered by enemies that . she'
dared not venture out ; the WWI , 01) large and so deop tbat
she could not pursue her smeller:antagonists Into shallott ,
waters. She had amuck one gnus:Chloe, ; she had read:d
enied the North, made New Voris anxious and Boston
afraid, and bad occupied n•goordi naval force: All Oho
was capable of doing had bernedona; a force dm could
not hope to resist was coming-IN:my upon her; so she was
blown up. !Inch has been the Altera the elerrimac.
Perkeps wo shall be now - ailswitell to know something
more shoot her. Europe is - still 4 cations as t bow she
came to accomplish her great. setiteeement, and how tO
MRS ehe tatted to repeat it; .whek. her strength wee, and
what her weakness; and.why it; was.lser masters could
not make profit oven of bertostructlon% It is impossible
yet to. believe that all watrgot•crat , ot - her which might
have beep obtained. In the early , daye ad this war much
11101 expected front the 811pIriorknowlidge and experience
of the naval commanders who adhered to the SAIL
but hitherto it would appear' that the science of their
naval men- bas only taugtt them , to-Teresa* difficulties
Th 3 ignorance of adventmous tamale'', who forced
their wooden Tess°la mist stone forte and through
cbaineand beams, and iron-clad ablpr end batteries, id
en Ignorance which Fortune favors nod. Victory does
notAlsown. Sven the advantage:of ireo togaluet wood
teems ton be lost in Confederate•• hands; IF it be true, as
Captain Deets reports from the Mississippi, that eight
Confederate iron-clad gunboats , have- bean beaten off
by. six Federal vessels. It is not, however, from such
reports as them that we can tato- trnstworthr data for
ours own guidance. All. we can• collect. - from them is
that•the Confederate canse is desperate wherever sues
can be floated, and that the seas sedY/Ters- are all parts
of the Federal empire. •
On kind the Confederate flag yet , flies ;. nor is it borne
only In masterly retreats. The "%dere , OstieraVoee
has tbe candor to admit that his division heti bean at
tacked at Pennington Creek, five miler northwest of Co
rinth, by twenty. thousand thmfederatea,• and after five
boars fighting had been driven acrOse the. oreuk. The
veal history of this affair is, of coursey'veryultfrevent from
tbat which we are allowed to receive, but as•tho•fact that
the Confederates did not paranoia probably authentic, it
is neelikely to hove been a victory of sufficient iinoort
once to have any great influence on- the issue of the
ritelellall 188 Will treading eatitleuely-orion•the heels
of the retreetiog army of Richmond, and aeoeond great
battle is•promited ia the Deighborhood . or , that city. With
tvro . enormoulafmlee In the field , it trould , be piereature
to say that the'Contederate power is altogether broken,
and, although It iv Imposaible to repress some feoltoga or
disappointment at the waut of enterprise shown by the
Confederate seamen, who might surely hare done some.
thing, even with their inferior force, yet we leave no
right to judge with a tasty herahnees the oondoct of the
Confederate generals in retreating upon Mc boson& The
North haenot only the eta and the rivers open to. pro
vision andanpply ita troops, but it has the workshops of
thoworid to supply them with arms and military stores.
On the other hand,. the Booth must - by this time be in
need of
,almost every military necesaity. The contest
• catinotnow be equal, and the Southerners-must be al
most as:inferior in point of arms to theirdnmiers as
Xi:adenoma was to Oortez. At this moment. It I. the
whole world aga , nst thedouth,.aud the surprise should
be, not that they draw back from the coast and the riser
banks, but that they make front at all against:their well
equipped invaders.. This can only be done in the bitter
ness of their hatred and their confidence in the imposal
bility of their entire subjugation. .
What is passing in New Orleans may teach , us what
the apprehensions of these deeperete men are, and what
is the nature of the- fate they dread. The -Drachma-lon
of General Butler realises all that has ever been told of
tyranny by victor over vandukhed. .2"te state of
slavery. endured by a negro in New Orleansocinnet be
rears abrabute than that now suffered by. the whites of
that city. They ate compelled, under pain of "severe
punishment," to treat the Federal flag with the utmost
deference and respect, witch is treating the New
Orleantsis much as Gesler treated the Swiss They are
compelled to open their shops and their Placesof amuse .
meet whether they wish to do so or nut; .and while the
shops and theatres are thus open, any liberties which
may lee taken by General Butler's garrison, or by any of
theis Mental, must not be resented on pain of death.
All reseemblages are forbidden ; State property, as
well as Contederate property, must be surrendered,
and everything proposed to bo published bye- newspaper
mast first be authorized by a Federal cantor. Ryan this
proclemation appears to be exceeded by. the practice
under it., for it stems that the Mayor and aldermen of
the city bad already been committed to prison for re
fusing to take the oath of allegiance to President Lincoln.
If this be a sample of the energetic measures by -which
the North holds in subjection what it has already con
quered of the South, we can welt understand me con.
rpiraciee Sc Benrucky, the burning of cotton, the re
cruiting of the two armies of the Confederation, and the
unbroken resolve which seems to reign throughout the
Southern States to hole on to their iudepundeuce to the
lest. .Such severity does not bode well for Euro
pean interests. Tbe•Presidentle proclamation, which
owns the ports of New Orleans, Beamed, and
Port Royal, would have been more welcome here if
it were not accompanied by acts of tyranny likely to
drive the planters to despair, and to prolucethe destruc
tion of all the cotton in stock. The condition/ imposed
by that proclamation must be measured and squared by
the rules of international law, with. which we hope they
will be found to conform. But, as matters are now pro-
reeding, it would seem that neither New Orleans, Beau
fort, nor Port Royal is likely to be for some time to come
of any great use to the world as a cotton part. General
Butler ' with his oaths of allegiance, his forced adora
tion of the Federal bag, Ids 'confiscations, his compd.
gory opening of shops and theatres, his imprisonments,
his punishments, and hit threats of death,le not the man
to make a commercial port prosperous and to temptdown
cotton bales from the interior; and New Orleans, with
its rival issues of paper money, stn of which ie of coarse
now a legal tender t is not a tempting port to which to
consign merchandise.
TIM MEXICAN QUESTION. .
The Daily News says Parliamentary ampere, leaned
yesterday, establish incontestably that oor Government
has, from that to last, acted with a detl&on, frankness,
and rousts ency which cannot be surpassed. tin the
other band, it is impossible not to see that the Preach
troops were snit to Mexico with no lees a purpose than
to overturn the existing Government, and set another in
Ito place. As late as the 4th of the preeent month, 'Hari
Boreal expressed a fear that the &ranch general, anxious
for the canoe of monarchy aim of Catholic unit , may
lend the aid of the French army to the reactionary party
in Mexico, end thee give fresh life to the civil war, which
appear aat present to have almost died away. It is plain
that 'Frame() will be left by Zoe and and Spain to carry
out whatever plans she may think proper in hiexico.
Tnr. id.P.UcESE 'i3IitASS&DORS.
IlawcaarLmox-Tram, Tueeday.—Trie Japaneiso am
bareadore arrived here yesterday afternoon, at twenty
minutes to Ave, and were received at the elation by the
Mayor, officials, and members of the corporation. They
were conducted to the Mallon lintel, where they dined.
After dinner they proceeded M the theatre s attended by
the Mayor. it has been arranged for theta to leave hero
this morning, by special train, for North Seaton, to in
spect the colliery there, after which they will probably
visit the now Deferal pit, and then return to 'Newcastle.
They leave here by special train, shortly after four this
afternoon, for Carlisle, en route for Liverpool.
FRANCE. .
PARIS, May-26—Evening.--The Patric of this even
ing, In an article upon the expedition to Mexico, replied
to the reproach that France has not carried out the
London convention in the following terms:
"We may throw back this eccasation. Spain violated
the convention in taking 'Vera Cruz without waiting for
her allies, and the result showed that she forgot ail the
duties of au alliance loyally contracted. What would the
Spanish Government have said if France had withdrawn
when Prim violated the convention of Londonl It le
Prim who has tailed in the duties of the convention, but
Spain draws back and France remains. That which
afflicts oats that the alliance with Spain can be broken
by the mere rashness ot a general, without the consent of
the Government of the Queen; that a decision of each
gravity could have been taken , without the Cabinet of
Madrid having been consulted upon it, and without its
discuseing an action which it had not authorized."
The Patric can understand that the Government might
modify its policy, but will never comprehend that a
general can withdraw hie troops without the order of his
Government. In France a general who behaved thus
would have to answer for his conduct to a court martial.
Ito one can take any other view of the question.
Thu Patric asks, what would have been said if Gen.
Montauban bad acted in tiffs manner in China 'I
The Patric is happy to bo able to confirm the reported
dissatisfaction of the Spanish troops. The Spanish jour
nals bonito! the independence of Prim in not being wil
ling to follow a policy which was not hue, as if France
had desired to draw Spain into a line of policy whicti was
not hers; for Spain has a greater interest than France
in blioging the expedition to a prosperous termination.
France in the beginning left the direction of the enter
prise to Spain. The Emperor sent reinforcements, and
asennsd a wore pereonal attitude when ho learnt, by the
departure of the Spauieh fleet and other symptoms, that
Prim wee tollowiog a different policy to that of the con
vention of London.
rg.The Engnsh . Government has not shown itself a better
ally than Spain. France bad a right to expect more
from its cooperation ; yet England declared from the
beginning that alit would not go further than Vera Cruz.
The Patric concludes: " Wo hope that our soldiers
will soon return with honor, after having rendered a
service to civilization. They wilt have had the glory of
avenging wrongs, and of having fought singlehaudod for
the partly compromised interests of the European
Powers."
THE FRENCH MOTH ON THE ROltAli QUESTION-TRH
9.04%;i1Z4T10N Or TUB JAPANES4 314ATT45.
ROME, key fie (via iiisnAaii.tiS).—A. note from )L
Thouvenel has been communicated to Cardinal Auto.
oath, stating that Franco does not intend to effect any
change In the present state of the Roman question, and
recommending the Pogo to place more confidence in the
Xmperor's Government.
Ou Thursday last 158 cardinals and bishops voted in
favor of the canonization of the Japanese martyrs. This
morning the number of cardinals and bishops voting to
the seine effect amounted to 189.
ELECTORAL HESSE.
Casent.,'lday 24, Evening.—ln yesterday's fitting the
Council of bliolatere reaolvod upon the re.eetablishesent
of the Constitution and Electoral Law of 1831.
The reports of a modification in the Cabinet are as
yet unfoutded.
FRANKFORT-074-TIER MAINE, May 24.—An extraordi
nary sitting of the Federal Diet took place to.day, at
which the Auetro•Prussien proposition of the Bth of
March, relative to the re-establishment of the Constitu
tion of 1831, in Time Camel, was adopted.
The representative of fleece announced that the Elec
toral Government would comply with the resolution of
the Diet under reserve. .
Toni*, May M —The Officfrif Gazette repels the in
sinuations thrown out against the Government respecting
its conduct in the late events at Brescia and Bergamo,
and says:
It is entirely false that the Government hall in any
way connived at the disturbances or hesitated as to what
measures to *opt. The Government will be ready to
justify its proceedings before Parliament. In the mean
time the public may reef assured that the judicial autho
rities will act with strict impartiality."
May 24--Evening.--The rumors in circulation to-day
on the Snares at Paris of the resign Lion of Battazzi
are completely false. •
't he Minister of War has thanked General Dnrando,
commanding the et cond military department, for the con
duct of the troops during the recent events. In allusion
to the bitter words of Garibaldi, the minister save that
his later letters will cause the reproaches contained in
the former ones to be forgotten.
Ftoaneroz, May 28 —The Constiinzione of to-day
announces the disavory of a great depot of fire-srme.
Forty-four chests fall were seized. Some arrests have
been made.
TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO
Pseta, May 24.—The Paris papers of to -day publish
a telegram from Ragusa, dated the WM lust , scoording
to which the Turt Rib army, numbering 20,000 men, un
der the command of Muebir Ahdi , bad assembled at Pod
gorizza, in Albania, and was about to invade the Monte
negrin territory, in pursuance of definite orders received
from Constantinople.
Four steamers on the lake of Scutari were t) support
the movements of this army. -
he Montenegrins had re•estered their own territory.
SCUTARI, May 22—Two assaults by Luke, Valtato
elicit upon the forfeit - Znbzi have been repulsed with great
loss, the powder, and tools for mining the walls remaining
in the hands of the Turks. .The Montenegrins, after
taking and burning a few houses; in liikalch; attempted
a general attack uson the town,•but were driven ball-
by tbo garrison and the inhabitants, with a INN of 421
kith&
Ppois the laith, Dervieoh Peeba beet the Montenegrins
at Dodge. Next day, the latter '
baying received consi
derable reinforcements, accepted battle Mew. bet Were
completely defeated, haying several flagOitsti a desalt/
of arms is the power of the Tarts
'Upon the 19th Husain Paeha, who had occupied,
without imposition, the country upon the rOytit bank of
the Ilium, threw a brigade across dett river. Ora creamed
it upon the 20th with seven battalions of infantry and
4 000 irregular trasne, and attacked needinge acrd con •
vent of Berane, naturally a strong position, recently for
, titled by the Montenegrins. The Tarim dlelodged the in
surgents from their pests with the bayonet, and pinsuad
them for three hours. The Montenegrin lone ie thosght
lo be very large ; that of the Turks io small.
The Turkish force, nvklbering fourteen battalions sad
3,940 irregolare, entered' .thie Montenegrin territory td-'
day In the neighborhood Cr 10Po7.:
Btnarteoz, May 23.—The' Tarter bate taken two orir.
minely by force from the' &Man polka.-
A gendarme was badly wounded in the stogie.
The popular excitement has been appeased by the au
thorities,.
MAY 22-. The Turkish Paghorrefusee to' give the satis
faction dedlanded by the Bervieyeatithorltkia.
The ElereitM Government bee resolved' not' CV give hp
Turkish prteonere to [Mute, but VY 'punish team' npol Its
own reeponeibility.
BAGUIO., rEr9 26 —Dervisch Paatil'has Ireldesely at
tempted to' pas tbrotigh the dente eV Dinka.
The contest upon froth sides we! mingninavy.
It is rustoredthat the Turks lost smell generarand etag
officers.
• SPAIN.
MADRIP, Dray lt -.According to yowl 'reeetved' hors
from Mexico, Gmers'al Dlblado bad gives 'aVtittel , en
gagement to sign alreaty which had alreadt been loan
ep, for the patmeat of the claims and espettles of the ex
pedition to Mexico-and its which avarrimttafactiote
gnaranteed for the future Is favor of Seal:vend Engles&
WAY 24 EyEzum.—=ltio stated that GenertrYilm . will
be authorized to retarh M. Mexico as ambitetudor TOM
Be will be instructed' to , present Me crcehtntiar !
tb the constituted power, and not to Preside:* Juarez:
tvisces, May 26.—Tho - Ohumber of Deputize Ins sap. ,
;waved of the CoYernmentidli relative to the •toactior
of' tee dieters of Charity.
?lie troubles at Oporto UM berm eopereseei by force. •
• tbe Xing of Pottugat Has ,probtbited the Pdrtkiduose•
'Meitner from going to Rome.
INO5l$ll CUSTOMS --Mon. 'Wet. a Franck%lite
of distinction, who pakeedynnyn. e weeks in Loridini,laa •
retentit nebilabed in Parblila isonresione, under' the
tide of t.' Rbe English at 1.16r0e." . On one occasion,
while riding In an omnibus, IM - formed an ncguaictince
with' a feltow-tiaaesnger, frcnn.whoin he derived many
explanstich.s of the strange thingsibroevr. One of these
we give:- •
addressed a few words to bineconterninge carriage •
whiclVdrovh by. It was too Elie to be elegant, and war
drewn'tAi rwnosngnlflcent hori.air. On the box, adorned'
with heal:Mint fringe ' eat a lib:irk-coated coaohman ; •
there is as net a wrinkle to his white cravat—Lis !slimy
glevee were spotless. In the veined on. downy cushions,
carelessly loanged a man without' a cone, hie arm bare,.
his alee'tee turned up to his alsoulde , rd; an apron, with the •
corner ltirned tip, served him as a girdle—so that the
coachman looked like a gentleman nltring a mechanic
in his working dress. Mons. W. askitlibis neighbor who
end what was the strange-looking occupant of the
dashing carriage.. 'The richest butcher in London,'
wee the rental: its is riding in flu carriage from the •
slaughter-bottle *his residence. Eillpforefethers were
in the eameVosinees; his father letV bins a lirtune or
more then two muttons, and he out al: modesty followed •
his profession--a very honorable cnenciart This gentle
men butcher poseeaeee four millions "
THE BRFPISfI bIUSBUST. The •er-Tossures of the
British Museum. for the past year were - .09,012. being
1502 lees than daring the previous your. 34,589 new
books have been added to the library,•of which 28,e91
were purchased aus the rest acquired* by coptright
Valuable additions dieve also been made to the collections
of ancient statuary end manuscripts ; among the latter
ere over's hundred letter of William Octorpor, including
the autograph copies- of " Johnny Gilpin," '" Alexander
Selkirk," and r•Tire-3sres of the Royal George."
TUE SEAL FISMERY.—The Newfoundland nerd
fishery is very summated this eoeson, and greet excite
ment prevails. EtotteEfi,ooo to 30,000 seals have Newt
caught, the catch. in. a single day everagiig 1,300 or
1,400.
THE CITY.
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF• CONTROL,
—WiI.SIONATION OF A. fithiff-SCHIOOL PRriFES
SOB„—The regular stated meeting of the Board of Schait
Control was held yesterday afternoon •at their room!,
President Benjamin M. Dusenberry in the chair.
Communications were received, es follows:.
From the Second section, asking that the salary of the
janitor of the Wharton-street School House be increased
8100 per annum.
From the Tenth eectios, asking leave to expend POO for
furniture for the new primary school at Thirteenth and
Baca streets, the building.being ready for occupancy.
From the Twelfth ceetion, asking that the Hobert
Vaux colored school be removed from its preseut loeality
to the Masonic Ball, Brown street, above Fourth.
Oue horn the Twenty-first motion, calling the atten-
Hon of the Board to the increase of pupils in the/Sou
derton and Oakdale unclassified school., and ankles for
a third assistant teachenat the Xenderton school, aad •
eecond assistant teachers at the Oakdale school.
From the Twenty-fourth section, asking that the
salsify of the pi incipal•or• the tisane unclassified school
be increased to $6OO per annum.
Also, that an additional teacher be employed in the
colortel school at Oak and Bose ezeeta.
From the Twenty-fifth section, asking for an &ppm.
printion Of $2OO to pat•alaas parthione In the Carrot ,
primary schools.
Alt of those were referred to the appropriate -com
mittees.
The Committee on Accounts reported bills to-the
litonunt of $117,544.3&.
A communication was receired from MIS. Elizabeth
Boovor, asking that duplicate warrants be iestwd to her,
in place of warrants Nos. 2.778 and 4,815, tor• $31.25
each, the originals having been lost. The request was
granted.
The Committee on-Bigh School reported that they had.
accepted the resignation of Alexander J. Mac Neill, pro
fessor of writing, drawing, and book-keeping -in the
Central High School, to date from the lot of deptemher
next.
The Committee on Grammar, Secondary, and Primary
Schools reported a settee of resolutions, authorizing the
directors of the Nineteenth section to open a two-divi
sion secondary school in the Ilegargoe school building;
changing the Burton unclassified school, in the Twenty
fifth section, to-a...two division consolidated grammar
school,.aud a two division primary achoot;,authorizing
the directors of , the Twenty-fifth section, to change Om.
Tyndale primary school to a one division secondary, sad
a three division primary school, and confirming the sp
pointmeitt of en addltlooal teacher in tha primary school.
atTwentieth and New streets, and an additional teeonar
in secondary school No. 2, Sixth section.
The resolutions were adopted.
A resolution was offered that the ochoois in certain,
sections be allowed to hold but ono session per day, com
mencing at 8,15 A. It. and contioulng until l 3 P. M.,
with a half hour for recess, to continuo from the 17th or
June till the beginning of the vacation. '
.This gave rise to much debate, and the subject was.
finally laid on the table.
An appropriation of five hundred dollars was sated
for, to repaper.the wee High School. ;Referred to City
Councils
. .
After the transaction of enT.iii nnlmportant basineaa,
the Board aCjournrd.
TEE BBOVNLONY RECEPTION.--Tha.
following correspondence has been received:
DEPARTMENT OF STATB,
WA.RITINGTON, June 7, 1862.
William D. Lewis, Esq . , Philadelphia:
MY DEAR But: I have received the communication
with which you have honored me to attend. EL public re
ception which is to be SSYCD by the citizens of Philadel
phia to the Bey. Wm. 0. Brownlow, of Tennessee.
The pressure of CRS% here is such as to forbid my ea-.
ceptunco of Lovitatious to public assemblages of any kind,
isi,d I tun, therefore obliged to excuse myself in the rils
scot case. But If Mr. Broralow ehmold come to this city
I shall be proud and happy to receive hint and to extend
to Lim all the bospitaliuze In my power.
Rle loyalty, zeal, patience, and magnanimity are above
all praise, and they have won for him an imperishable
utituo in the blew' y of our country.
I have the honor to be,
My dear sir, very truly yours.
WM. R. SRWARD.
WASHINGTON Jima 9, 1862.
Mr. W. D. Lewis, Chairman Comsnitim of Arrange-
',tents, tEc.:
bin : I am in receipt of your letter of the 6th Met., In
viting me to be present at a public reoeptioa, to be given
by the citizens of Philadelphia to the ROT. Wm. 0.
Brownlow, on the 13th inst. I beg you to be amused
that I am most gratified for this token of kindly remem
brance and good will on the part of yourself and of thaw
you represent, and would bo honer, did not other en
garmenta prevent it, to accept your courteous and cor
dial invitation. I sympathize fully with the spirit that
animates the citizens of Philadelphia in this movement,
and a onid esteem it a privilege to be permitted, by my
presence, to do honor to that heroic and unconquerable
patriot, whose loyalty to our bleeding country has been
but laniard and ennobled by the fiery ordeal of persecu
tion through which he has been called to pass.
'Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. EtOLT.
THE EIIIRIFF CONTESTED-ELECTION
CASE.—Yeeterdey, in the Common Plena, Judges Thomp
son, Allison and Ludlow, shortly after the opening of the
court, kreesre. Gowan and Hirst for Mr. Ewing, the
respondent, asked leave of the court to !open the ballot
boxes for the purpose of obtaining certain election pa
pers, such as tally papers, list of voters, , which were
not to be found in the clork'e office, having become lost
or mist aid.
This was opposed by counsel for lefr. Thompson, on
the ground that the answer of the respondent had not
been fi.ed, and he was not, therefore, on rho record as a
party ; It was fur th er objected that previous to asking
for leave of court for such purpose, an affidavit should be
filed setting.forth what papers wore desired, and what
Product boxes shook] be opened.
Judge Thompson stated that, in previous cases, par
mission to open the ballot-boxes had been granted only
when the answer was filed.
Mr. Gowan replied that, in the case of Piano va. Cas
sidy, eermiesion was granted to the petitioner to open
the ballot-boxes for the purpose of preparing his peti
tion. lie could not conceive what objection there was
on the part of the respondent to the opening of the bal
lot.boxes, unless there was something they desired to
conceal. He could not see why this case was not to be
governed by the same rules that lied been spelled to pre
dons' cisetni. it, reply to the assertion that the respond
ent was not a party in oouet, Mr. Gowan stilted that the
the ad of Assembly required ten days' notice, previous
to !he tiling of the petition, to be filed on the respondent,
and that made bins a party. He was not obliged to file
all isomer at all j he might contest the case on the peti
tion alaN.
Finally, the court ordered that an affidavit be filed, flat
ting forth what papers were missing, and the boxes ne.
ce.tary to be opened would be thus set out.
The matter then went over, and the court resume/ the
Orphans' Court Argument list.
A SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE KEN
SINGTON DlSTRlCT.—Yesterday Chief Engineer Cas
ein, of the Water Department, turned on the water at the
Spring Garden basin, so that the residents of Kensington
will now n ceive their supply from the Schuylkill, and
not from the Delaware river as heretofore. Tnis would
have been done much Kamer only some delay was cape
'kneed on acconut of it being neceseary to make a nem
her of repairs at the spring Garden Works. The latter
have been thoroughly repaired, and will be capable of
furnishing s fair simply of water without the aid of the
Nerwington basin, which, as yet, has no connection with
the Spring Garden Works. This connection, as has been
proposed by the Chief Engineer, should be made, as it
would thee secure a permanent flow from the Schuylkill,
and the unhealthy water from the Delaware could be dls-
Dented with entirely. In order to be prepared for any
emergency, however, such au tire, the Kensington basin
will be kept filled. The ordthance passed by Councils,
prohibiting-the washing of basements between the hours
of 7 A. M. and 7 P. EL, has been signed by the Mayor,
d Is now a law, and, If observed by the residents of
the upper districts, a sufficient supply of water can be
obtained in Kensington . The connection between the
Spring Garden and Kensington basin should, however,
be made, as this would remove all oomplainta and dis
tribute the supply equally to all parts of the city.
THE SUPPOSED CASE OF INPANTI
OIDE.—Yeeterder morning Coroner Conrad summoned
%jetty and commenced an itnnest upon the body of the
female child found in the dock at Bpruce•street wharf on
Eunday last. Dr @ilea Updegrove wee the only witness
esent. He testified that he had examined the body of
the child, and discovered some alight injuries about the
I end ; found on the forehead a oat, which looked as if it
bed been made by some penetrating instrument; upon
removing the scalp the hone wee found uninjured; there
was no effusion of blood upon the brain; the chill had
not been beaten badly; the lungs were found very much
conneeted, and from their condition witness was inclined.
to the belief that the child bad been drowned ;. if th e
body bad floated there would have been scratches and
broke a, but none of these marks were visible • the WOllllll
on the bead wee not seteletent to have caused ' death. •
The inqueet was then adjourned until 11 o'clock to
morrow morning.
LAUNCH OP A STEAMSHIP.---YeSter
day morning, at half peat eleven o'clock, the new steam
ship Norma was launched, from the yard of Mr. John
Lynn, at the foot of Reed•etreet wharf. Nothing occur
red to mar the beauty of the launch. "A large crowd wee
present. As soon as the vessel was brought to, toga
were in readiness to tow ter to Nese(' & 'Levy's, to re
.ceive her boilers, which are ttheadVtomniated. The
Nouns will run between this city area Boston, end .be
commanded by Captain Baker, forTwAy in the eteamohlp
Reastogton.