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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1863.
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49-Voluntary correspondence-solicited from all
parts of the world, and especially from our different
military and naval departments. "When used, it
Will be paid for. . ' •
-Mr. Roebuck and the War Question.
Belligerent Roebuck, who desires that
John Bull should declare war against the
United States, without any further delay,
is a very small creature, in more ways than
one. As might be expected from his lan
guage and manner, he who roars like a giant
is personally unqualified, in the event of ac
tually being engaged in battle, for occupy
ing any greater position than that .of a drum
mer-boy, and might probably be considered
undersized for that. It is astonishing how
loudly little bantams crow! "We shall not
wrong our own judgment by undervaluing
Mr. Roebuck’s abilities. He is an effective'
speaker, albeit with feeble voice, and though
he raTely, if ever, has reached that grandeur
of eloquence which forcibly impresses itself
on the minds of an audience, and carries
them away with it for the time, he frequent
ly commands their attention by the bitter
ness of his sarcasm and the vehemence of
his assertions. lie is a good writer, too,
and his “History of the/Whig Ministry of
1880,” fin •which is to be found a graphic
account of the passing of the Reform Bill in
1832 J is spirited and lucid, with more fair
ness to political opponents than he can bring
himseif to put into his speeches.
Asa lawyer, Mr. Roebuck’s place is—no
where. His practice cannot be said to have
left him, seeing that he never was troubled
with as much as would pay the rent of his bar
■ rister’s chambers, fin 3 Pig Tree Court, Tem
ple,.) but it was his fortune to enter Parlia
ment immediately after he was called to the
bar, and, though he went the Northern Cir
cuit for years, never could persuade lawyers
and the public thaf he was any thing of a
lawyer. The aim of ambitious barristers
is to obtain a seat in the House of Commons,
but they subdue this ambition until they
have secured incomes which render them
comparatively independent. The barrister
who enters Parliament immediately after he
has been'“ called,” virtually tells the world
.that he prefers politics to law, and must not
blame the world if he is taken at his word.
It is quite true that Mr. Roebuck, writes
‘Q. C. after his name, But to be a Queen’s
■Counsel does not denote either extensive
legal acquirements or commanding practice
in the courts. It is sometimes merely hono
rary, conferred as a favor. It was thus that,
in 1843, when Mr. Roebuck, a professional
Radical, strongly supporting the Tory Ad
ministration of Sir Robert Peel, it was.
considered necessary to reward his services
in some manner. There are people who
will not take payment in malt, but will re
ceive it in meal, as the saying is, and Mr.
Roebuck belongs to this class. He would
appear to have turned his coat by taking
office from Peel, but gladly.accepted the
patent constituting him Queen’s Counsel,
which Peel’s Chancellor, good-natured
liTEDiruitST, threw into his lap. It gave
him a certain status in the profession, but
probably did not get him one brief extra.
This gentleman Vho would fain precipitate
England into a war with the United States
was equally vehement in denouncing the
Crimean and the Chinese wars. It is the
nature of politicians like Mr. Roebuck,
who are swayed by caprice and personal
pique rather than by principle and patriot
ism, to fall into inconsistencies. Hence,
we find Mr. Roebuck strongly expatiating,
in Parliament, against the horrors of war
in the Crimea in 1855, and,in China in 1857,
yet literally shrieking out menacing and in
sulting language against the'-United States
in 1803,: and calling on Palmerston to
rush into what would certainly be a contest
as unwarrantable, on the part of England,
as it would be angry and destructive on
botli sides. He forgets that toe have received,
not given, the'provocation.
Apolitician, not a statesman, Mr. Roebuck,
When he called for war, omitted to ascertain
whether, at' this particular crisis, England
is in a 1 situation to fight us. Events are
culminating in Europe which make it doubt
ful whether England, led by France, as in
1853, can avoid drifting into a second war
with Russia, on the Polish question. Were
Napoleon fairly out of his difficulty in.
Mexico, so as to concentrate himself in an
European contest, he would probably be at
warlike issue with Russia within two months.
The nationality of Poland, promised by the
treaty of 1815 but never granted by Russia*
would be tire nominal casus belli. The real
cause would be, as in 1853 and 1859, Napo
leon’s desire to engage Prance in some
great contest which would add to the
“glory” of that empire. He has managed
so cleverly that England can scarcely avoid
being dragged into such a contest, precisely
as in 1853. Mr. Roebuck, before he called
out “ War with the United States,” should
ascertained'whether England can afford to
have two'great wars at once ; whether she
can even carry on one; whether.the recent
reduction of her naval and military establish
ments does not show a pacific indication.
Palmerston, who has ascertained all these
points, counsels moderation, but a little
lawyer, -whose one solitary feat in arms
was a bloodless and ridiculous duel with a
newspaper editor, shrieks for “ War!”
Should the peace of Europe be disturbed
on account of Poland, we may expect that,
as in 1854, Austria will declare herself neu
tral. . Prussia, which .kept back from the
Crimean war, will certainly side with Rus
sia. England and France would again fight
side by side; Italy may join in the same
issue, and Sweden is supposed to be suffi
ciently inimical to Russia as also to join
against the Czar. The issue of such a
contest may entirely change the map of
Europe. Is it likely that, with such a pros
pect, England can also rush into hostilities
against this country ? The British Ministry,
we sincerely believe, would rejoice over the
defeat or humiliation of the North; but ;
popular feeling in England, which was ini
tiated against us about the Treht affair, in
the winter of 1861, has gradually changed’
in our favor—greatly changed since, the
George Griswold practically assured the
English that we had not lost, though cruel
war pressed on us, the large and liberal
humanity, which fed the starving millions of
Ireland in ’the famine of 1847. It would
take a phalanx of Roebucks to get up a
war feeling against us now in the hearts of
the English people. The aristocrats and
trading politicians who oppose, because they
hate, our free institutions, are in a great
minority.
The Paper Supply.
The New York publishers have been con
siderably exercised during the past two
weeks in consequence of the action of the
paper-makers of that State, who have com
bined for the purpose of creating a rise in
prices. The excitement which the subject,
has occasioned seems to us uncalled for.
Combinations designed to affect the natural
laws of trade unduly may be successful for
.a little while, but they can never acquire
(Sufficient cohesive force to resist the pres
■sure of public opinion, and eventually they
/must fall to pieces. The New, York paper
manufacturers have engaged in a most fool
ish and disreputable enterprise, and one,
also, which is almost certain to result un
profltably for them in the end. They
.might, with ns much prospect of better
ing their interests, have met in secret con
vention and passed- resolutions against the
east wind, or against the partial eclipse
of the sun, which the almanacs have ar
ranged for the seventeenth of. next month.
When will men learn that a certaiu degree
'of comity in mercantile intercourse is an ele
■■ment es'sential to prosperous commerce, just
'•as nitre is an element essential to the compo
sition of gunpowder ? When w ill they learti s
that wherever there is friction there is ioss'of
power, whether it.be iu mechanics or in so
cial economics ? With the whole European
market open to us—and Italy alone oah fur
nish enough of the raw material to keep tbe
paper mills of the United States pretty busy
—it is very improbable that any dangerous
or permanent combination to keep up prices
to a fictitious standard can be effected by
the New York manufacturers. Though
monopoly array itself in mail of triple steel,
there will inevitably he some vulnerable
point in the armor through which the barb
of competition may enter and inflict a death
wound. Something more potent than se
cret resolutions is requisite to clog the
wheels of enterprise, and whatever is inca
pable of checking them is very apt to be
crushed into shapelessness by their revo
lution. -.
Therefore, we attach not the slightest, im-;
portance to this subject, and we have al
luded to it merely to repeat the inquiry at
all times seasonable, and so often urged
without any marked result, whether a cheap
and available substitute cannot be found for
the present paper material ? We have seen
it stated that upwards of fifty different sub
stances have been experimented with, in
this hope, and that all have been successful
in some degree. What can he the reason
of their tardy introduction to the notice of
the public?—for, except in the occasional ex
hibition of specimens at county agricultural
fairs, or a brief notice in the columns of
some scientific periodical, we have neither
seen nor heard of them. Very few honorable
exceptions occur to us at present. The Chi
cago Tribune is printed on a paper into the
composition of which 25 percent, of sorghum
enters ; and we learn that two mills for the
manufacture of this paper have recently
been started in Illinois. A Philadelphia
cotemporary, and one or two of the New
York dailies, make use of straw paper. The
Flat Rock mills at Manayunk have been en
gaged in tbe manufacture of this article for
many years, and indeed we believe the pro
prietors were the first to introduce it. The
Boston Jour?ialh.&s lately used a paper made
from wood at an establishment at Royer’s
Ford in this, State. It; is rather brittle in
texture, and : not as white as might he de
sired, but still it is not an unacceptable sub
stitute, especially as it is the exponent of a
successful experiment which may be pushed
to still greater development. A paper made,
from the Swamp flag is how being extensive-;
ly produced in New York State,- and the
demand is said to exceed the supply. It
has too coarse a fibre to be fit for printing
purposes, but we should think its quality
not altogether incapable of further improve
ment, in which case a certain per eentage of
it might perhaps be advantageously em
ployed in connection with finer material.
We have somewhere seen it stated, within
the past two months, that a .gentleman of
.Fort Wayne, Indiana, has recommended, as.
worthy of experiment, a fibrous material
growing in the bolls of the sycamore tree in
that vicinity. .It is a short staple cotton of
a buff color, and can be obtained in great
quantities throughout the West. Undoubt
edly, if tried, it would be found to answer
well as a paper material. - /
Across the ocean, too, the question has
awakened considerable interest and discus
sion, and a recent number of the London
Times informs us that “ when Mr. Glad
stone was declaiming with his wonted
eloquence on the importance of releasing
the paper manufacturer from" the incubus
of tbe excise, he made one statement which
excited no ordinary sensation; among his
hearers. " He had been informed, he said,
that admirable paper might -be made from
the fibres of rhubarb after that plant had
been previously employed for the manu
facture of champagne. Even when the
Wine had been taken out of it; it was still
good for paper, and each process would be
cheapened and facilitated by the aid of the
other.’! • •
The list, of vegetable substances believed
to be available for this purpose might be
extended to much greater length ; but with
the mention of one other, an account of
which wc find republished in the Scientific
American , we shall conclude it for..the.pro,.',
sent. Dr. Auer Yon WeLsbach; superin
tendent of the Maize Imperial Paper Mill at
Schlogelmuble, .Austria, in a historical.ar
ticle conceming it says: “ Paper Iras been
made from maize straw in the last century
in two Italian paper mills, but not with pro
fitable success, and further’ attempts were
soon abandoned. In 1856 Moritz Dia
mant, of Bohemia, took up this subject
again, and agreed with Baron Bruck, then
Master of Finances at Vienna, to make a
certain quality of paper from maize straw at •
the". Imperial Paper Mill, and he was suc
cessful, excepting in its cost, which was
greater, than that made of cotton and linen
rags. * *-.This was the condition, of
the casein 1860, when'the director -of " tbs -
Imperial Mill, hearing that good paper had
been made of maize fibre, and believing
that improvements might be. made to re
duce its cost, introduced other experiments,
the result of which we have now in the pro
duction of the paper, fibre and cloth to which
we ha've alluded.”
"We'have adverted; to these facts mainly
■with the view of bringing the subject, which
must always possess interest, but which is
especially interesting now, more prominent
ly to the notice of our inventors and experi
mentalists. It is rather a mortifying proof
of the self-suiliciency of modern science,
that in the matter of making our paper from
linen fags, we, of the nineteenth century,
stand almost precisely where the Chinese of
the twelfth century stood. It is especially
mortifying when we take into consideration
the important part which paper has filled in
the programme of the world’s civilization
and advancement in knowledge. Perhaps
these reflections would not have occurred
to us so forcibly, if the price of that arti
cle had not advanced so materially since
the commencement of tire war./ But
if there is a great deal of truth in the
maxim of llocn kkoucac i.d, that “there is
something pleasing to us in the misfortunes
even of our best friends, ” how much morels
it true in the case of our enemies ; and the
New York publishers, in their worst straits,
may gather some gleams of consolation from
the troubles of their Southern cotenjporaries.
Many of the latter have been compelled to
stop their presses, and recast their type in
bullet-moulds. The following extract from
a letter, written on. the Ist instant by the
paper-maker of the Charleston Courier,
shows that that journal too is threatened
with dissolution: “I find, to my astonish
ment, that cotton is selling in this market at
forty-two and a half cents. As I have told
you before, it takes nearly a pound and a
half of cotton to make a pound of paper.
This will run paper up to seventy-five cents
or a dollar a pound.” From this disinal
state of affairs the writer draws the infer
ence that “we shall be compelled to
close our mill until after the war.” It
was the Southern press which mainly
incited the -rebellion by its incendiary
appeals, cunning, sophistries, and suppres
sions or perversiCns of truth; and it is
this power, more than" any other, which
now encourages the rebels in their futile re
sistance to the Government. It is paper
lhat feeds, clothes, and pays off their con
script armies ; it is on paper that nearly all
their victories are won; it is paper that in
spires their people with delusive hopes of
triumph, and gives their guilty treason a
quotable value in the stock markets of Lon
don and Paris. Without paper the rebellion
must perish; and such indications as the
above, that the supply is rapidly being ex
hausted, is a most hopeful sign for our cause,
that should he a sufficient consolation to the
New York publishers in their present pre
dicament.
A Meeting in Hartford.
[Special Despatch to The Press. 3
HAiiTF6itr>, Corn., May 11.
The.U, S. Christian Commission had a glorious
meeting in Dr. Hawes’ church, last evening. The
building was packed. Hehky Olay Tkcmbull, a
chaplain, just arrived froia South Carolina, gave a
noble testimony to the Christian Commission. (f eo,
H. Stuart, and Kev. G-eobge J. Mingiit 8, of
Philadelphia, made addresses. A collection of one
thousand dollars was _t«ken up, and great interest
was manifested for our brave soldiers. X.
The New Disease.
To the Editor of The Press:
■ ■■ Sin i The malady called a- new disease, now pre
t valent at Manayunk, is also seen in Frankford and
elsqwhere-in Philadelphia county- I have no doubt
that it is what has been long known under the name
■oUcaihro-spinal meningitis. Theme who wish a con
densed view of this subject may look at Eberle and
Mitchell on' diseases of children, at page 6SB, where
they will find a pretty satisfactory notice in a small
compass. .
I am, sir, yours very truly, ■ MEDICUS.
LETTER FROM “OCCASIONAL,”
Washington; May 11, 1863,
I think the temper of the American peo
ple, as exhibited during this rebellion,
worthy of great praise. They have borne
and forborne—with foreign Powers, with
friends, with enemies, with one an
other. We had a magnanimous, and al
most a fatal evidence of this spirit in the
beginning of this rebellion ; when rebellion
was permitted to strengthen itself, while
treason reigned in the White House. The
nation that submitted to Mr. Buchanan may
be considered the most patient among na
tions. Since Buchanan passed into inglo
rious retirement, we have had many "occa
sions to practise the sufferance he so.bitterly
taught, and when I hear the numerous evi
dences of active and unmolested disloyalty
throughout the North, I am inclined to be sad
and impatient. In many instances of recent
. occurrence we have seen the professors of
these sentiments imitating their comrades
under Lee, and using violence against those
who are loyal. It is impossible not to see
that in many parts of the North there is an
unpleasant and feverish feeling prevailing.
In Dayton, Ohio, we had an exhibition of
of such a feeling, rendering it necessary to
place the district under martial law. You
have heard of the developments in the
Western States in reference to secret organi
zations to assail the Government In your
own county of Berks, the officers of the law
have shown that men have organized to
resist the laws of the last Congress. In
New York, the dread of probable outbreaks
is frequently discussed. I can very well con
ceive bow loyal men would become restive
when treason is openly discussed and pub
lished, and I admire the forbearance with
which they have so long submitted to it.
In this they have shown confidence in the
Administration, believing that it is strong
enough either to punish these men or treat
-them with contempt. But when men who
are disloyal accompany such sentiments
with threats, and speak of riot and blood
shed as parts of their policy towards the
friends of the country, I confess I know not
what to say. At the same time, there is one
policy that can never lead us astray, and
that is, peace and respect for the laws. In
times of war, when men’s passions are in
satiable and bloody, nothing should be done
to excite them. Nothing is more terrible
than appeal to the mob. It is one of those
fearful exhibitions of tumult and pas
sion, that pass over society like lava
from the crater, destroying- everything,
the slii'nbbery, the weeds, the flowers,
things of beauty and taste as well as things
that have no attraction. The mob is the
embodiment of man’s basest passions. In
voked by those who have nothing to lose by
anarchy, and nothing to gain-by peace, who
see.jmnipmty.for their, own crimes in the
crimes of others, and, afraid to strike them
selves, make the innocent and ignorant the
instruments and victims of their revenge,
we hardly know whence it comes, or whith-’
er it goes. Like a mad, unthinking, de
stroying monster, it vanes' with every
breath, following one leader to-day, mur
dering him to-morrow, and anxious that
blood should, be shed merely because it is
blood. There is nothing more easily in
. voked ; nothing more difficult to quell. You
may summon the familiar, but it departs in
its own time; you may create a Franken
stein only to create your own destruction.
With a Government, and laws, and num
bers, every good citizen, no matter what he
may think, should make it his business to
suppress eveiy lawless thought andfeeiing. I
remember the fearful mob that assailed Mr.
Curtis two years ago, and the horror I felt
when I heard men of position, who hap
pened to differ with the speaker, endorse
the men who attempted to take his life.
■What was wrong then is wrong now; what
.was an outrage to the eminent scholar would
be an outrage to any speaker. If he offends
taste, ..turn away from him; if he effends the
law, arrest him. But the. power to invoke
violence is neither yours nor mine, and it
should be dreaded as an evil that falls upon
all men and all things, and a terror that
none can escape or control.
PROM WASHINGTON.
[Correspondence of The Pres?.]
Washington, May 9,1863,
The movements of the army still form the staple
of conversation and discussion ,in every quarter.
The city is filled with army officers of every grade,
♦hough I am informed that their numbers, of late,
has been much decreased. They swell the halls and
avenues of the hotels, and are seen lounging about
Wherever, they can . meet. good-natured sojourners
who have nothing specially to employ their time,
and are always willing to buttonhole a neighbor, to
dispel the ennui of idleness. It is encouraging to
know; that here, as in Philadelphia, there exists
-among right-thinking men a strong prejudice against
those bfficers.who are always absent from their com
mands, and especially at a time like this, when every
Boldier is wanted where alone he can be of service in
co-operation with Gen. Hooker in. the new projects
which we hear are now developing for the overthrow
of the army south of the Rappahannock. It was
yesterday rumored very freely about that the Army
of the Potomac was again upon its feet, and its ban
ners once more flying. The men had been supplied
with eight days’ rations, and the whole force were
under marching orders. To-day'the rumor assumes
a more tangible shape $ and now there is every rea
son to hope and believe that the campaign is not
ended with the retreat Rappahannock,.
' but that that movement was only the commencement
oi a series by which the wished-for end is to be at
tained. A few days will suffice to show that’General
Hooker has skilfully, and with great foresight
planned these movements; and that the real object
is yet within his grasp. • Parts of his plan may have
been thwarted or deranged by- the fortunes of wan
(and the ablest generals of history have had their best
. victories postponed by accidents,) but that the post
ponement of victory in this case is of short duration,
is a conviction thafrevery where impresses thepublic
mind. The beatproofthatthe energy and strategy of
the army have not yet been exhausted is this second
■ determination of the Army of the Potomac to defeat
its opponent. It is not the part of wisdom or dis
cretion for newspaper correspondents here to detail
all it may be in their power to. write respecting un
developed and unconsummated plans. It is well,
. however, that the anxious hearts at home, who feel
the humiliation of defeat, and are anxious that the
past losses may be atoned for, should be apprised of
the gladsome fact that the Army of the Potomac,
despite its apparent reverse, Sb vet buoyant with
hope, and not only desirous of moving, but are ac
tually on the move. The wisdom and appreciation
which prompt an active and dashing campaign, suoh
as we are promised, will be commended by the coun
try at large. Dilatory campaigns have too long,
wasted the valor and intrepidity of our brave
soldiers. They have as yet experienced but slightly
the rigors . and hardships of an active soldier’s life.
They have fought a battle, and rested for month*
succeeding. Another battle fought, and another
rest. The old-established order is? changing,
and the new one is everywhere as auspi
cious of victory and glory. It is quite certain'
that in the late fight the rebels were-the moßt severe
sufferers. Their loss in killed and wounded is much
greater than ours,'and their exhaustion from con
flict, superadded to that which they naturally labor
under from natural causes, give our-army an Im.
mense advantage. Why not, then, push on, actively,
strenuously, vigorously ? It may be urged that the
army requires rest from their l&borB. Does not the
rebel army need rest, and'do they not need more
..than we? The war is not to he ended by slow and"
dull inactivity. Energy and alacrity, which, under
other generals, the army have always lacked, are
now apparent in recent movements, and with these,
and the endurance which iB characteristic of the
American soldier, success‘may 'confidently be
looked for. General Hooker holds the destinies of
the country in his keeping, and patriot and true/
soldier as he is, the country will yet have reason,
and that at no distant period, to hail him as its de
liverer.
'. The daily arrivals from Acquia creek, of the
wounded of Fredericksburg, attest with what
bravery and determination our army fought and
bled, and will yet light and bleed for the holy cause
of the Union. None of these brave fellows have a
word of complaint on their lips, no word of reproaoh
against their generals, or' despondency that their
lighting had been in vain; but they evince, even in
their agonies, the most hopeful feelings, and speak
encouragingly for the future. They all persist in
claiming the reeent battle a victory for them; and
who, we might ask, are better calculated to know
that fact than those who, like Aeneas, had partici-.
paled in battles, “ all of whleh they saw, and the
greater part of which they were.” Those who have
neyer'set a squadron in : the field, but who show a
military proficiency that ought to commend itself to
the War Department, have set down the recent bat
tle as a disastrous defeat. And here arises a ques
tion of veracity, between the soldier who has never
been beyond the ramparts of Washington, and the
soldier who has consecrated two years of his life to
the God of battles, and here 1 let the question re
main.
Messrs. Clement B. Barclay and G. W. Connaroc,
of Philadelphia, have arrived here as ii special come
mittee of the Sanitary Commission to look after the.
wants of our soldiers. They left this morning,
lor Acquia Creek, with'medicines and luxuries
for the wounded of Fredericksburg. .The Sanitary
Commission is one of those live institutions that,
this war has brought into existence, that are always
up to time, and never absent when their presence is
needed, nor delinquent whei their services, can be
made of value. The history of the Sanitary Com
mission is a condensed histscy of the war, and when
the dark clouds of tho present day shall have been
dispelled, no star in the national firmament will
shine with a blighter .radiance than that which the
soldier, in the day b of his sore distress, looked to
with eo much devotion and gratitude, and that had
THE PRESS—PHILADELPHIA. TUESDAY. MAY 12. 1863.
bo often soothed bis agony and filled his heart with
hope.
The difficulty in obtaining* conduct to the army,
exceeds all belief* The Cerberus of the War De
partment is resolute and fixed. It is stated that
General Hooker has emphatically requested, If not
demanded, that .there shall be no communication
whatever with the army, except by those who are
part and parcel of the army. Newspaper correspon
dents have given up all possible hope of reaching,
for some time to come, within many miles of the
headquarters of the army, Those who come down
here to inquffe for the welfare of wounded friends,
and hope to aid them in getting to their homes,
come here in vain, and the friends of the wounded
come here as legion. Many who think that the
heads of the departments have no good cause to
set aside intruders that the business of their office
may proceed in order, have found ample scope to
rave and find fault. When the interdict will be re
moved, it is impossible to say. For the present
however, you might advise all interested, that a
trip to Falmouth, via Washington, or via any other
way, is beyond all hope.
Tne weather to day is in remarkable and pleasing
contrast with that of yesterday 1 The sun bade us
good morning with a genial face, whioh has not
since changed, and under its effects, the roadß are
drying up and giving hope of renewed life belowthe
Potomac, •' . _ MoD.
Special Despatches to “The Press.”
James Madison Gutts, Second Comptroller of
the Treasury, died this moraine. Mr. Cutts was
the father of Mrs. Stephen A, Douglas. ‘ ;
Major General Hitchcock has been assigned to
duty temporarily sb acting Military Governor of
Washington, General Martxndale, having" ob
tained a brief leave of absence to visit his home, in
New York, on private business.
It is said that the rebels have a large force en
gaged in rebuilding the Orange and Alexandria
Railroad bridge over the Rapidan, which wa i de
stroyed in the course of the late raid of Stoneman’3
cavalry. -
General Banks’ official report of his late move
ments have been received. They contain nothing
especially interesting besides what has already been
published. ' \ •
Information from the Nanßemond represents the
river as clear o£~rcbel batteries and sharpshooters,
and steamers are running to Suffolk as usual.
A large number of rebel prisoners were sent away
to-day, by steamer, for exchange at City Point.
General Stoueman’s Expedition r-'Colonel
Kirkpatrick’s Official Report.
Washington, May 11.—The following was re
ceived at headquarters to-day:
Yorktown, Ya., May 8, 1883..
Major- Gfmgral ff, W, HaUcck,
Vniicd Stales Army: •*
General i I have the pleasure to report that bv,
direction from Major General Stoneman I left
liOuisa C. H. on the morning of the 3d inßfc. with
one regiment—the Harris Light Cavalry of my bri
gade—and; reached Hungary, on the Fredericksburg
Railroad, at daylight on the'morning of the 4th, de
stroyed ihedepot, telegraph wires, and-railroad for
several, miles ; passed over to the Broad turnpike*
and drove in the rebel pickets down the turnpike
across the Break, charged a battery and forced
it to retire to within two miles of the city of
Richmond; captured Lieutenant Brown, aid-de
camp to General Winder; and eleven men, within
the fortifications. I thefi paßßed down .to the
left to the Meadow bridge, Oh the Chickahominy,
which I burned, and ran a train efi cars into the
river; I retired to Hanover town on th’er Peninsula:
crossed and destroyed the ferry just in tiffee to check
the advance of a pursuing cavalry force. Burned a
thirty wagons loaded with bacon, captured
13 prisoners, and encamped for the night, five miles
from the river.
I resumed my march at 1 A. M. of the sth, sur
prised a force ofthree hundred cavalry at Aylett’s,
captured two officers and thirty-three men, burned
fifty-six wagons, the ddpot containing upwards; of
twenty thousand barrels of corn and wheat, quanti
ties, oi clothing, and commissary stores, and
safely crossed the Mattapony, . and destroyed
the ferry again, just in time to escape the
advance of the rebel cavalry pursuing. Late
in the evening I destroyed a third wagon train
and ddpot- a few miles above and west of Tappa
hannock, on the Rappahannock, and from that point
made a forced march of twenty miles,* being closely
followed by a superior force of cavalry, supposed to
be a portion of f ' Stuart’s,” from the fact that we
captured prisoners from'the Ist, 6th, and* lOth'
Virginia Cavalry. At sundown .we discovered a
force of cavalry drawn up in line of battle above
King and Queen C. H. Their strength was un
known, but I advanced at once to the attack, only
however to discover' that they were friends, being a
portion of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, who had become
separated from the command of Lieut. Col. Davis, of
the Bame regiment. At 10 A. 3VL, on the 7th, I found
safety and rest under our own brave old flag within
our lines at Gloucester Point. . This raid and march
about the entire rebel army—a marcK ! nearly two
hundred miles—has been made in. less than five days, -
with a lobb of one officer and thirty-aeven men,
while we captured and paroled upwards of three'-
hundred men. ' v\; - x ■
I take pleasure in bringing to your notice the 'oifi
cers of my staff, Captain P. Owen Jones, Captain
Armstrong, Captain Mclryin, Dr. Hackley, Lieu
' tenant Estis. especially the latter, who volunteered
to carry a despatch General Hooker. He
failed in ; the attempt; but, with his tern
men, he capkired andparoled one- major,'■•two:
tains, a lieutenant, and fifteen men ; but was after
wards captured himself, with his escort, and was
subsequently recaptured by our own forces, and ar
rived here this morhiDg. I cannot praiße too highly
the bravery, fortitude, and untiring energy dis
played throughout the march by Lieutenant Colonel
Davies, and the officers and-meri of the Harris Light
Cavalry, not one of whom but was willing to
lose his liberty or his life, if he could but aid in the
great battle now going on, and win for himself the •
approbation of his chief.
Respectfully submitted, J. KILPATRICK,
Colonel Command’g Ist Brig. 3d Div. Cavalry Corps.
Reports From Richmond.
another, despatch erom gen. Lee—the defeat
- OF SEDGWICK—STONEWALL JACKSON’S ARM AM
PUTATED.
Murfreesboro, Tenn., Sunday, May 10.—The
Chattanooga Rebels of a late date, contains the' fol
lowing:
* Richmond, Tuesday, Mays.-7 The following has
been received from Gaines, near Fredericksburg,
dated May 6, and addressed to his. Excellency.; Pre-
Bident Davis: ■
“At the close of the battle of Chancellorville. fih
Sup.day, the enemy was reposed Advancing from
' Fredericksburg on 6uf rear. 'Gen. McLaws was
sent back to arrest- his progress, and repulsed him
handsomely. : / -
<l That afternoon, learning that his forces consisted
of iwo corps, under Gen. Sedgwick, I determined to
attack him, and marched back yesterday with -Gen.:
Anderson, and united , with McLaws early in the
afternoon, and succeeded, by the blessing of Heaven,
in driving Sedgwick over the river.
‘ ‘We have reoccupied Fredericksburg, and no, ene
my remains south of the Rappahannock, or in the
Vicinity. R. E. LEE, : .
“General Commanding.”
Richmond,' May 6, 1863.— N0 official despatch was
received last night from General Lee; .but private
despatches report our victory complete. -General
Jackson’s left-arm was skilfully amputated below
the shoulder by Dr. McGuire, of Winchester. The
General was removed to his country houß'e, fifteen
miles distant.
Direct communication with the army is not yet
re-eßtablished.
CAPTURE OF CORRESPONDENTS,
Richmond, May 6.—An official account of the:
destruction of the barges and tugs at . Vicksburg
says twenty-four prisoners were taken, including the
correspondent of the New York Tiroes, two corre
spondents of the New York Tribune, and one of the
Cincinnati Times. '
Important Rumors*
New York, May 11.—The Post learns that Gene
ral Halleck is to take the field, not to relieve Hook
er, but to be better able to influence the general di
rection of events.
• General Hooker did not execute his retrograde
movement till he had planned his present one, and
became satisfied of its superiority to any effort he
could make in the field of Chancellorville. '
* Prisoners at Richmond*
Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac,
May 10,—The Richmond Eacarofner of May 9th has
been received. The following is a list of Union
officerstakenatthe recent battles on the Rappa
hannook and received at the Confederate prisons :.
Brigadier .General W. M. Hays, 2d Brigade, 3d Di
vision, 2d Corpß. . •
Col; S. Mayer. 107th Ohio Regiment.
Col. J. A. Mathew, 128th Pennsylvania. , .
Col. R. S. Bostwick, 2ith Connecticut.'
Col. ChArles Glantz, 103 d Pennsylvania. ...
Col. W. W. Packer, 6th Connecticut, .
Lieut; Col. H. C. Merwin, 27th Connecticut.
Lieut. CoJ. D. B. McCrary, 145th Pennsylvania,
Lieut. E. W. Cook, 2Sth New York;
Lieut. Col. L. H. Smith, 128th Pennsylvania.
Lieut. Col. Wm. B. Wooster, 20th Connecticut.
Lieut. Col. Chas. Ashby, 64th New York.
Lieut. Col. John A.-Windwick, 28th N. J-
Major John A. Danks, 63d Pa.
Major Joseph Yesmans, Ist New York,
Major Jas. H. Coburn, 27th Cons.
Surgeon H. K. Neff, 153 d Pa. k
Assist. Surgeon L. C. Langer, 6th N. Y. Cav,
Hospital Steward W. H. Bass.
Lieut. John H. Albert, 45th N. Y,-
Lieut. B. Fineback, 2d N. Y.
Wm. D. Wilkins, capt. and A, A. G. s lat Div.*
12th Corps. \
R. H. Weiber, capt. and A. D. C„ 2d Div., 12th
Corps. > .
O. Weber, capt. and A. D. C., lstDlv.jllth Corps.
R. C. Shannon, capt. and A. D. C., 2d Brigade, Ist
Div., 12th Corps.
Edw. L. Ford, lieut. and A. D. C. to Gen. Ward,
Thos. G. Leigh, A/D. ,C. to Gan. Ward.
H. W. Farrar, A. IL O. to Gen. Sedgwick.
John W. Eckels, A. D. O. to Gen. Hayes.
H. F. Brownson, capt. and A. A. G. }
OccAsioNal.
BEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
MUs.j Invested—The Rebels Sur-
rounded— Boss of the Steamer Horizon.
Cairo, May 11.— The-Memphis Bulletin 4ayi:
“■We learn that Jackson, Mias., has alreadybeen
and the rebels have no way of getting out
of Vicksburg but by cutting their way through the
Nation al force s’.” , . v
The steamer Horizon, during the engagement at
(Hand Gulf, ran on a snag, and sunk with a hundred
thousand rations. Most of the rations were lost.
It was a portion of the brillge over the Big Black
river which was destroyed, instead of the railroad
bridge." ;• - ;•
Bobbery of the Santa F.e Mail by Guerillas*
Saxta Fk, May 11.—The Santa Fe mail, en route
for Santa Fe, was robbed on Friday hight* r near
Black Jack, forty miles from here, by a gang of
twenty-five guerillas. The express matter and bag
gage, in the rear boot, of the stage, was rifted of
$3,C00 in iaoney, and the passengers were relieved *
of their watches. •
The express messenger is 'safe, and the mail, which
was placed in the front boot, was overlooked..
Two,old horses were procured in the neighbor
hood, and the stage proceeded ou-its way.
All the horses belonging to the road, between
Black Jack and Council Grove, were taken by the
same gang, but they will be immediately replaced
by the company, antUhe Btage continue itj regular
trips. - 1
WASmNGTON.
Washington, May It, 1863.
Death of James Madison Cutts.
Miscellaneous.
ARMV OP THE POTOMAC,
DEPARTMENT OF THE CPLF,
An Engineer Regiment of Negroes.
. The following is. a general order of Gen. Banks
relative to the enlistment of a colored regiment to
serve as engineers, sappers and miners, and ponto
niers: . *' •
Headquarters Army of the Gulf,
Cami* insAR Baton Rouge,
New Orleans, March 20, 1866.
GENERAL ORDER No. 78—[Extract.]
3, A colored regiment will be organized forthwith,
for service for three (3) years or during - the war, as
engineers, sappers, miners, and pontoniers, to have
the organization prescribed by law for a regiment of
engineer troops. Competent officers will be detailed
for their discipline and instruction in the various
trades incident to this arm of the service, as car
penters, blacksmiths, wheelwrights, miners, masons,
LOatmen, bridge builders, harness makers, Ac:, Ac.
Unemployed negroes will be enlisted wherever
they are found, it being understood, kowever,
that the labor on plantations now m cultiva
tion is not to be interrupted by the enlistment of
men engaged thereon. The negroes employed in
the regimental campß will be limited to the, number
authorized by the army regulations, with two (2) to
each regiment as cooks.
All negroes not so employed will be turned oyer
to the provost marshals of the .several pariahe? to
be enlisted in this regiment according to their quali
fications as mechanics and laborers, or employed
upon the plantations* as may be deemed expedient.
Enlisted privates will be paid five (6) dollars, corpo
rals seven (7) dollars, sergeants ten (10) dollars per
month f first sergeant fifteen (15) dollars per month,
each with clothing and rations as provided for the
army.
The field, staff and company officers and the
non-commissioned staff will receive the pay and
allowances provided by law for the officers and
non-commissioned officers of infantry of correpond
ing grades, and will be selected from among the
patriotic officers and soldiers of the 19th Army Corps,
who possess energy, industry, integrity, and capa
city, and are interested for the welfare of the coun
try. Preference will be given to those who, in ad
dition to these qualities of every true soldier, are
endowed with a large share of common sense, and
are animated by a proper respect for the rights and
conditions of different classes of men.
The officers will be provisionally commissioned
by the commanding general.
The regiment will be known and designated as
the Ist Regiment of Louisiana Engineers.
The uniform will be fixed in future ordeis.
By command of Mjyor General Banks.
RIOH’D B. IRWIN, A. A- General.
Tlie War ill Kentucky.
Louisville, May 10.—Portions of the 9th and
11th Kentucky cavalry, under Colonel Jacobs! on
Saturday attacked a guerilla camp near Horseßhoe
Bend, on the Cumberland river, capturing eight pri
soners. This morning Jacobs’camp was attacked,
and after two hours’hard fighting the rebels were
driven back in great confusion, and with heavy
lobb,
B|Leb anon, Ky., May 11.—The Federal forces under
command of Col. Jacobs have had a hard fight with
Morgan’s party, the struggle lasting for eight houre.
.The loss is heavy. Jacobs got all his men on the
north Bide of the river, and will be reinforced.
E U ROPE.
.Later by tlie Bohemian—Mr. Adams’ Expia
tion of bis Letter of Protection—Matters
In Parliament The Petcrboff’s Mails—
" Ihe French Ai jny, &c*
Capk Kace. Hay 11. —The steamship Bohemian passed
here tMs morning, bringing advices from Liverpool to
the let instant. . '
TLesteams;hip City of New York arrived on tlie 29th,
and the North American on the 30tli.
.. It is reported that Mr. Adams made a /rank explana
t jon regarding Ins letter of protection to Mexican vessels
No diplomatic protest was necessary, but it is stated
that France takes offence and demands an explanation,
u he situation of Polish affairs are unchanged
In the House of Commons, on the 23th, the effort which
is yearly made to carry the bill,for the abolition of the
church rate to a second reading, although supported by
the Ministers, was defeated by a yote of 285 to 275.1
The Paris correspondent of th * Times says it is sup
posed that next year the army will be reduced to a nomi
nal figure, 400,600 men, and-the navy ,to 18S ships afloat,
with crews of 35.250 men.. At present, France has
442.000 soldiers underarms, and 300 ships afloat.
• The Coi ps Legislatif has been prorogued to the 7th.
• Tho Paris Bourse is firmer. Rentes are quoted at
69f. 40c.
a German priest is said to have gone from Rome with
despatches Trom the Cardinal de Angeiis, denouncing
Cardinal Antonelli, and calling De Angelis to the head
of the Papal Government.
• Unimportant diplomatic papers regarding Poland
have been published in England. They include Earl
Russell’s despatch to Russia, dated April 10th, calling
on Russia to fulfillher tieaty obligations.
A messenger haß arrived at London, from St. Peters
burg, being tlie bearer, it is supposed, of the reply to the
despatch of Earl Bussell.
■ letter from Berlin says, that Russia’s proposal for an
offensive and defensive alliance has been repeated to the
Government of Prussia.
THE LATEST VIA-LONDONDERRY.
London, May I.— The Times' city article says, that
“notwithstanding the additional, reports from New
York, of violent instructions being sent from Mr. Seward
to Mr. Adams,it is believed that nothing of the kind is in
tended to be presented. The reports were probably
encouraged solely with a view to mitigate the difficul
ties of the approaching conscription. With the present
feeling oi the British public, which recently found ex
pression in Parliament, it would be highly dangerous
lor the Washington Government to place matters in such
a position as might render the continued exercise of
forbearance impossible on thopart of the British Govern
ment.
‘ It is stated that the detention by the Federals. on
board tlie PeterhoiF, of two members of the firm of Gal
braith, Redpath, & Co., having been broughfrto the netice
of Earl RuseeJl, his lordship lias directed a reply to be
sent to that, announcing that Lord Lyons will be iu
ftiucted to state to.the Government of the United States
that the British Government coosiders that due repara
tion is due for tlie losses sustained by the detention of
their agents, and to Mr. Redgate for the injury done
them and him by his protracted imprisonment;at New
York.”
Tlie Ministers have announced that the Pcterlioff’s
mails will forwarded to their destination unopened,
aud that the asamo course will he pursued iu similar
cases. ; . ,
Punch's political cut for the week represents an Ame
rican poking with a stick a slumbering lion in his den,;
while Punch* as the keeper,remarks, “Beware! He
ain’t asleep, Young Jonathan,.-so you had best hotirri
tate Him.” . ■:. 5;
Commercial Intelligence*
Liverpool, . Hay 1. —The sales of Cotton for the week
.ending to«day amount to 24,5C0 bales, at a decline of
@kd, : and ld for Egyptian and India.
Bueadstfffs.— Flour is quiet, at an advance of6d.
Wheat active, and 2@3d higher. Cornfirmor, at an ad
vance of lE@l»3d. -
Provisions are inactive. ' *
London, April SO. —Consols are quoted at 93J£@93iL
The-Bank decrease for the week amounts to £46,000.
• American Securities firmer. Erie Railroad 46(5)47;
Illinois Central cent discount. -
LIVERPOOL BRBADSTUFFS MARKET.-The follow
ing are the quotations for Wheat: Red Western, 9s 2d®
.9s9d; red Southern, 9s 10d@10a; White Western, 10s@
10s 6d; White Southern. 10s 6fl@lls 6d. Corn firmer,
and ls@ls 3d higher; mixed, 2956d@2959d; white, 30s
@3ls 6d. .. ;
LATEST.
Breadstcffs are quiet but steady.
Provisions.— Beef is irregular and tending down
ward. Pork quiet, but steady. Bacon quiet and steady.
Lard steady.
: Produce.— Coffee firm. Rice lino. Ashes steady.
Rosin quiet at 26s 6d, Spirits of Turpentine nominal.
Petroleum buoyant at Is lOd.
LONDON MARKETS—Breadstuff's firmer, and tending
upward. Sugar steady. Coffee firmer. Tea firmer.
Rice active. Tallow firm.
The Bank minimum rate of discount, May 2, has been
reduced to 3 per cent.
The London Exchange is closed, it being a holiday.
: i THE LATEST.
LIVERPOOL, May-I.—-The sales of cotton to-day (Fri
day) are estimated at 6 000 bales, including 2, 000 bales
to speculators and exporters. . Tbemarket closes firmer,
out the races are as yesterday. The authorized quota
tions are:
. Fair. Middlings.
Mobiles.. ;24
Uplands 24 ‘*l
Stock in port 370, COO bales, including 46,000 bales of
American.
THE LATEST- SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,
: . ,• l via Londonderry. 3
-- tfibraltar; John Perkins, off Eddystone.
s \^V t : ais V Naine, May 11.—The telegraph line is down
at this place, and it is impossible to get the balance of
the Bohemian's news to-night.
South Carolina.
Nkw York, May 11.—The steamer Oriole, from
Port Royal, on the 6th inst M arrived at this port
to-day. All.theiron-clflda had left Port Royal for
North Edisto. Our troops continued in possession
of ?Folly, Seabrook, and Coles Islands, land were
entrenching themselves.. The New Ironsides re
mained 1 at anchor inside of Charleston bar. :
St. liouis,
. St. Louis, May 11.—The sale or distribution of
the I rctmaiVs Journal and the of New
York; the Crisis, of Columbus. Ohio; the
tic Journal, of. Jerseyville, 111.; the Chicago Times.
an .v.^ u^u( l ue been prohibited in this
military district, by order of Gen. Davidson.
Prize Fight Suppressed*
New Yoke, May li.—An attempt was made
this morning to indulge in a prize fight on Staten
Island, but it was suppressed by the police. One
thoueard persona had collected to witness it, but
they "Bkedaddled” on the approach of a small body
of police. The fight was to be contested by Elliott
and Dunn,
Fire at Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Ogdensrurg, N. Y., May 11.— I The.large flouring
roills. M. Sacrider, and Hurlbut & Co,,;and Tal
man s paper mills, were burnt on Sunday afternoon.
The loss, which amounted to $lOO,OOO, is insured for
$70,000.; ' - - - ‘: . ■
Paroled Prisoners from Vicksburg.
New York, May 11.—The ship Underwriter, from
New Orleans, arrived here to-night. She haß 315
paroled prisoners, received from Vicksburg, aboard.
The Steamer City of Washington at New
New York, May. 11— Midnight.—rThe steamship
City of Washington has arrived below. She will be
up about 1. o’clock in the morning. Her advices
have been mainly anticipated by the Bohemian.
United States Brig- Rainbrfrlgc*
New York, May^ll.—The United State* brig
Bainbridge arrived here this afternoon from Aspin
wall. ■ .
True loyalty.
The following unreserved expression of patriot
ism we take from the letter of a gallant officer in the
Army ; of, the Mississippi: -
(f Itis no matter what my viewfl or opinions were
at the commencement of the rebellion, in regard to
the prosecution of the war. My love of country,.
Government, and flag, and two years’ experience
of most active campaigning, have unalterably fixed
the opinion in my mind which I condense and pack
in a nutshell: I am in favor of crushing armed re
bellion at any cost, and any sacrifice. I love country
more than party, and ever stand ready to sustain
every policy ana carry out every measure of the
Goverment, to restore the unity of the States and
the supremacy of the Constitution. lam in favor
of the preservation of the Union and the prosecu
tion of the war, without an i/, a but, or an and.” •
Public Entertainments.
The New Ciiestxtjt-street Tixratrk. — 1 ‘ The Fair
. One with the Golden Locks”’is ohe of those anomalous
productions that belong neither to the legitimate nor the
. illegitimate drama, but to what,-for want of another
name, we call the burlesque. On this occasion ft seems
as if the. manager had exhausted all the resources of art
and of an intelligent company to make a
pleasant performance out of a very foolish production.
Even as a burlesque, which admits, perhaps* the most
stupid English that can' be conceived, “The' Fai'r' One
with the Golden Locks ,r posses Bes hardly average-merit.
Some points are quite forgotten, v We haxe an inci
dent in an English club room,- which perhaps ; not
ten of the audience could place. The leading fea
ture in one of the acts comprises a multitude of allu
sions to fashiouß, the common gossip of the time, the
latest slanders of tho New York newspapers, and the
. peculiar politics which are only 1 found upon the stage.
Perhaps, in accepting such a part,; Mrs.'Wood desires to
• real extent of 'her mar veilo’us genius. If
this has. been the idea, she has succeeded.. We have
- never seen her playwith more grace, vivacity, humor,
and overflowing fun than upon last evening. In her pe
culiar line she is without a rival on the American stage.
It. seems, in these Inst contributions, aha displays
her. powers in the most versatiW manner. As we
intended this as an- allusion*. met a criticism, we
ziiave. only to say that ths'„. house was crowded
to overflowing. • Tho piece was placed upon tho stage
•in a i-plendid'manner. Many- of the scenes exhibited,
taste and liberality, and the-company is one ofthe
strongest in comedy we have seen upon .the stage for
. mauy'jears, BJv. SetcheiJ, Mr- Bayidge, Hr. Chapman,
and the others, wero warmly received, as well as the
-Belgian Giant, whose uvcouth maniunvres caused a
great deal* of merriment. Wheatley,,has-lowered
-. his prices, and,’ with tbqdisplay upon hi*bill, *‘ A good
; theaho isaE^itfractlOD,x , and as the summer is coming
4 onV wloeh men p;efer to laugh, there is-no reason why
r he should not cougraUiiate liimsclt in. aotivipatiou Of a
: long aud piosvoiouS'iieasou.. ./ • - .*« • .. ■ v
TIIE CITY.
[FOB ADDITIONAL OITY ZTBWS BBS FOURTH - FAOB.J
Mr. Cyrus W, Field on ties Atlanta
Cable.—^ Yesterday, at one o’clock, B£r: Cyrus W.
Field spoke for abenst .three-quarters ctf an hour,
with referenee to the Atlantic cable. J. Edgar
Thomson! was in the chair, and Loriu
Esq., secretary. - One of the tables .pn the platform?
was covered with specimens of cables used iii differ
ent parts of the world. The address could scarcely
be called a lecture. It was exceedingly interesting,
abounding, as it did, with allusions to the experi
ments, successful, or otherwise, which had been
made with respeot to submatrioe cables all o ver the
world.
In the commencement of hia remarks he said tihat
on his return from India to England he. had stopped
at Jubal Island, in the Red Sea, the first point of
telegraphic communication with, London. A gen
tleman there was exceedingly? desirous to telegraph
to that city. He was able to do so, and the me«s
sage was delivered in fourteen minutes. If a tele*
graphic cable were once established between this
country and England, the benefit of the result can
only be approximated in computation. Throughout
the discourse the speaker alluded to the efforts
which had been made here-and elsewhere, and made
remarks akin to those made by moat of the promi
nent speakers on the subject in every country.
The directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
believe that this important work committed to their
charge is at length fully ripe for execution. They
have the fullest confidence iu the sufficiency of the
scientific and practical facilities which now exist for
testing, submerging, and working long deep-sea
cables. This confidence and these facilities have in
creased and been matured during five years of care
ful consideration, inquiry, and experience; and
being brought forward on the present occasion in
conjunction with advantageous and well-digested
business arrangements, the directors have faith in
the establishment of permanent and efficient tele
graphic communication between Europe and Ame
rica by way of Ireland and Newfoundland. An en
terprise so important, and now become so compara
tively easy to accomplish, appeals not only to the
freat commercial interests of Europe and America.
ut to the sympathies of all classes in both coun
tries j its benefits to peace and civilization it is im
possible to estimate. Messrs. Glass, Elliot, Sc Co.,
of London, have laid 4,000 mileß in 30 lines, all of
which are in working order, except that in shallow
water, between Liverpool and Holyhead, which was
dragged and broken by the anchor of the Royal Ohar
ter, in 1869, and has since been taken up altogether.
They undertake to subscribe and pay up in cash to-the
present new capital tne sum of £25,000; and if se
lected to manufacture the cable, they will allow this
company to pay weekly for the materials used and
labor employed about the making and laying of it,
charging no profit thereon, and nothing for the use
of their workß and machinery, nor for their personal
services during the progress of the manufacture, nor
until the cable is completely successful. When, how
ever, the cable has been properly laid and efficiently
worked during one month, the first instalment of
profit is to be paid. This profit is to consist of At
lantic Telegraph shares, credited as fully paid up, to
the value altogether of twenty per cent, upon the
actual cost of materiaVand labor disbursed by this
company in the above weekly payments, the shares
being divided into twelve equal instalments, and de
liverable to the. contractors by one .instalment per
month. The payment of profit is thus spread over
twelve months ; and in caseof failure the contractors
stand to lose not. only their profit, but their invest
ment of j£25,000 in the company’s stock. That they
do not look forward with any apprehension of such a
result is apparent, both from their offer and from the
fact that all the cables laid by them, including those
in the deepest waters, have been perfectly success
ful. Careful surveyson behalf of this company have
beer made by the British Government off Ireland
and Newfoundland respectively. The supposed pre
cipitous cliff about 300 miles from Ireland, which has
beeh uigeu lHuepreC!*Ho!l "*•**»?• fOUai 't3
be a descent equable throughout, and of no greater
pitch than would, allow the working of a locomotive
up and down it, while the bottom is everything that
can be desired, the soft mud of which it is composed
being of a nature continually to increase in. depth, and
certain in a few years to so cover the cable as to pro
tect it from external influences. On the Newfound
land side a deep channel exists'from the approach-to*
Trinity Bay to a place called New Pelican, where
there is every facility for landing, and by adopting!;
which as terminus, upwards of forty miles of cable
will be saved. This company possesses the exclu
sive right of landing telegraphs on the entire Atlan
tic coast of Labrador, and on the coasts of New
foundland, Prince Edward Island, and the State of
Maine. It also possesses agreements with the entire
telegraphic system of America, undertaking for the
latter to connect exclusively with this company, and
covenanting in some instances to return each week
in cash; as a discount for the encouragement of the
Atlantic Company, 40 per cent, of the charges re -
ceived by them for messages over their lines to or
from the cable. A revenue of £50,000 a year is ex
pected fiom this source alone, and, together with the
£14,000 a year subsidy agreed to be paid by the
British Government, and the same by that of
the. United States, must be . added to the
ordinary traffic returns of the company. Re
specting the amount of these returns, the
directors desire every one to judge, for himself.
They merely append a calculation showing what
would be the result if the traffic be sufficient to keep
the cable at work at a very moderate rate for a pe
riod in each year equal to an average of one hundred
and seventy-five whole days, rather less than half of
the year. They would remark that,
owing to the difference in longitude between Europe
and America, the cable must necessarily be open
day and night. As regards the; speed of working
that may be expected, scientific men agree, one and
all, in stating that twelve words per minute as j§t
minimum can.be telegraphed through a proper cable
between Ireland and Newfoundland. In laying the
cable between France and Algiers, it became ■ neces
sary on two''occasions to recover or pick up; in the
deepest water several miles of cable which had been'
submerged. On one occasion, when about thirty
miles off' Cape St. Sebastian, in a depth of 1,250
fathoms, and very ’rocky bottom, sixteen mileß of
cable were recovered, a fault cut out, and the cable
relaid with perfect success. The end of the cable
between Corfu and Otranto was lost in 450 fathoms
off tbe Island of Fano, near Corfu.v It was grappled
for. and recovered, and the line completed.
. The subject of which the speal» had been treat-,
mg nau lately been agitatetVagain, both in this coun
try and The question occurred, should
Philadelphia be represented in the new enterprise!
Could we do anything better for the honor and the
commercial interests of Philadelphia than to sub
scribe for this work!
.At the conciusionof this address John A. Brown,
Ef q., of Philadelphia, presented the following reso
lutions, which were adopted:
Whereas, New efforts, which promise early and
complete success, are in progress to establish the At
lantic Telegraph from Europe to America, and
. WhcrcaS) Recent meetings at New York and other
Northern cities have shown the public interest in
this great undertaking to be strong and unabated,
That the people of Philadelphia renew.
the expression they have heretofore made of their
sense of the importance of the undertakine, and of
their confidence in .its ultimate completion, aa well
as in its success when completed.
That in considering enterprises so great
as this, we ;feel it due the dignity as well as the
strength of this Government to assume unheaita
.tingly the future equality of the American nation
with any others, and therefore to dismiss fears that
a great step in the advancement of the world’s civili
zation can be, under any reasonable circumstances,
prejudicial to us or put us in any way in the power
of others.
Resolved , That as we believe the question now to
be not so much whether a cable shall'be laid, as
what the capacity of that cable shall be, we trust
that American energy. and capital will be put
this enterprise to an extent that shall insure us an
equal share in its future large business. ,
Mr. George P. Smith presented the following re?
-solution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the chairman appoint a committee
to further the enterprise in this city.
The committee appointed consisted of- the names
of J. Thomson, Jay Cooke, Geo, H. Stuart,
George 1). Parrish, George P. Smith, Joseph L.
jOlaghorn. and A. F, Sabine.
ThS ineetlhg W&6 Well attended, and marked with
much interest, every one present, and many who
could not be present, taking :an interest in thq
speaker and iii his subject. .
Meetikg op Discharged Soldiers,—
Last evening the association of honorably dis
charged soldiers held an adjourned meeting, at the
District Court Room, Mr. James Morrison pre
siding.
. The committee appointed to wait upon the mer
chants of this city, with regard to the discharged
Boldiers being furnished with employment, reported
tnat.they had been favorably received, and had no
doubt that assistance would be tendered.
A report was received from the committee ap
pointed to meet another from the association'of dis
charged officers, setting forth that the latter desired
to copnect themselves, with the association of dis
charged soldiers. The reports were accepted.
The committee on organization presented a nun?-,
ber of rules, which were adopted as the basis of the
sooiety’B permanent organization.
The secretary then read a communication from the
Secretary of War, stating that he highly approved
of the sentiments expressed in an address adopted
at a meeting of the discharged soldiers on the 27th of
April last.
It was stated that the registration committee, ap
pointed to take the-namea of all applicants for mem
bership of the society,,would sit for that purpose at
the Columbia Hose House, Cherry street, above
seventh, next Thursday evening - next.- The asso
ciation is to be composed of all residents of Phila
delphia city or county who have been discharged
from voluntary service, as soldiers or seamen, du
ring the present war.
Home for Destitute Colored Child
rex.—The annual meeting of this excellent institu
tion took place last evening at Clarkson Hall, Cherry
street, below Seventh. Samuel Jeans acted as
chairman, and Passmore Williamson as secre
tary. The report of the* managers, as read,
was of a very satisfactory character. They
state that the ■ past year, had heen one in
which they i have felt, much encouragements. The
Home is commodloua and well suited to the wants
of the inmates. v *
A profitable labor in relation to moral and Chris
tian truths iB continually exercised. During-the
pabt year there have been admitted, 24; placed, 17 ': re
committed, 6; returned to friends, 9; abducted by
his mother, 1 j’sent to the House of Refuge, 1: placed
in the Almshouse, 1. There are remaining in the in
stitution at the present time, 26.
The treasurer’s report showed that the receipts
of the year amounted t 0... .#1,274 40
And the expenses were......... 915 00
EeaviDgabalance of. 359 40
The annual election of managers and trustees was
then held, and resulted as follows:
Managers— Eliza Fell, Sallie M. Ogden, Martha
. Warner, Mary H. Child, Elizabeth R. Johnson, and
Xydia H. Newbold.
Trvsfees~T)r. J. : Wilson Moore, P. Williamson,
..Joseph Powell, and John Child. -
Sunday School Aknitrrsary.- -Tho
anniversary of the Sunday school belonging to the
Central Presbyterian Church, Coates street, below
Fourth, took place yesterday afternoon. The au
dience chamber was densely crowded with the scho
lars and teacherß, in connection with a numerous
company of the friends of the congregation. The
pastor, the Rev. Mr. Mitchell, presided. The re
port, as read, showed that the number of scholars on
the roll at the present time is 482, which 'ie a large
increase over last year. The report showed that
much of the success of the school during the year is
attributable to' /the increase of. thef numhen of new
members of the congregation, there having l>een a
large number added sinfe the present pastor took
charge of the congregation.
The exercises of this occasion consisted of a
prayer being first offered by.the Rev. Mm Mitchell,
pastor; after which a hymn was sung, entitled
“ The Crown of Glory.”
The pastor then. made an appropriate address
which was followed by theinfAnt school singing the
hymn entitled, One day nearer home.”' Rudolph
S. Walton, Esq., then addressed the scholars ; his
addresswas followed by a hymn, being sung by the
rchooliCentitled, “The bright hill of glory. After
the singing of this hymn, other addresses were made
by Charles Godfrey, and Rene :.Guillou> Esqs. . The
long-metre Doxology was then sung, and the meet
ing was dismissed. This congregation: recently paid
off the entire church debt, amounting to $7,600,
which relieves tbea of a burden which has been
weighing heavily on them for the last tweaty years.
Political..—The delegates elected-in the
First legislative district-met at Ervin’s "Hotel, No.
935 Federal street, last evening, to eleoi-a delegate
to the State Convention. ,
’ At S o’clock, Mr. H. W. Hatz was called to the
chair, and Jas-'Davenport appointed secretary^
The certificates of the delegates were then ex
amined, aridltbeir names recorded r '
First ward—First division, George H. Hofiner;
Second, William Lloyd d ; Third, Robert M. Taylor j
Fourth. Henry .W. Hatz Fifth, James Davenport;
Sixth. William Ridhig3 - Seventh, William Wiley ;
'Eighth, Jas. Dairympfe; Ninth, —; Tenth, John
Dowelhs, Sr. ; Eleventh, Wm. Parsons.
Third ward—Sixth division, Thomas Blokerton
Sevomh, James Lybraart * Eighth, David Paul. •
: . Mr. William Ridings moved the certificates bn re
ceived. Agreed to. • . . •
Mr. .Tames Davenport then nominated James W,
Blaylock as delegate to the State Convention.
The nominations were olbsed/aYid Mr. Blaylock
was elected by acclamation.
The. chair: appointed Wm. Ridings to inform Mr.
Blaylock of his election. ?, ..- : • . ; »
Meeting of Sunday-school Teach
ers.—a meeting of Sunday-school teachers was held
last evening, in the church Broad and Sansom
streets. A number of addresses were made relative
to the propriety of holding one or more sessions of
the schools on 'the Sabbath. No definite conclusion
was arrived at, and the meeting then adjourned
until next Monday evening, to meet at the same
time and place, when the votes will be taken on the
subject.
The First Paper-Mill in America.—
£*a»t night an exceedingly interesting lecture was
read on this subject, at the room of the Historical
Society,. Sixth street, below Walnut. The essay
was delivered by Horatio G-ates Jones, Esq., of
Roxborough. The meeting waß very largely at
tended. and the lecture throughout was- very much
more than ÜBually interesting.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL,
THE MOSEY MARKET.
PnrnADBLPHrA, Bfay 11, 1803.
The enorinous amount of money on tliemarket U be
; ginning to tell upon operations at the Stock Exchange.
; and bring down the 'rate of ,usance here with us in
■ Philadelphia. Money is a perfect drug, large amounts
j being offered at 4 per cent., with few takers. As the spe
culation in gold falls off that in stocks increases, for
there are a class of men who cannot live bat in exciting
movements,-the-lifeless operation of transferring real
estate being uncongenial to their tempers.' Hence, with
a far greater amount of idle capital, there has been no
thing very unusual in the late movements of stocks
as an easy money market is always conducive of specu
lation, leaving a wide margin to bringtheoperations,
of the present ’day up to an equal activity with former
times.
Gold was not so mercurial to-day, the promising
condition of war matters making it a dangerous field for
operators. Opening at 151, it fell off to 148K@149.at which
figure it closed. Government securities have all gone
back to the figures noted a week age* being 107 for the
1581 sixes, 106 k for seven-thirties, 101K@X for old certi
ficates, 99X for the new. « : '
The stock market was more excited than at any time
this season. Everything on the list, and especially the
fancies, advanced the demand for the latter bordering
on the intense. Governments wore strong. State fives
were ‘steady. New city sixes rose the old k-
Reading sixes, 1656, rose IK per cent, the others, and
Penney Wania Railroad mortgages remaining firm. Cam
den and Amboy sixes, 1533, sold at 103 Westchester
sevens at 105. Elmira sevens rosek, the chattel tens
sellingat 77k. North Pennsylvania sixes rose IK> the
tens 2k.. Sunbury and Erie sevens were steady at 110 k.
Schuylkill Navigation sixes, 1882, rose Hi 1576 sold at
71. Union Canal sixes at SO.
Reading Railroad shares were in stror g demand, rising
to 51k, but falling off K at the close. North Pennsylvania
rose to 16, closing K lower. Catawissa was in demand
at 24; MinehilLat 62;-Pennsylvania at 65K; Little Schuyl
kill at 47; Philadelphia and Erie at 23k. Long Island
was offered at 32K; 38k was bid for Elmira, 53k for the
preferred; 170 k for Camden and Amboy. Passenger rail
ways improved, but holders were too stiff; Tenth and
Eleventh advanced 1; Girard College K; Graen and
Coates k 5 Second and Third 3; Frankford and Southwark
K; Thirteenth and Fifteenth sold at 33.
The interest in Susquehanna Canal was renewed,
opening at 13k, rising to 14k, and closing at 14. Schuyl
kill Navigation rose k, the preferred 1. Union Canal
preferred sold at 4. Lehigh was steady. Big Mountain
Coal was in demand at 4k. New Creek sold at 1. Phi
ladelphia Bank sold at 118; Corn Exchange at 3L The
market closed strong, $82,0C0 in bonds and 12,300 shares
changing hands at the regular board. .
The Board of Directors of the Girard Fire and Marine
insurance Company have declared a dividend of three
per cent, out of the earnings of the past six months,pay
able on demand, free from State and National taxes.
The subscriptions to the national five-twenty loan at
the office of Jay Cooke, Esq. . Government agent, up to
4o’clock to-day amounted to two million dollars. The
total converted last week was between ten and eleven
. million, a most cheering sign, of the times.
; Drexel & Co. Quote:
} United States Bonds, 1881 ,I£6^©lo7k
l united States Certificates of Indebtedness....lolk@lo2
. United States 7 S-10 Notes IG6 @IQ6&
; Quartermasters’Vouchers l@lk<t.
Orders for Certificates of k@k d.
Gold 48KS$49kp.
Demand Notes 4SK'®49kp.
New Certificates of 1ndebtedne55............. 99k@99k
Sterling Exchange, 162@164.
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Balances.
,$0,766,8?0 4i> 5551J515 S 9
. 5,097,039 57 410 471 60
. 4,166,9.96 S 3 : . 593112 46
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. 3,815,61)0 85 537,934 §
$26,006,1C0 69 $3,026,639 00
The following statement shows the condition of the
banks of Philadelphia at various'times during 1562 and
1663; ... .:.' •■-
ISO 2. Loans. Specie. j (Jircai. j iteporsics
51,M6.337 5,658,72 S i 2,145,219 j 21,.596,01-1
33,517,900 5,660,15715,026,070 '
33,899,351 5,543,160 j 5,071,855] 24,597,596
51,526,163 5,435,748J5,095,704 23,419,340
35,514,335 5,455,029; 4,389,890 25,935,714
36,774,722 50, 465,554 ! 4,541,334 |26,G3S 226
37,679,675 4,510,750 4,504,115 ]25,429,15P
37.268.594 4.562.550,4,151:503 29,211 753
137,901,080.4,267,326,3,693,097 S:iO*i7slslS
35,603,57114,219,03513,603,374 i 30,679,259
39,206,028i4.247.51713,534,580 30.549.557
39,458,384,4,247,65 S ]3,295.562 30,106,135
55.959161214,311,70413,369,194129,171,253
37.516 520:4,839,252 ; 3,374.413! 23,531,559
36,259,402; +,543,242 i 3,295,685 j 30,117,527
36.295,641:4,343,988'3,185,042 31,0.59,644
56,451,K5;4,316,577 ; 3.075,921 81,0-21,799
36 557.294:4.855,324 2.959.42S 1 30,839,231
I 55.503,170!4.859, :48a; 2,90.',600130,919,781
January 6.
August 4.. :
September 1....
October 6
November 3....
December 1
January 5,1563.
February 2
March. 2.....
14 30
A^pril
May 4*
“ U.
Messrs. M. Schulze & Co., Ho. 16 South Third street,
siuote foreign exchange for th# steamer Europa, fron\
Bostouj as follows; ..... .
London, 60 days s sight * (&165
Tio. 3 days.... ..... 164K@165K
Puns, 60 days’ sight .3f40 ®3f 46
I>o. 3 days Sf3%@Sf42#
Antwerp, 60 days’ sight ,3f40 @3f45
Bremen, 60 days s sight lIS @ll9
Hamburg, 60 days 5 sight 54 ©55
Cologne.6o days 1 sight 10S @lO9
Leipslc,6odays s sight ..IQS ,@lO9
Berlin, 60 days' sight..... .105 @lO9
Amsterdam, 60 days’sight... 6l&@ 62J£
Frankfort. 60 days’sight. 6lk@ 62J&
* Market steady.
The foreign trade of the port of Hew York, for last
week, exhibits no new features. The imports, exclusive
of dry goods, amounted to $2,934,713, to which add the
imports of dry goods, $1,084,594, and the aggregate foots
up $4, 019,807.; Against this we exported. 82,499,20 S of
pr oduce, and $451,827 of specie—in all, $2,951,035.
The New York Eventiiff Fostot to-day says; . .
The market opened with an animaied feeling. Govern
ments are strong, and the demand is increasing.
The folio wing-table shows the principal movements of
the market, as compared with the latest quotation of Sa
turday evening
Mon. Sat. Adv. Dec.
. U. S. fits, 1881, ret .106# 106#
D.S.6s» 1831,. con ...107# . 107# %
U. S. 7 3-10 p. c.T. IT. .106# 106# ..
D. S. 1 year Certif gold. .101# 101#
U. S. 1 yr. Cert, carrn’cy 99}& 99# ~
American gold- 14S 150# .. 2%
Tennessee 6s 60 60 .. .
Missouri 6s. 63# ' . 83# %
Pacific Mai1....189 . . IBS 1 ..
K.Y. Central ..'....119 : . . 1X9% .. *
Erie....... .V..87# 87# . .. ,#
Erie preferred .. ...10 5% . 104# 1 ...
HudsonEiver 129 , 130 .. 1
Harlem* 96 .. 97# ... -1%
Harlem preferred.......lo9- - 107# 1 %
Mich. Central..... 110# 111 - %
Mich. 50uthern......... S 2 79 3
.Mich. So.'guar 114# 113 1#
Illinois Central scrip.... 9£# > 95# 2#
Pittsburg. ....93# 97% 1
Galena 103# .103# .. }<
Cleveland and Toledo. 116# 115: # ..
Chicagol&Eocklsland.. 99 100 .. 1
Port Wayne ~...,78' 7S# - 1#
Quicksilver Co 46# - 46# . %
Canton Co”*'. .....31# 30-: 1%
Cumberland Coal 23# 24 .. #
Gold has been vibrating this morning between 14S©
149#. As vre go to press it stands for the moment at 148#
@l4B#.' -•
Exchange is quoted at 163, but little doing.
Plxiltu Stock Excli
[Reported by S. £. Slaymak
FIRST -
1100 North Peona R... 15%
100 do cash.. io%
5 do. . 15%
100 do 15%
. ZOO do 16
liO do ...ss\rn. 16
ICO do cash. 16
50 do 16%
4CO do 16 '
]GO do.- cash. 16
600 Reading R......\ . ti
100 do so. 51
IteO do.-. 51%
100 d0........ca5h.. 51%
20 d 0...... 51%
$.210 d 0............... 51%
200 " d0.......b5Aint.‘5J5S
SOOSchuy) NPref....- 23%
550 do.... Pref., bbO- 23%
410 do.... Pref 23%
ICO :d0....Pref..fe60. 23%
ICO do.... Pref 23%
600 City 65... .....107*
4SCO - do-.sev ctfs-,107
. 100 Big Mountain 4%
€CO do ..bo. 4% :
BETWEEN
CCO U S 6s ISSI 107%
70 Lehigh' Scrip 43
4CCO Cily 6,* 107%
lu7ou ao.-..longloan.loS
SECOND
1500 Schuy N 6s 1552.... So - J
SCOO do ..1576.... 71
2 Corn Exchßank... Sl_,
ceb, Philadelphia Exchange.}
BOARD.
l 250 Catawissa B Pref.. 24
[ 60 d 0....... a‘3own. 24
i 150 d 0... 24
! 100 d 0.... . .....b5. 24
100 Simi Cana1........ 13%
400 do v.. 14
‘350 do 14%
[ 100 d 0... b3O. 14%
' ICO d 0..... 14%.
600 do 1)30.14%
200 do b3O- 14%
150 do 14%
; 200 do.. »swn. 14%
2000 U S 7.30. Tr N.bk-.105%
' 2000 Bead Gs IS£& .2dys. 107%
; 125 Union Canal Pref. 4
10 do u S*
5000 Union Cl 6s Coup. - 30
1000 do Coupon. 29
500 New Creek.—...... 1
1000 Sunb & Erie75.....110%
356MmehiIl R’......... 62
115C0 Sch N6s ’B2. .lots.. *5
40 Penna R..- ...... 65%
25 Green.&Coates R.. 42%
1000 West Chester 75... .105
[ BOARDS.
100 Little Schuyt R... 47
1000Fchuyl.N6slSS2... S 5 -
100 Catawissa- R Pref. 24
2COO Penna 05.......... .101%
BOARD.
100 Snsq Cana1....b30. 14
150. d 0...... 13%
200 Big Mountain 4%
450 d 0.....:.;........ 4%
:200 Reading R.... 61%'
- to New-Cre0k......... 1
8-Philadelphia Bk-. 116%
1013th & 15th-st R.... 33
1000 Cam & Amh'6S r 53.103%
. 700 Penna 5s 101%
250. North, Peanaß.... 15%
4 do..
SOCO City 6s.
15200 do..
sc-0 Rcnaa K 65%
2COO North Peuna6s.... 9;i%
6500 Elmira Chat 10h... 77%
KU) d 0......:........ 77%
ICIXI West Chester 7s. ...105
2CoSusti Canal.. 13%
APTBR I
oOPhila&Brie.-.00.- 23X1
CLOSING PEP
‘ Bid. Asked.
OSsft’3l 107 107%
0 8 7.20 N0te5...1C6% IGT
. American Gold. -145% 149%
Phila fisold 107% 108%
1 100 Reading R LlO. 5L
[CES-SXKOSG.
Do Jaew IH% 112.
Alle'«d6s.Bv.-..,. 70%: -
PennaCs..'*. 101% 101%
Rcadinjiß.. 61 51%
- Do bds ’BO ..210 112
Do . bds ’7O. -105%. U 06::
Do bds’66 conv 101%. 107%
Peuna E..div offfd- r 66}*,
Do 15tm65:.136 115 K
Do 2dm 6s. 108%. 109%
Little SclmvlK.. 47 47%
Horria C’l coas&l 71% 75 i
Do - prfdlOs .lfO IS*'
Do 6*’75.... .. ..
Do 2d2jt?.. ..
Soeu C&aau..... 13% 14
Do Ba,. C 0
SchtrylNav 9 -10
Do wa 23% 2Sk
Do §5’82....-?3 . 83%
R........ 40
Do jnfd..».. 5>H >A
Do 7s ’73....112%
- Dc - 105..... -.. .. '"!
L Ir.landP-esdP 21% 32%
Do bds.
Fhila.Ger&Nor- 67 £$
V&1B
- Do bd3 ,4*«. -*
Lge SaleSy. May 11,
S 0! do
50ARDS.
Bid Asked.
NPenna 8.... V. 15% 16
Do 66^-.. k ,.93% 94
Do 10s. .113% ..
Caiawlesa R.Con 7% 8
t Do . prfd..... 24 34%
BeaywMead R-. 70
Mi^ahißß....... 62 62%
Harrisburg B 66
Wilssdngton B
Lehigh Nav 65.. .. - •
.Do., shares* .58 59
Do scrip.... *3 43%
Cam & Arab R... 170
Phils A Erie 6s . .. .
Sun & Erie 75.... ..
} Delaware Div....... ..
Do bds...'.« ..
Spruce-street E. ..15% 16
Arch-streetß.... 27 2S
Race-street R ... ls% 13
Tenth-street R.. 41 44
Thirteenth-st R, 32% "4
W Phils R *67 63
Do bonds... ..
Green-street R.. 42% 44
I Do bonds
IChestnut-st 8... W 53
Second-street 79 £0
I. L‘o : bonds-.-
.Fifth-street E... 60% .61
I Do bonds ,
i Girard Collegeß'27 - ;P, V’
ISeventasaU*-’aiS UX Wi
Philadelphia Markets. ?
Mat 11—Evening
The Flour market J* unchanged. Sales comprise about
1.300 bbls, mostly OhJ° °xtra family, at s7@7.so—the
latter for good round hoo* n > Including 200 bbls fancy, at
$9 13 hbl. The retailers bakers are buying at from
$5.87k@6.25 for superfine, extras at $6.50@7, extra
family at s7@7.so,and fancy V T a>ndß at from
bbl, according to quality. Rye Flour is steady .at
bbl. Corn Meal is ecarce, and Pennsylvania is firm at
$4 25 and Brandywine at $4.37k Vi bC*l
i is rather dull; the receipts arcrlarm,
nut most of_it has been previously'contracted for at 170 c
lor prime Pennsylvania red, afloat Sales of 435 OOff
«flo..? r ®-KnP^ rted fco ' dayat 168@370cllbus, instore and!
afloat. White ranges at 180@190c H bus. K>;e is scarce;
Pennsylvania commands 106 c 33 bus. Corn is mow
t, y» Ihe demand is fair,.and 6,090 bus prirae Southenr
height oatB a ™ steady ;»bvut 4,093
iS ia d9 “f> d: <*«“*»
COTTON. —The market continues very dul!,a&di prices
rp°nr^*T^ qn si e m} ddlings at H>. cash.
GROCERIES. —There ie very little doin s in Simay* we
quote Cuba at IC«@lOJf eV- lb. Sales of isabarsffio Cof
fe pT? r nv.Br nvi Lagnayra at Sic lb
l-nin IStOKS. —The market is inactive, but steady
Mess Pqrk is held atsls 1 bbl. Bacon Hams at il
! 2c ; Pickled doatS(®lc. and Shoulders Lard
R ft for bbls and tierces
7\( - j 18 Il ?actrYo. Sales of Pennsylvania bbls e£
45c; Ohio do at 46c, and drudge gallon
The following are the receipts of Flour and Grain a*
this port to-day:
PlilladelplUa Cattle Market.
Mat 11, 1863.
"he .arrivals and sales of Beef Cattle- arelarger than
they have been for several weeks past, reaching 1.550
head. The market is dull,, and prices have declined
fully 25c the ICO lbs, ranging at from 12@13c for first
quality—the latter for very choice-H@UKc for second
do, and ?@loc 13 lb for common, according to quality.
At the close the market was very dull, and about 300-
head were left over, 100 of which were shipped to New
York.
Cows.—Thore is a fair demand at last week’s quota
tions, prices ranging at from $2O to $45 head.
Shekp.—About 1,500 head arrived and sold this week,
at from S@3oc for wool Sheep, and ok@6c lb, gross,
for clipped. •
I^ e sS a^ket!sdllU9 and about 2,700 head sold
at $/@8.5013 100 lbs, net.
The Cattle on sale to-day are from the following
States: ■
700 bead.from Pennsylvania.
650 head from Illinois.
200 head from Ohio.
The following are the particulars or the sales:
. A Fuller, 100 'Western Steers, selling at from
$11@12.50 for fair to extra.
Barclay 0. Baldwin, 14 Chester county Steers, selling
at from slo@i2 for common to good.
32 Western Steers, selling at from
811.5C@12.50c. for fat? to good.
Lancaster county Steers,selling at from
$13@12 75c, for fair to extra.
Alex. Kennedy. 38 Illinois Steers, selling at from
8i1@12.75c, for fair to good.
, p - 60 Lancaster county Steers, selling at
from 811@12.50c, for fair to extra.
B. Chain,6s Illinois Steers, selling at from 811@12.50c,
tor fair to extr&T
lo^ oo P® y A Smith, 100 Illinois Steers, selling from sl2@
13 for fair to extra, -
A. Christ, 47 Illinois Steers,' selling'from $12@13 for
fan-to extra, - - • • ■
i«9.'e4^ rs J nan ’ ® Illinois Steers, selling ’at from sll@
12.75 for fair to extra. .
. Smith &_Rice, 190 Illinois Steers, selling from sll@
12./Dior fair to extra. '
ACarr, 64 Western Steers, selling at from $11.50
@l2 for fair to extra.
COWS AND CALVES.
The arrivals and sales of Cows at Phillip’s Avenue
Drove Yard are moderate this week, reaching, about7o
selling at from $2O t 0.535 for springers, and s2s@
$45 -0 heBd for cow and calf. Old lean Cows are. selling
at from $15@17 head, as to condition
_,V A £, v J;' s -“4bQut 30 head sold this morning at from 5@
r-ro for first quality, and 4@4kc for second do, as t=>
weight and condition.
THE SHEEP MARKET.
The arrivals and sales of Sheep at PoAllips’ Avenua
Drove Yard are very small this week, only reaching
.aboutl,soo head. There isa -air demand-at from 9@loc
for Wool Sheep, and sk@6cfo gross for Clipped do.
Laml>s ai-e very scarce and high. Sale 3 are making at
from sv@6 3 head, according to quality.
THE HOG MARKET.
The arrivals aria sales of Hogs at the Union, Rising
£nn, and Avenue Drove Yards reach about 2,700 head :
tne jnaTket is dull, bat prices remain about the same as
last quoted,.ranginsat from $7@8.50 100 lt>s net.
1,808 bead sold at Henry Glass’ Union Drove Yard at
from $7 to $6.25 100 lbs net.
bead sold at the Avenue Drove Yard, by John
Crouse and & Co., at from lOO lbs net.
30G head sold at tbe Rifting Sun Drove Yard, by A. P.
Phillips, Jr:, at 87(§;S. Sn % 100 lbs net.
New York Markets—May 11*
Asites —Are.’unchanged, with sales of 25 bbls at $8.25
for pots and $9.25 for pearle.
• BnsADSTUFsa-TUe market for State and Western Floor
is dull, and 5c lower.
m Mai?™ 6 !™ 6 b i )is ¥ 55.9*6 05 for surperfine
Mate; $6.&@6.55f0r extra do; 80..9W8«> 10 for superfine
Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, etc.; $8.50@6.85 for extra do,
inducing shipping brands of round-hoop Ohio at $6.35
©/ «>• and trade brands o o 87@S.
ffj 3 ??A”-. e 4P ? loar is heavy and iower; sales 500 bbls at
a0.9c(5»f.20 for superfine Baltimore, and $7.25®5.75 for
extra do.
5 cents lower, with sales
Sv^^ 18 for common extra, and $5.
5.20 for good to choice do,
Rve Flour is dull, With trifling sale 3 at sf®-L25 for
range 01 fine and superfine.
Provisions.— I The Pork' market is dull and prices are
hhU for old
mess, and $14.20@14 ;X) for new mess. Beef is dull and
c-ijJnc e o- a F e Beef hams are nominal at
$14@16 2o lor Western.
Bacon is very dull, with sales of 200 boxes good short
clear atsc. Cut meats are quiet and unchanged. Lard
is heavy and lower; sales SOO pkgs and tea at 9?£@10&.
Butter and. Cheese are dull and drooping.
Chicago Slay 9.
eon TT 3 ,b * at the sale yards yesterday were
560 head, against 46S head ihe day previous. The sup
ply was much better to-day, both in quantity and qua
lity, and under a more active demand from shippers,
and on Government account, the market was firmer,
and nearly all the offerings were promptly taken at the
noted advance of yesterday. The largest and best sale
of the day was made at the Pittsburg and Port Wayne
Yards, by Miller & Co., of Freeport, to Morris, Reiae
man,& of 540 head of extra still-fed Beeves, ave
raging 2,260 ibs, at $5.20 100 lbs.
•v Jacob Fry sold the same parties a prime drove of 7o
head at head, equal to $5 73 ¥.lOO tbs. Sales in
ciude about 1,000 head, some 625 of which were taken for
the Eastern, .markets, and the balance by speculators,
and on Government account atquotatlons.
V The receipts yesterday were 2,159 head, against
I,SII bead the day before. The market was a shade
more active to-day. although pyiies underwent no im
provement. The best sale of the day was *209 head of
very choice corn-fed Hogs, sold by Powell to a Canadian,
rat 84,70, which was considered at least 20c¥
100 ids above the market. Sales include about 2,550 head,
which were principally taken by shippers at quotations.
IWarteta-by Telegraph.
Baltimore, May dull and'inactive*
Wheat quiet; white $1.90#1.9S red $1.6&»1.70.
Corn firm, at 93@90c, for white.and yellow. Oats
advanced lc. "Whisky dull.
Clyplxy.ATT. Ma 3--11 —Floxtrdull, at a decline ot 23c;
s£. 2o@o 30. Wheat dull, at a decline of 3@sc.
v “isky firm at 41 c.. Provisions quiet. Gold is quoted
at 4o per cent, premium.: Exchange on JTew-York firm,
at K per cent, premium.
Large Positive Sale op Boots and Shoes*
Straw Goods, ice. 4 early attention of pur
chasers is requested to the large assortment of boota
and shoes, stock of shoes, men’s and boys’ leghorn
and Panama hats*. Shaker hoods, soft hats, etc.*
embracing about: 900 packages of first-class city
and Eastern manufacture, to be peremptorily sold
by catalogue, on four months’ credit, commencing
this morning, at ten o’clock, by John B. Myers &
Co.,auctioneers, Nos. 232. and 234 Market street.
C ITY ITEMS.
A Maghutcent New Sewing-Machine
Establishment. —We invite the attention of our
readers this morning to the card of Messrs. Wheeler
& Wilson’s splendid new Sewing Machine Esta
blishment, at 704 Chestnut street, in the elegant
Brown-Stone Building, second door above Seventh.
The Wheeler & Wilson Company, in fitting up this
superb edifice for the sale of their instruments iu
Philadelphia, have intensified their claims upon the
public, and we have no doubt their enterprise will
be liberally responded to, and that their pertinent
and repeated suggestions to “ Get the Best.” will
be largely acred upon. Bead their advertisement.
A Joyous Scene. — After the protracted
rains of last week the glorioui sunshine of yester
day rendered our Btreets alive with gay, happy-faceil
pedestrians, and the. principal places of business
were thronged with fashion and beauty. The famous
old Photographic establishment of Messrs. Broad
bent.& Co., Nos. 912, 914. and 916 Chestnut street,
presented a most interesting scene. Throughout the
day'their magnificent galleries were filled with ap
plicants for sittings or pictures previously ordered,
and all who came and went seemed to do so with the
consciousness that this, of all others, was the place
to obtain the finest pictures in the world —an im
pression, by the way, which is fully sustained by
the facts.
A Comfortable Summer Hat is a
Great Lesley.— By gentlemen who have given
them a trial our attention, hasbeen called to the ad
mirable new style soft and stiffened Pelt Hats,
manufactured and sold by our enterprising towns
man, Mr. Warburton, No. 430 Chestnut street. And
a casual examination of them has convinced us that
for grace, elegance, and real comfort, they far sur
pass any other hat in use. They are a great im
provement upon the ordinary New England-made
felt hfets that are sold by other hatters, both in style
and quality of texture, and we believe are destined
this season to have an immense sale to gentlemen
of taste. They must be seen and examined to be ap
preciated; . ... _
At,t. in those branches destined to be
affected by the new sewing machine just produced
by the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company
should lose no'time in examining it at 730 Chestnut
street. This machine makes the well-known shuttle
or “lock stitch,*’but, from its manifest superiority
in construction and efficiency, cannot fail to prove
the most radical and thorough innovator and reform
er wherever the most perfect lock stitch is a desidera
tum. The price of the machine is only $45.
The Taking op Richmond. —The city
was startled from its propriety on Saturday evening
by the report of the taking of Richmond, the retreat
of Dec from the line of the Rappahannock, and the
readvance of Hooker. People were jubilant, flags
were flung to the breeze, and for the nonce the im
portant news occupied all tongues and all thoughts,
to the exclusion of every other topic, except, per
haps, the elegant civilian suits, and the impregnable
iron-clad vest'made at the Brown Stone Clothing
Hall of Roclchill & Wilson, Wo. 603 and 695 Chestnut
street, above Sixth. :
“ Some Mean Thief has Stolen Presi
dent Davis’ Horse.”— Richmond Examiner.— The
fact is the animal began to lose flesh, owing to the
scarcity of fodder. Melancholy had- marked it for
her own by putting a spavin in its-off hock, a ring
bone round each fore fetlock, and that straage music
attributed to-borseß, namely, thrushes-in the hoof
and warbles in the back. The creature-w»3 not al*
together free from thorough pAin. nor those append
ages known as curbs, and he exhibited-a.tendency to
spring-halt and sand-cracks. “Bronchial Troches”
were finally mixed with his oats;: fcafc soon the
troches failed, then the oats, and then, the horse, and
there werenone leffrto-tell the tale. *Tis said every
one has hiß “hobby,” if not his liorse. Ours is
writing notices of Charles Stokes &. Co.’s one-price.
Clothing Store mder the Continental.
lle Dtd ©o.—“Going, going, going,”
ciied out “ Where are you going;”
asked a passer-by. “;Well,”‘rep4ied the knight of
the hammer, “I’m. going up-to. Granville Stok.ee*
MAmmoth Clothing Emporium, No. 609 Chestnut
street, and invest in> new and beautiful Bvdt ofrsuufc*
mer gansents at nearly haH the.pries demanded
elsewhese.”-
Good Proprietors, of ihe
popular old grocery store of the late H. Mattson,
Arch and Tenth Btreets, have now In store a fresh,
supply of all the best brands of flour, made from the
£ae»t wheat, Freshly ground, expeessly adapted for
the best family use. : s
Walnut Street Theatre. — Laura
Keene and herNew-York Company made a great sue
cee9 last night in the new three-act; drama “Jesslo
McDane.” This is one of the best plays produced in
thiß city Tor many years, and wa advise all our play
goers to Beeit,- The scenery of the coal mines near--
PiUßburg, will be pleasing tc.our citizens, *
McLane,” will be played to-night; • ■
. 2,00t> bbls.
.18,600 bus.
.10,600 bus.
.17.500 bos.