MONDAY, MAY 25, 1863. THE NEWS. 'News of the highest importance, satisfactory to ..'the-.beat expectationrof the public, appears to-day from the army of Gen. Grant. It brings us report •of multiplied victory, success upon success, cap ■ tures of great extent, and evidently of triumph over whelming and decisive. Vicksburg haß been taken, ■ after a first-class battle, succeeding a catalogue o r '■splendid contests which have taken place along the . line of Grant’s victorious march from Grand Gulf to Vioksburg. On the 18th, Vicksburg was’olosely in '/vested, and upon this Haines’ Bluff and all the riile ■ pits north of the city were taken, after a desperate . assault j. still later, the entire works of Vicksburg were carried, and finally the city is in our possession. "What the captures are we can but surmise. The I probability is suggested by our news that the greater part of the rebel army has been made prisoners. ■Three very considerable battles seem to have oc curred more immediately before the cfty was taken; -one on. the lGth, called'“ the bloody and decisive • battle of Baker’s creek,’ ’ in which Pemberton’s •whole force was defeated, with a loss of 29 pieces of •artillery and 400 men ; another on the 17th, when the same force was beaten at Big Black bridge, with’ the loss of 2,000 men and 17 guns';'and, since this, a great battle for the direct possession ot'. Vicksburg. .In the preliminary battles Pemberton is reported •to have lost nearly, all his artillery. Upon the -capture*, of Haines’ Bluff and the rifle pits, the •earthworks at Vicksburg and all his guns came into our 'possession., It seems veritable that having lost nearly all his artillery, Pemberton has by this time surrendered the'greater part of his army,' "We have a report estimating the captures of the prefa tory battles, near Vicksburg, at sixty-four guns and nearly ten thousand prisoners. The battles of Grand' Gull, Port Gibson, Raymond,. Mississippi Springs, Jackson, Baker’s Greek; Edward’s Station, Black Eiver, and Vicksburg, fought within the space of a month, comprehend a campaign, doubtless, un equalled in the war for expedition and success. Important news comes from New Orleans, The Era Informs us that a part of Gen Hunter’s army and nearly all the iron-clad fleet are on their way to the Gulf Department to enter into immediate ope rations against Mobile and Galveston, which, it is believed, will be In our possession sooner than a month. Prom the Opelousaß comes news of the im mense stores of: cotton hidden away from the Con federate authorities, and how thrown upon the market of New Orleans by the victorious ope rations of General Banks. The planters are all returning to their allegiance. Lately General Banks directed an order of the highest compli ment to the prisoners of the Bth United States In fantiy, captured by the rebels under circumstances of treason and villainy, in Texas, just upon the out breakof the rebellion; and very lately exchanged by the rebel authorities, A large number of this heroic iband volunteered in the Army of the Gulf, but Gen. Banks thinks It due to their long suffering and per £ißtent heroism to allow them to return to the North.' The boiubardfuent of Port Hudson, by the fleet under Admiral Farragut, is described in our news from that officer's squadron. At midnight of the Sin inst. our mortar fleet, assisted by the iron-clad JSsßex and sloop-of-war Richmond, •commenced the bombardment of the lower batteries. It fwas kept up an hour,'the enemy not respond ing. On the 9th trials were made, to seonre ac curate range, and at 10 at night another bombard ment took 1 place, and continued an hour without, response. | At three A. M. of theTOth the batteries were again bombarded, and continued till half past lour, when the enemy replied, and the firing became rapid on both sides. The Essex was Btruck but not injured. The Richmond, with a full broadside, si lenced the enemy’s guns. None of our vessels were injured. The Era says: “It is not proper to state the object of this bombardment of the Port Hudson batteries, but it may be safely said that it is not a useless waste of ammunition.” It is probable that this bombardment was made in the interest of General Grant, who had then just captured Grand Gulf and Fort Gibson, and was moving toward Vicksburg. ' The rebel paperß are filled with desponding and gloomyarticles upon the position of affairs at and near Vicksburg. They evidently anticipate the worst in that quarter. The Richmond Whiff is very •severe upon the rebel government for placing Gene ral Pemberton in command at that important point. It says: “The public were never able to account for the sudden promotion by which Colo nel Pemberton, Confederate States Army, ex-lieu tenant United States Army, became, without trial or experience, and without the possession of unu sual abilities that were ever heard of, a lieutenant general commanding the Department of the Missis sippi. His management of affairs in that quarter, and especially the failure to keep the enemy out of the capital of Mississippi, has not elucidated the mystery. When the pinch came another general of tried and known ability was sent there; but it was too late. If Pemberton was not competent for the du ties assigned him, why was he sent there! And if it was intended to relieve him when the cris came, why.was the relief withheld - until it could,not avail! The telegraph tells us that the plundering and destruction at Jackons amounted to fiorn five to ten millions of dollars.” From the Army of the Potomac we learn the fol lowing are among the casualties of the lith Cbrp3 in the battle at Chancellorville : “ Colonel Peisaner, 119th New York, killed; Colonel Reilly,-of Ohio, killed; Lieut. Col. Moore, 73d Pennsylvania, shot through the chest; Colonel .Tones, 161 th New York, wounded; Colonel Hecker, Sth Illinois, wounded ; Colonel Richardson, 25th Ohio, wounded; Colonel Glenty, prisoner; Surgeon Hartman, died of wounds, and Colonel Desauer, General Howard’s aid, killed. A paroled prisoner .brings reports that General Lee passed a high compliment upon the skill and prudence of Gen. Hooker, and the desperate energy of the late ; battleß. Lee expected reinforce ments near the moment of Hooker’s crossing, with the design of intercepting 'all retreat arid cutting him off from Mb base of supplies. We have are port that the rebels contemplate a crossing of. the Rappahannock, to drive Gen. Hooker from Mb base on to Washington. ' f Our newß from Europe shows that the Polish ro« volution is still active. It seems that the sanguine confidence of . the Poles in aid from the French Em peror must be founded on something more solid than. - none To ui iircreider ul l cu', in)iffYrr aioea,it is suggested,has descend ed, along with that of Italian "Unity and many others, to his astute nephew. The Emperor of Rus sia listens with respect to the ; friendly advices of Austria, and will allow.the inspiration of clemency as soon as the Poles prove tractable. Prince Gorta- vague hope. chskoff alludes to the “permanent conspiracy or ganized outside by the cosmopolite party of ro TO i u . tion which is the principal source of these , agita tions.” The. King of Sweden is said to be tho-' roughly in heart with the Poles, and the Swedish nation iB in sympathy with its king. The Times has information that while every effort will be made to induce the consent of Austria; England,and France, the Emperor Napoleon will still, if obliged to do so, pursue his object alone. The question has been put from Paris to the secret Polish committees, whether the Poles can maintain. themselves for two months more; and the reply is affirmative. Orders have been sent to the French Atlantic ports for the recep tion of a Swedish fleet, expected next month; a Hessian fleet was getting ready for the Baltic, and the armament of the maritime ports is aotive and general. Correspondence of the Times assures us that the in- surrection in Poland is spreading and conservatism passing into rebellion, under the oppressive rule of Russia. Marquis Wiepolslti, the recreant Pole, con demned by Prince Napoleon, has lost health and energy, under the pure military rule introduced at Warsaw, and no doubt is entertained that the Em peror will Boon set him ; aside. The great faithful ness and generosity of the Jews, in money and men, to the cause of Poland, is aIBO mentioned in our news of the revolution. ' A bkw days since the steamer Monticeilo and a mortar schooner went up Mu rrill’s Inlet, a few miles north.of Charleston, which has not been visit ed or blockaded before during the war. They found five schooners and a number of storehouses there, •doing a thriving business. The storehouses and one ■of the schooners, which was aground, were burned. The other schooners escaped, some of them running out and some up a river running inland, An intel ligent negro, who was taken qn board the Montioel lo, states that from two to six vessels weekly run in and out of this inlet, and that two co'mpanies of two r hundred soldiers were there, waiting for our forces to come further inland. A tabulae statement of the trade of England with the West Coast of Africa in 1869, states that the exports from the West Coast to England during that year amounted to about ten millions of dollars, i being an increase of a million and a quarter oyer those of 1858. The imports from England amounted to about five millions, being an increase of a million and a quarter over those of 1868. Of the exports about fifteen-sixteenths was palm oil, and oftheim porti about one-half were cotton manufactures. The news from Mexico is full of encouragement to the cause of that Republic against the unfortu nate invasion of the French. The Mexicans have nobly maintained their ground, against desperate onsets of the French, till at last Forey has been com pelled to relinquish the siege, after months of fruit- less privation, battle, and slaughter. Thus far. it thoroughly appears, the Emperor’s designs to re establish Mexico upon a French basis have proved abortive. The Paris Moniteur has announced officially that the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to* Fontainbleau, which haß been so long taken' for granted, is not to take place, and was never intended to happen. “ Despite the pleasure which it would 4ave conferred,” says the Monilcur, “ the Court of ithe Tuileries never hoped that the duties in England •of -the Prince and Princess would allow them to pay such a visit.” Aim the colored regiments in General Banks’ de partment, except the engineer corps, have been turned over by him to General Ullmann, who has -the entire control of their equipment and organiza tion. In addition to the present four regiments, there are already two thousand five hundred recruits in camp. General Ullmann would immediately pro ceed to organize a corps d 3 armSc of infantry, artillery, -and cavalry, under white officers. The people of Jefferson and Washington counties, Missouri, celebrated, a few days since, by a mass •demonstration at De Soto, the anniversary of the capture of the first Secession flag and lirßt armed traitors in Southeast Missouri. Delegations were -present fro pi all the surrounding towns, and the ■ occasion was one of great enthusiasm. The official report of Gen. Stoneman will show ■ the following losses: Officers Wounded, 1; missing, 114., Men wounded, 8; mtßsing, <49; killed, 8. The ’command of Gen. Stoneman captured 43 officers, 635 mien, 202 mules, 230 wagons, and 656-horses. HEAR Admiral Foote, now at the head’of the Bureau of Equipment, has forßaken his, crutches, and is now thoroughly recovered for the service. He it anxious to have again command of a squadron, ftnd assist in the victories of the Mississippi, whoso brilliant record he inaugurated.. The Secretary of War announces that all officers and men duly exchanged as prisoners of war Binoe January 10th will be, without delay, equipped for the Held, and forwarded to the armies to whioh they - belong from posts or camps wherever they may. be collected. ~ VICTORY S The brave fellows in tlie field, and the glorious heroes who sleep in honored graves all over the South, were remembered yesterday with grateful tears and prayers by millions of rejoicing men and women. It has been said, by one who desired to frighten,our people from the good work of destroying slavery and giving im mortal life to our free Government, that “nearly every Northern household had a dead man in it.” If this were'even so, what one of these households did not feel yesterday as if the spirit of its dead hero was present, joining in the rejoicing over the unparalleled triumphs in the Southwest just achieved by the army under Grant ? And what one did not feel that their loss was re turned and compensated? If the living soldier is proud of his scars, and feels that they are the best legacy he can leave to his posterity, what a glory the deeds of a brave man, who sleeps in his unforgotten tomb, shed .upon his family! Even tlieir mourning becomes bright in the presence of such a memory. They arerihe envy of-thousands who cannot share in their deep, yet joyful sm'row. The days of chi valry have not passed awaje They have returned to us; and we Eve in them now. The battle of the ages is upon us, with its thousands of and invocations. Mankind here is not fighting for principalities or powers; for kings or coronets. For the first time since thd birth of Christ there is 'a. fair fight for national liberty and for a thorough civilization. And he who takes honest part in this fight for these great principles, is from that hour an object of* pride to his family, friends, and country. One such day as yesterday, when from nearly every pulpit, and in every church of God, and at-every" family altar, and wherever men did congregate,' thanks went up to the throne of the Almighty for the great tri "uinph He has given to our arms, has made newly sacred the blood shed for our dear country, and relighted the fires of pa triotism in many doubting and desponding hearts. It was a day to make us feel that we cannot lose in this struggle ; that .Slavery cannot longer baffle Freedom, and that the American Republic, shaken from turret to foundation-stone, is being so re built and so cemented with the blood of its best sons, that it will stand for centuries, the fortress of Freedom, puissant in itself and irresistible against a world in arms. European Matters. The latest intelligence from Europe is scarcely; important. In England, repeated defeats- in Parliament show the progressive weakness of the Palmerston Ministry. A measure, fully sanctioned by them, for levy ing church-rates wholly on church-people, was defeated in the House of Commons, and a proposition by Mr. Gladstone to put a tax on the incomes of charitable institutions was so successfully resisted that its with drawal alone prevented its defeat. In the House of Lords, too, a bill to prevent and punish corrupt practices at parliamentary elections was defeated, on its leading penal clause, by a majority of 66, though sup ported with the utmost verbosity by Earl Bussell. No one expects that Palmer- . ston, even if-defeated nine times; instead of three, will think of resigning office. He looks upon office as the natural reward of nearly sixty years of public life, during which time he has been about half a century "in place, under Premiers of all shades of po litics. He knows that the Opposition party are rather disunited, and therefore unable to fight him effectively. He knows, too, that Queen Victoria, ("still nursing her grief as if no other middle-aged woman ever before lost a good husband,_) refuses to be com forted, and would be much averse, just now, to any charge which would give her the trouble of forming a new Ministry. So, ■ putting these matters together, Palmerston takes parliamentary . defeat as , if it meant nothing. . ~ ■■ Meantime, he is quietly infusing ndw blood into his Cabinet. The war-secretary ship, vacant by the death of Sir G. C. Lewis, is now occupied by Earl De Grey and Ripon, a man only thirty-six years old, but with considerable parliamentary expe rience. He had previously be&n Under secretary for India, and subseqijqfffek:6rr n LWav_„ a T'4rnvßyS w TaEEe3 as an pdyanced ; . liberal., His Under-Secretary will be the Marquis of Hartington, son' of the Duke of Devonshire, and not favorably remembered in this country on account of his thought lessness ("if it did not mean more ), in wearing iU'ebel badge in Ms lnUton-hoJe at a fancy ball on''the Fifth avenue, New York, A short time ago. Immediately on his re turn to England, he was placed in office as a junior Lord of the Admiralty, hut has since been transferred to the; "War Depart ment, where, should Poland continue her struggle, he may have plenty to'do, ere long. The Marquis is a fluent speaker, -and merits praise as, at all events, being a candid man. "When he was recently re elected, after accepting office, he frankly declared that, after some months’ residence in the United States, he thought very mean ly. of us, and wished success to the South. Earl De Grey, his superior in the War De partment, and a Cabinet minister to boot, is a good Federalist. . Another of Palmerston’s recent moves is the appointment of Mr. James Stans pelp, member -for Halifax, as junior Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. Stanspkt.o, now jn his forty-third year, is one of the ablest among the rising “ young men of the day. ’ ’ In politics his opinions are almost ex treme—he is a Radical and something more, and -is son-in-law to Mr. Ashurst, the London attorney, who got up the Gari baldi" fund. Mr. Stanspeld has been ge nerally considered as one of Mr. Bright’s followers. He has gone over to Palmer ston, however, who takes oredit in having ■ put a man of the people into office. • Ihe Polish question appears to have nearly monopolized public attention in Continental Europe. Through various fortunes, the Poles still hold out against the armies of the Czar. The remonstrances of several "Sovereigns have been responded to by the Czar, who, with much ingenuity, holds out the promise of liberal institutions and good government to Poland, but declines doing any thing while the Poles are in arms. (The want of success in Mexico appears to have much irritated the public mind of Paris. The conflict between the King of Prussia anil his Legislature has become so intensified, that his deposition may be looked for at any time. IiETTEK FROM “ OCCASIONAL.” W.AsnrxeTOK, May 24,1863. If the men in the free States who are clamoring for peace on; any Serins, with the seceded Soath, wotjkl take instruction from such witnesses-, as tlie gallant ©bfenel Grier son, who said that during his great expe dition through Mississippi he discovered not only a strong Union sentiment,, bust realized that the strength and resources of the so-' called Confederacy had been studiously ex aggerated and misrepresented, they would do much mere to hasten. an honorable adjustment oi our national troubles than by weakening the Administration of the Federal Government in its efforts to put down the rebellion. Quite as. good an evidence as this of the inereafeing de spondency of the people who have been misled by desperate and infatuated leaders, -is the widespread grief and dismay occa sioned among theijn.by the intelligence of the death of Stonewall Jackson. An officer of the American, army now in, this_city, who was taken prisoner in the late battle near Chancellorville, and who was driven to Richmond, where he was exchanged, pre sents a picture of the condition of the South ern people that would scarcely he behoved, if it did not come from so high an authority, and were not. abundantly confirmed by Olliers. It is true, he states, that the officers who were captured with himself, some eiglily-one in number, were treated with unexampled barbarity by high officials, and even by the women they met on their,' way; and he adds that this feeling was so great, that they were forced to walk the entire, distance to Richmond, although they could have been transported through by rail. But facts like these are rather proofs of desperation than of strength, and in dicate, in connection with the pros pect of almost universal destitution, that peace with the United States would he hailed by tbe Union people of tbe South, as well as by those who have been misguided by the rebel leaders, with the most profound gratification. If it should so happen that the victories which are now setting steadi ly in our favor in the Southwest could be re peated in Eastern Virginia, and that several more of the prominent chiefs-of the re bellion could he captured or killed, little timewould elapse before the Southern states men, who have always heretofore advocated the Union against the Secessionists, would find encouragement and recompense in raising their voices in favor of such a settlement as the General Government has always stood ready to approve. Ob serve .that most of these men have rarely appealed upon the surface of affairs since the beginning of the warm the South. Some of them, in order to save themselves from, personal violence, have been forced into the army; hut we hear very little of George S. Houston and Williamson R. W. Cobb, of Alabama, and others of the same school, in different portions of the South. In a letter of Hon. Reverdy W. Johnson, published in the National Intelligencer of the 21st, the fol lowing passage occurs: “ But the errors or the past cannot be corrected. We can only learn froiii them wisdom for the future. What does that teach us 1 Is.it that no Union feeling is now to.be found in the Southern States 1 Is it that it is so totally extinct that to revive it is impossible 1 Ido not think so. The Guthries and Wickli&ies, the Joneses, the Rodneys and the Bates, the Rives and the Summers, the Ruffins and the Moreheads, and the thousands and thousands who united with them still have in their hearts, as pure as ever, love of the Union which their fathers constructed. Satisfy them, that, the war ended, that Union will be as it was intended to be, and was before treason and fanaticism involved us in the existing frightful struggle, and much, very much, will be.done to bring the struggle to an end, and to restore our. former nationality. We shall then, too, know each other the better, and value each other the more.” The mistake of Mr. Senator Johnson— whose high personal and political character has never been better illustrated than in a recent letter, in which he declared that the only way: to close the rebellion was by force of arms—his mistake, I say, consists in the remark contained in this extract, in which he intimates that when the war is ended the Union will not be what it was before son and fanaticism.” attempted to destroy it. No nation has .ever passed through the terri ble ordeal of civil war, and endured the trial unchanged j and whether in war or jieace, the law of constant change holds as true of national as of individual lives. Laws are modified; institutions are altered or abolished; abuses, pass away; old forms of error are replaced by forms of truth. But the; storm, however violent, does not alter' the face of the country; it simply purifies the atmosphere, and leaves the moun tains and the valleys as before. Does Mr. Senator Johnson suppose for an instant that when the storm of war has passed away, it will leave us a’ AjferaNConstitution, or a different. Government,'in place of the Union for which our people have made such noble sacrifices? I have too much confidence in the sagacity and patriotism of the American people to conceive such a thing possible. There is not now a single Republican or loyal Democrat in the free States who would not at once approve of the restoration of the Union if the seceded States should evince any inclination of returning to their alle giance. The persons that have sought to separate, the Union and to alter the Con stitution are t some of the very men who are now clamoring for “the Union as: it was and the Constitution as it .is !'- The ultra, anti slavery men, who have always been in a minority, and have some times insisted that they are for no peace which does not include a perpetual provi sion against slavery, could no more resist such a reconciliation as that of an uncon ditional restoration of the Republic, than they-could sfay the current of Niagara; nor do I believe that one man out of a dozen of this class would desire to oppose any such- settlement. The inch who are asking for peace should not be the discon tents and malignant’s, and schismatics and sympathizers ' with H secession in the free States, but the Union men of the South, when they have strength enough to over power those-who have misled and madden ed the Southern population. Bet be. able, fully, Ad ministration has always been in favor of a festonition of the Union, and there will, I predict, he a quick and generous response tQ their appeal. But there is om thing that the Border-State men should understand , and that is, that there can be no reconstruc tion based upon the further extension of slavery. Slavery can never 1?9 restored, to 'tliOse' sections of the Union where" it has been practically abolished; and all slaves who have served under the flag of the Union, or escaped to the Union lines, are as certainly and inevitably freed as are those in the District of Columbia. ■ ~ Occasional. WASHINGTON- Special Despatches to “ The PTMi,” Washington, May 24, 1863. General Butler’s Command* There is some stir in military circles over the an nouncement that General Butler has arrived at Willard’s. - What is he here fori is the question asked in all quarters. General Butler, however, has hot come here for, nothing. It is said that he will go West and take command of a new military department, to consist of the free States west of the Alleghenies, and his chief business will be the enforcement of .the con scription act. It is alßo rumored' that General Bunn side has asked to be relieved from his pre sent coihinSnG. These rumors may be mere con jectures, but it is pretty Certain that General But ler will have a command-within a few days. The Firing at Charleston* The firing at Charleston harbor, of which we re ceived an account by the recent arrival'from Hil ton Head, was, it is now reported, on the occasion of the death or funeral of Stonewall Jaokson. Our soldiers distinctly heard minute guns. The discharges continued for several hours. Courts'in Tennessee* The Government has taken preliminary measures for restoring judicial proceedings in the Eastern District of Tennessee, by the appointment of Ed ward A. Durreix, judge of the United States Circuit Court, Rue us WArLEs, attorney , and James Graham, marshal. Tile Fugitive-Slave Case. The present condition of the Andrew Hall fisgitive filave case, so much talked ©f, finds the fugitive in the custody of the military authorities, who rbftwed, .this moraiag, to deliver him to the civil authori ties on a new warrant issued' by the commissioner under the ifagitive-slave act, the latter having been appointed to'that office to-day by the Supreme Court for the Distrsctof Columbia. Tbsw the case remains undecided, the civil and military authorities agaizs being in diree&onflict. .• . < The Negro Arawy. Mr. Startost has given assurance, within a day or two, of his purpose to protect the negro soldiers in the service of the United States at all hazards. He will bold white rebelß as hostages for the safe delivery of loyaii negro soldiers who-may fall into thehandspf the enemy. If a neero'soldier is hung by Jeff Davis,-a white rebel soldier; will instantly be executed. An announcement to- that effect will soon be made. It is said that Iti&v Stanton is sanguine of raibing a colored army two hundred thousand strong-before the year close©* 1 (General Hooker*. • It is understood that Generals Hooker is not lying idle for nothing. The country, will hear from him again sosnsr than is the enemy will probably have enough to do on the south side of the Rappahannock during the month of June. Paroled:. Prisoners at Neiwport News* The Navy Department received? a despatch from Newport News to-day, dated on board the flag-ship Minnesota,atatssig that at 8 30- this morning the James Bscoka came down from City Point with 620 paroled pxdßoneas, including eighty officers and the crew of tha Indian ola. Rebel Disbelief. The Richmond Enquirer , in addition to the Mobile telegram, of-the 21st, says: Loring has as sumed command of Jackson. No, official confirma tion, has been received hereof the crossing of the Big; Slack by the Federate, ©r of the destruction of tho bridge and abandonment of the works. Private, despatches from Jackson up to the 22d say nothing; eg these events.” Transportation a? Colored Vreedmen. Only one contract has been made and carried wit by the Government for the transportation of persons of color beyond the Hiatts, of the Hatted * States, and this. was at the rate. o[ sso,each, for five hundred of them, in families, the island of Avaah, in San Domiogo.. Various applications have been made for aueb supplies, to “be employed as laborers in the West India Islands; but the Government de vclines to make any moire such contracts for tho pro sent, uute the authority invested in the Preai teat* THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1863. THE BATTLE AT VTCKSBDRft. A CHEAT VICTORY AT BLACK RIVER. [RCDMVALLATION OF TIIE REBEL ARMY. SEVEN VICTORIES IN T WENT FRAYS. VICKSBURG CAPTURED! Pemberton and Johnston Whipped by Grant Tlie Mississippi Again Umltr the Flag. AGKIFICEKT VAlOlt AND GENERALSHIP. Nine Tlionsand Prisoners and -Sixty-sight Probable Capture of the Whole Eebel Army. . PEMBERTON ADMITS THE REBEL DEFEAT. OUR ARMIES MARCHING ON. Washington, May 24.—At eleven o’ clock A. M. to-day tlie President received the fol lowing telegraph announcement th at ‘Vicks burg is ours: ' . Cleveland, 0., May 24.—A despatch from Mr. Fuller, the telegraph manager at Memphis, late in -last night, said the stars and stripes now float over .Vicksburg, and the victory is complete. I have held this message, hoping to get the confirmation, but the line has been in terrupted, and I now‘give it to you as it reached me. I think the wires: will be all right soon. ■ • ’ 1,000 Prisoners nnd 100 Gannon Captured. All the Outer Fortifications Taken. Cailo, May 24. —It is reported that'Gen. Sherman has taken Haines’ and Chickasaw Bluffs, with 8,000 prisoners, ”100 guns, am munition, and commissary stores. The pri soners were paroled and, sent across the Yazoo. Another report says that these points were. evacuated, and that Gen. Sherman quietly took possession. : General Grant attacked tlic upper batteries of Vicksburg on Sunday, while the gunboats attacked the water batteries. ' On Tuesday the upper batteries were captured, and turn ed on the water batteries. . - Tlie paroled prisoners brought across from. Vicksburg say that our forces have posses sion of the entire line of outer fortifications, and the rebel officers told their men that since’ the capture of Haines’ Bluff there was no chance of escape. * ■ • • ... The rebel force is estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000. The wildest confusion existed among them, and the officers were unable to keep the line of battle. The Empress is the .last boat that came up, and her officers say that when, she left, on "Wednesday evening, the firing had ceased, and there was no doubt that the rebels had surrendered. The Gen. Blair reached Chickasaw Bluffs on Tuesday, and was sent down for rations. The Federal loss is reported as heavy. DETAILS OF THE CAPTURE. Memphis, Tenn., May 2t] 11 A. M. To Major General If. IV, Balleck , GeneraJ-in-Cftie/: A citizen has arrived at Lagrange, who left Can ton on Saturday; ' . ” - -r—*, • He reports that Johnson was at Calhoun, seven teen miles north of Jackson, with 6,000 men; endea voring to effect a junction with Pemberton at Edwards’ Station. - At Holly Springs lie; saw a. de spatch from Canton, dated the 19th instant, as fol lows: Grant was reinforced and drove the enemy into the entrenchments’-on the Big Black. Johnston has ordered all the provisions from Can ton. The Pearl River bridge at : Jackson and the trestle-work at Brandon were burned.” VYashtnotoh, May 23—The following. was received by the President to-day: -" ' • •been received. , • r ' : General Grant haß captured Haines’ Bluff and the entire workß of Vicksburg, a large number ’Of pri sonw&, and fifty-seven pieces of artillery. .. ’ The battle is still raging, with every prospect of capturing the entire force in Vicksburg. We hold Jackson, Black River Bridge } and Haines’ Bluff. A report is bein| made up for Washington. W. G. FULLER, Washington, May 23,11 o’clock P. M.—The fol lowing despatch hasjust been received at the War Department: Memphis, Tenn., May 23.—1 forward the follow ing, which has just been received from Col. John H. Rawlinß, A. A. G., dated in the rear of Vicks burg on - the 20th": “ The Army of the Tennessee landed at Bruins burg on the 30th of April. On the lßt of May they fought the battle of Port Gibson, and defeat ed the rebels under Bowen, whose lobs in killed, wounded, and prisoners, was at least 1,500, and loss in artillery five pieces. On the 12th of May, at the battle of Raymond, the rebels were defeated with a loaß of 800. . On the * 14th we defeated General Joseph E. Johnston, and captured Jackson, with a loss to the enemy of 400, besides immense Btores .and manufactures, and 17 pieces of artillery. • On the 16th we fought the bloody and decisive battle of Baker’s creek, in which the entire Vicks burg force, under Pemberton, was defeated, with a loss of twenty-nine pieces of artillery and 4,000 On the 17th we defeated the same force at Big Black Bridge, with a loss of 2,600 men and 17 pieces of artillery, - On the 18th we invested Vicksburg closely. To day General Steele carried the rifle-pits on the north of tlie city. The right of the army rests on the Mis sissippi, above Vicksburg, JOHN A. RA.WLSNS. I learn further that there are from 16,000 t 020,000 men in Vickßburg, and that Pemberton lost cenrly all his field artillery, and that the cannonading at Vicksburg ceased about 3 P. M. of the 20tir, General Grant has probably captured nearly at? of the enemy. CAiBOy 111 , May 23.—The reports from Genera! Grant’s a?my are highly important, and-they are believed to be reliable. . • . J •- It seems "Shat, after accomplishing aft that was de sired at Jaaison, General Grant marched towards the Black river bridge, burning all tbs’ bridges be hind him, doubtless with the intention cZ preventing an attack id the rear. At-the Black; river bridge a heavy battle was fought, and it la reported we captured twenty-seven guns and a large number of prisoners, an# that the rebels were being driven back towards Vicksburg. If the rebels don't escape up the Yazoo rlvter, moat of-them must be*eaptured. Washington* May 23. —The following was re ooived this morning at Ihe headquarters of the "Washington,. May 24.—The following offtcfnl de tails of the battle of Black Kiver have been re ceived : Memphis, Tenn., May A. 3tt, iheHon. Edwjt M, Stanton, Sccrctai'y of War: The following despatch has- been received at &e*e headquarters, and is forwarded as requested. Si A. HUfiLhUTj Major General* EKAa of Vicksburg, May 20—6 A. Ml. Totthe. Hon. E&'jii&'M, Stanton, Secretary of War;- Gen. Grant has won a great and momentoue-vio tory over the rebels, under Pemberton, on the Jfeck« son and Vicksburg road, at Baker’s creek,.,ecu the lfilhinst, ’ Femberiea had a most formidable position, on the crest of a wooded hill, over which tbs- road pastes longitudinally. He had about 25,0t0) men. The battle began at 11 o’clock A. H., and' was gained at 4 P. M. Its brunt was borne by Ifflovey’a division and McClernand’a corps, and by Logan’* and Uroekcr’B, of McPherson’s. Hovey attacked the hill, and held the greater pact of it till 2 o’clock P. M., when, having loai i,(iOo men* he was succeeded ‘by Boomer’s pnd Holmes’ gades, of General Crocker’s division* by which the conflict waa ended in that part of the field. Boomer lost'SCOmen. Logan operated on the right, and cut off the VICTORY ! • I Cannon Captured. LATER 1 - „ S. A. HURLBUBT, Major General, Assistant Manager Cf fc h c Telegraph, OiStial Despatches* •«S£v ' enemyIFs 1F s direct retreat, bcf that he waJ%ompel!ed to escape by his right fiank throngh the woods. Logan loßt 4CO killed and wounded. We took about 2,009 prisoners. . ' On" the 17th, advancing to tb* Big Blask, we fought Pemberton again at the tuidge there, and captured 3,000 prisoners. He fought in rifle pits, protected by a difficult bayou full of abattis. Lawless’ brigade,; of MeClernand’s corps, charged the rifle pita magnificently, and took moroprisonera than their own numbers, Pemberton burned his bridge, and retreated to Vicksburg with only three eannon out of sixty that he had taken out. . After; building four bridges over the .Big Black General Grrant arrived before the town, and now bolds it closely invested. He had opened a lineof supplies via Chickasaw Bayou, having cut the town .off from Haines’ Bluff, which is abandoned by the enemy, and which Gen. Grant will occupy. There was sharp fighting, through the day yester day. Steele and holds the enemy’s upper water batteries, and gets his water from the Mississippi. Sherman’s corps yesterday lost ’6OO killed and wounded. - McPherson, who holds the centre,-,lost little, as t ., . did McOlernand, who holds the left. The gunboats kept the enemy on the alert during the night, and probably the town will be carried to day. There are from, 15,000 to 20,000 men in it. ANOTHER ACCOUNT —64 GUNS AND 9,400 ' PRISONERS CAPTURED. New York, May 24.—The Herald's special Wash ington despatch says that advicea had been received by the President from General Grant detailing his proceedings to the 20tlu He had fought five battles, and captured 64 guns aiid 9,400 prisoners. Washington, May 24.—Up to ten o’clock to night the President had no further intelligence, ex cepting a telegram from Memphis, dated 4.30 P. M., Baying,.“thereis nothing later yet than the morn ing report of the capture of Vicksburg.’’ REBEL VIEW OF THE SITUATION. The Richmond Enquirer of the 20th say s, in rela tion to Vicksburg: “If some happy combination be not. made between the forces under Pemberton and Johnston the heroic city must fall.” OUR CAVALRY AT BRANDON, MISS. • The Montgomery Advertiser of the 18th says “the enemy’s cavalry were.yestcrday at Brandon, on the Southern road,’ twenty odd miles this side of Jack son, near which point we had a force to protect the load.” REBEL DESPATCHES FROM PEMBERTON TO LEE. New Yop.it, May 24.—The Times' army, corre spondence, dated yesterday, says that news received ■ from the enemy’s lines that Pemberton was. de feated, between Jackson and Vicksburg, with heavy loss in killed and wounded, and 3,000 prison ers, as well as ®ne division of his forces out off and retreating in a southerly direction. General Johnßton attacked the Federal forces in Jackson, which , retreated upon the main body. •Pemberton also attacked Grant, but was whipped, and retreated upon Vicksburg. The above is said to be the contents of a despatch from General to General Lee. Admiral Porter Assaulting Vicksburg. The Navy Department has information that Ad miral Pouter has been co-operating with General Grant in the siege of Vicksburg. His fleet was can * nonading the city and its works, still in the hands of the rebels, by night, while General Grant’s army assailed it by day, thus giving the rebels with in the town and entrenchments not a moment’s re laxation from the perils of their situation. Admiral Farragut Assaulting Port Hud son. . •• v The Navy Department has also received official information that Admiral Fakragut’s .fleet iB ac tively engaged in bombarding Port Hudson. Rebel Reports. Cincinnati, May 23.—The Gazette's Murfreesboro despatch gives rebel reports from Mississippi to the 20th instant. Pemberton is said to have evacuated Vicksburg, and marched out to attack Grant in the rear, while Johnston is to attafek him in front. The rebels anticipate a great battle there in a few days. Cairo, May 23.—Special despatches have been received from; General Grant’s army to the nth inßt., which make no mention whatever of the en gagement reported in the rebel telegrams, and said to have taken place at Baker’s creek on Saturday laßt. General Grant had not evacuated Jackson up to Sunday. [The above, dates may be from General Grant’s base of operations, at Warrenton or elsewhere j but there is no.doubt that a portion of his army met and; defeated Pemberton, near Edwards’ Station, on the 16tb. Moreover, General Johnston officially tele graphed it to the Adjutant General at Richmond. THE FALL OF JACKSON. [From the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, May 18.] The rumors as to the fall of Jackson, Mias., in cir culation yesterbay, were so vague and uncejtain that we had well nigh despaired of hearing anything in telligible from that quarter until the public mind • should become somewhat composed, and thechances of communication withthatsection be again opened. Late in the evening, however," we by chance were -introduced to a highly intelligent gentleman of the armyj who gave us some solution of affairs in that direction.,. His advices from Jackson were derived from refugees who had escaped and telegraphed from Brandon and other pointß. It appears from these accounts that the fight be gan at an early hour off'Thursday some ’ eight miles southwest of Jackson, and continued nearly all. day, our troops commanded by Johnston and the enemy's by Grant. We were finally driven back to Jackson, and fought them through the streets until, overpowered by greatly superior numbers, and were compelled to evacuate the city, the ene my’s forces amounting to about 20,000 or 30,000, and our oipyu-only?to ‘about 9jooo. General Johnßton then retreated on Canton, twenty-four miles due north of Jackson, situated on the wagon road con necting thence by Vaiden to the road running due east to the Yazoo river, and leading directly to , Vicksburg, some seventy mile b from Jackson by this route. heard from yesterday morning, the enemy’s twenty ftt 1 point .we had aTorce to protect the road. This fact; 'is official, and may be relied on. . General Johnston had arrived at Jackson at 11 A. Wednesday, and the fight commencing so early the next morning, left him no time to reorganize, and concentrate the forces, and he, .ho doubt, made a desperate resistance, under great disadvantages., It is stated that some dayß before leaving Tennessee Gen. Johnston sent Gen. Pemberton an order to. somewhat change his plans, which wab forthwith set aside by the latter as very improper directions to so consequential a com : mantier, whereupon Gen. Johnston received an order at the last moment on Saturday to goto Mississippi, and take command of the army. He left the same V day. ahd arrived in unprecedented time, as before stated—Wednesday morning. We are glad to learn l 'tnhi : sii»vC^ T^ftCen^T>l,e^eGeßS^ §o far anticipated the as tVhavh the'rhbst important sup plies and the archives and other articles removed. OuT army has four months'provisions at Vicksburg. We have forces in communication in Missis sippi under the ir* ster ly lead "of Johnston, to meet and repel the Inyadeiw. b ? t R may require .some lit tle time to put our fofces ih-P ro P er position, AFFAIRS IN JVriSBISoL PPl [From the Richmond Enquirer, May 20 ]’ - • The “retreat towards Vicksburg” of Geneva Grant’s army, mentioned in a late despatch, proves to have been an advance of the Federals Vicksburg. They have been met by General ; Pemberton, near the eastern bank of the Big Black river (which river runs southward between Jackson - and Vicksburg, and about thirteen miles from Vickßburg), and here, after a_ fight of nine hours, the Confederates have been forced to retreat behind the Big Black; 'This fight took place-on the 15th, and is communicated by Geh. Johnston from his camp between Livingston and Brownsville under date of the 18th" (Monday.) Vicksburg, therefore, may now be said to be besieged both by land and water, and if some happy combination be not made’ between the forceß under Pemberton and Johnston the heroic city may possibly fall. General Johnston is in the supreme command in that department. , By special order 275 of the War Department, dated 24th November last, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is as signed to the command of the whole geographical ; department of the West, embracing all Alabama and Mississippi, as well as Tennessee and Kentucky, and has the direction of the operations of both Bragg’s force and Pemberton’s, just as Gen. Lee commands in chief the corps of Lougatreet and Jackson; ’Summary of Grant’s Campaign. Bombardment of Grand Gulf ....April29. Lauding of General Grant’s tr00p5........ April 30. Battle.of Thompson’s Hi 115.... .......May 1. Occupation of Port Gibson .....May 1. Admiral Porter occupied Grand Gu1f.......May 3, News received of Col r , Grierson’s success.. May 6. General Grant commenced' his onward march..................................... May 6. General Grant’s forces arrived at Fourteen- Mile Greek.............................. ..May 11. General McPherson took Raymond..... ....May 12. General Grant’s forces defeated the rebel Generals Gregg and Walker at Mississippi Spring,....-... ;...... May 14- General Grant’s forceß captured Jackson after a three-hours’ fight..... •✓... May 14. General McPherson occupied Clinton..... .May 14. S General.Grant’g forces defeated the rebels, S under General Bemberton, near*Edwards’ 1 Station. .>.. .May 16. The* rebels driven beyond the Big Black river...... l7. Bridge at Brandon burned by Grant’s ca valry...... May 17. Vicksburg inve5ted.;............... ... ....... May IS. Haabba’ Bluff captured ...... May 20. The decisive battle for the capture of Vicks burg still raging on May 20. Vicksburg taken „.May 21. The Pirate Alhbasnak New Bedford, May 24. —The'ship Milo, a whaler, arrived this afternoon, spoke, May 16th,-,in. latitude 33 north, and longitude 62 west, a Butch- brig, who reported being boarded by an English man-of-war, who whb in company the day before with-the pirate Alabama. ' • ’ A Military Quarrelt New York, MRy 23.— There vma a» free-fight in the City Park, this evening, between some of the rcturnediEOldiers. The cause has notryet been-as certained. They threw down their muskets and went at it with “ nature’s o-wn revolvers”—and black eyes and knock-downs were in order for a* considerable period, when somoof.the 71st Regiment of the Jsew York State Militia, who \vere-out on parade,, made their, appearance on-the scene, and soon iratored order and quietness. Nobody w-aa-se nously hurt. . Collision atSea. New York, May 14.— The ship Cheshire reports May in,lat. 45.36, long. 4520, spoke ship. Escort in a sinking condition, having been in contact with the ice. Her Btarboard bb.w was stovein. A British bark, name not ascertained; was lying by her taking offtbe crew. She wantad no assistance from the- Cheshire; Priue Fight between Tom ISyer and Csor»- Nsw York, May states thafra niatsh for a prize fight has beoa agreed upcnfbg twesn Tom Hyer aatd Joe Coburg for slo,ooa.v side, to some off withir* six months Also, that paat of $ VtGQ forfeit mossy is ■’deposited. and the balance will be put.up on Monday. in 3 City. New York, May 23, lCVo’oloek P- M.— A hvrgofire ia now raging in Jersey City/ The whole heaven.B for miles arband. are b’sSlwantly lighted up. A num ber of lumber-yards aye on fire. - Thft.amouulr'of da mage doho has not v#i been asoertaSa^d. New York, May 24.—A fire occurred;At.Allison’s ship-yard, Jersey City; last nighV which extended to the lumber yard and Monitor.works adjoining;. Fortunately, pone of the iron-clade were injuted; but the engine, and roiling mtU, and tool Shop wsie de&tioycd. v . « FORTRESS MONROE. Union Meeting At Old Point—A Ratd in Mat thuwß and Counties. _ Fortress Monrok, May large and enthu siastic Union meeting was held at Old Potnt last night. Speeches were anade byGfC7vernor Pierpon.tr and fioh. Joseph Segar. The raid into Matthews and Gloucratercounties, ordered by Gen. Keyes, uuier Gen. Kilpatrick and Captr Gilles, has returned. It was eminently btsc ceßsful, and brought back a large number of horses, mules, etc. _lt combined a land and water move ment. The Rebels Mourning- Over their Defeat at Vicksburg. Headquarters Army ov . the Potomac, ESay 24.—The latest published rebel intelligence from 1 VickEburg, is in effect that Gen. Grant had crossed the Big Black above the burnt and had cir cumvallated Vicksburg, taking .30 rebel guns. The* papers Bpeak mournfully of their prospects in the Southwest, and hope that affairs may prove less disastrous than reported. A REBEL OFFICER CAPTURED. The Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 16th Vir ginia Cavalry whb brought into camp to-day, by a detachment of our cavalry. He was captured east of the Rappahannock, whitber he ihad come, as he says, to be present at the funeral of his child. Our river picketß report that the rebels were busy in digging last night on the bank opposite to whore the lower bridges were thrown over previous to the late also, that the enemyfe pickets have been strengthened on the river. ARKANSAS. Cincinnati, May 23.— Various reports say. that Price is certainly moving towards the Mississippi river, and had, at last accounts, crossed the Arkan sas. Marmaduke is said to have joined him. St. Louis. St. Louis, May 24.—General Curtis relinquished and General Schofield Assumed the command of this department to-day. Gen. Schofield was serenaded at the Planters’House last night. ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH STAR. Ecportcil Defeat of the French in Mexico, Nett Yokk, May 24.—The North Star has arrived from AspinwalJ, with dates to the l’ftth. She has $260,000 in treasure. There is nothing new from Central America. . The steamer Constitution from San Francisco arrived at Panama on the 16th, bringing Puebla diites of April 30th’, stating that the French had been drivenfrom Puebla at the point of the bayonet, the French losing 6,000 men. Also, that the French would probably retire to the seaboard, as the rainy season had set in. The roads to Vera Cruz were in a bad condition and were infested with guerillas. The yellow fever was Booh expected to- break out. E G. Squier, United States commissioner to Peru, had reached Panama. : Vallandigliam’s Arrest—Disloyalty iu Ohio nnd Indiana. V Cincinnati, May23.—Generalßurns-ideis known’ to have said that he has not asked for instructions since his removal here, and has received none Bince he left Washington. The arrest and trial of Mr. Vallandigham was done upon his own responsibili ty. After the arrest, the President telegraphed to General Burnside that he would sustain him in'his efforts to support the Government. Cincinnati, May 23.— The following petition iB circulating in Columbua and other parts of the State: “The undersigned, citizens of Franklin county, respectfully represent that the most sacred rights of citizens are guarantied by the Constitution of our fathers. It has been violated in the arbitrary arrest, illegal trial, and inhuman imprisonment of Hon. O. L. Vallandigham. We, therefore, demand of the President of the United States his immediate, and unconditional release.” William Robe, a citizen of Morgan eounty, Indi- was shot while at work in a field on the 21st inst.j by atraitor named Bailey. Robe was guilty of collecting evidence against the K. G-. O’s. VALLANDIGHAM AT LOUISVILLE. Cns'CiNNATr, -May 24.— ‘Valllandighani arrived at Louisville yeßterday morning. The boat arrived too late for the Nashville train, and anchored in the stream all day. ' . ■William G. Crippen, for nineteen years connected with the Daily Timcs\ and widely known as “ Invisi . ble Green,’ ’ died last night. General McClellan. Albakt, N. Y., May 23. —General McClellan arrived in this city at noon to-day,, as the gueßt of Kon. Erastus Corning and Hon. .T. M. Le Pruyn, During the.afternoon he called on Gov. Seymour .at the capitol, who extended to him a cordial welcome. He retnrned to New York to-night, the steamer Hendrick Hudson being detained until 10 o’clock to enable him to do so. He was escorted to the boat by the Fire Department of Albany and from 3,000 to 4,000 citizens bearing lighted torches, and was loudly cheered all along the route. On his arrival at the boat a salute of 100 guns was fired. Return of the 126th Pennsylvania Regi- Chambeksjjurg, May 23.—The 126th Regiment, P. y., composed of Franklin and Fulton-counfcy men, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Rowe, arrived here to-day. They met with an appropriate reception, and, after an addreßß of welcome, delivered by Mr. Nicolls, a splendid collation was given them in Fountain Hall. A Suspicious Steamer. New York, May 24.—A Buenos Ayres letter of March 27th reports tbat a Swedish bark, at Monte video, was boarded off the Rio Grande, March 12th, by a steamer carrying the United States flag. The boat’s crew said that she had no' name. The Academy of the Fine Arts. To ike Editor of The "Press; ' , \ . Sir: The annual exhibition of the Academy of the Fine Arts has number of rather second-rate pictures, and but few others. A few pictures, however, possess rare merit, and well deserve notice : “The General-in-chief aiid his Staff,” by H. C. Bispham, in the southeast gallery, is worthy all the admitation it has received. ’ No. 74, byj. Hamilton, illustrating that-peculiar scene in the ancient mariner, seems to us worthy 6T ■un. pm.m XL -Itt imeirtrctt-tu~JCtttmi.TEn.i;.' —X*iHß~lS~higll praise. The ship certainly is peculiar; butjas'hibst of us are unacquainted with the.style of Dutch ves sels belonging to the seventeenth century, we will trust to Mr. Hamilton’s accuracy. No. 41, a fancy head, by G. W. Pettit, is by fan the most beautiful female face in the exhibition. It would be a gratification to know whether it is a portrait. No. 87, “The Coming Storm,’’by S. R. Gifford, well testifies to the artist’s familiarity with his sub ject. The efftect of the dull-leaden clouds rising ra pidly out of the west, loaded with rain, and con trasted with the peculiar brazen light from the op posite side of the picture, need but to be seen to hq . rsiaemb wh “Light and Shadow” is pleasing, and fuily sus tains Mr. Bierstadt’s already well-established cha racter. ‘ Passing to the northwest gallery, the attention is quickly, arrested by No. 294, “ Mary Q,ueen of Scots,” by Louis Lang. The grouping of the figures is faultless. The countenance and bearing of the unhappy ,queen indicate allthe eniotions that we ‘" a ct—agony, intense, acute, but softened by even-. truet 5 ***&& with touching humifityj - b«rn^-;^ aiae » ™ . Grief has rarely beefl depicted as y a l,™ the attitudes of her sorrowing attendants, . dresses.of the figures are.in accordance with the fashion of the . day, aiid easily carry-back the ob server to the dark days of the 16th century.} ,No. 354, by Gy W. Pettit, bespeaks unusual talent, and forms a striking contrast to No. 2, also’ a 1 scene on a. battle-field. Dir. Pettit has avoided' all’the; horrid details, so.disgusting in the latter painting';' *“and perhaps has gone rather to the other extreme as the boots of. the “Warrior Youth” are neatly" : tied, and well polished, and hear no marks'of a tedi ous.march, This,'however, is a trivial fault, if fault s it can becalled, as it merely sacrifices a little effect to the refinement of feeling, which this artist evi dently possesses in a high degree. Before concluding this briefs sketch,we cannot; forbear noticing Nos. 26 and 286, by G. F. Bensell, and regretting that this.young aspirant in art Bhould have committed so grave an error in the beginning of his career. The pictures exhibit much care; and .talent. The bed of fhras, on which the “Babes” are "reposing, is exquisite; and had he studied nature more closely, he would have done much more credit to himself and* the institution. As it is, he has made ah unpardonable mistake, by leaving no points of light in the hack-ground, which is a mass of’ foliage such as nature never produced, relieved by —nothing. We beg Mr. Bensell to read Ruskin’s views on this subject, sincerely hoping they may be of lasting benefit to him. . respectfully, * L, The “HoSter” Lectures'.— Professor Schaeffer, ofthe University of Fennsylv&sia, a thorough and devoted student of the classics; will deliver a course of four lectures on Homer and the Illiad, at Horticul tural Hall, Broad and Walnut streets, commencing this afternoon. This lecture-will be free to the pub lic, and will, we presume, be a- reply to the query: “ Did Homer venture on Painting in Poetry, and introducing a Fighting-Achilles'*?’’ Those who have an opportunity will- of course attend - and few who hear it will fail- to attend the entire course. Per haps there is no orator in the country so competent ter treat the subject in-a manner commensurate with ltorequirements, as Professor Schaefifcr. *3hb War Press.— ln the next- number of The Wav Press willbe commenced a new story, original, by Ferdinand L. S&rmiento, Esq., entitled “Florence Liston; a Story of the Heart.” The principal-personages of this novel are American, but the scene alternate&from Neva York to Vienna, Fam, Baden-Baden, and London. Mr. Sarmiento’s local : coloring cannot be.wrong, because he was U. S. Consul, at Venice dluing-the great war of 1859, and is well acquainted-with the principal cities in GernJUny, Franoe, and England! S»gx.ish Pictorials. —From Mr. J. J. Kromer, 40® Chestnut street, we have the lUtistrated Kem of the- World, of May 9, with an engrawsd portrait on stael of Herr Lowenthal, the great chess-player, and the Illustrated LmidonPtews, same-date, with nume rans first-class wood engravings. Large Peremptory Sabs of Choice French SRy Goods, &c. —The early particular attention of dealers is requested to the very elegant and desirable assortment of French, Swiss, German, and British diy.goodß, embraoing about I,oso.packages and lots of fancy and staple articles in silks,'cot tons, worsteds, and woolens, including a desirable aßsortment .of spring and simmer shawls, of-the* importation of Messrs. H. llcsmequals & Co., Icid-and Lisle gloves and gauntlets, hosiery* shirts, and drawers, &c., to be peremptorily sold by catalogue, four months’ credit, commencing ’Mus mornieg at precisely ten o’clock, to be continued'wltheufc intermission All ■dfly and t&e greater part of th*evening, by John B. Myers & Co., jvudkmeeTs, N&a. 232 and 231 Market street. Avcxion Sale of Boots and. attention of buyers is called to ttws large and desirable assortment of boots, shoes, bro gans, balmbrals, &0., to be sold by catalogue; on Monday morning, May 231 h, at their store, No. 625 Market and 622 Commcrco streets, *v!fc ten o’clock, precisely, s \ The Treasury* The Comptroller of the Currency has left ’Watil* ington, for Indiana, tc resign the [presidency of the State Bank. The Bureau is making'' arrangements for putting the new law into and haw promulgated the following for the benefi.'Jcrf all concerned: Before circulating notes wiiS’ be delivered to any bank organized under the national general banking Jaw, the Comptroller must have satisfactory evi dence by the report of an examiner or otherwise-' First. That the bank is located itieomeeity, town, or village which 1b easily accessibly-and not in some out-of-the-way f inaceefiaible place, selected? for the purpose of making the return of ity notes difficult -and expensive. Second. That the bank is provided with a suitable banking-room, or banking* roomß, unconnected with* ftay other bUßihess, and also with a vaalt or safe; for the safekeeping of its funds. Third. That' the bank haa procured sueh books as* may be required' for the transaction of al regular banking business 1 , one of aaid books to ben record or minute book,-in which* shall have been ?ecordess its articles of association, copies of which b£all have' been forwarded to- thiß department, and- in' which the proceedings of the boardof directors en tered and preserved.' Fourth* That the bank shall hove adopted by-laws for the management of its business, approved by the Comptroller. Fifth. That the amount; of its capital stools re-* quired to be paid in has been so-paid, and that the same remains in bank, in-cash, or with some Bsrfe depository, subject to sight/chedk, or has been in vested in-tbe-Umted States* bond*, or in some other*' satisfactory manner. Sixth. That the bank has in its employment com*- petent officers for the transaction? ©f its that its directors are men of fair steading, and that' the bank has been organized to carry on legitimate banking. The Comptroller will afford every old and encou ragement in his power 1 .to banks organized for the purpose of carrying into effect the spirit and inten tion of the law, but will discountenance and pre vent, as far as practicable, all attempts to pervert the.law from - its proper object,, by ea-tabirshing banks upon fictitious- capital, which, by their inability to meet ..promptly their - engagements, may, c at any time, bring the system into disrepute-. Blockade Kuuucrs. A number of sm alb rebel nataters had ar rived at Havana, and the steamers Ruby, Neptune, Nita, Cuba, Union, Atlantic;. Alice, and ten schoon ers, had sailed, probably to run the blockade* THE CITY. The The] MAY 23, 1882. ;| MAY 23\ 1363. 6A. M... ..12 M... ..3 P. M. 6A. M 12 1T... -.3 P. M, 66 .83.........85 73. 88...........91 WIND. , WIND. 5W......W5W...W5W. ffW NNVV’...,NNW MAY 2-1, 1862. MAY 211 lWtt. 6 a. M.... 12 M.....3P. M. 6 A. St. 12 M.. ...8 p. M. 67..... ..67....... A .71 72...........86i. 91 WIND. ' WIND, NE........NE m>y'W....E SIXTY-NIXTH ANNUAL SESSION- CflP THE NEW*SCHOOL PIIESBYTEItJAN (xENEIt'AiL ASSEM BLY. —Morhing Session.—The sixty-ninth annual session of the New-Bchool Presbyterian General As sembly transacted on Saturday the business of the third day. It met at nine o’clock. The 1 opening de votional exercises were conducted by Rev. Dr. Skinner, of New York. The 565th hymn was then sung, and a scriptural selection read. Affcer thiß prayer was'offered by Rev. Br. S.. W*. Spear, of Brooklyn, N. Y. } and Rider Walter S» Griffith, of the Bame place. The word of God wae expounded in a few remarks by' the Rev. Dr. S. H. Oox, whose text was found in the third chapter of St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the Corinthians. The hour for the transactionof businesß having Arrived, the Moderator took the chair, and the roll of the Assembly was read for correction. The mi nutes of the previous meeting were read, corrected, and approved. Br. Spear announced that the ninth annual report of the Board of Trustees of the church erection fund was prepared. The report was read, received, and referred to the proper committee. The report is one of great length, and gives in detail the loan* and donations made by the trustees, during the past year, to the different churches under ihe control of the Assembly. The following.is the trea surer’s statement of the disposal.of moneys in the hands of the trustees of the church erection fund for the year ending May 1,1863 : Amount loaned to churches., Amount donated to churches Call loans and temporary investments,.. ... 52,000 00 Interest thereon to date. 340 00 Amount of securities for original subscript tions, estimated Amount of cash in bank The committee on Devotional Exercises reported the appointments for to-morrow, which were cor rected and adopted. Rev. Dr. Darling read the re port of the Trustees of the Presbyterian House, which waß appropriately referred. - The report re fers in a respectful and affectionate manner to the earnest and important labors of the late Rev. Benjamin J. Wallace, D. D., secretary of the Board. The report shows that the affairs of the Presbyterian House are in good condition. The Committee on Education made a report, cover dug the present condition and prospects of the diffe rent seminaries and institutions of learning under - the jurisdiction of the church. The condition of - these institutions was spoken of generally as flatter ing. Rev. Mr. Howe spoke favorably of the Auburn Seminary and Hamilton College. Professor Day represented the Lane Seminary, at Cincinnati, as having been seriously affected by the existence of the rebellion and from local causea. He asked for it the sympathy and assistance of the more fa vored districts and churches. The Union Theological Seminary reports through its faculty a good and pros perous condition, with great hopes for the future. The receipts from contributions for the past year amount to $16,201, and the expenditures to $13,334. The Philadelphia Education Society, have expend ed the sum of $349.14 in the dissemination of reli gious knowledge. Oh motion of Dr. Cox, the Rev. Dr. Bittinger was excused from service on the Church Erection Committee, in consequence of se-. rious indisposition. Rev. Dr. Skinner made a few remarks concerning the condition of the Union Theological Seminary at Auburn. The speaker said that the institution had sustained a great loss in the death of the Rev. Dr. Robinson, who, aB a Biblical scholar, had no superior in this or any other coun try. Dr. Robinson was devoted to the cause in the service of which he waß engaged. His character as a man, a minister, a teacher, and his many virtues, were eloquently alluded to and extolled. Rev. Dr. Cox added his testimony to the admirable character, ability, and attainments of Dr. Robinson. He saidithat Dr. Robinson’s works would' be of in-, estimable value to posterity. The'report.pf the. Committee onJSducationwas appropriately referred. . The Committee on Home Missions made a report. The death of Dr. Benjamin. T. Wallace, associate secretary of the Board, was respectfully alluded to. In his demise the committee had sustained a great and irreparable loss. During the past year, the fol lowing missionaries have died: Rev. Hiram Gregg, Rev. E. R. Johnston, Rev. John. C. Campbell, and Rev. C. N. Gardner. The report says that th v home missionary work has been seriously disturb'd and ' retarded in ifaa-iwxß-aoo-iyy-tiic-i/reßenTTi&tlopftl diffi cult les,but the moat strenuous efforts were now being made to ensure a renewed-success in the good work in the future. Rev. R. Adair has.bden appoint ed associate secretary of- the board, in the place of Rev. Benjamin J. Wallacefdeceased. : Rev. Calvin Clark has been appointed district se cretary for the State of Michigan, and Rev. Mr. Kellogg for the Southern District of Illinois. Mis sionary work has been performed in 361 different fields; there have been 843 conversions reported; 697 persons have been admitted as members of the Church and 668 by letter, making an addition of 1,366 persons added to the Church in the past year. The receipts of the Board during the year, amount to $61,872.72. ,- All indebtedness has been liquidated up to April 15,1563, and no reasonable demand for means in the good work has been neglected. In con sequence of the extensive emigration to Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and California, additional mission aries were needed and would sent to those new fields of labor. The future reoccupation of territory in rebellion by the United States forces will render more extended effort necessary, and for this increas ed contributions are solicited. The report was ac cepted and referred to the Standing Committee on Home Missions. The Committee on Leaves of A,b sence made a partial report, . . : “V."*" Committee appointed to audit the treasurer’s ac . count reported the expenditures of the Assembly at $3,484.75 for the past year, which report was ac cepted and approved, . The Assembly then adjourned at one o’clock . until nine o’clock this mornina'. Before adjourning, however, the Assembly’ hah mane arrangements to meet again at 5 o’clock P. M, at the Washington-Square Church. The object was a visit ,to the Citizens’ Volunteer Refreshment . ~'oon. . &t*«. :--TajE • o^'Satubpat.—On Saturday' mofilihg, at 11 o’clock, a'"fire, suddenly broke out. The locality was in Randolph street, above George, and the building a frame' carpenter- shop* The building, being filled With combustible materia!,• xVas soon destroyed. The flames extended to a dwelling-house adjoining on the north. This was badly damaged, and the furniture of the occupants ■fras almost entirely demolished. A dwelling-house adjoining on the south was also somewhat damaged. . The fire originated accidentally, as is supposed, from. sparks from a fire built for the purpose of boiling glue. Nob. 965, 969 and 971. were all nsore or less damaged. 965 was occupied by Mr. Hescelpoth ; 969 by Charles Deity, and 971 by Jacob Marrmer. The carpenter shop was occupied by T- C. Moore; When the apparatus was about leaving the fire, thereof of a two-and-a-half-story brick dwelling, on Fifth street, above Poplar, was discovered, in flames.. Ttie - krft was somewhat damaged, and the origin of the- fire was supposed to be due to the sparks of a steam fire engine. At half past five, on Saturday afternoon, a fire broke out in the back part of the extensive foun dry of Swinden &■ Murphy, on Willow street, below Thirteenth, and extending through to Pleasant street. The rear building, a brick structure four stories in height and about fifty feet long, waß entire ly burned out, and ail its contents were destroyed. All the flasks and patterns in use by the firm were destroyed, involving s serious loss, independent of the intrinsic value of the articles burned; The loss of the firm is estimated by them at $9,000, only one third of which is covered by insurance. The build ing was owned by Mr. John Murphy, the father of one of the members of the firm. His loss is covered by insurance. The hand's employed in the foundry had just quit work, and left the building at the time the fire was discovered. The origin of the fiames is not known, but Fire Marshal Blackburn is of the opinion that they commenced from a spark which had escaped from the cupola; and lodged among some loose shavings. Some., damage from water was sus tained by a few of the buildings on Pleasant street, and adjacent, to the burning foundry. •Arrival .of Sick and Wounded.—On Saturday afternoon a number of sick and wounded wereieceived and entertained at the CitzenB 5 Vo lunteer Hospital, at Broad and Prime streets. The following Pennsylvanians are included in these fresh arrivals: Thomas Evans, I. 2S. Charles II Barrett, H, 46. Pamiiel_L_Bro'\vn.Jj, 63. James J) Eyerly, E, 105. George W cay lor, A, 147. John Somerville, C, 91. "Wm Timmons, corp, D, 4S. Win R Simpson, corp. B, 119. Isaac H Be) Kart, 8.135 Tho*" J Cross, K, 95. Matthew Doyle,.C-29. Jamrs Moore,sergt, B, 147. HF Wjlljs.sergi, I. S 4. John R Herkresp, Iv.Ul. JasM Vincent coni,K, 141. H Jump, A. 23. C Cn< per, F, 118. W H Stry, F. 118. Ja» Li die, K, S 4. House of Cokrec of ft House of Correction '3 pressed upon the attentioi Councils, but thus far nol ter has been done in idati on the 28th of March, iB6o* passed an act authorizing the erection of a suitable building, and empowering Couiicilß to make the necessary appropriation. A. joint committee of Councils was appointed in 18GI, to act in conjunitioiii with the managers of the House of Correction, in selecting a suitable site for the erection of the building. In a short time after ward, that committee-reported favorably, and re commended the purchase of a site selected. Here the matter dropped; as- no appropriation was ever made. The Philadelphia Society for the alleviation of the miseries of- pub*** prisons ha\ r e. taken an ac tive interest in the siabject, and it is likely that it will reeeivcsdmwediiite attention. The Yestcvday was com menced. and to*day will be continued, the celebration of the Pentecost. It, is likewise recognized as the Sbebft«»th, or thfc sixth of Tebeth; 5623—0 n the se cond day ofthe Passover, the Omer or measure be iog asranged so hb to mark the days until forty-nine have intervened, as is said in Leviticus, chap, 23d, l and lGth verses: . u And ye shall count unto you £com the morn after the Sabbath,, from day that ye brought the sheAf of the xvait offering, seven Sab baths bIjaII be complete; even unto thnmorrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall ofiar h new meeA offering untOithe fiord.” At the fiftieth day ia celebrated the “ Feast of Wctks,” commemorative of the giy-ing of the Tea Commar Aments, and of'.the' events narratedln. ihe Book of Bui h. Floral offerings and general rejoicings make the Jewish Synagogues localities of tunoh inttrefct ftHd emotion op. such-an OGcaaicm. lometer* .$49,464 92 . 11,663 16 $118,87 04' Janies C Cambb'ell, C» 57. Pieter Booze, G, 115. Matthew Patton, corp, G,114, JwhnF Lina, K, 63: EJward Heed, I, 28. A «f-Anderson, A. 114. .Tames {-enUeii. B, 114. Geo Ringold, G, 114. M Lawler, D. 27. W'B Asper, D, 83. W 0 Doolittle,serve,F, 141 J A Russell, E. 140. SB Carney, H, HI. DR Webb. F, SI 4 Davensliire. A,116. B Gross'F.-109. VS* J. Adams, G, 63. John McClnsVey, F, 95. L Thurston, K, 26. :'!!ios. —Tlie necessity ia this oity has long been n of the Legislature and thing of a definite eharac- Loatoit. The Legislature A Supposed YiolbSt Death.—On Sa turday morning, Monroe streefy between Third and Fourth, was wrought up .into a state of excitability by the discovery that a woman Of the name of Margaret Conner, who lived at No. 326 Monroe was lying dead in her house. G-oaeip dis covered marks of violence upon her person, such ae +^ , A c? '^ ftrka u P° n her throat, &c. T and report tnat a German soldier waa at the house the night that during an altercation with the* ®£ had ®Jjojed- her while upon the floors held ftQ “Qaest in the ease on “ ft * rooon ' «*<' the evidence failed to fix; *?2L, n i mor ls d givra circulation to. It seems that the deceased was away frots her borne for several daja together, some weeks since, and when she returced-she way badly bruised about the Dr. ShapJrigh madra post aortem axamiira tion on Saturday, and resulted from congestion ofthe brain jfcutfhoW'that condition Was pr&duced was a mystery, as .tSere were ncr Barks of violence aXOut the head. Tfcis is thtfcoii-- d>iion in which, at present, the-sase remains. M Promotion.—A compositor, formerly employed in the office ot'the Swnd'aj DispalcS, Savage* by Dame, has been promoted to the second lieu tenancy of Company B, (Sth (Sco'A Legion) Regi ment. This is a merited and vrtUAe’ hailed witli satisfaction among hisnumero'ue friends; Mr. Savage, when the President called for l( three* hundred thousand more,” Sopped tbe composing- Sj a3£l * took i2p the musket; He enlisted as a pri vate, was soon promoted a corporal, and afterwards* a safely-throbgh the Srat bloody nattle'of: Fredericksburg, in v/fcich he proved his title as abrarve soldier and a good man. Since the' of Chancellorville Captain Tiiomas-Funston. a Tac »n“y- The friends an U re .J"'' of . I-iouienanl; Savage, Both at home and' abroad, Will wish him well la his new position. T: ' s J tOSMEK T. —The j?irst Congres +i,°"sr rt “ n l* enr °hers commence their work to-day xne necessary blanks. Captain William E Lehman the provost marsbaf for the First district haa t”ken. the large building Ho. 245 South Third street for tne ireadquarters. His authority extends over the' Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh wards. It is-expected that the War Department Will make a call for three hundred thousand men as'posßible” 1 * 103, WHI thcrelore take place as soon - Almost at? Accident.— Yesterday-' be tween twelve and* one A. M., one of the cars con veying a number of aide and wounded soldiers to thia caty. from- Washington, ran ofi* the track at landing. The water in thevi cmxty happened to- be shallow, and no one was seriously hurt. Bat, to use the language of the poet, “it might have been ” a serious accident. Election of a Delegate.— At a meet ing of the medical officers, of the Philadelphia Dis pensary, held on Saturday evening, Dr. Edwin bcholfield was unanimously chosen a delegate to* represent the institution in the American Medical Association to be held at Chicago, on the 9th prox. Second Anniversary of the Cooper shop Represkment Saloon.— At 8 o'clock to-mor row evening the second anniversary of the Cooper shop Refreshment. Saloon will be celebrated. Dr. Andrew W. Nebinger will make an address, and the Jefferson Cornet Band will fuxnißh the mußic. Tee Democratic Headquarters.—A Mr. Robinson delivered an address, on Saturday evening, at the Democratic Headquarters. The affair was one of those pleasing occasions less difficult to imagine than to describe. * Base Ball.—A match, game of base ball will be played at three o’clock this afternoon be tween the Keystone* and Minerva Clubs, on the ground of the latter, at Fainnount Park. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. THE MONEY MARKET. Philadelphia, May 23,1553. business matters-were very qdiet on Third street to day. Gold was steady a.t 149. Government securities-are steady, without special movement. Money is tightening, but the supplyfrona the country is coining in freely; and tends to balance the present temporary extraordinary demands—the rate-may be named from sto 7 per cent. The Government are getting all the money they want by the sale of the five twenties, and as long as the conver sions continue at the present rate the Seiretary need be in no fear of the want ofmoney. Yesterday, fchesubscrip tions amounted bo the round sum of two and a half mil lions, while to-day it reached two million one hundred thousand at. four P. M. The total amount converted at the office of Jay Cooke, Esq., is one hundred and seven million. The Stock markets was irregular this morning, bufe piices were steady at the close. Sixes of 1831 sold up to -107#; the seven-thirties at 107; 114# was bid for Penn sylvania Railroad first mortgages; 107 for second do.;, 110 for Reading-1860’s; 107 for ISTO’a; State fives sold.afc 101; Allegheny County Railroad sixes at 80; North Penn sylvania sixes at 86; West Chester sevens at 106; Camden and Amboy sixes, 1867,.at 103; 1875’s at 106; Schuylkill Navigation sixes were steady at 83; Susquehanna Canal sixes at 63#; 111# was bidfor Elmira sevens. North Pennsylvania Railroad'shares were active-and sold largely at 16#@16#, closing at 16; Reading was. strong—advancing from 56 at the opening to 56#;. Cam den and Amboy sold at 171; Philadelphia and: Erie at 26#; Huntingdon and Broad. Top at 21#: MinehiUat6si Pennsylvania at 6S; Little Schuylkill at 51; Elmira pre ferred at 64; 3G# was bid for Long Island; 24# for Cata wissa preferred; Spruce and-Pine sold, at 17#; Tenth, and Eleventh at 42#; Seventeenth.-and Nineteenth at 13#. Passengers generally were weak., Susquehanna Canal declined #; tlaion sold- at 2; Schuylkill Navigation preferred was. in. demand, at.2di Lehigh scrip sold at 47; 59 bid for the shares; 139-for Morris preferred; New Creek sold at 4#; North Ameri can Insurance at 24; Commercial Bank at 52;. Philadel phia at 122. The market closed dull, but steady—s3s,oJS in bonds and 6,900 shares changing hands. Diesel & Co. quote: - * * ' United States Bonds, 1881..-...—. 107. @lo7# United States Certificates of Indebtedness..-.101#@102 United States * 3-10-Notes.. • «•«*-► 106#@107^ Quartermasters’ Vouchers 1 @l#d. Orders forCertiflcates of Indebtedness #@# d. Gold - SSHgfWP- Demand Notes New Certificates of Indebtedness 99#(2W9# Sterling Exchange. .164 @165 ■ & Bicknell report a counterfeit five dol lar note oh the Bank of Northumberland County, Penn sylvania, which is now being circulated in this oity. Vignette, canal lock, boat, and'horse locomotive aui train of cars on a bridge; man loading a wagon,with, hay; 5 on each upper corner: female head on.each lower corner. An exact imitation of the genuine bilK well, done. v--, '4 ' The following is the amount of ooal transported over the Schuylkill Canal for the week ending May 2L .1863: From Port Carb0n........ k * -Pottsvllle “ Schuylkill Haven “ Port Clinton*...... Total for week Previously this year- JTdtah, To same time last year. The following is the amountof coal transported.on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad during the week ending Thursday, May 21,1863; ... From Port Carbon f 14 P0tt5vi11e........ ........... “ Schuylkill Haven - “ Auburn................ ...V Port Clinton “ Harrisburg and Dauphin- Total Anthracite coal for the week 65.022 15 From Harrisburg, total Bituminous coal for W’k 5,929' 1R Total of all kinds for the week. Previously this year To same time last year — t| 821106 17 Me ftUOTrißg show*, .rt-i ow the Lykens Valley n^ lliir Q ai d, and the Treyertonßailroad, for the week seasoU(tJ p to Saturday, the 16thinst., com- With corresponding time last year: Lykens Valley Railroad. Treverton T0ta1.... Last Year. Decrease. The following is a comparative statement of the earn ings of the Morris Canal Company for the present season and week, and the same periods lastyear: Total to May 9, 1863 "Week ending May 16,1553-.. TotTil-to May 10, 3562 . Week.ending May 17, 1502. i«/» Increase* The i\ T ew York Evening-Postot to- daj’ eays : -The market opened steady on Governments, bnt.weak on Border-State bondt?. The railroad share list, with, a few exceptions, was firm; at about the> closing prices of last evening.- The heaviest decline since last night was? % per cent, on Reading aßd 3 per cent, on Pttsburg. The 1 fall in Pitts burg was attributed to the announcement read this morn-' ing at the Board, that “the capital stock was proposed to be increased by funding the bonds, ” and that a meeting h ad been called for the Ist July. The following table shows the principal movements of the market as compared with the latest prices of yester day evening Sat. Fri.. Adv. Pee. U. g. 65,1881,rei~..«..10?#.. - 107# U. 8.65, 1681, con ao7* 107# U. 8. 7 3-10 p. c. T. N. .106* 107 .. H £.S. 1 yearCertif sold..lol* 101* U. S. ] yt. Cert, currn’cy 99# 99% American ffold ~..149 l&Ta Tennessee 6s 63 <3# .. - # Missouri6s. 70# '7l* .. 1# Pacific Mail. 187 18? K.Y. Central .....125 a ,125# - X Stie. 9S* 9&* H Erie preferred -....106 106# .. # Hudson Eiver ....134_ 134-_ .. Harlem 110 M 110% X Harlem preferred...... -11 a 116 .. 1 Reading.,.. 112 114 ■ 2 Mich. Central ~118 117)* X Mich. Southern • .• 7SK 73% X Mich. So- guar 116% 116 34 • Illinois Central.. 113% 114 .. X, Pittsburg.... 95& 9SE 3 Galena 106% 106% : . ... Toledo*. -114% llSf:- 1% Rock Island 101% 10134. X Fort Wayne 76 75’ I- .. Quicksilver Co 47 46% X Canton 36% 36 •• Chicago & Northwestern 34 . 34 ’ .. Gold has risen to 149 on news from Vicksburg, and ex change for the steamer is moderately active atlGzi The specie list of the City of New York, to-day* amounted to-’5165,000. Phila- Stock Exch'i [Reported by S. E, Sla: 10CO City 6e* New-111% SCOO do 108 6000 do. New... .1 stf. tll% 5500 U S 6slBSl 107% 1500 U S 7-30 Tr Notes..lo7 1000 Schl Nav 6s ISSi' . SS 410 New Creek IX 400 Schnyl Nav-.Praf- 26 4CO - -d0........-Pr&f. 26 100 N Penna R-. .cash. 16% 400 • do ..100 d 0.... BW 10 .do 16g 'SCO "do --Wl6* in Elmira 1! Fref. 54 200 Cara & Amb 6s . 1000 West Chester 7a...106 SECOND gOSclmylNav -Pref. 25% 50Reading 56%: 50 do Pref. 25% 25 do ..2dya. 86% SCO do -Pxef. 26 lHnnt & B T*R.....521%- 5000 North Penna 65.... 96 35 do 21% SONorth-Pehna Rbs. 16% ; 2 d 0... l>s. 21%. ICO do 16 2010thfrllth 421?. ICO do b5.'16 1N Amer 1n5.24 iPemia R.... 67% 31 Commercial Bank. 52 50 do 6S 250 Phil a & Efießb3o 2SK 600 New Creek -... IX 100 do...wi». 26% 55Minehili R ... 65 25Spr&Pine R.......17J4 JCCO Alle Co RGx....... SO 2000 Penna 5s 761 IGGTJnion Canal-2 IGQSnsq Canal..cash. 17% ICO Reading R-*50% Cam& Amboy 8,. J. 71- CLOSING PRICES.—iTEAStY. Sid. Asked. Sid JAked* TJSte’Sl. 107 X HPenruk 16 16= U S 7.50 Notes.■ -ICSSS 107 : Do 6a........ 95 96 a marican Gold .'.l4&J|. 149% :Do , Phila6sold..3o6 .. Catawieaaß.Con S. Do new Nl. lil% Do prfd 2 %>%. AUecoGsß.Bo Beave*M-sad B-. Penna 5s 101 101% 65 ReadlngKi...-.* 66% 66%. fiarrli»feurgß*«« -.» • Do bds .. Wilmingtonß « .-Do. bds J 79.. 107 .. LBh?tfh Nav 65.-.. ' Do bds’B6conv' •. 118 . Da - shares-.. 59. , 60 PBMiaR..^. % W. 87X -68 scrip.. *, 46% Cf Do 15tm65..114% 116 Csiax& Ambß;..l22 Do . 2dm6s. 107 107% phila&.ErieG*.. LittleßchwlS.. 51 *- si%l&m4cErie7v .. .. Morris GXsonsol 71 73 ]l>9lawar& D4y... .. 4$ •Do-'-- rasa 10s .169 H 2. ; D.o bd*s....« .. .. Do f5T6.... •* •' ,Spruce-Bfc*eaiJ&.. 17% Do 2d.mtg.. •* *• R, .*. 55% 29 Sasu Canal.... v 3Z% Race-stseefcß ... 13% 14 bS 6b .. 6-2 R.. -43 l2 R. 35% 37 Dc lf% WJ^kß....**.6B TV} . fe’Kl.... ES - bonds BwJWK-is-.S v • ® 'itesn-streot E.. 44 47 Do prfd. ..*. 63* 54 Do bonds *r Do 7s 73*.5.111% 112 1 Chestnut-st R 58 D.o 10a.... Second-streets.. 79 SO Llslandß.*&dv £6% *,jB Do bonds... -• Do bd*‘*.*». •• .. Fifth-strest J 1... 61 63 Phila.GfeF&Nor. .. .. >Do bonds-.- Lehigh Valß,,.. 80 .. Girard CoUego R 28% 29 D 9 bis !• .. Seveateea&'Stß 13% 11 •lons.Cwfc. ;v; *«;«* oo ... 1,905 00 ... 13,536 00 ...• 141 00 22,237 CD i 57 2ii 179,47 ft 00 233,300 00 Tons. Cwt .. 29,216 13 - 1,220 OS . 26,041 05 • 5,207 19 .6,222 03 i. -84 04 *" J 0,952 U O3 .1,273,759 17 Week. Season. . 22 04 30,049 17 1.201 02 21,143 OS ..M,313 06 51,188 05 ....5,717 62,667 OS ; 11,463 03 .839,028 60 .-11,07119 850,099 7^ .838,620 39 ..10,560 17 ' $49,180 55 $919 23 ige Sales, may S - Philadelphia Exchange.^ ‘ 60 Lehikh Scrip. -47 724 Reading E.. 56 250 do 56% 500 do .£5.56% 700 d 0... .......^5.-56% - SO Penna B 67% 200 do 63- 1000 AlleCoß 6s 78* 13 Philadelphia Bk.. .122 300 Susa - Canal.l7% 1000 Snsq Canal 6a> 63% 50 Race St Vine R*bs. 14- =■' 12 Farm Bk of Een... 95- ' 3500 North 96- 100 Little Schuylß-’.... 51' 1000 Cara & Amo 6s-- 5 75-.106 BOARDS. ’ 5017 th. &c 19tb -st R... 13% 1000AlleCoR6s ....... 80 -BOARD.
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