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SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1862.
WE HAVZ rarely printed anything which
will be read nigh more interest than the ac
count of the meeting of Pennsylvanians in
Washington printed on our first page. We
recognize in the efforts of our brothers in
Washington one of the noblest sentiments
which can characterize the people. It is net
so much the mere effort of men to provide
for the sufferings of fellow-men, for that
is at all times commendable and pro
per. It is the old love of State and
community and association which we see
hero manifested. It is a noble thought that
when our brothers leave us for other scenes of
action they carry with them the Item and the
t ondnees which home and home as . 4ociations
always foster. And• when we see them turn
aside from the exacting cares of business, or
the attractions of an ambitions and political
life, to counsel together without regard to po
litical
. feeling or partisan relations, we feel
that whether we belong to one creed or
another creed, whether Republicans or Demo
crats, of different feeling or antagonistic in
terests, they still cherish, with a fondness far
beyond all other, affections, their love for our
grand old Stale.
We have no suggestion to add to those
named by the speakers on this occasion. They
understand the work before them, and they
have set about its accomplishment in an ener
getic and practical manner. The policy which
is carried out by this association is similar
to the policy which was instituted by Penn.
sylvania in the beginning of the war. When
our State gave its quota of soldiers to the
national army, it formed them in a separate
organization, commissioned its volunteer offi
cers, sent agents into the camps to provide
for their yenta, and protected the families at
home. Governor CURTLI having done well
thus far was anxious to complete the task. In
the saddest and most sacred duty, that of al
leviating the miseries of the wounded, ho now
finds himself assisted by eminent citizens
of his State now residing in Washington.
We have no doubt but that there will be
incalculable good arising out of the efforts
of this association. It does not confine
itself to Pennsylvanians in one army or another
army, but it designs to pour the balm upon the
wounded limb, whether in the extreme South
or the distant West,' on the Shenandoah or
the Mississippi. And as Mr. BAILOLAT so very
pithily intimated, no .distinction will be made
betwixt the soldiers from • Maine and
the soldiers from Pennsylvania, but where
ever a loyal man is in want, or in misery,
the effort wilt bo made to relieve him.
This work must not be left to the Washing
ton organizations alone. We must assist them
in the labor, and in Philadelphia, in liarris:
burg, in Lancaster, and In Allegheny, in every
town and township, messures should instantly
be taken to organise and systematize efforts
for the relief of our suffering soldiers. Our
brothers in Washington can-only investigate
and direct; they can say what is to be done;
they can lake means to do it ; but we, hors in
Philadelphia and elsewhere, must give of our
substance an i store to enable them to carry
out their designs. We need only remind our
friends of the duty which is now devolving
upon them. No words of exhortation are no.
cessary---it isle holy task, and the people will
vie with each other in performing it.
Tun wur in which theheatt of man is
carried off by war," wrote one whose mind
was always strong and true except when blind
ly surrendered to the dictates of a too tender
soul, "is by the splendor of its deceitful ac
companiments." The fallacy 'of the propo
sition is plain enough : the ccaccompani
ments" are assumed as always "deceitful,"
and all thereat of the brilliant essay, of,whicti
this sentence is the opening, has its arguments
falsified and its pleadings in favor of universal
peace rendertd nugatory by a similar mis
take—the incidental adjuncts of war receiving
that consideration atich should bs given only •
to its necessary results. Men are lug carried off,
to war by its pomp and showy splendors.. The
sharp whistling of the fife may fill the courses
of our blood with eagerness to do and dare,
with willingness to die ; drumbeats may thrill
our novas into unison with their strong pul
mations ; banners may enwrap our reason with,
their blazoned folds; the gleam of steel may
dazzle and bewilder our sight ; but all these
find their charm not in' rely in what they are
of themselves, but in what they hint beyond
themselves; 'and it will be time enough tts •
scald us for chil.iren when it is &lowa that We
yield to the childish, and are convicted of .
being led away by tinsel and show. Why, the
raggedest boy s throng after a marching regi
ment not for its music and the glitter of Its
accoutrements, but because all the impnliee .
of incipient manhood throb out firm and full
and free as the tramp of a thousand feet echoes
through their young imaginations. It is not to
sound struck aim stones that they are listening,
but to sounds that ring up from their own souls
as the glorious purposes of the men march
over them in the rythmic tread of courage and
patriotism. They feel the majesty of a man
hood that can sacrifice life to honor. They
picture, dimly and unconsciously, it may be,
the scenes of the battle-field. They feel the'
struggle ; in it they put forth their own power;
they suffer but they never yield; they con
quer and wear victorious wreaths. These are
the causes—those ideas of greatness, and .
power, and sacrifice, and noble daring—that
alike arouse the enthusiasm of the boy and
inspire the devoti.m ofothe man.
We do not, therefore, hesitate flatly to . con- •
tradict the assertion that military details con- .
stitute the chief charm of war, or oven en- •
hence its interest ; ; on the contrary, It is riot
till the sickening array of details is force'
upon ns by the practical emergencies of war
that our imaginations are called in from their'
wide sweep over principles and purposes to .
realize the terrible expense at which these are:
effected. We neglect the minutiae of a battle- •
field ; we care nothing for the positions of;
different roginif nts or commands as far as
they carry forward their separate fine
tions only. Our eyes are fixed on move,
ments conducted upon a grand scale; our
reason is occupied with vast strategic Ideas,;,;
we want to see the unity of the general Van,.,
and feel out the underlying thought that gives .
vitality to the whole. It is the deep game of
checks and counter-checks, advances and re-,
treats, Wats and counter-feints, played on the
beard of military tactics that engrosses us;
and we gaze, as if fascinated, upon this labyrin
thine complication of wheels within wheels,
and wonder to see them so evenly balanced in
kind where dism °portioned in size, or finding
compensation in velocity for what is lost in
power. We like to watch the processes and
effects of military machinery without letting
orr thought get actually crushed in its work
ing.
Who is riot now talking of Corinth and of
Richiniinii '7, Whose conversation is not en.
larged by such phrases as The division of the
west, or The army of the Potomac? Who
does not like to identify himself with stupen
dous movements, and speak complacently of
Bamatox , s pushing forward a hundred and
fifty thousand men, or MCCLELLAN'S siege
operations est. nding over fifteen miles 7 It
is so pleasant to give our thought full swing,
and talk of. the Mississippi as in our posses
sion, or of maintaining the blockade along two
thousand miles (,f coast. Yet all the while we
are overlooking movements of less magnitude,
but, perhaps, of more real significance.
One such movement has just occurred. It
is telegraphed in the simple words e. Cumber
land Gap is ours." The public read it to-day,
and let 4, skirmishes before Richmond" blot
it out to-morrow. Well, the public is only
doing as the Secretary of War has been forced
to do. He has known all along, as we have
known, that the Unionists of Eastern Tennes
see and Kentucky have been suffering un
speakable things in defence of their _devotion
to the old flag. We knew that guerilla rob
bery was making Union men homeless,
that worse than guerilla murder was making
Union women unprotected. Burnings, mob
binge, assassinations, rapine, Outrages of all
kinds, and in the most monstrous degrees,
were going' on, but neither did Secretary
STANTON send a force there adequate for their
suppression, nor did we urge him to such
course by our clamor. We sympathized with
the patriotic sufferers; we felt deepli'for
them; our very blood boiled in our veins
when we read some fresh account of wanton
barbarity, and we raised our voice in behalf of
the unhappy loyalists. Bat the flrst"f.? „ roCol ,
the pity was soon blunted; Manassas and Or;
Writhes absorbed it, as Richmond and. Corinth
absorb it now.
Our forces in Tennessee have been in•
creased, and General MORGAN was able to
march down, a few days since, upon the great
rebel stronghold—Cumberland Gap. It was a
march even more severe than that of FRE
MONT from Franklin to Winchester. AU that
disheartening array of obstacles incident to
mountain travel had to be overcome. Roads
had to be cut through forests on precipitous
mountain sides, where the axe had not yet
rung. Badges had to be built, and an army
pushed through trackless passes .and defiles,
Cannon were actually hauled up by pulley.
No wonder that the enemy, learning what in
domitable energy was threatening them, eva
cuated the Gap a few hours before our men
reached it.
"Cumberland Gap N ours." What is Ms
value 7 It is on the northeastern boundary of.
Tennessee, where the extreme southwestern
point of Virginia touches it. It is, as its
name indicates, a great gap in the Cumber
land mountains, and through it is .the grand
route from Kentucky to Tennessee, and so to
Alabama and Georgia. This makes it a
strategic point of the utmost importance,
and rebel shrewdness did not overlook It. Its
possession by the enemy put all Eastern Ten
nessee under their subjection; but now the
way is opened for our avenging arms to enter
and to reinstate loyal families in their homes.
But these devoted patriots have lost, alas !
more than their homes, and life cannot be
restored to their dear ones who so nobly
sacrificed it. This thought, it is said, and
the knowledge of the awful martyrdom en
dured by that people, have so maddened the
Union army, that it will be difficult to restrain
it from the excesses of revenge.
While this work is being done on the north
ern border, MITOIIIILL is doing his share on ,
the southern. The movement on the Chatta
nooga threatens to cut off the rebel retreat ;
at any rate, it surrounds East Tennessee with
our arms, and makes its restoration to the
Union a certainty.
All honor—more, homage to the loyal suf
ferers. They never faltered in their day of
probation, and now comes their reward. Lot
them not think that because we were silent
we did not feel for them. The emphasis of
the people's attention has, indeed, been given
to those operations of the war that seemed
physically grand ; twt the moral grandeur of
Tennessee's heroism is not forgotten. We
know its catalogue of agonies, and wreathe it
with votive garlands , 'of gratitude and praise.
•WE CONGRATULATE Mr. WM. L. Maar, at
torney-at law, upon having obtained what
promises to be a very extensive and lucrative
practice. Ho seems disposed to conduct the
case in which he is engaged upon the well
established principles of Jarndyce and Jarn
dyce, and, unless there is some providential
interference or spontaneous combustion, there
seems to be nothing in store for plaintiff, de
fendant, judges, tipstaves, and attorneys but a
dreary old age, amid overburdened dockets
and daily exhibitions of virtuous indignation.
We always feel tranquil and resigned after
reading the newspaper accounts of these per
formances. We know that honor and justice
have found a resting-place and a refage at the
bat ef,' Court of Quarter Sessions: However
wickedly inclined we may be, or to whatever
excesses our sadly-neglected education may
lead us, we can look for counsel and admoni
tion to Mr. Bran and his colleagues. We
are - only surprised at the moderation of this
pious counsellor. He should not have stopped
where he did. We are astonished that he did
not snake a motion to dispense with cakes and
ale and . ginger hot in the mouth. The whole
mind of Philadelphia, he says, has been
poisoned by the newspapers, and the court
should adjourn to enable Mr. Mawr to
administer an antidote. The court did not
think the case a fatal one—refused to adjourn—
end Mr. HIRST'S remedies remain to be ad
ministered. He carried his point, however.
A day was consumed—and his retainer seems
to have been granted for the consumption of
time. Every day occupied by this investiga
tion is so much revenue in the pocket of Mr.
Ewisc, and additional gain to Mr. Hum and
his associates. If he eau drag the inquiry into
as endless future,' and keep Mr. Ewing
in place until his term expires, his aim will
be 'accomplished. Thus far, ho must allow
us to say ho has succeeded most admirably.
Er. Rinses immediate cause of grief is
with the newspapers. They have been . gailty,
of a bold attempt to ruin the community, and,
were it not for this counsellor's vigilance,
there is no knowing where we would be on
this pleasant JUDO morning. It seems that
during the hearing on Thursday a witness
testified that he had deposited a fraudulent
vote. After the adjournment, a citizen who :
was in attendance went before a msgistrate
and testified to the statement he had heard
the witness make. The witness was arrested,
and, after a hearing, was hound over to answer
the charge at court. One of our reporters
was in attendance at the alderman's office,
in the pursuit of his calling, took a note
of the case, and printed a paragraph in rela
tion to it next morning. Other reporters
heard of the circumstance, and also printed
paragraphs. There was no word of corn
nient or criticism—the item modestly ap
pearing as thousands of other items ap
peared before it. Mr. HIRST, however, went
into court in a . state of irrepressible indigna.
tion, and asked the court to interfere in the
outrage which had been perpetrated by making
a decree that all people in the community,
who had voted illegally, might come into
court and testify to their fraud, and
have the sanction of the court as an im
munity from all punishment 1 He also de
sired that the court might then adjourn to
enable the community to perfectly under-,
stand that the court had thus made itself
a sanctuary for criminals t He felt that
this was nothing more than a • grand de
sign to, prejudice the court and intimidate
the witnesses of Mr. EWING, and. nothing
would satisfy him but that the court would
declare its purpose not to be intimidated by
releasing the fraudulent voter from arrest,
and preventing any other arrests.
Let us look at this for one moment: Ac
coding to the theory of Mr. HIRST, the pro
vince of the court is not to punish crime, but
to protect these who are guilty, provided their
testimony may be made available for Mr. Ew-
Ise. So'that worthy gentlemamis retained in
his place, it is .of no moment whether the
abuse of the elective franchise is punished• or
not. Men may commit crimes—they may
admit their shame in open court—but the very
fact of making this admission protects them
from all 'consequences. The end of law is not
to preserve its own integrity and' rebuke
every abuse of it, but to enable. Mr. Erin to
gain his case, and when newspapers chronicle
the facts.coneerning frauds they are liable to
censure:, ,We must confess that our notions
, of right and wrong are far different from those
of this. 'anxious, and 'eccentric 'counsellor.
,When man commits a crime be should be
punished. .Whether it proven against him
or admitted by his own lips, it is still 'a
crime and answerable to punishment. There
can be no such thing as condoning a felony,
even to gratify Mr. Hrasr or assist his case.
This is reason and justice, and we believe it
is law. We are glad the court thought so,
and made the decision recorded: In doing
so it vindicated its own majesty and refused
to throw its protection over any attempt to
violate the sanctity of the elective franchise.
THE Independence Beige announces, what
seems too good to be true, that King WILLLt.K
of Prussia, beaten in the struggle between'
Might, and Right—between the Powers of
Royalty and the just claims of the. People—
has.resolved to retire from public life, and ab
dicate in favor of his son,'Prince FREDERICK
WILLIAM ; who is son-in law of English VICTO
RIA. If his Majesty will do such a wise action
as this he will merit the good wishes of his
countrymen.
It was expected when he became King,
eighteen months ago, that, warned by the
evil example of his late brother—who was
at once a scholar and a fool, a pietist and
a drunkard, a tyrant and a perjurer—he would
carry out his promise of becoming the Father
of his People. He has continuously violated'
that promise.• At his coronation, last year,
were revived all feudal ceremonials, and
his own declaration was quite in the feudal
style—to the effect that he considered the
Prussian nation as in the old condition of serf
dom, and that their ruler's will was to be ab
'solute, entirely overriding the law. A few
months ago his Parliament refused to be dic
tated to by his Ministry—that is, by himself—
and he immediately dissolved that body, but
not one of his Ministtrs was re-elected, and
he finds it impossible to prevail upon any
-"lck
statesman who values his character and life
to accept the unpopular position of Primo
Minister.
Prussia has been unfortunate in most of her
sovereigns. FICEDEMICK WILLIAM I. dis
graced himself, through Europe, by his bad
morals and cruelty to his son and successor.
FUEIMILICKTIIE Gnaur was ono of the scourges
of Europe, as a conqueror. Ilia son, FRP:DE
-lam. WILLIAM 11., was one of the trinity of
crowned robbers who seized upon Poland and
divided it between them. FRF t DERICIC Wu
max 111., so neatly crushed by NAPOLEON,
and subsequently a member of the infamous
gi Holy Alliance," promised a liberal constitu-
tion •to his subjects in 1814, and left his pro;
mise unfulfilled at his death in 1840. FIUME
RICK WILLIAM IV., in like manner, "kept the
promise to the ear and broke it to the hops,"
and played fast and loose with liberal princi
ples during the revolution of 1848, at one time .
swearing fraternity with freed Germany, at
another directing his troops to shoot down the
patriots as rebels ; finally becoming notorious
for his constant inebriety, (hence the sobriquet
of "King Clocquet,") until, deprived of rea
son, be I , expired, a driveller and a show."
His brother, the present King, except that lie
eschews intemperance, has shown himself
worthy of the family:
The abdication of the King, and the substi
tution of a liberal regime, mould be a . great
boon, a great blessing to the Prussian people
—the Most enlightened of the whole German
family. Should the King persist in attempt- -
ing to override Popular Rights and National
Laws by , his own single, arbitrary Will, the.
result may be the overthrow of his dynastic
race and rule.. .
WILLIAM 1., of Prussia, was born on the
22d March, 1197. His only son; the Crown
Prince, was born on the - 18th OctOber, 1881,
and is said to have vainly remonstrated•'with
him on his unjust and unwise policy. In the
event of a rebellion—for Prussia must cast off
her present ruler—it is more than probable
that England would not resist a proposition to
place the Crown Prince on the throne of
Prussia, but would decidedly oppose the esta
blishment of a Republic. , The Prussians,
however, are monarchical—as yet. The ab
dication of WILLIAM I. would probably save
Kingship in Prussia.
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
WASHINGTON, June 20, 1862
The summer canipsign may be said to have
fairly opened with the prospect of a protracted
and stubborn resistance by the rebels. They
are strong in Virginia. South Carolina,.and in
that part of Mississippi now occupied by Beau
regard. Their guerillas threaten and harass
large districts in Missouri and Tennessee. The
Federal authorities, with these facts before
them, have again called for more troops, and
it is to be hoped that there will be no pause
until every column of the army is increased
and strengelumed. During a recent visit to
Philadelphia I was surprised at the crowded
streets and general prosperity, evidences, as
they were, of the enormous resources of our
people; and when to this feature is added the
great enthusiasm of all classes in support of
the Government, it seems certain that little
difficulty will be encountered in obtaining any
number of volunteers for the service. What
is true of Philadelphia is also true of the other
great cities of Northern population. One of
the contrasts ,of these novel times is the fact
that enlistments in the loyal States aro volun
tary, and in the seceded sections forced. Onr
people go forth to fight with confidence and
hope—the rebels with desperation and hatred.
The defenders of the old flag strike for Liberty.
and Law—the defenders of the rebellion for
Slavery and Spoliation. It is heart-cheering
to note that nothing daunts or dampens the
friends of the Union. A reverse essites their
indignation, and fills them with new determi
nation. The death of their relatives and
friends is only another invocation to sacrifice,
and every rebel boast another stimulant to ex
ertion. The appeal - Of the Government for
additional regiments will, therefore, be warmly
responded to. Let our young men, ambitions
for distinction, avail themselves of the now
opporttnity presented to, them to serve the
country and to end the rebellion.
Our military hospitals are objects of great
interest to visitors ' and scientific men. Many
touching scenes are there presented. The .
Union and rebel sufferers can easily be recog
nized by the calm and unmurmuring patience
and content of tho one, and the uneasy and
complaining spirit of the other. The latter
are nearly all conscripts, who have been com
pelled to take up arms against their country.
A large proportion are very young men, in
deed mere boys, A g-ntleman who visited
the hospitals on the Peninsula a few days
ago conversed with one of these striplings,
who bad been shot through the • lungs,
and was, strange to . say, slowly recove
ring.. ft Why did you go into this bad
sense ?" was the, question put to him.
ge Because," be answered, ccl could not
help it. Mother told me to hold oft' as long as
I could, to wait till I was drafted ; but then I
was talked to and laughed at, and so, to save my-.
self from ridicule, I volunteered.r _cc Do you
want to go back into the army , ?" "No," he
quickly replied ; tt Oh, let me take the oath of
allegiance to the Union, and then I can see my
dear mother with a good conscience when the
war is 'over." Another fine fellow, who was .
stretched by the side of a Union soldier, and
like him was convalescing, became very much
attached • to his companion, shared the deli
cacies sent to him; and shed tears as he talked
of the way the South had been ravag"d and
ruined. Sickness, like the grave, makes
all men. equal. In the agony of that
sad hour, prejudices pass away, and an
gsr is succeeded by remorse and zinc
!ion; 'A MIN days ago, in one of the adja
cent beSPitels, as one of the visitors walked in
with some refreshments for several of his
friends, he was passing by a cot where lay
stretched a splendid prisoner, who had been
terribly wounded. The visitor stopped, to
Uok at him, and then laid some fruit, at his
side,• which the prisoner took, with grateful
looks and swimming eyes, and added, tt Hoer
good you are to all of us! If 'God gives me
back my health I will never more strike at my
country. - I will never return if you will only
let me stay with you." These are lessons
that revive the instinct of a common humanity,
and teach us the gloriouilesson . of Sbakspeare,
whin he exclaims,
..One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
Last evening Clement C. Barclay was warm
ly welcomed at the meeting of the Pennsyl
vania Relief Association. He had just re
turned from the sick and wounded in the
column of. General McClellan. Modest and
retiring, the few words he said were suggestive
of his whole character. ' He does not seem to
be over thirty, and bears himself like a well
bred gentleman. He is one of the many
moral heroes of this great-war, giving himself
and-his time to his country, and glorying in a
work which has no cOmpensation beyond the
satisfaction that results from good deeds to his
fellow-beings. Profoundly loyal, regarding
the rebellion with conscientious horror, it is
nevertheless a part of his self-selected mission
be kind to both classes of sufferers, equally,
those who fight for and against the Republic.
.1. tell you, my friend," he said, " when I
get near one of those deluded .men my heart
melts within me—and. I forget the wrong he
has done to my country ; and I know that every
word of kindness and every act of charity
to them, is seed sown in a willing soil, and
must bring forth precious fruit." This no.
ble philanthropist is a Pennsylvanian, and his
name is the theme of praise in men of " wisest
censure." His' great services reflect undy.
ing - lustre upon himself and upon his na
tive Slate. He appeared . before the Board
of Surgeons to-day, and was honored by
a srecial commission ; and he .visited Con
gress this afternoon, where he was•the ob
served of all observers. He returns to tlie
field of • his labors this evening or to-mer-.
row morning. Long may ho live, that, in h's
old age, his friends may say of him, in the
words of the Roman poet:
In strength elate, in fame and conscience clear,
b.ntonius numbers now Ids eightieth year;
Joys o'er the past, and sees without a sigh,
, The inevitable step, of fate draw nigh;
No memory of dark days, but pleasant all—
Not one but willingly he would recall.
Thus Is life's stage prolonged: thus be, blest man,
Lives twice who can enjoy Life's former spsn!”
OCCASIONAL.
PE:MASON'S NZWNovELs.—This morning, T B.
Peterson & Brothers publish two new works of
fiction, which we notloed on Thursday—' , Love's
Labor Won," en American story, by Sirs. South
worth, with the scene chiefly in Virginia, and " The
Flirt," a story of English society, by film-Colonel
Grey. They ought to have a large sale, and . are to
be had, either in boards or very firmly liound iti
muslin, neatly ornamented.
THE PRESS. - YELLADELPHIA. SATURDAY,--JUM 21, 1862.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special I/matches to 6, The Prem."
WAIIIHNOTOIN, Juno 20
Important Interview with the President
—lle is Asked to Issue a- Decree of
Emancipation—Ms Views on Slavery
and the Present Troubles.
This morning a delegation of the Religious Society of
Progressive Friends, composed of THOILLE GAneeT?, of
Wiinting•on,lawm e OLIVER JOESISON, of New York;
ALICE ELM.% RAUDIATON, DlN.iii EIREDENITALL, WIL
LIAM BAIL:ICED, and ELIZA ACEBW, C%lied on the Freed
debt and presented a memorial soliciting him to issue a
proclamation of emancipation or the slaves.
FeLater WILMOT. of Pennsylvania, introduced the de
legation, accompanied b r BepresentaUvea KtILLEY, D a.
via, and CAIMIELL, of the House of Etenreseetativea
from Pommy Ivaula. Senator W. elated the ohj.ct of the
visit, and the President replied that he would listen with
pleasure to the delegation.
Mr. Ott run Joanne:a said :
ritESIDENT : We appear before you, by your kind
per minim', not to solicit office either for ourselves or our
friends ' nor to ask for any party or personal favor, bat
in the interest of the country and of humanity. Our
clients are the four millions of slaved who cannot speak
for awl:neaten, but only lift up their chained bawls in
agonizing supplication for the freedom which it is in
your power, in this solemn crisis of the country's fate, to
confer upon them.
Mr. J. then road the memorial, as follows :
Memorial of the Religious Society oi. Pro-
gressive Friends. •
To Abraham Lincoln, President of Use United States :
The Religions Society of Progressive Friends, in
yearly meeting assembled, at Longwood, Chester county,
Pa., from the Sill to the 7th of Sixth month, 1883, under
a solemn sense of the perils heti:king the country, and of
the duty devolving upon thou to exert whatever influ
ence they possess to rescue it from impending destrnc
tine, beg leave, respectfully but earnestly, to see forth
for, the consideration of President Listoot.s:
mitt they folly share in the general grief and reproba
tion felt at the seditious course pursued in opposition to
the General Government by the so-caned t 4 Confederate
States;" regarding it as marked by all the revolting fea
tures of high-handed robbery, cruel treachery, and mur
derous violence, and therefore utterly to be abhorred
and coudemoed by every lover of bte country, and every
friend of the human race.
That, nevertheless, this sanguinary rebellion finds its
cause, purpose, and combustible materials, in that must
unchristian and barbarous ayetem of slavery -which pre
voile in that section of the country, and in the guilt of
which the whole land has long been deeply involved by
general complicity ; so that it is to be contritely rhcog
hised ac the penalty due to such persistent and flagrant
trausgresaions, and ae the Inevitable operation of the law
of eternal juinico.
That thus heavily visited for its grinding oppression of
an unfortunate race, 4‘ peeled, meted out, and trodden
under loot," whose wrongs hove so long cried unto Hea
ven for redress—and thus solemnly warned of the in-
fatuation al well as exceeding wickoduese of endeavor
ing to Hear° peace, proeperity, and unity, while leaving
tailbone to clank their Mullins in the house of bondage—
the nation. in Its official organization, should lo3e no
time In proclaiming immediate acid universal o nancipa
tion so that tho present frightful effusion of blood may
Goan, liberty be eelabliebed, and a permanent reconcilia
ticn be effected by the removal of the sole cause of these
divisions.
That in hie speech delivered at Springfield, before his
election to the office of Chief Idegietrate, the President
expresely. declared : A honee divided against itself
cannot !gaud. I believe this Government cannot endure
permanently half stave and half free Ido not ex
pect the Union to bedissolved—l donot expect the house
to fall—britT do expect it will cease to be divided. It
will become al/ one thing, or ail the other."
That this Society, therefore, urgently unites with a
wide.epread and constantly increasing sentiment in be
.seechteg the President, as the head of the nation, clothed
with the constitutional power, in such a fearful eraer•
Roney, to, nevi - en the rebellion effectually by the removal
of its came, not to allow the present golden opportunity to
palm without dtcreeieg the entitle abolition of slavery
throughout the land, as a measure imperatively demand
ed by a dpe regard for the unity c f the country, the safety
end happinees of the people, the preservation of free in
stitutions, and by every consideration of justice, mercy,
and peace. Otherwise, we have fearful !men to appre
hend that. blood will continue, to flow, end fierce die
tensione to abound, and calamities to increase, and dory
judgmeete to be poured out, until the work of national
deetructioS is consummated beyond hope of recovery.
The above memorial, after thorough deliberation and
discoesion, was Unanimously adopted by the
. Society;
and Thomas Garrett, of Wilmington ,, Delaware; Alice
Elias
Hambleton, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and
Oliver Johnson, of New York, were appointed delegates
to bear the seine 'to Wathington and present it to the
President of tte United Stntes.lt was also agreed that
_
any other membire of . the 'amnesty, wishing to do so,
might kin these delegates in the dischargO of their duty,
Pigned by direction and on behalf of the Religions
Societrof Progressive Friends.
• •
OLIVER JOHNSON,
JENNIE K. SMITH., Clerks.
The President then Bald, that ache had not been fur
nished with a copy of the memorial in advance, be could
not be expected to make any lengthy remarks. Be was
pleased that the delegation had not oome as office
sleeken, for they were the source of his greatest troubles
and perplexitiee. The next moat trophies me subject
wee slavery. Ile agreed with the memorialists, that
slavery woe wrong, and differed from them only in re
spect to the ways and means of abolishing it. The ex
tract from his Springfield speech in the memorial wse
incomplete;not including a sentence in which be had
indicated his views as to the effect nixie einvery itself of
the resistacce of its extension. If a decree of emancipa
tion wonld - dolher work, Jonx BROW:I wool , ' have done
it at Harper's Ferry. The Conetttutien is binding upon
the people cf the South, but cannot be enforced at pre
mut. Ho you think a decree of emancipation would be
any more effective 7 .
Mr. Joansox. True, Mr. Preeddont„ the Oeuetitation
cannot now be enforced at . the Sonib, but you do not for
ttat.rtseen give up the, etruggle. The memorialists be
lieve that the extinction of slavery is necessary as a
means of the attainment of your object.
',bp President replied that he felt the iinpprtance and
magnitude of the task before him, and hoped to ho rightly .
directed in the very embarrassing clecumstancea by
which he was surrounded.
WILLIAM BARIUM:I then made a few remarks, express.
log his sympathy for the President, and his ardent de
sire that be might be guided by. DiTillo wisdom the ex
ercise of tke power placed in his bands for giving free
dom and pooco to the country.
Dir. Talcums replied in an tmpreeatve manner, for he
felt very deeply his net d of Divine aid and guidance in
the ditobarge of his solemn dutite. Re bad sometime,
thought that he might be ao instrument in - the bands of
Gcd for accomplishing a great work, and he certainly was
willing to be. Perhaps God's way of accomplishirg the
end width the memorialists have In view is different from
theirs. Al any rate, he should endeavor with elm re
limos on the Divine Arm, and, seeking for light from
above, do his duty. '
The delegati. n then retired.
The commtttce of conferencompon the bill to provide
inter. al revenues have nearly completed their report.
The bid reported today, increasing temporarily the do
lt% on importe, in, effort makes a oompeneation to mann
factorers for loss% which will be sustained by them-un
der the first-named measure. The two bills harmonize
in some of their provision, as to an equality of duties
compared with the internal tax. Three per centain on
the hone valuation is considered equal to three per cou
ture on the foreign valuation, and this principle is cha
racteristic of the bill. The duties on drugs and medi
cine. have befit changed to specific. With an ordinary
revsnue of fifty or sixty million, per annum under
the prthent tariff, an addition of ten millions will, it is
seep:wed, be realized under this proposed act.
The following ate the MAW provisions of the bill:
First. In lieu of the duties heretofore imposed on
syrup of %tsar, or sugar cane, or concentrated moieties",
2 cents per Ib; sugars from 2h• to 10 cents per lb ; on
molaseete, 6 cents per gallon ; cigars of ail kind. valued at
25 or teas per thousand, 35 cents per lb; valued at over
$5 and cot over $lO per thousand, 60 cents per 1b;
valued at over $lO and not over $2O per thousand, 80
cents; valued at over $2O per thousand, $1 per Ib;
and an addition thereto on all cigars valued at over $lO
per thousand, - ten per cent= ad roaforem; snuff 30
cents per lb r tobacco in leaf, unmannfacturect, and not
au mutat, and tobacco manufactured of all deacrip 1003
not otherwise provided for. 35 cents per lb. •
Second. In addition to the present duties, there is
lesitd on foreign brandy, first proof, 25 cents per gallon
on ether spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or
other materials for first proof 25 cents per gallon; cor
dials sod liquors of all kinds, and arrack, absynthe,
liirecbert-watser,satifa,and o-her similar spirituous beve
rages, Lot otherwise provided for, 25 cents per gallon.
Bay rum, 26 cents per gallon ; ale, porter, beer in bottles
or otherwise, 6 cents per gallon. AU spirituous liquors
not otherwise enumerated, 16% of one per conturn ad
valorem.
Third.. In addition to the present duties, 93 and 35
pee ton On bar iron, rolled or hammered, each kind ac
cording to width and thickness. Boller-plate iron 35 per
ton additional ditties on other kinds of iron and all
manufactures of iron and steel not otherwise provided
for,11•0 per centuro ad valorem. Bituminous coal, ten
cents per ton of 28 bushels. BO pounds to the bushel; ou
all Giber coal. ton cents per ion of 28 bushels, 80 centa to
the bushel, and on coke and calm of coal five cents per
cintum ad valorem.
l'ourth. Additional duty on copper rods, bolts, plates,
etc., and other ',heels and mannfactOres of copper not
otherwise provided for, 5 per cemunt. The same on
brass, zir.c, epel ter, and lead.
•Fifill hied'close, druio. spices, psinte. oils, ohemrcals,
eta., to pay largely Increaecd duties, including on patent
medicines and cosmetics, 50 per coolant ad valorem. •
Sixth. A. number of articles now on the free list pay 10
per tenth= ed vslorem. •
Coveralls Additional duties on chocolate and cocoa
posed,l'cvm per pound; commas, green vitroit, or sul
phate of iron, ,X cent per pound; on linseed, flaxseed,
bumps( ed, rapeseed, and mustard seed oil 3 cents per
gallon; on sale, atus and bicarbonate of soda, g cent per
gonad; salt in sacks orin bulk, 0 cents per 100 Pounds;
spirits of turpentine, 6 cents ter gallon ; starch, of all
de eel iptions, „X cent per pound; white and red load and
oxide of zinc, 26 cents per 100 pounds.
Eiglitb. Among many other articles subject to new
rates of duly are barley, 1 cent per ponnd ; bonnets,
bats. and Amin, 40 per centnin pd valorem ; books, en
grey!: go. 20 per cent= ad valorem•, candle a and tapers,
steatint and adamantine, 6 cents per pound.:. OD sper
maceti, paraffin, and wax candles and tapers, pare and
mixed, 8 cents per pound ; on all other candles and ta
pers, 2ji cents per pound; cotton, X sent per pound ;
gloves, 40 per cent um.
Tenth. Additiote I 'holes on carpets, velvet, and tapes
try from 2 to 5 per cent= ,• woollen clothe, woollen
sherwle, mid all manufactures of wool of every descriP .
Von, made wholly orin part of wool not otherwise. Tiro•
didtd for, 6 cents per lb., and in addition. 5 per cantos ;
Rands .of all deecriptlens, 5 per centum; delainef,l
cents per etenare yard, etc
. .
Among the remaining sections, the- deities are
created on all menu cures of cotton, Rllibit ebeetV
iogi, earthenware, china, glassware, porcelain, ready.
made clothing, Cutlery, prepared vegetables. and meats;'
In fact, nearly, if not all, articles of foreign importation:.
A tax or duty is oleo imposed on shire of 10 ceots per'
ton, in addition to any tonnage duty now imposed by:
law, the tax not to be collected more than once a;
year on a vessel having a license to trade between.
different districts Of 'the United States, or to - Ferry
on the Bank, whale, or other fisheries, whilst employel
therein. on any ve eel to or from any vac. in Mexico,
the British Provinces of North A menea, or any of the
West India islands.. All goods which now are, or may
be, deposited in the public stores or bonded wa•ehousee
alter this act takes effect, if designed for consump
tion in - the United States, must be withdrawn there
from, or the duties thereon paid, in three years
after the came are deposited, and the goods designed for
exportation and consumption in foreign countries may be
withdrawn by the owners at any time before the expira
tion of three years after the same are deposited. finch
vale, if not withdrawn within three years, to be regarded
as abandoned to' the Government and sold, under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre
asrlbe, and the proceeds paid into the Treasury.
Paymaster Gamlen L►wnanon has been orderol to
the - gunboat Conemaugh Assistant Paymaster EDW/RD
BRLLOWB ban been ordered to the gunboat Sanora. AL•
RRR2 G. Patois bag been appointed acting first assist
ant engineer, and ordered to
the steam•eloop Osippa.
The President lase • nominated to the Senate Clot. JOHN
GOURMAND and .OUSTAVON A DOL PHOS BOMOGOS, bath of
New Yolk, to be brigadier generale of volunteers.
No .News from the Armies. •
No news of public interest Mils been received to-deyliy .
the Wsr VepartMeni from any quarter.
REPLY OP. PRESIDENT LINCOLN
REPLY OF TUE PRESIDENT
The Tariff Bill.
Naval Orders.
Brigadier Generals Nominated.
Mayor Heart Here.
BM. ALRXANDan lIY.NRY, Mayor or Philadelphia,
visited bcth Holmes add morning, end had eattsfactory
ctoferences with the Naval Committees in regard to
the proposal to make League Nand the mite of the new
navy yard. Be was moot actively assisted by our
Senators and Representatives, and leaves to-morrow In
excellent hopes that Coogreer wilt agree to the offer of
the Philadelphia Councils before an adjournment is
effected.
The Pennsylvania Soldiers' Ee'lef Association, just
called Into existence, promises to be one of the most use,.
fulttstilnttone in the country. Subscriptions are coining
in from all quarters. JAY CODICH ct Co. subscribed .two
hundred and fifty dollars this morning, and ALEXANDER
Q. OATTNLI, of Philadelphia, sent a check for $lOO,
through Judge KELLEY, to aid in the good work.
Rebel Attack on the Gunboats on James
Despatches have been received bore to-day stating
that on the 11th inst. the rebtis opened upon our ships
of-war in theist:nes river, from the bluffs at City Point,
but the squadron returned the attack with shell and
thrapnel, silencing and driving heck the rebel force.
Major General McDowell
General though quite seriondy injured by
being thrown from his horst), is at his ➢oat to-dap. Save-,
rai ofilceni‘ who arrived from lettemottr's command, to
tight, give a gratifying account. JACKSON' i 9 very quiet
below Mount Jeckson.
Gen. Buell's Movements.
A private letter received in this city announces that
Major General BUELL, heretofore vith Major General
BALLECK in M udsdppi, hea started with hie whole army
for East Tennessee, Dy way of linntaville.
Fort Morgan
A private letter received hero from Now Orleans eeye
that the report published in the papers of that city of the
annender of Fort Morgan, below Mobilo, to Ooraroodore
PORTER'S fleet, was incorrect.
Miscellaneous.
The President has recognized Daron VON DUR OsTsx
SACKRN, counsellor, etc., as consul general of Meant, to
reside at New York.
General SAXTON, military Governor of South Caro
lina, will leave for Port Royal next week.
The President bas approved of the bill assuring free
deni in all the present aa well es future Territorlea of the
United Staten.
The Secretary of War, in reeponse to the resolution of
the House, asps he is directed by the President to inform
that body that measures have titan taken to appropriate
for bogpital purposes, for the benefit of our soldiers,
GeneralLaa's mansion house and premises. .
Sir. STANTOM has just decided that civilising, in certain
eases, may be employed in the general hospitals, tinder
pay, as cooks and nurses. This will ha a great improve
ment.
The surgeon general intends to prepare a medical and
surgical history of rebellions.
General DOUBLEDAY was on the floor of the Hones of
Representatives this afternoon. Ho was cordially greeted
by a large number of the Union members.
- Vice President HAMLIN loft for Maine this morning.
The nominating conventions will be held in a short time
FROM MEMPHIS.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE IN CORN/AD.
THE ARGUS SUPPRESSED.
Malll.llls, June 18—GanaLew. Wallace has assumed
the cOrnin s and of the city. His first official act wee to
take possession of the Argus oflice„wittch has been out
spoken in its eimpatbiea ter Secession.
T. W. Knox, of the New York Herald, and A. D.
Iticharcleom'of the Tribune, have been appointed to su
pervise all editorials which appear in the papers.
Threats having boon made to tear down the Union flags
firing over the bonitos of some of the citizens, the pro
vost marshal hoe issued orders Instructing the guard to
shoot down any one attempting to haul down the flags, or
offering to insult or molest the reeident citizens who have
thus manifeeted . their devotion to the Union.
Orders have also been 'leaned to imprison all citizens
carrying, concealed weapons.
Guerillas ire prowling about the country. Five were
arreeted last:night by the pickits in the euburbe of the
city,
Owing to the scarcity of change the Board of Alder
tiorTotel tol
exigencies es
uc - $1(10,000* . in freettoitnotes is the
Pl6ll-
• Guerilla bends aro bawling the cotton in the n91..01 , 1;9,1.
counties of Misilsaippl, which bad not already peari
etroyed by the ovnaers.. , r
The steamboats going North are loaded to their utmost
capacity wirh freight and 'passer gers. • •
"be oath of allegiance was administered to over 400
men yesterday, half Of whom had been soldiers.
The Avalanche says that the rebel authorities had or
dered the rolling stock of the Ilobile and. Ohio Railroad'
rem Peudu to Meridian; • • •
FROM THE VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
txdsitsvEß, YA June 19 --A. number of sick and
wounded from Gen. Shields' command, arrived here to
(hit: 11 -. . is stated that they are to be sent forward to
Fier - edick or Barrhburg. ' .
Nothing Interesting has been announced from General
Frenant's Department.
WINCIIESTRR, VA June 11.—Adirices front Front
Royal state that Gm: Shields has succeeded in concen
trating all .his. troops at Strasburg. The roar-guard of
big army left Loray'about an hour before it was entered
by•Zwellk advancing columns. Ewell is now believed to
be in . occupancy.of Luray, with a large force. .
Arrivals to-night front New Market bring intelligence
that Gen. Fremont . was about to advance to New Afar
ket, seven miles south of Mount Jackson and opposite
the gap in the hlaseauutten mountain, through which
the toad leads to Luray. Jackson Is believed to have a
hortsiderable force of light troops in ilarrieonbiorg,
While another body is at or war Port Republic. Prison
etereport that White's division of 1,600 are within sup•
porting distance of Port Republic.
i.. Th e 7th Lonialana Regiment was opposed to the 7th .
Indiana, at the battle of Port 'Bow lic. The deadly
effect of our Are can be imagined when the former left
the field fwith only thirty-six unhurt. This is the evi
dence of a prisoner from that regiment. The combat was
hand to hand or at pistol range. Col. Carroll's artillery
used nothing but canister and grape, and when the enemy
mime to near to use these with effect, the cannontere used
their revolvers with telling effect upon their assailants.
Col. Carroll led three successive regiments up to the sup
port of the 7th Indiana, and drove the enemy hack until
they were flanked, and compelled to retreat. It is re
potted hare that Col. Carroll goes to Washington to °er
r/aeon:6i misunderstanding In relation to his orders pre-
Timm to the engagement.
A general court-martial, of which Colonel Buser, 3d
Wbconsin, is president, and Lieutenant Patten in, 25
Massachusetts, is jiidge advocate, is new in session here.
Charges against officers for absence without leave, sell
lacer disposing of horses and other Government pro-
Perty, mid privates, for SiDlilftr acts, are to be tried.
It is stated that there are now absent by authority
from this command 1,575 men and 75 commisaloaed
officers, greatly reducing our limited numerical strength.
The 29th Pennsylvania baa been detailed as a provost
guard of Hagerstown, Williamsport, and Martinsburg.
Col. Alexander, aid to Gcvernor Pierpont, is now
here, looking after the sick and wounded of the Virginia
regiments. The State jurisdiction has been re-estab-
Mailed in Morgan and Berkeley counties, and will shortly
be extended to Jefferson and Frederick. The election in
Berkeley last month gave 800 majority for Governor
Plerpont.
&considerable haul of guns, pistols, and ammunition
wasmade Berryrille yesterday. The arms were all
. loided with ball-cartridges. The office of the Berryville
Conservator was confiscated several days ago for Seces
sion publicafions,'and the effects removed hither to aid
in army printing.
, large amount of loose and fixed ammunition, left
here, it is supposed, by Gen. Shields, was discovered by
theordnance 61licer In the old stone church to-day. It
waa probably overlooked by the enemy in their late visit
to this place, to whom it would have been a valuable so.
TOO ion.
The first instance of the arrest of a colored man for
abetting the 'enemy. occurred to-day. It bed been stated
that be volunteered as guide and spy for Jeciceon in his
late advance hither.• Be Is confined for further investi
gation.
General Sigel has been in command of Me departinent
(tulips the temporary absence of General Bantu, wbo
returns tomorrow.
(Feri[rs] Flough'e brigade was reviewed yesterday,
preparatory to future movements. The appearance and
exerdnes of the various regiments and batteries were
highly creditable tothemselves and their commander.
The bridge over the Potomac at Harper's Ferry has
been rebuilt, and the care run regularly to the West. At
the instance of the Government, the Baltimore and Ohio
Ballihad Company are repairing the Winchester and
Potomac road, and travel will be resumed. upon It by
'Thursday.. Thus will greatly facilitate the transportation
of 1:410 -needed army'aupplies.
Thepennpation of the Talley by our present forces he
nc4iatered a feeling of security to the loyal residents,
and th . eSecesai . onlsfs insist upon it that Jackson will
short!) , pay us another vielt in big usual htylt: The more
jattichirislortlon of She lattir regret Ude; as they can
see no possibility of his retaining it should he succeed in
forcing us to retreat.
`` From all indications dolly intelligence is received from
and despatched to Jackson's army. The bat= of a
larding Secessionist was searched yesterday, upon Infor
mation that a mail but been deposited there the previous
night, but without success.
From Fortress Monroe and General
McClellan's Army.
rownkgss Nomtox, June 19:--Ererytbing remains
quiet 'here and at Norroik and Suffolk, and tbere is no—
thing new to report.
The weather is sultry and unsettled.
General Dix has returned front Suffolk, having corn•
ple tai?l his lekbors in preparing and posting troops Ees as to
cut off: any communication between the Secessionists of
lierfilk and the rebele above.
By the arrival of the White Muse boat, we learn that
ekiintlibing has been going on in front of the army. The
rebels have assumed a more menacing attitude, and will
probably try to bring on a general engagement in front
of their works, in order to draw our troops within the
range of their batteries.
Three deserters from the 3d Georgia Beglmont, who
came in yesterday, reiterate the report that the rebels
are becoming more desperate, and greatly disheartened
at their recent defeat/.
Orders hero been hantel preventing any person, not
Convected with the man' M . the Potomac from visiting
the trout, under any circumstances.
Urdet the proclamati. n of Governor Pierpont, to. mor
row Is the last day for civil officers to come forward and
take the oath of allegiance. As none of the olty officer s
in -Norfolk hive as yet taken the oath, it to thought that
tome trouble will be experienced In the matter.
The: steam Bre-4144e Bibernia has been shipped on
bond the steamer Then as Swann, and will leave for
Baltimore tomorrow.
'The pretended Unionists at Norfolk bays been acting
iu a manner of late to prejudice many against tbo cause.
Instead of remaining quiet and peaceable, they have got
into brawls and fights. Such men are eat down as the
otnee-teektre cf the place. General Nene& determined
to punish the offenders.
Arrival of Sick and Wounded at . Balti-
BALTIMORE, June 20.-11.tr.eight wounded and @OVOID.
!reit sick errived here this morning from the GPmeral
limpttst at Newport News. They are mostly PannsYl-
Tautens anditew Yorkers. .
New YORK, June 20.—The steamer Elm City, with 360
sick and wounded, from Ydn6lellan's army,. arrived here
to-day, bound to Albany.
IMIITII CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION,
WASIIINOTON, June 20
SENATE.
The Nary Department.
Mr. GRIMES (Rep.), of lowa, moved to have returned
to the kenate, from the Hums, a bill for the reorganiza
tion of the Navy Department. UM of was to hero
reconsidered the Tote by which the Senate had agreed to
the Douse amendments to the said bill. Adpotod.
Petitions.
idesers KING (Rep.) and PK:HUMORS (Roo.) pre
sented a petlldt n for a bankrupt
BOr. MORRILL (Rep ); of Illaioenpreseoted a petition
for the repeal of the fugitive-Slave law.
Pacific Railroad Grant.
Mr. DOOLITTLE (Rep.), of Wisconeln, introdnced
is bill fronting the proceeds of the sales of certain lauds
to the Pacific Railroad Company. Referred to the com•
that em•jegt.
Consuls In Russia.
On motion of Mr. NIORRILT. (Rep.), a reeoltrtion was
adopted ineniring into the expediency of the appointment
of console at the ports of the Black Bea, recently opened
by the Itneeian Government.
Guardian Society.
The bill to incorporate the Guardian Buddy of Wash
, Eaton waa posed.
Fraitds in Conbracte.
Mr. HAVE (Rep.), of New Hampshire, celled no the
bill to repeal the act passed Jane42d, to prevent and pun
ish frauds on the Goveromeut. 'lie bill provides for a
returns office, for the deposit of a copy of all contracts
made by Governinimt officers.
Pay of the Army:
Pestling a vote on the bill, it was poetponed till to
morrow, and the bill taken up to define the pay and
emoluments of anima of the army, on which a commit
tee of confer nee was ordered.
Tbo Pacific Railroad hill was then taken no.
air. TRUMBULL (Rep.), of Illinois, moved to strike
out the section for four branch lines at the eastern ter
minus' which was rejected—yeas 15, nays 25.
,The bill was then read a third time and passed—peas
35, mass 5, as follows :
YEAS.
Halo (Rep.)
Harlan (Rep.)
Dards (Ken.)
Henderson (11)
Howard (Rep.)
Kennedy ((1.)
Lane (Rep ) Ind
Lane (Rop ) Ken.
Latham (Dem.)
MsDnußall (Dem )
Morrill (Rep.)
Nesmith (Dem.)
NAYS-
Anthony (Rep.)
Browning (Rep.)
Clark (Rep.)
Chandler (Rep.)
Calmer (Bep.)
Cowan (boo.)
Davie (U.)
Dixon (Rep )
Doolittle (Rep.)
Foot (Rep.)
Foster (Rep.)
Grimes (Rep.)
Rowe (Rep.)
Kl'g (Rep.)
Pearce (Dem )
Wilkioeoa (Rep.)
Mr. Fesserdin Wag preßant but did not vote. Mr.
Powell cared off with Mr. Simmons. Mr. Ten Eyck
wee excused from voting on the ground that be did not
like the bill as amended.
A motion wan then made to talce no the confiscation
bill. A debate enentd as to which bill ihould bo con
sidered, that of the Senate or the one which passed the
Mr. SHERMAN (Rep.), or Ohio,. said, in order to
give the Senators an opportunity to tneke up their minds
which they would coneider, be moved to adjourn till to
morrow, when the vote could be taken on the just thing.
The Senate then adjourned.
MOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House proceeded to tbo consideration of private
increase of Duties.
Mr. STRVENS (Rep.). of Pennsylvania, from the
Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bIU increas
ing, temporarily, the dotiee on imports, and for other
purposes. Referred to the Committee of the Whole on
the state of the Union, and made the special order for
Wednesday next. Adjourned till. Monday.
Gen. Negley's Command at Chattanooga.
WHAT THE. nnerseeforeNlANS ARE DOING IN
TENNESSEE.
Nesnvinee, Tenn. June 13, 1889 .— 0 a Thursday,
May 29, General Ne gley, who bat been in command of
the Seventh Brigade—formerly in General McCook's
division, but now having a separate commend—started
from Columbia, Tenn., for the purpose of making an ex
pedition into East Tennessee, with the intention of
threatening Chattanooga, and capturing or dispersing
any of the rebel forcee of cavalry hovering around that
portion of the country. It was authoritatively reported
that • the rebels bad made a preconcorted movement for
the, perces° of reeepturimg Nashville; but that object was
frustrated by the energy and intrepidity of General
Negley and his troops, as will be seen by the fallowing
statement:
General N. started from Columbia, on the day above
named, with a sufllcieut force of troops.
General N. reached Mayetteellie on Saturday, May 31,
remained there until Monday morning following, and then
renewed his march and proceeded to Salem, where ho ar
rived the came day.
The next day he reached Winchester. It had been re
porttdebet the rebels wore in considerable force in that
place, and 'the 7th "•Peineselvaisla cavalry made a dash
1.1120'0e town, but found the enemy had dispersed. They
succeeded, however, In capturing Captain Trimble ead
"'three of his reed, belonging to Sterne'. cavalry. This
Trimble is s clergyman, a bitter rebel, who baa been emu
!sting Mengan in capturing pickets and couriers, and de
nouncing Union men to the hangmen He has been very
enterprising in bringing np Union men, who were come
pelted to accept either one or the other of two alterna
tive., viz : to go into the Confederate army or be hanged.
lie was also the principal of a large female semtnary
Winched:sr, which seems to be still in full operation, edu
cating the feminine youth' of that locality in the arts,
sciences, and philosophies of the heresy of Secessionism.
Trimble was subsequently sent to Genera! Mitchell, at
Pastiog through 'Winchester, Gen. Negley encamped
his forces at a place called Cowan, on the Nashville and
Obsttanoorm Railroad, and on a branch of a tributary of
the Tomiersee river. The trestle work of the railroad
bridge at this point was found to have been burned by
the rebel.; but the abeam wee easily fordable, and it
wee exerted ou Wednesday morning, Jane 4, and the (Me
of march resumed towards Jasper, Marion county. Here ,
General-Begley caused several of the most prominent
Secessionists to be arrested, end mulcted them in the
sum of 5200 each, which was appropriated to the relief
of the Union people In Tennessee who had suffered fa
jury at the bands of the rebel's. This was the drat
practical illustratien of the character and intention of
Governor Johnson , e declaration (bat rich rebels should -
be trade to pay for Union lessee incurred by rebel pre
datory bands. Passing through Jasper, Gen: dieglee
encamped at the 'foot of the first ridge of the Cumber
land mountains, early in the evening, at an old camping
ground of the rebels. The following morning ha com
menced crossing the mountain, over a steep and rocky •
road, one which most persona would pronounce impasse
bin for artillery. Over this rugged road the artillery and
prevision trains were parsed with but trifling injury,
owing to the e !homey of the equipments. Here General
Neglect first obtained a glimpse of the enemy: After a
very abrupt descent through a think forest, the road sud
denly opened out into a beautiful cove, about six hun
dred smartie wide and stretching off fn an easterly diree
tion towards the, Stquatonle valley. The road crosses
to the smith aide of the cove, and skirts along the foot
of the monntain about half a mile (outwardly then
crossing the valley towards the north side...then east
weirdly again towards the valley. - At * this point,
General Negley'a advance, consisting of the sth
Kentucky . . Cavalry, Colonel Haggard, and two com
panies of the 79th Penneylvenie infantry, under com
mand of Captain Klein, encountered the pickets of the
rebel General Adams' brigade of cavalry, which was
encamped on the opposite side of the cove, at a poiet
where the road turns to cross the valley again. After
a brick firing—the Union troops acting with the coolness
of veterans all the While—the rebel pickets fell back,.
and the main body of the rebel force leariling there was
a Union force near, come forward to the road in a body
and let down the feneee, preparatory to a charge. They
were then at least eight hundred strong. By this time.
Gen. Negley bad placed two six-pounder field pieces in
. position, and commenced firing on them with Shenkle
shell This was evidently more than the enemy expected,
for at the Mat fire they turned in confusion and fled with
dimply, hotly pursued by our cavalry, led by Company
A, of tbe sth Kentucky, commanded by Lieut. Wnar
. ten. The enemy were pursued for twg miles before
they were reached, their horses being fresh and ours
jaded by their rough march over the mountain. Our
men at last succeeeed in overtaking them, and dashed
In among them with 'the sabre, when much execution
was done. A number of the rebels were killed and
wounded,. end about twenty taken prisoners, . among.
where was a lieutenant, normd Jones, commanding a
company. The rebels, in their flight, threw away every
thing that could in the slightest degree impede their pro
gress; the road for miles was strewn with sabres, pistols,
shot-guns,bevereacks, any quantity of core bread, and
eh the other portions of the egni plumate of a rebel cavalry
Belden'. Some of time rebel cavalry were clothed in regu
lation uniforms, a there in citizens' dress.
The panto was complete den. Adams lost his hat,
sword, and horse, at be bed to borrow a horse from a
negro to escape oa, teed a bat from a sympathizing rebel.
Ile had no sword when he left the field, according to the
reports of ciCzene who saw him in his flight towards
Chattanooga. Many of the rebels did not stop until they
reached Chattanooga, a distance of over thirty miles.
Major Adonis, a brother of the Renee's', is reported to be
severely, probablyfatally, wounded, by a sabre cut in the
Mad. Thirteen rebels were found dead oil the road as
far as our forces proceeded at this time. The action and
puzeuit were gallantly continued on the earl of the Union
forcer , . After pursuing the rebels some throe miles, the'
Venerate returned to Sweedees Cove, where they en
camped for the night. They were followed into camp by
large numbers of Union people who had been driven
from their homes by rebel tyranny, and were electrified
by tbe first round of Union guns echoing through the
Seematobie valley. •
-- After a night's rest, General Negley proceeded towards
CM. (Onetime He arrived opposite the place on the morn ,
iog of the 7th of June, having in the meantime (the 6th)
rested on the top of the Cumberland mountain. At two
o'clock P. M., on the 7th, General N., with a military
force, proceeded to reeontoitre. He soon ascertained that
tbeve was a large force of the enemy on thin (north) side
of the river, having creased evidently with the intention
of attacking the Illinois regiment, Lieutenant Colonel
Scott, 'thick:had arrived the day before the main body
of Metals reached the point. they baring crossed the
mountains by a :shorter ronle than the principal farce:
The rebels alto showed a water battery from the beach at
the ferry landing near. the teens.
The Illinois regiment, deployed as skirmishers, was
sent down the bill to feel the enemy. The latter, find
ing our forces ready to meet them, recrossed the river.
raeperal Negley placed his artillery to position com
reardigg the town, and waited fe see what the-enemy
trotild ,do. -
• At a little after I M. the enemy's rillemed com
menced firing on our skirmlehere, and shortly after the
rebels opened with shell on them from their water bat
tery, and from a battery on the mountain westward of
the town. - Then General Neater gaveorders to his bat-'
teries to fire, and for two hour's a brisk cannonading was
kept up, during which time all of the enemy's erns were
silenced', three of themhaling been dismantled. The
accuracy, el the F ederal artillerymen drove the enemy.
entirely away from their pieces. Having silenced all the
enimy's batteries, General Negley retired to his camp for
the night. •
The next morning (3anday, Jane 8.) it was ascertained
that the enemy had been working all night; bed in
. creazed the height of their water battery; bad thrown
up rew earthworks, and had evidently • meets extensive
preparations of defence.
Tuformation was received from a prisoner that the
enemy's farce had been increased, during the night from
three to five thousand
At eight o'clock General Negley resumed firing en the
enemy, and condoned for upwards of an hour and a half
without receiving any response from their batteries; but
their riflemen, . protected by a stone wall and by their
earthworke, kept up a continuous firing upon the Union
skirmishers 'I here were ro other indications of there
Wee any persons in Chattanooga in warlike array ex
cept occed- Daily knots of officers and men, who dis
persed with alacrity as our shells fell among them The
town was evarnated by the inbabitantexturieg the night.
General Negley, having aceempliehed the object of hie
• expeditioe, withdrew a portion of his force
The lots on either side is not ascertained ; but we have
the assertions of prisoners that the loss of the enemy 19
large. The only liege displayed by the rebels In town
were the hospited five and a black flag. A man who
displayed a black flag on the rebel entrenchments was
killed by one of the Union sharpshooters.N. Y. Herald
Sinking of the Propeller (haniey.
1.211 W YOBK. Juno 20 —The propeller Osiprey, from
Previdince, collldtd with a ferry boat, in the East river,
thin mornh•g 'The former was mink. The captain and
crew were caved.
One of the Sumpter 'Pirates Arrested.
802 , 70 N, Jana 20.—James Lyons, alias Smith, lat;
ter's mate of the pirate Sumpter, was arrested here last
night. Be bad just arrived h ten Surinam.
From Chicago
. . .
cniCA6o,,,June 5,0.-The returns from the election on
Tuneday Lees come in very slow. Despatches from the
Southern counties to• night render it nearly certain that
the new Constitution bee been dote:ll*d. The nudority
against it in the Northern counties thee fir is 23,000.
Ray. Nernestar. Was; D. D., of this oity, heu3
been appointed by the President chaplain .of the
Uuited States hospitals at Philadelphia. The ap
pointment is a good one. and will be gratifying to
the numerous friends of Dr. West, in this city and
elsewhere.
uCTION A NOTICE—SAVE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.-
The attention of buyers is called to the largo and
attractive. sale 0f,1,000 oases booth, shoes, brogans,
to„be soldiby catalogue, on MOnday morning,
at 10fo'elocic4reoisely, by Philip Ford A: . Co.,
fointol; . t,iptl‘nt.their atore, Nos. 525 Market and 5*
Commerce 8646: _ •
A new application of miniature photograph
portraits baa originated with Whilt d Yost, the
extensive Bible manufacturers, 505 Market street.
In their Bibles, the text - of which is conformable
to the standard of the American Bible Society, they
insert, Ms usual, blank leaves, suitably beaded and
divided, (and sometimes illuminated in colors like
the old manuscripts before printing was invented,)
for notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
Such records, in a family Bible, constitute good
evidence in courts of law. Whitt & Yost are now
introducing the novelty (patent applied for,) of
placing several card hoards, perforated for the re
ception of small photograph -portraits, to follow the
Family Register, thus accompanying this record
with rotemblances of the loved ones whose names
are entered there. The idea is ingenious and will
become popular—it is surprising that no one has
thought of it before. It is capable of being applied
to. Bibles of all sizes: The specimen which we have
examined, and now report upon thus favorably, is
a superbly-bound quarto illustrated Bible, in olear
pica type, with Index, Concordance, metrical ver
sion of, the Psalms, with places, after the Register,
for the reception of thirty-two eartey•de-visite. -
These places are so prepared that," even when all
the photographs are inserted, there is no apparent
addition to the bulk of the Sacred Volume.
Whilt % Yost can supply editions of the Bible, thus
prepared, of all sizes and prices.
•Bdtrixoxa, June 20 —Flour Quiet and unchanged.
Wbrat steady. Corn dull and docliaing ; white 56 Bc,
yellow fibablic. Oats doled. . Whisky doll at 27, for
Ohio. Provisions dull. Lard firm and in good demand.
FIRE—PROBABLE FATAL ACCIDENT.
—The alarm of fire last' evening watt calmed by the
partial burning of the home occupied by Mr. Lewis
Canllett, No. 148 Almond street. He had rented a room
fo a Mary klarorey. She obtained a livelihood by wash
ing, ironing, and doing other domestic duties. Herroom
was in the third story back. Last evening, she was seen
going up etairs somewhat intoxicated, with a candle in
her Land and a pipe in her mouth. Shortly afterwards,
Mrs. Gaulle/ft beard a scream, and rushed up stairs and
found Mary. Maroney lying enveloped in flames at
the bottom of the Mahe. She threw the carpet over
her and endeavored to stop his flames, and burnt her
bands and arms severely in the attempt. Smoke was
teen issuing from Mrs. Maroney's room, and the alarm
was given. The Apnea were soon extinguished. The
unfortunate woman was removed to the Southwark Hall.
Dr. Thos. Reid was called in and pronounced her in a
dying condition. It is nuppoeed that she full asleep on
the chair near the lighted candle, and that her clothing
took fire. The candle was burnt to the socket. Melted
erearc and a quantity of matches were strewn over the
floor and allaround.
Pomeroy (Rep.)
Moe (Rep.)
Sherman (Rep.).:..
Starke (Dem.)
Sumner (EOM)
Trumbull (Rep.)
Wade, (Rep )
Willey (U.)
Wilmot (Rep.)
Wilson (R.), Mass
Wilson (U.), Mo.
Wright (II.)
AID• FOR THE EICK AND WOUNDED
SOLDIVES OF MaOLELTANT ARJIY.—The Army
Committee of the Young Men's Christi= ASSOCiatiOu
acknowledge having received and forwarded to the depu
tation now laboring among the a'ck and wounded soldiers
in )[astern lilrginia the following:
Four boxes from the Northeast_ Grammar
School ; four boxes from the Northeast Boys' Grammar
School; three boxes from the New.strcet Primary School,
sixth section. •
These boxes contain every conceivable article of food
and apparel for our brave soldiers now suffering in the
hospitals in the peninsula of Virginia.
The Commiseion have received a number or boxes from
other perties, which hove been forwarded, and will be
duly aclimowledged in a short time. They have also re
ceived considerable enme in money. A check for $lOO
was yesterday received from Messrs. Harlan Hollings
worlh, of Wilmington, Del., and $l5O more from other
benevolent citizens of the same' town. The commission
has received other come of money, of which the receipt
will be acknowledged next week. They would be glad to
do the same thing by the unpile of the many public and
'private Remote of the city. but the thing is impassible,
on account of the extent and numbers.
PARSON BROWNLOW AT CONCERT
HALL.—Lest evening, a large audience assembled at
Concert Hall, drawn thither by the annonucement that
Henry Hokum, a German refugee from East Tennessee,
and Person Brownlow, would speak. The Parson was
the Brat speaker, and made a number of strong points in
the course of his remarks. Ho was savage on the at•
tempt made by varione people to impeach the veracity of
his statements. Ho was ready to meet thorn, and force
the lie down their throats, in a public discussion. One
of his strongest prints was that every brigadier and
major general should have a wagon.fnil of abort pieces of
rope, with rimming nooses, ready made, for the benefit of
the, rebels.
After the conclusion of the Perssn's remarks, Mr
.23okrim 'spoke at length in German, and was lohdly a •
Vended. The meeting closed eta late hour.
•
FAD A CCIDENT • Yesteraay a boy
named Stephen Powell, aod another named Harvey,
were ap#et from a thrall boat on the Delaware, opposite
Bed Bank, and`WCIIS drowned. • The bodiee have not Al
Yet been recovered. •
•
DISTINGITISEIND ARRPTAL:--Led. Geo.
W. Bober's, a native of Wed Chester, Pennsylvania,
now in command of the 42d Ifineis nod who
covered the retreat of the Federal forces. at Farmington,
and spiked the upper battery at Island No. 10, has ar
rived in this city, and ianow Mopping at the Continental.
SLIGHT Futz.— The alarm of fire, about
belt oast nine o'clock leaf evening, was occamoned by
the barring of a bed. at the 'hduae of Patrick Devlin, No.
1320 North Second greet Damage trilling.
PEESONAL.—Rev. W.llO. G. Brownlow
left the city lest eTiming for Cincimisti:
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The resumption of specie payments by several of the
Few Orleans batiks must bave a good effect in establish
ing financial relations between that city and the Northern
centres of trade. -By resuming, not only will a solid cur
rency be formed for home use, but a medium of exchange
will be immediately cleated for fee eign purposes. Now
Orleans bills are already much inquired for on the etroot
at 20 per cent. discount, where a few days ago they were .
freely offered at 40, with few takers. Already has there
been a path: rale of eharesof some local stocks. The
New Orleans Commercial of the 31st May soya:
A coneiderable diversity of opinion still exists as to
the amount of reduction which shonlil he made on the
inflated prices heretofore demanded in Confederate notes
for all the various articles of trade; but the matter wIU
doubtless goon adjust itself, and rates will be gradar.ted
.to correspond with the improved condition of the cur
rency of the city. To-day Messrs. Palfrey & (30. tested
the affair by offering for eels at public outcry some email
lots of stocks, bonds, and insurance scrip, with the fol
lowing result: Ten shares of Bank of America stock
'were knocked off at 108; 35 do. Bank of Louisiana at
120; ten do. City R. R. Co. at 56; six 24,800 8 per cent.
Loulaians State bonds at $BlO, flat : $5OO Crescent In
snrence Company's scrip, do.; 1869, at 85 ; $5OO do. at
9; 2110 Citizens' do. of 1852 at 81; 830 do. of 1858 at
61; 8130 Louisiana do. of 1881 at 55; $9O Few Or
lea.' a do. of 1860 at 55, and $3OO Crescent do.
of 1861. at 70; all payable in the present ruling
currency. On the 24th instant, the . same classes
of securities were dispelled of for Confederate notes at
the following figures : Bank of America stock at 190,
Bank of Louisiana do. at 221, City Railroad Company at
:90, Crescent Insurance Company's scrip of 1859 at 141,
and of 1861 at 125, Citizens' do. of 1857 and 1838 at 95,
LOUIPIISDB do. of 1861 et 110, and New Orleans do. of 1860
at 305. There have been no further proclamations iesued
from the military headquarters touching financial ques
tions since our last, but General Butler. has ordered the
officers of the Southern Bank to pay all their depositors
henceforward in current fonds, United States Treasury
notes, or gold and silver, end the provost judge has de
creed that the Los:libitum State Bank than pay a depositor
in current fund., who lied an amount of gold to big credit
at the date of the suspension of the bank, and subse
quently withdrew from it, in Confederate notes, the
balance due to him having been refused, the same in
specie, or specie-paying funds.
It is not bard to predict, that unless the people of New
Orleans are wilfully blind to their own interests, they
'will Coon discoyer that by a little snit tbey can soon
command as honorable, as well as a financial credit, in
circles outside of their late blockaded city.
There was a greater feeling of security today, on tlio
street and at the Stock Board. Gold had large sales, at
006 A( premium. Treasury custom-notes declined to
2%, on a abort demand ; the movement was large, how
ever, by these having duties to pay in the future.
There was an improvement in prices at the Stock
Board, but business was not so large as yesterday.
Reading was in demand at 28%, but holden, were rather
diainciined to Bell, a few sales were effected at that fighre ;
tbo MIMI of 1886 were firm at yesterday's bid, S 9. North
Pennsylvania Railroad advanced to 10% ; let mortgage
scrip decline/3 X on last emirs; the sires also declined X ;
99% wee bid for the tans. Schuylkill Navigation, com
mon, advanced X, 16X was bid for tee preferred. Sixes
1882 declined %, but recovered X at second board. Le
high Navigation shares advanced 3% on last sales, end
continued firm; the scrip also advanced X. The follow
ing stocks advanced : Catawissa preferred X ; Morris
Canal 2on yesterday's bid, son last talea ; Philadelphia
and Erie gees 3( ; .Pblisdelphis and Erie 6s were a little
unsteady, Retitled the close at 93%. Camden and Amboy
6e, 1883, were stationary at 96 ; Chesareake and Dela.
ware Os at 80; Camden and Amboy 6e,'70. at 97; Penn
sylvania Railroad shares declined X ; Elmira Railroad 7s,
'88,1; Camden 'and Amboy shares X. In U B. securi
ties retry little was done ; the 7.30's blank had no change,
MEG sake at 100. LOcld bank shares were active ; Me
chanics brought 25X; Philadelphia 110, an advance
Commercial 48 ; City 43X ; 336 was bid for North
America. and 33% for 00MD101nWt
Passenger Beltways were in demand at an advance.
Green and Coates brought SS; Second sod Third 16,- an
advance of 1;. Race and vine 10, advance of 1; Girard
College 23%, % advance j Cbeenut and Walnut 39X, X
advance; . Thirteenth and Fifteenth 20, X advance; 45 34
was bid for Frankton' and Southwark, 234 advance; 56
for West Philadelphis, no change ; -13 X for Spruce and
Pine, a decline' of X.
Money is easy of accom at vary low rates for good eol
laterals. 'Certificates of indebtedness range from X to %
premium, with not lunch demand.
Drexol & Co. quote— -
New "Pork exchange parol-115 tie
Boston exchange.. parml-10 pee
Baltimore exciting°. parog die
Conntry funds . X 1596-10 die.
American 'mid ' - ' 6 0634 preen.
13 8.7 8-10 Treaeury notes 106 X elos X .
Old Demand-notes 2,1(08 prom
The inspections of Flour and Meal in Philadelabla
during the week ending Juno 19, 1869, were as fellows
Barrels of Superfine • 16,145
do Fins 141
do Middlings....
do Bye
do Corn Meal._
do Condemned
Oho following in the amount of coal shipped over tho
Huntingdon and Broad Top elonntain Railroad for the
Week ending Wednesday, June 18, 1862, and since Janu
ary 1,1€62:
1862
1861
&Demme—.
The anthracite coal brought down b 7 the Reading
Ris , 'road this week was as follows:
Railroad, this week in 1860 43,901 Woe.
• • 1661 ' 42002 ••
• • 1862 49,622
No bitnreinons coal loch:sled in this week's bushiest,
yet. The canal has commenced passing down boats.
The New York Evenly Post says
The etoek market is steadier this fotenoon as compared
with the lower prices made yesterday afternoon. The
business is not very large, but the general demand is fair
at current prices. New York Central recovered to 94)
per cent, and sines the board is called 94e94 3i per cent.
as snidest 96)6 m 98% at the close on Thnrsda7• I•]rles
end the Western *shares are about the, same as at the
second board yesterday, United States 6 per cent. 108 X
m 300,4 per cent. Sold leaves off affliction weaker than
It opened—now about 108 X per cent .
The Exchange market is 117 X etIITX per cent. on
London, with some of the brokers disposed to hold for
118 per cent.
.
. .
The counts of gold and foreign iimcimmge for Slaw
daT 's steatuara is again upward, and although gold comes
it etly Into the market from the interior.at the advanced
Tately the influence of the, new treasury bill contributes
to the immedlato c,:musad.
Photographs for the Bible
Markets by Telegraph.
THE MONEY MARKET.
PHILALDBLPItti, Jima ?A 18031.
Week. Pro'dons'''. Total.
Tona. Tone. Tone.
8,295 122,903 120.198
7,993 80,920' 88.018
41,983 38,181
Philadelphia Stock El
[Reported by P. Z. ISLA
FIRST
8000 Chest & Del tle..c 80
2000 do 80 .
3 Cam & Amb
4 Illeca llk 25%
60 N Penno B 10%
60 do cash 10%
54 do tots 1031
400 do lota 10%
60 Gr & Coates 8.... 33
12 Penna B 47A
1010 Philo &Eric Ela c 93
1000 d 0... 9/g
311 Bohm' Na Bs . 'B2c 73
85 N Pennatet m ace 75
6 Phitada Bk 110
50 Beading R 28%
100 do b3O 28g
BETWER
125 Schnyl Nar..24lye 6
100 Race & Vino 8....
10
SECOND
184 Cata B rdd 12 I
11 Cam & Amb .8...130%1
16 do 130%;
2300 Sell Nay 611'82 c. 7335
11 Mechanics' Bkb3 24%
3000 Cam & Amb Si 'B3 98
10 Mor Canal prd...120
2000 North Penn 6e b 5 82%
5 Lehigh. 60
52FTRIt
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5 24 ec &IR
CLOSING
Bid. Asked.
LI El 6e'Bl 106 106%
US Tr 7 340 21.105 X 106
Made Be. 97 98%
Pbilade Os new.. 102% 102%
Peons 55 89% 90
Reading R.... 2856 28 89
Read m 8.080'43.102 103
Read bde 95% 94
Read mt 85'88.. 89 89%
Penne II er div. 47% 47%
Penne R. 1 m 86..105 105%
Penne R2m 66.. 98% 99
Honig Gni Con.. 46% 47
Norris Cnl Pref.ll9 120
Bch Nay Stook.. 5% 6%
Bcb UST 'Pref... 16% 16%
Scb Nay 86 2 82.. 73% 78%
Elmira 18% 14%
LETTER FROM NEW YORK
Correspondence of The Pews]
The brig Yankee Blade, Captain Fairchild, arrived
this morning from New Orleans, having left that port ow
the 3d Met., and the Belize Bth, bringing the following
cargo, the first by sailing vessel, since the commence
ment of the rebellion 182 Mids. sugar, 500 bbls. mo
lames, 10 bales cotton, 101 bbls. rosin to Messrs. Me-
Cumbla & Childs; 74 bids. sugar, J. D. Pleh & Co.; 25
do. and 12 boles cotton, E. lloydecker ; i 0 bhde. sugar,
M. L. Potter, of Providence. The cargo was mostly pur
chased by Col. Butler, of Gen. Butler's staff.
The " Thugs" of New Orleans, who are made op for
the most part of men who were deposed by General But
ler, insulted the merchants of the city who sold the goode
to Colonel Butler, and who visited the vessel to see that
the cargo was properly received on board. These
Thugs" would point them ont sod swear vengeance
upon their heads for bartering with the " infernal Tan
heea"—their favorite term of reproach. When the Yan
kee Blade left, other vessels were receiving cargoes to be
consigned to hostess in this city and in aoston. The
rebels have destroyed a great portion of the levee, but
men have been employed in repairing it ever since the
captors of the city.
The United States transport Elm City. Captain Boweu,
arrived at thin port to-day from Fortress Monroe, with
sick and wounded soldiers from Gen. McOlellan's army.
A low of the sick were landed Many of the wounded
are rebels, and received their Injuries at Hanover Count
'louse, where some eight hundred other North Caro
linians wore made prisoners- of whom five hundred and
fifty came to this port. 'lle steamer will premed to
Albany.
The propeller Osprey, Captain Kinney, from Provi
dence, with a cargo of merchandise, while on her way
down the Zaat river, at seven o'dock this morning. and
whop opposite the Balton ferry, was run into by ferry
boat America, and had her bow nearly torn off. After
proceeding down near the south ferry, on the Brooklyn
side, she sunk to • her deck. Captain Kinney and crew
were taken off by the steam-tug Arctic, and brought
over to this city. The America was telahtly damaged.
Justice Connelly. one of the police magistrates in this
eity; has got himself in tronbio by threateniog to knock
an officer down in carrel. The case will be taken before
the Grand Jury, and he will doubtless be indicted_ It
would be a great relief to the citizens if be could be nn
benched. There is nothing so base and low that Michael
Connolly, polite justice, will not descend to it. To a
great city like this, bin presence on the bench as a
magistrate to a disgrace .
To-day the order for the arrest of all milk venders not
having their names on their cans, and of persons attempt
ing to sell adulterated or unhealthy milk. No arrests
barelidreen reported 'up to this time.
Ont of about eight thousand rum-shops in this city,
cne hundred and aeveuty-aix are liceosed, up to date.
At the regular monthly mooting of the Independent
Democratic General Committee, held last evening, the
executive committee were instructed to prepare resolu
tions on the political emergency. of the times, and elan to
communicate with the German Democratic Central Club,
with the view of securing combined action of the two
oryaolzations. at the sainting election!, and the admis
sion of their delegations into the Democratic State Con
vention.
Tbo new custom house, formerly tba Merchants' Bx
change, will not be taken possession of until the first of
Sept Ember, the alterations necessary to fit the . boildinst
for its new ocurpents having rennired more time than
wee expected necessary. The work was commenced im
mediately alter the first of May. The Government has
been under a daily expense of over 5200 for rent of the
new building since that time.
The 'following were the ealea of Mocks at the Samna
bound' to day: ,
10000 HS 55 '74 cp... 96% 550 Harlem R 42g
4000 t 8 6e 'Bl ep...108X 200 Mob So&N Tod Et. 27)4
5000 Tr 7 3.10 p c n.. 105% 50 Galena Lk Chi lt.. 71g
3000 Missouri St 62.. 513 i 200 NSA: g 5 s6O. 627 f
3000 'Brien 4 m WO. 903( 200 do b 60... 63
2000 Tel AFa2m.... 69 100 do 63
5000 111 Oen R bds... Ofig 100 do 8274
50000 Amer gold 106 g 100 711 Con R 62x
20000 Amer g01d.......100x 200 Clove Or Pitts R.. 22
10 National DV.... 97 500 Cleve &To 1t... 48X
12 Bk of Cooper-101 1200 do 481(
28 Continental Bk. 93g 200 d 0.... 530.... 48
-87 N. 7 Ceo 11 94 800 d 0..... 48g
' 150 Brie Railway... •87'g 300 d 0... '.1)10... • 4 2,i
200 Beef on Ely 8.. 47,4 , 410 MU &Pdu 0 R.. 35
600 Harlem R 17X 100 d 0.... b 30.... 851(
Asnss —The market is etandy for Pots at $5 750 t
5.51,(;. Peens are selling at Sli.
FLOOR AND MEAL—The inquiry for Western and
State Flour is good, and the market is a shale stiffer, al
though not onotahly higher: the demands are large. bat
the supply of some shipping brands is moderate. Tr de
brands sell dun. The sales are 18 700 bhls at $t lOret 25
for superfine State and Western; /t 3 40n4 65 fot the
tirades of Western extra ; 564 40m4.60 for extra State
1114.130er4 70 for fancy do ; $4.9905 for shipping brands of
round•hoop extra Ohio, and $510116 for trade brands.
GRAIN—The Wheat market is mere active, hut prices
are without improvement. and et the clime under; upon
the advance in freight•. boyars bete the advantere.
The sales ere 84.000 bushels at- 95ce51.01 for Obi :ago
Satisfy, 51.0201.01 for Milwaukee Glob ; 5t1.0501.06 for
Amber do.; 51.04 for prime Canada Olnb $l.ll for
prime rcd Western. and 51.17% for Amber do.
Barley end Barley 'Malt are steady but quiet. Osts
are lucre plenty and close rather eattier ; sales of Cana
dian and Wretern at 423( st-13c. and State 4-04 c, Bye
is firm, the supply light; sales of State in small lots at
7 6 0 Prime Western in dull at 70c.
Corn is heavy and less active at the close '
owing to
advance in freights: tales of 36,000 bus at 46 X c for
bested, 80er5le for new mixed, 52053 c for old do, and
5331al 5c for Western yellow.
PROYISIONS.—The Port market is steady, but NMI
.Cti•O ; sales of 670 bbla at Slo.Besslo.B7 for 11104 F, and
$8.62a8.75 for prime. Deaf is unchanged. Beef Hams
quiet atlsol6c. Cut Meats are more saleable. Lard
is steady.
CITY ITEMS.
AID von THE SOLDTEBS.—The Rev. Mr.
Sloan bas written another letter to Mr. Geo. H. Stuart,
of thin oily, appealing to the Army Committee of the
Young Men'e Christian Aseocletion for articles for the
wounded soldiers in Virginia, from which we give the
following extract for the information of the benevolent :
4 . Send ns, if you 'please, a small box of hi-carbonate
of soda, ten or fifteen pounds, for wasbinu the patients;
eon barrel of red pepper. one barrel of soda crackers, or
some of a very dellcate kind—a one of the water crackers,
as the sick will not eat them—and, if you can, some
flatted shirts. Mrs. Harris requests me to ask you to see
Mrs. Jones, and say that woolen stockings ere greatly
needed. We could also find great use for concentrated
beef tea; and, indeed, any delicacies you could bays
seat wth be very thankfully and gratefully received by
these sick and suffering men."
'We are aleo authorized to state that this committee, of
which Mr. Peter B. Simons is chairman, are receiving
numerous rearrests for general and miscellaneous read
ing matter for the soldiers, which many of our readers
are no doubt ali a and will be happy to supply. Articles
contributed should be sent either to the rooms of the
Ytung Itten's Christian Association, t 0.1009 Cheetunt
street, or to Mr. George U. Stuart, Bank street, PhGa
dolphin.
NEW UAATE, PHOTOGRAPHS OF ENGRAVINGS.
—llr. F, (Atacama, the successful photographer, Noe.
704 and 700 Arch stieet, has just added to hie splendid
collection of Carla for the Album copies of two of the
finest engravings extant—the one representing the royal
family of France, and the other entitled ti Dern fersjoure
de Ffas/leur!" or, Tbo Last Days of Happineas, repre
senting the Duke of Orleans, (Louis Phlhope'a oldest
eon,) his wife, and two children, the elder being the now
much-talked-of Count de Paris. Mr. G. has also just
published a superb card pictured General Frank Patter
son, which will be highly appreciated by the numerous
friends and admirers of that gallant officer.
REMOVAL OP MESSRS. E. G. WHITMAN &
CO.'S I'OPOLLE COSFEOTIOZOIST ESTAULTSITMERM—jar
readers will be glad to kern that the fatuous old Confec-
Cowry house of Messrs. E. G. Whitman & Co.—whose
choice saccharine preparations are known and appre
ciated all over the land—has been removed from Second
and Chestnut streets to more central and much more
spa:ions onarters, on Chestnut street, below Fourth,
beat door to the Adams Summit building, where they
are prepared to meet the wenta of the public on a mere
extexsive and attractive scale than ever. Their present
stock is rich in every choice article known to the con
fectionery art. They have also now in store the finest
stoat of tire-Work s_ in. the city, in anticipation of the
glorious Fourth, which, from present Indications, will be
celebrated this year with unusual eclat.
TEE GREAT ESTABLISIIIIENT.—If we were
called upon to designate the most indisporrable establish
ment in this city for the accommodation of both tames, of
all ages. we should be cempelltd to award the honor to
the splendid store of Messrs. Charles Oakford & Sus,
under the Continental Hotel. In Gentlemen's Hats of
every style and adaptation, their stock is not surpassed
by soy other in the world, and not a few of their choicest
article' in this line are of their own exclusive ntattufac
tore, and are confined to their own sales; whilst in Gen-
Ur:lien's Furnishing Goode, and beautiful head-gear for
Mines and Children, their stock is rich and varied. AB a
coneronence, their elegant salesrooms aro daily thronged
with customers. This establishment Is a credit to our
city, and does honor to the tact and enterprise of its
proprietors. v
• 13.781
WITTERS & CO. STILL AHEAD.—The great
success of Means. Waters k Go., in furnishing the pub
lic with the best portable light of the age, in their ale
gent aseoriment of patent Lampe for burning Kerosene
Oil, tee started up a boat of aspiring rivals In the chase,
tbo effect of which, however, line only , been to place the
Wittere S. Co. article in bolder prominence than ever.
In fact, the leers width, for economy, convenience,
ornament, and perfect safety. the people can rely upon
as superior to ail others are those made and sold at this
esisbliatment, l-cated at No. 35 North Eighth street,
corner of Filbert.
A. L. VANSANT . , IRE CREAN AMERICAN
CONFECTIONIR, corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets, is
now leading our beet citizens into harmless temptation
with his delicious summer fruits, pine apples, hot-hones
graces and 'peaches, bananas, sweet oranges, dates, lige,
et cetera, and choice, pnre confections In endless Ta
rtar._His elegant French and American Mixtures aro
the finest Confections, for the price, sold in this country..
•
TILE FLORAL AND STRAWDEART
By general solicitation, the ladies will continue the Fair
at the Saloon, feot of 'Washington street, until, Wednes
day, evening next.
THOMSON'a LONDON KITCHENER," or Eu
ropean Range, advertised in another /Coltztnn, by Meows-
North, lass; & 209 north Second %treat, ta
ittrectinit tho general attention of the public.
change Sales, /ruse 20.
LIEU., Phila. Rlchange.l
BOARD.
170 Reading B 88%
tbo do ...b5 sag
15 23 A. 3d-et R..... 75
50 flukey] 6
2000 Penua B let m c.105X
3000 do , .105 X
83 Lehigh Nev 50
14 Lehigh scrip...,. 31%
650 II 8 7-30 Tr N blklo6
1650 Am Gold 106)
1250 Cam k Amb 6s'7o 97
100 Cate R pfd 12
250 'Race 10
100 Girard COI 8.... 2334
7 Commercial Bk.. 48
4000 lim R 7e 90
2000 Reading 6e '86... 89
BOARDS.
5 Cheat & Wel•st B. 394(
10024 & 3d-et 13 2d n 5.102
BOARD.
1 25 13tbkl5tb-etftblo 20
1 25 City Bank 43X
5 Read 8..........2836'
200 do 530..28 69
8000 Penni?. lmelsBat 105 X
2000 Phila &Brie 63 b 4 94%
3 Penn 8:.........479(
75 Girard Col R..... 23111
10000 Chest & Del 6ebs 80
BOARD.
T 6
I KICES—EIII6I.
80. Asked.
Elmira B Prf... 23% 26
Elmira Te 3 73... 90 903
L Island 11 183 173(
Leh Cl & 4971 60
'LeCI & Nay tam 37% 82
11 Pennell.— 103( 10%
NPaltes 82% 82%
N Pa It 99% 100
Cataw R Con... 4 4;(
Catania* Prf..
12 12x
' reek & South 11 45% crg
2d&3d-et 8..... 76
76
Race& Vine-AB. 11%
W Philaß . 66 67
Spruce & Pine_ 133 i 1334
Green & Goatee.. 33 34
Chee & Walnut. 39% an%
Arch Street-- 26% 2636
NEW Yens, June 20,1882
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