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THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1862.
IfORNEY I S WAR PRESS--THE ONLY
WEEKLY PAPER 711A.T•GITES A COMPLETE
WEEK'S 11 . 13fORY Of THE WAR S
TEE "WAR PROW' FOR JUNE 21 in now
ovt. The following is a list of the principal articlee in
the number
ENGRAVlNG—Destruction of the .Bebel Bam Fleet
at NI 'noble, by the Union Flotilla, under Commanders
Davis and Bitet.
POR:fRAIT OF PARSON BROWN LOW—Hie Groat
speoch al the A cßdetai of Ruoic, Joao 13.
WAR TA lA—. The Vol noteer'e Wife."
A SKETCH of CAMP LIFE.
EDITORIALS—The - Surprise in : Irtrginia—Esorgan.
itatten— Browidow—Dying Out of the Hobellion—A
lirro's Funeral—Mr. Lincoln and His Revilere—A Pair
of Epitaphs.
LETTERS FROM SPECIAL 00ERESPON DE NTS
Min Army of the Potomac—Army tethe Shenandoah
—Gen. Dix's Division—Sen. LI 'Week's Army—Guu.
linutei's Division —pen. Burnside's Division —The
Blockading Squadron..
LATEST NEVIS BY TBLIGRAPII from the Army
of the Potomac, Washington, Ac.
PARTIQUL&RS OF THE OLPTIIRE 0S MEE
PEId lIVOEMNAYAL FLEET.
LIST OF SICK AND WOUNDED PFINNBYLVka
ISM% In the &mailld la Philadelphia and other 10.
LETTERS OF t OCCASIONAL."
INTERESTING SOUTHERN NE VS.
Loco!, Newa—Ftuaticial and Oontinercial, 0., %c.
TERMS—One copy, one year, $2; throe water, fa;
fire copies, S 8; ten c9Piell, $l2. Single eeptea, for We
at the counter, Four Caine:
IF wE Lave not taken an active part In the
criticisms of our generals, and Insisted upon
dictating a certain course or arbitrary cant
reigning, it is because we have an abblinglitilh
that r ow•idenee never iutetulekt us turn Mill,
Lary commander. We like to read abate.
great battle. We sometiteeS get toole
boiatiug over a great vc . ltkvt3 , . " 13evna
that, do have rarely Vilhata any military
suggestion or condemnation. re have
always • endeavored to sta4 the delight
ful art of niluditig oar own busitkesa—and
the scleileo of war'is uo part of our =ow.-
plhhtuents. Soule tbiugs were very strange
and unaccountable, and there are mysteries
about many of our campaigns which we have
not been able to solve. Many movements
looked to us like stupidity, turd not general
ship, but censure WAS ungracious, and we did
not care to undertake the task. It was
for us to hope and believe. We felt that
in a war like this, no citizen, whether in the
army or in civil life, could have any other
motive than that of saving the country. It
was the controlling thought with us, we could
not but believe that it was the controlling
thought with others. To this end, therefore,
we have always been patient, and at all tittles
counselled patience. - ' We have steadily re-
frained from doing anrhing to etubArrass the
Administration or any of the servants of the
Administration. We have been anxious to
see the rebellion crushed, and to that end,
have favored every expenditure of money,
every sacrifice of ,blood and treasure, any
legislation. Nor do we ohm any special
credit for havieg done so. It was the duty of
every citizen, and of oureelves n., more than
It has been, therefore, with some pain that
we have noticed in many loyal newspapers
studied attempts to depreciate the honesty and
capacity of many of our public men. Some
assail General MCCLELLAN, and others General
RALLECK. Many denounce FILESIO2(T and
Balms. Many impugn the sincerity of the
rresident. Many assail the Secretary'of War.
The disloyalists denounce everybody—Presi-
dent, , Secretary; abd General—but it is not
with there that we are now dealing. "Mehl-
ated with treason, it is natural that thoy should
detest every patriot in place or out of place.
It is among those who claim to. be Iriends
of Mr. LINCOLN and adherents of kis Ad
ministration that we see the various mani
festations of this spirit. Ardently loyal
and devoted to the country, they neutralize
and weaken their influence by dissensions and
recrimination. With no app ;rent motive, or,
if with any at all, one of a degradiug character,
they villify and abuse generals and. Cabinet
ministers with almost as much bitterness as
they exhibit towards Mr. Da.vts and Mr. BEN
JAMIN. They seem to forget that these
men, like themselves, hive the good of the
- country at heart, and that they are endeavor
ing to save it in thtir own appointed way.
They arc forgetful of the fact that they are
human, and liable to error; but that, being
human, they are anxious to atone for error.
They, clamor and coudemn, and use incendiary
language with a recklessness which seems to
be appalling.
General MCCLELLAN throws up entrench
ments at Yoiktown; and he is derided ds a
digger in dirt and a builder of eorduroy roads.
General FREMONT makes an unprecedented
march-over the mountains, meets the enemy,
and fights with undaunted courage, but be
cause be does not capture the foe he is Pro
nounced an incompetent general: Gen. BANKS
Conducts one of the must mastrr)y retreats of
the war, and because he did not defeat an over
whelming rebel force he is called a mere poli
tician. Gen. lIALLECR engineered BEAURE
GARD out of Corinth, and he is now a bye
word and a scorn among men who trembled a
few weeks ago with apprehension thathe would
be cut to pieces by the rebel army. General
BUTLER issues an order to protect his soldiers
from insult, and he is called a coarse, vulgar
fellow. General HUNTER commences the very
unpleasant work of taking care of the ne
groes by making them light and work, and no
epithet is too gross .and indecent to apply to
Lim. Governor STANLEY gets into a personal
difficulty with an impetuous Northerner at
Newbern and sends him home. Straightway,
the Governor is called a w scorpion" and a
Secessionist. The Secretary of War is also a
prominent target for these assaults. He is
unreasonable, impetuous, and tyrannical— •
be became frightened over JACKSON'S raid,
and summoned the county to arms only to
ask it to disarm the day succeeding. He is a
party to the wildest schemes that were over
conceived. He is plotting to have half an
army cut to pieces because ec the Abolitionists
want to supersede MCCLELLAN !" He wan
tonly permitted BANKS to be defeated, and
- kept lioDowsm. on the Rappahannock, because
the radicals desired to protract the war and
enable their friends to make money out of
contracts and at length dissolve the Union!
Let it be remembered that all these as- ,
sertions are made in good faith, and that
loyal journals .elaborate those ridiculous fan
cies from day to day in the most indignant
manner: A moment of reflection would re
mind them that, in a case like that of Secre
tary STANTON, it is as impossible that he
should wantonly permit an army to be sacri
ficed, in order to gratify political spleen, as it
is that be would sever in twain the child of his
loins. And those who are so angry about the
impetuosity of the Secretary of War in calling
out troops when there was merely a presumed
danger, would have been infinitely more angry
bad the Secretary made such an order a day
too late. Vigilance is far ..better than negli.
gence. Better fire your gun and make a false
alarni than be surprised and captured on your
post. An officer may be too fast, but it
is infinitely better than that he should be
too slow. The effect of these efforts
to depreciate the Secretary of War or
any officer of the Government, or of . any
general in command, must be baneful. Mick
ens the loyal heart and strengthens the dis
loyal heart. Our friends sigh and droop and
grow faint, our foes become merry and joyous.
The newspapers of the South print their dis
paragements with a fiendish exultation ; Eu
rope mocks at the fear and dissension and ca
lamity we exhibit. , These men propose no
thing. They tear down, but do not rebuild.
They would do away with things as they are,
but they do not tell us what is to. come here
after. Is there not more than common phi
losophy in the poet's wish to rather boar the
ills we have than fly to others that we know not
of?
We are not aware that, in making these re
marks, we are defending auy general in the
field, or any particular officer of the Govern
ment. We have no personal cause to cham
pion. These men may quarrel and contend
it is no business of ours, and we have no in
terest in the contest. We plead for the coun
try. We ask those who are disposed to con.
damn to stay their censure. Let there be no
more heart-burnings and griefs. It they are
truly loyal, let them show their loyalty by
magnanimity and forbearance. Nothing has
been gained by these assaults and . censures.
Tbe . same men are still in power. The coati.
dence.of .the people in their integrity or abili
ty-may be weakened, but •in It not a sad thing
that loyal journals should take , a part in this
unharpy task? We are brothersin this Union
cause, and until we have fully aceomplished
our mission, let there be no sign of division
or enmity among us.
TIM SUMMARY DISAIISSAt:,hy S,COretilTy STAN.
TON, of Surgeon HAYKS, can have no other
than a salutary effect upon the department of
which Dr. DAYES was% member. Viro . iteow
nothing of the details or this- partictilar'case ;
'we have no data on which to, form a judgment
of the juatiee or injustice of this di, graceful,
dismissal from service. It is possible—though
the bare facts certainly do not seem to" war : .
rant, the supposition—that Dr. tiaras can
adduce such extenuating circumstances as
honorably to acquit him of the terrible charge
row preferred against him. His Irlonds insist
that be can; and it is our duty, and the pub
lie's' duty, to suspend all opinion on the case
till it shall have been fairly and hilly discussed,
both in prosecution and defence- But It is
no less incumbent upon every man who lies
any spark or limininity hi him, to insist that the
medical appointments of the army be lesimeted
and guarded by a vigilance as kon tts 'thst
which controls the military. it IA lint eneugh
to have leetileient, careless, .or eteVaistly
officers . ; it is cruel enough to place intri need
lessiy tinder murderotia tires, to let thetu be
ent to piece's thruitgli Iregleel, Of an
moment, or to create eonflislOix ) dentetallaas
tion, true eventeally deeilnatiell Of the tanks
by eowardiee. But these !setts see neae s sfir
correetive. It Si eaplaiti Ot K tV,llttO COlllllAlly
falters, tlttl•NO tit OM fleet etehl Iliet rear shOhltier
hint bite his SlAy by Sheer physiCal pressitre.
It a eolonel tst Iseentss, amt 0.3%10011411S - 111111.1
SO-11‘ 1 3 tMe that ki.OIIIItNAIS his attention in the
resat, the ontate and tact of dlselellued
Utaler (Aeon 'ate often a fair substitute
for teffitievit supreme direetion, and save a
eorrireatal. E - OO the COoNseti tnotios of
'fen irre:solutv vlverAl find their perniciously
tending effects negatived by individual bravery
and $ll4O-ssesAion. But a surgeon's neglect
of wounded men is nnmitigated by any court
ter-intineuce. It works out its own heartless
evil unrelieved, and, where proved, should
stied out in our miuds in unpalliated heinous
ness. Public sensibility must be increased
on this point, and public opinion find amore
definite and vigorous expression. Why showl
a man whose spirit failed him in presence of
the foe be hooted through the length and.
breadth of the land, while a soulless monster,
forgetful of duties•not a Whit less obligatory,
is permitted to subside quietly into private
life? The soldier has excuses—not valid,
perhapa, yet not entirely invalid. As bombs
are hurtling through the air, bearing a score
of deaths in every iron bosom;' as can
non are hurling carnage and agony from
their brazen jaws; as minie-balls are crash
ing through the ranks, and the hoarse roar
of battle is shrilled by the shrieks of those
who are gasping out their lives in tor
tured breaths—what wonder that a sudden
vision of home, a sudden rush 'over the heart
Of. sweetest memories—the love of a wife or a
mother, the prattle of children, a father's gaze
of manly affection, a sister's devotion—what
wonder, that, with death almost a certainty,
and with death, long misery of grief and de
pendence to all who are dearest oa earth, a
great yearning : for, life: should oversweep the
man's martial enthusiasm; a great longing for
love dim his eye and make his arm falter ?
But what possible excuse, or seniblance ; of
.one, can be urged for the neglectful surgeon?
Is the soldier pledged to lay down his life for
his country? No leis is- the' surgeon's honor
vowed to sacrifice everything to the full dis
charge of his sacred duties. Recollections of
home; and love of life for its sake, may under
mine. .
the soldier's sense of military duty, and
make him forget his manhood; but the same
thoughts. should redouble the, surgeon's zeal,
and increase an ordindry care to an eager soli
citude. If home be dear to him also, the re•
-
membrance should inspire him to his best of
forts for saving the bealths, limbs, and lives of
those who have imperilled them and their
hopes rather than their cue - tatty and their
honor: Every instinct of a common humanity
supports the surgeon in his labors; every
.more delicate impulse is an additional incite
ment to him. Ile runs no risks except` those..
which are incurted by the discharge of any
duty honestly performed ; .he is called onto-
make tie sacrifices except of, time and labor,
and for these be is liberally paid. Or if; after
a battle, or amid centagious sickness,-he is
obliged to undergo labors of great severity, and
make himself obnoxious to dangers of the most
relentless kind—this is fully compensated for
by the greater part of his life's being exposed
to neither necessity. But even if this were
not so, the respousibilitaes of the surgeon are
in nowise lessened. The bargain between
himself and the Government is not so much
pay for so much work; thevarying exigencies
of his profession necessitate the leaving of a :
wide margin for humanity and charity; and
whoever does not fill this margirfwith records
of kindly offices written in his life-blood, if
need be, is -recreant to the trust reposed in
him, recreant to his holy vocation, and
should be branded as deeply by public scorn
as he who shrinks from the battle. Nay, if a
deserter from the ranks be shot;why shalt not
his life also gurgle itself out, in the dust who
has proved a traitor to the most sacred -re.
sconsibilities of a most sacred profession and
to the common promptings of a decent huma
nity ?
We. may seem to speak warmly on this sub
ject .; but, cotisidering its importance, and the
piteous appeal which it makes to us, we are
conscious of presenting the case with very in
sufficient vividness. No city in the Union Is
so extensive .a depot for sick and wounded'
soldiers as our own. Between those who are
permanently detained in our hospitals for cure,
and those who remain for periods more or less
brief, as the nature and severity of their inju
ries demand, every accommodation that we
can make for these sick and maimed defenders
is used to its 'Utmost capacity. Our duties
have brought us into close observation• of the
details of our sanitary arrangements, and we
arelappy to record their general excellence
and harmonious workings. But these are due
to our resident physichufs.' Instances du now
and then occur of heart-rending neglect by re
gular army surgeons having the charge of con—
veying large numbers of wounded. 'lt is sel
dom, we believe,•deliberate, but the result of
inadvertency or inefficiency; and the pOint
we insist on here Is, that weak men and care
less men shall not be selected for posts that
demand promptitude and sedulous attention,
no less than kindness and professional skill.
It is too horrible to permit that the brave fel
lows. who go forth to battle for ns, and return
battered and bruised, suffering and sick, should
receive any other than the most persistent
aid. Spasmodic jets of charity will not do ;
we must find men whose energy is unflagging.
There are such, plenty of them ; and' the Se
cretary of War is but fairly meeting his duty
towards those .unfortunates who, more than
all others, should have his warmest sympa
thies and most strenuous exertions, - when he
summarily dismisses to everlasting disgrace
the weak or the heartless, and fills' their
places with high-toned, hard-working mem
bers of the medical profession.
WE REGRET to learn, by the China, that
HENRY THOMAS Bums, the celebrated au
thor, died in the city of Damascus "on the 81st
of- May. This announcement will create a
deep feeling of grief throughout this country
`among those who believe in the principles he
inculcated, as well as thOse who, disagreeing
with him, still honor the genius, the courage,
and the industry which he manifested as
a historian. Mr. BUCKLE was born on the 24th
day of November, 1828, at Lee, in the county
of Bent, England. We are told that for a
very short time he attended school in a Kent
fah town, near London, where he was taught
the plainer branches of an English and classi
cal 'educatiog. He does not seem to have
been in any other school: of note, nor are
we aware that any of "the celebrated
institutions claim him among their
.alumni.
Be possessed a large fortune, and collected a
fine library ; ho lived--the life of a student
and a thinker, gratifying an all-absorbing taste
for letters, in pursuing, with an incessant en
/
ergy, the studies which he had marked out
for bis fame. Ile was celebrated as a chess
player many years jgo, and, before he became
an . author, had quite a local reputation, among
English 'scholars and men of letters.
In the year 1857, liir:Bnoxim firat published
Ills work entitled 4, The History of GiViliza
ton in England." It was a remarkable VO •
lame and exalted great attention, partly because
of the novelty and boldness of his views, but
principally because he surrounded them
with a degree of eloquence and learning
which few writers have exhibited. Based upon
a theory of skepticism, and discarding many
of the oldest established princTles of Chf,s
Unity, its author became at oitce.the objeotof
- scorn and denunciation onthis part ofithose
Who 'defended' the I Clittrcif - and extravagant
joy on the pelt Of those who disbelieved in
Revelation. The Athenceura attacked it very
severely, and in its =assaults it was sustained
by several of the leading British quarterlies.
Notwithstanding its unpopularity = among
men of the Church, Mr. BUCKLE'S at
tained a great reputation both in England and
America. In the first year of its publication
two large editions wore sold. The mom/
volume was printed but ideently, and as Mr.
BUCKLE had not deviated` fteln -the plan set
forth in his first work, but, on the contrary,
carried out the theories he then advanced
with more boldness and fervor than before,
there was still the same spirit of denunclaion
manifested by those who tlisagreisi with his
theories am' conclusions.
Lut u 8 88y as we will or .111CNRY THOMAS
BUCK:14010 Wile el groat man. Setting mid°
any aeutaritut view, ho has wrlttun a book
Which will ilve. It 1S rull or thought, of Edo
nttenne, and study ; mai MIN IVO 0111'SOIVOS
art ISr NOlll agreeing into many of tho strango
and -novel prn.rettltioult Ito ittivancus, wu at all
times read lite elutptpra with profit and dolight.
4iTi1011tet0ryOIVIV1111013l1011," MO MACAULAY'S
114tOrt bluglaitti, was commenced on too
Isllll*.ilkiolld a *vale for any Man to complete
to mortals on the
earth, and it COUlltiOtl to us as a splen
did 11.sgmeut of what the ambition of
onto author conceived, and to the completion
or whlch thu allergy of his life was devoted.
Our latest intelligence in relation to Mr.'
lineata Intimated that in the third volume of
his work he would discuss civilization in North
America. We should have read any theories
he might have printed about us with, unusual
interest, and it is not at all improbable that
they remain among his unprinted papers.
We are sorry that he has gone. The world
of letters bus lost one of Its brightest. orna
ments, and England one of her most gifted
sons.
Foltz= warross are surprised at every-
thing that has taken place in the United States '
during the past historical year. - They are
surprised at the unity of the loyal people, at
the successful operations of our new financial
system, at the energy and wisdom. of Mr.
LmcoLs's Administration, at the great size,
discipline, comfort, and endurance of our ar
mies; but Unit which especially astounds
them is the vast navy that has been created to
cooperate with the army, and that has dis
tinguished itself in such stupendous and nu
merous conflicts: ;The apparition or armed
veisels-ol.war swarming in every sea, capibbi
for our own defence, and ready to carry our
flag into distant harbors, is the most startling
evidence of the growing greatness and inex
haustible resources of the Republic. Our
prowess on land has always been admitted by
the PowerS of the old "'word, but in their
struggles for the mastery of the seas they
never anticipated that one of their most
foimidable rivals would spring up in
that Western Hemisphere, the proud
isolation of which they were content to con
template without apprehension, if not without
envy. They remember that when the war
commenced we were almost without a navy,
and it was this that induced so many insane
calculations,. that whenever their o wia interest,.
ambition or cupidity might prompt them to in
terpose in favor of the rebellion; their com
bined fleets would render such intervention
wholly irresistible. Now, however, they . are
forced to increase their own marine for their
own safety, to forego the vision of participa
tion in our quarrels, and to secure the iaviola
bility of their own borders.
But let us, while rendering tribute to the,
heroes that have shed imperishable lustre upon
the American flag in the American navy, flat
forget the laborious, skilful and scientific
civil -agents who have contributed so
much to increase the perfection of 'our.
vessels-of-war. Let us not forget tae
Navy Department. Mr. WaiLEs—all the
time depreciated, attacked, reviled, and ridi
cub d—has pursued the quiet tenor of his way,
and may - now point with 'just pride to the re- .
sults of the labors of hiluself and the gentle
men associated with him.i 'He has had her
culean tasks to perform. Contending with
factions in the-country-and in Congress; the
doubts of many of the most experienced
officers of the navy, and beset by proffers from
every dais of inventors, he and his assistants
have succeeded <in putting afloat the most
powerful fleets, and in consummating the most
perfect blockade ever known inhistory. ' Pro
bably the most efficient and vigorous auxiliary
of. Mr. W . ELLEs has been his Assistant See,re-
tary, GUSTAV US V. Fox, Esq. His long ex
perience as an officer of the navy, and his
conscientious deyotion to the cause of
his country, enabled him to assume the
position be now occuyiee, and to discharge
its manifold duties with signal success.
Well acquainted with the wants of the
service, and personally intimate with many of
the most distinguished officers, he knew how
to meet the exigencies of the times, and whom
to call upon to do the work courageously
and thoroughly. Many of his reforms that,
when first suggested, created such a storm,
have been triumphantly - vindicated. What
renders Mr. Fok so invaluable, a public officer
is the additional fact that he is kind, concilia
tory, and rapid in his' intercourse with the
thousands who visit the . Department. No
'citizen leaves him without being satisfied that
he IS an, honest and patriotic man. In remem
bering the chiefs, it would be unjust to pass
over this unpretending and yet most merito
rious public officer.
Ova EVER-WELCOME and reliable corres
pondent J. C.," gives us, in a letter from
the Chickabominy, another account of the
recent skirmish on the railroad tram The
graphic letter we printed yesterday from
'6.1. ➢i. F." told'one itory—the story of one
who was almost a victim to the rebel assault.
cc.i. C." says that, instead of the rebels
making a dash at our lines of communi
cation, and endeavoring to deatroy White
llouse and the shipping on the Pamunky,
a detachment from JACKSON'S force on the way
from aordonsville happened to . stumble into
the Federal lines, and, in the effort to get out
again, did some little damage to the railroad
bridges and the telegraph. Thiti,appears to
be a reasonable - view of the case, although all
the other correspondents at White Rouse
agree in calling it a deliberate attack. It is
natural that they should think so, being
at the scene of danger, and it is also natural
that "J. C.," being far beyond, and near
headquarens, should get another more novel,
and perhaps a more reliable versioq. At all
events, we should take the account of "J.
C." as the one most creditable to ourselves.
It would be a shameful thing to allow an ene
my to emerge from Richmond and get in our
rear, while it is very natural that a squad of
beleaguered and wayworn rebels should 'stumble
within our lines And do a little damage in get
ting out of their trouble.
THE SYMPATHIZERS with treason in Penn
sylvania and elsewhere do not like to . be called
Breckinridgers. They protest and declaim
against it as an act of gross injustice. Well,
if they are ashamed of the name, we propose
to drop it forever if they will be honest enough
to drop the doctrines of their late candidate
for the-Presidency. But the harder he fights
against the flag till) more strenuously they ad
vocate his opinions. Ills speeches before, he
went over into the ranks of the common
enemy; are the models upon which their
speeches and editorials are framed. Like
him, they denounce the Abolitionists; like
him, they declare that the Constitution has
been violated by the President, and like him,
they insist that the friends of the Administra
tion are intent upon immediate emancipation
and negro equality. Still more do they re.,
semble Brig.' Gen. Bazeiniamos, of the rebel
army. They are silent . ' when they come to
.h/s . own perjury and ingratitude ; silent over
the bloody,
..recital ef traitor barbarities and
crimes, and silent whenever their attention is
called to the proscriptions of the loyal Union
'men of the South. If they have not earned
the lame of Breckinridgers, then- Barman
=cut • himself has not earned the name of
traitor. .
PublLe'Amaserne,uts.
WALNUT• STAB= iIINATILB.-1111s8 Daly appeared in
two characters last evening. As Josephine in 1 The
Canthilere,' , and Caroline Morton in 1 . Onr Gal," she
fully anstaintd her reputation, and 'frequently drew ex
venatione of approbation from a large audience. The
same bill is repealed this evening.
A ItCll-BiRVET THBII . IIB.To-iiight Mr. Onanfrau as
Nose and Jupiter.
Iloopty's Idinstueiti are having a eucoeiefnl run at
610 00hticontellboatie. They are Teri attraetire.
THE PRESS.-PRILADFALPHIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 19, 1862.
LETTE R MOM. "''OCCASIONAL."
Love of the American Upion is an inspiring
sentiment. It makes men heroes and women
angels. -' It fills our Armies and our navies; de
prives death of its horrors, and prepares us
for every sacrifice in _life as if each were but
another beginning of an endless glory. We
felicitate ourselves upon this sentiment. We
are so proud of it that we laugh at whit is
called the patriotism of other nations. -There
is, we flatter ourselves, nothing like the ardor
and the enthusiasm we feel forthe American
Union. It is an emotion born of the gods
themselves, and it only thrills the veins of
those who sincerely feel that ours is tho only
spot on the globe that has ever been conse
crated by a perfect system of human govern
ment and laws.
Well, we are mistaken. We are not the,
exclusive possessors of this perfect chrysolite,
this Koh-i-noor of diamonds, this jewel of pa
triotism above all price. llewever we may
boast of the purity of our motives and the
righteousness of our cause, we should remem
ber that these considerations do not always
make men ready to imAergo privations and
dangers. There is such a thing as courage in
the face of great crimes; there is such a thing
as standing fast by that which all good men
bate and despise.
The Secessionists in Washington and l3alti
more are models of heroism: They are your
true Martyrs. Ido not speak of the morality
of their• creed..'lt is not as pure as that
which made the Nock an altar, or the scaffold
a throne„ in bygone days. But they die for it
on the field, theypray for it in the closet, they
steal for it in the Cabinet, and they lie for it
in society. Their .perseverance; and duvotien
to it is greatest, it would seem, when its cru
elty is plainest. Take the example now
presented to us. The rebel prisoners in Wash
ington are the hostages of a generous Govern-.
ment, held for so many Union soldiers in du
rance vile in the filthy dungeons of the South.
They are well provided for by the agents of
that authority which they have defied to the
extremest and bloodiest alternative.' . They
are broughthere atter slaughtering our brotheri
and friends, the brave men who went forth to
defend the flag when they saw it insulted and
trampled under foot. They arrive here, not
only impertinent, but exultant in their, great
crime. Bad this clime succeeded Washing
ton and Baltimore would now be the Sodom
and Gomorrah of the' continent. Not a stone
would have been left save as a monument of
Elli Tl. Millions of property would have been lost.
Thousinds of lives would have b en sacritieed.
Aud yet these men have become objects of the
tenderest care of many of •the ladies and gen
tlemen of the two cities. They are hailed as
innocent sufferers in a great cause. If they
are sick and wounded, they arc attended with
scrupulous care ; if they are healthy, they are
honored and applauded. While the Union
soldiers in our hospitals are, in too many cases,
forgotten or neglected, the rebel prisoners
- resliie the double difference between their
indescribable miseries in their own section,
and the liberal kindness of the officiate of Ur.
Lincoln, and the attentions and hospitalities
of those who deliberately neglect those brave
men whoa aved them from utter desolation and
destruction. A distinguished lady, who has
been conspicuous in good works, and has mi
nistered to the wants of our sick and wounded,
informed me a few days ago here, that the re
bel prisoners were visited and waited upon
'by many who scorned the slightest attention
to the krave soldiers of the Republic, and that
every delicacy and comrort that could be pro.
cured or devised was furnished to them with
ostentatious profusion.
This is high courage, and it deserves-men-
tion and remembrance, as proving that if there
is devotion and enthusiasm for the cause of a
free and threatened Republic, there is no less
devotion and enthusiasm among those who
adhere to the fortunes of the Treasonable
Conspiracy which is seeking the life-blood of,
that same Republic.
The meeting of Pennsylvanians held at
Willard's Hall last evening, for the purpose of
making provision for the sick and wounded
soldiers of our State, of which more than a
thousand are now congregated m this city,
was a most interesting demonstration. The
utmost enthusiasm prevailed, and a large
amount was promptly subscribed at the close
of the proceedings. An 'aganiz Alen will be
perfected as a result`of this aisemblage that
will extend its usefulness throughout the com
ing season, and will greatly relieve the afflic
tions of these brave men, and lighten the
labors of Governor Curtin and'the efficient
gentlemen who have already done so much for
the health and.`comfort of our volunteers.
Another meeting will be held to-morrow
hursday) evening, at liSrfflard's Hall, when
a numerous attendance is expected.
FROM Viris.S]lligGTOlq.
Special Despatches to The Press."
No despatches from Corinth have been received at the
War Department to. day.
All is Quiet in the Valley of the Ehenandoah, as Tar as
beard from, and also in the army of the Potomac.
A despatch received at the War Department from Gen;
oGLELLes, this afternoon, states that Col. ATERILL
tad Just returned from a scout to the Idattatiouy, in
search os a baud of guerillas, but they were found to have
left the previous day. Be destroyed the bridge, took a
number of wagots and carts loaded vitt). supplies for Rich
mond, destroyed a large amount of rebel grain, and cap
tured several important prisoners CoL GREGG bad made
a rtconuoissanoe to Charks City Court Rouse, and reco
vered some mules] which were driven off by Cal. STEWART,
in tile Pauitinky raid. Gen. fiIoCLELLAN GOMDIIIROLIT3
Cols. AvXRILL and GREGG for the handsome manner in
which the expedition was conducted. •
New Enlistment Bill—All People With
out Regard to Color to be Taken.
Mr. BALD introduced a bill in the Senate to-day, pro.
tiding that whenever the public service requires further
enlistment of recruits for the army, either of regulars or
iolunts:ers, the President of the United fitate3 be autho
rized and uireeted to issue his proclamation to the people
of the United Stateir, Inviting enlistments front all the
people, vritbout distinction of race, color, or condition.
Section 2 enacts that every slave that shall enlist by
virtue of this act, or the proclamation of the President
issued in pursuance thereof. and shall be renal red into
the military service, ehall be immediately and absolutely
free from all claim of bOrTiCO, except that which he sub
mite himself to by ouch enlistment. •
Section 3 provides that every person, bond or free, who
shall enlist into the military service of the united States
shall be entitled to all the wages, bounties, and privileged
allowed by law to any soldier enlisted in the army.
Repeal of a Late Law.
Tba Senate Naval Committee to•day reported a bill re
pealing the act entitled en act to prevent, and punish
frauds on' the part of officers instructed with making
contracts for the Government, approved June 2, 1802.
This law proposed an office for a copy of every contract
to be deposited in, with an oath affixed by the contract
is.g officer that the name was fairly made, etc. The ex
penee to each department to carry out this law was found
to be quite large, hence its repeal.
The Fthancial Question in the Senate.
Idr. CnISDLIA'S resolution prohibiting the issue of
legal-tender treasury notes .beynd a certain Amount was
up in the Senate this morning. In advocating it he said
that the Secretary of the Treasury, since the let of April,
'had Obtained twelve millions at four per cent ! and up to
yesterday, forty. are millions AE ilve'Pei Celli Mr.
eaxnas did not doubt but that for purposes of circula
tion—in fact, for all , purpotea—enongh notes bad already
been issued. He was not prepared either to favor or
disapprove tbo propoaition of Secretary Caes■ for a new
lathe. Mr. 0/IANDLER believed that if his resolution
pasted gold would go back is its old standard.
The Other Side.
Surgeon HAYSS, of the 110th Pennsylvania, who wee
dismissed from the service for alleged neglect to the
Wounded received here Saturday from Front Royal, is
out in a card, in which he calls on all the Redstone sur
geons and soldiers to confirm that he did ant neglect
them in anywise ; that he had been with thorn two days
and nights, and that he telegraphed to .the Surgeon
General twice that the train would arrive hero at the time
it did, With the wounded, and that he was not responsible
for the results of the entire neglect of the despatchee
sent to his superior officers.
Members of Congress to be Prevented from
ill r. Powina, introduced a bill 111 the Senate, today,
making It a high misdemeanor for any member of Gott
irers, or any officer of the Government Or the United
Etates, who ehall, directly or indirectly, take, receive, or
agree to receive, any consideration to procure any con
tract from the Governmenti and, on conviction, he shall
be fined double the amount he may bare received, and
the contract shell- be void, pud he shell be disqualified
from holding any 'United States office.
Notice to hlilitary Absentees, etc.
The large number of officers absent from their regi
ments, without sufficient ranee. is regarded as so merlons
an evil as to demand immediate correction, and accord
ingly ordtis . have been leaned for this purpose. All pro.
perry captured ,by the army, or seized by any provbst
marshal, or taken np astray, or taken from soldiers
marching in an enemy's country, is required to be turned
over to the chief ot the staff of the department to which
such property 'could appertain, on duty with the troops,
to be accounted fur by tht-rn recaptured property, and nerd
for the public rervice, unless claimed by the owners and
ordered by the commanding officer to be, restored.
Gee. Bardarl'e brigade has been ordered to report
thowhere, and, Gen. lisarsurp's (late ADER0R0311118'8)
btitatee is to report to Geo. Balms.
'Ninety- thi eo rebel prisoners arrived here to-day. Most
of them were captur , 41 at POrt Republic by Goa. Far..
SIONT. Trier, were turned over to
.the care of Provost
Muratori BaTougr,oza. . Among the. wee Lb u t e pa r a
rilltitettr, Bth Louieiauar who reports that .the brigade
WAsaiwarbS;4une 18, 1862.
OCCASZONIL.
WAsEnitaToN s .Tune 18
The Latest War News.
Making Government Contracts.
to which ho was attached was badly cut tip by Gen. !dn..
110 Y, at Port Republic;
Gon, IIANKS, in company with Acting Medical Direc
tor Dzwittai vielted tic ltoerltale to -day, and found
tvtrtblag in good order.
Oen..Tsnisoli, who WS3 injured at Hair Oaks, bas
ar
rind in ibis city.
Death of General Palmer.
General. WILLIAM Pet.man, of the topographical
engineers, who Was brought hither yesterday sick with
the typhoid ver,"died today.
Coufirmation9 by the Senate
no Senate, in exeoutive session to-day, confirmed the
°Rowing apvciiniments' •
A. CAmnaoti liu r, of Colorado;Unittd siatee'marebal
for that Territory: -
ABltAlt PLANT/B/Is, of CoMorals, register of the Land
Office at Humboldt.
B. C. tdoac,ix, of Now York, and B. L. GARDNER, or
OhJo, asoistout quarterruattore of voluuteera.
Bankrupt Bill.
A large number of memorials were presented in the
Senate to-day firm citizens of Pennsylvania, New York,
and Ohio, praying for the passage of a bankrupt law..
There eeeme to be a general opinion that this important
eubject will notbe considered until next (melon.
injury to a Pennsylvania Representative
As Hon. .4ENDRICIC B. WRIGIIT, of Pennsylvania, was
crossing Pt nne) lyania avenue last night; he was ran
into by a carriage, knocked down, and quite seriously
bruised. lie was conveyed to his residence, but hopes
to be out in a few days..
Post Office Atiairs.9
MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA
The Postmaster General to-day.ordered the following :
At Ridgeville, Frederick counti, Maryland, OEMs
Bunsen ie designated as mail messenger, for service
At Bailey Hollow, Pennsylvania, W. W. PArntS is de.
Edimated 'for' service, from date of commencement, in
place of D. PATTBUSON.
POSTMASTERS' APPOINTMENTS
BORER?' KIL3IOIt is appointed at liendricksburg, Lu
cerne county, Pennsylvania, vice Twames M. BUTLSR,
JOSEPII V. MATTEINWSt poetnaaster, Carter Hill, Erie
comity, Perliqlyania, vice WILLIAM A. Hooka, re-
i - contreet has been ordered With J. J. Witionr,
New York, to convey the - mails from Port Royal, South
Carolina, to, New York, and back, twice a month, or as
often at steamers ran—the mails to bo delivered into and
taken froni the post offices at each end of the route.
1114scellaneous
. A medical board WIliS ordered to assemble at West Point
on the 12th instant, to examine into the physical qualifi
cations of the graduating class, and to continue in session
until the last of July, to examine the newly-appointed.
Brevet Brigadier General VT. A. Moßtus has been as-
signed to duty as military commander of the city of New
'York and vicinity. COL MORRIS relieves Gen. HenvEr
Ilitoulr, who has beetrassigned to duty as chief of artil
lery at the camp of isstnaction at Annapolis, Md.
It is reported that troops are constantly arriving at
Richmond. General GosmAves W. Smut is palsied; and
unlit for Military duty In the rebel army.
There have been about a thousand appointments and
Promotions in the United States army since the general
orders of December last, according to the pamphlet just
issued, of which there are—major generate 17, brigadier
generals 93, and brigade surgeon. The additional
aids- de-carap appointed by the' President alone, nailer
the act of August last, are as follows: 001.04.13111, ;
lieutenant colonels, 9 majors, 24; captains, 97. Three
brigadier generals have resigned and four declined.
The t ondnation of J. B. Z 81151015 as brigadier gene
rat heretofore confirmed by the Senate, has been recon
sidered and withdrawn.
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM THE
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT *OF THE RECENT SKIRMISH,
A REBEL FORCE WALKS INTO OUR LINES.
_ CAVALRY `FIGHT_
The Rebels at Richmolid Reinforced.
[Special Deepatch to The Prosaj
Foxe - Ems& MONROE, Juno Vr,
Via Baltimore, June 18. f
One of your special correspondente beyinid the Ghicka
hominy { ,4 4. 0.") has sent the following account of the
recent skirmish by a epecial messenger. He writes on
Friday, and giyes a new—what many here think, a re;
liable account et the affair. L. W. W.
"Every one knows that the army before Riehmond is
being considerably reinforced .by troops coming from
Beauregard'a army in the West, and Jackson and Ewell
in Northern Virginia. These troops are continually
marching in at the enemy'a left wing and being distri
buted along the lines. This afternoon a detachment
from Jackson's force coming down from Gordonsville and
along the line of the Acquia Creek railroad, mistook their
course when they struck the headwaters of the Oblast
hominy and went too far to the left. They proceeded on,
cavalry ; in frant,'and infantry following, until they came
soddenly upon Federal pickets.
wlnstantly finding the mistake, they drew up in order of
halls and engaged our cavalry vedettes, who gradually
retired before , the superior force and rejoined their re
serves. This was near the road to White n 01 1 ,30, and our
supply trains, never dreaming of interruption from that
quarter, were passing to and fro along the road commuoi
eating with the great depot on the Paniunky.
graph scouts instantly warned the wagons approaching
on each side, and had there not been good canse for ap•
prehension, it would have been most amusing to see the
nix-mule teams tearing along the road, to get out of den,
ger, each one with a huge, lumbering wagon, which, be
ing without epriLge, creaked , and groaned - in a most dia..
agreeable manner.
"No Federal forces but ,cavalry were in the vicinity,
and all of these were regulars under command .of Gen.
Philip St. George Cooke. Word was sent to General
Stoneman, a couple of miles distant, and - his cavalry
force went to the rescue at a full gallop, and. the enemy,
finding tbe country roundabout to be bristling with
Federal sabres,
.beat is hasty retreat. This skirmish was
a strange one. Scarcely a single musket was fired, the
whole of the fighting bring done by cavalry charges and
, Bebre ,cate. No troops but cavalry were engaged on
either side, the sadden advance or the rebels and their
almost immediate retreat not allowing time for artillery
or infantry to be brought into action.
Ead the enemy seen fit to advance farther a warmer
greeting would have been given them than even their
mret sanguine bones could have anticipated. Forty
.thousand troops, surrounding, them in nearly every di
rection, were in readiness to march to the , conflict, and
the rebels would have Neu swallowed lip . among our
overwhelmieg nowhere before they'had time to discover
where they w ere. '
"At this early moment conflicting more weeding
through the camps prevent anything like a reliable ao•
count of the rebutter the skirmish being lent you. Ono
report hes it that one hundred and fifty wagons were
captnreel ; another flatly coutradicts it. It to also said
that two conmenlee of the sth Regular Cavalry have been
Lateen prisoners, the only man left to tell the tale being
an excited cavalryman, who galloped in a most frantic
manner scrotal hedge, ditch, and fence, crying out that
his horse had been shot under him, and that every ono
of his cornpanious was either killed or prisoner.; This
story, at yet, is undeuiod, though, to tell the truth, I
scarcely bellevalt. The tame history of the skirmish,
however, is very nearly correct. J. O.
INTERESTING FROM MEMPHIS.
limy TORS, June 18.—The Prawns, of this city, bee
received the following despatch:
/day PHIS, June 17.—The shipments to the North to-day
comprised 3,000 bales of cotton, 6,000 barrels and 3,11100
half-barrele of melange, and 0,000 barrels of angst. There
wee a large supply coming in yesterday.
On the first day the post office was opened in Memphis
the citizens mailed oue thousand letters, mostly on beat
nets to the Northern cities, and bought $3,000 worth of
postage stamps.
There wore upwards of ono hundred applications for
post-office clerkships, including the entire force em
ployed under the .Confederate rule. Provoet Marshal
Gould admisAptersd the oath of allegiance yesterday to
3,000 persons, including one hundred and fifty deserters
from the rebel army, five of whom were commissioned
Officers.
Beauregard's left wing extends to Ili:nand°, south
le stippoped that the cotton-buiners were within Mx
miles of Memphis last night.
There are reports of turbulence among the 111.11T011 in
Crittenden end Blissiesippi counties, Arkansas.
The Wisconsin Legislature.
lituirsogas, June 18. —The State Legislature tui.
joorned sine die last night, after a abort session of two
we eke, during which no business of public interest was
transacted, except the repeal of the personal-liberty
law. 'rho tax question was indefinitely poetponod. OW.
Dewood, of the lith liegimeut, who was wounded at the
battle of Shiloh, died ekt 1 1 19 rellidan:4 yesterday, Of ty
phoid foyer !
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Disloyalty in St. Lou,.s
ST. Louis, Jana ll.—The Provost Marshal General of
Missouri has issued an order instructing the Provost
Marshal of this city to cause all persons suspected of dis
loyalty to the Government, or sympathy with the rebel
lion, to take the oath of allegiance to the United States
and tbe Provisional State Government, and directing
that all Demons known to be disloyal shall be required to
give bonds for their observance of this oath. The
Marshal also directs the arrest of all persons guilty of
dielciY al conduct.
Fortress Monroe and the South
FORTIESB MONROI, Jane 17.—Tbe Government steam
derrick Dingo arrived here; "this morning, and will pro- •
teed shortly to raise theyessels recently sunk here.
The Fernandina arriied yesterday from Wilmington,
N. 0., and reports all quiet on that coast. The John
Adams arrived froin Newriort this morning, with the se
nior clang of the Says.] Academy on board. The saddled
are to see a little actual warraro, it is said, before
The steamer liletamora arrived from City
Point last night. She brings no passengers, papers, or
news. The telegraph from Suffolk to Portemouth has
just been completed, and is now in good working order.
The weather fp cool and unseasonable. '
Heavy Storm and Dektruetive Fire at Cin-,
cuinati
Crgorsusrx, JrmelB.--About 2 ,o'clock yesterday
ternoon hetivy storm prevailed here.' The lightning
struck the manufactory connected with the extensive
liquor warehouse of Fletcher, Hobart, A 00. ; passing
through the roof it struck one of the stills. causing its
-lestantaneoue explosion. The burning fluid spread in
every direction, and the workmen barely escaped with
their lives. The building was speedily consumed, the
walls falling and crust fug several. frame houses adjoin
ing. • J a• woman wbo resided in one of these' houses was
killed. Ily tide time the warehouse of the same firm, on
Trent • street. was completely enveloped in flames, and
was entirety destroyed. consuming 1,000 barrels of .whis
k•,,2oo b arre l s of linseed oil, VA barrels of lard oil, 20
barrels of coal oil, besides a quantity, of alcohol and other
stock.
• The lose of Fletcher & Co. was about 1160,000, on which
there was an insurance of '1628,000. The lore on the
frame buildings, which.•were crushed and partially
binned, was $1,600. & large store on Front street,
occupied by George 36. Hord A Co., adjoining the
brirned'Warehoirses, was damaged to the amount of seve
re] thnsisand dollars. At ii o'ciack this morning the wails
of Hord 8: Co.'s sloe, which were so much damaged bf
the are of. yesterday, fell in, the oontents of the store
• (among which were 800 barrels of whisky and , a large
amount of haled hemp) taking fire, and being ell de
r:tr.:led by fire and water. This loss reaches, perhaps,
$40,000.
Discharge of the Released Union Fri-
• Boners.
•
New Your, June I.B.—The releast4 Limon prisoners,
who have been for a fortnight peat on Governor's Island,
were paid off and mustered out opaervice today. Many
of them have gone to their homes, while some bare re
mained in town the prey of the villainous sharpers who
are Co plenty in this city. Quito a number are at the
New England rormffl, wbo will leave for home to mor
row. They are from an sections of the Northwest and
East.
The Pennsylvania committee have arranged with Cc:4.-
Po% e to have all tho sick and wounded soldiers of that
State arriving here taken to the Now England rooms
which has always heretofore been done, the New Eng
landers never yet refusing their hospitality or attentive
care to any loyal sick or wounded soldier. •
Later from Havana.
NEW YORE. Juue 18.—The steamer Columbia has ar
rived from Havana, with dame to the 14th Met., sod
Ye: a Cruz da ea to the 24.
Accounts from Vera Cruz atato that General Denay,
Pith 800 men, bad left with proyhnone for the French
encampment
Caracas dates to the 22d lilt state thht the rebels at
tacked the town of Paton, but were finally beaten Mr by
the garrison. after committing horrible atrocities.
Considerable bicloleau greealled among the shipping in
the harte.r M D evens. The Taloa continue then..
The rebel steamer Geeeral Rusk had arrived from Gal
vtocon With WO halve of cotton.
rArrival of the Steamer Cossack
Hun Tonic, June IL—The steamer Cossack has ar
rived from Nowhere, H. 0 , with dates to the loth She
brince a number of sick and wounded soldiers, In charge
of Dr Upham. Among the wounded are Adjutant Hor
ton and Lieutenant Jarvis, of the 2gth Massachusetts.
Reward of a Faithful Officer
Itsuritionn, JunelB.—Colonel Wm. W. Morris, of tho
4tb Arbiters, ovmmoodont at Fort rdcflenry. has been
aprointeti brevet brigadier general. He has been forty
years in the at my.
1H issonn Etnao ei putzon Convention,
JEFFERSON CITY, June 18.—The Fmancipstion Con
vention met to•dsy. One hundred and ninety-tive dele
gates were present, twenty-live counties being repro
eenteds Judge it. W. Welts, of Cole comas, was re
ported for permanent president by the Committee on
Organization. Nine vice preaidonts and three 1100 , 8nniell
were appointed. A COMMittl.43 on the construction of a
platform was appointed, with B. Grata Brown as chair
man. The Convention then adjourned to meet to-mor
row.
An Arrival from fiewbern, N. C
Nan , YORK, June 18 —The steamer Ellen S. Ferry Ar
rived from Newborn, N. C., this evening. Among her
parsengers is Lieut. Col. litatthewson of the 11th Con
necticut Regiment.
Fire in the lowa State Prison.
Font Disnrsos, lowa, June 16.—The shops of the
lowa State Prison were destroyed by fire this evening.
The bee is estimated at from #115,000 to 520,000. The
amount ot insurance has not been ascertained.
Government Hospitals
BALTIMORE', June 18.—The statement that the. Go
•Proment hospitals at Mill Oreek and Hampton are to be
abluidooed is incorrect.
Sailing of the Persi*.
Nits Tonic. June I&.—The B M. steamer Persia.
sailed to-day for Liverpool. Among her passengers were
Charles E. K. blortright, B. B. 121 consul et Philadel
phia, Diva Korlright, J. Gillingham Pell, Wm. S. Lewis,
and a number of other Philsoeiphiaus.
The Steamer China at New York.
Naw YORK, June 18.—The steamer Ohina arrivod at
this port to-day, at noon. A summary of her advices
has already been published, which was received
Cape Race..
The New York State Loan
ALBANY, N. Y., June 18.—Tbe State loan of 5800,000
in 6 per cents avoraged 10M per cent. premium. The
amount of the bids was $1.660,000. This loan is payable
in etunie, and the premium on gold rune up the average
bide to 110 per cent.
A New eounterreit
TROY, N. Y. ' June •18.—Gonnterfeit notes on the
Manufacturers' Bank, of this city ; of the denomination
of $5, are in circulation. The vignette is worked a little
darker thanthe genuine.
A Snow Storm at Cape Race.
Cara Nam June 17.—A. th k k snow storm prevail
ed lime lam night The weather is now Improving.
Fatal Accident to a IL S Army Officer
Loutsvit.t.e., June 18.—James B. Alexander, of Ken
tucky. a litutenent in the res Mar army, fell this morn
ing from' the wludow of his room, in the third story of
the Louisville Betel, to the pavement and was aimed in
stantly kilasd. Litut.-Alexatmer has I)..en post commis
/my at Bardstown, and was here en route for Washing
ton.
The Constitnlional Election at
OBTOACO, June 18 —The majority for the new Coneti
tution in the city woe 908 rows The retnrne from, the
State is !my meagre amlnot enough to indicate the re
sult.
Overland Emigration.
Omens, N. T., Jane 16.—The overinne emigrant es
cort sent by the Government left this morning for the
West. The emigration is larger than ever berme ' some.
6,000 teams having crossed th e river at this point alone.
LARGE CAL F OS DRY GOODS, CLOTIUNG, CAR
PETINGS, MATTINe I &c.—The attention of pur
chasers is requested to the largo and frosh assort
ment of British, French, German, India, and
domestic dry goods, carpetings, mattings, etc., em
bracing about 700 lota of staple and. fancy articles,
dress goods, linoos, hoop skirts, sun umbrellas,
Canton fans, palm-leaf hats, clothing, stock of
goods, notions, etc., .to be peremptorily sold by
catalogue, en four months' credit, commencing this
morning, at ton o'clock precisely, with the carpet
ing and matting, and. to be continued, without in
termission, the greater part of the day, by John B.
Myers & Co., auotioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market
street.
ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Steamer China at New York.
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THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.
Distress in the Cotton. Districts
THE GREAT EXHIBITION
-The Cunard steamship China, from Liverpool, 7th,
arrived at New Yotk yesterday at It o'clock.
.The news is a full week later by mail
When 3CO miles east of Sandy Hook the atter engice
of the China became disabled, and she was obliged to
proceed with one engine.
The New York correspondent of the London Timer
represents that the number of men in tho Federal armies
amounts to about 540,000, a Lich Is insufficient for
the double work of competing the South and afterwards
holding It in military subjection. The boundary of
War had telegraphed to the Governors of ell the
Northern and Western. States for voluateers to com
plete the roll of 700,000 men. The numbar will
be obtained, owing to the stagnation of u-ale and
the inflation of marital ardor. Toe Northern people, ho
acids, tight for the restoration of the old Union, in order
that they may be the groateet military and naval Power
in Christendom, that they may overawe Great Britain
and France, but especially Great Britaici, and that they
may be the whiten of the fate of nations both in the Old
bud New World.: This is not avowed ie speeches, but
it is the truth
The attendance of visitors at the Great Exhibition,
billtb the counuencetnout of the ..bbilting day.," had
largely increased. -On one day the numbers present ex
cr eded 50,000.
lionry Ttioniaa Bucklo, author of tho "Ili story of Ot
',Situation in limslano,' died at Damascus, ou the 311
ult.
'lto race for tho Oaks," at Epsom, was won by Mr.
'Baylor's 4 . Fon Ca joie," .41.raperatrice" corning in ae
cond. and 4. Hurricanb" third.
TEE LONDON TIMES ON AMERICAN
AFFAIRS
A PLEA. POR . INJURED ENGLAND 1
Not among the levet of the iimumerable evils of war is
to be accounted that inflammation of the passions, that
perversion of the judgment, that violent, uureaeouing,
and unsparing prejudice, which grows up under its in.
flueuce in the needs ot men otherwise Mir, calm, and ju
dicious. Everything takes its tint from the fiery atmos
phere. People live among chimeras which they Miti
take for realities, and realities which they believe to be
illusions, until events with unmerciful logic dispel the
illusion, and nations and individuals blush to discover
how gross were the deceptions which assumed to their
everheaded imaginations the very garb and symmetry of
•truth. It le with melancholy interest tbat we see men
on whose sound and impartial judgment we should
a few months ago have placed the meet implicit
reliance a prey to the strangest and most incredible
belltieniatien, both with regard to their own country
and to ours. We have never beau surprised at the
language which mob orators, Now York editors, and
trading politicians of all kinds have applied to England.
Their business, in the present state of American affairs,
is a very simple ono—to secertain the utmost extent is
which popular violence and injustice can go, and to write
fully up to the mark. But we have always looked for a
very different tope and a very different measure of jus
tice from the upper classes of American society—from
men dieconnected with politics, lifted above popular pre•
jadice, and scantling affairs with the enlarged informs
time the elevation of view, and. the souuduese of appre
ciation which Spring from enlarged knowledge and a
higher sense of moral rectitude. Bat even this class is
beginning to show only too clearly how vast is .the lain •
once which the war has exercised over its feelings and its
judgment. It reheat; to be convinced by the most noto
rious tarts, and repeats the errors under which the war
was beenn, as if the repetition of them could counteract
their exposure.
• Everybody knows that the favorite theory under which
the North deteeMieetl to elelettlt
tic propOillobe wad that there alibied a strong Uuion
party in the South kept down by terror and coercion, and
nal the lnoment the attitude of the North became suffi
ciently menacing acid the pressure she exercised suffi
ciently great the Union party of the South would
rice, and the rebellion would at once be at an end.
Ample opportunity has been afforded for the
verification of this opinion, and no one single
circumstance has appeared to justify it. Whatever
may be thought of the active operations of the South,
there can be no doubt whatever of the doggedness and
determination ot its passive resistance.. Those who can
fly escape, those who cannot submit to what they cannot
prevent, but in &manner unmistakably hostile. • Success
bee no votaries in New Orleans or Norfolk. The victor
Is received with the torch and the mine. Conflagration
sett ruin strew big path, and nothing destructible is al
lowed to tall into his hand& Yet the very etife of the
mercantile class cling to the delusiou that the Americans
are still only one people, and any Government which
ebould admit the prineiple that separation be
tween North and South is possible would infalli
bly perish snider the indignation of a people burning to
reorg &nine itself on the old foundation. North and South,
we are still required to believe, would unite as one man
under the old flag, and give new vitality to that national
existence which had been for a time, and only for is time,
.o unfortunately suspended. if Englatuddilfere from this
view, elm is actuated by the basest malice and the moat
contemptible jealousy ; and, ai for, such organs of the
English press as presume to announce it, no words in the
copious vocabulary of Americau vituperation are power
ful enough adequately to condemn them.
So mucb for American opinion on America. It is even
worse as regards England. There is no denying the fact
that this country is regarded at this moment by many, of
the Most prominent and respectable Citilene of the North
with a bitterness and unanimity of hostility to which our
peat history itself can afford no parallel. We are uncon
scions of baying deserved this feeling, but its existence is
not the Mae certain. 'We can understand, and even make
allowances, for the rage and hefted of. the South. If the
military operations of the North have been based, as we
have 'bairn, on one miscoeceptien the rebelion of the
Louth hue been as certainly based upon another. Tne
`South, it now appears, took up arms trusting more to
cotton than to gunpowder. ahe South had induced it
self to believe that, rather than lose the raw material of
its principal manufacture, there wore no sacri
fices •of • principle or of character which Etig
laud was not ready to make. The South relied
on our intervention because they believed It wee
our immediate and premising interest to intervene, and
beeause ther•had horned to themselves no idea of
a
peo
ple with honesty and' magnanimity, patience end far
sighted - wisdom, sufficient to forego the immediate and
pr.saing interest of the moment. They, have been de
calved in their calculation, and it is not unreasonable
that they should give way to auger against them
who have unwillingly deceived them by a simple coil
- fortuity to the path of duty. But of what has the North
to complain I We have, to our own great and heavy
kis—to tbo impoverishment of our revenue—to the
crippling of our niattufecturlng interest—to the grievous
want and misery of an innocent and -- heroic population.
Maintained between the North and South a strict aad
. honorable neutrality. Everybody know* that hid
we been disposed to interfere, we should not have
lacked the aid of the meet Valiant and powerful ally;
that the wrong which wo did -would, for the moment, al
least, Lava been attended with the most perfect impunity.
Everybody knows that for many years it baa been the
policy of the United States to compose their domaltio
difficulties by fastening a aeries of unprovoked Quarrels
on England. - The civil war offered as an opportunity to
avenge the past and to invest ourselves with emcee se
curity for the future. It cannot be denied that it rested
with this country to nerpetuate the division of America
into two Confederacies, and thus, in case of aggression
from the one, to provide ourselves with a perpetual
ally in the other. Pecuniary interest, resentment for peat
inhales, and the desire for security against future wrongs,
all communed us to intervene, and the misconduct of an
American officer, and the culpable approbation given to
hie acts by - Congress and the Government, furnished us
with a complete pretext, according to the morality of the
law of nations as hitherto practised and underatood. But
England scorned to avail herself of any such pretexts,
tied her moderation hsa enabled the North to gain those
victories which have raised her people from despondency
to the highest state of exultairon. What is there in ail
ibis 'IILL should justify the imputation that England is
nedir ming an intervention in America, and the bitter
&validation of a press which has uniformly advocated
this course of moderation, justice, and conciliation?
lied we pursued the course to whfch so many motives
invited us, had we yielded to passion, to policy, or to the
greed of gain, it would have been impossible for the
North, Including some of her leading citizens, to regard
us with a more bitter and rancorous hostility. if we
wanted a proof of the fairness of our conduct, it may
well be found In the fact that the South are jnet as in
dignant with us for doing nothing in their favor as the
Borth are for toing too much. •
We acted e n motives which, however unintelligible
they may seem in America, were perfectly commehen•
table to ourselves: We [bought it unwortby of a great
nation to allow our view of international law and the
Minim it involver!, to be warped and distorted by the
pleading of a norirelY ma'srial Inter, at The fact that the
cotton of the Fonth was very neodfol to us evade the war
more distreesing, but furnished, la our view, no valid
ground for lutervoution. Past ioinries, if we did not
think fit to retreat them when the Colon watt strong and
united, we thought it below our dignity to resent is the
moment of its weakness and adversity. Future security
we preferred to look for rather in the good feel.
ing which Jour conduct seemed to us peculiarly
calculated to produce than In availing ourselves
of the temporary weakness and heavy misf or t une
Of fl kindred people. In this point only we coerces we
see come reason to believe that we may have been mie
taken. We do not believe that, had we pu,hed to the
utmost the adrastages circumstances threw in our way,
we could have been the objects of more bitter hostility,
not only among the ignorant and misguided, but among
many of those whose education and information should
have taught them better. We may possibly live to re
pebt oar generosity. We may possibly live to find
that oar moderation boa been displayed towards
these who have no power to appreciate it: It
might have been wiser to take security for
crirmArte instead ocputting so much confidence in the
lateness and good feeling of others. If this tact be seta-
Melted the error is still reparable. The North cannot
see that we have done anything to entitle ne;we do not
Fay to gratitude or good• will. but to nbsdnence from ha
tred and reviling. A change of policy on the part of this
country would very speedily alter their opinion, and con
vince them of that wnich they seem now unable to con
ceive, that they have been treated by England as they
never here treated her, and as, if she had thought more
of her own interests and less of theirmilsfortnne, she ne
ver wedd have treated them.
THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.
The sixth annual meeting of the Social Science Con
gress may Do eaid to have commenced in London on the
evening of Then:slay, and, as Parliament has now ad
,ournesi for the Whitsuntide holidays, the newspapers,
le-tiered from the pressure ou their space by the eloitueuce
of • one senators, will be able to devote more time to the
elaboratioa of the proceedings. The morning papers of
yesterday contain the ineutural adarese of the chairman,
Lord Brougham, which is spread over nearly four
columns and a half of type. It is an extraordinary
&annalist for so old a man, • and the papers,
one and all, declare that be read • it with great
vigor and effect. The mere reading of, a docu
ment like this in Exeter . Ball is no alight 'effort, bat
the composition is a still higher task for, a man woo is
eighty-three or four years of age. In this doeument
will be bound all the peculiarities—all the defects—and,
we may add, all the excellences of Lord Brougham's
style. There is hardly a sutdect of soy note that has
occurred in the history of mankind, during the last
twelve menthe, that the "old man eloquent" has not
touched. The civil war in America tigures couspicuatmly
in connection with what be considers the impending
tovenfal. of slavery in that country. The tone of the
deem:trent is what may be termed moderately conserva
tive, for, while be maintains aid supports the rights
of the Crown and the aristocracy, and denounces
In strong teams the tyranny of the mob, as it is
exemplified in more democratic countries, he is
still the honest and feittitul advocate of thmo
progressive improvements amongst ourselves—cheap
education, cheap law, cheap literature, improved
crindual discipline, sanitary reform, the employment of
women in railings adapted to their powers and sex—
which form the main elements of what Is now called so
cial science. Indeed, this aver ciation is thing for human
e'evntion and proereseion what tho British Aseoclation,
during the lest thirty years, has effected for physical
sciences and, as the tubjects interact, nswe or low, every
member of society, from the peer to the peasant, they
eve well entitled to the attention which they have re
ceived at the heeds of Lord Brougham and his eel
'ogees. But the chief interest cat this Oonvese is to
some found in its annual volume, which contains in some
cans a staumary, iu others a fun report of the various
valuable papers, on every imagiusry subject, contribute*
by the members, foreign and native. The volume is a
valuable storehoule of facts and opiniOns, useful to the
statesmen, the philosopher, and the statistician. This is
the fleet time that Loudon has received the honor of a
visit from the Social (clones Congress, and being the
year of the International Exhibition. the metropolis was
. the most proper place for the gathering.
Of the slave trade, Lord Brougham said : •
t , Tim lessons taught by the sad events in the once
United States, and by the faults In their Constitution,
bare been stated bnt there is happily a spat in 'the re
cent aspect of their affairs which is most pleasing to con
template, and whose brightness we may . sextemay hope
that no outbreak of the . multitude will be suffered to
obscure. The Northern Goverment, to its infinite honor,
bee at length agreed to the- mutual right riif search—ln
other word's, to abolish all that realities of the slave trade.
It has long been known that the greater part of that in.
tenon traffic is carried on in . American snipe, sailing un
der fake colors, none of their own Cruisers interfering
effectually. Both the Et gnat' and French cruisers
can now visit . eac h suspected vegeta, and - the traffic
a.
is at an end . I regard this as the second real
blow Muck at the 'slave trade. .The first was the act
which I had the happiness of passing thronslt Par
lismout, just half a century ago, for pneishicig it as a
gnat clime, instead of treating it as merely cintraband—
law soon atter adopted by America. but never till of
late really executed. Let its hope, that our Goverment
may be encoureted by Ibis important success to nee with
Spain a language no longer capable of being misundere
mow, and peremptorily to demand the execution of the
contract for which she received so large a sum of in may,
and which she has ever since most scandalously broken
in all manner of ways, and making the slave trade a re.
ruder menus of enriching her colonial governors sent to
red nit their ruined fat tunes by bribes from felons, the
result being the importation into Cuba of forty thousand
Degrees yearly"
01 our civil war be ea'd: •
"The American civil war has severely affected thie
country, ee well as F, aces, prueluciog great distress in
all them districts where the cotton manufacture forms
the staple trade. The subject is too painful to dwell
upon, were we not rellered by observing the truly admi
rable behavior of those who suffer the most. The dis
tress has brought into view the happy advance of oar.
.artisan population in the branches of knowledge most
essential to their will-being. The hardehipe which they.
me encoring have not disturbed their minds, nor shaken
their faith in pritictolee which they had, upon examina
tion and reflection, adopted in prosperous times. They
know that t h e want of the raw material. which sets their
industry in motion, would not justify England in using
her power to break' the laws of nations for the purpose
of ottaining it; and they assent to the ..wiee arid Jett
forbearance of our Government without a murmur:
Their patience, under sufferings beyond all former ex
perience, is truly enacting. They bare made a noble
recall. a to maintain their position as self-supporting !
members of the community. Bow unlike this to the
blind fury of their predecessor!, who. in their tenor nice,
always rush to the conclusion that every calamity tinder
whi, b they suttee ed was brought on them by the rapacity,
or the cruel, callous indifference o their superiors in
coda position."
TRADE BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND NEW OR•
'LEANS. •
A letter from Liverpool, dated June 6, to the London
Times, says:
" At hut the direct trade between Liverpool and New
Orleans has been re-opened; and the pioneer vessel, the
Antoinette, a fine aluop of eight hundred tons, sailed
from the Mersey Yesterday evening, for New Orleans—
the only clearance within the past • eighteen months.
The Antoinette had en board a full cargo of salt. She
will be succeeded by the Pole Star, and other first-class
veeeehe, so that ere long we may have to record a return
of the activity which previously characterized the trade
between this port and New Orleans. The steamer Oir
camign, recently captured by the Federal blockading
fleet, cleared from Liverpool to Havana, ostensibly, but
it WO, well known here, arid, indeed, those in command
of the vessel did not attempt to conceal the affair, that
the vessel wee to tun the blockade if she could. The
statement, therefore that she was a trader bet geon Bor
deaux and Bayous is incorrect. also vessel is owned in
Liverpool, by a firm well known in the ftlediterranean
trade The cargo on board the captured vessel was esti
mated at sl,ooo,ooo—a very good day's work for the
captor."
DUNNING THE BLOCKADE
The rates of insurance at "Lloyd's" on steamers char
tered to run the blockade, rouged from thirty to forty
guineas per cent., and some policies contain a clause that
six months' deteution from capture ill to be considered
equivalent to a total loss.
A CONFEDERATE ARRIVAL IN TEE CLYDE.
The Glasgow Herald has the following announcement:
"On V odsieed ay night a little clipper schooner, called
the Sue, Captain Smith, made her appearance at the
Broomielaw, with the -Confederate 'lag dying, having
on board a cargo of turpentine, rosin, he., front George
town, South Carolina, after thirty. dope passage. Capt.
Smith repotte the -blockade as very stringent, teveral
war steamers being off the entail port he left. Ile wee
detained four weeks waiting a chance or a dark
night. Be had ran out and into Charleston once before
with profitable cargoes. There were few or no yes
eels in the Southern ports. The stocks, of naval stores
were small, and none making, as the low prlceiestace the
war bad stopped the makers. Rosins are consumed now
in place el coal for making gas, and found to sots well.
and cheaper .than coal i so that hereafter rosin will
always command higher prime in the. Confederate States.
The captain had considerable difficulty, from this scarci
ty, in collecting hii cargo. • Captain Smith further
assures no that. there is neither dread of the Northern
invaders, nor anything like w ant of provisions, clothing,
money, or other necessaries to carry on the war until the
Southerners succeed in gaining a separation and their
iudependeece." , .
FRANCE AND MEXICO-A NEW I'EOJECT
The London herald's Paris correspondent says that a
favorite idea in France just noir is to establith French
inpuence:=arientle in Mexico In the shape of a pro
irelid SW There will be a French high tiottuntesloner
and a French army, while the Mexican Parliament will
Se allowed to amuse itself. by making speeches and pass
ing bills previously sanctioned by the Executive.
The Independence Beige, in its correspondence from
Paris, gives the following outline of the course the
}'tench Government intend to pursue in Order to carry
out the above policy :
" The Entheror le more than over determined
.to pur
sue the execution of his PrOjecti 'in Mexico. Ile is nht;
in reality, so much annoyed as people suppose at the
withdrawal of England and Spain; on the contrary, his
isolation leaves him more free to corn , out his own views.
"It is, moreover, a mistake to suppose that he was
over very anxious about the candidature of the Arch
duke Maximilian or that it is any sacrifice to him to
give It up. - bedeVeZhat the Emperor never thought It
possible to make the Mexicans acclaim 'that Prince as
their eovereign.
" The only object in puttieg him forward was to make
a parade of disinterestedness, the Emperor being very
sure that his name would never be' an to the ac
complishment of the imperial - schemes. What those
aebemes are Is not yet well known, bat they will gradu
ally come out as circumstances may favor their develop
ment, and will coasiderably astonieh the world.
"Take it for certain that the Emperor is fully re
solved to make the Mexicans pay fad value for the
services he proposes to render them, and that our inter
vention will not be limited to a single campaign. Of ,
course,• there can .be no• doubt • that the -overthrow . of,
Juarez's Governuient is one of the objects of our expe
dition ; but when Juarez is got rid of, another Govern
ment must be pit in his place, and the task of providing
that will naturally fall upon the French, who, moreover,
will take the opportuoity of levying apes the country
the costs of the war, which mast needs be considerable.
" I have reasons for believing that out of the impossi
bility of odablishlng a monarchy in' Mexico plausible
reasons will be found for perroonentin estabiiskinp
Frenck influence in Ike form of . a protectorate—some
thinx like that of the English in the Inian Islands. Mexi
co will be madea great French colony, with liberal in
stitutiona, and as much of her autonomy as possible. It
is thought at Paris tbata Test outlet for our manufactures
may tie found in Mexico, and that, under French protec
tion, the country may be made to produce cotton on a
large scale." -
A Turin telegram of the stb nye . : The formstion of
six new brigades of infantry hos been resolved on.
Austria continues to despatch troops from Tyrol into
Venetia.
The report that the Anstrisn army is being reduced Is
unfounded. Some furloughs 'only have been granted.
A great military force has boon concentrated in Ve
netia. Many students have teen expelled from the Usti
verelty of Padua. ' . , . .
The canon of the Cathedral of Naples had-been con-
detailed to lose his prebendary for showing disresliectlo.'
ward King Victor 'Emmanuel.
; 'The Italian" Finance Mobster bad report4aVa deficit,
bet announced that beluid hopes of providing for it by
the salmi of public property t so at to avoid any retort - to
fultiati• loans this - year.
The Chamber of DaPtlito3 woe debating a motion , for
inquiry into late evente. Signor hlinghettl approved the
marmot the litlintittry, but some members Vingeotlecl WM
the country lacked conhdence in ministers.
Frenth troops bad seized two wagons laden with Brun
for Albano, which were being escorted by Pontifical
gendarmes.
PBVISSIL
The discussion on the address to the 'fling had coSSW
manned in the (Ambers. The Minister of Finance ,
argued ageinat the necessity of sty addreee at all, bat'
this was decided akainst him by en /cameos° majority.
M. De Aachen had proposed as address which con
tained the following eigniflcant passage: We pro.
fotindly regret that your Majeaty's Ministers have given
expi elision to accusations and lent some countenance to
the supposition that the class of Primulas' functionaries,
well tried in their loyalty, could forget throsth taken by
your Moray."
It was reported at Berlin that the King would not re
ceive thisaddrees if it should ho adopted.
IMSE CABSEL
The Elgetor has revolved neon s reconstruction. of the
blinletry7and had ordered General Loseberg to form el
new Cabinet.
Misbieon ships-of-war.wele assembled at Alicomtee—dt
was bellow d for a political ptowoo•
GERRICOE.
A ministerial crisis prevailed at Athena. The king
hesitated to form a Ministry out of the opposition, () Wing
to the difficulty in finding men of worth to undertake the
stsponsibility.
TURKEY
A battle was 'fought on the let near Yenikvi and re
stated In the complete victory of the Turks. The hew of
theldontenegrins in killed and wounded to Mated at frost
500 to 600—that of the Twits at less than 150.
The Bombay mail of May 12, had reached Ragland
and the American portion is received per Caine. The
news has been anticipated,
LONDON MONEY MARKET.—Bating Brothers
quote 11. B. sixes 83; ditto lives, 78; Massachusetts lives,
92; Maryland atm, 80 iPenneylvania sterling, 73, bonds
74 ; Boston Oity'4,tis, 80.
the funds on the 6th were heavy, and Consols declined
per cent., owing to the nnfavorable Bank returns.
The closing price was 92e92, cc for money ex-dividend.
The ditconnt market was unchanged. Money in
abundant supply.
Canadian securities fell X. per cent, on the 6th, nnder
the influence of the strictures in the Times on Canadian
The weekly returns of the Bank of England show a
decrease in the bullion of 1.692,00.
American securities were det wed doily declining; Il
linois Central shsres closed on the 6th at 47046db:tow:it,
and Erie at 81032.
LATEST QI:OTATIONS:---Erle OWES ; Illinois Cell
a! 47046 die.; N. Y. Central 7307,-3,.
• Tar. VERY LATEST
(By Telegraph loiltteenstown, June Brj
I'vriroora, Saturday.—The eteamshiv Morrimea"
vat iu tare thißmoruiug for Co)ai, bound 10 Madeira and
Bermuda. It Is bettered she is laden with materials of
var.
DOINGS IN IRE ENGLISH PMILIthEENT
In the louse of Commons, on the sth tnetaot,
wbo bad on the paper a notice of motion, r , to
call attention to the importance and the fearthility of
establiabing a postal and a. passenger communication
three times a week between Barone and America, by
means of mail an-amera. tr call rognlarly onalrernate
&ye at the port of Cork, with tel-graphleconnounicanon
off' Crookharen or Cape Clear," said be would postpone
Iris motion in the hope that before making it ho-might be
able to lay additional facts before the. ileum, and that
the snidest might engage the attention or members in- the
meantime. He stated that he bad no intention to tooth
upth the Galway crntract.
Both Houses adjourned for a week for the Whitson. tor
Wars, .
The . London Times, adverting. to. the rejnetion or the
militia hill by the Canadian Parliament, and the norms ,
quent Ministerial crisis, nays: '•lf ()evade. will not fight
to protect its independence from invasion, neither wilt
England. To ne the expoeure of Canada to foreign
in
vasion hi a secondary matter; to Canada herself it is life
end death. Let her arm by all means; In:Wirt:her arm,
not formur Bake, but her own. The Question la not one
or dissolving or maintaining Its connection with Groat
T.l than ;. that it may dieeoive almost at pleasure.
"The Question to of destroying or maintaining its own
liberty and independence of being a seitgoverned com
monwealth, or a member, or. perhaps, an to talked of for
the Bonds, a s:..bjugatid territory.of the United Staten.' •
The Daily Newt contends that the attack on the Ca
nadians; in the above editorial in the rims, is not jus
tified by any public facts, and that no one has a right to
say that the Canadian Parliament has declined under-
taking the public defence of their country simplybecause
they could not agree on the terms of a militia bill.
In coppequence of an application horn the Atlantis
Tel-graph Company, the Admiralty had ordered the
paddle steamer Porcupite to be prepared at Plymouth
for taking eeuudings in the Atlantic. She would be
ready In about ten days.
The Common Council of the city of London bad voted
the freedomof the city to Lord Canning, for h s eminent
services as Governor General of India..
The Prince of Wales arrived at Milts on the 6th, eta
route for England, baying completed his tour in the
East.
FURTHER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
011 f. BUTLER /MD THE SECESSION LkIITIM
ISHING UP COTTON FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
THE MYER OPEN TO BiTON,ROUGE.
SAM HOUSTON HEARD FROM.
&c.,
By the arrival of the transport steamer Ocean (time
at New York yesterday morning, hem New Orleans, we
have received am ,ther heavy mail from that city. The
latest ne re ix to the evening of Wednesday, Jane 11.
Among the passengers by the Ocean Queen are Pierre
Soule and the sheriff of Now Orleans, A. Mart:area%
wbo were arrented by order of General Butler, and came
to Ibis port In Dolonel Kinsman. We have
not learned the exact nature of the charge against Mr.
Soule, but it is asserted that he aas so intimately asso-
dotal with the Secessionists of Now Orloons—apparently
acting as their leader—as to rounder him a particularly
dangerous man. Sheriff fdarzaroan was charged with
countenancing recent projects of the Secessionists. Both
will be taken to Fort Warren, in Boston harbor.
The Ocean Queen bringe a large number of passee
gore. The following is the list:
Mrs. Benj. F. Butler, Captain Snow, Mrs. J. King.
Miss 11. Place, Mrs. U. Canetield and daughter, Mr
Dutton, J. M. lilciaath, J. A. Miller, G. Petrie. G. U.
Downing. Mrs. Simous, Miss Burke. Miss 131QW11. Mrs.
Mosta, Mrs. Tracey, J. Ouana and lady, Miss Ragan,
Mrs. diucuan, G. Poressu t .E. M. Daniel and lady, H.
McCall, Mr Davies and iddy..l I. Sylvester and two
children and twrvant, A. Sanford, lady, three chdoreo,
and servant ; W. S. Barpel and lady, MI& Perrot; Ara
M. C. Moult. Mrs. F. Barrett, N. D. ;J. C. Dull and
lady. J. W. Black, 6. - Alberaer ' N. Chapman, tdrs.
Matthews. S. M. Baud, Captain W. L. B Scram; U.
S_ A. • Captain Edwards, U. S. A..; J. Phillips and J. E.
Wood, of New York; Celooni Brannan, U. S. A.;
Liellteltant Clark, 13. S. A.; Pima sonle, A. Menswear',
of New Oilcans; Bev. B. Osgood, of New York;
Janin, of New Orleans; M. Da St. Cyr, French consul;
Dr. W. P. Buell, of New York; Mr. Thomas S. Nest's.
of Jersey City ; J. M. Denman, wife, and sister; J. O.
Winston. A. W. Smith, lady, and child; S. S. Booth.
Mrs. Fielding, Miss VeichY, F. Sloane and lady, F.
Cieinbrel and lady, ler. Cook, Mrs. and Mise Berman.
i9l Aiken, Lieutenant Parrott, Q. 8 A.; Captain Bart
lett, IL S. A.; J. W Burburt, Lieutenant Bryan,U. S.
A.; Lieutenant Milan, U. S. A.; Lieutenant Cooly. IL
S. A. ; Rey. Mr. Salter. 11. S. A..; Bey. Mr. Colby, Dr.
steott, 11. S. A.; J. Northern, of New York; I). O.
Baker, and eighty-seven in the kteerage--discharged sot
diem and refugees.
Condition of New Orleans.
EXPORTS—IINION FLAG-RAISING--I.OVELL'S ARMY.
The following intermiting extracts are from a private
letter dated at Now Orleans ou the 11th instant:
The exports from here are almost entirely wadi:trete
super and amia+see, %silica are Riven in ex.:hattee for the
absolute neceseartee of lite. So cringent has the block
ade been at this port, that for several constcu lye days
the entire city was without bread—the rich and per
alike. The Liiutenant Illacksirnebroughtthe drat cargo
of flour. and it is to be add at auction to-day. The maxi
mum price heretofore was twenty dollar,' per barrel,
United litatee money. fixed by O•nsral Butler. The cur
rency of the city eonsiets of broken bank bids—reprinted
on the backs, and cut in half, making two bills of our—
omnibus tickets, railroad checks, and little pieces of cards
of all kinds.
here was a Union flag raised on the City Ball on
Saturday. amidst some enthusiasm and much fear by
many who wish our canoe success lint dare not enconregs
as tholife of a resident is worth little who dares ad
vocate Union. As yet, the city is held by fear. but it is
thought that a few days will make a great change in our
favor.
"The rstidePts of the city despise Lovell for running
away, and the country people despise the city folks (4
letting bins run without au effort to prevent the landing
of our farms I have heard many men, and even ladies,
speak very indignantly against what they call the 'rums.
way clerk of a runaway street commissioner.' They say
his horse made the best time of any in the regiment."
EXTRACTS PRO( NEW ORLEANS PAPERS.
'Business seems to be :raduallv reviving. The latest
vivre contain columns of t‘ wants," announcements of
arrivals of goods from the North, and advertisements of
the resumption of travel to New York, Ithuatitisn, and
Red River.
CONTRACTORS HELD TO THEIR OBLIOLTIONs.
General Shepley, military couunamiaut of New Or
leans, has taken the city contractors in band, and bolds
them to their contracts, tlins providint for tho cleanli
ness, and consequently the health, of the city.
The letter of General Shepley to the Compton Conned
reads as follows :
I'EPADQUARTsmS hIILiTARC COMMISnANY.
NEW OrtheeNS CITY EALL..lune 10, 1882.
To the Honorable the President and Xembers of the
Assistant Board of Aldermen:
Gssmsnest : I respectfully return you herewith a
resolution which °detested in your honorable Board,
providing that the contracts within the city for clean
ing and repairing the streets ate 4 gutters of this city be
annulled, with the consent of the parties now holding
such contract!.
.. 1 respectlnlly state to you in writing as my reason for
not approving said resolution, that I do not think it would
be the interest of the city of Now Orleans to release thews
parties fr..m their contracts.
.. Diving the period in which these c.mtracts hare
been in force the oity of New Orleans appetite to have
performed the condition of the contracts on its part, by
making the payment provided for.
.. It does not, in malty instances, satiefactnity appear
to me that the contractors have fulfilled their obligations,
and under these circumstances I respectfully submit to
ou whether it would be just to annul the contracts of
all the contractors who consent to have them .Annulled,
thereby releasing such as have not discharged their
duties nuder their contracts from any liability for their
omissions and neglect. Respectfully,
110. F. SEMPLE!,
. 1 Military Commandant of New Orleans."
From all this it appears that the city is to be kept as
clean as pomade, even at the expense of annoying the
contractors, who were as violent rebels as those who
went oat to fight.
EESUYPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The gratifying intelligence of a resumption of epocto
payments by the banks of New Orleans is thus conveyed
by the True Delta of the 11th:
"Some of the banks are, we understand, preparing
themselves for the resumption of specie payments, and,
in our columns, the Bank of America announces that
this important step has been already taken by that
hitherto very successfully administered corporation.
This is as it should he, and is very commendable. Our
views on the currency question hage been so fres
seenly give, in these columns since the stupidly-dia.
Amer t suspension of September, that it would be super
fluous now to reproduce them; but we may with Pro
priety ask, what earthly good can accrue to any hank,
or soy Individual, by an obstinate resistance to the pro
m ediuge that can neither be set aside or disregarded 7
Is there a banking institution in New Orleans so sense
lessly s cenducted as to suppose that the interests of the
conniunity must be ever made anbeervlent to its own,
111)81 that its profits, legitimate or illegitimate, are thst
Only cousidervione that must be allowed to have weight
or importance'?"
The money article of the True Delta says:
"To-Om , the Bank of America has commenced paying
off its liabilities in specie fu the following order, via:
let—All depositors' balances ou the 16th of September,
ma which have not been since withdrawn ; and Id—
All notes of tt e bank known as its old issue, which wore
Mayby the Slate Auditor, nod bear a • prior date to
m a y 21. 1552. We have been unable to emertain alto
exact 11111rODt of the present liabilities of this bank, but
accord in g e o the official returns to the Board of Currency,
th e aggreseto deposits of the. 14th September. 1861,
fooled up $884,408. and the total circUtatiOn at the same
1 dote reached $.174,090 "
COEEECTION OP ELTMORS.
The Picayune has the f..llowing:
... Pettey,' the Washington corremseedenit of the Boa.
ton Journal, in his letter of the 19th of May, says: sal,
ready has the yellow fever made its appearance in .114.4
No, Jejor, not already then, nor alreidy now."
The same paper deprecates the sensation " letters
.from New Orleana ' and denies a report which avjeared
in the Journal of Commerce of the hanging of on Nag-
Ilebman
named Moody, adding:
...It is a falsehood, made out of the whole Cloth. web
and woof. And yet it is going the rounds of the Northern
press tied bly. Moody is constantly reoeishult letters from
agonized friends and relatives with regard - Gj t hi s crust
column, ."
ITEMS.
A.-musical reunion had token plata) an .beard a B aw d&
war steamer now 'sing at/few Ceibiana,.