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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1862.
THE WAR.
Affairs on the Potomao approaoh a crisis. The
relative positions of the two armies are such that
a battle cannot be muoh longer delayed. If tho
report be true, and we see no reason to doubt it,
that the rebel army of Western Virginia has
made a junction with that of lee, it looks as if
General lee has determined not to retreat, but
to give McClellan battle in his present position.
The latter general, although he has moved his
forcer, has done it in saoh a cautious and able manner
Ski will no doubt perplex the rebel commander and
leave him in ignorance as to where the blow will
fall. Beconnoltring parties of/cavalry are sent
but daily, and one of these, under command of
Gen. Pleasanton, approached to within a mile or
two of Sniekor’s Gap, where the rebels were found
In considerable forco. The rebels are lying in large
force in the vioinity of Smelter’s Gap,.on the west
side of the Blue Ridge, and have a mass of
troops in the Shenandoah Valley, beyond
tho Gap. Constant. firing was hoard in
the vicinity of Purcellsvilie on Saturday, and
it is supposed that a battle was in progress be,
tween Gen. Bayard’s cavalry and the rebels under
Stuart. A balloon rcconnoissanee from Bolivar
Heights established the fact that a large cavalry
force is lying at Charlestown, and they have guns
in position to sweep the road.
The Defence of Ex-Picsident Buchanan.
Ex-President Buchanan has given to the
country an elaborate and carefully-prepared
statement in reply to the card of General
Scott, printed by us on the 22d of October.
Tlie card of the General is still fresh in the
memory of the reader, and any recapitulation
of its facts is hardly necessary. General
Scott was driven into its publication by the
attempt of New York Breckinridge poli
ticians to use his great nape as an authority
in favor of Secession. He reviewed very
closely the conduct of Mr. Buchanan during
that part of his Administration in which the
Secession troubles originated, and proved to
the world that upon the Ex-President, and
upon him alone, the responsibility of our pre
sent troubles should fall. Mr. Buchanan, in
deed, accepts this responsibility in a tone that
seems to'invite and defy criticism. Tho
generosity with which he does this is extraor
dinary.: “ Ail my Cabinet must bear me wit
ness that I was, the President myself, respon
sible for all the acts of the Administration.”
These are his words,| and, as if to make the .
admission-more remarkable, he makes an
especial point in favor of Governor Floyd,
who, as his Secretary of War, has been to us
the representative of all that was false and-,
fraudulent’in the origin of this rebellion.
Governor Floyd, however, is a deeply-injured.
man; Hereafter his sins must be visited on Mr.
Buchanan, for he was the President-—and
alone was responsible. The main question at
issue between Mr. Buchanan and General:
Scott is this -. Did Mr. Buchanan, as Presi
dent of the United States, the Commander-in
chief of the army and navy, the sole deposi
tary of Executive power, Congress not being
in session, and there being no appeal to the
Legislative power, refuse to reinforce the
Southern forts?. Had these forts been rein
forced there can be no doubt that Secession
would have been rendered impossible. ' The
rebellion would have died from inanition. We
should have held, the principal cities/rivers,
and seacoasts of the South, and by thus estab
lishing bases of communication in the enemy’s"
country been enabled to make immediate, ef
fective, and overpowering war. A failure to
do this great duty was either neglect or trea
son: It was not neglect on the part of Mr.
Buchanan-— we cannot call it treason, but wo
do most decidedly charge that it was sympa
thy with treason. And for this we ask no
better evidence than his own letter ia reply to
General Scott.
On October 30th, 1860, Winfield- Scott,
the highest soldier of the Republic, wrote to
Mr, Buchanan, bidding him to beware of the
storm that was approaching, and suggesting to
him the military means necessary to avert
the danger. This fact Mr, Buchanan admits.'
On January 9th the steamer Star of the West
attempted to enter the harbor of Charleston,
carrying the American flag, and bound on a
•duty for the Government. She was fired upon
by rebel cannon, and was compelled to return
to New York. Here was the admonition and
the calamity. Sixty-three days had elapsed
since the President had been told to prepare
to punish rebellion in the South, and yet rebel
lion had driven One of his own ships from the
coast of the United States. In sixty-three
days the little State of South Carolina had
time enough to prepare a successful armed re
sistance against the Government, and that
Government was powerless to resent the insult,
Theworld will ask why it was thatagreat
Republic was thus hold down by the throat
while a petty tributary Commonwealth was
permitted to stab it- to the heart. Mr. Buchanan
assures us that he had no desire hut to insure
peace; (bathe would not do anything to invite
or provoke civil war; that, no matter what pre
parations the rebels might make to destroy the
Government, he would say nothing, and do
nothing ; he would allow every encroachment
and make no resistance ; he would permit fart
after fort to be seized, and see the flag of his
country give place to pelicans and palmettoes,
and lone.stars, and long red bars. This is the
meaning of Mr. Buchanan’s defence as it
reads in out paper this morning. He asks
posterity to call him a coward, or an imbecile,
or a weak old man, or the slave of the South
ern Senators, but he begs not to be called a
traitor. He pleads guilty of murder in the
second degree, hoping to escape the full ver
dict against his wickedness.
Now, we charge this upon Mr. Buchanan :
He was the friend of the rebel leaders until
within a few wetks of the. expiration of his
term. He did everything in his power to as
sist the traitors in the consummation of their
schemes. He was their ally, their comforter—
their surest and most powerful accomplice—
for he held the North at bay while they plot
ted its destruction, only yielding to the senti
ment of the country when a refusal to yield
would have cost him the Presidential chair.
We lay'aside all the other issues discussed by
Mr. Buchanan, and present the evidence on
this one grave charge as we have it over his own
signature. All his protestations oflove for the
Union and the country, and his desire to pre
vent bloodshed and oppose the rebeUion, perish
before this great fact. We charge upon Mr.
Buchanan that he was desirous of aiding the
Southern leaders to establish the Southern
Confederacy ; and if j he asks for evidence, we
call upon General Cass, his Secretary of State.
That statesman resigned his portfolio on the
16th of December, 1860. Let us mark the
date. “ On the 16th of December,” says Mr.
Buchanan, ‘' General Scott states that, ac
companied by the Secretary of War, he held
a conversation with the President. Whilst I
. have" no recollection whatever of this con
versation, he doubtless states correctly that
I did refuse to send three hundred men
to reinforce Major Anderson at Fort Moul
trie, who bad not then removed to 'Fort Sump
ter. The reason for this refusal is manifest to
all who recollect the history of the time.”
This is Mr. Buchanan’s own statement, Gen.
Scott also mentions the fact of his calling
upon President Buchanan on the 15th of De r ,
cember, and says that the President, in “ reply '
to his arguments f or reinforcing Fort Moultrie,”
rflaid “ The time isnot yet arrived for doing so ;
• that he should watt the action of the Con*
vention of South Carolina, in the expecta.
Hon that a commission would be appoint
td to negotiate with him and Congress respect
ing the secession of the Slate and the pro
perty of the United States held within its
limits” On the day of this conversation,
and after this remarkable declaration of the
.President—a declaration we declare to be
-treasonable—General Cass resigned. The
; president’s own organ, the Washington Con
. siiiulion, announced that statesman’s resigna
tion by saying that he had resigned because
“ he advised that the naval and military
force should be sent immediately to Charles
ton to reinforce the forts in that harbor,
• and that the President was of the opinion
■that there was no necessity for any such
measure in order to secure the forts against
attack.” Here, then, is the whole evidence.
We have quoted Mr. Buchanan, General
Scott, Mr. Buchanan ’s own organ, and Gene
ral Cass/ The shameful and humiliating fact
is undeniable that upon the 15th day of De
cember, 1860, when South Carolina was de
bating an ordinance of secession—within five
days of the passage'of that ordinance, while
the whole North was sad and sick at heart, the
President of the United States refused to say
the word that would have saved the Republic;
he refused to listen to the prayers of General
Scott, who assured him on the honor of the first
soldier of the age that the Southern forts
.might be reinforced and the rebellion suf
focated; he refused to hear the entreaties of
the most venerable and beloved statesman in
his Cabinet! He preferred to follow the bid
ding of his Mephistophilos, Floyd, who was
at his side. He preferred to do the bidding
of his Southern masters. “ The time had not
yet arrived. He should await the action of
the Convention of South Carolina.” He ex
pected a commission of traitors. Is it any
wor.der that General; Scott resigned-almost
heart-broken from the Presidential presence?
Is it any wonder that Lewis Cass threw up
his portfolio in disgust, and retired from * a
Cabinet where Treason was deliberately taking
the life of the Republic ?
The President was true to his word. He did
“ wait the action of Souih Carolina.” On the
20th of December the ordinance of Secession
was passed, and Treason held its saturnalia in
Charleston city. The city was illuminated,
guns were fired, rockets were sent up into the
reverberating air. The South was in an ec
stasy of joy. We read that guns were fired
“in honor of the Secession of South Caro
lina” at Mobile, Wilmington, N. C-, New Or
leans, Savannah, and Augusta. Conventions
were being held in other States. There was
every evidence that man could want to sho w
the purpose and determination of- the S outh.
We ask any intelligent man who reads this
sentence to turn hack to the dreary me
mories of ; that fearful time, and inquire,
if he had any doubt as to the determination
of these wild and reckless men. James Bu
chanan is an intelligent man, and he knew in
his heart of hearts, just, as well as he knew
that death was coming and that God would
be his judge, that the Southern leaders de
termined to destroy this Republic, and that
prominent among those leaders was; John B.
Floyd, his Secretary of War, and Jacob
Thompson, his Secretary of the Interior.
Finally, the sentiment of thS North was too
intense to be endured. Our people had waited
and prayed, passing through humiliation, and
grief, and anxiety, and despair, until men
began to say that this conduct could be en
dured no longer. December 28th approached.
Two weeks had passed since the last interview;
since South Carolina had seceded. Gen.
Scott again applied to the President. Floyd
bad served his purpose, and had resigned.
Major Anderson had thrilled the nation, by
taking possession of Fort . Sumpter. The
Southern cabal demanded bis evacuation ot
that fort, and the return to Fort Moultrie.
The President at once disavowed the act.
“Major Anderson,” he said, “acted upon
his own responsibility, and without authority,
and my first promptings were to order him back.”
The country stifled these “ first promptings,”
and then came the first sign of courage he had
shown. He actually consented to allow a
vessel to he sent to Charleston, but in
the meantime waited to receive a com
munication from the traitor commissioners.
“I . suggested to General. Scott,” "he says,"
“ that although I had" not received the South
Carolina commissioners in their official ca
pacity, but merely as private gentlemen, yet
it might be considered an improper act to send
the Brooklyn with reinforcements to Fort
Sumpter until I had received an answer from
them to my letter of the preceding day. The,
delay could not continue more than forty
eight hours.” Discriminating, kind, attentive
Buchanan! What was delay to him? He would
wait. What if the country was on the rack?
what if the rebels were mounting cannon in
Charleston Bay ?—he had waited two months,
and two days were nothing. So he waited.
The ‘ private gentlemen” from South Caro
lina sent him an insulting epistle, and returned
to Charleston, and finally the Star of the We3t
sailed. The remainder of the story is known.
After our flag had been insulted, the President
of the United States actually consented to a
truce with the rebels, in order that, they might
. complete their arrangements . for opening
fire on Fort Sumpter. The President
throws the blame on Major Anderson, and
says “it was most fortunate” the expediton
did not sail on February sth, as “thevast in
.adequacy of the force provided to accomplish
the object was demonstrated by information
received from Major Anderson, at the War
Department, on the last day of the Ad
ministration !” Thus we are told by tho
President of the United States, * who
had fli e whole country at his command,
that four months after he had been warned
of the danger to the country from an at
tack on Fort Sumpter, this great Repub
lic had “ a vast inadequacy of force” com
pared with South Carolina; that while he had
been waiting,/and trembling, and holding
intercourse with traitors, the great rebel
lion assumed form and strength, and me
naced us with bloody and persistent war.
Then he fled to his home in Lancaster, leaving
to Mr. Lincoln the task of wading through a
sea of blood to the restoration of ( the Union
which he might have saved by sayiDg a single
word, or obeying the first obligation of Ms of
ficial oath.
We now dismiss James Buchanan. He
announces the intention of publishing very
soon “ a historical review, prepared a year
ago.” He had better burn his sheets and say
no more. His last defence has only dragged
him deeper in the slough of shame. Let him
beg for mercy at the hands of an outraged
country, and from the men to come after him
that they may not curse his memory as men
now curse the memory of those rulers who
came at distant periods in the world’s history
to punish and oppress and betray mankind.
The New French Minister.
There is a change in the French Ministry.
M. Edouard Thouvenel, who has been Mir
sister, of Foreign Affairs since January, 1860,
has resigned that office, and is succeeded by
M. Drouyn de l’Huys. It is supposed that
M. Thouvenel retires in consequence of the
difficulty of dealing with the Italian question.
His own desire has been to have Yiotor Em
manuel ruler of Italy, including Yenetia and
the Estates of the Church, with Rome as his
metropolis, and the Pope still recognized as
Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church. It
would appear that Napoleon’s views are diffe
rent. M.|Thouvenel, who succeeded Count
Walewski as Foreign Ministerjisix months
after the war in Italy, will continue to exer-.
else his functions as Senator. It is rather odd
that Count Walewski himself resigned office,
in January, 1860, on account of the impossi
bility of adapting his views on the-Italian
question to the policy of Napoleon.
M. Edouard DrouyN: de L’Huys will he
fifty-seven years old on the 19th of this month.
In his youth he studied law, which he aban
doned for politics, and, in 1880, then in his
twenty-fifth year, became attache to M.
H'HAhcoTOT, French Ambassador to Madrid,
and subsequently to Count Rbyneval. In
1838, he was sent as Charge d'affaires.to the
Hague, where he had the chief share in con
ducting the diplomatic transactions arising
out of the separation of Belgium from Hol
land. He acted with so much discretion and
talet that Talleyrand, who had watched the
whole negotiation, particularly recommended
the young dii>lomat to Louis Philippe as a
man who might be confided in, and ought to
be advanced. During the first civil war iu
Spain, M. Drouyn de L’Huys was first Secre
tary and Charge d’affaires. In 1810, M.
Tiiiers, then Prime Minister, called him hack
to Paris, and made him Directexir in the
Foreign Office, In 1842, he was elected
a member of the Chambor of Deputies for
the department of Seine-et-Marne v and was
there made President of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs. He saw the evils of
M. Guizot’s policy and vainly, remonstrated
with that cold-blooded doctrinaire— the Glad
stone of France. He usually voted with the
Moderate party, but was strongly in favor of
the Reform movement which led to the French
Revolution of 1848. On the election of Louis
Napoleon to the Presidency, Mr. Drouyn ub
l’Huys was appointed Minister of Foreign Af
fairs, but did not retain that] portfolio for
many months, and, in 1849, was sent an'Am
bassador to England. In 1852, Napoleon
again entrusted him with the Ministry of Fo
reign Affairs, in which capacity he had to con
duct the difficult and delicate negotiations
connected with the recognition of the re-es
tablished French Empire by foreign Powers.
In 1855, he represented France in the con
ferences of Vienna, but was superseded in,
that year by Count 'Walewski, who had pre
viously succeeded him, in 1851, in the Embas
sy to En^and.
There was an on dit in Paris of the re
moval of Count De Persiqny, Minister of the
Interior, and of M. Achille Fould, Minister of
Finance. We consider such changes as most
improbable. De Persiony is one of the oldest
and best friends Napoleon ever had, true in
peril and faithful in adversity, and scarcely
any circumstance could, cause Napoleon to
dismiss him. As for M. Fovld, he is a neces
sity in France. When he entered into office,
not long since, he found France sinking into
an abysm of debt. The revenue was yearly de
creasing, the expenditure yearly - increasing,
and the difference was made up by borrowing.
At the close of the first year’s labors the re
sults, just announced, are expenditure within
the net revenue from taxation; not a ’franc
added to the national debt; a reduction in the
interest of the debt, by a conversion of the
fotir-and-a-halfpercent.’Rentes; anda balance
in hand of eighty millions of francs, to provide
for unforeseen circumstances. This, too,
without checking the Emperor in tho vast im
provements he is making in Paris and other
cities. JM. Found has introduced a conscience
and asy stem into the management of French
finan ee, and France can ill bear to part with
such a minister.
It is too early, as yet, to speculate on the
influence, if any, which M. Thouvenbl’s re
tirement may have upon French policy to
America. It is a fact that the ex-minister
steadily refused to see Mr. Slidell, the
pseudo-ambassador from Richmond, except as
a private individual. It is to be hoped that
M. Droun be l’ Huys will be equally neutral,
at least. . : .
Public Amusements.
The Academy of Music will be open to-day for
tho purpose of receiving subscriptions to tho opera
tic season that is to commence tho. first of Decom
ber. We need not impress upon our readers the
necessity of supporting this great enterprise, and
we are in hopes that the success which Mr. Hood
receives to-day and to-morrow will enable him to
inaugurate a prosperous and brilliant season. Music
must be cultivated in Philadelphia, and we appeal
to our liberal-hearted citizens to show their appre
ciation of this faot by a generous response.
Mr. Gotttokalk’s third concert takes place to
night, at Concert such have been the pre
parations, that it deserves all success. Mr. Gotts
chalk’s name would of itself be a sufficiently attrac
tive programme for any' ordinary musical enter
tainment, and in conjunction with that of Miss
Carlotta Patti, it should crowd the hall to reple
tion.
, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Davenport will commence
an engagement at the Walnut-street Theatre this
evening, which, unless all precedent fails, will
result as successfully as it promises. To give duo
eclat to the occasion, one of the best bills of the
Beason has been arranged, and the prize drama of
“St. Marc” is announced, with, a new farce for
the afterpieoe.
The management of the Arch-street Theatre
announce, without exaggeration, that this establish
ment has been “overflowed.” Clarke, the irre
sistible, has done it. The success marking his
reappearance is truly unprecedented. To-night
he appears In two of Ms most celebrated parts, and
will carry all before him.
Sale of French Dry Goons, &c.—The early
attention ef purchasers is requested to the attrac
tive sale of French, German, and British dry goods,
embracing about five hundred and fifty lots of
fancy and staple articles in silk dress goods, broche
and chenille shawls, velvets, ribbons; poplins, mo
rinoes, “ Jouvin’s” kid gloves, Ac , &0., to be pe
remptorily sold by catalogue, on four months’ cre
dit, commencing this (Monday) morning, at ten
o’clock, to be continued the larger part of the day.
without intermission, by John B. Myers & Co.,'
auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street.
FB 0 M W A S;H IN GT 028 V
Special; Despatches to “ The Press.” /-.
Washington, November 2,1862.
The Latest from McClellan’s Army.
The latest news is that ihe rebels still hold Thorough
fare Gap with a small picket. Gen. Bayard’s Cavalry
was attacked yesterday afternoon at Aldie. Heen-.
esmped last night two miles east of that place, from
which fact it is inferred that he repulsed the rebel force
Gen. Halteck Visits Camp Seward.
Major General Hallbok ana staff to-day visited the
146th New York Regiment, the Halleck Infantry, Col.
Kenner Garrard, at Gamp Seward, near Fort Albany.
This is rbe first regiment which ha 3 been thus honored
by a visit from the Commander-in-Chief. The regiment
is from OxifSda county, New York, the native county of
the General. The appearance: of the regiment and camp
was highly complimented by him.
Free Colored Emigrants—_A Xetter from
thern to the President.
The colon d people of the District of Columbia, for
whose removal Congress made as appropriation, and
gave the President authority in the premises, havo sent a
delegation to the President, and they have.delivered to
him the following letter: r
To THE PreSideht-GiV.- The undersigned, an behalf
of their col-rod brethren and themselves, have called
upon j cur Excellensy to ieam when we can take our de
parture to Ihe land premised us by yourself in the ad
dress made to us in this your Bit entire Mansion.
We have learned tiom the Hon. Eonator Pomeroy,'
the Agent of Emigration, whom you appointed to con
duct ns to Ohiquiri, that lie is ready, his equipment en
gaged, his provisions for the emigrants bought, that a
vessel suitable baa been found, that consent of the Go
vernment, with its agreement to receive us as citizens
with equal right* and obligations has been obtained, and
that he only waDts your orders to announce the day of
sailltg, and that he can sail within a week if your order
is given.
Many of us, acting upon your promise to send us so
scon as one hundred families were ready, have sold our
'furniture, have given up our little homes to go in the
first voyage; and now that more than five times that
number have made preparation we find that there Is un
certainty and delay, which is embarrassing ns and re
ducing our scanty meanß, until fears are being created
ihat, these being exhausted, poverty in a still worse form
than has met us may be our winter prospect.
We havo seen it stated in the newspapers that you do
rot intend to let us depart. Wo are not willing to be
lieve thst your Excellency would invito us to makear
rangiments to go—would tell ns that we could not live
prosperously here—would create hopes, and stimulate us
to struggle for national independence'and respectable
equality, and when we had made ourselves ready for tha
effort, in confident belief of the.integrity of the promise,
that Its realization will be withheld, ,
Congress has placed the power and the means solely tn
the bands of your Excellency, to aid in remoying us.
You began the movement Yon appointed Senator
Pomeroy, In whom not only the colored people but the
whole country has confidence, to see that justice should
be done ns. He baa said that he is ready. We therefore
earnestly beg that your Excellency will now give him
explicit orders to sail before the cold weather seta in to
pinch us here, before the storms of winter shall make our
voy age hence a dangerous one.
The President, through his private secretary, replied
to the deputation of colored men, who called to express
their disappointment in the delay at going to Central
America, that he was as anxious as he ever was for their
departure, that be had placed everything in the hands of
Senator Pomeboy, and that he could not see them then,
but would do so course of a few days.
The Allotment Roils in the Army.
Mr. Theodore Boosevelt, one of the New York al
lotment commissioners, has just arrived here, bringing with
him the allotment roils of forty of the additional regi
ments of that Bta’e, under the new levy. Their allotments
of pay amount to three millions of dollars per annum,
an average of nearly ten dollars per month, every man
making an allotment for the benefit of his family. An
effort will be made by the commissioners to induce all the
other States to take advantage of this system, which had
been so eminently successful to large numbers of regi
ments in the field. These gentlemen say that the soldiers
by this means ore saved from many of the temptatlina to
which they would otherwise be subjected in camp, while
'lhSrfikihfiMißrisiteiiuvcd'bMsrwMtf'.V.
Lists of Killed and Wounded.
According to an order just issued by the War Depart-
hereafter, after every battle; skirmish, or other en
gagement,the commanding officer of each regiment; bat
tery, or other detached portion of a regiment then present,
Will, in addition to the list transmitted throughinterme-*
diets cbmmanderß, promptly forward dirbot to the Adju
tant General’s oflico, a .correct return of the killed,
wounded, and miSßing of his command- This order is
rendered necessary.by the fact, that many of our returns,
by being transmitted through brigade headquarters, are
detained and lost.
The Postage
The National Bank Note Company haying worked the
daily delivery of postage currency up to *58,000
there is now a slight falling off, owing to the process of
some changes in the arrangements, bat which will soon be
recovered and carried up to 8100,000.
Military Road over the Rocky Mountains,
Csptaiq dons Mui-.LEii, tI.[S. Army, who has recently
constructed an important military road acrosß the Bobky
Mountains, in Washington Territory, has returned to
tbiß city. According to instructions from the War De
partment, he will proceed at once to organize a force of
topographers, etc., for office work, on full final reports
ar d maps of the line of road, It is considered the Go
vernment hag never undertaken a work of more import
ance in an ititary point of view than that now completed.
Prisoners brought to the City.
The gunboat. Yankee arrived this morning, bringing
up from various vessels of the flotilla a number of pri
soners and the schooner George Washington, which was
captured in Pobick Creek, bn Thursday night, by the
Yankee.
Assigned to Duty,
Captain Wm. Jay, of New York, who was recently re
lieved from duty on the staff of Major General Wool,
has been assigned to duty on the staff of Major General
Morrell, commanding a division of Porter’s corps or
the Army of the Potomao.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Hildreth bar been ordered
to the steamer Ino,
Presented his Credentials.
Samuel tV. V. Odell, Ekj , of Hew YorS, yesterday
preEenttd hig credentials to the Secretary of War, and
was received as charge d’affaires and consul general of
his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands.
Payment of Claims Against the Govern-
Claim agent! are representing that, by their ageno;,
the raiment of requisitions at the Treasury can be facili
tated. Claims are paid in regular order, according to
date of requisition, unless the parties eleot to take certi
ficates of indebtedness bearing six per cent, interest, in
which case, on being nolified, the S.cretary of the Trea
sury directs the payment forthwilh—twenty-five per
cent, in moneys and seventy- five per cent, in certificates,
the latter being issued by the Treasury as rapidly as the
necessary forms can be gone through with. Hence there
is no necessity for any intermediate agents.
Returned front his Mission.
Wm. Wood, superintendent of the old Capitol prison,
who wont Booth with Borne prisoners in his charge to ex
change them, retnrnei to Washington to-day, bat without
the loyal men held as prisoners by the rebels who hhe
wss expected to bring back with him. Tt is, however,
understood that Mb mission was completely snccesefoi,
and that those he went after will soon follow him hither,
the order for their release having been given before he
left Bichmond.
Murder in New York,
Hew Tons, Bov. 1 2 —An unknown man was killed in
a bar-room fight in tbe Bowery last evening, .
THE PRESS—PHILADELPHIA,' MONDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1863.
FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
An Artillery Fight on Saturday
and Sunday,
REBEL RETREAT FROM PHILLIJIOIfT
ANOTHER FIGHT! ’IN PROGRESS.
General Pleasanton yesterday came up with the rebel
cavalry and artillery at PhiUunont, about 11 o'clock.
The fight, which was conducted wholly with artillery,
lasted about five hours, when the enemy retreated to
Union, a email town throe miles beyond. Our loss was
1 killed and 14 The rebel force consisted’ of a
portion of General Stuart’s cavalry and one battery.
Five of the rebels are known to have been killed. ■
This morning Gen. Pleasanton renewed the attack at
8 o’cloofe, anduat 10 o’clock he was reinforced,by a brl
gade of Infantry. At 1 o’clock the rebels fell back from
Union, and opr troops occupied the town. Our loss up
to 3 o’clock tc-day was 1 killed and 4 wounded. During
the action a rebel , caisson was exploded by one of our
shells. The rebel loss Is not known;. '
.The firing in that direction was very heavy from 3
o'clock till dark, but the result has not been ascertained.
Gen, McOlellan visited the front this afternoon.
A heavy dust was observed to-day.at Ashby’s Gap.
In what direction the rebel troops are moving is not
known, the distance being too great.
Another part of our array took possession of Snicker’s
Gap to-day.
Three brigades of rebel infantry were at last advices
advancing up the west tide of the mountain in two
columns. Heavy firing followed, but the results ore not
> et known. ■
*Good News from Port Royal-
The British Steamsr Mlnnaho Destroyed,
THE REBEL RAM AT SAVANNAH.
Hew York, Bov. 2 —Port Royal dates to the 29th
sltimo have been received
Two British rebel steamers, the Anglia and Beotia,
were captured on the 27th ultimo and taken to Port
Boyal. The two steamers, with their contraband car.
goes, veined at one million of dollars. 1
Another British Bteamer, the Minnaho, was run ashore
and destroyed. - i
It was reported at Port Eoyal' that the rebel ram was
coming down the river from Savannah.
CAIRO, November I.—The only news from Tennessee
is that pn Friday night our pickets were driven in at
Cbevilla. This is thought, however, to' indicate a' reoon
noissai.ee rather than an attack upon our forces. The
rebels seem to be coming up by the way of Grand Junc
tion, and tbns be in a position to menace both Bolivar
and Corinth. It is barely possible yet that they have
not enongh men to attack, but have pushed their’ co
lumn forward iu a threatening manner, in order to gain
time at Hollf Springs and other points South.
Sri Louis, Nov, 2—Advices from the army in South
east Miaroari says that, after the recent success at Pitt
man's Ferry, Colonels Lazear and Dewey, with their
forces combined, pushed on for Zollinger’s Mills, five
milts from Pocahontaß, where they fought Burbridge.
completely routing bis force, and capturing a large nnm
her of prisoner?, including many rebel officers.
A laser despatch from Colonel Lozear aays tlTftt he cap
tured or dispersed two hundred of Booue’s command.
front New Orleans—T&c Capture of Sa-
Ebw Top.!;, November I.— The steamers Matanzas and
Oracle have arrived from New Orleans.
The capture of Sabine Pass is confirmed. It was taken'
on October let, by the United States steamer Housing-,
ton, Oapt. Crocker, and the sohrs Seaman and Jones.
Capt Crocker, with a small body of men, advanced into
the country and defeated two bands of rebels. Tbs re
sults of his operations were the capture of ,one fort, two
camps, thirty bnildings, and ten rebel vessels, which
were burnt.
• Charlestown, Ya., October 31 —Major QeneraiOox’a
army arrived here to day. The rebel army, Under
Generals Echols, Floyd, mid Jenkins, retreated from
here iaßt Monday. The march of our troops up the
Kanawha Yailey was condncted in the best military
order, with a single casualty. - The entrance intothis
town was of a triumphant oharaoter, the-citizens giving
-our troops a welcome. i •
THE KEATE ALABAMA STILL AT WORK
A PHILADELPHIA PACKET CAPTURED.
IicSToK, Sot, 2 Thu brpt Tlarnnde ol Nor
ton, Captain Saunders, which salledfrom BangieTon tht
18th’nit,", for Cardenas, arrived here this afternoon.
Captain Saunders reportathat on the 29ih nit, in lati
tude 39, longitude 69, the brig was captured,by the
British pirate Alabama. Captain Semmes-agreed to
liberate the brig for a bond of 86,000, payable to the
President of the Confederate, States thirty days after
peace is declared." Captain Saunders gave the bond, and
was then released.
He was informed that ho must take as passengers the
crews (mustering forty-fives jpersons! of several Ameri
can vessels which had been previously captured and
bumd. The crews were sent on board the, brig, but
extra provisions were refused, and Capt, Sanders bore
away for the nearest port. , .
Tho fcllowipg is a list of vessels taken and burnt by
the Alabama: ' v
Bark Lamplighter, of Boston, Captain Harding, from
New York, lor Gibraltar, captured October 16th, in lat.
41 30, longitude 68.17, and burned,: ;
fhip Lafayette, of New: Haven, Captain Small, from
New York for Belfast. Iceland, with a cargo of wheat
and corn, captured October 23d, in iat. 40, long, 64, and
■burned..- . ; -T.
, Schooner Crenshaw, of New York, Captain Nelson,
from New York for Glasgow, with a cargo of flour,
tariff October 26th, in lat 40, fling. 65, and burned. One
of toe crew of the Crenshaw joined the Alabama.
Bark Lauretta, of Boston, Captain Wells, from New
York for Madeira, captured October 28th, in lat. 39.45,
long. 63, and burned.
Captain Semmes informed the prisoners that on the
10th of Oct ober he captured the ship Tonawanda, of and
from Philadelphia for Liverpool, with: passengers cn
board, and detained her five days, and released her for a
bond of £BO,OOO, payable as above.
He also captured the ship Manchester from New York
for Liverpool, and brig Dunkirk from New York for
Lisbon, and burned them, putting their orews on board
the Tonawanda .
Capt. Harding, of the bark Lamplighter, reports'that
on the 15th nit, at daylight, in lat. 41, 30, long 69, IT,
wind south with thick weather, saw a ship standing
southward; in half an hour the weather cleared
up a little, and she altered, hip course and stood
across our bows whh the British flag flying. I
then made her out to be a steamer. When within a
mile; he fired a gun, hauled down the British flag/’
aid rnn np the Confederate flag." I hove to and he
sent a boat aboard, demanded iny/papsrs, and declared’
my vessels prize. Wo were sent on board the steamer.
I was allowod to take,, one trunk; and my officers and
crew one bag each. - Captain' Bemmes ordered his
first lieutenant to board tbe bark and burn her
immediately. I begged him to save my ship, but
he replied, ‘‘l hope to be able to serve you a d—d
eight worse yet.”. They then went on board to burn the
ship. I was permitted to: go with them. : When we
went into the cabin they asked for liquor. I gave'thom
all I had;. :Thoy drank, and-emplied’ theromalnder on
the floor. Then theytook the oil cans out of ihe looker,
and pouwd the oil on the; floor, and at eight o’clock in
the morning they set tho vessel on. fire. We were their
transferred to tho steamer, andput in irons and almost
starved,. ■ . '•
The pirate then continued his cruije|m(3er sail, but
with steam UP, until she captured all tfis nbovo ves jels.
The crews were all put in irons as soon as captured.
Those on board ti e Alabama had foil files of the New
York Herald and the pictorial papers, containing ac
counts of tho former captures of the Alabama. Oapt. H:
was Informed by the second lieut. and seyera! petty officers
that their next destination was New York, as they meant
to throw a few shells into that city. Oapt. H.-represents
the Alabama as a very formidable vessel, bu t does no t
tbink she is as fast as has been represented. When he
left her the crew were mounting two large" pivot gnus,
one forward and the other aft He thinks they were
ICO-pounders.
Oapt. Small, of toe ship Lafayette, reports that when
ho was introduced to Capt. Sommes, he produced hia
British consular certificate, and remarked that he sup
posed that would be sufficient protection. Capt. Semmea
replied that the New York people were getting very
emart, but it won’t save you. It is alia d—d hatobed-np
mesa. He then gave orders to burn the ship.
A Tragedy at Dayton, Ohio—Shooting of
Dayiox, Not. 1 —J. F. Bollmyer, editor of tbe Day
ton Empire, was shot dead this morning by Henry M
Brown. The difficulty grew out of a personal misunder
standing, occasioned by iha shooting of a dog, belonging
to Mr. Bollmyer, by Brown’s son. Brown gave himself
np, and was sent to jail to await a trial.
A SBRIODS RIOT-—ATTEMPT TO niNC BROWN.
CisoiNNATi, Nov. 2 —The Inquirer has a spooial de
spatch from Dayton, which atateß that after too Bhooting
cf Bollmeyer the excitement was intense. Several hun
dred persons collected for the purpose of taking Brown
from jail and hanging him.
The Major promptly quelled tlie riot, but in the af
ternoon Ihe crowd again collected in large numbers
around the”jail, but no demonstration of const quenco
was made. About seven o’clock; the mob againossem
blfd, and proceeded to the jail with five swivels, for the
purpose of breaking .down the jail doers, and dragging
Brown out to be executed. The guns w» re captured
by the police and a few shots were fired. F„ur parsons
were wounded, one severely. "x'» ,
At ten o’clock all was comparatively quiet.
AND MiOAT.
Occupation of Union and Snicker's Gap.
Headquarters Armt of tke Potomac,
Sunday Evening, November 2,1862
BRITISH REBEL STIAMBRS CAPTURED.
VAHURD AT §1,000,000.
The War in Tennessee
The War in Missouri—Rebel Bands
Routed. !
bine Pass Confirmed,
From the Kanawha Talley.
ADDITIONAL VESSELS SEIZED.
SX2C VESSELSpBURNED.
The Tonawanda Under Bonds,
an Editor.
The Major, early in the evening, telegraphed to Gen,.
Wright for a military force to assist him in preserving
the peace. At half-past 8 o’clock, fivo .compsnlea of re
gulars left this city and arrived at Dayton at 10 o’clock.
Tbe inquirtr says that a gentleman arrived here from
Dajton says that tho parties bad a political qair
rel before the election. Brown threatened to shoot
Bollmeyer, and the killing of tbe dog was only as indi
rect cause of tho rencontre yesterday.
Gen. fiauks'at Boston.
Boston, November 2.—Major General Banka arrived
here by Ibie midnight train, and was welcomed by a great
crowd. General Banka briefly returned thanks for the
honor, and waa escorted to the Parke House. ;
The eteamer Arabia, from Liverpool, via Halifax, ar
rived at hall jaat eight o’o'ook this evening. Her taalla
will be despatched by theauly train to-mettow. |
Reported Capture oflttobiie.
Gaiko, November I.—Corinth despatches of yesterday
tay that the mail messenger came in there to-day from
and reported that our soonts had scoured the
Country aa ter south as Bipley, hut discovered no trace
of the enemy. An arrival from the South reports all
Quiet at Helena.
In Memphis orders have been issued by Gen. Bherman
that all steamers with cannon and other merchandise
shall be convoyed by gunboats upon proper notification
at Cairo or Memphis. ,
We have a rnmor by the way. of Corinth that Mobile
is onrs. The report was brought in by rebel prisoners
token by our soonts. . -
A Memphis letter says Yillipfiue’s brigade has moved
from Holly Springs.
There is a conflict of authority between the rebel
generals in Mississippi. Pemberton was sent to the
command of that department on the presumption that
Van-Dorn would be in Tonne!see or Kentucky, but the
battle at Corinth prevented this, and now Van Dorn re
fuses to come. . ’ :
The Lynchburg Republican says the constitutionality
of the conscript act will be tested in the Court of Ap
peal in Virginia. The oase iB made np by the rebel State
authorities.
INTERESTING FROM EUROPE.
Secretary Seward on the Emancipation
Proclamations
English Comments on American Affairs.
ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE MINISTRY OPPOSES MR.
i ‘ GLADSTONE’S VIEWS.
The English papers brought by the steamer Edin
burgh, which arrived at Hew York on Saturday , contain
a circular from Secretary Seward to the diplomatic and
consular agents relating to the emancipation proclama
tion. He draws hopeful conolnsions from the present po
sition of affairs. He says:
: “ The rebels must understand that if they persist in
imposing a choice between she dissolution of she Govern
ment and the abolition of slavery, it is the Union and not
slavery that must be maintained. While all the good
and wise men of all countries must recognize the mea
sure ss a just and proper military act intended to deliver
Ole country from a terrible war, they will recognize, at
' the some time, tho moderation and magnanimity with
Which the Government; proceeds in so solemu a matter.”
The'London Times soya this circular deprives the
American Gbvcrmm nt ef the right hereafter to appeal to
its emancipation decree aa a measure founded on moral
principle, as Mr. Seward reduces it tc a mere military
act. - .
Lord Palmerston has been making speeches at Win
chester. Ho refrained from ailuding to American af
fairs..-
The Globe soya that, if Mr. Gladstone had a Cabinet
secret to keep on American affairs he; wonld have donbt
iesß kept It; consequently, it infers that he has simply
token the license of a public man to give his individual
opinions, and thinks that, as a Cabinet ; M inister, he
should have been more guarded in his expressions,
: The Times shows the inexpediency of tho recognition
of the South at present.
The Hew York correspondent of the London Times
gives a rnmor that the Union losses in Maryland had
reached 38,000. Thiß correspondent is’ determined to
keep up bSs reyutafion »s a first-class falsifier.
- The Times publishes a letter from a New Orleans lady,
giving a fearful, pictute of the reign of terror In that city.
A Cabinet'Council hsd been summoned to meet on
the 23d of October.- This is earlier tban usual, and the
consideration of the Amerioan Question is supposed to
be one of the purposes of the meeting.
The - proposition-, before the . Chamber of
Commerce, iu favor of memori uizing the Government
to recognize the Booth, hee been withdrawn.
The Southern Club at Liverpool gave a grand banquet
to ex- Governor Moiehoad, of Kentucky. The speeohes,
of cc-niee, were strongly In support of Secession.
The Ctt.-zarowitch race was won by Harrington. Um
pire wds fourth.
The Parts Bourse, on the 4th instant, was excited, and
rentes declined one per coot,, closing at 70f. 80c.
A Bourbon conspiracy has been discovered at Naples
The Italian Budget has been published. It shows a
heavy deficit, but yet a Blight improvement on last year.
The Prussian Chamber of Deputies has declared the
vote of the Upper House on tho budget as hull and void,
and) the resolution of tbe Of mmittet on the budget was
unanimously adopted, The session was then closed by a
speeihfrem the throne delivered by the President of the
Ministry, in which the Government declares its intention
to carry out the budget as origiaally laid before the
House. This is regarded as'a veritable cimp d'etat and
a ihbi t eerlouß invasion of constitutional liberty.
Tjie steamer Borussia arrived at Sonthampton on the
16th.
The steamer Etna arrived out bn the 19th, and the
Nova Scotian on tho loih, ~. ~ .
Sit- G. C. Lewis, tho English Minister-of War, has been
specking against the recognition of the South, whose in
atrendence bad not yet been accomplished.
Earl Hardwicks had endorsed Mr. Gladstone's views.
The London Daily Nexus compliments Sir G. O. Lewis
for bis remarks against tbe recognition of the South, re
garding them as ministerial in significance. It says
.they,will go far to still the rising clamor |of .{reckless'
‘and thougbilesa men. It adds;' ‘‘notwithstanding Mr.
Gladstone's statement, the Government are of opinion
that’Jefferson Davis has not: made the Southern Stater
a nation,” and, nntil he has, England will certainly not
-Interfere. > • ’-■/.
• The; same journal editorially picks to pieeas Ex-'
Governor Morehead’s Liverpool oration, and tho New
Orleanrcpwespoßdence recently published in the London
Times, anff'Coutenda that the arguments need clearly
show, that, with the South, slavery ie the beginning, mid- ’
die, end end of the whole revolution! „’
The London HeroMcalle’attontion'-.tb the conflicting [
views of Mr. Gladstone and Sir G O. Lewi*, relative to
America, and says that they ought not to Bit in the same'
Cabinet. : ' . \ I
The Herald then attempts to controvert the views of
Sir G. O. Lewis, and says that, former precedents will'
justify the present recognition of the South. ... ; '
. ■ The Army and Navy Gazette say s that it is perfectly..
obvious that the numuT of men in the field touches: the
limits at the fighting population both North and South,
and when to this are added the armies swallowed up in,:
svampe, in bettie- fields, in marches, and rendered non.
effective by sickness, by wounds, and by parole, the in-
whichjsfo arise from the hard logic of aooom
plfsheS fact*, is moreJibely to terminate the war—a war
in wbich much-ignet ance of the first principles of mlli
tarylscience has been eyincedj and great indifference
shbwn to human life. . i
A Garibaldi meeting-osme off at the Londoh'Tavern,
•on tbe 17th, without disturbance, Mr. Wood; member
of Paritoment for London, presided this attendance
was Very large, but embraced but I few porgons>of - note.
Tbe. speeches'were moderate;; Eosolntie Dß were adopted
exprersipg ,n mj at iiy with GtSribsidi and the cause he
-iha-corrtinhed occupation ef Bomelby the French troops,
*s insulting-t«; Italy, and dangeroUK to too peace of ’
Europe. - The resolutions were embodied in a memo rial
to Earl Bnssell.
FBANOE.
Tbe retirement of M..Tbonvenel*from the ministry at
tracted much attention, and led to various speculations.
The changewasihought to be unfavorable for a so tie
ment of the Boman question. It was reported that several
other members ot the French Cabinet, wbo ratherfavorod
tbe evacuation of Borne, wilt retire, aud that the .Cabinet
wii! be essentially anew one. The appointment of Drouyn
do.S’Euss to theForoii n Ministry was regarded as a blow
to fbe hopes of the Italians.
The latest rumors desert-that M. Fonld and Count
Fersigny have both tendered their resignations, but there
is nothing certain. >
It was reported that M. Fould was about to visit Mar-
Beillesand make a speech there which will create a sensa
tion in,' politics and commerce. ; -
Marshal CaDrobert is appointed commander of the Mi
iitarv Division of Lyons, and the Dokeof Magenta that
of Nancy.
The . Times’Paris correspondent reports that toe Em
peror returned from Biarritz in a vtry ultramontane
epirit-v -What may be the canse of this sudden change
from indifference to piety seems to puzzle France. The
latest phase of the Imperial mind gives the victory for a
time to ; the priestly party. No doubt, for the present,
there lean end to all th»ughts of ah evacuation of Borne,
The Bourse on the 17tb was firm. Bentes, 7lf. 25c.
.... .Italy,.
It was statca that the withdrawal of M. Thouveuel
from tbe French Ministry created an immense sensation
at Turin, and the rumor that Batezzi had resigned re
ceived some credence.
There are also vague rumorß from Borne that Cardinal
AntereUi and Monßieur Merode had tendered their re
signations.
Itwaa reported that Prince de la tour D’Auvergne is to
be the now French Minister to Borne.
POBTUGAL.
The Japanese Ambassadors had reached Lisbon.
' DENMARK.
A despatch from Earl Bussell to the Danish Govern
ment dated September 20th, on the Schleswig-Holstein
question, is published. It expreosea very unfavorable
vimysof the Danish claims on tbe German Dachies,; and
recommenda the Danish Government to cancel the com:
mon Constitution for Denmark and Schleswig.' Tha
Douißh' Government in reply positively deolineß to accept
the lecommendations of EarLßnssell. • - :
INDIA And OSINA.
. - Calcutta, Sept. 27 —Shirtings and twist firm. Indigo
and SBltpetro active. Exohange2^.
’ - Shanghai, Sept. 14 —General Ward’s contingent had
extricated itself from, its ptrilons position. The rebels
made a fierce attack on the city, and burnt down tha vil
lages in its vicinity, but were finally driven back with
great less.
Prince-Kung has-been attacked with cholera, which
rages .fearfully in the Northern Provinces.
There ip no news from Japan.
Shirtings are firm. Silk is advancing! Exchangees.
3(d. -.Freights tending-upward; ' . ,
* Canton* September .10.—Shirtings, and twist are
blgber. Tea is firm. Exchange 4s. Bd.
*• STILL LATER FROM EUROPE.
Reports of the Movements of Rebel
- - Pirates.
Halifax, Ncv I.—The K. M. steamship Arabia, Cap
tain Stone, which left Liverpool at 2 P. M. of toe 18th,
and Queenstown 19th nit, arrived at Halifax at 1.30 P.
M, to-day, 'Bhe experienced strong westerly gales the
V-'kole passage. She has 109 passengers for Boston,
Her advices are three days later than those by toe
Edinburgh, at New York.
The B. M- sieamfhip Sooiiß, from New York, arrived
at" Queenstown about I." 30 P. M. of toe 17th ult, and
reached Liverpoolat BA.M. of the 18th. "
GBEAT BRITAIN:
The Doily News' correspondent at Spezzia says that
intelligence has reached-there that two rebel cruisers
have entered tbe Mediterrifnean, Captain temtnes being
in command of one. It was rumored they had already sunk
or burned twelve Union vessels, and the American consuls
at ail the ports were on the alert to spread the tidings
and provide measures for future safety. [Query: This
may be another version of toe statement already pub
lit bed of the destruction of, whalers.]
Arrived from Philadelphia, Oct 17 th, GBorge Green,
at Liverpool - •
Arrived from Bombay Oct. 16th, War Spirit, at Deal.
Sailed for, Mow York, Aug. Btb, Golden State, from
Amoy; 20tb, Magnet, from do; 13to, George Wash
ington, from Algoa Bay; Oct 15th, Lucknow,f
Antwerp' ' ■ ,V.
- Latkst Fhifping, via Livebpool —Liverpool, Oc
tober.lB, P. M-—Arrived from New York,- Wisconsin and:
Edymion, via Liverpool: Jane Dagget in the Oivde.
. Latest Shippino, via. Queesstowx.—Queesstown,
October 19 —Arrived from New York, Moloch, Somer
set, and Kitty Floyd, at- Liverpool; Win, Bennia. at
King- road; Ocean Pearl, at Belfast; Therese, at Green
ock ; George Moncband, at Flushing: St, Iris, at Dnb
lin; Winslow, at Jersey; Actor, off Warden'Point.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE, VIA QUEENSTOWN.
London, October 19.—There is no politisal news of
importance to-day.
The Paris Bourao cloaed firm yesterday at 71f. 26c. for
the Rentes .
Livebpool, October 18.—Cotton—Tbe Brokers’ Cir
cular reports the Bales of the week at 15,500 biles, In
cluding 6,C00 to specuiators'and 5,090 to exporters. The
market has been dull, and closes nominal at a>2d. de
cline under heavy arrivals trom ledia. The sales on
Friday were J,OOO bales, closing with a still declining
tendency. The authorized quotations are—
• .Fair. Middling.
Orleans.. :...29d. 26d.
Mobiles.. .............28a. 264.
Up1and5.........................27d. 2Bj(d'
Tbe stock in " port is estimated at 278,000 bales, of
whioft only 33.000 are American,
feTAI E OF TRADE.—The Manchester market has a
d eclining tendency. The sales are small.
BBEAUSTor?FS —Messrs. Bicbsrdson, Spence, ft Co.;
Wokflield, Hash, ft Co.; and Bigland, Atbya, & Co.,
report Floor still tending downward; American 220
S7s. Wheat heevy and irregular; red Western 9olos,
red Sonthern . lOelOs 3d, white Western 10s 3dalos 01,
white Southern ileffll'ls. Corn ciniot. but steady;
mixed 2PsBde29a6d. white 30(63@3256d.'
Provisions—The same authorities .report Beef still
declining. Port qniet and nominal. Bacon easier. Bard
qniet and Is tower;.sales at 420443. , Tallow still de
clining; Quoted 440475.
Produce —Tile Brokers’ Circular reports Aaheeqaietj
Pols 32s ;'-Pearls 3353 d. Bosin flat and nominal. Sugar
still declining: Coffee firmer. Bice has a declining ten
dency. -Linseed easier. Linseed Oil firm. Cod Oil firm
at £45108. Petroleum firmer at 19020 a,
Bonbon, October IS—Baring’BOirenlarreportsWheat
heavy snd 2so3a lower; Bed Western 47ra 525; Flour
24026 e; Iron firm; Sugar tending downward; Tea in
active’; Ohffeo firm ; Bice ; inactive; Bpiritß Turpentine
dull at 130 s; Boßin dull at 08s; Tallow steady; Linseed
has a declining tendency; Linseed Oahe.flat; Linseed
Oil dull at 41s 9d«425; Sperm Oil inactive; Cod Oil
still advancing, Quoted £47; Tin further advanced 4s
•per ton; the Indigo sale was flat at 204 d decline; Pe
troleum active. . . '. . , - i ’
■ Groves ft Todd report Provisions quiet but steady.
.IriUd’Mll**.'
AiisutoAS . SsoutUTiES.—Baring’s circular quoteg
Erie shares 35#®35K; Illinois Central, 4f043 discount:
Bew York Oential. 74®T6; U. B.OS, 70®72; do. 6s, 68®
68; Massachusetts Ss, 90®92.
Consols closed on Friday at 93% for money;
The bullion In the Bank has decreased £312,900. '
THS LATEST.
Liverpool, October 18, P. M—Cotton—Hales to-day
2,600 baits, including 1,600 to speculators end exporters.
The market closes firmer, and though Fates are un
changed, there is rather better selling.
. Breadstuff's Quiet and irregular, with a downward
tendency. Provisions flat.
London, October 18, P. M,—Oonßois olossd at 93J£®
93 v on money.
Amerioan eecnrities steady.
Illinois centrals 43 Jf discount.
Havre, October 16.—Cotton sales of the week 1,250
bates. Market very dull and nominal. New Orleans
tres ordinaire 362 f.; do. has 352 F. , Stock 38,000 bales.
Parib, October 18, P. Ml—Bourse firm; Behtea 71f, 25c.
Affairs m California—Arrival of Senator
Harding, of Oregon.
Ban Francisco, October39.—Tho market is Quiet;
butter has an ueward tendency . .The weather is pleas
ant, after twonty-four hours of rain.
. The steamer Sierra Nevada has arrived from the
•Northern coast, bringing 310 passengers and 8260000
in treasure ftom Oregon and *86.600 from British Co
lumbia. , v , ....
The Walla Walla Statesman, of the 18 th, publishes a
letter, from James L. Pyle, attached to the emigrant es
cort.; He left Omaha on the 16th of June, following in
the rear of the emigration for Oregon and Washington
Territories He estimates the entire number ofemigrants
parsed over that route this year as 10,000. He has infor
mation that fifteen of this number were killed by the
Indians.- He thinks there were no more killed. The
health of the emigrants wss excellent. The deaths from
disease were very few; and the hardships inconsiderable.
Ban Francisco, October 31.— Arrived, Bbip Fleet
Wing, from Boston. Sailed, Davy Crocket, for Liver
pool, carrying 40,000 sacks of flour, 6,009 kegs of East
Boston syrnp, sold to an ive, at 82js( c.
The money market is easier than when the last steamer
sailed. Exchange on the Atlantic cities 5®6 per coot,
premium—payable In coin—and 15a>30 per cast dis
count for currency. Legal tender notes 14®16 per cant,
discount. ”...
The market has been well supplied during the past
monih.
One hundred thousand dollars for. Federal taxes were
collected, and 830,600 for the. National Sanitary Com
mittee will be shipped from California to-morrow, and
*200,000 from Nevada Territory.
San Franoisc o, November I.—Arrived, ship Culti
vator, from Boston. Sailed, steamer Golden Age, Hud
son, commander, for Panama, carrying 200 nassengors,
and #930 000 in treasure for New York and #780,000 for
England.
Among the passengers was Senator Harding from
Oregon.
Arrived—SbfpNow Wirt, from Boston. S ailed—Battle,
for Hong Kong, .
The ship Cutwater reports, on Angust 27th, when off
Lfgo Psnuiee, she saw a vessel supposed to bo *he Erie,
ef New Bedford, although the name was not fully dis
tinguishable. '
The steamer Active has returned from the wreck of
Ihe Golden Gate, near Manzanilla. having left oh the
26th. Nothing bad then been done towards recovering
ihe treasure. A final attempt will bo made on the Ist
of November.
Arrival of the Steamer Ocean Queen—
sl,ooo,ooo in Gold.
New York, Nov. 2. —The steamer Ocean Qusen, from
Aspinwslf, arrived this morning with passengers from
California, and one million dollars imtraasnre. She left
Aspinwall on the 26th ultimo, but saw nothing of the
pirate Alabama. . ' ' '
Arrest of J atlge Orr, of Missouri
St. Louis, Nov. I.—Judge Sample Orr was arrested
on Thursday, at Jefferson City, by order of Gen. Lane.
The cause of the arrest was the delivery of a speech in
which Ihe proclamation of the President was declared
to be unwise and uncalled for, and doubts were ex
pressed as to the ability of the Administration to lawfully
carry out its provislotß.
Judge Laokland has been paroled, to enable him to
attend court, in a poTjury case, in which he is engaged
as counsel.
The Burning of the Ship Alleghany.
Baltimore, November I —A letter In reference to tho
burning of the ship Alleghany by the rebels in Chesa
peake Bay, off the mouth of the Rappahannock, on
Tuesday night, states that after the flames had been
subdued by one of the United States steamers, it broke
out again, and that tli9 vessel was burnt to the water’s
edge ■ ,
Return of the Steamers Merrimac and
Mississippi
Bostoh, November I—The steamships Merrimac and
Mississippi arrived this morning from Newbem, N. O.
They landed there the Third, Fifth, and Forty-fourth
Massachusetts regimer te.
; : Anival. of a Prize Brig.
New Tonic, Nov, I.— the prize brig Bobert Bruce, of
Bristol, England, captured by the United Sta'se3 gunboat
Penobscot, off Shallot Inlet, N. 0., with a cargo of me
dicines andvroollengooda, has arrived here.
Ba»k Robbery.
Geebkpob*. L. 1., Nov. I .—The Suffolk Couaty Bank
was broken open last night, and robbed of *13.500, of
which *8,900 were iu bills, and tbe balance in bends.
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Rebels Still at Winchester—Destruction
of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Property—
Indian Troubles in Florida.
' [Correspondence of the Bichmobd Dispatch ]
. WiNCHESTEB, Va., October 25,1862.
The army is now lying quiefly in camp, wish but little
excitement. Every few days a brigade or division is
Beniferwaid to destroy some part of tbe Baltimore and
: Obio 'Bailroad. Most of it within reach of too army has
been destroyed; They tear up tho rails and lies, pile ,
them together in large heaps along toe road, and when
some eight or ten miles have thus been plied together toe
whole is. fired at once. Theboya like this fun very ranch.
Tbe Cumberland tunnel,! understand, has alao.been de
stroyed in the last few days. It will certainly take Yan-'
keeingenuity some time to clear toe tunnel, for bnt few'
canget.in to work at it at once, whereas bridges end
such like can be formed miles away, and carried to their
destination already fitted together. This, together with
toe partial destruction of Ihe.Chosapeake and Ohio canal,
will in a measure blockade Baltimore and Washington
for awhile.
; Although Ido not : approve of soldiers finding fault
with the manner in which those at the head of affairs
in our Confederacy seo fit to control their monetary
matters, yet there is one thing which, sitnatad as l am, r
i have frequent opportunity, of witnessing, So my sor--
row, and to the no little inconvenience of the soldiers; as
well &b tie loyal oitizeus, in this section ef ibe couatry."
haabeen no law passed meklag Confederate bills lawful
tender throughout the Cpafederacy. Tha soldiers
are paid only m Confederate money, apd many of the
citizene—good Southern monfoo—refuse to take it ex
cept at a;‘considerable discount. 'Virginia treasury
notes are the t. nly currency that is taken by all par
ties here, whereas, if Congress, at its late session,,
had made Confederate paper a .lawful tender, no
one would refuse to take it without ' laying himself
liable to lose tbe whole amount of Ms debt. I know of
good Southern families who heretofore have not scrupled
to take tho national.bills, and who therefore. have no
other kind of money. They are now informed by the
butchtfs and bakers that they can get no more meat or
bread uzlesa they pay Virginia, or maka a censiderabla
discount on their Confederate money. Now, this is a
grievance which it is hard for toe soldiers and loyal citl- •
zens to bear, and it is a Bnbject which it seems to me
should demand the attention of those is power. As Con
gress has already adjourned, £ see no better way than
for the military commanders to publish some order with
regard to it, and not suffer the soldiers’ hard-earned
money to be discounted one-third before he can purchase
any necessary article.
;: CAPTUaE OF A STEASIEE.
Ohablkstox, October29.—Tidings reacbel here this
evening of The capture, in Bull’s Bay, of the steamship
Anglia, laden with valuable army stores, and bound to
Cberleston. . .
When tbe Anglia left Nassau news had been received
that the Yankees are working night and day on iron
cladß, with a view of attacking Charleston soon.
OHARLESION TO BE ATTACKED.
'. A deserter from one of the blockading stoamersoff
Charieeton, arrived in that city on the 27th. The Oou
rier gives the following report from Urn:
Before he left he was. acting as assistant quarferznas
ter, and overheard a conversation between Captain Dent
nison and anetber officer on the poop deck of hia vessel,
In which ene of toe officers g’ated that an atiack on
Charleston .would be made on the arrival or two iron
clads and seme additional vessels; with an expected rein
■ forcement to the laud forcas of some sevehteen thonsand
men. They expected io make tbe attack by land and
water between the Ist and 10th of November. Their
light-draught gunboats ware to run up the Stone, shell
the woods, and attack the batteries along the banks,
while the iron- clads and larger vessels are to oome np and
attack Fort Sumpter and the city.
. INDIAN TROUBLES IN FLORIDA.
, Tbe balance of Sam Jones’tribe of Seminole Indians is
South Florida have been persuaded by the Yankees on
the coast to commit all manner of depredations upon in
nocent-and helpless men, women, and children living
near Charlie Popkai a branch of Pea’s creek, in Sotitb
Florida The Gainesville (Fla ) Stat essays:
i “They, it is said, have murdered fonr families; and all
who could make their escape are firing eagerly before the
tomshawk of tbe barbarous marauders employed by a foe
equally cruel. l Now, there’are two remedies: one is to
make, if possible, a treaty of peace with these Indians;
and, if that fails, the alternative is to raise five hundred
Florida ‘cerebeys,’ as some call them, to take these In
’ dians out of Florida, sparing none to tell the tale. It is
believed that they have about one hundred warriors.
The chief object of toe dollar, loving Yankees is to sot
the savages down in that portion of toe State to murder
as many as possible, and rnn off toe balance of toe citi
zens, so as to Be able to get ail the cattlo they need.”
. PERSONAL.
: Major General Magiuder passed through Augusta.
Georgia, Saturday, en route to assume command of the
Southwestern Military Department of the Confederate
States. Major General Huger waß in Baleigh, N. 0., on
Monday last. .
James H, Franklin, Solomon Grooms, William B. Garr
rett, J. M. Morri), and B. L. D. Birchfieid, were all
sentenced to bo hung for murder on the Jsth of Jai uary
next at the last session of the Bukoomb county (N. 0.)
Superior Court. ' ■
i FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. ;
A collision occurred on tho Ealeigh and Gaston Bail
road, near Fcrrestville, N. C., on Tuesday, killing Lien:
tenant Clark, of the 22d N. O. regiment: J. J. Berry
vile, Charlotte, N. O ; Tbos. Boland, of Stanley county,
N. 0., and -—■ Nesbit, and wounding fourteen persons,
incindine twe so’diers. The Baleigh Journal says:
Mrs. Boland, who is mentioned among the injured,
-presents 0 lamentable case. We learn tbatsheleft home,
accompanied by her father in-law, to visit her eick hus
band in tha army hospital, but found him dead. She
was returning with his corp-e, and by the sad accident
her father-in-law was killed and Bhe herself terribly
mangled.
AN EXPEDITION ATTACKED BY THE REBELS—
TOWN SHELLED.
A letter from Apalachicola, Florida, dated 16th ult,,
gives toe particulars of the recent naval expedition to
that place:
An expedition was formed on tbe morning of the 15th
of October,, to proceed several miles np Apalachicola
river, in order to cut out a cotton sloop that was reported
_ ready to run the blockade Tha expedition wsb made np
of boats from tbe United States steam gunboat Sagamore
and the United Stateß gunboat Fort Henry: Two boats
were armed, each having a i we've plunder boat howitzer,
and rifles for the crew and the officers. The boats started
up toe river before break of day, and, after rowing four
miles, they discovered the cotton Bloop in a small bay or
inlet on the eastern bank of the river. Before the sloop
conldbe reached by our jailors, the rebels at Apalachico
la city had gained a knowledge of our intentions, and the
result was that shortly after a troop of cavalry came down
from an adjacent town to protect the sloop with her load
of cotton.
Our men wore obliged to seek a place of greater safety
by moving out into the river, and sent a boat down to tha
Sagamore and Fort Henry for help. Two more hoatß
were sent up the river as Boon as possible,' also an addi
tional boat from toe atoreship J. L. Davis, aud still ano ■
ther from the United States steamer Somerset, a steamer
that bad just arrived irom Oedar Keyß, Fla As soon as
: all the heats hod collected up the river, two of them were
sent to capture the sloop. The rebels were secreted fn
ambnah, and taking deliberate aim, fired upon Our ad
vance, wont ding three of our men. The fire was imme
diately returned from ihe howitzer In toe Sagamore's
launch.
Tbe rebels were quickly driven from the sloop,
which was then unfastened from its mooring and
towed down Apalachicola river, though it was ne
ceesarily slow work, as the rebels had scuttled the
sloop on leaving her, and now Bhe was slowly flliing
with water. Before arriving at tho mouth of ihe
river it was found neceßsapy to take off about tnirty
bales of-the cotton, and tow them or raft them down
the river to the. gunboats. The rebel company had
gone in advance of the sloop and our boats, and had
secreted .themselves behind an embankment,: and in
the storehouses along the wharves, in toe oity of
Apalachicola.: The rebels now fired another vol
ley into.: our, boats, (lightly wounding several men,
.Sat killing none, although our enemies were bnt a short
distance off and tired a number of times Our howitzers
were immediately turned upon onr enemies, and, when
ever one of them was seen attempting to fire from behind
> a storehouse or fence, a discharge of canister and shrap
nri was fired into tbeir midst.. A shell was fired which
exploded in one of the buildings, blowing the roof from
it and setting it on fire. Two or three msre shells were
fired, which set other buildings on fire, and by this time
ih® rebels, having bodj© billed and Several woundedg con-
ware getting theryorst; of it, and stopped
firing into: the boats, and wont to work extingnißhtng
toe conflaErahon which onr exploding shells had en
} EInCUCI. t
The PftiladeipMa Sheriff Case
Pittsbcro, Hot- I.—ln the case of Ewing vs. Thoms*
eon, before the Supreme Court, in session here, the mo-
Hon of the complainant has been decided in hie favor.
Judge Stromg orders ” that complainant (Ewing), on
Effing security in the sum of $5,000, Thompson be eu
joited from interfering with his enjoyment of tho office
or Sheriff, or disturbing complainant therein, until the
hearing of the writ of certiorari, or further orders. It
is ordered that the defendant (Thompson) haffß leave to
move tho Court on the 15th day or November, 1832, to
Quash ths certiorari, on the plea of it having bran issued
without epeciai cause previously shown; unhws the
plaintiff *hall have shown sufficient cause, on giving five
days’notice.”
The case will come up for argument in January next,
THE CITY.
[roa ADDITIONAL. DO CAL NEWS SEN JDDBTH PAM.]
• A New Government Transport.—
On Batnrday afternoon, the new Government iron steamer
Pocahontas, built at the Penn Iron Works, Kensington,
sailed' for New York, 'where sue will be immediately
piaeod in the Government servioe. She is entirely new,
and constructed in a substantial and thorough manner.
The dimensions are 180 feet iong, 30 feet beam, 10 feet in
lower holds, aud 7j{ feet between desks; tonnage, about
900 tons. She was built as a substitute for the old Poca
hontas, which was wrecked in Burnside’s expedition, off
Hatieras.; She is to be chartered bythe Government of
the Powhatan Steamship Company, of Bdtlmore, for
merly of the Baltimore and Richmond trade. The engine
is single direct acting, 40-inch bore and 38-inoh stroke; a
flue boilers''and f the machinety 400-horse power. Tho
Pocahontas is capable of carrying 1009 troops between
decks, and about 650 tong freight in the hold. She sailed
fully equipped and ready fer immediate service, with an
ample supply of pumps, life-boats, &o, Messrs. Neafie A
Bevy completed the contract for her construction in less
than five months.
The keel of another Government vessel is now being
laid at lire seme works. She will bs an iron ship, 0f1,600
tons, and will supply the place of the Oriental, also
wrecked le one of the expeditions to the Southern coast.
It is needless to say Bhe will reflect honor on ths meoha
nical skill of Philadelphia.
Frightful Stabbing Affair.—A
fearful case of stabbing occurred yesterday afternoon.
The incidents, as learned from personal inspection and
inquiry, appear to be as follows: On tho west side of
Front street, above Dock, a public house is kept by
Thomas Oastelio. The neighborhood ia known by its
mere mention, and the general aspeet was not improved
when we visited it, either by the glare of afternoon sun
iight or the spectral blackness.of night.. At this
bouse two girls, daughters of a Mrs. Gorman, had put
np. Mrs. Gorman herself was at the Pennsylvania
Hospital, Eighth and Pine, recovering from a broken
leg. The two girls were aged respectively twelve and
fourteen. Though perfeot children in years, they appear
to have been old in vice, since, according to all ac
counts, the profession of the street-walker became with
them a means of livelihood. Within the last few days,
Mrs. Gorman had also been staying at the house,
having sufficiently recovered, to remove thither. On
Saturday night, Mr, Trump, a soldier, returned home to
the same place, and attempted to turn out the mother
and her two daughters. Between three and four o’clock,
yesterday, two young men arrived, with the avowed
purpose of edmlnistering a flogging to Trump for his
ungallant behavior. They were summarily ordered
out by Mrs. Trump. They returned, when Mrs.
Trump tried her hand at it, and attempted to
put them out. In this attempt she was stabbed
by one of the men, named McGlnley. A wo
man of the name of Welsh who interfered shared the
same fate, and a eister of Mrs. Gorman had her arm
out in three places. We are glad to eay, however, that
the men were caught and taken care of as their merits
deserve. The women were all taken to the hospital,
their wounds examined aud dressed, and themselves
paid all passible attention to. The whole affair strikingly
illustrates fife depravity Inherent in each sex and every
age, end in the highest degree is shameful and re
volting.
Caleb Cope, treasurer of the United
States Sanitary Commission, If. E. corner of Minor and
Sixth streets, acknowledges the receipt of the following
contribntlons since last report:
H. Geiger & 00.,ndditienat„.. ........ ~.,,....,820 00
John Cox, additi0na1............................ 90 00
Cash, E. G 20 00
Merrick & 80na..,............ ......100 00
Oath, J -1,T,, •.«,■ >•«.«.a...... 26 00
Stephen Bobbins...., 20 00
Osin, B acker & Cook. 25 00
J B. 8aam.................................... 15 00
Mrs. Maria McCau1ey.......................... 25 00
B; F. L0per..................... .100 00
Obarleß ilegargee. 10 00
-■■■■' • sno oo
Previously rep0rted..................;.... $38,911 79
Total..■ .$39,3t>l 79
The Banitary Commission also acknowledges the re
ceipt of the following donations in hospital supplies since
last report: -
Soldiers’ Aid Society, Bethlehem, one package, Miss
Hueffler, secretary; Soldiers’Aid Society, LeßaysviUe,
one package, 8. Downs, secretary; Soldiers’ Aid So
ciety, Bert Clinton, one package, J, S. Bich, secretary.
Cleansing op the Public Highways,
—The following figures will exhibit the amount of dirt,
asheß, &c., removed from the public highways during
the past month, by Mr. B. A. Smith, contractor for
cleansing the streets:
Number ofloeda of dirt rem0ved..3,269
Number of loads of ashes rem0ved..,.............. 6,372
N nmber of dead animals rem0ved.................. 60
Humber of inlets cieanced. 251
The removal of ashes doling the last month was ranch
"greater than it has been at any previous time since the
existence of street-sweeping machines in this city. Thte
v»c=i of when a much
greater qusntity of coaf is consumed than in’the warm
reason, and the present month wilt ffo donht far exceed
that, of last month. -. The streets generally are in an ex
cellent condition, .The Board of Health state that (hey
are each month becoming better, and will soon be in a
condition that they can be kept perfectly olein with ease.
The health of our city at the present time Is sufficient
evidence of this fact, that there can be but little filth
remaining along the pnblic highways
Arrival of Sick and Wounded
at the Citizens’ Volunteer Hospital, Broad and Prime
streets, within the ia t few. days: Hibbard Graham, 72ii
Pennsylvania, Co. N, leg; Dennis Giifolye, 19th Massa
chusetts, Co. E, strained; Corporal William Johnson, sth
Vermont, Co. G, fever; Timothy Kennedy, ISth Massa
chusetts, Co. H, sick; W. H. Quaintance, 104th Pennsyl
vania, Battery A, sick; John L. Smith, 104th Pennsyl
vania, Battery A, sick; Henry Smith, 2d Now Jersey,
Co. F, thigh. ’ ; '
; Contribution to St. Joseph’s Hos
pital.—The Sisters of Charity acknowledge the recep
tion of the tom of 526, for the benefit of the. sick and
wounded soldiers at St. Joseph’s Hospital, from the fol
lowing young ladies: Miss Ellen Kilyan, Miss Catherine
Bchmerzar, Miss Louisa Schinerzer, Miss Louisa Owens;
-through the Bev. M. M, Murphy, of Potteyiile, Pa.
Forty Hours Devotion.—-The yearly
exercises held in the Catholic Church known as the
Forty Honrs’ Devotion commenced yesteiday, being the
Feest of AU Saints, at the Preparatory Seminary of St.
Ohalreß BorromeO. The conclnsion of the exercises wilt
be on Tuesday evening. -
Fire.—The fire which .occurred at two
o’o’ock yesterday morning was at the box manufactu
ring estabiitliment of Hr. M. H, Howe, Beach street,
above Shackamaxon street.
Police Arrests.—The number of ar
rests made in the month of October by the police is re
ported at the Central Station to be 2,124.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Philadelphia, November 1,1862.
Halters were rather quiet on the street to-day. Gold
ranged from 29 to SO. Considerable' sales have been
mcde at and between these figures. Old demands were
Belling at 127 in the forenoon, bat closed a half lower
The market was rather weak. Honey is plenty at ratea
between 4®6 on call, and fi®B on good collaterals. Go
vernment securities were in more demand,And brought
higher prices.
Prices at the Stock Exchange are generally looking up,
and the fancies were more called for than, for acme days
post. Government sixes, 1881, sold at 104%, an advance
of % ; the seven-thirties at 105 if, no change. Both were
in reaueat. Camden and Amboy sixes were in demand.'
1870 s and 1883 s each rese %. 1876 s and 1889 s each ad
vanced 1. Pennsylvania fives rose %, and continued firm.
The sixes sold at 105. Pennsylvania Railroad 2d mort
gages were steady at' 106%, Beading sixes, 1870,. ro3B
-%. Chesapeake ahd?-Belaware Canal sixes sold at 95.
Oily sixes were steady North Pennsylvania sixes were
steady at 88 if, an advance of %; the tons %J ffimira
sevens sold at par, an advance of 1. Schuylkill Naviga
tion sixes, 1882, were firm at 70. Lehigh Valley sixes
Bold at 108%. Huntingdon and Bread-Top Ist
mortgages brought 88%, Sunbury and Brie seven B
106%, Snß4UBhanna Oanal shares were active a*
an advance of %. Sehuylkill Navigation, common
and preferred, were without change.- Morns Canal con
solidated rose %. Hazleton Coal sold at 49%. Lehigh
Navigation scrip rose % Beading Bailroad shares
openedat 39%, but were without much life, and they
closed with sales at 39, same figure bid for more. Beaver
Meadow sold at 89; Camden and Amboy at 153%, an
advance of 1%; Gatawissa preferred,at 15%, a decline.
Penna. rose % ; ilinehiU %; Norristown sold' at 63% .
North Penna., Long Island, and Elmira were without
changed Passenger railways were not so active; Spruce
and Pine sold at 16% <®l7; Girard College at 26% ; Bece
and Vine at 9 ; Arch street at 26%, all without change.
Bank shares wore dull,. Mechanics’ Belling at 27, The
market closed firm after 1,500 shares and 865,009 in bonds
had changed hands.
Drexel & Go* Quote:
New York Exchange.,,...............par01-10 fils.
Boston Exchange......................par©1-10 prem.
Baltimore Exchange,.... .par dig.
Conn try Ftmda .... Sfdl*.
Gold. ...... ......; 2? X «30)$ [prem.
Old Pemandß ........ 26 026 prem.
The following is a statementof the business* of the Phi
ladelphia custom house for the month of October, 1862,
as compared with the two previous years:
October. 1860. 1861. 1862.
In warehouse Oct. Ist... $891,915 51,085,8C5 $88,951
Wareh’d from foreign pts. 65,877 9,746 , 65,016
ii other districts... 21,702 \ 4,746 2>,126
Withdr’n for consmnpt’n 161.732 81,591 90.693
“ transportation.. 9,315 5,900 5.358
“ exportation..... 160 617 3.262
£n Tvarehoueo Oct. 31..... ,798,347 989,986 79,140
Entered for consumption 933,497 168,352 390,675
Freeindse. entered...... 334,949 26,669 85,863
Domestic ptoduoe exp’t... 905,211 733,0X1 830,221
BOIIBg KBOEIVBD,
1859. - 1860. 1861. 1862.
0ct0b0r....5125,483 5204.28 S 888,330 8308.080
Prey. 9 m’th5...1,907,782 2,162,670 1,125,612 8,103,410
82,033,245 2,368,858 1,213,841 3,309.490
During the month of October the business of thoUnitod
State* Assay Office, at New Tort, was as follows: Dei*
positß, Gold, 8131,090 ; Silver, 832,000 f ,total, 8163.000.
Gold bars stamped, 8213,322,- sent to 0.8. Mint, at Phl
ladelpbla, ror"coinage, $85,589.
The following is a comparative statement of the im.
ports of foreign drygoods at Now York for the week
ending October 30, and since JannarjTl: ■.
For week. 1860. • 186 i; 1862.
Entered at the port. .81,370,289 621,842 1,183 002
Thrown on market... 1,187,611 789,891 1,228,918
Since Jan. 1.
Entered at the p0rt..890,419,823 39.125,544 43,944,465
Thrown on market... 90.569,190 39,175,775 58,731,939
ni—ir m llMk ttfft-v ■
The following Is a statemsn; cf
the office of tlw a . t6Cs!
Hew York for October: ' atl£ ‘ ! Tts^H
October, 1862, b>’ balance.,., I
Beceipts during tb.l month— '““ . ,*1 s ,.
*;t.3Ma 9 ,. n
WDUrevenu8.,..:......; j 69
Patent fees jjS
BUacellaneona ~,... ■ 7 '£;{ J 5
Post Office Department.*.. 1 99^79®
Total J,,, •
Debits— 1
sreasnrr drafts... - '’“li
Pest Office drafts..
siir,-f10i,03 5 6r
* * i 33
r~* —is.*;..
Balance, October 31,1862... 1,, --- s, t It
Balance, ’ Or., disbnreing ac- j “HutiS''
eoDnts...... *p,301..wr c.
Beceipts during the month... 11!,57-2 ’Sf> r J
Payments..,, T ~~—^-Sra...
Balance
Balance, Or., int. accounts.. I ’ 2,86 s n-iiVi? V,,;
Appropriation. ........ f™ g
Paj ments. ........ 2,c.}s - t{
Balance., .....J
By receipts for cnstoms la foe Obi''
October, 1862.... ...J., th of *ll
By receipts tor cnefoma In'VfiV
October, 18tl ...;...L.. . !c «
- Increase In October, 1882., j...
Balance, Or., bullion and 3*?S>
for Assay 0ffice...........}, “"""d ,a M 5
Coin received daring the month I ,S] i%“ o 7‘;- teib.
Fine bars received during this 119 81 * *
month ....s., ■.
Total
Payments in c0in..,.... sr! V; 221 an'
Payments in fine barsij
**}-*<>o 03
Balance
Ftosdß in hand, inAssistant *****'“•
Treasurer’s c-fliee ....... .sio.oic rm ~ ’ "
Funds in hand, in Assay office 57 53 .j.
Fine bars in Assay office in
TJopsrted beClion in Assay 6a '*
0ffice.,,....
202,513 09
I " ""—sn-.,
,478 5iTi^
Balance..... -77-.^
The Milwanltee Sentinel of OciobeV’m!- B ®**
following receipts of wheat at Milwankß "V 5 ” W
in the periods named compare: ' a ®9i«p
T0ta1...........
less overdraft and due dsposljors.’’
Week Boding .
Oot, 251 b. 9:t 254
Milwaukee 6i7,8U jigni V, lie
0hiceg0.........440,627 11,113 m “Hi*
It will be Been from the above
ceiptß of wheat at both cities thus farTf 1,1 •*«»
amount to 23,104,226 bosh el?, acaictt °s bbt? 41 **
in the corresponding period of 1361. “
Shipments for the season todata cob mw , .
JSD-,1,.
: ■;
From Milwaukee...... 13owom *351
From Chisago. ..........41 S®*H
Thus it will bs.notioedourßhtpin 5a) 3f Ir . fi ,,“ , 8,H
Chicago to date nearly two millions hosbeb
The Chicago Times, October 31st. says”™,
lines of railroad leading east from this c[- v -1 “ e
advanced freishts 10c hbl on flnnr and s, ? ,S:t! «
We publish the new tariff elsewhere. Firsts <
third clats rates remain unchanged. The Met?' Bl
into effect on and after Friday, October 3i at *“ S|ss
. The coal trade sums up this week, CimpstM -a
year, as fellows: ‘“ e “*
WEEK.
28,226
34,290
18.876
34,053
15,393
8.551
19.894
25,368
F.& B. 8...
Scbl. Canal..
L. Val.B. B.
liehigh Canal
Scranton S’th
Do Wth
Pa. Coal Co..
D. & find Co.
Wyoming So.
« ..N’th.
Broad Top...
Sbamokin ...
Treverton...
S. Mt., H.T.
tykens Yal.
1307,652
988.333
661,180
823.801
702,604
208.627
549,532
645,600
172 568
40,961
222,138
190,41.5
40,619
69,788
. 65,677
8,080
8,884
1,328
2.870
2;309
6633,8(30]
The following statement shows ihe baataiTfs
Beading Bailroad during the sioeih of Oclob" »
compared with the same month of 1861: ''
, 1862. usi
Received from C0a1........ .$361 72t 53 sKtm,
“ Merchandise.. 38,050 01 * tlfts
“ Travel, &e.„. 49.212 68 .39^’*
Transportation, Boadway,
Dninpune.Renewal Fuad,
and ail charge 5........... .178 105 S 3 inj- j
Set pj ofit for the month.... $270,838 33
“ pievionß9 m0nth)...1,259,081 DO liffeSjs
■Total net profits XO monllia.gl.SSe.tes 33 Bukt;*Tii
.Philadelphia Stock Exchange! Salts, x«, t,
[Beported by S. E. (slatmakeb, PoUb. feast
FIB3XBOABD.
700 Cbes & Bel 6b. ... 55 llMeehißat r
1000 H Penna 6b 86# 2 0«m & 8,6?
6000 do 88# 7 Hszl t>a ji;
,2000 Penna B2d mortlO&X 2 KtoSics B 3!
2000 Beading 6s ’70.. .106 10 d 0.„„,... 5.1
1 Beaver Meadow.. 89 501 CstssitHs BsO ;a
114 3oe<i Oanßl b 5 5 25 Girard CsSiJsi
206 City 6s New...c.106 113 Btf AFTra L.. Ht
1300" d0....8......102 2000
ICOO Oam & Am 6b’75.105 10000 Etaira 8'5.,,,1*)
2000 do ..’S3 106 500 gal ??s 6s 'iJ. 3
.3000 do ...'89.105# 9" Bscs a Vien 3,. I
1000 do ....’83.106# 40001-sftfji! I'ai 6j ..Hi
3100 US 7-30Trlf end.3o4 6 Paima B...ca=ds
200 d0.......Cb1k. 105#\ U Slwehfini cash SI
. BEXWEEB BOARDS
4 Machs Bank cash. 27 (13109 Forth ?em;6f., jf
127 Spr SiPinaß b3own 16# j 39 Areh-st B.„.„is
“ 3 Min6hiUß...cash.! 48X1 *5 Ooffiaercirl Bill
~ SECOSD BOARD. >
2000 Snnb & Erie 7b.. 108 V 100 Sb?AH*J§S
100 BntQ. Canal....bs 5 3000 0 S 80*1 W
180 d 0............ £OOO 0 SV^jF'f
600 North Fauna 10s 105# 6 CamJ*
3 Mmehiil I! 48# 100 10-M
15 do .-..;'48X 200
12 Norristown B 68# 1000 'UA
; 200 City 6s 5Uw......106 1000 Pennalf
3000 Hnn &B T 1 mrt 83# 12d& 3g
12 Petma 8........ 68# 100 ResJjf
5000 BeadirK 63' ’70.. .100# 100 dd~7
6900 Penna 5s 95# 1000 North
480 abt do 95#
OIiOSIHG pkk
JH&.Askei i.|
U. 8.6 e cons *Bllo4# 104#
08 7 BOD b!k..105 103#
Amerioan Gold .328# 130
PMia e«. oia...ioa
Do nevr...106 106#
Alleg co 0s 8.. .. ..
Penca 6b..,..., 85# 95#
Beading 8..... S 9 39#
Do bds J BO. .109 »
Do W0’70.-.104# 3C6#
Do >80..... 100# 100#
Penns 8....... 65v 65#
Do, Ist m 65..134 114#
Do Sum 6E..106# 106#
Slorrfs Canal... 65# 58
■ Do pird 103.126 128
Do 83*76.......
Do _ 2d rat*... ..
SaaaCanal. .... ..
Do 6a..,.. ..
Sobnyl Hav.... 5 5#
Do. j>rf8....14# 14#
Do 6a >83.. 69# 70
Elmira 19 20
Do br'd 32 33
Do 7Hletm. 89# 100
Do 105...,. ..
F Penna 8.....10 10#
Do 6*,..... 86# 86#
Do 10s 105 106
Phil Ger & For. 63 64
DehlghValß... 62# ~
teldghTal Ms. ..108#
Philadelphia Markets
The Flour continue light re li *
feeling to the market, but the galea are ltaitei
bbla. told for export, at $6.37 for anperfiWt ia *-
for extra famOy. The Bales to the retatters *
range fr0m,56.37 tip to ©8 50tf$9 V *>M Co: JfjJ
extras and fancy brands, according to
Ffcurisvery scarce, and it is wanted gt-?**
hbl, "which ia an advance. Corn Meal bin (
and firmly held at $3 bbl, for Fee^ 1
$4 for Brandy vine, , , rn ‘
Wheat.—There Is lees demand, bstflrt&yjf,
the tame, with sales of 4®5.0G0 bw S*)® 4 VWi*?--
Pennsylvania reds at SI 45a1.45, in
Southern at $1,521 afloat, and a small lot $■ *“•*
bca.
Bye is very scarce; a small sale of
mad eat 95c boa. , --jl
Corn is dnlf, with sales of 4 00 bus
cbh fly at 73c, afloat. _ ;riV^>
Oats are also dull ; *ales of 2,000 hta lV "
39c for Delaware, and 42c for
Barley is more active, 20,000 fens solacs.
private. .^r
Bark—The receipts and sales of
llsht ; a small sale fine ground No.
ton. A lot of Chestnut Bark, sold st ‘ f
. Gottox—The market continues gad*
transactions are of ft very limited cliera-.- 4 '-
of middlings at 60e61c fe. .
Gioceries.—Sugar and Coffee continue™
there is very little doing in either-’
former; at PX for Gobs, and BttJJyVs**
Orleans. Rio Coffee is selling ia * ?al f T .. ccd - >
and Lagnaira afc'27#®2Bc V
firmer; Cardenas.is selling at SOc^S* I ,’ y
Fnovrsroxs.—There fa very
tion,knd prices are unchanged. * , h^f
$13013 50 bbl. City-packed m
«js«mvm>m. ••-»•••- - ~
IjAkd —There is very little 4oui®t,, w ft.
tierces at 10% colOKc, and Sega st ".n! tjtf*
SESBS—Tt>« demand for Bw£
■with sales of 600 bna atSB 25eS S? h ? ‘
frem[gl.so®2.l2Xforcommonto l pnme ! *
W bos. Some holders are aside* m ° r *:. -j a laid;
Wmsii is firmly held. Sales <>r."S-fard
-39040c; bhds at 38%; and drudge. 3l a °
MAKTNR INTELiI« EriCE '
•ST BEE TOUBTH PAG*.
ABBIVSB. , , tjti
Bark Han eon Gregory, Gregory,»
Orleans, with sugar, SO. to Workman )lleS i.
Brig Herald, Davis, 21 days tro® ,
sugar and molasses to G W Berea*® * t*\
Brig Ahby Ellen, Gilmore, from r°‘ .
vaval stores, Sc. to Navy Agent. _ rs:S-
Brig J WBovett, Crosby, M days iro®
B, in ballast to S A Bonder 4 Co. , s t>cS
Scbr Frederick, (Dan) Oaspsrson, ao
go, with fruit,Ac to Tsaae Jeanes
Schr Sarah, Wallace, 8 days fro® w J
iron to captain. „ _
Schr Cabot, Bimey, 1 days fro® Bn«on,
to captain. , e f afbrf*“
Schr Bear!. Mobrey, 3 days fro® ,
lumber to JW Bacon. Sac*
Scnr J M Taylor, Lynch, 2 days fro®
with corn to JaaL Bewiey & Co- , |I)4!1 ;r
Bohr Transit, Chappell, 6 days fro® a ,
to captain. T*b ■
Bohr Olivia, Fox, 1 day from Odes**’
to Ghrfstf&B 8s 00. ,
Bchr S B Tomlin, Johnson, 1 AW . „
Del, with grain to Jas Barratt & ~° n - -fSnna 1 ”
Sobr Charier Oab, 5 days from Gears'
to J 1C Bazley & Co. MSta 1 * 1
Bcbr J W Fish, Shaw, 4 days from ,
to 3 B Bazley A Co. . iles^
Schr Oriental, Thom json. 4 deys*®” J
ballast to J E Bazley & Co. , is* 1
Bchr Alfred Bniilio/;, Fennimore, 1 “ )
Del, with wheat to Jaa t Bowler &CO. s*'
Beta: Fannie Dayia, Evans, 2 4W
with corn to D H Merriman.
OIiSAEa®. 9i D5-
Steamship Bahia Honda* Cnsi, » **)
&00. ' Hew* o**' 0 **'
Steamship Pocahontas, TxaTSrti » r
White Wing, Wilson, Xißguwr*.^
& Bark Aniietam, Farnsworth, Bo3!or “ K J
& B?ig W H Harris, '
Bohr B a Obaloner, Kenney, «
& Go.
MUIMOBAIWA- rff *i
Bart Linda, frosaSew Ot'.awii -* I
yesterday* - |
issar~T
wru.;
(Uffijisii
1 2
'■l-lio IB*
. 25T,«»:i5
fAm.
«2s»i: c?|
ffiUiuaa
4 i S'y
zoisa
st.l« t!«
"OM> V*
Z"': ;&
6O : 0!i jg
51,082
85.908
25.073
16 023
15.538
7,681
6,762
26,735
5M0.984 22 ?;jig s
<uas#l*j
»
.iinLj?
:oss—rißH.
Oatawfssa 3..,. ?
Do pifd..a ||*
Bearer Heedß. i* * I X
MisefaUl B ®
Hsrriabnrg 8.. 5J •>
WUEiseton E.. .. >•
Lehigh
Do skew... s»?i j
Do Scrip..,, 2! **
' Gam & Arab 8.-152S* ..
PhiJ& k Erieci IWjf •*
Snub k Erie'?.
Loaglsisnaß.. *l% E
Da &«&.•. ;• ••
Delaware IKf..-33 »■
Bo bads •
Spruce y
Qh£Btnvtßiß..% i.
Arch street 8,. %s
Bace-tfreet 8.. • **
/‘Teath-sfreei E. J
jTbirfeeotb-et B '
W ?Mn B h
I Bo boada.-.. - jj
[Green* street $ 3
Do bonds.,.. .. -
Second • at 8,... •'
Bo bonds.
Fifth- etß »?*"
Do bonds....lift J.
Girard Col 8... »'« "
Seventeenth-:!. ■ "