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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1883,
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Howto Meet the Hanger to the Republic.
The present condition of the American
Republic is prolmblj being discussed in
every court and cabinet of the civilized
world. If we were disposed to make this
war a question of national vanity, we might
flatter ourselves with the idea that for two
years wo have engrossed the attention of the
whole world, as no nation ever did before,
and that we have astonished kingdoms
whose wars have been repeated and con
tinued through ages by the number of our
armies, the extent of our resources, the pa
tience withwhich we have met and over
come disaster, and the boldness with which
we have grappled the power of the great
rebellion. It is not, however, to look upon
the majesty of this struggle that other na
tions favor us with their attention. Ame
rica is the theme of bitter words and ex
pressions of hatred, and conspiracies that
contemplate our downfall. We have an
opportunity of seeing how deeply this feel
ing extends in tire perusal of the recent files
of the English papers. The capture of
"Washington was the subject of their dia
tribes. Then came the battle of Gettysburg ;
and, in the face of every evidence that could
be given of victory, we find the English
newspapers regarding it as a defeat, and
anticipating greater defeats at Vicksburg
and Port Hudson. Of this we do not com
plain ; for, if English journalists print false
hood, their readers have the remedy in
their own hands; but it shows the tone of
the sentiment—which may he called the
sentiment of the governing class. They
know the truth, but they prefer that the
truth should not he Inown. The cheers
which follow Mr. Roebuck in the House of
Commons when he assails the Union, and
the apathy which succeeds Mr.. Bbigiit
when he defends it, indicate the temper of
that great body. Prance has’made an Ame
rican policy which makes her the enemy of
this Republic. The seizure of Mexico and
the proclamation of an Empire, places
Prance on the record against one of out
most cherished and wise traditions. We
not only have secured liberty to ourselves,
but we have taken upon ourselves to pre
vent monarchy from becoming an fnstitu.
tion in America. Our weakness may be
the present opportunity of the Emperor of
the French,- hut America must sooner or
later avenge and defend the Republic of
Mexico.
The recognition of the Southern Confede
racy by any European Power would make
that Power its ally and friend. Such action
is desired by. the traitors, in the hope that
the‘naval power of Prance or England may
be added to their own great military esta
blishment. This is a part of the danger that
now overshadows the Republic. A greater
danger than all is the retreat of Lee beyond
the Rapidan, and the possibility that he may
reorganize his army, and enter upon a new
campaign before we have strengthened out
own armies. We learn that twenty-four
hours after the order of Jefferson Davis
decreeing universal conscription, the rebel
officers were at work. It is by such despair
ing energy that the Southern leaders hope
to resuscitate their cause ; and it is precisely
tbe effect of such despairing energy that we
must prepare ourselves to meet. To do so,
we must advance our armies at once upon
the enemy, and raise up behind them a
great body of conscripts to make victory,
secure. So important is;this matter now,
that upon the success or failure of the con
scription in the Northern States depends
the result of this war. We mean to say that
if the conscription is speedily adopted, and
the latent power of the North brought forth
and fashioned into armies, the Southern re
bellion would end. The riots in New York
have given the rebels a hope that this con
scription would be a failure, and that North
>em sentiment would no longer sustain the
-war. We must put an end to such a feeling,
by uniting the Northern States "submitting
to every measure that the good of the coun
try may demand, and more particularly the
measure of conscription. Let us thus
strengthen our armies, and infuse into them
a mighty energy ; let us give the war an im
petus that it has never yet known, and the
. overthrow of the demoralized and despair
ing rebellion will soon be accomplished.
Let us succeed, and we may defy France
and England, and every enemy of liberty
that lives upon the earth.
TTUe Napoleonic Mexican Conspiracy.
Hither Napoleon 111. has accomplished
», 'navfcovp d'etat hy conniving at, if he did
not suggest, the conversion of the Mexican
Bepublic into an Empire, or this action is
only the •working out of a conspiracy among
certain crowned despots of Europe against
the free institutions of the-North American
continent. It will be remembered that,
some eighteen or twenty months ago, it was
a matter of public discussion in the Euro
pean journals who, among European
princes, should he selected to reign in
Mexico. At that time the name of the
Archduke Maximilian was mentioned, and
it was added, that Spain withdrew from the
tripartite treaty, (to which Prance and Eng
land were also parties, ) chiefly because
•O'Donnell, who had a voice potential in
State affairs, objected to Mexico,having an
Austrian ruler while there was any Spanish
prince able and willing to accept the crown.
It appeared singular, at the time, that
the question of converting republican
Mexico into a monarchy should have been
mooted at all, after Napoleon’s ostenta
tious and oft-repeated declaration that he
had not the remotest idea of suggesting or
-even permitting any change in the govern
ance of the Bepublic, hut the subject was
allowed to drop, and there seemed an end
of it.
The Archduke Maximilian, next brother
■of the Emperor of Austria, is a young man
who has just completed his thirty-first year,
lie is an admiral in the Austrian navy, and
:1s said'to’be as liberal as a prince-imperial
pf the. house of Hapsburg can be. His
character is without stain, and his abilities
are said to be above the average possessed
by persons of his rank. He is son-in-hi tv
to LEorpi/ryKing of the Belgians, on *: of
the most astute of living inonarchs, aW
this connection suggests some points for
inquiry.
It appears ceitain that Austria, as well as
France, was in the secret of Mexico being
converted into an empire. Napoleon
never would have nominated Maximilian
to the crown of Mexico without the previous
knowledge and concurrence of the Emperor
of Austria. Indeed, Maximilian could not
accept the crown, thereby relinquishing al
legiance to his imperial brother, without
having his fullest permission to do so.
Is it probable that King Leopold of Bel
gium would not have been let into the secret
of his son-in-law being about to become
Emperor of Mexico ? The approaching de
parture of his young and only daughter, for
a new home, over three thousand miles dis
tant from her native Brussels, would surely
have been communicated to him. If he
knew it, is it probable that Queen Victoria,
his niece, would have been kept ignorant of
the approaching elevation of her cousin to
the high dignity of Empress ? Then, as in
deed seems certain, if Leopold and Victo
ria were cognizant of the fact, as a family
and personal matter, would their respective
ministers, the confidential advisers of the
Crown in each case, not he made acquainted
with it also? Nothing is more self-evident
than the fact; chat, of the European Powers,
at least four—viz, Prance, Austria, Belgium,
and jtnglancl—-were in the plot to establish
Conquered Mexico as a monarchy. We pre
dicted, in this paper, when the invasion of
Mexico was agreed on, that the recovery of
debts by that country to European creditors
was a mere pretext, and that Napole6n had
some more serious end in view.
Austria is interested in obtaining for one
of her princes such a splendid future as the
imperial sceptre of Mexico. Leopold na
turally rejoices in the exaltation of his
daughter. Victoria would rejoice at the
good fortune of her young cousin, who, by
the way, is granddaughter oftheex-Queenof
the French; niece of the Prince de.Join
ville, the Dukes of Nemours, Aumale, and
Montpensier ;and first cousin of the Count
tie Paris and the Due tie Chartres, Surely,
Napoleon is one of the mostastute of rulers.
He attaches Austria, and England
to him by placing one of the blood-royal of
each kingdom on a new throne, and con
verts his temporary repulse in Mexico into a
splendid triumph Like his uncle, lie sets
up for a king-maker. The church party in
Mexico will cordially throw its weight on
the side of the Empire, for its opposition to
.the Republic has been caused by a dread of
confiscation of the enormous estates of the
clergy and the monastic houses. Maxi
milian is a Catholic, so there will be no
difficulty on the score of religion.
Napoleon, until Maximilian accepts or
deolines the crown, is to stand before the
world as Protector of the Empire of Mex
ico. Just so did his uncle take feeble
States under his wing. But whether he
thus “protected ” the Confederation of the
Rhine, the Helvetian Republic, the Ligurian
Republic, or the Kingdom of Italy, one and
the same end invariably came round—the
Protector soon absorbed- the countries that
trusted in him. Napoleonic protection re
sembles that which the tiger extends to the
lamb. .
Two or three points must remain in doubt
for some time. How will Europe take this
new proof of Napoleon’s craft and power ?
What substantial benefit will result to him
self fSonora, at least,) from his disinte
rested action in Mexico ? How will Italy
fare, with Napoleon thus advancing the
fortunes of Austria, its deadliest foe ?
What may eventuate, on this continent,
if Napoleon’s schemes are carried out, is
a subject too, serious and important to be
discussed now, with very imperfect details
of the proclamation of the Empire in
Mexico. The most grave contingencies
may arise from this remarkable, but scarcely
unexpected event.
Tlie Uncivil Correspondent in America.
It is hardly worth the while to speak of
Dr. Charles Mackay, and yet his letters
from New York to the London Times de
serve a little good-natured consideration.
The Times has made many an obscure man
famous, and Dr. Mackay is determined it
shall make him notorious. A decayed poet
has seldom anything better than notoriety
to gain, and yet it can be sought in ways
less disreputable than those the Doctor has
chosen. He might have gone into what
Jem Baggs called the 11 dorg business ;” or
have turned hermit; or have gone without
a hat, like Mr. Monday ; or without shoes,
like fmany other unfortunate men'; he
might have joined a travelling circus, or
published a new volume of poems, or any
thing equally preposterous; but his friends,,
if he has any, should have prevented him
from writing letters about “the civil war in
America.”
On the Ist of July we can imagine the
Doctor locking himself up in his room, with
a copy of the World and of the New York
Scaly Ninos, a bottle of champagne, a quire,
of foolscap, and a resolution, thus armed, to
do something dangerous and: startling. It
was in similar style that he was used
“ With inceßsant pain,
To atrietly meditate the thankless muse
but we venture to assert that he never in
dited a stanza in his life, with half the ardor
and inspiration with which he wrote this
letteT. He had not rCvenge to goad him
when he wrote his never-to-be-forgotten-be
cause-they-were-never-remembered rhymes
about “Freedom,”and “HailO! Liberty,”
and “There’s a good time coming, boys,”
and “Bless you, my children, be happy and
you’re sure to be virtuous,” —all in the Doc
tor’s imaginative way of telling the world
that twice two makes four. Freedom had
not then harmed him, and the good time com
ing seemed very far away. Since then the
Doctor’s spirit has been soured by misfor
tune. He came to the land of the Free as
a lecturer, and found that the Free actually
took the Liberty of staying away, from his
lectures. In the city of “fiery drab,” as he
-waspleased to call Philadelphia, he hired a
hall to speak in, but hearers were hot to be
had on any terms. Then he returned to
England and bewailed his woes and our in
gratitude; hut it was not till the civil war in
America" that tjie Doctor found an opportu
nity of bewailing to the full extent of his ca
pacity for grief. Lee’s invasion of the
Slate the Doctor finds a charming theme.
Now he has Philadelphia at his mercy, and
he is too wise lobe magnanimous. “ The
slow Germans and the slower Quakers,”
says the Doctor, “ are either as stupid as
sheep s ;or they have so little heart in the war
ns to hail the victories of the Southern hosts
as substantial''blessings tvhicu yvill speedily
bring peace in their strain. War, when it
raged on the ’Mississippi'or the Rappahan
nock, was all Very well in their estimation;
but war on the Delaware and the Susque
hanna is an abomination on which they did
not lf the Confederates will hut
spare their city and pay their way honestly
for the provisions and drygoods they may
need, they will he tolerably satisfied.”
This is his revenge on the Quakers; but it
is eclipsed by his treatment of the whole
North. Noting in his poetry is half so
imaginative as his prose-picture of the
American people rejoicing in the advance of
General Lee. “So complete is the change
in public sentiment, that if General Lee
would only be good enough, having cap- -
tured Washington, Baltimore, and Phila
delphia, to march to New York, everybody
would be well pleased !” More than this, the
Doctor gravely informs the astonished peo
ple who believe in the Times, that “if it
entered into the calculations of the Southern
leaders to restore the Union in the mode
proposed, it is scarcely a question that
General Lee, after his first great victory—
whenever he may choose to win it—would
be supported in such a project by three
fourths of the Northern people, except
those of New England; and that he
and Mr. Jefferson Davis might ride in
triumph up Broadway, amid the acclama
tions of a more enthusiastic multitude than
ever assembled on the continent of Ame
rica.” This is very .creditable to the Doc
tor. Few men would have had the courage
to announce bo magnificent a falsehood, but
the Doctor appears to be afraid only of tell
ing tiie truth. This is a groundless fear,
for it is hardly possible for him to be vera
cious even by accident. . s
We shall spare our readers the rest of the
Doctor’s amusing raving, and will not pause
even to correct his grammar.
The Lessons of the Riot.
It was not untimely to the great drama'of
the day that, instant upon the national victory
and jubilee, treason" scourged from invasion,
should bieak out in riot. Tfie smaller was
intimate with the greater insurrection against
free government, and was an intense picture
in brief of the more extended cruelties of
rebellion. By such a frightful convulsion
treason sought to balance its defeat or wreak
its utter chagrin. It massacred negroes.
Under its satanic teaching, the poor murder
ed the poor, and this was its saturnalia.
“ The beginning ot chaos,” so the Richmond
Enquirer called the riot, .exulting that the
furies were let loose in the North. It was
rather the end of chaos and the beginning of
light. Riot found at once its one great dis
appointment and one desperate opportunity.
Its moment was the nation’s also. Unwil
lingly it added another to the triumphs of
the cause, and -was another proof of the
crime which, rebelling against free govern
ment, rebelled against nature. -Conspiracy
as it was, the riot came as it died, in its own
despite and sacrifice. It had no choice but
its passion, when such provocations as the
rebel defeat and surrender, and such an ex
asperation and pretext asfthe draft, were pre
sented, Not so much the draft and the
Government] were so madly and vainly re
sisted as the great crushing facts of victory,
Gettysburg and Vicksburg—piled like Ossa
Upon Pelion. These are the natioh's fixed
■triumphs—monuments unshaken and not to
be destroyed, , ,■
The great lesson of the riot is not, We
think, taught to the Government, but tp the
aiders and abettors of treason, whom its
revelation exposes beyond mistake and
dooms beyond reprieve. Purely in the in
terest of the'rebellion, the riot, rather than
having revealed weakness in the" North, has
exhibited the despair of the South. The
train laid by the invasion, to explode the
North, was put out at Gettysburg. Fired
in New York, it exploded the Confederacy
rather than the Government.
The nation has beheld the growth and
outburst of a faction ("we shall not call it a
party,), whose hostile malcontent with every
act of the Government, under a pretence of
jealous regard for the Constitution, was in
soul with the organized anarchy of the South,
(the paradox of rebellion, ) and subversive of ;
the very foundations of order. Of this there
is now no doubt; the evidence is circumstan
tial, instinctive, and in the faith. With the
essential motives of this opposition we have
alone to do, without apologizing for those
who were misled, and who perhaps would
weep over a country murdered by mistake.
This is the world’s story of the populace,
over and oyer again; 'of the demagogue who
sacrificed those who were too ready to be'
his victims. But we heed go no further than
to-day. Present history is well assured, and
our modem Nemesis hath her mission.
Leaders of faction found it not impossible to
educate the ignorant for evil; to erect false
gods to distract the true worship; to set up
a vain hero upon popular self-love and cre
dulity, and lead the vicious and the blind from
opposing the Government to oppose the war
and the nation, and to take side with the
enemy, using the enemy’s weapons.
We are not-immoderate when we say that
such a faction must have originated in moral
depravity. Its only faith in temporary tri
umph, it did not scruple of wrong, hut took
the illegitimate hero it found at hand. The
South had defeated the North, and it was
ready to cheer for Davis when the decorum
of conspiracy was broken. Prom the ne
cessity of their position and character, its
leaders could only achieve then- pursuits in
dishonest byways, and and not upon the
broad highway of patriotism. Evil has its
doctrine and creed as well as good ; hut in
its falsehood it is itself deceived and ru
ined. The exercise and the ambition ot
' power, whatever its kind, was 'the creed of
the demagogue ; moral rule was oppressive ;
and the mob clamored for a real tyrant that
it might become a tyrant also, not knowing
that it would become a slave. Belief in the
vice and not the virtue of the people is al
ways She creed of the demagogue. For such a
creed Mr. Yallandigham sought history to
prove that the nation would surrender its
liberties. Such men are at last disappointed
in finding that the people have more virtue
than themselves.
•Nevertheless, we have learned how a
certain faction, like other factions in history,
based on ignorant prejudice and actuated
by motives disguised because they were
shameful, grew step by step to - falsify with
every pretext however small ; to intrigue,
conspire, to riot, and, let history frown to
record it, murder—such heartless, savage,
but deliberate murder as couldfindno apolo
gists but the fratricides who might as well
have murdered with the mob. This was
its atrocious method of saving the . Union
—getting rid of the negro. Let us compare
the butcher with his victim, whose fellows
died for us at Port Hudson, Milliken’s Bend,
Helena, and in whatever unapplauded mo
ment the manumitted slave has' poured out
his blood to quicken the pulses of freemen.
Between these outcast heroes, and this fe
rocious infant, the mob, over whose ruf
fian’s repose a governor must sing lullaby,
is not the parallel suggestive? Between
those who-are fighting for freedom, and
those who murdered for slavery, every one
may judge wisely who has pondered the
lesson of the riot. Out of its massacre
another victory has been won for the cause
of humanity.
These considerations of the riot, and its
associations, however severe, are unexag
gerated. They could not be too severe.
Let us not be understood as directing indis
criminate censure, upon men who oppose
the Administration. As we have said, we
have only to do with a faction, whose spirit
has certainly been revealed, and who, how
ever small, have possessed such virulence of
evil as to taint their every association. For
them the draft has been laboriously argued
into a cause of opposition; yet how shallow,
how unmanly the pretext! A just, neces
cessary and timely measure, which the gene
ral and sober sense of the country approved,
is resisted in a moment of great victory, and
by whom V Not by the honest poor, too
brave to assassinate draft officers by the way
side, but by a mob cowardly enough to do
their country wrong; not by the soldiers
who won us Gettysburg, or the citizens who
remembered that their greatest sacrifices
were small compared to the death-wounds
of those who died willingly for their coun
try, but by those who opposed the nation’s
victory, and whose stab at authority was
planted in the back of the soldier. Regard
ing such an opposition we. Shall not attempt
to determine its proportion or kind of ho
nesty—how much was spontaneous, and
how much was conspiracy. It is enough to
mark the daily-growing and undeniable evi
dence of plot; the late events, which are the
most potent accusers of the authors of the
mob.
Of all men, to the banished Mr. Yallan
dtgiiam the lessons of the riot, which he
taught, should return in judgment. He is
typical of its evil, now doubly exiled from
the ways of patriotism. Brents peculiarly
conspired to place him on a foreign soil, op
posite the boundaries of New York, cotem
porary with the riot within its borders.
There he might have had his Elba, but New
York made his "Waterloo. His position,
nevertheless, had its sublimity, but it was
that of doom. The rock upon which he
stood near Niagara was not less steep than'
the Tarpeian rock of old —the roaring gulf
which he approached not more awful than
that which 1 may eventually separate him
from Ins countrymen. Here he issued an
impudent manifesto to the people of Ohio
It was the bull of failure against the comet
of victory. Gettysburg was won,- Vicks
burg had fallen, the riot was quelled, and
Mr. : Yallandigham had lost. Impressed
with the wanting of the hour, his former
friends are deserting him day by day, and
the draft will be far more popular than .the
leader who made peace with treason and
war with his country. More has been won
and lost than the Governorship of Ohio.
The Government, the army, the people, the
cause, and posterity, have gained victories
which are more than battles.
A Citizen Killed by a Soldier, i
Aluaky, July 28.—This afternoon a soldternamcd
Richard McManus, of the 11th Jardine Zouaves,
killed a citizen, Geoige Broadbeck, apparently
without provocation.
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA. WEDNESDAY* JULY 29, 1863
The last hope of the rebels in the seceded
States is the opposition to thejdraft in the
free States. You will remember that one
of the first predictions of the authors of this
great conspiracy was that the free laboring
classes would rise against the regular Go
vernment, take the rule into their own
hands, defy the law, and finally overthrow
the constituted authorities—municipal, State
and Federal. This prophecy found nowhere
an earnest echo except in the State of New
York; and there it was repeated, by
such men as Fernando' Wood men
who believed that their infatuated followers
would sustain any doctrine, however odious
or extreme. Our foreign enemies also re
lied upon the same element. Bdth these
and the rebels themselves have received the
first news of the uprising in New York
against the constituted authorities, with
grateful joy. But their disappointment in
this, as in reference to their expectations of
a defeat of the Union armies in Pennsylva
nia and at Vicksburg and Port Hudson,
will be overwhelming. Not only has the
New. York riot been rebuked and crus l
but the people of all other cities a*- 1
are responding to the call of the Govem .
merit, and daily s^ owing t!)eir lw .
_or of the blc od y turbulence that has
disgraced tne boasted commercial metro
i-’Olis. The lesson thus administered to
the . rebels a n d foreign nations cannot
be more profitably committed ;to mem
ory by any other class than by those
who have property and capital at stake.
There must be no more false and empty
“ conservatism ” on the part of the rich
men of the great cities. Within the last
year many of the holders of real estate, and
many of the owners of stocks, and many
who have hidden away their gold and jew
els, have regarded the present protectors of
the Government as “ radicaK”. and have
been too glad to shield themselves' behind
what they call “conservative” doctrines,
repeating the plausible palinodes of Wil
liam B. Reed and Fernando Wood, in fayor
of peace. .
The worst radicalism in these times is this
same traitorous “conservatism.” / It has
budded, blossomed, and fruited in riot, ar
son, 53d murder; and the very men who
believed that they were doing the best to
save themselves, by voting against the Ad
ministration, which was trying to save the
Government, have found, to their bitter
cost, that their own possessions have been
endangered by the inobs thatlfollowed these
conservative politicians !
It is one of the fearful anomalies of these
trying times, that many who call themselves
conservatives have arrayed themselves on
the side of those who only deserve the name
of anarchists. By-and-by all capitalists and
property holders will realize the cardinal
truth, that the only true conservatism is
to be found in the spirit that defends and
sustains the General Government. When
that is destroyed, local Government—
whether State or municipal—must fall to
the ground,, and private rights become as
worthless as if they had never existed.
That nation is only true to; itself which can
protect itself. The rich man, who is shielded
by the law, deserves to lose that which he
holds vnder the laws, when he assists the mob
to defy the law. There could have been no
mob in New York if the men of affluence
and property had expended one-tenth as
much to prevent the mob as they had pre
viously expended to weaken the Government
in its efforts to put down the rebellion. God,
in his omniscient providence has, however,
so ordered it that they who looked forward
to the destruction of the Government, in
the insane idea that its destruction would
save themselves, shall be saved in spite of
themselves, by the vigor of the Government
and by the patriotism of the ligyd-working
and devoted people, who love their country
far beyond any personal interests.
Special Despatches to The Press*
.One hundred and forty-four rebels, who were re
cently captured in Virginia, here to-day.
Amongthem are eight officers, one of whom,-a cap
tain, was captured at Vicksburg and paroled, but
violated his oath, and was. again found: in service
fully armed and equipped. ' ;
Some of these prisoners are anxious to take the
oath of allegiance, and others to be exchanged.
i .Two large military prisons are to be immediately,
constructed—one at Point Lookout, Maryland, and
the other at Rock Island, Illinois.
Commander Sanford has been ordered to the
command of the Lehigh.
Commander Febiger has been detached from the
Osage and ordered to Key West; Florida, to com
mand the San Jacinto.
Commander J. C. Howell has been detached from
the command of the Lehigh and ordered to special
duty at New York.
Lieutenant Commander Phenix has been ordered
to command the St. Lawrence.
Inquiry of the First Attack on Charleston.
From a report of the Stimers Court of Inquiry,
we extract a suggestive portion of the testimony of
Capt. Worden, (who commanded the original Moni
tor,) vindicative of Admiral Dupont:
Question. Had the injuries to the Weehawken,
which you enumerate, been repaired at the time you
were on board of her?
Answer. No, sir; I think not. .
Q,* Was or not the attack made on the forts and
batteries of Charleston on the 7th of April last an
earnest one? ,
. A. Very decidedly, I should say.
Q,. Could or not, in your opinion, the monitors
have gone into Charleston in spite of sruns, torpe
does, and obstructions, either on the 7th of April
last, or the following day, had the Attack been re
newed? ; ' • -
A. I think not, sir.
Q. State if you know any/reason why the attack
of the 7th of April, 1863, on the forts of Charleston,
should nothave been renewed on the Bth.| -
A. J am and was of the opinion that a renewal of
the attack on the Bth would have been likely to
have resulted in a very serious disaster to the iron
clads; after feeling the weight of the enemy’s fire,
oh the 7th, and looking at. the obstructions, which
were of a very formidable character, I thought that
any attempt to break through the obstructions
would have got the propellers of the ships involved
in the net-works it was; known the enemy had
there; they would have become unmanageable, and
so injured by torpedoes tiat they would, have sunk
in the harbor, or have fallen into theenemy’s hands;
and T did not think the risk of such a disaster was
justifiable under the circumstances'; rebel iron-dads
wery lying behind the Obstructions; any of our
vessels that had become disabled would have been
exposed to attack from them.
Q.. Did Rear Admiral Dupoflt do or say anything
which led you to;think/he was prejudiced against
them on the7th of Apjil last? If yea, relate what
he then said or did which led you to think him pre
judiced against them. I
A. He has never said or done anything which
would lead me to believe he had any prejudice
againßtthem. . J
The evidence of Captain Drayton is to the same
effect. ' f . •;
Cl- Have you any reason to believe, fromanything
said oi done-in your presence by Admiral Dupont,
thatthe failure of Admiral Dupont to renew the
attack of the 7th April, 1863, on the forts at Charles
ton was owing to anyiprejudice on his part against
the monitors?' •
A, Wo.
The Rebel Steamer* TCerrlmac Captured,
New York, July 28.—-The; rebel steamer ivierrl
mac, built by the British for .the rebels last year, ar
rived here this meaning with a cargo of cotton, hav.
ing been captured on the 26th, by the gunboat Iro
quois, while running the blockade off 'Wilmington,
N. C. She is over 600 tons burden, a side-wheel
iron steamer. She Is one of three that left Wliming
ton together. Tiro, the Merrimac and Lizzie, have
been captured. {‘
Boston, July 68.— The total amount of insurance
on the ship Red! Gauntlet, of Boston,* which waß
burned by the pirate Florida, was $41,000; and on
the bark Good Hope, burned by the Alabama,
$71,000. ' :
Cincinnati, July 28.— John Morgan, Colonel
Cluke, and about thirty other rebel officers, ar
rived here last night, and they were taken to the
city prison. 4
La Crobbr, Wis., July 28.— The steamboat Flora
struck a rock near Winona, and was sunk in five
minutes. No lives were lost.
Movements of Governor Seymour*
Albany, July 28,—Governor beymour arrived
here from New York this morning.
Cincinnati, July 2S. —Brutus J. Clay, of Bour
bon county, has been nominated for Congress, in the
A&bland, Ky., district, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Hon. John J. Crittenden.
Weather to the Eastward Yesterday*
New York, July 28.—Warm and clear, wind
Northwest, thermometer 80.
Boston, July 28.—Wind Northwest, warm, ther
mometer 74.
New York, July 28.—The Bth Massachusetts Re
giment arrived here this evening and left for Boston.
Substitutes.— From the following note of Pro
vost Marshal General Fry, it - will be Been that he
has decided that, with the consent of parents, minors
may be accepted as substitutes for those taken by
the conscription:
Provost Marshal General’s Office, •
Washington. D. 0., July 22, 1863.
R. Grant Barnwell, Esq , Pa-: ■■■■■■: '
Substitutes between 18'and 20 will be accepted
with consent of parents. JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
[Official.] Henry Stone, A. A, G..
LETTER FROM “OCCASIONAL.”
Washington, July 38,1803.
WASHINGTON.
Washington, July 28, 1863,
Rebel Prisoners.
Naval*
The Depredations of tile Pirates*
Morgan at Cincinnati*
Sinking of a Western Steamer*
The Successor of Crittenden*
The Bth Massachusetts Regiment*
The Bombardment of Port Wagner.
New York, July 28.—The »te»uicr Star of the
South arrived lure to-nigfitffroin Charleston blr’on
the evening of the 26th. " She towed the Iron-olad
Pseßftk to the bar. The' latter went in to report to
Admiral Oahlgren,
When the Star of the South left heavy cannon
ading had been heard, and shells were plainly Been
bursting over Fort Wagner.'
New Yoke. July 2g. —The schooner A. Mason,
from Port Royal, reports having passed offdhnries
ton on the evening of the 25th, and hoard heavy
firing. Our forces mere still battering,at-Fort Wag
ner.
Cincinnati, July 28.—A special despatch to the
Commercial, from Lexing;tci>, T£y., says the 'rebels
thiß morning attacked our forces at con
futing of a small detachment, under OdVSandere,
After an hour’s severe fieht our troop* were
pelled to fall baclt to tb®. Kentuoky irlvur, 6re
badly cut. up. '
■Bhe rebel force is. estimated to hav- e hppn « koo
men, with six plums. They arc .up >se e d b to be the
advance of army, .
At the latent advices emt*ror>nn t *tV V■,
witbin five miles of Lextogtsa. h fa,l6 “ ba ° l£
Allowing, --‘ e enemy closely
Mart*'* '
...i law has been proclaimed at Lexington,
and all able-bodied citizens, between eighteen and
forty-five years, ordered to report for duty. It is
thought the city can be held against the rebels.
The citizens of the place who are sympathizers
with the Secession, cause report that the rebel force
is over 16.000, and they are moving in a northerly
direction, via Orab Orchard.
A special despatch from Lexington to the Gazette
says the excitement there haß subsided. The rebels
came to the Kentucky river at Clay’s Ferry. Col.
Sanders’ command had nearly all arrived. The
troops _from Hickman Bridge insure the safety of
Lexington. Gees. Carter and Gilbert's commands
are in the rear Of the rebels.
DEPARTMENT «F THE GULF.
The activity of our blookadiog squadron off the
coast of Texas does credit to our gunboats sta
tioned in that department. A gentleman, who ar
rived in this city yeeterd&y, furnishes ua with a
graphic account of the operations of the “Itasca,”
a boat, we believe, built at this navy yard, and one
which is every way worthy of the commendations
she has received.
On the 13th ult, Captain Lewie, in compliance
With orders from the commodore of the fleet, started
with the Itasca on a cruise from off Galveston down
the Texas coast to the mouth of the Rio Grande,
and the Brazos Santiago. He received instructions
from the commodore to break up and put a stop to
the trade along the coaßt.
Od the 16th, while lying at anohor off the mouth
of the Rio Grande, discovered a Bchooner standing
down the coast. Seeing that she was discovered,
she made all sail, and the Itasca started in pursuit,
which was continued till midnight when the vessel
waa captured. She proved to be the Miriam, hav
ing run the blockade at Brazos river, bound for
Matamoros, with 176 bales cotton.
/While engaged in getting out the Miriam, the
boat’s crew found, another sohooner, which was
entirely abandoned, and having no , cargo, Bhe,
together with a number of yawls used in lightering
cargoes! from sea, were burned. The Itasca was,
meanwhile, covering the entrance to the pass with
her guns to prevent an attaok from Bhore.
The Miriam was tow taken in tow by the Itasca,
and almost at the moment this was done, another
sail was discovered to the northward* gave chase,
with the prize ia tow, and succeeded in running the
vessel on shore about seven miles to the north of
Brazos Inlet. The gunboat then commenced shell
ing her to prevent the crew from setting her on fire,
before the boat’s crew could reach her. A boat was
immediately lowered and sent alongside, with orders
to get her off and bring her to the gunboat, the,guns
of the latter being trained for the protection of the
boat’s crew in case of need. The surf, however, was
too rough to get the sohooner off. She had no pa
pers, no crew, and no name. After rafting off eight
bales of cotton, which were afterward placed on the
Miriam, the schooner on the beach was burned,
A prize crew was put on board the Miriam, and
she was sent to Key West for adjudication. The
Miriam sailed from the Itasca with 182 bales of cot
ton.. The gunboat while cruising towards Corpus
Christ! came across another blockade-runner from
Cam peachy, with 300 Backs of corn and a small lot of
gunny bags. She was stripped of her sails and de
stroyed. The Itasca then again stood to the north,
and when off PaBB Cabello lighthouse, saw another
schooner, which, as soon as pursued, raised the
English colors. On boarding her, it was found that
her captain and papers purported to come from
Havana, bound for Matamoros* but being about
one hundred and forty miles to the northward of his
reckoning, in latitude, and a,auspicious cargo, con
sisting in part of lead and quinine, and other contra
band of war, a prize crew was put on board, and she
was also sent to Key West for adjudication, '
The Itasca has since the 13th captured two un
doubtedly lawful prizes, burned three schooners,
from one of which she took eight bales of cotton,
and from the other a suit ofisails, and several boats
employed in the lighterage business.
Captain Lewis is one of the most active and
vigilant commanders in our navy.
Occasional,
Colonel Mounted Infantry*
A correspondent connected with the Army of the
Cumberland, in a review of Colonel Wiper’s enter
prises, writes as follows:
Since the Ist of last February, Colonel Wilder
has been twenty-eight times through the rebel lines,
and taken 1,167 prisoners, about 4,000 horses, and a
small army of slaves. In the last expedition he
took about 600 prisoners, 800 horses, and 250 slaves;
killed 10 guerillas, and mortally wounded Colonel
Gant. He loit one man—private Stewart, of the
17th Indiana. He has bung 5 and shot 15 rebels, in
’ eluding a second lieutenant,! caught with our uni
form on, in accordance with the orders of General
Rosecrans. Between his men and the rebels an unu
sually bitter hostility exists. They shoot his men
(the reader will remember that they shot three last
winter, one of whom, after receiving four balls
through VAriouß partß of bis head and face recovered,)
and bismcn hangthem, Morgan’s thieves wereeßpe
cially rancoroue, as Wilder has been a terrible bug
bear to them, and to their cowardly leader. The
Colonel informed ns that when Morgan was near
Corydon, in this State, he called atthe house of Mrs.
Jones, the mother of the lieutenant colonel of the
Seventeenth Indiana—one of Wilder’s regiments—
and told her as she wrote to the Colonel, that “he
meant to go to Greeosbuig; and burn Wilder’s pro
perty, and take his wife and put her on a Southern
plantation amorg the negroes.” He hasn’t done it,
however. In the fight at Hoover’s Gap an actor
heroism occurred which ought not to be forgotten.
The Colonel saw it, and vouches for it in every par
ticular. He says that Colonel Mcßeynotds, of the
Seventeenth Indiana, was shot through the heart,
and as he fell, cryiDg, with his last breath, “ Boyß,
they have killed me—give them the devil,” he un
screwed tfie cylinder of hia Spencer rifle, which
contains the charges, and threw it: away, so that
if the gun-.foil into the hands of the rebels they
could not use if, and died immediately afterward.
Such forethought: and coolness in a man with but a
half dozen seconds of life before him is wonderful.
The regiment will send his body home, and erect a
monument tobis memory, at their own expense. Of
the feeling in the array towards those who threaten
to resist the draft, or have encouraged resistance to'
itj Col. Wilder says we of the loyal States have no
conception. It is bitter, deadly, and almost uncon
trollable. The soldiers declare with the utmost
earnestness that when they come home they will
kill all such raeD. When the news of the murder of
provost marshal Stevens, by the Copperheads of
Rußh county, reached the army, Wilder had actually
to put three men in irons to prevent them from going
home to kill the murdererß. This fact might be kept
in miDd by some of the most active of our home trai
tors with benefit, as their names are well known to
every soldier in the army, and moat heartily des
pised.
Speaking of Archbishop Hughes, the Richmond
Sentinel of the 23d remarks: *
“The speech of Archbishop Hughes, which we
publish to-day, will serve as a model for those, who
wish to studv the art of stump speaking. With
anecdote, ana tact and blarney, reinforced bv the
highreepect which his office gave him, he swayed
the crowd of brother Irishmen at his will. We do
not know at what age the gifted prelate left his na
tive land; but certainly it was not before he had
given the blarney-stone an uncommonly good kiss
ing.”
Referring to the “ policy .of retaliation,”, the same
journal remarkß:
“The news from Fortress Monroe, to the effect
that the enemy intend to murder two of our officers,
in retaliation for those whom we have set apart as
a retribution for the murder of two captives taken
in Kentucky, will impress the most giddy with the
seriousness which affairs have assumed. President
. Davis has shown forbearance which has caused many,
who were incapable of appreciating it—seeing that
they keep themselves very carefully out of harm’s
way—to charge him with weakness. He very pro
perly used every means to avert the bloody front
which the war is now to wear. The fault is upon
thd enemy. JEvery drop of blood now to be shed on
both sides Is ft iiinie Of course, the
intended sacrifice of our captive offices ftt Fortress
Monroe will be sternly retaliated. That is to say,
prisoners on both sides are henceforth to he put to
death! The black flag is up at last! Lincoln has
raised it; let fiends rejoice!”
From the Havana letter of the Times } dated June
22d, we extract:
The Assembly of Notables having met, it was de
clared, with only two dissenting votes, that the
form of Government chosen by the 1 country
(through its organ, the said assembly appointed by
Forey) was the empire* They also, at the same time,
proclaimed as Emperor the Austrian Prince Maxi
milian. In case his Royal Highness should not ac
cept the crown, the Emperor of the French was
begged to choose a person in whom he had confi
dence to occupy the throne. The act of the procla
mation of the empire took place on the 10th inat.
The Reactionists between the capital and VeraOruz
made great demonstrations of joy on knowing the
news. In Vera Cruz a salute of 101 guns were
fired.
The remarks of the newspapers of Havana, writ
ten a few days ago, when the editors refused to be
lieve in the possibility of such precipitancy, amount
to a solemn and emphatic condemnation of the farce,
just enacted in Mexico. The Diario observed on the
18th :
“ We cannot help resisting the belief that things
have passed according to the tenor of the rumors to
which we refer, and that, without the preparation
necessary to insure their stability, they .have impro
vised eo radical achaDge in the existence of that
nation. We trust too much in the prudence
of the agents of the Emperor, who are in
Mexico, and who must be provided with in
structions well meditated upon by the fore
seeing and profound mind of Napoleon Third,
that they can have consented to such an extempo
raneous resolution, especially when a great part of
the country is under the authority of Juarez, and
when such a resolution would not bear even a de
cent appearance, to t’ne eyes of Europe, as the ver
dict of the popular will. * * The first
thing is pacification ; then, and only then, will be
the opportunity for a definite solution.”
Tbe.Pmisa also bitterly complains of Forey, in
suppressing the newspapers, thus depriving the
people of their instructors when such radical
changes are being made,
The Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit
of the tiue Government of Mexico, that of Juarez,
had addressed the following circular to the Head of
the Customs at Tampico:
Ciroulab.— The Citizen. President of the Repub
lic has been pleased to direct, that on no account,
nor under any pretext, shall there leave any of the
State’s convoys, either or extraordinary,
of treasure, whether of silver in bars or coined, un
der the penalties for infringing the law. I
communicate to you, that it may be put in practice :
pleasing to publish directly this order from the Su
preme Authority. Independence, Liberty, and Re
form. NUNEZ.
CHARLESTON*
INVASION OF KERiiWKV.
Lexington Threatened.
Rebel Opinion.
The Situation in Mexico*
Dr* Browneon on Catholic Loyalty*
In the late number of his Review, Or. O. A. Brown*
son, a recognized leader of intelligent opinion in the
Catholic Church, discusses questions suggested by
the recent events of the opposition to the Govern
ment. We extraot a few passages of this impartial
review:
ARCHBISHOP HUGHHB,.
When the Archbishop of New York attacked us
for proposing the emancipation as a war measure,
denounced or ridiculed the Abolitionists* and made
the beat possible defence of the slave trade, he
was applauded 1o the eoho ; but wb.en, on his
return from Europe, he took a decidedly national
ground, and driended the draft as a just, wise,
and patriotic measure, he was everywhere mur*
'*.*®** nß t» even * brother Archbishop,
without Dftjning him, refU i j ec t ureß through
a journal, on his uuepUcopal conduct,
'censuring him for meddling with politics, ad-
P” the war-for the national life and integrity,
and endeavoring to make it Appear that he had de
parted from the line of his duty as a CUtholzo
Bishop, in supporting; the flag that had protected
mm at home and abroad, and in standing by the
Government to which be had sworn allegiance. No
act of the venerable Archbishop’* life ever cost him
bo much popularity w.ith his own people as that one
act of decided loyalty. Of all the Oathollo pub
iicists in the country, the editor of this Review has
been the only one to applaud or even to approve
mu truly patriotic and loyal act. That *»"-
more than atoned to us for all tb-*
eonally suffered from him. ia-’ - wc had per
to our country. it was a loyal service
bißhops he been backed up bv the
?ro p :l wTu M C1 bl?e 0f b t se C Q 1 “ yal f Mr!
war, and the unitfi( * in prosecuting the
organized * hi never have been
that party
. ..a.E. . RCU J wfUthat, though ’be foreign-oorn
their ch J! drp n, themajorHy of
are Catholics, are not ail who are ready'to follow
that without the assurance of their ad
herence they could hardly rally a corporal's «*nard
( - 3 ?. thol ’ C 3 h * ve been loyal, but they have
1D K Bp it e °f reproach and obloquy from their
Catholic brethren and the hitter invectives of the
Catholic organs. What more could the Know
Nothings have asked pf ua in their justification!
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
VMV f«™ d 2* C fact . B ail °Ply Stated, and yetin their
venture to believe that very few
cx £? p ? 01,1 A-tfifrioan Catholics, in the
'Arithil 0 t d V B St , a ! e s' anrt not all even of them, are
aml t '«lil^, aild lr ' te ? ,lon *' ll y disloyal, or on moral
r 1 Stounds m favor or slavery, when
Orahrdw°t, Ward aB a riis’in ot and separate question.
Catholics have generally, in late years at least,
been associated with the Democratic party, and that
party, since IfioO, haß been politically a pro-slavery
8? rty V*?. d fron !, ,tß rantB have issued the chiefs of
the rebellion. Secession was the work of the Demo
cratic party in the Southern States, aided and encou
raged, up to a certain point, by the Democratic lead-
U? at * hc North, for reasons not difficult to divine.
„ ve kecorae pro slavery through party
associations and party attachments. They have
opposition to political Abolitionism with
iw fenoe .° / ’*T ery . Itst ' lf ’ antl mistaken fidelity
P ar, y or loyalty to the nation. Not a few
of them cannot conceive it possible for a man to be
a good Catholic and not support the Democratic
purty J and to a large number of them, leaving their
SSfty lB p ext neighbor to renouncing their
church. The leaders of the rebellion at the South
were also among the first, in 1866, to meet and roll
back the Know-Nothing movement, and the mass of
our Catholics have a much more readv sympathy
with playsholdera thAQ thevhave with the
more proßaic population of the North. The slave
holder Beems to them nearer akin than the Northern
freeman to the gentleman or nobleman of the old
world.
THB TRUE POSITION - .
The change which the rebellion made in the bear
ing of the Blavery question, our Catholic publicists
have fAiled to notice, and our organs seem to have
imagined that they should treat it precisely as they
had done before the rebellion broke out. Hence they
have, as far as in their power, placed our Church
and the Catholic people on the side of slavery and
disloyalty. Here has been the error—an error which
hsa had a grave effect on the future of this nation,
ana has done, and is doing incalculable injury to the
Catholio cause. The Archbishop of New York saw
that it was madness for Catholics in the loyal States
to take the Bide of disloyalty, and the Very Rev.
Edward Purcell has seen that it was equal madness
for them to take the side oF slavery. The Church
never dies, so it is not absolutely too late. Let
Catholics understand the question, and they may
yet repair much of the harm they have done, and
prove themselves alike true friends of their country
and champions of freedom.
The Competition of Colored Labor*
A ROMAN CATHOLIC VIEW OP THE QUESTION,
[From the Catholic Telegraph, by the Very Rev E
Purcell,. V. G. j
In the various articles, which we have presented
for the consideration of our readers, on the subject
of Blavery, we have had chiefly in view the pros
perity and elevation of the white laborer. It is to
this class of men that we are most devoted, and
with which we are most in communication from day
to day. There is surely no one of our readers, how
ever much his prejudices may .prevail, who sup*
poses that wo would advocate any questioa which
we thought injurious to this deserving class of men,
or entertain a deßign, however remote, to diminish
the sources of their prosperity. We belong to the
same Btoek. We are neir to hard hands, and life
maintained by the sweat of the brow. The history
of our Church in the United States forbids, more
over, any thought of the kind.
- Our faith has been propagated by the poor; they
are truly the bone and sinew of the Church; they
and the priest have been hand and hand in every
labor of love, and hence there would §be no excuse
for him if we wrote, or spoke, or thought, or took
part with any one in any political movement preju
dicial to those to whom we owe so much. It is for
them that we labor; their permanent good is the
motive which giveß impulse to our mind and heart.
We wish to throw open to them a continent: to
give them power to select their plaoe of labor in
any part of the land, without being subjected to the
injustice and tyranny which are the results of pro
slavery legislation. We deßire to see them free to
cultivate the land for themselves, and thus consti
tute a people who, by their severe toil, integrity of
life aDd;Christian fortitude, will give honor to our
Church—a people whose lives will not be lavished
in luxury acquired by the blood and tears And un
holy bondaee of their fellow-men. Our hostility to
the restoration of slavery 1b Dot bo much for the
emancipation of the.blacbs as for the social eleva
tion and independence of our white brethren.
The great argument constantly used against our
position is this: If slavery be abolished we will be
overrun with colored people, who will compete with
the white laborer, and finally supplant him. This
argument, or rather assertion, has no force.- They
have been running into Canada for years, and yet
they have been able to accomplish nothing against
the white laboring population. Their presence has
only added to the character of the white man for
energy and intellect. Negro colonies have been es
tablished in various parts of Ohio, but they have
not prospered. To compare these people with the
white man, however poor his condition, would be
“ridiculous excess.” We know of but one settle
ment which gives indications of permanent prospe
rity, and this is to be attributed to the fact that
they became converted to the Catholic faith, and the
old Church threw her mantle over them, and,
although they were black, she gave them sanctuary
aj} d drove away the wolves, spiritual and temporal.
But if slavery be abolished the negro will return
to the South. He will not remain amid the snows
of Canada or the Northweßt. The sun attracts him;
the fear of any competition -between him
sndthe white laborerbeeomingsuccess in the North,
ib a phantasy—an hallucination such as mind wed
ded to slavery suggests. Our duty at present is to
prevent the rebuiHing of the slavery edifice. It is
now in ruins over all the South, pulled down by the
hands that built it. Allow it to be patched up and
the white laboreris again shut out, or allowed to
enter only on an equality with the slave. So long
as slavery prevails, there is not the remotest chance
for the white laborer to contend against it. This is
known to all: but remove the nuisance, blot it out,
and the poor white men think it no longer a degra
dation to work ; and he ascends at once.to' a posi
tion which, under any other circumstance, is unat
tainable,. In. no other way will the rich climes of
the South be ever thrown open, with the remotest
chflDces of success in life, to the emigrant laborer.
Am I not arguing fairly, my Catholic country
men? You know what it is to labor to save up
enough to purchase a few aares of land for your
family, a land hard to cultivate and scanty in its
return. Are you willing to perpetuate an institu
tion by which your children are shut out from the
fertile fields of the South? Are you content to keep
kitchen gardens for men who despise you? Do you
wish to occupy the same position here that Ireland
does in relation to England? The guilt of this war
is not on our souls, but if any good can be produced
from it, Jet us claim it and preserve it, and not allow
it to slip from our hands.
We do not wish to see the black man in competi
tion with the white. We desire to see them far
apart; there ought to be no partnership between the
two races. We have no desire to see them inter
mingled, neither working together, nor even culti
vating adjacent fields. The natural superiority of
the white race ought to be carefully preserved. This
iB impossible so long as slavery exists, because the
poor white man is just as much, or to a great extent,
in the power of the rich planter as the slave. Abo
lish the system, and the native power of the white
man will be instantly developed. Then the exces
sive wealth of the planter disappears, and so does
the crushing poverty of his poor white nieghbor.
In a community where the hands of all are hardened
by toil, there will be more equality, moro content
ment, more moral power. Instead of vast planta
tions, with hundreds of slaves to laborforone family,
small farms, like sunny spotß, will dot the land, as
in the iree States.
But what will become of the colored population ?
It will be time enough to grapple with that point
when slavery is abolished. Political questions are
in constant development, and according as the exi
gency arrives, the difficulty will be regulated by the
proper power. There is no danger that an undue
prevalence of the negro race will ever distract the
busy marts of the white man.
So far, we have considered.the question in its so
cial aspect. The man who has the salvation.' of his
neighbor at heart will have ample subject for medi
tation when he considers slavery in a religious
view. The wide-spread ruin of souls uncared-for
and untaught; the violation of natural rights; the
merciless divisions of families; the horrible degra
dation—all these appeal to the Catholic ; and dark,
indeed, must be his spirit, if they make no impres
sion on his conscience.
The Draft in Auburn.
Last evening our drafted men assembled in front
of the Exchange Hotel, where, after mingling with
the cougrs|patory crowd of friends, they were
formed in by the band, andinitiated into
the marching exercises of TJncte Sam’.? service.
Each ward of the city was represented, its “quota”
marching under a banner, of which there were five,
With appropriate and spirited inscriptions, and borne
proudly by their respective supporters. The draft
fell quite heavily upon the good-looking men of
our community, ana the procession was conse
quently one well worth witnessing. “The
boys” evinced the utmost patriotism, jollity,
and good spirits generally, and the entire throng
of lookers-on were fil’ed with pride and admiration
at their manly bearing. As the procession marched'
down Genesee street, led by the fine music of the
band, we noted the following inscriptions on the
various banners: “Fall In !” Borne by Mart V.
Babcock. “Our Government or No Other!”
John Y. Selover. “No Blanks in this Crowd !”
Tommy Towne. “Ho for Dixie !” Ebenezer M.
'Walker, Jr. “We are In !” Thomas Peacock.
After parading the principal streets, followed by
a large; crowd, the boys were again drawn up in
front of the Exchange, where they made & loud re
quisition on Hon. T. M. Pomeroy,who filled it with
a most eloquent and patriotic address, interrupted
by enthusiastic applause and cheers, in which he
congratulated our community on its response to
every call in the emergencies that have arisen since
Sumpter was fired upon—emergencies which called
out the 29!h, the gallant 75th, the how decimated
and glorious lllth, the 138th, and the 160th, who have
been heard from at Port Hudson, and at other points
where valor and bravery were needed. The address
was received with enthusiastic plaudits for the
speaker and the sentiments.
After Mr. Pomeroy concluded, loud calls wore
made by the boys for “ Knapp. Knapp, the man that
drafted üb.” Captain Knapp responded to the call
in his usual happy vein of eloquence, thanking all
classes for the friendly Bpirit evinced to ward himself
in his official capacity, and toward the conscription
which waß made necessarily to fill up the ranks of
freedom. During all his efforts to discharge his
duties without fear, favor, or affection, he had re
ceived no treatment which a sentleinan could have
reason to resent. [Loud' cries of “You never
shall.”]
? The Mayor was then called out, and made a brief
and frank addresß, giving the conscripted soldiers
his warmest sympathies and assurances of aid to
any extent in his power, which were received in a
spirit worthy of the speaker’s good wishes, and after
hearty cheers for the conscripts, and conscription,
and for “Abe Lincoln,” and groans for the New
York rioters, the assemblage dispersed, and quiet
And order have, reigned unbroken in the dlty.—Alt
burn Advertiser* Friday. „
The following officers, having been on the army
register upward ‘of forty*five years, will, it is ex
pected, be retired by the President under the twelfth
section of the act approved July 17,1562: Brigadier
General Joseph P. Taylor, Commissary General of
Subeis’ence; Brigadier General Joseph G*. Totten,
Chief of Eogireers; Brigadier General James W.
Ripley,- Chief of Ordinances; Colonel Rene E. De
Russy, Cojps of Engineers; Colonel Eichard -Dela
field. Corps of Engineeis ; Colonel Hartman Bache,
Corps of Engineers; Colonel James D. Graham,
Coips of Engineers,
Appeal tor the Collegiate Institutions of
Gettysburg.
The faculties and trustees of the Theological
Seminary and College of Gettysburg address an
eloquent appeal to the friends of education la be*
half of these excellent institutions. The appeal,
made to the Lutheran Churoh and Christians gene
rally, states
" The Theological And collegiate institutions,
together with the professors’ houses, have been made
a aad scene of devastation and ruin. The ridge on
which the greater part of the.Be buildings are lo
cated, was successively occupied by the several
armies. Their batterieß were planted In the viciaity
of these edifices, which were occupied bythe-euemy
during tbe several days of conflict, and cpasiaatly
exposed to the fire, as the place waG.agvej'a}. times
and retaken by both armies.”
The appeal, after recommending t coltecticc&in the
Lutheran Churches, continues:
“ Our institutions have from the. beginning been
Open to all denominations, and multitude* of all
creeds have been educated in them. The ooHege,
moreover, whilst iV is . decidedly Christian and
Protestant, is as entirely unseotarian as that of
Princeton or Yale. To the patriot, therefore,
whose heart overflows with gratitude to God for thte
recent victory, in the achievement of which our in
juries were caused, we respectfully Appeal for some
contribution aB a grateful offerlng’to Cod, who gave
1 ' - *V v
The signers of this appeal have bean among the
most attentive and devoted to the wounded. Get
tysburg College, it will be remembered, sent the first
volunteer company from among its students, in re
sponse to the Governor's recent call. ♦
A ETSBEL MURDER.—The Rev. Peter Glenn,
of Harrison county. Indiana, was recently murdered
by Morgan a guerilla gang. His son was severely
wounded, and bis bouse burned. It appears that
IP® b f l S>J lA 2 he r 11 ftred on from hPhind a fence in
of the house, and one of their
♦S , -Sr e<, Wi In fol> act the rebels
set fire to Mr. Glenn’s house. When he attempted
to subdue the flames the rebels ordered him to de
sist, which Mr. G. refused to do. They then killed
though both B th?rt 3 as badly "' oUndedhy boin S -hot
Mrs. Glenn, wife of the son, begged the incendi
aries to allow her to get some meat from the smoke
houpe, and some wearing apparel from the house,
, WBB , refused, and everything consumed.
While her husband was thus terribly wounded,' her
tatner*m«law lying dead, and their premises burn
ing, some of the scoundrels compelled the wife of
tbe younger Glenn to drag the body of the dead
rebel from the road in which it lay, to the yard sur
rounding the dwelling. . y .
“Humphrey Marshall has thrown aside his
sword, which he never used to any advantage, and
opened a law office in Richmond, Va. A porpoise,
remarks the Tribune , is always better able to blow
than to fight.
Public Entertainments.
New Chestnut-street Theatre.— Mrs.’Wood’s
merits are certainly full of vitality, and our au
diences not deficient in appreciation. The charm of
her performance is still fresh, and her humor retains
its witchery, it is a little remarkable that the
spring-flower of comedy should thrive in the less
sufferable temperature of mid-suramer, and the cre
dit is due more, perhaps, to Mrs. Wood, than the
season or ourselves. We have accepted Mrs.
Wood’s performances as a natural and particular
part of the summer’s pleasure ; and it Is so well en
joyed that we would not have it pass from üb. “ Po
cahontas” is one of the best moods into which an
audience can put itself at this time; as a summer
sensation, it is cool and exhilarating as its breezy
humor can make it. It is a great nursery of
joung vagaries, let out for euch holidays as these—
full of proper mischief and inconsistency. Mr.
Brougham’s puns are good and bad. but never
indifferent—the beßt praise we can give toapun-
Bter. The attitude and relation of his characters is
the Bublime of the ridiculous. Seriously, “ Poca
hontas ” is very funny, quite among the best of ex
travaganzas. Nevertheless, we would rather have
lees of it at this time than Mrs. Wood, whose per
formance—not without blemish, but versatile, viva
cious, and elegant, even when wild—is the romance
of irresistible burlesque. It is fortunate that her
task is so well assisted in such appreciating repre
sentatives of Captain Smith and Powhatan. It will be
quite unfortunate, however, if Mrs. Wood does not
prolong her stay with us in characters searoelyless
agreeable than Pocahontas.
THE CITY.
[POS ADDITIONAL OITT NEWS SE3 FOURTH PAOK.J
Fall of a Wall—Several Persons
JarjETßED.; —"Yeeterdfixr afternoon, about 3 o’clock,
the front wall.of the First German Methodist
Church, in Girard avenue, above Twelfth street,
fell to the The church had been built about
four years, and it was undergoing repairs. The
bricks FpII in all directions, and io.iured several per
sons who were engaged as workmen about the
place. Among them were the following: Adam
Smunk, residing in the neighborhood of Third street
and Germantown road, compound fracture of the
}®?- He was taken to the St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Samuel Dobb, master carpenter, was for awhile bu
ried in the ruins and hurt internally. He was ear
ned to his home, in Eighth street, below Thompson.
George Earp, residing in Ninth street, above Co
lumbia, had his skull fractured, and was also taken
mu? Aether man, named Fisher, residing near
Third street and Germantown road, was also hurt
about the legs. There were two stores under the
church* and the walls of these were removed, thus
transferring too heavy a load on the supporting
girders.
The Aaiertcan Dental Association.—
The American Dental-Association held its regular
yesterday morning, at the Assem
bly Buildings, corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Watt, of
Ohio. The following associations were represented :
PeDn Association of Dental Surgery, of Pennsyl
vania ; Brooklyn-Dental Association, of New York ;
Penn College of Dental Surgery, Pittsburg: Dental
Association of Western Pennsylvania; Odento
graphic Society of Pennsylvania; Society of Dental
Surgery of New York; Ohio Dental Association,
Northern Ohio Dental Association, Cincinnati Den
tal Association, Philadelphia Dental Association,
Central New York Association, Western Dental
Association,
..The business transacted was prineipallyof a pre
hminary character. The session of the Association
will be again resumed this morning.
Jay Cooke, Subscription Agent, re
ports the sale of two millions of five-twenties yes
terday, by the various agencies in the loyal States.
Deliveries of bonds are being made to July 9th In
clusive. These large sales are made by the united
action and hearty response of the people in every
State and. district, and are the very best teat, not
only of loyalty, but of the highest'confidence that
our politfeal troubles have culminated, and that the
dignity and authority of the Union are not far from
asserting their sway.
Cape May.—The steamer Manhattan,
under the command of. Captain Kirby, and the
steamer Wilson Small, Captain Bright, make dally
trips to Cape May, each boat going or returning
every other day, Sundays excepted. The faTe, in
cluding carriage hire, Is fixed atthe low figure of
$2.50. There are about two thousand five hundred
people at the Cape, among them some of the first
families of Northern cities. The steamboats, which
are very commodious, leave Arch street wharf at 8
o’clock every 'morning.
Died prom his Wounds. —A boynamed
Wm. TVI. Kennedy, aged ten years, residing at No.
3534 North Twelfth Btreet, died, on* Sunday night
from being bit in the head with a stone, during a
fight between two gangs of boys on Saturday after
noon in Ninth street, above Montgomery. The evi
dence showed that the stone that hit Kennedy was
fired by a boy named Nicholas Cline, .who is about
sixteen years of age. Kennedy’s skull was very
badly fractured. Cline has not been arrested.
Death in an Army Hospital.—David
Schenner, of Company K, 151st Pennsylvania Reei
ment, died yesterday at the hospital, Broad and
Cherry streetH.
By reference to the advertisement in
another column, those of our readers who have'had
tne Juck to be drafted will find they can procure the
necessary forma of, exemption papers at Bryson’s,
Nos. 2,6, and 8 North Sixth street. *
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Philadelphia, July 28,1863.
Business of all kinds was very dull on Third
street to-day. Very little movement occurred in
gold, and transactions were limited chiefly to the
operations of the “shorts,” who are still numerous.
The supply of money is far in excess of the demand
and most parties are glad to get five or even four per
cent, for it.
Government securities are showing a stronger,
front and better prices are paid ..for them. It can
hardly be expected that 1881 sixes should sell very
far above par while a Government loan fully as ad
vantageous is to be had at par. The seven-thirties
would probably be much higher were it not that
they will be paid off within a year or two.
If everything goes on favorably for our arms, and
the Secretary of the Treasury decides, to close the
sales of the five* twenties at par, on the 31st of the
present month, a rise in Government securities may
confidently be expected, while a continued ease in
the money market would but assist the popularity
of Government loans. The sales of the five-twen
ties are increasing largely, and so eager is the de
mand for them that at 4 or 5 o’clock P. M. we find it
impossible to get the figures. They will be found be
low, attached to the quotations.
Gold advanced slightly before the close, 27#@27#
being bid for it.
The stock market was exceedingly dull, although
prices do not yield. It is more an indisposition to
operate than any cause for weakness. The heat of
the weather, the interest in war matters, and the
prospects of European difficulties, all help'to create
a want of interest. ISSi sixes sold at 106#, April
and October seven-thirties at 106%, New Oity sixes
were in demand at 107# ; 101 was bid for the old.
Beading Railroad sixes and Pennsylvania Railroad
mortgages were Bteady. Camden and Amboy mort
gages sold at 108. Delaware mortgage bonds at 102.
92 was bid for North Pennsylvania sixes. 104 for
Philadelphia and Erie sixes.
Reading shares declined #, closing at 54%; Penn
sylvania was firm at 64; Camden and Amboy at 165;
35 was bid for Elmira; the preferred sold at 52; 22#
was bid for Catawißsa preferred; 7# forthecommcn;
16# for North Pennsylvania; 47 for Little Schuyl
kill; 23# for Philadelphia and Erie; 38 for- Long
Island: Union Canal sold at 1#; the preferred at 3;
Lehigh Navigation at 55#; 43 bid for the scrip; 12#
was bid for Schuylkill Navigation; 24# for the pre
ferred; 65 for Morris; 130 for the preferred; 43 was bid
for Delaware Division; Tenth and Eleventh streets
Passenger Railway sold at 41; Spruce and Pine at
15; Philadelphia Bank at 124. . .
Drexel & Co. quote Government securities, &0.,
as follows:
United Stales Bonds, 1881.~ .•* .« —«. .«~.106#@107
-Certificates of Indebtedness, new............. v 99#@ 99#
Certificates of Indebtedness, 01d..............,100#@101#
United States 7 3-10 Notes .106#@107
QaartenQaeteiß’Youchersvi.
Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness #d.
501 d... 127*0127#
Sterling Exchange- 139 @l4O
Jay Cooke & Co. quote Government securities,
&c. as follows :
United States Sixes. ISSI ...*.....106#@107#
United States 7 3-10 Note? J.... !
Certificates of Indebtedness ;
N0w.........-*-'99#
Quartermasters’ Touchers.'. .98a@ 99#
Demand Notes..... ......*• gW®!®*
Gold
Sales of five-twenties yesterday. $2,000,000.
Messrs. M. Schultz & Co., N 0.16 South Third
street, quote foreign exchange for the steamer Persia,
from New York, as follows :
London, 60 days’ sight i@l
Do. 8 days - v - 9f}*k.
Paris. 60 days’ sight .ft
Do. 3day5......vv;‘*** ,,,,,, ‘!“
Antwerp, 60 days’ surht*.* * 4?- G§4fos
Bremen.6o days’ 5ight............... 101 @lol*
Hamburg. 60 days’ sight.;... ;...... 47 @
Cologne. 60 days’eieht 92k@ S 3
Leipsic, 60 days’ sight • 93
Berlin, 60 days’ 5ight......v,..'....V -
Amsterdam. 60 days’ sight.Va@ 53
Fraakfort. 60 days’ slffiTt * 53
Market lira.
The official averages of the banks in theelty of
New York, for the week ending Saturday last, July
26, 1863, present in the aggregate the following
change* from the previous weekly statement oC
July 18:
Decrease of Loans--*. ........
Decrease ofSpecie -
Decrease of Circulation
Increase of Undrawn Deposits
Including the exchanges between the
through tbe clearinghouse, and including, alee,
sub-treasury statement of Saturday afternoon
following iB the general comparison with **
vious weekly report, and also with rtf
this time last year:
Capital d &Sooo'
gSSS?:; 0n.......;: ss.2*t «r
GrnKsDßposUs.....ls‘C«t<M6 MUMMS sMslS'ow
Exchanged v, 27.108.468 47.M7 6M 41 IWI ifil
.......132.417.178 16t.133.M9 lraWwt
In Suh-Tre.s ar7 „. 8223.793 2t.2M.578 23J5WS
Age JNew York Evening Post of to-day save:
stock exchange is very anim**' ‘ -
1B e <\ ay a * 5 @ 6 c «nt. N- * * _--ca to-day, mo
firm without much ao M * ' ~«*aonal securities are
are steady, bank ' -*vity. Border State bond*
snares dull, and railroad bonda
Prices iB active and
?ept eB S,™ P ™ V e lne - j ? arle “ has advanced 1 «t
cept., Harlem preferred 2. and the principal Western
chares nave..:™ IfCS cent.
The Chicago and AltonKiUrca;; Company. at tkft
at ? hica E°i yesterday, deolared a dividend
ot 2# cent, on the common Btock, and 3# cent
on the preferred atoclr, payable 2Sth of August.
On this dividend the common Btock has advanced
this morning to 82, and the preferred to 9614, the
quotations yesterday being 81 and 95. respectively,
Golilhaß varied from 127®m%, closing at the
higher figures. Exchange opened dull at 140J4. The
closing rates are as follows: Bills at 60 dava on Eon
don, 138J£@139>£ for commercial; 139x'/BU[Uf for
hankers’; do ,at ehort sight, 140*4@i 4t«’; Parts, at
4 07>£@4.00; do., at short sight. 4 oUf@
3 97K ; Antwerp, 4.07}£@4 02)£ ; Swiss 4 0017).1.97if ;
Hamburg, 46@47; oftmsterdam. 61 %@S2X ; Frank
fort, 62K@53; Bremen, 100(StotK: Prusaian tha.
lere, 01M@93.
The appended table exhibits the ohief movements
of the market compared with the latest prices of
yesterday evening:
nl&Nsm 1 , rBK —-““e - ins' 1 ’ A ?. T ‘
U.8.68,168i. cou«,.**, ,196 b, 107 ..
g. 8 seven-thirties.... IOBIf IQS% .. g
U.B. lyearCcrtlf sold.-tof" 101 X .. *
U.B. Ivr. Cert, cnrr’ncy 991 f 0934 . ,
Imerican gold —.127J; J-27« u
Tennessee 6s myi 65 X
Mi.lonr! Rt. 70 emir l.
Pacific Mail 234 234 ” '
K.Y. Central™... „„i24S 12414 %c
Erie..,....™..™—1c0 931,' g
Eriepreferrad™...™ll}3 v
H-qdßon River.. 152 %
Harlem ™™ll7 ns l
HarUniprsfsrrcd...^—ll2 ho g
Reading....... ..103X HO . iw
Kick, Central—R6 r\ m
SUcK BonthemB W* . 85% y. *’
J«ch. 80. gttfcj*... %
Illinoif C«n scrip ;exd .115 115 „
Cleveland& Pittsburg... 95 &
Galena ion gg,v
01eveland&Toledo......llfi% - *
Chicago & Sock Island.lf*4% ~A s"
Port Wayne....7B T,% l\ a J
Prairie duChien 67&. 69* .! i 5
Pliilada* Stock Ehccl]
[Reported by S. B. Slaymaks
PIBST 1
1000 City 6s New....... .107 k
6000 So N€w..3dys.lo7fe
3000 TIS 6« 1881 106^
10 Leblffh Nav....... 55
COReadisgß 55
between
1000 Camden & Amboy mort
SECOND
70am&AmR 165
1000 C & A it oxt -ICB
200 Union Canal prefd. 3
150 Spruce & Pina R... 15
1000 City 6s New 107#
33T0 do N'ew...i....1075^
lOOOPenna 6s .....101
60 Union Cana1....... 1H
CLOSING PR
Biff Afik*ji.
Ness’S! —ire# to
U S 7-30 Notes... .106# 107 x
American Gold. .127# 127*
Pbila6sint off--101 102
Do new int 0ff.107 107^
A115c0058...... ••
PennaSs 100# 101#
Do. Coups
Reading R 64# 55
Do 6e’80'43. IC-9
Do bds 70. .105
Do bds’B6cooy.llo 111
Penna R div off. 6H# 64
Do Ist m 6s. 110^
Do 2d m 6e.. .. 108
Little Schuylß.. 47 47is
Morris CT. consol 65 68
Do prfd 130
Do 6s 76.
Do 2d mtg
Susq Canal
Do 65....... .. ..
Schurl Nav...... 12# 12#
Do prfd 24# 24#
Do 65’82.... SI 82
Slmlra E 35 36
Do prfd 52 52#
Do 7573.... .. 110
Do 108
h Island R ex-dv 3S 38
Do bds
Phila Ger & Nor ..
LeMgb'Valß..., .. ..
Do .. I
Semi-weekly Review of the Philadelphia
Markets*
July 23—Evening.
The Breadstuff market continues very dull, and
prices are lower. There is very little shipping de
mand for Flour. Wheat and Corn are dull and low
er. Oats are without change. The Iron market Is
firm, but there is very little doing. Cotton'is very
dull at previous rates. The stock of Coffee con
tinues light, and there is very little doing. In Fish
and Fruit we hear of no change worthy of notice*
In Seeds there is little or nothing doing.
There is very little demand for Flour either for
export or home ÜBe. Sales comprise about 2,300
hbls, including 1.20 ft hbla common and choice Ohio
extra family at $6@6.60, wo bbls superfineat A5.3T,
aDd 100 bbls extra at bbl: The retailers
and bakers are buying in a small wty-.at $5.37@5.75
for superfine, $5 75@6 for extra, s#©&7s for extra
family, and $7@7.50 p bbl/or fancy brands, accord
ing to quality. Bye Flour is firmly held at $4.60 $1
bbl. Corn Meal.—There is not much doing/ -: Bran
dywine is held at $4.20, and Pennsylvania Meal at
$4 bbl.
GR AlN.—The demand for Wheat is limited, the
market is verv dull, and prices have again declined*
Ahout 12,000 bus sold at 128@133c for fair to prime
Ted, and 137@350c bu for white, as to quality*
Bye is wanted at 105 c p bu for Penna. Corn is
very dull and prices are lower; 8 000 bus prime yel
low have been disyosed of at 78@79e P bu, and 6,000
bus Western mixed at7s@76c bu. Oats.—There
is a fair demand, with sales of about 13,000 bus at
70@76c. weieht.
PROVISIONS.—’The market is inactive, Prioefe
remain about the same as last quoted. Small sales
of mess Pork are making at $14@14.50 for new, and
$l2 hbl for old. Mess Beef is selling in a small
way at $13@16 for city, and $12@12 50 for country*
Bacon—Hams are in" demand, with sales of plain
and fancy bagged at Io^@i2c; Sides at 6%@70 : and
Shoulders at 6%@6c cash. In green meats there is
very little doing. Small sales or Hams in pickle are
making at 9>£@lo>£c. do,* in salt, at 8@8&c 9R ib.
Lard is dull, and prices are rather lower; about 160
bbls and tes have been sold at 10@10,£c 39 ft, and
kegs at Butter is dull at 13@20c; the
latter for prime New York. Cheese sells at n@l2c
ft. Eggs are dull and lower, and selling at Io@l3a
dozen. ’
METALS.—There is very little demand for Pig
IroD, but holders are firmer in their views ; small
sales of Anthracite are making at $30@35 ton for
the three numbers; American Bails range at from.
$75@85 $ ton. Lead—The stock is light, and orices
are unsettled and lower. Copper—Yellow Metal is
lower and offered at2S@3oc, six months. Nails
Bod? are worth 30@32c;
BARK.—There is very little demand, and prices’
have declined; small sales of Ist No. 1 are reported
at $29 ton. Tanners’ Bark is selling in lots at
$13@14 cord for Chestnut, and $lB for Spanish.
CANDLES.—SmaII sales of City Adamantine are
making at 16(o>t9c,‘ and Western at 21@23c, cash;
Sperm are without change.
COAL.—The receipts are fair and the demand less
active, at the advance. The shipments are mostly
to supply the Government.
COFFEE.—The stock continues lixht, and the
market dull. Sales comprise about 300 bags at 2T@
28c for Bio, and 30c for Laguayra, cash and four
months.
COTTON.—The market'dull; there is verv little
doing. About 60 bales have been sold in lots, at
60@63c lb for middlings, closing dull. ''
FEATHERS.—There are but few here, and West
ern are selling in lots at 47@50c P ft.
FlSH.—Mackerel are unchanged. The sales are
confined to store lots at $12.50@13 for Bay Is: $l5
@lB for Shore do; $10.50@1t.00 for 2s, and $5.75@7
for 3p. Codfish are held at 5 p ib, and dull.
Pickled Herring, good first, are rather scarce, and
range from $2.50@4 hhl, as in quality.
FRUIT.—The market is bare .of Oranges and
Lemons in firsthands. and the sales of the other de
scriptions have only been in a small way. Green
Fruit is increasing, and selliDgfreely. Dried Peaches
aie neglected, but Apples are selling at 4@6c ft. -
GUANO.—There is very little Peruvian in the
country, and it is selling in a small way at $95@lOQ.
Super Phosphate of Lime ranges from $35@47.60 p
ton. cash • «■
HOPS are dull, and rangefrom 18@22c for the first
sort Eastern aDd Western.
HAY meets with a firm demand at 9ijc§)si the 100
fijs.:
LUMBER.—Prices are steady for most descrip
tions, and there is only a moderate demand for the
season. Yellow San Boards range from $20@22, and
White Fine at $21@23 Bf.
MOLASSES.—The market remains very quiet.
The only sale reported is a lot New Orleans at 40@
46c, aDd a small lot of Cuba at 36@40c } mostly cash
and 4 months.
NAVAL STORES.—But little domain any de
scription ; 100 bbla common No. 1 Rosin sold at $3O
fbbl. Prices of Tar and Pitch are entirely nominal,
ales of Spirits of Turpentine at $3.40 $ gallon.
OlLS.—Linseed Oil is unsettled and dull at 10S@
110 c IP' gallon. Fish Oils are neglected, and the sales
are only in’a small way from store. Winter Lard
Oil ranges from SO to Ssc, and No. 2 70@75c. In red
Oils there is nothing doing. Coal Oal—There is a
fair demand, with sales of 1.500 bbls in lots, at 30@
31c for crude, 48{go0c for refined in bond, and 58@600
gallon for free' as to quality.
RlCE.—There is very little stock here, and it com
mands S@SJ£C, in a small way.
SALT.—A cargo of Turka island has been sold on
private termp. -
SEEDS.— The market is clear of Cloverseed, and
tbere is nothing doing in. the article; it is quoted at
$5.50@5.75 39 bus. Timothy ranges from $2 25@*2.75,
and there is more demand for it. Flaxseed is scarce,
and if here would command $2 3750
SPIRITS.—There is very little movement in
Foreign Spirits, and prices arenominally unchanged.
N. E Rum is dull at 65@6Se. Whißky—The demand
is limited; sales of bbls Pennsylvania and Ohio at
hhds 46c. and drudge at per gallon.
SUGAR is without much alteration in price, and
the sales are limited at for Cuba and Porto
Rico, cash ; and New Orleans at 10}£@13>£c.
TALLOW is dull and lower; sales of city ten
dered at 10X@10^c.
WOOL,—The market continues very quiet. Small
sales of medium and tub-washed at 70@75c, cash, for
the former, and 75@80c for the latter; buyers offer
the lowest figures.
The following are the receipts of Flour andG-riin
at this port to-day r
Flour. .'. 1,300 I*l®.
meat 6,000
C0r0........
Oats ........
New York Markets, July 98.
Asttes.—The market iB quiet, at for Pots,
and $8.87.f0r Pearls. -
tBEKADSTTJFFS.—The market for State and West
ern Flour is dull &Dd drooping. The sales are 6.000
bhlß, at $4.10@4 35 for superfine State; ss@s.io
for extra State; for superfine Michigan,
Indiana. lowa, Ohio, &c.; ss@o 40 for extra do, in
cluding shipping brands of round hoop Ohio at $5.65
@5.75, and trade brands at $5 So@7 25.
Southern Flour is dull and unchanged.
The sales are 300 bhls at $5 95@6 45 for superfine
Baltimore, and $6.50@9 for extra do.
Canadian flour is dull and drooping.
The sales ore 350 bbls at $5.10@5.30 for common,
and $5.35@7.25 for good to choice extra.
Bye flour iB quiet and steady at $3.60@5.10 for the
range of fine and superfine. -
Corn meal iB dull, i "We quote Jersey at ;$4@4.10,
Brandywine $4.3Q@4.35, Caloric 4 25, and Puncheons
$21.26. , t .
Wheat is firm And very quiet. The sales are 37,000
bushels at $l.Ol@l.lS for Chicago Spring ; $1.13@1.23
for Milwaukee Club; sl.24@i-26 for amber-Iowa;
$1.22@1.27 for winter red Western; $1.28@1.33 for
amber Michigan. . •
Bye is quiet; sales 6,600 bush. Western at 35c.
Barley is dull and nominal.
Oats are dull at 7i@77e for Canada, Western, and
State.
Corn is 1 cent better. The sales are 40,000 bush at
69@70c for shipping, and 67@6Sc for Eastern.
Whisky.—The market is heavy. Sales 350 bbls
at 45@45X0» . .. •
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l4O
Markets by Telegraph.
Bai/timorb, July 28.—Flour firm; salesjcf 600
bbls at $5.75 for Ohio, and $6 for extra. Wheat
firm and in good demand. No dry lota offering.
Cora steady; White 88@90o; Yellow 85@88c, pet 33
pounds. Whisky steady at 45c.
*O~.O5L
2,344.260
........ 105.4*5
814,005
Sale*, Jmly as,
c bancs. I
100 Reading R 54#
i 20ElmiraRPrefd-.i. S 2
24 Tenth & Eleventh. 41
3000 Delaware m bds...lo*
EBOARDS
6f.
4 Philadelphia 8k..124
•500 s?cb »7Q iftj#
650US7.30TNbit A&O 106#
114 Penna R........... 64
60 do 64
4 Catawissa R prefd. 22
20 Lebigh.NaY.2dys.. 55#
ICES-DULL.
« Bid A4ke&>
7 Penna R...... lfijh W
Do 6592 91
Do 103 H«
Catawisaa R Con 7# 7#
rt Do prfd..... 22# 23
ReaverMeadß.. ..
Winehill R
RTarrishurg B **
Wilmington B.
Lehigh Nav. 65.. --
Do shares .. 54# 55#
Do scrip 43 43#
Cam & Arab R
PUila&EriefTs..
lun & Erie 7s .... M
Delaware Diy... .. „
Do bds... ..
Spruce-street R.. 14# 15
\rch-streetß.... .. 25
Race-stre*-tR.... 10# u
Tenth-street S... 41 42
Thirteenth-8t B.
WPhiiaß 65 «
Do bonds
Green-street R.. 35
Do bonds... ..
Chestnnt-stE.... .. 54
Second-street E. 77 79
Do bonds... ••
Fifth-street R.... 64 ST
Do bonds...
Girard College R 20 24
Seventeenth-at B .. -
. 3,100 bi
. 5,500 bi