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MONDAY, JULY 21, 1862,
THE WAR,
Special despatches from Warrenton convey
the information that General Pope’s army of Vir
ginia is moving on rapidly an t successfully. Char
lottesville has been visited, and when last heard
from, General Hatch was gallantly driving the re
bels beyond Madison, northwest of Charlottesville,
where he has captured a rebel colonel and a consi
derable number of other prisoners. General Hatch
will probably take possession of Stsmfardsville Gap,
an important jass of the Blue Ridge Mountains,
which wilt plaoe him in a more menacing attitude
towards Richmond than oyer by several routed In
addition to this, he will hold a' position from which
he eannot be dislodged, and one that will furnish
ample stores for his troops.
The feat accomplished by the rebel gunboat
Arkansas, in the- lower Mississippi, of which The
Press has an-acooiint exclusively, is important, if
the particulars be true. Our officers were aware of
the faot that this vessel was lying up the Yazoo
river, aid some one is certainly to b > blamed for
allowing her to oome out. It is evidently another
Merrimao affair. Fortunately, she oaauot do. any
further harm, as Col. Eltet, Jr., oan soon attack
and no doubt sink or capture her, with' his fleet of
ramhoats; nevertheless, the affair is humiliating,-
and nothing but the successful oatting open of the
canal, and leaving the Arkansas high and dry, : will
repay the SederaTlosses sustained.
Prom General MoCicllan’s army we have the
report that “all is quiet,” and tho belief that
Richmond is being evacuated gains ground. A
refugee from the rebel capital Bays the rebels
acknowledge a loss of thirty-two thousand men,
killed, wounded, and missing, in the recent sßven
days battle. This is nearly three times as heavy
as the Federal loss, and wo shall see how great a
victory we gained before Richmond after awhile,
when at! the facts are published.
Gbnbral Nrlsos haß arrived in, Nashville
with large reinforoements, and has assumed com
mand there. He will at onoo turn his attention
toward young Morgan, and it is to be hoped that
he will destroy the rebel forces and capture this
renegade Louisville rebel leader.
THE NEWS.
"We present to-day highly interesting letters
from our special correspondents at Memphis and
with Gen. Burnside’s army.
Gen.'Foret, the new commander-in-ohief of the
French forces in Mexico, is 58 years of age.,: In
1822 he entered St. Cyr, and afterwards joined the
expedition to Algeria, whioh be left with the rank
of colonel of infantry. In 1848 he became a gene
ral of brigade. He played a considerable part in
the etrup d'etat, and was named general of division
in the following year. In the Crimea he com
manded the reserve, and foratime, art interim, the
besieging army..
There are signs of a considerable decline in the
price of specie. Gold holds its old premium, but
there are now more sellers than buyers. The cir
culation of postage stamps is greatly increasing,
and as a smali-ehange medium will render great re
lief to sihail dealers. The premium on specie will
continue until fall, perhaps, when bullion wilt be
gin to flow baok from Europe. The idea of issuing
shinplßßters has been abandoned apparently.
"We give up .much of our space to day, forjthe
publication of a complete list of the wounded sol
diers recently released from Richmond by tho
rebels. It will be seen that many who wore re
ported killed in the recent seven-days battle are
alive and doing well. -
The contrabands in Washington form the subject
of a very interesting .communication on our fourth
page this morning. * ,
Mr. Minister Cameron has been .very favora
bly received by the Czar of Russia, and has been
complimented in an unusual manner by the Em
peror and his court.
The rebel prisoners who recently made their
escape from Fort Delaware have been ail reoap
.tured. and are now in durance. Arronaements
interesting "Tacts cuiTLT'impjt—rfouual-at that fart.
“ Ebohy Brigade,” and the “ Freedmen of South
Carolina.”
A despatch from our special correspondent at
Memphis, conveys the startling iutelligenoe that
the rebel ram “ Arkansas” has run by Commodore
Farraoct’s fleet In the Dower Mississippi, de
stroying a number of our vessels, and is now oppo
site the rebel batteries at Vicksburg.
The new order of the Navy Department allows
men to enlist in the navy for one, two, or three
years, according to choice.
The Louisville Journal says a rich merchant of
foreign birth, in that city, armed and equipped a
company for the Rebel Confederacy, at his own
expense. And yet, without having been .required
to takfe aDy oath, he is enjoying all the rights and
privileges of good citizenship.
•Six Union men have been hung at Little Rook
during the past three weeks. One was incarce
rated at Helena for speaking with a Federal of
ficer. A woman suspected of being a spy was ar
rested,-heavily ironed, and sent to Little Rook
from the same Secession sink-hole, and yet this
town put out a white flag, and claimed indulgence
from the Federal gunboats when last they oame by.
A.coon.F. of companies of the 30 th Massachusetts
Regiment are quartered in the Louisiana Senate
Chamber and Hall of the House of Representatives,
at Raton Rouge.
The oth Vermont regiment met with an entim-
Biastie reoeption in . Baltimore as they passed
through. . The men were supplied with refresh
ments, and the officers with bouquets and
by the inhabitants. There was no exception to the
general welcome with which the regiment was re
ceived. : ... ' -
The quota of volunteers called for in the patri
otic little town of Lexington, Massachusetts, is
twenty. The citizens of the place have liberally
subscribed $2,000 as bounty money—that is, one
hundred dollars for each man.
We have news from New Orleans to the 12th
instant. Baton Bongo is still held by Federal
troops, and has not been captured by therebals,
‘under Van Born, aa reported in the Southern news
papers. Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, had
arrived in New Orleans, to take the testimony for
the Government in the case of the contest between
Gen. Butler and the foreign oonsnls. <
Captain Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor,
is out in n letter which contains sufficient data to
prove beyond all peradventnre that Captain Coles,
of England, did not invent the revolving turret for
ironolad men-of-war, or any thing like it. Ericsson’s
letter to Napoleon 111. is sufficient evidence of his
original inventive genius and great mental pene
tration.
As we predicted, the foreign news received yes
terday indicates that the newspapers of Great Bri
tain cannot see any strategy in McClellan’s recent
movement..! 7 ..
John Morgan, the noted rebel guerilla chieftain,
has issued another flaming appeal to the abettors of
treason in Kentucky, urging them to join his army
and foEow his standard.
* It is impossible to attach too much import
ance to the interview of the President with thb
members of Congress from the Border States.
The address of the President, and the replies
of the majority and minority, have been given
to our readers, and are now before the coun
try.- They present both sides of the emanci
pation question with great ability, and the high
authority surrounding these distinguished men
will command attention in all parts of the
world. This great problem is now before the
country in its proper aspect. It is no longer
the matter for sarcasm, or tho subject of cruel
persecution and malignant ribaldry. We are
permitted to disonss it as a question of social
welfare—a political, commercial, and economi
cal question—and we are called upon to say
whether it is expedient that slavery should con
tinue to be an institution of this Republic, or
whether it should., pass away by the gen
tle operation of Mr. Lincoln’s proposed
measure of compensation. We are re
joiced at the change of sentiment which this
indicates,—that we have educated our-,
selves to a proper appreciation of its great
importance. The most extreme pro-slavery
men in Congress from the Border States con
fess to this. Men who formerly talked wildly
of ropes and imprisonment, mob law and sum
mary execution, for those who were opposed
to slavery, now lay aside their rancor, and
discuss it themselves as a matter of dollars
and cents, and as calmly as they would discuss
a question of revenue or internal improve
ments. The President has taken a position in
which-he will be sustained by the whole
North—by the loyal population everywhere.
It is hot extreme, or unsatisfactory, or crude.
.It hears evidence of a profound statesmanship,
m care, alabor, and an honesty which so pecu
liarly characterizes Mr. Lincoln’s treat
ment of all questions. The President assumes
ffbe high ground that slavery is the inspiration
of the rebellion; that its existence is the bond
of sympathy between the States In rebellion
and the disaffected in the Border States; that
Bo long as slavery exists this sympathy will be
active, uncontrollable, andmischievous. Sla
very is the cause, rebellion the effect—in
ending the one we necessarily ond the other.
«Let the States which are in rebellion sec
({cflniiely and certainly that in no event will
the States you represent ever join their pro-
posed Confederacy, and they cannot much
longer maintain the contest. But you cannot
divest them of their hope to ultimately have
you with them so long as you show a determi
nation to perpetuate the institution within
your own States. Beat them at elections, as
you have overwhelmingly done, and, nothing
daunted, they still'claim, you as their own.
You and I know what the lever of their power
is. Break that lever before their faces, and
they can shake you no more forever.”
The meaning of this is plai n. The Presi
dent, asks the people of the Border States to
break the lever of the traitors’ power, and “to
break it before their faces.” fle asks them
to do it gracefully; to do it while there is
time; to do it in a manner that may do them
selves no personal or pecuniary injury, or
cause any violent disruption of their social re
lations. If they refuse, the task is placed
| upon the President, and their neglect will be
his responsibility. There is great signifi
cance in the President’s homely metaphor.
It carries with it the whole argumeut.
It places slavery in the position of anta
gonism to the Union, and speaks of its
death as a potent and swift means of termi
nating the war and exterminating treason.
We can easily trace the arguments which have
influenced the President in making this decla
ration. Slavery in itself is a feudal form of
Government. It requires large plantations,,
exhausting crops, and the protection of the
National authority. Men become vassals—
they are kept in ignorance—bought and sold,
deprived of free agency—of their social rela
tions. That their labor may be efficient and
productive, their minds are dwaried—they
possess no impulse to advancement j they
have no family relations—love, friendship, in
terest, ambition, all motives and incentives,
all hopes and wishes, are repressed and crush
ed. They become so many instruments, like
the plough, the harrow, or the spade. They
dig and plant and pull cotton, and grind sugar
cane for a certain number of yearn—then die
and are buried. They have no life beyond
the plantation, the'slave pen, the freight ear or
lower deck. A bill of sale takes them from
Virginia to Louisiana, and leaves their chil
dren in the Carolines and Georgia to plant
cotton, dig and sow—to die and be buried.
When they are intelligent they are mischie
vous, and their value only depmds upon their
ignorance and blind obedience. Their mas.
ters live on their labor, and enjoy the political
power that labor gives them. They hire no
feeling or interest in sympathy with their fel
low-citizens of the free States. Everything
like advancement, progress, mental inde
pendence, or personal liberty—everything that
furthers the interests; of free labor, or makes
man the owner of his own labor, is inimical to
their institution and subject to their hatred.
In their hands, slavery became an arbitrary
element of political power. It made the mi
nority of white men control the electoral
colleges, Congress,,and every Administration
we have had, either directly or indirectly.
As free labor extended over the North, and
became intelligent, powerful, and ambitions,
the slave power was curtailed and controlled.
The election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presi
dency was free labor’s crowning triumph.
The power of slavery, was forever gone from
the ballot-box. The Constitution it had made,
and the Union which had protected it, were
no longer the instruments of its power.
There was nothing left hut treason, and
Slavery drew the'sword. Freedom accepted
the challenge, and the contest is raging.
Where will it end ? We reason this question
to the President’s position,,and we permit the
President to speak for us. “I assure you,’;
says Mr. Lincoln to the Border States Con
gressmen, “ that in my opinion, if you all had
voted for the resolution in the gradual emanci
pation message of last March, tho war would
now he substantially ended. And tho plan
therein proposed is yet one of the most potent and
swift means of ending it” In answer to this we
have the reply of tho majority of the Border
State representatives. It is an ingeniousdocn
*i l° oli in vain for any trace of
place the President in the positionof
division of the Union on the line of the Cot
ton. States, whioh is both ungenerous and un
kind, there being nothing in the spirit of his
appeal to warrant such a construction. They
ask that the war be conducted on the principle
of assuring the people of the South their
rights; that slavery be protected and de
fended by the military power; “ that no
harm shall result to .the Southern people or
their institutions,” and 'it will be' soon over.
If such ' assurances as these could end the
war it would never have been inaugurated.
The Southern people wore as well satisfied bn
this point when Fort Sumpter fell..as they are
now. .President Lincoln tendered them a
compromise before lie bad been a month in
office; but they sent.a pannon ball through it.
Some of the men who sign this call were pro
posing to set themselves up as an “ armed
neutrality” hairier against the Government;
they were as earnest in doubting the propriety
of the President’s first call for troops as they
are now in opposing bis plrni for compensating
emancipation, and the arguments against the
one are now reproduced against the other.
It is a triumph for which we thank God that
they have been brought at length to argue this
question, The people of Maryland, Missouri,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Delaware, and Virginia
will take it from the hands of the represen
tatives, and discuss it themselves. They will
see that there can be no safety for their lives'
or their property so long as slavery! exists as
an institutionin their midst. There will be
Morgan raids, and guerilla parties, and out
breaks of banditti; railroads will he torn up,
and telegraph wires torn down. Wherever
slavery exists this rebellion will find sympa
thizing friends. Inspired by slavery, managed
by slaveholders, and supported by the pro
ceeds of slave labor, it is natural that the
friends and adherents of this system should
be devoted to its interests. We end it, and
every motive passes away. We then establish
a free territory, and encourage free labor, and
place polecat power in the bands of free
iaboiing men. In doing so we consolidate
and concentrate our power, and do away for
ever with a system of government which has
been based upon tyranny and despotism. ' The
members from the Border States who assent
to the President’s suggestion and sign the
minority report appreciate this argument when
they place it in this brief and pungent form:
“If the Southern Confederacy can give up sla
very to destroy the Union, we can surely ask
pur people to consider the question of eman
cipation to save the Union.” This is the lan
guage of true patriotism, and we honor the
men who have the boldness to make such a
declaration. v ■ •
We are advancing. Yesterday all was dark
ness, but to-day we see the dawn-A a nd very
soon daylight will be streaming -through the
woods. The historian of this era.will chroni
cle the death of slavery, and he will say that
President Lincoln read its death-warrant to
the members from the Border-States, in his
Presidential parlor, one pleasant marning in
July. Its day have been numbered—how shall
it die ? Will its friends accept the humane
suggestion of thS - President, and permit it to
be gathered peacefully to its fathers; or, by
refusing to accept its manifest doom, will they
compel him to “break it before their faces,
that it can shake ns no more forever.” ,
Napoleon and Palmerston are apparently
anxious to impress the. public with the idea
that France and England continue to have the
most friendly lelations,! though there was a
misunderstanding, on the Mexican question.
M. Billault, a member of the French Senate,
is alto one of Napoleon’s cabinet ministers,
and it was announced that ere the Legislative
Chambers Closed their Session, he - would
make a speech upon the Mexican question—
an exposition, in fact, of Napoleon’s views.
The Emperor, who has a remarkable talent for
silence, reminds us of Mr. Bagnet, in “Bleak
House,” who invariably deliver* his opinion,
through “the old girl,” his wife, the excellent
mother of Quebec and Malta, sole heirs of the
name and fame of Bagnet.
On the occasion in question, M. Billault
delivered, in the .-Corps LegisUtif, his ex
pected speech. He stated the whole case,
insisting that; notwithstanding the withdrawal
of England and Spain from the Mexican expe
dition, they continued on the best terms with
France ; and that, from the very first, Eng
land had objected to- European troops being sent
into the interior. For the future, he intimated
that the arms of France had sustained ire
verses in Mexico, which must bo avenged, anil
that Napoleon never had an intentfon-of im-!
posing any Government upon Mexico—if this
be so, his Imperial Majesty must have been
; deceiving the Austrian Archduko Maximilian 1
i M. Billault admitted, with great frinkaors,
{that the reception of the French- lit, Mexico
was different from what (on the representa
tions of General Almonte?) they had ex
pected. Instead of being welcomed, they
were met with artillery and musketry, and
badly beaten at Puebla and other places. In
stead of retracing their steps, however, they
are to proceed precisely as if their interposi
tion—called invasion by the Mexicans—was
warranted and welcome. N apoleon, rather
than show himself mistaken, or deceived, will
proceed as if all were right and just.
. In connection with this subject, a recent ar
ticle in the Times winds up with these very
significant sentences:
“ Whether France makes Mexico an independent
or a tributary sovereignty, whether she remains
ooDtent with the Central American region, or ex
tends her conquests as far as her former colony
at the mouth of the, Mississippi, England wilt be
equally content. We have been told that 'when
Fiance is satisfied the world is tranquil,’and in
this oase, happily,-the satisfaction is sought beyond
’the limits of Europe.”
The words which we have here italicized
may have a prophetic meaning, or they may
have been written with a knowledge of the
purpose of NAroLEON. If report bo true,
France desires to possess herself of a Mexi
can province, not at “the month of the Mis
sissippi,” but close to New Mexico and’
California. Sonora, with its vast mineral
wealth and contiguity to the Pacific, is under
stood to be what France aims at. We are not
very sure that England would be “content”
to see her;great rival,'France, obtain such an
occupancy on the American continent as this.
Time, which solves so many riddles, alone can
develop the mystery of this.
Thb Legislature of Pennsylvania, at the last
session, passed a joint resolution to furnish
clothing to wounded Pennsylvania volunteers.
In visiting hospitals for this purpose, it was
found difficult to single out Pennsylvania vo
lunteers, and leave the equally deserving sol-,
dier from Maine or lowa,ln the adjoining cot,
unsupplied. To meet this difficulty, Surgeon
General Smith, of Pennsylvania, visited Wash
ington, and endeavored to _get an order to
supply all soldiers whose clothing had been
destroyed in battle. There being no act of
Congress authorizing it, the necessary Order
‘could not be issued, and the ■ matter rested,
leaving. Pennsylvania the only State which had
by law provided for her wounded soldiers.
Hon. James T. Hale, the member ol Con
gress from the Centre district, interested him
self warmly in behalf of the wounded soldiers;
and, though the adjournment of Congress was
near at hand, he brought the matter before the
House, and succeeded in having : a joint reso
lution passed, authorizing clothing to bo issued
to all soldiers whose clothing was injured in
battle, or destroyed through the casualties of
war. Thus, through the efforts of Judge
Hale, an evil, which army officers have long
sought to correct, has been remedied; and it
only remains lor the War Department to issue
the proper orders, to have our brave soldiers
who have lost their clothing in battle, or from
wounds, freely supplied by the United States.
We trust there will be no delay in issuing the
proper order to all quartermasters having
charge of clothing, to carry out the objects or
the joint resolution, so honorable to Congress,
and so just to our brave soldiers. _ 1 t
Ora advices from Kansas indicate that an
animated contest will take place in that State
during the coming autumn election. The im
portance of the canvass will be estimated when
we remember that. KahsSs is on the border of
Missouri, and possesses a large infusion of the
pro-slavery and Democratic element. The
enemies ©f the country are as persistent in this
new State as they have beee in any of the
States adjoining, and , tire loyal people are
called upon to oppose and vanquish; them.
The friends of the Administration-are , about
to organize a movement for a union of the Re
publicans and loyal Democrats on a broad and
generous basis of fealty to tho Union and un
sparing energy in the prosecution of the war.
We are assured that this movement will be
consummated, and it iskaid that Hon. George
A. Crawford; formerly of Pennsylvania, will
be nominated for Governor. We are gird of
ftn-i-wjmp is an old citizen of this
party in former days. ~lie was ’a„„,„ era ,; c
earliest Opponents of Mr.- Buchanan’s policy—
he fought him from the beginning to the end
;in all his iniquities, and identified himself
With the people of Kansas. That people ,can
ifind no more fitting man tb'fill the guberna
torial chair. Honest, tiue, and capable, sin
cere and conscientious in his devotion to the
.Union, he deserves all the honor his fellow-citi
zens can heap upon him.
The FMENDs of sick and wounded volun
teers in any of the hospitals of the. city, will
find an accurate register at the office of Me
dical Director W. S. Kino, 422 Walnut street.
Those in search of soldiers can here learn in
which of our numerous hospitals they will find
them. ' ■
M. Mercieu,- Envoy- Extraordinary.and. Mi
nister Plenipotentiary at
France, arrived in our city last evening, and is
stopping at the Continental Hotql.
We can take a note occasionally from the
poet’s lyre—and few have been so stirring and
beautiful as the following from Oliver Wen
hell Holmes. It appeals to every heart in this
hour of our country’s need, and should he
read and published everywhere:
Listen, young heroes ! roar country is calling!
Time strikes the hour for the brave and tho trao <
Now, while the foremost are fighting and falling
Fill up the ranks that have opened for you!
You whom tho fathers made free and defended,
Stain not the scroll that emblazons their fame i
, You whose fair heritage spotless descended,
Leave not your children a birthright of Bhamo!
Stay not for Questions while Freedom stands gasping l
Wait not till Honor lies wrapped In bis pall!
Brief tlie lips s meeting be. swift the bands’ ciispin*—
for the wars!” is enough for them all. °
Brtakfrom the arms tha 1 : would-Fondly caress ydn!
Hark! his thebngle-blast! sabres are draws ’
Motbers.ahall pray for yon, fathers shall bless yon,
Maidens shall weep for you when yon are gone!
Never or now I cries the blood of a nation
Poured onthe turf where the red rose should bloom;
Now is the day and the hour of salvation— - j
Never or now I peals the trumpet of doom! .
Never or now! roars the hoarse-throated cannon
Through tho black the skies:
Never or now! flaps the shell*blasted penaon
O’er the deep ooze where the Cumberland lies!
Prom the fool dens where our brothers are dying,
Aliens and fdes in the land of their birth,
From the rank swamps where onr martyrs are Mag
Pleading Sn vain for a handfnlofearth: . '
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From I he tot plains where they perish outnumbered,
Furrowed aud ridged by the battle-field's plough,
Ocmts the loud summons; too long yeu have slum
- ' btred, .
Bear the last Angel-trump—Never or Now! '
In the report of one'pf the mootings of tim
Pennsylvania Association for the relief of the stifle
and wounded soldiers of our State, published some
-days ago in 27ms Press,: allusion was made to the
remarks of Dr. S. E Dnffield, of Fulton county,
Pennsylvania, in whieh he is made to say, in
speaking of the meeting of the loyalists of that
county, at MoConnelsburg, on the 4th of July,
when a large fund was raised for our suffering
soldiers: “ I havo been at home for the last ten
days, on :a visit to my family, and on tho 4th of
July, at a little meeting, I presented the subject
before our people.” As the writer of this para
graph heard Dr. Duflield’s remarks at the Relief
Association, in Washington, he begs to;state that
that gentleman took! no such oredit to himself, bat
cheerfully awarded it to others of bis home friends.
He said, not what was- reported, but that he had
“ been home for the past ten days, on a visit to his
family, and on the 4th of July attended a Union
celebration at his native town, where this subject
waß presented before the people.” This statement
is due to some of the most devoted and enthusiastic
and energetic of tho friends of the good cause.
;! Orpheus 0, Kerr —The writer of Orpheus C.
Kerr’s well-known letters, in. the New Fork Sun
day Mercury, (tho largest circulated of American
Sunday papers,) is not General Mitchell, as we
supposed, nor a certain Thomas Middleton, as
others have reported. No person named Middleton
has editorial relation of any sort with the Mercury,
The real Simon Pure, a! gentleman of wit and talent,
is Mr. R. H,. Newell, associate. editor of the New
York Sunday ’Mercury . 7
Atlantic Monthly.—We are indebted to T. B.
Pugh, and also to T. B. Peterson & Brothers, for
advance copies of the August number.
The Specie Question.
Jo Vie Editor of The Press
< Sir: I was in Boston, some years ago, when
there was a general suspension - The banks issued
§1.25, $1.50, aud $1.75- notes, and the effect was
that very little specie was required in making
change. If some of. our banks would do the same
thing, the; would eonfer a public benefit on a suf
fering community.
I am, sir, very truly yours,
July 18,1882 Focus.
Gen. Stevens' Forces Added to the Army
of the. Potomac.
It is with much gratification that we hear of the
.arrival, in Hamilton Roads,: of another body of ef
. tecrive troopß, being the. division of General Stevens,
(torn South Oyrottua, and inteuded, doubtless, toaro
ili force tber-arinv eperatiDg. against: tiichmonri. .Tiii!
division, wbiGb, .after its longr service in SouthrUaro
ilina, cannot he presumed .to be veryr strong ia.-nuai
fhsrs, arrived in. Hampton Reads on Tuesday, last, on
: hoard the steamers Vanderbilt, Mississippi, and Ban Ds
ford It is said to consist, In parq.of the ISth Now. York,
BOih I’mnsylvanio, Bth Michigan, 97th ..Pennsylvania,
;£Stb Massachusetts, Tth.Ooueecttcut. and of two batte
ries of artillery. All the sick and disabled men of the
j command were left behind,— Washington Intelligencer.
THE PRESS—PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1862.
LETTER FROM “OCCASIONAL.”
Tho despondency of the last two or three
weeks has passed away; and has left a deter
mined and buoyant spirit in every camp and
at every fire-side. The demand for vigorous
action as the surest preparation for victorious
fighting, has become almost universal. The
resolve against any Peace with traitors springs
lrom a full sense, of the impossibility of re
conciliation until the rebellion has been com
pletely crushed. There can, in fact, be no
Peace by which a portion of the Union is to
be left to those wh« have asfuUd.it.--,.1f there
should be, the whole Republic will be perma
nently dislocated and dismembered, leaving
only the slave region consolidated, and that
which is now loyal and combined the theatre
of faction and of bloodshed. General Pope’s
three • orders, Nos. 5,6, and ,7, are but the
key-notes of the popular expectation. New
armies will rise before the policy which these
orders promise. Henceforth our legisla
tion against the rebellion will be that
which speaks from the mouth of the
cannon, or flashes from the long line of
advancing bayonets. The property of the
enemy, of whatever description, instead, of
being protected by our tioups, will be taken
and used. Every insult will be promptly
avt nged. We are to have not merely indem
nity tor the past and secarity for the future,
but the traitor is to bo struck down suddenly
and without parley. In one word, we are to
have war against a merciless and savage foe;
war worthy of a mighty Government and peo
ple, and equal to the vindication of the enor
mous interests at stake in this unparalleled
struggle. The most moderate of men at last
agree that. moderate V measures have : failed. ■
These measures have been’ scouted’ by the re
bels, as signs of weakness or cowardice. They
have encouraged; sympathizers in loyal com
mnnities; they have' offended and degraded
onr lighting men, and they have lost many
millions to the National Government. The
oiders of General Pope are, moreover, signifi
cant of a settled policy on the question of
escaping slaves •or contrabands. And the;
manner in which this policy is in
dicates a sweeping change in public opinion.
A false humanitarianism has vanished before
the stern necessity for precisely such a policy.
The wretched cries of disaffected partisans,
who prate of negro equality and an Abolition
war, perish before it. Democrats, who either
believed or repeated these, cries, come forth
and ask that the blacks ,of the South shall be
employed to relieve aud rescue the whites of
the North and West. They demand this in
public meetings and public papers, and in every
manner of public expression. They-wiU no
longer submit that their relatives and friends
in the army shall be used to recapture fugi
tives, nor to perform the hard duties of camp
and field and march, while the blacks are fed
and fostered.- It wiilnot stain the final achieve
ment of a victorious close of tho war, if co
lored men contribute to it. Bitter experience
has shown that they are more loyal than the
whites who seek the destruction of tho Re
public.
The stem discharge of these duties will give
a new character to the war for the Union.
The civilized world has seen with amazement
the indulgent magnanimity of our Government
to traitors armed and unarmed—to the open
foe and his sympatnizing friends. The evil
fruits of this, leniency have appeared to all
men. Other nations are therefore prepared
for the new epoch upon which we are enter
ing.; Sharp, bloody, and 4 inexorable it will
unquestionably be; but it will make tho war a
short one, and ihe succeeding poace perma
nent and enduring.
■ And may Heaven smile upon the brave en
deavor! Should it succeed—it cannot fail—
human life, wili-be saved—human liberty res
cued—foreign despots admonished—and the
Government of the United States established
on strong and lasting foundations.
T.ebaiion and Hartsvllle , Occupied by the
■ jp» Citizens Housed by the
Reinforcements— The; of
, i Lovisyillß, July IS.—-The town of Henderson has
been occnpled-by about forty guerillas, who were cheered
and, treated .with the greatest consideration by many
citizens uton their entering the town. ' -■...
Arcfay Dixon and others were negotiating with the
rebel Colonel Johnston to. withdraw his guerillas from
Henderson. Many of the inhabitants .had gone to EvaAs
viilefor. safety. ; • 1
'The steamer Commerce, Captain Archer, hound from
Memphis to Louisville, stopped below Henderson, detun
ing ic unsafe to pass. . - > ' , •
Generai Greene Olay S aith now commands our forces
: aDLexington, vice Ward, and there is a prospect of stop
ping the rebel Colonel 'Morgan’s recruiting operations,
which were rathtr brisk during his late raid.
Nashville, July. 16.—Lebanon* Tennessee is in-pos
session of the rebels*
The rebels, 80b strong, are at Hartsville.
Hr. Bice r Benjamin Daniels,, and . John Barns, re
; spectabie .citizens, wore hung last night at Tennessee
BidgSj twenty-fivdjmiles' from Nashville, for entertain
- iDg“ iden employed in recocshmcting telegraph Hues.
Nashville, -July 18.—One thousand’ and forty six
paroled;prisoners at Murfreesboro’, 7 have arrived. They
are mostly of the Michigan 9tli, and some of‘ Hewitt’s
Battery. ..There are, no commissioned officers.
The tiainß run through to Murfroesboro’. .
The'War in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Lovisvili.e, July 19—Gen. Nelson arrived in Nash
ville,'oh Thursday, with heavy reinforcements, and as
sumed the command there.' ,
The town of: Henderson was occupied-by about'forty
guerillas, who were cheered and. treated with great con-7
eideratiop by many citizens, as they entered the town, j
Archyßixon others are negotiating with,the rebel ,
Col. to withdraw the guerillas from Henderson.
Many of the inhabitants of that town have gone to Evans
ville for safety.' ' 7 '■ ‘
The'Steamer Commerce, Captain Archor, bound to
Memphis and Louisville, was Btopped below Henderaon, -
detming it unsafe to pass that point.
General Geerge Green (Lay Smith now commands the
Lexington forces, vice General Ward, and there is a
prospect er stopping Morgan's.recruiting operations,,'
which were rather brisk during the late raid. j
Accident on the Columbia Railroad.
Nashville, July 19.—The.-down.train from Haute-’
vitle was thrown from the track twelve miles this aids of!
Reynolds’station. Captain Tatum, of Ohio, and several
others, were billed) and twenty were voundod. GonoraT
Mitchril’s family were on tho train, but escaped and
arrived at Columbia. '(
'The Dock 2tiver bridge this side of Columbia is washed
parlly away. Passengers reached this city by private;
conveyance from Colombia. j
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
The casualties by the accident on the Columbia road
are larger ’than before reported. * The' train contained
about one thousand Ohio and Kentucky troops of Nel
son’s command. ‘The two hind cars were thrown off
vrhffe the cars wero going fifty miles per hour, ona
cum.
About forty were woundod, five of whom died :after
reaching Columbia, Term., and. more are not expected to'
live*
Captain Tatum belonged to the Ohio 6th—the Guthrie
Grays. He was formerly connected with tho Cincinnati
Gazette. , .
'The wife of Captain Mendenhall is severely injured.
‘Mr.- Holloway, of NariiYlUe, bad an arm sprained.
BJazhe is attached to the engineer, who escaped to the
woods afterdisconnecting the locomotive from the train,
leaving the latter half* mile behind. •
.Several arrests have been made by soldiers. • - /
One hundred and fifty bales of Comstock & Clark’s
cotton were burned near Sbelbyvilie.
* There has been considerable cotton burning near Tus*
cumbia and Florence. 5
Cotton is selling at Huntsville at twenty and twenty
two cents for g01d.... *
General Grant Ordered to Corinth—How
the i’emale Kebels are Served-
Memphis, July 16—General Hovey-is in command,
vice General Grant, who, with' staffs is' expected to be
called to Corinth at any moment* jf
The fortifications hear© are being s pushed to completion
with rapidity. ; They will be formidable, and are intend
ed as permanent forts of defence.
Several female Secessionist were yesterfflyieseorted
beyond the Federal lines by General Thayer, - they hav
ing reiuaed to take the oath of allegiance. Their bus.
bands are among the dost wealthy, citizens "of Memphis,
and are now serving in the rebel army.
The War lu the Indian Nation
Kansas City, Mo., July 17.— The correspondence of
the Leavenworth Conservative says: “A receatbattle
in the Indian Nation, between detachments of the Kansas
regiments under Colonel Weer and a forco of rebels, re
sulted in tbe capture of one: hundred and twenty pri
soners, a large number of horses and ponies,- about fifteen
hundred bead of cattle, tbirty-six loadod mule teams, a
large ouantity of cainp atd garrison enuipage, and fifty
stand of arms. <
Colond Bitchie, who is in command of a regiment of
loyal Indians, has r«-liablo information that Oliief John
Boss was about to -join the exp diton with some 1,500
warriors. Colonel Solomon, of tno 30£b Wisconsin, had
also captured forty prisaners, and four hundred mounted
Cherokee and psago Indians bad come into oar camp
with white flags, and carrying.tbeir guoa with their mn2-
zlea pointing downwards. About two hundred and fifty
negroes, beibngiDg to rebel half-breeds, are now on routo
for Fort Scott. ’
Pjofessorß in the Field,
i NKw YoßKj'July 20.—Professor Ohamberiain, ofßow
doin Colhge, has been offeree and lias accepted co
loco! c> of ibe 20th Maine: ltogiment. la also stated
that Professor Obadbourue has accepted the colouetcy
of'u Mansachusettß regimtnt. ’
■. Explosion of a Steam Tug.
Nbw York, July 20.—-The stoam tag Blanche Tage
exploded her buffer this morning while towing a barge
full of excursionists in,the harbor. The steward of the
tug was killed, but no one rise was Injured. l
reparture of the Kangaroo.
; New Tojjk, July 17,—Tho Kangaroo sailed at noon
jto-day, with oyer a miliiou iu specie,-
Washington, July 20,1862.
Occasional.
FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
IMPORTANT FROM VICKSBURG.
Rebel Ram Arkansas Runs by onr Fleet.
SHE DESTROYS A NUMBER OF WAR VESSELS.
FEDERAL LOSS UNKNOWN
REBEL LOSS TEN KILLED AND THIRTEEN WOUNDED.
Special Despatch to The Press.]
Memphis, July 18. -
The Grenada (late Memphis) Appeal, of the 16th
lost., reports that the rebel ram and iron-clad gunboat
Arkansas, under command of Captain J. N. Bryan, came
down from the Yazoo river on the 16th, and ran by that
portion of onr fleet which lies above Vicksburg, success
fully, and anchored under the batteries surrounding that
, The Appeal says the ram ran down several Federal
war vessels, and disabled many more j one of onr vessels
was blown up,
The “Arkansas” Is a very formidable gunboat, being
plated with two-and-a-half-inch iron, with the plates
and nails rivttted.
- She has a very heavy armament, and is furnished with
two propellers, seven feet in diameter, with four flanges
The loes of the rebels is set down at ten killed and
thirteen wounded.
The Federal loss is hot known, but Is said to have been
very heavy.
In addition to the above, ihe Appeal's despatch con
tains a great deal which i* bombastic and not worthy of
•reproduction; but there is unquestionably some truth In
; the statements made above. ~
There are no recent arrivals from Vicksburg.
The Federal gunboat Benton was left in a sinking ©on-
FROH WASH!NGTON,
Special Despatches to “ The Frees.”
Washinqtoh, July 20,1862.1
The Army of Virginia.
The following order has be eu issued by Major General
Porn, regarding the absence of officers and soldiere in
bis command;
Headquarters Army of Virginia,?
1 War-centos, July 17,1862. j
Commanders of a Corps d/Arm£t Commanders of
a division of this commandmay grant passes for the day
to the officers, and men of their .command, which mast
be signed by any one of two staff officers, who must
be designated for the purpose, and whose signatures
are to be immediately reported to tho Provost Mar
shal. of the corps d'armAe. These passes will not
ibe construed to r permit their bearers to leave the
tvicinity of their respective stations or to
the city of Washington. Except as above, speci
•fled, no officer or soldier ol this army will be permitted
to leave bis command onepy pretence whatever without
: special authority from these t eadquartera. Ail officers
founa absent fi om tbeir commands five days after the
date of tlii< Older will be arrested and tried for disobe*
ofence of orders. All soldiers absent after thit time,
will be confihed and returned under guard to their regi
ments lor triaf by court maitiai. By command of Maj,
General Pope.
GFO. D. BUGGLES, Col., Adj., and Chief of Staff.
An officer who arrived to-day from Fredericksburg,
Virginia, say s the effect of General Pope’s official orders
iipon the troops was wonderful.. Although they had not
betn officially proclaimed when he left that to wn, a kaow
lecfgo of their contents bad quickly parsed from officers
do men, and all were exultant in view of the policy here
after to bp pursued. Hew vigor has been infused into our
'soldiers, and additional strength and courage given them,
and their anxiety for active operations has been increas
ed. -Tho toast among them to-day was “The New
Orders.” ...
Warbektos, Va , July 20.—A cavalry captain from
General Hatch's command arrived here, to-day. The
game officer brought five prisoners of the 2d Virginia.
who wero captured by; General Hatch at Madi
son. Colont! Miller, of the Virginia .Militia, was also
tok en prisoner, bnt ho has not yet arrived, :
The names drthe live prisoners are B. F. Parker, A.
A. White, A. B. Bibber, A. M. Goodrich, and J. H.
Hajtbison. . ' .
Gen. Swell’s troops are reported to be at Gordons
ville. Thtir number iB not stated.
Gen. PorE’S recent orders are receive by the troop 3
with enthusiaßm, but the citizens wear terrible long faces
since ite publication.. :
A Frenchman arrived here to«day who left Bichmond
acme days ago. He bad been persecuted in order to
com peMdrffd ipin the Southern army, and was finally
pul in prison; from which he Was released at the r equeat
of the French consul. He had l»ea keeping store in
Bichmond. He says everything was very dear there—
coflee sellin gat $2.50 per pound', and sugar at T6c. Fhaur,
however, wee held at only S 7, and corn meal was dearer
than fldur. - He bought a horse and wagon worth about
$lOO, for which he paid,s4so in Confederate scrip. With
tins he made his escape.
Hon John S. Phelps Appointed Military
Bovorßor of-AiKausas. "
Hon, John B PuELppvornrtssunri, has been appointed
jnfit^-Tr£^T erilor Arkansas, and will soon leave Wash-
" hajl Powers similar to that
re-tßTablißhing people in
Conk Mon of the Halted state Tuia"appointment 1
gives general Eatisf&ction • from the known prudence aed
firsmess of iho recirient as woU as his onaussttonablo
loyalty.. The appoißtment was unsought
conferred by jthe President.
The Herald of yesterday has the Mowing spaoiol de
spatches from Washington:
Army Movements.
Some important movements are on the tapis to give
nnity end force to the miMUryjton. 6 f ths
for the speedy mpppeseioh af the rebellion. The <kty is
fill! cf 10H}0IB relative to the oxpected arrival of General
■ Bali.kCK. gome put him in the war office; some make
himcemmaDaer-iii-ohiof of the army; some seed him:
down to the James river and recall General McClelian.
My information ie a little.more positive, r have autho
rity for stating to ypn.that General Halleck does not
cotne hoe as commander-ln-chief of the armies of the
Union, j He may be appointed Sooretary of War, bntltia ’
helievet in weli-mfoimed circles that Mr. Stahtos will
retire td relieve the President of all and
that will make General Banks Sooretary
°tW«]i with GeneralHallegx as military adviser.
I The New Levy of Troops.
fAs we law etahde touching the hew levy ot troops, the
army may in the aggregate 'amonht to within a fraction
of a nillion of men. r •
Illinois’ Response to the Call for Troops.
Th\ Governor of Illinois writes to'ttao President that
ho hip. one hundred full companies ready for service
undeithe recent call for additional troops- The quote
of Ilmois tinder tins call is nine regiment. The €So»
vemoj.wanla to know if the Government will not accept
tho additional regiment
I Arrival of General Sickles.
, .Cmeral Hakiei. B. Siciu.es arrived here to-day. His
brigade has been greatly reduced in. the heat of the re-,
cent tatties of tho peninsula, and by its gallantry has
won tie name it bears—** Excelsior.”
: Arrival ox Colonel Campbell.
Am mg the arrivals here is that of Colonel Gampbkli.,
of ti i 57th Pennsylvania Volnnteors. who was very:
dange ously wounded at tfib battle of Fair Oats. It was
feared he would not recover, but his friends will bo
gratiftd to know that he will soon be in the fie d again.
The Aspect of Hie City
-The absence of members of Congress is not seen in the
great rowd of people that is constantly here; and is not
felt sire in a deep eense of relief fiom the perils
that Upended from their mischievous conduct. Some
are he o to press the Claims of aspirants for offices under
.the.erdee aptj.but where there 1b more patronage in a
large eajr. at the disposal of the President they will in
faljibiylgive vent to calnmnies upon him that,are now
espressd from mercenary ; ’
jbvements of the the
Interior.
i ion. Caleb 11. Smith will leavo for Bondford, for
'.til, on Monday, and Assistant Secretary 11. S.
bein absent, Watsox J. Smith, Esa, Chief Clerk,
as Secretary jpro iem. of the Interior Department
bsence.
The
his be
USHE
will »
inhia
J udicial Appointment;
Coi
Unioi
ted b:
firrnei
the si
H. Hi
olly J. TwiGG j of Knoxville, Tennessee; the last
andidate for Governor of Tennessee,was nomlna
he President, on Thursday, and forthwith con
jy the ; Senate, as IJnited States District Judge of
sral districts, of Tennessee, in the place of West
piirEy, recently deposed by the Senate.:
Ihe;
: tn&i
ral:
it 11
the pi
om man drin-Chief of the Army Re
el by General McClellan and Gene
*ope # . k ■
understood bore that during the recent yiait of
iident to the army on the James riyer he aßked
Gener McClellan if he desired to resume the corn*
mend ‘ the whole army of the United States, and that
the ge -ral preferred to retain bis command of the forces
now uier him. /It ia stated, also, that the chief com
mand ss been offers, to Major General Pope and de
clined
Wild is Said of Gen. Tope’s 'Operations.
Geo al Pope’s handling of : the troops ; hereabouts is
grata: ag, and the people are again filled with coafi
dence qd courage. ,
The snmored Fight between Stonewall
| Jackson and Gen. Sigel.
S< f : as is known at the -War Department) there is no
foui3t ito for the rumored defeat of Btonbwalt. Jack
son! mineral Eigel.- It is not known that any en
gagttEfnjhas taken p!aoe of late. . .
jpiefisting Accounts from Richmond.
: man, who was impressed into the rebel.
Beijice MYirginift on the breaking out of the rebellion,
has ben lately in the immediate employ of General
XiCtcsTiiffiT) has, reached Washington, having escaped
iron Biclmotid, during the confusion there following;
ujta tbelate battles; He is. really of theintelligent
orier we a much'read about, having been to Liberia, and
tobtbeuKinis, where he has been placed in positions of
Hi statee that the rebel loss in killed, wounded
and the seven-days battles, is admitted at*
IticbmoU to amount to thirty-two thousand,; The
Confedeh e army numbered in the neighborhood of
fifty thousand. The fact of ,the close
ccnea iffi n accounts sulliciently for their being able to
gather k large a force. In fact, all the men liabWto
military f tUy are in . the ranks,.except such as got sub
stitutes fr ei Maryland, or from those over or under the
legal age. lumbers of the Confederate wounded brought
into Elchi nd were the merest boys. The Confederate's
are despei o in view of the fact that their present army
cannot bo placed, having utterly exhausted the fighting
material j tbe Eou.h. Nqfonly the whites, but the
block-}' of ae country have been swept , into the Con
federate r k a—l hel a tier j. for laboring purposes and,
coußeQuen «the grain crops are iji many .places wasting
in the fielc for wanfrbf hands to harvest them. /' * • ■
The s*ai ede of slaves towards the North Star has
crippled 1
Frederick
helped .tin
have left t
horses and
ments. T
'yet Ihrom
i harvesting operatises in the vicinity of
urg. The contrabands jin leaving have
i selves > not only to tkrfr oirn freedom, but
: ir masters minus e ver y t hing in the sh ipe of
\ irrlagoß that would facilitate, their move
• ro nr®' considerable Quantities ©fold wheat
1 nit Virginia, Considerables hay has been
raised this year in Virginia, but little or no corn has
been planted, the able-bodied whites of the South hat
ing been exhausted by the conscription.
The rebels seriously telk of arming the negroes. They
seem to put faith in the fldelity-of the negroes, or their
o» a ability to mate,, them faithful, but seem doubtful if
the negroes, from their entire tmacquamteEce with fire
aims, will acquire any facility J n their use.
General Ewxll was severely wounded in the neck at
the Richmond battles.
Genorat Joe Johnston had experienced a relapse
from undertaking to get out too soon, and mortification
of hlB wound was feared.
Jambs Barbour has been acting aid to GeneralSwaLL,
and John 8. Barbour, President of the Orange and
Alexandria Railroad, aid to General Johnston,
Miscellaneous.
Lieut Ken istos, of the lUh New York, having boon
relieved from duty in the United States mustering office
in New York, will report for duty to the superintendent
ef 11th Infantry recruiting service, at Fort Independence,
Boston Harbor.
Lieut. Caustes, of the 19th Infantry, will proceed to
TJtica, New York, and there relieve Captain Pease, of
the 7th Infantry, in the of . mustering and dis
bursing officer. ' {
Captain Pease, on being relieved, has leave of absence
until further orders, to command a regiment of New York
Volunteers,.. ,
Brigade Surgeon L; IS. Conde has been ordered to re
pair to Gbester, Pennsylvania, to take charge of the
general hospital at that place.
Brigade Surgeon 0, L. Allen is ordered to report fo
the surgeon general as a member of the Board for the
Examination of Surgeons of Volunteers.
Second Lieutenant Edwin A. Newbury, of the 28th
New York Volunteers, being a supernumerary officer, is
discharged from the service.
The following-named officers are dismissed: Eev. La
ban C. Cheney, chaplain of the 4th regiment of Ohio
Volunteer Uavalry; Surgeon j; N. Bates, 15th Regi
ment Massachusetts Volunteers*; and Captain Joseph
:J. Vauoiian, of the 106th Beglment Pennsylvania Vo
lunteers. • *
The following-named naval officers have been detailed:
lieutenant commanding, John L. Davis ; midshipman, aB
acting master, F. J. Higginson; acting assistant sur
geon,'PASSMOEE.TitEADWELL: assistant paymaster,
Übxby.A. ,
The New Ironsides will soon be ready for duty. In
addition to the principal officers heretofore mentioned,
thefollowing*named have been ordered to that vessel:
Boatswain, Thomas Bennett; gunner, H. Hamilton;
carpenter, L. Wentworth; eattmaker, J. A. Birdsall.
The ten hew iron-ciad gunboats will all be put in com
mission in the course of three months; their armament
is already being prepared.
The captmed Tebel steamer Teaser is undergoing tho
rough repairs at the Washington navy yard.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
■ New .York, July 20.—Toe steamer Roanoke, from
New Orleans on the 12th, arrived last night.
General Shepley had received his appointment as mili
tary governor of Louisiana. - / .
Hon. Rtverdy Johnson had arrived ,
Two young New Orleans ladieß hoA presented the 13th
Connecticut regiment with , a beautiful United States
flag.. • •
The arrival of three thousand barrels of fiour by the
Roanoke induced General Butler to order the price of
flour to be reduced to §24 per bbl. Ic had reached §3B
to §4O.
George Copple having been recognized as British vice ;
consul by Lord Lyons and apologized to Gen. Butler for, 1
the offensive expression in kia letter of the 14th June, had
been acknowledged by Gen. Butler as representative of
Great Britain.
Arms, clothing, &c., for five regiments of Louisanans
had reached New Orleans per the; steaiiur Fulton, and
thcirganizaiion commenced with the prospect of success.
Captain Magee’s company of cavalry had broken up
the rebel camp at Omiie Bridge. They killed and wound
ed several rebels and brought eight prisoners and a lot of
horses, arms, stores, &c., to Baton Bouge.
The British gunboats Binaldo and Landrail, had left
Now Orleans.; s ‘
The bombardment of Galveston had not commenced,
and the British brig Richard O’Brien, from Kingstony
with contraband stores, was burned by the boats’ crews
from the Rhode IsUnd, in the harbor, on the 4th. The
boata’ crews further celebrated the 4th by planting the
stars and stripes on Texan soil.
Union Demonstrations.
The correspondent of the Herald writes as follows:
. a New Orleans, July 12.
The Union Association .of New Orleans held a mass
meeting at Lyceum Ball. The room was crowded, a
handfome proportion pf the assemblage being composed
of the fair era, Mr/ Benj S Flanders presided, and
Mr. L.-'G. Brown acted as secretary. On taking the
chair, Mr. Flanders made a short and appropriate Union
address, and was followed by Mr. Übas. Le*ucaout, who,
after a few preliminary remarks, read the Declaration of
Independence. The orator of the day, Rev. William C.
UuDcan, then delivered a-leng?hy oration, after which
tbemeeting adjourned; Subsequent to the adjeurmn-nt,
a delegation of fifteen members of the Union Association
made a Bocial call upon; General Butler at his private
residence. A pleasant ioterview ensaed, aod, after par
taking of the general’s hospitality, the gentlemen took
their evidently much pleased with their call.
A UNION DEJEUNER.
Quite a recherche affair .took place in the morning at
the Washington Hotel, Milnebarg, which is at thj ter
minus of the Pontcbartrain Railroad ** out to*tbe lake.”
It was a dejeuner given by Messrs. James Graham,
Julian Neville, J. Ad. Rozier, L. M. Day, and Booert
Watson, all of them prominent Union citizens of New
Orleans; A great press of business, consequent upon the
,f -h »«»-aiv^ieuaqi—prevonteff-
Generul Enibr from being present, but ho was: repre
sented by his assistant acting adjutant general. Captain R.
S. Davis. General Shepley, Colonel French, Colonel
13th Connecticut, and Lienteoaht A. G. Bowies,
aid-de camp represeuted the United dtates army, and
Thomas J. Durant, Ear, and other distinguished gentle
mm in civil life, wore present as ; guests. The company
numbered about twenty-five. Mr. Neville presided at
the head of the table, and Mr. Day occupied the eeat at
racter, nod. with' thß dd 3 ;-
credit upon the host of the Washington Hotel;
vi &:■■■■ - THE SPEAKERS. ; .
General Shaploy (poke twice, and folly snstained his
reputation.aa, a bril.iant orator. Mr. Dorant mods a
speech as notable lor its strength of Union sentiments as
for its excoeding beauty and elomence, as a literary pro
dnetion. Mr. Durant's reputation is so wide teat it is si-'
mottminocoßsary to nay’bat he sloads at tho hoad of
the bar. in this State , Admirable* addresses were a!sD :
mads by Colonels French and Hogs. The toasts tvsrs of
the usual order : « (he President,’.’ • The Army and
Hary,” •< General Butler,”“ The Day Wo Celebrate,”
and tbe remainder of the catalogno of entirely novel and
original sentiments expressed on every such occasion.
.The whole affair was heartily sociable and agreeable,
and undoubtedly strengthened, the bond of friendship
. between onr officers and the influential members of. this
community. ,;x x.
REVIEW AND rKBSEStATrax OS* A FLAG TO THE
. IoTH CONNECTICUT ItEGtMEXT.
The foatmojot the day, however, was the presentation
of one of the moat beantifnl flags I have ever seen to tbe
loth Connecticut Regiment, Colonel H. w Hires bv
two .very- p, fetty and loyal young ladies, Miles. Angela
Snyderjaid Dacena Conrcdle. To show the appresia
toon of snob praiseworthy conduct on the part of the two
Kew Orleans ladles, it; was determined ,to make the
affair worthy ,of the object and the day— consequently.
General.BuUer consented to ba present with his staff
and reviety the regiment., At six o’clock in the after
noon the. General, in foundress uniform, and accom
panied by his Btaff, left his bottse, and, followed by the
2d Massachusetts Oavairy, under Lieutenants. A. Per
kins commanding, rode down to the Custom house, and
thence te the levee. The 13th Connecticut, with the
young ladies and their flag following in a carriage,
march ed from their auarters through several streets to
vbaen»y were drawn up in line near Canal
street. The Ist Marne Battery, Captain Thompson, was
stationed a little below, and fired a national salnte. The
general and staff then rode to the centre and sainted the
American flag, while the regiment presented arms.
After this the general and staff rode in review along the
line, while thoband played ‘Hail to the Chief.” The re
giment .then marched In review before the general, and,
after they were again formed in line, the ladies alighted
from the carriage, and Mile. Snyder, taking the beautiful
color in her hand, presented it t* Col. Birge, remarking
that she entrusted the flag to me gallant men of his com*
stand, assured that they would never allow it to
be dishonored, adding that her prayers and those of
her ccuem—Mile. Oborcelle—should ever be offered for
the success and victory of the 13th Connecticut Regi
ment Col. Birge answered eleanently and with deep
fieling, thanking the laeies for their superb gift, and
complimenting them for their loyalty, which, through all
the trials and temptations to which they had boon subject
ed in the miflßt of treason, they had preserved pure and
bright and warm within their faithful hearts. He added
that in sir handsome present should be placed brains the
regimental flags, and promised for hta command that it
should never be tom from their hands or dis»raced so
long as their stout armß could defend it. Handing it to
a color sergeant, it was placed beside the Stars end Stripes
and sainted by the regiment. General Batter then rode
up to the young ladles, am), in a few words, thanked
and complimented them for their cotirage and generosity ‘
The whole affair passed off very pleasantly. There was
nothing to mar the satisfaction, and a large crowd was
collected to witness tho ceremony.
■ SKETCH OP THE REOIStEJJT. '7.x ' '
Tho regiment looked splendidly, and in their marchio"
and the manual of eirms acquitted themselves in a manner
that one of our “crack” militia regiments need not hare
been ashamed of. This regiment is composed or a line
class of men. Added to this, they are handsomely uni
formed and equipped, and from this circumstance they
derive a commendable pride that evinces itself not only
in their fine appearance but in their correct deportment
and earnest effort to improve in every soldierly quality.
Colonel Birge ano hia officers have reason' to be proud of
tbeir fine regiment.
THE FLAG PRESENTED
is of heavy, plain biue rilk, doubled, and on - each side
are. thirty.four. largß silver stars. It is bordered by a
heavy silver fringe, with silver cord and tassels. In the
centre are the words “ Union,”. “Thirteenth Connecti
cut Begfment," “Hew Orleans, 1882.” ffho staff is sur
mounted by a sclendid spear of Bolid silver.
THE YOUNG LADY DONORS.
Mademoiselles Snyder and Courcells are cousins, and
are both French natives or creoles of New Orleans.
Throughout the war their devotion to the Uuion has
never wavered, and;their courage is peculiarly manifest
from their conduct ever eince the occupation of this city
by the Union army. It will be remembered that these
same young ladies dared to, come forward lu May, when
thousands of men were.afraid to speak to a Union officer,
and presented a guide color to the I3th Connecticut. AH
honor to them. They are of.:tho material that infuses
new vigor and fidelity into ,the hearts of then, and ole
votes the moral arid-manly tone of society. : .
The day after the fourth the ladie3 wrote the following
note to the regiment, through Colonel Birge:
New Orleans, July 5,1852.
Gentlemen : We congratulate, and,thank you all for
the manner in which you have received our flag We
did not expect such a reception. We offered the flag to
you as a gift from our hearts as a reward far your noble
conduct. Be assured, gentlemen, that that day will be.
aVwajs present in our minds, and that: we will never
: forgot that we gave hto tte bravest of the br*vo * but,
if ever danger threaten your heade, rally under that
banner, ca’l again your’ courage to defend it. as you
have promised* and remember that those from whom you
received it will help you by their prayers to win the
palmß of victory and triumph over your enemies
We tender onr thanks to Gen. Butler for lending his
presence to the occasion, aud for bis courtesies to us.
May he continue hia noble, work, and ere long may we
behold tbe Union victorious over its foes, and reunited
throughout our great and glorious coaotry. Very re
spectfully, •• ANGELA SNYDER,
LUOENA OUUROELLE.
CArTDRE OY TUB NOTED TIIUQ BED BtLL NO. 1%
very wofst of-Use.gang of Thugs and murderers,
that have hem tufa oily In terror for years past, was ar
rested on the 7th by Lieutenant Henry Finuegaas, of the
provmtmarsbara offlee, and Lieutenant of Police Baane.
The culpiit is William Wllsoh, allaißed Bbl No. I He'
bus bton reported to have been arrested before, but it has
turned out a mistake.
HOW I£E IYAS TAKEN.
Lieuteranta Finnegass and Duane having obtained in
formation that Wilson was living concealed in a swamp
on the border of Lake Salvador, oh the opposite bank of
the river, they crossed tho river at Carrollton on Mon
day, and, diaguieed as fishermen, took a boat, and, ac
companied • by * a guide and a man to row, proceeded:
through the Old Company Canal to Lake Salvador and
on up to tho swamp, where they arrived at a little after
midnight.
WHERE lIE WAS POUND.
r Creeping cautiously to the place of coufiueineht, tliey
foned Bill partially dressed, and witn his shoes on, lying
in a souisd sleep on a mattro3g, with a mosquito' bar co
vering him.; By. bis side lay a.very sharp hatchet, and
under his head a pistol. Fmnegate approached the mur
derer on one side and Duane on the other, and, puliioe
up tbe.bar, each dapped a pietolHo hia head and then
awoke him.? -He jnmprd upand looked around to see if j
there wag any chance of escape, bu: oh beiog
that if ho moved lua brains would be blown out, he aul- ;
eubmiUed, u
THEY TOOK HIM tO THE BOAT
And retorted to the city,, where they arrived at five
o’clock in tbe On the way down he asked
what he was arrested tor and what would be done wßfe
him 1 He was told that the charge was murder, and
that he would be huog. He waa perfect!? unconcerned,
and >aid that be bad never killed Anybody, but be didn’t
care wbat was to be done with him, for be bad been sick
of life for years. He aleo said that if it hadn’t been for
Lucien Adams (the Recorder, who fa now at ffort Jack
son), he wouldn’t be in this fix now, for bo bad been a
tool to Adams for many years.
HIS MURDERS AND THE PROOF.
This Bed Bill is said to have killed at least twenty
men, and we have tbe strongest evidence thatrtbe flay
tbe fleet arrived he threw a German overboard at the
levee, drowning him, just because be expressed satisfac
tion at tbe.approach of tbe Union forces. Tbe proof is
now being worked up, and as soon as It is complete' the
prisoner will be tried, aod be is as sure to be hang as he
can be of anything in tbia life- IcwUl be difficult to
convict him of tbe murders committed previam* to tbe
arrival of the fleet, because the people are afraid to
come forward and testify against him, although it is al
zooht impossible to find one respectable citizen but what
saye Wilson is guilty of so indefinite number of murders,
anfl deserves hanging twenty times over.
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
In person the assassin is about five feet nine inches
high, of a brutal, cunning expression of countenance,
fiery hair, eyelashes, face and neck; indeed, he is fully
entitled to his cognomen of ‘ ; Red Bill.”
ONE DAY LATER FROM EUROPE.
The North American off Cape Race.
Tbe Sews of the Battles Before Rich
mond KecelvcAin England..
Cape Race, July 19,—The steamship North America,
from Liverpool on the lOtb, via Londonderry on the lUh
instant, passed this point, on route to' Quebec, at eleven
o’clock this morning. She was boarded by the news
yacht of the Associated Press, and the following sum
mary of her news obtained :
'The dates per the North American are one day later
than ibose by the Nova Scotian. y
Tbe North American passed the Anglo Saxon on tbe
17tb, bound.east.
.The North American reports experiencing strong
westerly breezes#
The steamship Bavaria, from New York, arrived at
Southampton on the 10th instant.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The nows of the fighting before Richmond bad been
received in England, and excited great attention.
Tbe London Daily News treats tbe result of the fight
tog as a serious reverse to the Federate, and as likely to
lengthen out rather than shorten the war,
" Tbe London Times says that the strategical move
ments of General McClellan are purely unintelligible,
and aods that tbe recent events muse infuse new energy
Into the Confederate arms, and. may produce results cal
culated to lead to a cessation of-hostilities, and eventually
to the termination of the war? •
An occariouat correspondent'of the London Times
gives a strong picture ot the dishouesty audmitmanage
uientof tbe war on the Federal- side. He saya that the
courage and resignation of the-vclauteers is above all
praise, and that; they stand hardships and privations
which no European army would submit to without ro
' voicing.) end .tbey do so because they consider such
:tbings as inseparable from the war, and have no idea
that the greater partof them are owing to tbe ignorance
of fheir generals, and the scouudreliom
ot money-makingpeople. Hundreds are slaughtered by
tbe ignorance or dtunltenbesß of some of the generals.
Notwithstanding that the river and railways are close
by and up to General McOltsllan’s army, whole divisions
are for consecutive dayß without other Hood than a few
wretched biscuits and still more wretched coffee; For
days together they have been without as ounce of meat,
; and when they do get it, It is nothing but salt beef. The
correspondent argues that General will not
:rira another attack upon Richmond, preferring the
more secure vay of starving out the Confedetates.
The 2Vmes, editorially, oppeses the cry from Manches
ter for Government interference in tne production of
cotton. It says that the Government can do nothing
which the manufacturers cannot do belter. Government
interference would not be impossible, but it would be in
the bigheat deg Tee prejadicid. What i-* needed in otder to
aebure an adequate supply of cotton is an aaaurauce that
,lbe price will be steady and permanent, and tbte is what'
■Manchester shrinks from giving. Any price that is re
auir«d for this year will be cheerfully paid, but no en
gagtments will be mado for a longer period. This will
never do, if we are to have a desirable demand, and that
we Bhall hardly find so long as we are perpetually specu
lating on a return of that supply from America, which
husjmt so fcignally failed. -
, A large open-air meeung had been held at Stockport,
at wbica a'petition to Parliameut was adopted praying
that the Government would, tote into serious con-
Bideration.tbe propriety of the Government using its in
fluence''to bring about a reconciliation between the
Northern and Southern States, as it is from America
alcnethat an immediate supply of cotton Can be ex
pected, and if need should be, that the Govern
ment wiil not hesitate to acknowledge the Southern
States# as they believe'that muat be the ultimata result.
An amendment was offered and rejected, when the pe
tition as originally drawn up was adopted by an over
whelmingmajoiity., ’
: Tbe Prince of Wales is about to visit Russia in the
Royal yacht Osborne. It was reported that the British
Obaunel fleet would acjompany the yacht up the Baltic.
Military honors were bring extended to Marshal Mc-
Mahon during bis visit to England. The troops at Al
dershot had a field day in hia presence.'
Tbe Trieroy of Egypt, in a speech at Manchester, said
in regard to cottoD, that next year he felt confident in
promietog from Egypt, if hot double the amount of the
last crop, at least an increase of one-half.
*; FRANCE.
AdmiralDeLaGravlero hadleft Parte for Cherbourg,
to embarkforMexico.."' -
It is also now* asserted that General For 6y will embark
fer Mexico on the 2lst of July. ‘
The Paris Boutbs was firmer, the Rentes being quoted
at 68f*45c.
PORTUGAL
The King had formally announced to the Council of
State his approaching marriage with the daughter of
Victor Emmanuel.
RUSSIA.
The report that Russia had made an army of reserve,
either in favor of Austria or the Pontifical territory iu
Italy, in recognizing the Italian monarchy, is dis
ertdited. - , . .
WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
The June mails had. been received. The news was
unimportant. Trade on the coast was improviue, In
tbe monUy.market the funds were dull, owing to tbe re
currence of the unfavorable weather and to the report
of Mahommedan conspiracies in Northwest Africa.
CommerciaLlutelligenc.B
Vu»3, ttu4^4wnf7 ,y
- LIVERPOOL COTTON- MARKET.—Tho brokers 5 '
circular reports the sales of the.week' to have : reached
68.600 bales, including 38,000 bales to speculators, and;
12.600 bales to exporters. There has been a reaction ia
the martet', owing to heavy shipments at Bombay, and
tbe qnoiaiions of :Snrata\had receded & Ife.
Am»ican descriptions were also offering at dociine
since Wednesday, but still the advance on sacn for the
week is The sales on Friday, Ilth, were
only 4,000 bales, including 2,000 bales to speculators and
exporters. The market closed flat at the followisg au
thorized quotations;..
Uotton at Uirarpool is ratimitted at
IpD.OGO bales, of which 53,000 are of American'descrih
lions.- -
_ Breadstuffs —-The market has an upward tendency,
xiour is steady. Wheat more firm, aud tends upward.
Corn is firmer. -
' BRQVisioNS.—The Provision market is generally un
changed; still ruling dull.
LONDON MONEY MARKET.—Consols for money
closed on Friday at 92K®92&. : -
“ 118 - S4llk of. England had increased
XOuOiUvO .. *
LONDONMONEY MARKET.—In ihe London money
market money was very,'abundant, and.good bills were
dose at 2%, even before the Bank reduced iterate from
3to 2}rf. . -
AMERICAN STOCKS.—-The markot on Friday was
quick and steady.
Shipping Intelligence
Londondbrrv, July 11.—Ajrived from New York,
AquiUa, at Deal; President Fillmore, at do.; Daniel
Webster, at do. j Ohristiaha, at do.: Antonelll, at King
rood jgAlliance, at Bristol; Engbert, at co.: Advance,
at Havre; For West, at Queenstown; Frank Lovett, at
t A at Liverpool; North American, at do ;
J. H. Byerson, atdo.; Mohawk, at do.; Ontario, at do.
Arrived from Philadelphia, Cereal, at Queenstown.
Arrived from Portland,'Zephyr, at Queenstown.
Arrived from Baltimore, Anna, at Deal: Carl, at Ply
mouth. a
Arrived from Sagua U Grande, Martha, at Liverpool.
Morgan’s Appeal to Kentucky Rebels.
John Morgan, the guerilla leader, who is now making
a foray into Kentucky, has issued the following
PROCLAMATION.
‘' T . Glasgow, July 10,1852.
Kentuckians, lam once more among you. Confidiog
in your patriotism and slroug attachment to our South
ern cause, I have at the head of my gallant band raised
once more our Confederate flag, so long trampled upon
by tho Northern tyrants, but never yet disgraced. • Let
every true patriot respond to.my appeal. .
Rhe and arm! Fight against the deapoiler! Fight
for your families! your homes! for those you love best!
for your conscience! and for the free exercise of your
political rights, never again to ba placed in jeopardy by
tbe neasian invader. Let the stirring sense of the late
Richmond fight constantly be before yoa. Our brave
anny there aid everywhere to victorious McClellan
and his foreign hordes are grovelling in the dust '
Our independence is au achieved fact We haveliought
it with privation and suffering, and sealed the compact
with the seal of blood. Be not timorous, bnt rise, ono
aiid ail, for the good cause, to clear our dear Kentucky’s
soil of its detested invaders.
Kentuckians J fellow-countrymen ’ you know you can
rely upon me. JOHN MOBGAN,
Actirg Brigadier General U. S. A«
Gen. Cameron’s Presentation to the Em
peror of Russia.
[From the Harrisburg Telegraph. J .
From private letters received in thia city directftom
St. Petersburg, we learn that General Cameron, Minister
to Buesia, had arrljed safely at the capital of the nation,
where his legation is established, and that, he also had
his first interview with the Emperor Alexander. Ac
cording to the rigid etiquette of the Russian court, it ia
not usual for theEihporor to grant an interview until the
lapse of some time after the arrival of a minister, bu t in
tbis esse an audience was almost immediately granted,
and the reception made the more cordial by tbe earnest
solicitude with which the Emperor enquired concerning'
tbe.. condition of the American ;■ people, their resonreas,/
numerical power, intelligence, wealth, and progress.
During this interview, the Russian monarch evinced his
knowledge of our system of and his admira
tion for the Hjecesß we had made in tbe development of
tbe vast extent of territory now within tlie jurisdiction
of tho Federal authority. That authority, io the opinion
of Ihe Emperdr, should be maintained at all hazards'. If
the Great Bepublic oi the. West was broken’ down, and
ceased to wieid ah influence, the course of empire and
of crviiizatinn would be changed and a continent deß
tmed by Gcd for the happy home of millions of freo, in
telligent people, would bo given to infidelity aod bar--
barism, ruin and desolation.
After such expressions to tbe American minister, there
can be no mUteking the cordial feeling and hearty sym
pathy of tho Emperor of Kassia, nor can there be any
miaappiehension concerning the deep interest be mani
fests In the success and destiny of tbe United States. This
fetling was reciprocated by Mr Oameron, who had the
most flattering assnrances to offer that the iutereit of the
American people was no less sincere in their solicitude
for the success and mighty progress of the colossal em
pire of the North. Bepresenting sucli widely different
systems, and governed by authority so. distinct and
broad, there is still no reason why Russia and the United
States should not be united in true and stern alliance,
and wield an irresistible influence on the destinies of .the
world. „
: We are gratified to add that the same correspondence
which conveys the intelligence of tbe interview-of Gen.
Cameron with the Emperor, so cheering in all respeoie,
also bringß ns the most.pleasiog assurances of the health
of all attached to the legation. The health particularly
of Gen. Cameron himself, and that of. his family, was
never better. ''
THE FIGARO PROGRAMME r relates the. following
anecdote: <• Baron Taylor, while tiavtlling in Spain,
arrived in tbe evening at a village inn, and Bat down be
fore a etovß to dry.his boots. Close by was a ,taro-spit
dog which watched blm very attentively. ‘ What can
you give ice to eat f P said .the Baron to the hostess.
‘Some eggs,’, was the reply. ‘No, they are too msw
‘ A.rabbit.’ * That is too Indigestible. } The at
testicn of,tbe dog feomed to become,more and more di
rected to the.conversation.- ‘Some ham. s ''‘No, 5 said
tbe Baron, ‘ that would make me tbirity.* ‘Some pi
geons.’ The dog here sto<xi up. ‘Noj there is no nour
rtmentin tbem. 5 * A fowl, 5 said the hMtes<rn which
Uie dog started hastily out of tbe room. « VYhat is the
matter with tbodog7V said the Baron. * Oh, nothing at
ail ’ was the reply; ‘ht only wishes to escape his work,,
for he knows that if you decideon a fowl, he wiU have to
turn the spit ; ” r ;
AMERIOAN TRADE .IN CHINA.—The Hong-Kong
Daily Press, says .of the-American trade in Odiuft:
“Really when we reflect on the increase o! Amoiicau
trade ; ,in, China within .our time, we can hardly believe'
tbe evidence of s our own senses.; . A quarter, of a dsntdry
ago, tho:e&tire American ehlpping omployed iathe China
tiade was below IQ,Q(hI tons artaually. It now amounts
to at least 260,000 tons, and r we positively assort that 1
of England effected tho chaDge.” . .i.
UETTEi* FROM NEW YORK
It la known that ond our most exton fire dry-good*
men exerted himself with gTesat enthusiasm, with a view
to procure the defeat cf the bankrupt law, having, it U
said, spent notion then $lO, in his efforts. Hcrw this
money was spent does not appear j but at all events
the gentleman in question has woo for himself a very Vu
esviable notoriety in business circle^
Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island* is stopping at the
Aster House in this city.
The steamship Great Eastern lies at anchor lit Flush"
ing bay, about midway between Long Island bhore andc
tbe main Und. Yesterday there were two large gchooa
ers, thtee cacal boats, and two barges alongside of her,
some engaged in putting on merchandise# and others at
work depleting ber of her largo cargo. A steamer runs
from Whitehall to the ship, and although she is not open
for public inspection, large numbers visit her every day.
There are but few soldiers now at the military hospital
at the Park barracks and NoL 194 Broadway. These
places are being thoroughly renovated, preparatory to
the reception of additional numbers of invalid soldiers
who are daily expected to arrive. The hospitals on
David’s Island and Bedloe’s Island are still occupied by
a large number of tbe sick and wounded.
Nearly all of these are rapidly gaining their foil
strength. Many ot tl em are very tmdiv wounded. But
few amputations have betn made. A complete list of
all these men is being made, alphabetically arranged, by
regiments.
St. Vincent Hospital and the Brooklyn City Hospital
have been opened for the accommodation of the returned
disabled soldiers. These places will hereafter receive
their regular instalments of pafienta. ,
The number of deaths in Brooklyn durfne thepaat
wr»kwas 152, of which ll&were children, 3fi adults:
males 74; females 78. -
Tho British steamer Kangaroo, Captain Jeffreys, left
to-day, for Livt-mool, with 60 cabin pHsgoiigoia. and.
others in the steerage. She took out $1,045,14840 in
specie. The British steamer British Queen, Captain Le
Mpesurier, left for Nassau, with fourteen passengers aod
$38,000 in Bpecie. ’
Mr. Singer, the manufacturer of sewing machines, haa
leithiscGUi try, with the intention of spending the rest
ofhislife in the Holy Laud.
To-day, at Jefferson Market Police Court, Mr. Wm.
W. Corcoran; the WashinEton banker, appeared before
Justice Kriiy, cbarg*Bg Daniri Winslow, his servant,
with stealing from bj 8 house at Washington, silver-plate
to tbe value of 5158 50. Winslow confessed bis guilt,
and chose to be iried for bis crime in Washington. At
bis own request he was twken thither in charge ot aa
officer. Ex-Mayor Barrett, and Mr. Cranston, of the
New York Hotel, were in company with Mr. Corcoran
in court. Winslow seemed as if he frit himself in the
bands of the Philistines.
Ashes.—The market for potß is firm at $6.25. Pearls
are nominal. • >
Floub and Meal —The market for Western and State
Flour is less active; tbe lotr grades are easier, aod dose
heavy; the better grades are in fair request and are
steady.
The sales are 16,500 bbls, at $4.85«5.10 for superfine
State and Western; $6 25®5.40 for the low grades of
Western extra: $5 20a5 35 for extra State: $5.40©5.50
for fancy do.; $5.35®5 60 fer shipping brands of round,
hoop extra Ohio, and $5.60®6.25 fer trade brands.
Southern Fleur is dull and heavy; sales of 900 bbte.
Canadian Flour it heavy, and closes very dull; soles
of 3,250 bbls. at $5.20®5 40 forthe-lowgraios of West
ern extra, and $5 45a6.25 for trade brands do.
Rye Flour te in fair demand, and is firm; eales of 150
bbls at s3e4 20. ;
Corn Meal is scarce: sales of 40 hh&s Brandywine at
Whtskt.—The market is lower and is less active: sales
of 400bbteat3O)<ft31c,
Gp. Ain .—The Wheat market is less active, owing to the
abtence of a few assortments of spring, and a decline to
exchange. The demand is mainly for export
The sales are 166,060 bushels at $1.03a 1,13f0r Chicago
Spring; 1.08©1.14 for Racine Spring: 51.12®1.15 for
Milwaukee Club; $J.160 1.17 for Amber lowa, &c,: $123
d. 24 for Rtd Western; $3.27®1 30for Amber do.; sl.3s
03;42 for White Michlgau.
Rye is firm and scarce; sales of 2,700 burials at 76c for
Western, and 80c for State.
Oats are buoyant at 46®48)j[c for Western, and 490 for
State, in store.
Corn opened, steady* but closed lower; sales of 70,09$
bushels at 46# c for heated, 49&51c for Southern mixed*
sScrsse for prime old do., closing at 53a54c, and 60c for
white Western.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Philadelphia, July 19,1862,
Those men who devoted themselves so assiduously, a
short time ago, to croakicg about the downfall of our na
tional currency, have been wonderfully mute lately,
perhaps they ace only taking breath for a new roller of
hisses when tbe new issue of treasury notes make their
appearance. Llttle-aouled business men, and minute
minded plough drivers, can make a hugh uproar when
the dread fe»r of losing a penny oppresses them; aod It
has only been the continuity of this feeling forcing itself
intdmeroenary newspapers, which are thm-t under one’s
nose at every corner, that the subject is worthy of note.
Let any one take the trouble and observe the uni versa!
demand for “ legal tenders.” No matter what the trans
action, ‘‘legal tenders” are demanded in remra. Old
farmers disposing of their year’s saving of coin* busy
merchants, rough mechanics, milliners, school teachers,
all attest their love and heart} sympathy for the country
by demanding her “ promises to pay.” Indeed, so popu
lar have they become, that the supply has been short for
some time, and the requirements of mer3 have not
been half fulfilled. Have our straw-backed croakers per
ceived this thrilling fact, that their voiers are hoshsd?
Do they admit the ability of a free' people to listen to a
song other than that sung by weak-lunged but malicious
fustian 1 Let these croakers be singled out and looked
upon as serpents, who, betraying none of the wiles that
deceived our mother Eve, stand oat in naked venom to
mislead only the grosser mid more ignorant.
Bofiion was very active .to-day, opening at 118. Sap
plies coming out very plentifully, the rate declined
Before the close lIS# waa reached, buyers being nume
rous at that figure. Sellers generally held their gold at
119, and we heard of several sales at that figure. The
week closes with a firm and upward tendency Old de
mands still eugross a largeshare of the brokers’'afctsatioo.
There was a slight advance on yesterday’s figure, holders
being firm for 118# ® 119. Bids did not go beyond 8
for large amounts. Ihere was not much dsmand for sil
ver to-day. .Buyers bia 12 for it very freely. No; much
in the market The postage Btamps aro very generally
accepted for change, only a few complaining.
But little business was done at the Stock Exchange, but
one Board being in session. United States sixes 1881 de
cnntxia.;* iy <)m yeßterday’s sales—bids for seven-thirties
having no change Uitr sixes, new; were steady at yes
teriar’a figure , old at 97. Pennsylvania Bailreadseconti
mortgage bonds advanced X- Philadelphia and Snnbury
sevens sold at 90 Philadelphia and Erie sixes ateady at
92/s- Beading shares declined Xj Pennsylvania X- la
Minehill there was no change, Oatatrisia declined X!
the Preferred was steady at 10. Philadelphia Bailroad
brought 109, Ojty Bailroad 44. Ia passenger railways
. there was no interest manifested.
Droxel & do. quota
New Yorkexcbange w ...;..w*..-pa*, to
zstm «Khwse„„ ];g
Baltimore exchange......... « i<v v dia.
Country t0ud5...... % dto.
...USX tollAX pro.
Old demand Treasury n0te5............ 8 to si pro.
7 3-10 Treasury n0te5..,,,........... 101 % to 102
The following is tho amount of coal transported on the
Philadelphia and Beading Railroad daring the week
ending Thursday, July IT, 1863:
From Port Carb0n.............
44 P0tt5vi1ie...............
« Schuylkill Haven.........
**. Auburn.
« Port Clinton
“ Harrisburg and Dauphin.
TotiU anthracite coal for week..
From Harrisburg, total bituminous coal.
Totalofallkindsfor week,.,,,. 57,604 Id
Previously this year ...1,131,286 09
To sometime last rear................ 989.144 11
Tho following is the Schuylkill Navigation corf trade
for the week ending on Thursday, July 17,1882 :
From Port Carbon......
“ Pottaville,
“ Schuylkill Haven,
“ Port C1int0n,...,.
Total for week
Previously this year
To same time last year..
The following are the receipts ot the Susquehanna
Canal to July 13,1862 $61,949 4T
Same time in 1861.,.., 25.355 3r
Increase to date.
The inspections of Flour and Meal in Philadelphia,
during the week ending July 17,1862, were as follows
Barrels of Superfine.. . ..,.15.144
do Fine....... 231*
do Middlings....
do Bye.
do Corn Meal.,
do Condemned.
T01a!......,... 16,931
The following table will compare the statements of the
several banks of the city of New Fork, as made to the sn
rerintent of the hanking department, showing their con
dition on the 38th of Jane, with the-report made at the
same time inl861;
June, 1862 Jane, 1861, Increase. Decrease.
Capita!....*69,128,669 69,650,695 524,948
Net profits.. 8 647,645 6,328 802 818,848
Circulation. 8,982,284 4,557,716 664,566
Due banka.. 41,848.803 25,006.717 16,842,086 ......
Deposits 112195.094 77,158.416 86,086 678
Dne others.. 2,243,666 901,671 1,840,395
T0ta1..,,.243.021,549 189,343,926 53 677,623 . ...
Loans,... .$118,541,094 105,822,853 12,717,741 .....
Stocks. 42,568,120 17,851,260 24,716,860 ......
B’dsdtmtgs. 655,227 642.678 21.549
Bealestate.. 6,759 914 6.430,873 319,081 ....
Duebyb’ts. 3,916.897 6,350 018 1,434,121
Oath items.. 49 095,870 13,205 922 26,889,748 ......
Specie'....., 30,40655*- 39,972,881 9,665,805
Overdr alts.. ,71,031 58,161 12,570 ......
.343.026 63,637,623
Total... *213,021,549 189,*
Pnilatlclpnia Stock tlx,
[Beported by S. E. Slati
kdiftage Sales, July 19.
MAKKtt. Phlla. Exchange.]
board:,.
. FIBST :
3OOOPaß2dmelofiat.9Bk
16000 do 98K
6000 U S6s 1881..... 97
200 Beading 8......'27
.100 do...'.cash.l 27
; 200 do fc3o.. 27
4 Phila 8ank.....109 |
1 Pa B 46#
10 du 53»... 4641
64 d 0.......... }
14 d 0.,..,...,, 4'G^
lOOOuifcy .101
500. do XSO... 97
300 Amet
90^-
5 Mfnehffl B 4tJ:
45 City Bask ...... 44
j 8 Oatawlssa B prof. 10
50 Oatawissa R
18000 Phila&Sua 75... 90
|5OOO Phil* Erie6s.., 92,¥
Philudelpiiiit Markets.
/ . ■ . • Joi.T 19—Evening.
There la a firmer feeling in- Hour and rather more ac
tivity in the market, with sales of 2,500 bills to note, in
lots, at 55.25ff15.37J4 for Western and Pennsylvania ex
tras, and 55.6005.75 for family.-- The sales to the trade
are, to a fair extent, at the above figures, including sn
perfine ats4 62j405, and fancy brands at $6 to 87
hbl, as in quality, and the receipts and stocks light. Bye
Flour is selling, is a small way, at from S 3 to 53,37j£
bb), the latter for fresh gronnd. Corn Steal is scarce,
and Pennsylvania is wanted at s'l7l -ip" bbl. /
WnSAT.— There Is more demand, and the market is 2
o 3 cents better, with sales of 12,000 hush at 127 to 189
cents for fair.to prime Western and Pennsylvania reds,
monly at the highest figure, and 135 to 140 cents for
white, tha latter for Kentucky. Bye is scarce and want
ed, and Pennsylvania readlty commands 69 cents. Com
is better; 4,000 bushels yellow sold at 60 cents,, afloat,
and some of fair quality at 67 cents, in store. Oats are
also better, and 6,000 bush sold at 4tffl42c far Penua, and
and 41c for'Prime Delaware, afloat, all 32 fia to the bus.
Bauk.— Quercitron is rather lower, with sales of Ist
No. lat ton. •
Cotton .-—The market continues excited, and on tha
advance, with ® small business to note at 48©4Sxc for
middlings, cash. .
Groceries;-— The market Is unchanged but firm, with
a steady demand for Sugar and Coffee at fully former
rates.
Provision's.—-The market ia quiet, but holders gene
rally are i at her fiimtr in theirviews.
: Whisky remains inactive. -Barrels move off in ft
small way only at 34«i3Sc, and dnidgeat3l©32c.
MOBB COTTON BUBKINS:—The ShelbyviUe (Teirn.)
News of the 20th inst. learns that a band.of guerillas at
tacked a train of cotton wagons on Monday last some nine
miles beyond Fayetteville, and burned about 40 bales of
cottonbelonging to citizens of Nashville. Afterburning
the cotton, they also took away a fine mule and one oc
two horses, .
* t
Hew Tonic, July 19,1662.
Tons Cwt,
, 9,169 OO
BlO 11
29P29 08
4 7*5 12
4.374 18
0,321 00
55.350 09
2,2*28 00
■ **..*■4.1,183,895 03
Tons. Cwt.
..... 6,299 00
1,922 00
..... 13,640 00
..... 884 00
.... 22,745 00
..... 377,937 16
400.682 16
.... 517,034 06*
>« ...$35,564 10
.1,092
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