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FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1884.
Mr. De Bow's Suppressed Aiticle.
The sword of the soldier is like the spear
f hat - mum ; truth, either of evil or good,
cannot keep her disguise when touched by
; every day the war becomes more of a
revelation, and the world profits by every
battle. It revealed to the North the secret
cause of all our troubles . ; it reveals to the
South the secret of her weakness. It dis
closed the astounding extent of the plotting
of treason for thirty years, and, in the
same moment, the surpassing patriotism
of the people, which sprang from its
_Sleep
full stattued in an hour. It showed
with what ease the Union could create an
immense military power, unequalled by that
o f the great European nations, which make
war a trade, and what inexhaustible re
sources it possesses in men and money. It
exploded the accepted idea that the South
erners were a braver and more ehivalroua
race than the North. It exposed the tradi
tional slander of the courage of the colored
man, and it proved to all Americans, loyal
or disloyal, the impossibility of maintaining
a - Union, if one half should be dedicated to
slavery and the other to freedom. The latest
revelation of the war is that cotton is not
king, and that Southern cotton is not neces
sary to the world. Mr. DA Bow, the first
economic authority of the Southern States,
a man whose faith in cotton was like that of
a Mabomedan in MILHOMET, has acknow
ledged this fact, and in the act obtained a
personal revelation of much interest. He
found that a man dared not tell the truth
under the tyranny of "his Excellency, Mr.
--is,” without having . prison- for his
reward. A very remarkable article, upon
Cotton, which appeared in Be Bow's Retina,
was &oppressed by, the rebel Government,
and Mr. DE flow was sent to prison for
wtiting it
This article begins by the alarming state
nient that in a year or so Southern cotton
- will no longer be needed by the WOT'AI, and
that the agricultural basis of the rebellion is
not sufficient to maintain it against its ene
mies. Mr. DE Bow admits that the labor
ets of the North live with a degree of com
fort often unknown to the wealthy planters
of the South, and asks if the South should
examine into the causes of this difference.
While be believes slave labor to have been
more economical before the time of Joint
BROWN and H&I.TRY A. Wrsn, he considers
that it is cheaper now for the white
Southerner to work than to maintain
neerees to work for them. The peo
pie of the >North " educate their chil
dren, and teach them that there is no dis
honor in employing either their hands or
:heir heads ; and I say boldly, even against
-our prejudices, I thick they are <right in
that.—
Here, in one sentence, is the superiority
of free labor admitted, and the necessity of
an industrial revolution inferentially de
dared. Mr DE Bow places side by side
tabular statements of ten free and ten slave
-States, which show that in comparative
productions the greatest differences are in the
proportions of milch cows to populations.
Mr. DE Bow's figures are terrible, and he
declares that the Confederacy cannot longer,
be maintained by cotton, and can only
be saved by the cow. The raising of
-cereals he says is a failure ; in this dilemma
be precipitates himself on the horns of the
cattle. "Increase the number of cows,"
he sa3T, " and think no more of the negro.
The laud, then, instead of being desolated
by war, and the inhabitants gaunt with pri
-rations and misery, will flow literally with
milk and honey, as in times of yore." We
are, however, not concerned with the par
ticulars, but with the general argument of
Mr. DE Bow. The cow may go her usual
way in peace ; Mr. DE Bow was not sent to
prison simply for admiring that useful ani
me], but for declaring cotton a failure, slave
labor a failure, and the industrial principles
of the free States the only true principles
for the whole country. Here is his picture
which Mr. DAVIS snatched from the eyes of
his countrymen
"Cotton has failed or will fail ; the negro has
:ailed or will fall us ; it is idle to hope longer to en
joy peacefully Jailor, the proceeds of his Jaor, when at
this moment eighty thousand of his color are organ
ized, and hold arms in their hands to free their fel-
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lows. The longer the war 113 protracted the more
violently will slavery be destroyed. For two years
and a half we have waged war e and lost more than
half the territory over Which we asserted palladia
lion ; the supply of cattle no longe: comes from
Texas, nor does cotton escape longer from the
frontier to furnish us supplies. The Mississippi
bears a hundred gunboats, half of them iron -clads,
that effectually prevent our occupation of any
. point along its entire course, or eves the passage of
it except under cover of darkness, and by stealth."
This is bad enough, but Mr. D.m Bow ' in
his simplicity, is still more candid. He
shows that - Kentucky, Tennessee, AthallS£o,
Louisiana, much of Mississippi, North Ca
rolina, and - Virginia are held by the Union
armies, and that Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina, and Texas are unsafe. He ridi
cules, very soberly, Mr. ,DAVIS' statement
that the blockade is only paper, and shows
that three thousand five hundred miles of
-Southern coast have been effectively closed.
WELLBB could not have a higher corn-
pliment paid him. Then Mr. Du Bow walks
boldly up to the prison doors, and asks these
astounding questions
what progress have we made ? Is the slave
power more secure than before we seceded ?
Are we in such a condition as to promise our-
9elves, even with the repudiation of all debts,
both at home and abroad, exemption from
duties and high taxation ? What have we to
?tope for, boa a march slavery or at
prospects of the Southern Confederacy?" No
wonder the Review was suppressed ; no won
der Mr. DE Bow was put in jail ; he attacked
the very foundations of the rebellion in at-
tacking cotton and slavery, and daring to
advocate free labor and cows.
More About Mexico. -
The late news from Mexico seems to be
favorable to the invaders. It informs us
that General IIEAOA, who commands the
national forces, has been defeated at Mo
relia, where he attacked the Imperialist
under MARQUEZ, and that JUAREZ has re
paired to Monterey, having vacated San
- Luis Potosi. Mexico is a singular country,
and singularly situated. Iler history is
unique, and so is her population. Whatever
singularity may mark her future annals,
they will but keep pace with the past. Before
the remote era when Conmaz conquered
Mexico, the history of the races he sub
dued, was involved and intricate. The record
of the posterity of the sons of ANAHUAC has
been scarcely less checkered, and a change
is even now coming over the spirit of
Mexico. JUAREZ has gone to Monterey
unaccompanied, and in a private character_
The members of his Cabinet are lying loose
around Zacatecas, Matamoros, Durango, etc.
trumm was advancing towards Morelia at
the very time JUAREZ was leaving San Luis
Potosi to the tender mercies of the Imperial
ists. Not long ago it was rumored that the
South intended to observe the golden rule
in recognizing the French monarchy in
M ex ico. If she wants to recognize it, why
does she not do so now ? The Juarists
are down and the Imperialists are up. The
South is favorable to a French monarchy.
Now is the time for JEFF DAVIS to pat,
litaxisca.reN on the shoulder. But we sus
pect that the South is suffering too much
from dyspepsia over the humble pie it is
being forced to eat to pay much :mention
either to Mexico or Maxminaaw.
A French monarchy in Mexico will
Speedily eat itself up. This is not the
-era for the establishment of new empires.
The old ones are rapidly crumbling away,
and their efforts are being thwarte& Re
publictudsm, in its advance, is pulverizing
them, and even though lifaxnamw should
step in at the nick of time, it is probable
that ere long he . would find the sea-girt
-shores of Mexico too hot to hold him_
Mexicohas, or used to have, time distinct
kinds of climate. Malaria lurked in one' of
-them ' and amid the very luxuriance of
sensual nature. Such may prove the cli
mate of a kingdom. Such it has often
proved. Amid the pomp and ostentation
virrounding a throne, 4 malignant breaths
have been breathe& We cannot but think
that the attempt to establish a monarchy in
Mexico will speedily recoil upon itself.
Foreigners in Japan.
The relations of the Japanese with " out.
side barbarians," ourselves included, are
assuming a complicity which is likely to
eventuate in either the total cessation of
foreign commerce or fu war. This is an
important matter to us, seeing that the first
treaty made by Japan with any other than
an Asiatic power was obtained through the
1 tact and courtesy of Commodore Psurtv.
Complaints had reached this country that
American seamen shipwrecked on the Ja
panese coast had been harshly treated by the
authorities there, and our Government, in
1852, sent out an expedition, commanded by
Commodore PERRY, to demand protection
for American sailors and property wrecked
on Japanese territory, to establish diplomatic
and commercial relations with the authori
ties, and to obtain permission to use several
ports for the ordinary purposes of trade.
Believing that the argument of force would
have more weight in Japan than the force of
argument, Commodore PERRY'S expedition
consisted of seven ships of war. In 1853
he reached Japan, and left a letter from
our President for the Emperor. In the
folio - wing February he returned, and an
chorcd in the bay of Yeddo, not far from
the capital. After the usual amount of cir
cumlocution, which seems to abound in
Asia as well as in Europe, a treaty was exe
cuted, dated Kanagawa, March 31, 1854,
whereby certain ports were thrown open
to American ships, liberty of trade was con
ceded, and American consuls permitted to
reside in Simoda and Elakodadi, the ports
to which our commerce was admitted.
These concessions made, other foreign
Powers also claimed and obtained them,
viz : Great Britain, Russia, Rolland, and
Prance. The last English treaty secured
extended privileges, which have also been
granted to America and the other foreign
Powers. These privileges are permission
for diplomatic agents to reside at Yeddo ;
the ports of Hakodadi, Kana.gawa, and
Nagasaki to be opened from July, 1859 ;
Neagata, from January, 1860 ; Thogo, from
January, 1803, with permission for foreign
ers to reside in these ports and towns, and
within a boundary of ten ri, (twenty-four.
miles •) and, from January, 1862 s and Ja-
,
nuary, 1863, in Yeciclo and Osaca, for the
purposes of trade alone. The treaty may
be revised, in one year's notice, or after
Jule, 1872.
July,
Unfortunately, the Treaties were made
with the Tycoon, who governs only the five
imperial ports and their adjacent: districts,
and it is doubtful whether they were ever
stifled by the Mikado, the actual sovereign
of the Japanese empire. They were un
doubtedly yielded throUgh fear '
and the Ty
coon's government petitioned England to
be released from the articles which stipulate
for the opening of Yeddo, in January, 1802,
as well as the ports of Neagata, Iliogo, and
Osaca. England granted five years' delay,
conditional on the Japanese immediately
affording greater facilities for commerce at
the porta already opened, and guarantees
being given for the security of the lives of
foreigners. But the burning of the British
Legation, and the murder of Mr. RICHARD
SON, a British subject, in 1803, show the
hostility of the Japanese aristocracy and
rulers to intercourse with foreigners,
France, which had also sustained injury
in her trade and through her citizens,
joined with England in sending a naval
force to demand redress from the Japanese.
Those Powers have not acted precisely
together—but France has established a for
tified foothold close to Kanagawa, and
England has destroyed several Japanese
ships, besides bombarding one of the forts.
The United States also had a difficulty with
the Japanese, who, however, have ten
dered the requisite reparation.. England
had obtained a large sum of money as com
pensation for the murder of Mr. lirenhatn
SON, but, at the same time, the spiritual
Emperor of the Japanese ordered that all
foreigners should quit the country within
thirty days—a command which the diplo
matic representatives of the various nations
declined obeying. The latest news from
Japan, as recent as the beginning of No
vember, is that this order has been with
drawn, but that the aristocracy wished fo
reigners to_ withdraw to Hakodadi and
Nagasaki, (at the extremities of the Empire,)
wholly abandoning Kanagawa. This was
first communicated to the American and
Dutch Ministers, but the representatives of
the other foreign Powers have since joined
them in declining to abandon the slightest
concession granted by the Trestle& The
Government was endeavoring to throw
pediments in the - way of the trade in silk and
tea, that the palpable purpose was to arrest
that trade, so as to make it not worth while
to carry it on
The fact is, the Japanese are afraid of for
, eign aggression. Ours is the only nation in
alliance with them which does not deal with
an ultimate idea of obtaining territorythere.
They know what the English did in India---
commencing as petty commercial squatters
on the coast, and ending by obtaining the
whole of Hindostan. There are two Em
perors in .Tapan—the Tycoon, who is a sec
ular ruler, and the 3tikado, from whom h'e re
ceives his investiture, the actual, because the
superiorisovereign. The Mikado reigns, but
does not govern. The Tycoon governs, but
does not reign. The Tycoon, who attends
to secular affairs, is himself controlled by
two councils, composed of the aristocracy
of rank and territory, who form the Execu-
"But, above all,
tine at Yeddo, the capital. The middle
class, who are not recognized under this
Government, do not object to foreigners, but
the Mikado, the Tycoon, and the_Council of
Diamos, (or princes t ) are bitterly antagonistic
to any further intercourse with " outside
barbarians," and it appears likely to be-
come a question when foreigners shall with
draw from trade with Japan, or fight the
Japanese, in order to beat them into
tolerating future intercourse. Nor is it
quite certain, should foreign Powers unite
to assail Japan, that the Japanese will come
off second-best. It is a small consolation
to us that of all the foreign nations trading
with Japan, we have most conciliated the
good opinion of all classes there ; for, if the
Japanese carry out their intention of break-
ing off all relations with foreigners, the
United States will necessarily be included
in this proscription, for our trade with Japan
has gone on, steadily increasing, year after
year, and it will be a pity if it be destroyed
by the action of the authorities there.
The five-twenty loan is exhausted, the
subscriptions yesterday having reached six
teen millions. Starting on Wednesday eve
ning with seven millions, the loans oversold
in the neighborhood of nine or ten millions.
It must be borne in mind that the result was
due to no bombination of capitalist; but to
the fact that the whole thing was taken up
by the people, subscriptions being received
yesterday from all parts of the country. In
answer to the inquiry as to what was to be
done with the subscriptions coming in, a
telegram was received from the Treasury
Department to the effect that, considering it
impossible to stop at any exact amount, and
to give remote depositaries a fair chance,
the Secretary authorizes the rejection of sub
scriptions after Thursday, January 21st, ex
cept those actually, in eransitu from other
points on and before that date. It it expect
ed that this may overrun the five hundred
millions somewhat, but the course adopted
is deemed the best one to pursue.
THE PERIL OP THE REvUBLIO THE FAULT OP
THE PEOPLE,—The userulneis of the address de.
livered under this title by Mr. Daniel Dougherty is
not ended, for it treats of no transitory peril, and
defines and enforces principles which will be as truly
the basis of national safety twenty years hence as
they are to-day. It is too thoughtful and earnest to
be neglected by those who really care for the per
manent welfare of the country. One of the most
impartial acknowledgments or its merit we fled in
the January number of Dr. 13rownaores Quarter/to Re
vim Introducing his criticism upon its argument,
Dr. Bronnwon lay,: "We have read with much
interest this very able and eloquent address by
Mr. Dougherty. The author Speaks as a Christian
and a patriot, out of a full breast, because he
bag something to say—not because he has an ad
dress to deliver. He is a man in downright earnest,
and_too much concerned for the honor of his cowl
trymen to flatter them ; too sincerely devoted to his
country to fear to tell it unpalatable truths. He bc,
Heves the Republic is in peril, and he says so ; and,
believing the cause to be in the corruption and ve
nality, public and private, of the people, he tells
them so. He is no demagogue, and is, Probable, no
aspirant for oftiee." This is a keen and Clear (mill
dam or the spirit of the address, and the character Of
The Five-Twenty Loan.
ita
eutlior,,enci we Quote tk not merely as a compli
ment tO Mr. Dongbertra well•known ability, but as
a recognition of Pia moral 'earnertnees ant true pa
triotism.
-WA.SIIINCurP(3I,I
-Wesarerwrow, D. 0.. Jan. `21..
The - Fire-twenty United States Loan.
There is authority for stating that the great live.
twenty loan closed to day, the entire amount of
$500,000 . 000 having been subscribed. The absorb
ton during the present week has been very rapid ;
subscriptions have been made of over $13,000,000.
No subscription made after today Will be received.
The Committee on the Conduct of the
War.
The Committee on the Conduct of the War, just
authorized to be appointed, consi s t s of senator ,.
WADE, of Ohio . ; CHANDLER, of Michigan, and HAD,
piwo, of Oregon, and Representatives Goom, of
Massachusetts; JULIAN, of Indiana; Opera., of
New York, a n d LOAN, of Ddissouri. This commit
tee Is similar to the one heretofore in existence, the
only difference being in the substitution of Hee,
DINO and LOAE in the places of ex-Congressmen AN
DREW JeaDEO24 - and Covons. The old committee
was appointed December, 1861, and closed its labors
April, 1863.
The new commitiee, in addition to its duty of
quiring into the conduct of the war, is instructed to
examine into all contracts and engagements with
any department of the Government, and is autho
rized to sit during the recess of Congress, at any
place which may be deemed proper. Besides this,
every facility is provided for a thorough investiga
tion, including the sending for persons and papers,
The Missouri Contested Elections.
The Miesouri contested election cases are now
being considered by the Rouse Committee of Elea.
none. Mr. Banos, who contests the seat of Mr.
LOAN, addressed the Committee yesterday and to•
day, and will continue the argument tomorrow.
The Committee was full. There are five such oases
from that State, and several of them will depend for
their decision on the - result concerning the contest
now under oonsideration.
General BLAIR, of Missouri, has been appointed
on Rouse Military Comnaittee, in place of Loex,
excused from service thereon.
The Military Commission, for several weeks past
in cession here, has eoncluded its labors.
C. C. SPAULDING, tried for running goods across
the Potomac into Virginia, has boon honorably aa•
quitted. , • ,
Clothing to be Sent by Mail.
The following bill, having passed both Rouses ,
now only awaits the President's signature to become
a law:
Articles of clothing, being manufactured of wool,
cotton, or linen, and comprised in a package not
exceeding two pounds in weight, addressed to any
nort•commissioned officer or private serving in the
eludes of the United States, may be transmitted in
the mails of the United States at the rate of eight
ce n ts, to be in all oases prepaid, for every four
ounce., or any fraction thereof, subject to such rega•
Wiens as the Postmaster General may preicribe.
Richmond is Not Evaeuated.
A despatch was received here by Gen. Burman
from Gen. Wre7AE, commanding at Norfolk, stating
that the flag-ot truce boat had just come down the
river, bringing the report that Richmond had been
evacuated. Gen. BUTLER telegraphed beak to Gen.
Wreram to make a reconnoissance in force and as
certain facts. This was accordingly done, and the
rrcorinoitring column went within 27 miles of Rich
mond. Returning, they report that Richmond has
not been evacuated.
Swindling in Horse Contracts.
The vigilance exercised bythe inspectors of horse*
recently appointed by the War Department, has
compelled the withdrawal of the numerous swin.
dling contractors from the market, which is thus
left, open to those who wish to furnish Government
with good horses at fair prices. This timely pre
vention of further frauds will be a saving both of
money and men to the Government.
The Tax on Tobacco.
It appears from a communication of the commis
sioner of the Agricultural Committee of the Senate,
which wee pretented by :Scimitar SII2I7.IICAM to that
body to-day, that in the commteetonent opinion the
proposed tax of twenty cents on leaf tobacco would
destroy the export trade, which now gives us $20,.
000,000 of revenue. He estimates our average crop
at less than one-third of the product of the world,
and shows than more tobacco is grown in Europe
than in this country, and that the substitute' for the
growth of this country are already driving it out of
European markets.
It is shown that the article is grown throughout
South America, Northern and Southern Africa, the
East and West Indies, Asia, and all of Europe ex.
cepting Britain and the northern part of the coat!•
neut.; in every State and Territory in the United
States, and in Canada. The export of Brazil has
increased sevenfold in two years. Holland and Bel
gium have increased their product several hundred
per cent. in two years, and other European States
have made advancements, while France has actu
ally restrained the oultivation, by refusal to give
permits.
The report concludes : The United States do not
control the tobacco trade, and that the capacities of
other countries to grow all they need is ample.
Kidnapped.
Two colored men were kidnapped in this city
yesterday. A. reward is offered by the authorities
for their discovery.
Recruiting of Negroes in Maryland.
General BIRNICY has written a letter to a promi
nent member of the Maryland Leglilature s denying
that be has ever used force to obtain negro recruits.
The great trouble, he says, was to restrain the ne
poem from rushing to the camps.
Collector Barney.
Collector BARNEY, of New 'York. was before the
Committee on Public Expenditures this morning for
an hour and a half. He gave his history of the dim.
oovery of the frauds in the custom house. Mr.
EIIIIBR.IIB, deputy of the Clearance Bureau, will be
examined tomorrow.
The Naval Committee.
The House Naval Committee commenced an in
vestigation this morning of the structure of naval
engines.
Diehard Musteed , s Appointment.
The nomination of RICHARD Dewar/um, of New
York, as judge of the United States District Court
for Alabama, was confirmed without a diaaenthig
vote.
CAIRO.
Qua° Jan. 21.—The steamer Memphis has ao.
rived with on bales of cotton for St. Louis, and
brings Memphis dates of the 19th inst.
The steamer City Belle, chartered to go to New
Orleans with sanitary stores by the State of In
diana, returned today, bringing up twenty sick and
wounded soldiers.
The ed lowa Cavalry, at Little nook, have re•
enlisted, and are now 700 strong.
Trial of a Railroad Conductor.
HAZEISBITRO, Jan. 21.—The trial of F. P. Hill, a
conductor on the Reading Railroad, charged with
embezzling the funds of the company, has created
much excitement in this city today, the court+
house being crowded with witnesses and spectators.
The evidence for the prosecution and defence have
cloned, and the arguments of counsel will commence
te•morrow. Among the witnesses called to-day were
the president and superintendent of the Reading
Railroad Company, and also the superintendent of
the New Jersey Central Railroad, the latter being
called by the defendant.
Loss of a Bearer of Despatches.
NEW Yonk, Jan. Olark,who was drowned
by the wrecking of the schbollet ViatOr, Off Sandy
Hook, yesterday morning, was a bearer of despatches
from the American Omani General at San Domingo
to our Government. The despatches were saved,
and have been forwarded to Secretary Seward.
Veteran Reghrtents.
Criteruirrar, Jan. 21.—The 6th ConneatioUt, 67th
Pennsylvania, 68th New York, and 17th Ohio Regi
ments have arrived at Louisville, on their way
home.
The Bth Mieldgan and 824 Ohio arrived here yea.
terday.
The lend New York and 22th Pennsylvania parsed
Indianapolis yesterday on their homeward route to
recruit.
Five hundred recruits for Indiana regiments have
arrived at Indianapolis within the last two days.
Funeral of Stephen C. Foster.
PITTSBURG, Jan. M.—The funeral Of. Stephen 0.
Foster, the well. known mu.ioal composer, took
place this afternoon. The services in Trinity limb
were unusually impressive, and was attended by a
large audience, some of whom participated in the eek
remonies. The remains were conveyed toAlleghenY
Cemetery, when the last sad rites were performed.
A splendid brass band was in attendance and per
formed two of the most popular airs of the eminent
composer, " Come where my love lies dreaming,"
and "Old folks at home," in a manner Whioh im-
parted a thrilling effect to the solemnities.
The Maryland Legislature.
BALTneorta, Jan. 21.—Tbe proceedings in the Le.
gialature to-day, in both houses, was favorable to
the immediate emancipation of the slaves in the
State. A motion to postpone the election or dale.
gates to the convention was voted down.
Non-arrival of the Canada.
HALIFAX, JAIL 21.—Up to this noon there are no
signs of the arrival of the Canada, now fully due,
with Liverpool dates of theL2th inst.
BOSTON, Jan. 20 —A heavy snow And sleebotorm
has been prevailing for the past twentyfour hours
in Newfoundland. The telegraph line is not in ope
ration east of Lmanehe.
HALIFAX, N. S., 11 P. M., Jan. 21,—There are no
signs of the steamer Canada, now fully due at this
port
The Africa arrived this evening from, Boston, and
will sail at midnight.
Conviction of Count Johannes.
BOSTON, Jan. 'A.—George Jones, alias Count Jo
hannes, was to-day convicted of being a common
barrator or nuisance in the courts of this I)ommon
wealth.
Discharge of a Prisoner.
NNW YORK, Jsn. 21.—L. Olmstead has been dis
charged by Marshal Murray . , the investigation
proving bim Innocent of any Complicity wish block
ade runners.
Sailing Of the Steamship United Kingdom.
PORTLAND, Jan. 21.—The steamship United King
dom, from Glasgow, sailed this afternoon for New
York.
Capture of a Valuable Prize.
Harald,
w Y r o it it hi n g ,
f l ro a m n.
th 2 e ta- at A obi e le Or b r l es oa p k o a n d d e e , n s t ay o s f the
"Since writing you yesterday We have another
prize to register for this blockade. On the evening
of the tilt ult., the rebel screw steamer Gray Jacket
ran out and paned the fleet before she was seen.
The gunboat Kennebec being close to hand, was
ordered to give chase after her, and alter a chase of
• twelve hours, she was brought to and made a prize.
She was yesterday brought to then .et, and was im
mediately sent to New Orleans. She is a new
steamer, and resembles our gunboat' somewhat.
She has on hoard five hundred and three bales of
cotton, and a quantity of turpentine and rosin.
This was her tint trip. Sheds estimated to be worth
berWeill 090,000 and 0100,000 There arc four
Warners in ape bay waiting to KIM Out,"
THE PRESS. - PITILADELPIIIA: FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1864:
DESTITUTION OF THE REBELS.
Anste or THE POTOMAC, Jan. 20.—The news we
get to-day is unimportant. A few deserters have
cone over during the last two days, who confirm the
reports already published of the rebel want of sub.
sistertee.
LONGSTREET ADVANCING ON KNOX-
I conversed to •day with a gentleman who said he
left Richmond on the lath inst. His report was
that one or twosdivisions of Lee's army were re
ported to have gone to reinforce Longstreet, who
was reported to be again advancing on Knoxville.
It was believed in Richmond that Virginia was to
be abandoned to the Yankees, and that the whole
rebel force would be concentrated and put into one•
ration in Tennessee and Kentucky.
I also hear a report that General Grant has noti
fied the War Department that Longstreet is being
reinforced from Virginia, and presume it to be a
fact.
NO MOVEMENTS-RULES FOR SUPPLIES
TO DESTITUTE INHABITANTS.
_ . .
ISIVADQUATMEO2.4., Anal' OP Tan POTOMAC, Jan.
21—Nothing of imolai interest has transpired within
our lines for several days, and the enemy seem to
enjoy a similar state of quietude.
Erroneous ideas have been promulgated by the
newspapers in regard to the extent of supplies to
the destitute inhabitants hereabouts. under the
trade regulations of the Treasury Department. lam
authorized to say that supplies will not be furnished
beyond the limits of infantry occupation, except in
a very few special eases. None whatever will be
furnished except by permission of and oPProved
by General Patrick, Provost Marshal General, and
none will be allowed where doubt exists as to such
supplies being used or appropriated by parties hos.
tile to the Union cause. The most needy and most
deserving of our sympathizers win be dint fur
nished with the necessaries of life to a limited ex
tent only. The most stringent course will be pur
sued to prevent any maitippropriation of sup
plies.
Escape of Rebel Officers - Mortality la the
Jan. 21.—Several rebel officers re•
cently escaped while in transit between Louisville
and Camp Chase, some of whom have been re.
captured.
A large number of recruits are daily passed throug l b
from Nashville to Chattanooga, the time being nine
teen hours.
The mortality in the Chattanooga hospitals is
about ninety per week.
A riot oeourred on Tuesday at Seymour, Indiana ,
between some drunken soldiers and the guard, re
moulting in the death of two rioters and the wound
ing of several others.
Twentg•-two Hundred Bodies Recovered
WET THE VICTIMS WERE NOT SAVED—INCIBENTs
OF THU CATASTROPHE—TEE SITU OF THE ONONCIEr
TO BE OCCUPIED ET A MONUMENT.
The Providence Journaf publishes a letter received
by W. A. Pearce, of Providence, from his father, re
sident in Santiago, Child, who witnessed the recent
appalling catastrophe by which more than two thou
sand hunt= beings were burnt to death. It appears
that the failure to rescue the unfortunate victims
was owing to the idiotic pollee system of the Chili
ans. The Writer says :
" I hear you asking, why were those sufferers not
rescued? Yee, why were they not rescued ? My
heart sicken, within me at the question. Those de
termined, stupid ignoramuses of policemen ! Fifty
foreigners, had they, been allowed to work, and to
work in their own way, could and would have
rescued nearly or quite the whole mass. But no,as
Is always the case here on an alarm of fire, thepo
lice place a sentry on every avenue leading to toe
fire. They have, as you know, no fire engines ex
ceptzo= two er three old Gordon pumps.; I fought
my way past the police one entire square, by wrest
ing guns and sabres from their hands, knockingthem
Out 01 my way, and being knocked in retina.
until I was overpowered by numbers and compelled
to retreat, and all within hearing of the most heart
rending lamentations that ever sounded on human
ears. And nearly every foreigner fared similar to
myself was kept back. Mr. Demiloie, of the gas
works, received a bayonet wound at the fire white
in the act of rescuing a_soung lady that he recog
nized, a Miss Larren. He had fought his way, in
company with one of the workmen at the gas works,.
to the church, and battered down a side or private
door and saw Miss Larren; she at the same time
recognized him and called on him to save her. He
could not enter in consequence of a sheet of flame
between them. He reached his cane to her, which
she grasped with both hands, when he guiding friend
attempted to drag her through the flames, but she WAS
SO elerroundeu and hemmed in with the dead and dy-
ing that her strength was not sufficient. They aban
doned this method and Went in pursuit of some
other means to rescue her, and returned again, and
on presenting themeelvee with the means of saving
her at the door, the pollee ordered them back, and
not heeding the order, he (Demilow) was bayoneted.
His friends wrested the gun from the policeman,
knocked him eenselets to the ground, and made a
second attemptto save the poor girl. But the time
loot in dispute with the police was a life lost with
her. This is only one of many stroller scenes..
"Your brother Charles battered a door down. on
Calle Bandera, or Flagg street, entered and found
in a small anteroom sonic thirty females, and all
living, but like so many statute, perfectly uncon
scious. He was compelled to take many of them
in his arms and carry them into the street and saved
them all. Mr. Merges and H. Keith fought their
way through the police and reached the church at a
late hour, and when the tower was falling all about
them succeeded in saving several. Mr. Malaga saw
a woman still alive under a crowd of others then
dead. She recognized him, and called to hlm, ray
ing, for God's sake, save me !, He rushed through
the fire to her and pushed several of the dead from
her, then attempted to lift her out from among the
dead, but they were so firmly Wedged in about her
and on her, he had to abandon that. He then pro
cured a lasso, fastened that about her waist, and the
united strength of eight men could not extricate her
from her companions, and th y had to leave her
amid such cries for help as no hristian hearteould
endure, neither can language describe.
"The police had full charge of the front of the
church, and in such force that the foreigners could
do nothing there. The police rescued but a few.
Axes and crowbars were not to be had until a late
hour. A single instance will suffice to show the
stupidity of the police : An officer of the police set
some half dozen of his men to hew or batter down
one of those large front doors with their oln broad
swords. The doors are made of two-inch hard wood,
double thickness, and riveted through and through
with iron rivets. You can judge the effect their old
cutlasses made on the doors better than I elan describe
it.
- "The scene at the church the following day Was
the moat revolting, heart-distressing, that ever was
witnessed since the world was created. There were
the poor unfortunate dead in all armee of consump
tion, the greater portion of them nailed. But a few
could be recognized by their surviving friends.
The police ordered on the peones, or laborers,
to remove the dead. These demons—Werree than
devils damned—commenced their work with as
much hilarity as you ever saw school children
enter on some pleasure excursion. The dead were
pulled about and pulled apart, as one would
pull apart tangled brushwood. You could see
two or more peones pulling on a limb of some
one buried under the others, until the limb Was
pulled from the body. Then they would have
a peon howl of exultation, sad commence
at another. The dead were Actually separated with
crowbars and pick. Limbs heads, and fragments •
were shovelled into Carts wi th no , more feeling than
Irish laborers would have in shovelling gravel into
a railway car. Hundreds of bodies but partially
burned, entirely naked, were tumbled into open
carts and packed up in the cemetery in one pro-
miscuous heap, without even the covering of a
bundle of straw or a bulrush and hunderde of those
heartless wretches commenting and joking on the
scene, and all under the supervision of the police. I
have seen, within the past ten years here among
these people, many things that were to me very un
pleasant. But this hi eo horrifying to the soul that
I cannot find language to express my disgust of
them.
" Twenty-two hundred bodies have been counted
out from the ruins, and it is supposed many were
burned entirely up. The prevailing opinion is the
number of lives lost will reach twenty. five hundred.
The count and names collected to date amount to
some fifteen hundred. Many familiar have lost the
entire female members—six, seven, eight, and nine
from one family. All those that could not be recog
nized by their surviving friends are now buried m
one grave or hole. place twenty-five yards square
was excavated, and into this they were laid, or
tumbled and shovelled.
" This accid severes given the Catholic religion
here the most blow that the Church has ever
experienced. The express themselves openly
and publicly against the clergy having such com
plete dominion over the females.
" The city authorities have had their hands full
the past week in keeping down mob violence, as the
masses are determined that the church shall not
again be rebuilt.
i ‘ The Government hoe stepped in . and ordered
the ruins to be taken down and carted 0 11 and will
purchase the ground and erect a monument to the
memory of the dead. The place is to be enclosed
with a substantial iron fence, and the remainder of
the ground laid out in a flower garden."
XXXVIIIth CONGRESS---ISt SESSION.
WASHINGTON, Tan. 21, 1864.
SENATE.
Tax on Tobacco.
Mr. SHERMAN. of Ohio. Presented th Departments m
missioner Newton, of the Anicnltnral on
the subject of the propoeed taxation of twenty per cent.
on leaf tobacco. m Newton e instance of the Committee
on Finance hfr. is adverse to the tax. The
communication wag referred to the Committee on Fi
nance.
The Oath of Allegiance - for Senators.
On motion of Mr. SIISINDst. of Massachneetts. all prior
orders were postponed, and the Semite proceeded to the
consideration of the rule requiring an additional oath
from Its members.
-
Senate OHASO propositions-d. proceeded to address the
on threeviz: Did the law of Janu
ary, 1862. requiring the oath to be taken by officers of
the Government, include Senators? If it did. was it
constitutional? If it became operative, was It proper
and expedient? He contended that the Government
rived al its w
no other exist po nce e . rs T m a h s eC c on of the on ele n
a h on
of : . the power in the Constitution is a restriction of
the power, as under a State Constitution. We are bound
to show the exietenee of this power before we attempt to
exercise it. Did the act of 1862 embrace Senators? He
contended that it did not, and quoted various authorities
in support of the argument that Senators were not offi
cers within the meaning of the law. The Senate only
had power to expel by a two-thirds vote. and not by hn-
Peachment. No two Senators agreed on this door in re.
Bard to any question, and every Senator had a right to
his individual opinions, subject only to the law, ctvii
civilriminal. He contended that a Senator was not a
officer under the language of the statute. The
Constitution provides that no Senator seall be appointed
to a civil office daring his term The interpre
tation put upon the statute by the Senate would be
absurd. because the Senators would hold Moil offices
while they were on the floor. Senators and Representa
tives were only responsible to the Legislatures and COlL
etitnents of their respective States. The Senate was a
body of men; so was the House; and they derived ail
power, not under, but by the Constitution, and the mem
bers held their seats subject to no other part of the Go
vern Presidentpt they are made so h a r d the Constitution.
The or the other House no right to ques
tion the acts of the Senate, because it would be a coercive
power. The argument of the Senator from Massachu
setts he considered unconstitutional and mischievous.
The Mates were not to be reduced to territorial govern
ments to come back into the Union at such times and in
such manner as Congress might elect.
There wet nothing in the confiscation law of the 17th
of July. 1862. to support the law of the 2d of July. 1862,
rimier which thin role is proposed to be applied to
Senators.
fdr, JORNEDN proceeded at length to explain ths de
cision of the chief juttice in the case of Mecollough vs.
The State of Idaryland, quoted by Mr. Anthony yester
d. y, and. contended that It didnot apply here. The ques
tion then was, was there power to establish a United
States Bank ? if a nista were loyal now. and takes the
oath named, you turn him out and indict him for per
jury, because he had at some time in the past committed
the MD nee of treason. He would say, who knows but
scribedme of the Se nators c o uldad taken the upon , b
in the Constitution not be relied and
bed committed, at some time, offences against the United
States The war here upheld was under the Constitn-
Lon for the suppression of the spirit of rebellion that
would overthrow it, and it was to be Waited to the spe
c fic objects for wliieh it was intended. Did we want
the States back? Did we want the war terminated, and
this slaughter to cease? Did we want sound fraternal
eitivon no be restored. an p l a ced former prosperity of
ved. a our nation to be in the front rank of
the 1111t10119 of the earth? Wbo would not say yes? Can
u a get the receded States back by mesh( measures
to beer them oat? Was it the purpose or this
set of dannsry to say to the people of the gentl y .
men, Walfieti, and children, • Yon are out of the Union
nosy and forever." end that they should be slaughtered
or thoir th,estiboldi unless they came in? This was
aol tee view taken In 1862. when the act was poised,
The people of tie eolith. when the military Dewar a the
: rebellion was subdued. wonlfl main come iiito the ILIA
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
MEM
THE WEST.
Chattanooga Hospitals
THE DISASTER II CHILL
Of the Upton under teeprovisione of the Prestdenrs
Artineety Proclamation. The social conneetiows of the
people of the Nonth had punch to do with their torment
rendition. What a spectacle it would be to see silt mil
' Bone of people thrust out of thepale of the Government of
the United. States! But it would be infinitely worse to
hold a proud and sensitive people in such a slavery as
this would be. Re was opposed to placing the negroes
on a political equalityleelth the whites. as being a greater
evil to the slave than the master. What manwould not
trifler death a thousand times. than to be brought to
Political degradation? Such degradation was not ne
cessary to the crushing of the rebellion, and the restora
tion of the Union. The day was fast approaching. if the
power of the Government was exerted as it ought to be.
when the military power of the rebellion would be
crushed, and the people of the South would share in
the heart as well as in deep blessings of a restored
Union. in the language of Webster, This Govern
ment of ours was not a consolidated, but a united one."
lily. BOWARD. of Michigan. thought this was a
simple proposition that every Senator should hereafter
take this oath or be excluded from this body. It was
rather late in the day to say that we are doing a grievous
wrong against pereeite whose hands were red with the
blood of innocent loyal people, when we simply ask
them, or their rereesentatives. when theypresent them
selves here, to take such an oath as this. Admitting
that a Senator was not a civil odic r, does it follow that
he is not embraced in the statute? They obtain their
offices by election or appointment is not a Senator
elected? Is not a Preeldent elected ? Upon what princi
ple do the learned Senators front Delaware end Mary
land contend that this statute may not apply to tens
tore as well as the other officers elec ed by the People?
Without the fidelity required by the oath under this
statute. the Constitution would become a dead letter.
Its vital impost Would be gone; with this oath it would
endure forever. The omission of the particular form
of the oath in the Constitution plainly gives the
Senate the power to establish one. The Senate was
net to be more imbecile than a court of junco
We bad a right to go back and inquire into the
antecedents of a person demanding admission into
thie body. If in the future cases of injustice should
arise under the rule, the Senator could. repeal the law.
In such eases be should cheerfully vote for it. "
Suffi
cient unto the day was the evil thereof." The people
of the North were not such Mole as to fight a war like
this one. and sacrifice 150.000 or 20%000 lives, and then
tern around and say to traitors " Come book and sit
in the Council orals nation." Ile would never consent
to each weeknes and folly.
Mr. FOOTS, of Vermont, would arouse alone the
question of the expediency of the propelled rule. Where
was the propriety of incorporating into the sales of the
Senate an obligation which the law itself already im
poses ? The law in Itself was a sufficient rule. A rule of
the Senate could not make the statute any stronger than
it was. There was no precedent for this rule. It im
plied that the law was defective, and there was no ne
cessity for it,
The amendment of Mr. Powell was rejected by a vote
of 12 ayes to 26 nays.
On motion of Mr. DOOLITTLE, the. Senate adjourned
until Monday. Mr. Saulsbury entitled to the door on
the pending subject.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House. by a vote of seventy-seven to fifty five, re
fund C. adjourn till Monday.
Mr. WASHBURNIinois. from the Committe ofn
ti Enloe, reported anewrule for the appointment a
standing committee. to consist of five members. to be
entitled the Committee on a Uniform System of Weights,
Measnwe. and Coinage. to whom shall be referred
cemrannicatione upon those subjects. The rule was
adopted.
The House then resumed the consideration of the Joint
resolution ainstdatoty of the confiscation act.
Mr MOSEYS. of New York, said he was at a loss to see
low the rebels con!d claim the protection of the Consti
tution. He did not even • know that they did so. what;
ever claim to this effect might be set up by their sympa
thizers. Gentlemen might as well talk of an honest thief
aiso nf
thousands o f l mil lion sofdoll lla r rsmustbespent
be n
thousands of lives sacrificed, and ought not these traitors
to he runished for the wanton destruction of life? and
shall the offspring of the patriotic victims be required to
pa the expenses of a war provoked 11. CHANDL S ft, Of New York , 114 t rfi e r a e g nihis col
league In whet spirit he would refuse to grant to the
offspring of a traitor the rieht to live in this country and
to enjoy the protection of the law? Would his colleague
deny to them the right of inheritance
Mr. NORRIS replied that he n would extend to the
children of treitorsithe benign influences of Christianity
and protect them, met as the children of murdered
loyalists In the North are protected.
Mr. CHANDLER said, then the shafts of the gentle
man returned upon himself. His colleague would pro
tect the children °Mir Davis.
Mr MORRIS said if his colleague had not been
wounded by his shaft, he would not have replied.. He
pursued hie argument in favor of the confiscation of re
bel esta•ee. The landholders of the South inaugurated.
the rebellion, and they are responsible for the results.
Hr. ROGX6B. of New Jersey. remarked. when an at
tempt was made to subvert the great principles which
actuated our forefathers in the formation of the Consti
tution by the passage of the joint resolution now pend
ia", and which was in direst conflict with the organic
law. be would be derelict in his duty did he not rise and
protest against the unconstitutional legislation proposed.
Be expressed his belief that there was a deliberate. wil
ful, and cherished design on the part of those supporting
the Administration to override the Constitution, and to
blot out the principles of constitutional liberty vindi
cated and maintained-by Waehlngton, Jefferson, Madi
son. and Jackson.
He argued to show that they could no more confiscate
estates beyond the life of the traitor than they could
work attainder of blood, which was prohibited. by the
Constitution. He charged the radical Abolitionists with
a design to violate the plain provisions of the Constitu
tien. Their attempts at legislation, if carried out, would.
4 rive the people of free and their estates, and fill
their places with free and dace negroes. God' s tay the
hand of such philanthropists !
No further proceedings were taken on the confiscation
bill.
Inter mid Revenue,
. - - - -----
The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole
on the bill to amend the Internet Revenue act.
Mr. PRRDLRTON. of Ohio. offered an amendment,
was agreed to. providing th e x em p te d tton in the
bands of manufacturers, heretofore. Shall be
taxed two cents per_ pound.
Mr. BROOKS, of New York, moved to strike out the
drawback of two cente per pound in all cases where the
duty imposed by this act upon the cotton used in menu.
factoring shall be satisfactorily - shown to have been
previously paid.
Messrs. Brooks, Voorheen, Harrington, and .7. C. Allen
advocated the amendment, the last two speakers regard
ing such a drawback as a bounty to manufacturers at
the expense of the agricultural interests.
Mr. MORRILL. of Vermont, made an address showing
that New England pays its fair proportion on its products
and indostry.
af r. WAfiLIBURNE. of Illinois. participating in the de
bate, said that in the last Congress he voted for sit reve
l:Me measures. Wl:inlayer complaints might be uttered
in Mr. Voorhies' district, in Indiana, as to the opera
tion of those laws, there was no complaint in the dis
trict which he (Mr. Washburn) represented. His con
stituents were not only willing to pay the present tax,
but any additional tax needed to crush the rebellion.
Therebellion is to be crushed and the States brought
back, if necoesary ,-by subjugation.
Mr.'VOORREES. of Indiana, said that such a speech as
Mr. Waehburne had just delivered did not rise high
enough to reach an boxiest man's contempt. All lovers
of their country will assert their ascendency over such
men, and that gentleman will be buried in political ob
livion. The conservative members are not to be intimi
dated by loud talk. He could not defend the loyalty of
his district on a mere private insinuation.
Mr. WILSON, of lowa, in replying to Mr. Your
bees about the restoration of the Demoerate to power,
asked whether he bad forgotten that under the last Ad
ministration this rebellion was organized. and that the
men who controlled Buchanan are the men who now
control affairs at Richmond. Re asked was it desirable
that such a party should be restored to power.
Mr. GRINNELL. of lowa, spoke in favor of eticonrag.
tog mar ufacturers.
Mr. Voorlanes and the Soldiers.
Mr KELLEY, of Pennsylvania, spots in favor of pro
teminsf and encouraging American industry. In reply
-to Mr. Voorhees. he said those who have stood by the
country would not be consigned to the political ob
livious° which the gentleman had adverted. No man
who upholds the national flag and the cause of freedom
was ever driven from a stage-coach or railroad car by
indignant soldiers.
Mr. STEVENS moved that the committee rise.
Mr. VOORHEES claimed the floor.
Yr. STEVENS said the subject had been exhausted,
and eversbody else. [Laughter Kelley. that the elate
meat was utterly untrue, and that there was not a word
uttered in the publication. Not an offensive word was
in his presence. He got off the car at the place
to which he had paid hie fare, and there was an end of
it. Nothing the gentleman could say would induce him
tomake a further reply. There must be something more
respectable than could come from his slanderous tongue.
kr. STEVENS said that thirty years ago he had heard
the tariff qneation diectamedity Southern men, with Cal
houn at their head. and by Webster and others on the
opposite side—their arguments were nearly as able as,
anything said here to-day. [Laughter.)
Mr. BROOKS. of New York, had no idea when he of
fered his amendment that it would put gentlemen from
East, West. and Northwest in such commotion. His ob
jeet in submittieg it was to raise revenue. and the tax
should reach all classes.
Mr. DANOES. of Massachusetts, asked whether the
gentleman would vote to tax real estate.
Mr. BROOKS said he would.
Mr DAWES replied, then New England will co-ope
rate with you
Mr Brooks , amendment, to strike out the drawback
proviso, was disagreed to.
Mr.. BLAINE. of Maine. offered an amendment,
which was agreed to by a small majority, that all spirits
imported prior to the passage of the act shall pay an
additional duty of 40 cents.
Mr. E. WARD offered an amendment that such tax
shall not apply to spirits on ship board, which was not
agreed to.
The bill, as amended, was reported to the House,
wnen this and a substitute intended to be offered by Mr.
Stevens, were ordered to be printed, as preliminary to
further action on the subject, •
At twenty minutes to Aye the House adjourned.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
HARRISBURG. SWAIM) 21 1864
MATS.
Mr TVERELL. having been authorized by the
Speaker. took the chair, and called the Senate to order.
- Mr. CLYMER moved to adjourn until Monday eve
nine nett at 8 o'clock. Agreed. to.
Adjourned.
The HOWe met at 11 o C eliiaT. M.
The 6PR/dna presented a communication from the
clergy of . Harrisburg, requesting the House to elect a
chaplain. -
iteport from the Auditor General.
Moo. a report from the Auditor Cenral, giving Darnel
of holden of licences in the CoMmonwealth.
Mr BAZIATT presented a petition from Daniel
Schaffer. praying for a State pension.
Petitions, fee.
Mr. 831 ARIGHT, one from the citizens of. Fayette and
Westmoreland cunnties, praying for atintment of com
missioner to lay out a State road in sai counties.
Mr. DAL 113ACH, one from the entre of Union coun
ty, numerously signed. praying for a law for the relief
of families of drafted men.,
31r. WHITE, a petition of the citizens of Lawrence
counts , . asking for the passage or a law legalizing the
rament of boanties to volunteers in said county
Mr. WISNER. one of citizens of Lehigh county. Dray.
ing for increase of capitsl stock and extension of the
or atter or the Allentown Dank.
- -
Mr. WIMLEY. six petitions of inhatatante of Provl.
dente township, Montgomery county, aching for repeal
of the act to lay a State road in said township.
Mr. }Winn, one of citizens of Philadelphia, aching
for extension of charter of the Allentown Bank.
The Support of Old and Infirm School
Teacho:r.
WATSON, a petition numerously signed by ex-
Governor Pollock and other citizens of Philadelphia.
praying for a law providing for the support of old and
infirm school teachers
. ..... . ,
Mr. S.S.RNS, oz e of similar import.
Mr. LES. one of citizens of Twenty.third ward of the
sky of Philadelphia. asking for the vacation of a street
*iv e feet wide in said ward
recMtrn gS M h T C H e rk P i th le M eph se i s tO ff u r n d is h
re a so hme n m d er -
With a copy of the skehton map of the State. embracing
tit* taxablts and population of the Batao according to
last census. Agreed to.
Mr. iktcOLEL6AN offered a resolution to remedy the
diftionities of making State appropriation to common
schools in proportion to number of pupils attending
school in each district.
Brinks Under the National Law.
Mr. RE OWN offered the following
Resolved, That the Committee on Banks be requested
to inquire into the xpediency of passing a law to ena
ble tne banks of the state to reorganize under the na
tional law, and to report by bill •or otherwise. Agreed
to—yeas 48, nays 93.
Debate.
During the discussion lIPOIL the resolution.
Mr. PERSHING said that he was not prepared to en.
doree any such resolution. which might result in great
loss of revenue which Pennsylvania now derives from
State banns.
CoOHRAN. of Erie, was of opinion that it was the
duty of the National Government to assume control of
the finances, for no State has any right to issue bills of
credit.
lir. WATSON said that the measure had already been
considered by the State banks, inasmuch as the national
organization possessed some advent fires over those char
tered by the State. Mr. V atson eulogised the national
banking system as the best ever devised.
The diecnesion was continued by Messrs. SMITH, of
Philadelphia, and PURDY.
Additional Acta Preaentd.
•
Mr BIORAM rood in place an act to change the mode
of aeeeesing and collecting taxes in this Commonwealth.
Mr GLAI,S. an act supplementary to an act to income
rate the Pittsburg and Birmingham Passenger Railroad
Compa
Mr PRICE. an act relative to the selection of an ad
ditional port warden in the borough of Chester.
Mr. BARES, a joint resolution relative to the pay of
officers and titivated in the United States service.
My WALSH. a eupnement to act incorporating the
North "ranch and Lackawanna Railroad Company.
Mr } MIRY. an act to incorporate the Augusta Gas
Light Company of North County.
Mr.. SMITE, of Philadelphia. an act to incorporate
the Germantown and Chestnut Hal Turnpike road
Company.
Mr MILLER. an act to regulate the construction of
culverts in the city of. Philadelphia.
SnaltlONT. an act to repeal an act relative to the
pay of the COMmissionera or Fayette county.
on motion, the Homo pr to its onsideratton,
and the bill
_passed finally .
Mr. BROWN, from the Committee on Judiciary
(general). reported as committed, a supplement to an
art relative to the sale and conveyance of teal estate.
Mr. MciiIIRTRIR. from the same committee, an eat
giving the Court of Common Pleas certain powers in
sanity pre carding&
Mr. BARBEE, from the Committee on Tudiciary.local e
so committed, an act relative to the storage of petroleum
in the city e f Philadelphia
Mr. Glee SS, from the Committee on Corpwations. an
ac. to incorporate the India Institution fur the benefit of
persons of African end Indian crescent.
Mr. BOISE moved that when the House adjPl3l.lll it
adjourn unlit Monday evening, at7il o'clock. Agreed to.
adjourned.
Markets by Telegraph.
BALTIMORJ. Jan. 2L-Flour dull; the eriptili of wheat
le seam and the market is conaeenen'ly arm Crn is
quiet at . $l. 12 to SUS for white Whisky unsettled;
Ohio o ff ered at 96c. Coffee to steady. at 3:13 to 3to for
THH Albany Evening Journal publishes a lelien
from' a soldier in the Libby Prison, which paw
bray pht tiOnle id%a plug or tobsaso.
NNW TORS CUT.
Ceorreepoedenee of The Pres. I
New Yozz, Jan. 20, 1884.
Gen. Dix has issued a special order, Which con
venes a military commis ion for the trial of the
persons now detained in Fort Lafayette. The com
mission consists entirely of regular officers; and
arguing from this fa* we may rationally expect
a batch of sentences calculated to strike terror to
the hearts of evil doers, and thereby conserve the
general good of the Republic. Had volunteer DM. ,
cars been chosen, the result might, and probably
would have been affitiirent. Regulars do not make a
practice of calculating what Mrs. Grundy may say,
or the criticisms of that "Venerable Gammon,"
who exists in New York, and always leans to the
side of mercy when only the Government has been
swindled. By this commission Mr. Albert M. Pal.
mer will be tried, and there is no little anxious
speculation as to the quality of his sentence, should
he be convieted7of the heinous offences imputed to
him. Mr. Palmer is a young man, judging from
appearances, not overeight and twenty. His general
aspect is that of a gentleman educated up to the
society standard. His connections are said to be
excellent, No wonder, then, that the higher circles
Of the community feel a shudder upon contemplatine
the possible results of hie trial—imprisonment, with
ball and chain, perhaps death. Were he one of the
gross, vulgar men, who too often enter upon polka.
cal employments, with all malice and aforethought,
prostituting their offices for their own selfish ends,
society would contemptuously shrug her great cold
shoulder and leave him to hie tate, whatever it might
be. In Palmer's case, the crust of gentility, always
oversensitive, shrugs With a different feeling;
&Mending that these grim tegulais have only a
mechanical mind, which cyphers out its results ears
less of nerves and hot-house sensibilitiee.
Mr. Palmer will not be- the only one, however,
who will have to face these judges. Fort Lafayette
is crowded with prisoners, some of whom, before
the existing war stimulated them to treasonable
acts, occupied honorable positions among the met ,
chants of this city. Gomez, the patenteee of the
well-known "Gomez Patent Submarine Fuse," will
undergo trial before the same commission. It does
not seem at all improbable that " Andrews, the Vir
ginian," and "friend! , of Governor Seymour, may
reach the end of his rope through the action of the
same body. It is true that the State officers were
offered thefirst trial of the cut-throat; but, as they
have not availed themselves or the opportunity, and
evince an immistak able indisposition to putting
their friend's life in peril, there seems no good rea
son why the Government should not at once proceed
with his case and avenge a few of the poor fellows
Who arelytog in bloody graves through his instru
mentality.
There will be no tears shed when Andrews is hung,
except from Copperhead eyes. Judge McCann,
should he deem 'it lit, might adjourn his court in
honor of the distinguished citizen ; but beyond snob
a token of fellow-feeling and esteem, no public no
tice would be taken of his hasty and irreverent ob.
requite. Many of those immured in the case
mates of Lafayette have been entirely forgotten by
the public. The action of the commission will un
earth them, however, and if found guilty of the
offences laid to their several charges, they may ex
perience the mathematical felicity of ball and chain.
The time fixed for the sitting of the commission
was yesterday. Of course, the public will only be
advised of results.
A rather ancient case is now on trial in the court
of Oyer and Terminer, one fact of which may have a
historical value in regard to the Democratic party.
John B. Holmes, Who Isbeing tried for Lila life, was,
at the time of the commission of the homicide, a
Democratic nominee for a high official position in
the city government. He murdered a policeman
who was in the act of arresting him for disorderly
conduct; this in the month of November, 1854. He
was tried in 1856, the jury disagreeing. Since that
time he has been in prison for a different. , offence—
fraud, I believe—aud on the expiration of his
term, is now held on the original charge. What
a charming sideman he would have made, had the
Democratic party, and his own villainous self, had
their ways
The Winslow will ease, now being tried before the
Superior Court, at Bridgeport, Conn., revives the
memories of many of our citizens who knew the
testator during hie residence here. At the time of
his trouble with his first wife, Mr. Winslow resided
in Banton street, not far from Broadway. lie was
rather fond of keeping late holing at thetime, mush
to the annoyance of his lady. Upon one occasion,
just as he was starting out for an evening, the latter
demanded at what time he would return. Mr. W.,
not being fond of such catechising, replied that he
should return when he got ready so to do. His
spouse, equally spirited, retorted that if not back
by ten o'clock, he would find the door locked against
him. Then, the banker raid, I will never step foot
in your .house again. The lady was true to her
word, and the door Was locked arid bolted at ten
precisely. Mr. Winslow never did return. That
very week he started for Paris, wherehe remained
for some time, having supplied himself with a tem
porary partner. During this absence hie wife ob
tained a decree of divorce, allowing herself a large
alimony. She left the unfortunate Houston-street
domicil, and engaged apartments at the New York
Hotel. Upon Mr. Winslow's return, he married a
second wife—the first still living ; and died in 1861,
leaving all his property to his second wife: An ac
tion is now instituted to set aside the will on the
ground of the imbecility of the testator. Mr. Wins
low was what may be termed a weak man, and was
easily caught by isms. He had great-41p in the
sublime humbug of clairvoyance, believlkinot only
in its medical efficacy, but its soothsaying quidtties.
Some of our leading hotTers are engaged
case, including Mr. William-Curtis, Noyes, and ex-
Judge Beardsley.
HMO, the contumacious witness iu the ease of
the Express newspaper, has at last been brought to
term., and yesterday proceeded to give quantities 01
muddy evidence. The main point thus far elicited
is, that while the circulation of that disloyal sheet
was about 16,000 daily in January, 1863, in January,
1864, it has been about 9,000. When all the facts
are twisted from Hobson, the diminishing wages of
treason will be exemplified, showing that disloyalty
doe, not pay, financially, at least. AU the Copper
head papers of the city are leading but a hand•to. .
mouth existence, and despite all their blustering,
they scarcely support their publisher.. Were it not
for advertising patronage, they would perish of de
bility in three days. It is a fortunate thing that the
affairs of the Express are being publicly ventilated,
showing, as they do, that disloyalty must sooner
or later become bankrupt, even in a city where
Northern treason holds her headquarters. The
Daily News was established as an advertising me
dium for the lottery shop of itr proprietor, Ben
Wood, and the organ of the unwashed mob. If its
daily price were devoted to the pUrchase of soap,
its patrons would be a cleaner and more tolerable
set of men. The World pays poorly, but has more
decency in its composition than the other two com
bined.
The opera of Taunhauser has proved a vast suc
cess,' but unfortunately the "season" terminates
to-morrow evening. Opera is notoriously short
lived with us, possibly because the word " success
has no commercial value, and is not inimical to a
depleted treasury. sTuvv.eszvr.
6 6 steam to Europe.”
To the Editor of The Preis:
SIR : In your paper of Monday last appears an ar
ticle with the above caption, to which I respectfully
beg permission to reply. It has come to my ponce,
only within the last twenty.four hours, or this COM.
munication would have been presented at an earlier
day. To enter fully into the merits of the question
would be impossible, without trespassing too large.
ly upon your attention and space ; these remarks
shall, therefore, be mainly confined to correcting
one or two statements which are unintentionally
unfair to those who, for eighteen menthe past, have
been laboring persistently to connect Philadelphia,
by steam, with Europe. For months prior to the
appearance of the proposition of the Messrs. Rich
ardson, a Philadelphia !company, organized under
a charter fromithe state, was in existence, and, un.
der the moat unfavorable circumstances, (owing to
the political condition of the country), had obtained
Individual subscriptions to their stook, to the
amount of nearly $200,000.
A late eminent banker was deeply interested in
the success of this company, and, at the very mo
ment of his lu/timely death, wee giving his ripe
experience and large influence to the perfecting of a
plan for its immediate and successful reorganiza
tion. The managers of this company were in com
munication with °Moore and directors of the Penn."
sylvania Railroad Company, and only last April
obtained the legislation which was deemed neces
sary to secure the es-operation of that railroad coin
patty and other State and City corporations. That
the line when established , might be excluaively a
Philadelphia line, owned and controlled by Phila-
delphia interests, it was thought advisahie, after
thorough consideration, to make the city corpora
tion an interested party, and her asehdance was
asked, by an appropriation Of all dividends on her
Pennsylvania Railroad stook Over six per cent, per
annum, as an indemnity fund to cover any lose by
reason of a guarantee of the steamship stook by the
railroad company.
This measure was sufficiently long before the
mut e t o b e thoroughly discussed, and hundreds of
signatures of our most influential business men
were obtained to petitions asking for such appro
priation by Councils. This was finally . accom
plished, late in the Bummer, and since then the
managers of the company have been actively en•
gage d i n preparing the way for Its reorganization.
At the very time that the offer of the Mesa.. Rioh
ardsOn appeared, the company was in constant com
munication with the officers of the railroad com
pany, and the meeting, which you luttre a t e d was
called as an offset to the Richardson offer, luid long
been in contemplation. The promptness with which
$lOO,OOO was then subscribed showed that the move
ment had been fully matured and its importance
appreciated by those present.
The terms offered by the railroad company insure
Niemen to any line that accepts them 1n fad, they
amount to a subsidy.
o n e of our most prominent merchants, at the
meeting referred to, stated that their house had sub
ecribed to so many steamship Mies heretofore, and
had so invariably lost their money, that the very
name of steamship had become hateful ; out he, for
;he first time, SSW his way clear to engage /LI
steamship enterprise. A gain-the
, eltfr,ens of Phila •
delphia were not asked 'to 'subscribe towards the
formation of a company for the purpose of charter
ing steamers, on the profit of whicm if profit there
ever be, a line is to be founded sometime." The pro•
position submit subsc ri b e dptd, was, that
the c har-
immediately as a basis for the char
tering of Sitainers, to start the Hue without delay,
and additional subscription' be obtained, to enable
the company to buy or build What experienae show
ed to be the brat, fastest, and moat profitable ships.
independent of foreign control ;. to
What is especially ceured in Ulla enterprise, is. to
entirel y lbility of having the ships auddenly
tender
reveD it
uthe
o
taken off ofline, and Philadelphia and tier mer
chants find thaw:wive" with water, whervea, and
at this
commute, but no "hips. We have su ff ered from this
thing before, and if the waiter is not very much mis
taken,ltebo u at r, t a h n e d h j a us a t d a a suaintkemyeirtaliaunalirotieelas "' ab ly ° i. going
Into operaum, airy as and lay claim tee the rieb
sincersients held out by the railroad cozapany.
We
cannot blame them, for they would ha tools indeed
It
theyh Mu not attempt to own thd goose which lays
uglden eggs.
As to the failure or sucoess of the Philadelphia
company. it is enough to say that it will be under
the
and failure does /LA seem to be as it.
conttol and direction of the Pennsylvania. it all
roan Corneal:ly,
teedant soon any of theft uudertaniags.
There is a import row being prepaz.,d bus tine Tesa.
eery pepartment fat t.:oo;re.s, whleh Wit eSailhit
tome startling and ginhectog (ant. f; an% tinw
that America is no b longer mistress of the seas; that
her commerce has een wept tin yearly folds of rival
flogs; that her ceding trade is growing less
and less ; that in t respect she Is almost the de
pendant of other nations.
The American people mutt arouesfrointbe apathy
which, like a strange spell, has fallen upon them,
and seek to remove this burning shame. At this
moment, too, when we are manifesting to world
our vast resources, what better proof can we exhibit
of our unlimited capacities than by showing that,
while carrying on a gigantic war, we can successfully
engage in the nobler enterprises of peace? that we
are laying, broad and deep. the foundations of a
mighty prosperity, which will enable us to moreres
dily bear the burdens of war?
The undertaking in question le essentially an
American enterprise, to be establtshed upon Ameri
can capital, tb be controlled by American business
men, to assist in developing American commerce,
and restoring upon the ocean American supre
macy, to add lustre to the American name. Having
such objects in view, it should confidently appeal to
an American pub/10 for generous and discriminating
I support.
The writer ie in no wise connected with the p-m
sent company, other than as a subscriber and well
wisher. For years past, it has been with him a sub
ject of absorbing interest, and he has ventured these
remarks upon a thorough knowledge of the earlier
i p,hietory of this company, and upon impressions
formed at the meeting at the railroad office. His
views upon other points connected with this matter,
will, your courtesy permitting, at a future day be
PUBLIL
pietented to hie fellow citizens. t
TRIO NAVAL .R.acm—The interest attached to the
great naval race, between the United States steamer
Eutaw and the steamer Kin Kiang, which• is ar.
ranged to take place in order to test thbir speed—is
now increasing. Mr. Rutherford arrived yesterday
from Washington, with that object; and a. report
having been published by Mr. Dickerson that the
engines of the Kin Kiang were built from new plans
furnished by him, Mr. Rutherford called at the
office of Messrs. Oliphant & Co., and there ascer
tained that the statement was erroneous, and that
at present it would not be convenient for the firm
to spare the vessel for a trial trip ; that there Were
other parties concerned who should be consulted,
and that business requirements rendered it neces•
scary to send the vessel on her voyage as moon as
possible.. This will probably end the matter for the
present.—Express.
TI-I.E. CITY.
[FOR ADDITIONAL OITY rams, SSA POII7B.TH PAGII
NATIONAL UNION CLUB.—The members
of the National Union Club held an enthusiastic
meeting last evening at their headquarters, on the
r orth aide of Chestnut street, above Eleventh, lttr.
Robert P. Ring, president, in the chair.
1181. Bull, E.g., offered the following rejoin.
tione, which were unanimously adopted with greet
enthusiasm, and an engrossed copy of the same WM
ordereed to be forwarded to President Lincoln :
Whereas, The measures recommended and adopted by
ABRAHAM MP COLN as President and Commander
in Chief of the Arial , and /levy of the United States, for
tee maintenance of the Government and the prosecution
of the war. involving the overthrow of slavery as the
cause and life of the rebellion, are, as we believe in
conformity with the views of a large mejority of the
American people, and commend him etpeclany to our
confidence as the faithful representative of our opinions;
And whereas, The selection of any other candidate for
the Presidency than Abraham Lincoln would probably
tend to strengthen the enemies of the country at home
and abroad, and to prolong the war, by encouraging the
false belief that the people, who adhere to the Union and
the Constitution, do not footsie the policy and measure;
of his Administration in the prosecution of it. bat are
wining to end it on terms demanded by traitors in arms
and their friends and sympathisers: Therefore,
Resolved. That, reposing implicit confidence in the
honesty and ability of Abraham Lincoln, and in his
fidelity to the sacred trust of supporting the Constitution
of the United States, and enforcing the execution of the
laws, and heartily sustaining, as we do, the policy and
measures of his Administration in the prosecution of the
war for Union, liberty, and the future Peace and glory
of our country, we do hereby ratify and confirm the I
declaration of our representatives in the State Legisla- '
bare, that he is the only choke of their constituents for
the next Presidency, and we do hereby accept and de-
Clare him to be our candidate for that office.
Mr. Bull, in offering the above, delivered a thrilling
speech, of which the following is an epitome :
The principles of this Club, said the speaker, are
unfaltering devotion to the Union, the Constitution,
and the laws, and the fixed and irrevocable purpose,
by all the means in our power, to aid the Govern
ment in suppressing the most causeless, cruel, and
damnable rebellion that ever disgraced earth, or
shocked high heaven. These are the settled and
unanimous opinions of every one of us, which ad
mit of neither diversity or difference. But in re
ference to the special purpose for which we have
been called togethet to-night, to indicate our pre
ference an the choice of a candidate for the Cater
Magistracy of the Union, I apprehend there is scarce
lees unanimity than in the principles to which I have •
just referred. That Abraham Lincoln of all other
men, is your choice, I read in the intelligent expres
sion of almost, if not altogether, every man assembled
Within these walls. And why is itt Because he has
been true to every pledge he has given, and every
trust confided to him. If the future is to be judged
by the put, his past is ample guarantee for his fu
ture. And Who that is loyal to his country, at sash
a time and with such a man, would desire a °henget
But it seems to me, without any disrespect to other
gentlemen, many of whom might be named, well
qualified for the poet, that the mention of any other
name at this time would be as unreasonable as it
would have been at the second election of the Father
of his Country. For as the name of Washington is
now descending down the tide of history as the
foundeirand framer, so will the name of Lincoln de
mend, as the restorer and preserver of the greatest
Empire human wisdom and forethought ever de
vised, and human valor and patriotism ever main
tained and perpetuated. Alter a few further re
marks on thin point, the speaker paid a handsome
tribute to Washington, as the only peer 01 Mr. Lin.
coin.
What though ex-District Attorney may carp at
and criticise Mr. Lincoln's language and education,
as they did the rhetoric of the Secretary of State
(" the ratchet of whose shoes they are not worthy to
stoop down and unloose 9, and attempt to ridicule his
language as adapted to the meridian of Springfield,
but not fit for the society. not nixed of Chestnut Hill,
where loyalty is tabooed, and sympathy with rebels
and that "stern statesman, Jeff Davis,” is a sure
passport to Mae society and affection. of descendant.
of &cautionary area?
But despite all this, and whatever else may be
done by them or theirs, the breeze of popular ex
citement ia blowing everywhere in favor of Mr.
Lincoln; it fans the air of Louisiana and Arisen.
sae • it is blowing over the fertile plains of Illinois
and Ohio ; it was heard the other day reverberating
through the State House at Harrisburg, and now
ranging along the Pennsylvania Alleghenies, until
mingling with the breezes from the Empire State,
and the blasts from New England, it wilt blow a
hurrimine as irresiatable as the immortal charge of
Hooker on Lookout Mountain, which, though not
embalmed in.the beautiful pbetry of Tennyson, will
lire in history, When the name of Baleklava and
the light brigade shall be forgotten.
Among the visitors were Gen. Hancock, Gen. Gib
bon,and Major Morgan, and several other distill
gulhed military gentlemen.
Gen. Hancock, upon being introduced by Presi
dent King, delivered a patriotic speech, in which he
retrospected, present and prospective view of the
rebel:ion. He paid a glowing tribute to the valor of
the Union troops, their unfaltering courage, their
powers of endurance, and their entire willingness to
battle for the glorious old tag. His speech was
mainly directed to recruiting the Philadelphia Bri
gade, and he made a most earned appeal to all with
in the hearing , of his voice to use their best energies
to accomplish this result. The General was heartily
applviden during bis brief and patriotic speech.
Alter he bad retired, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted :
Resobred, That, as loyal citizens, this Club recognize
the appeal of lien. Hancock to aid in tilling up the ranks
of the old Philadelphia Brigade to its maximum num
ber, and that we pledge him our utmost exertions in so
doing, to the end that we may not lose the identity of so
oble a brigade in history. who have so long endured
the hardships of battling for this glorious Union.
THE FRAVRLTN INSTITUT ... IL—The regular
montbly meeting of the Franklin Institute WAS held
last evening, a large number of the member* being
in attendance.
Mr. J. Skerving exhibited a large engraving by
John Sartain of a picture by Schussele. It repre
sents a group of nineteen of the most prominent
Ameriosigliventors, Howe, Morse, McCormick, and
others. Mb names of the artists are a sufficient
guarantee of the excellence of the work, which is a
weltdeserved comliment o national geu
Mr. I. T. Kerby p exhibi t a patent h nis. orse-shoe.
Ms on
said
he to be the only shoe in use which is be.
veled on tinside so ea to permit the dirt to readi
ly detach itself - from the hoof. There are seven in
stead of three " calks," as in the ordinary shoe, and
concequently tbat even bearing all around the wall
or cruet, which the old shoe takes away, is secured.
G. L. Wage's' improved wash-board was ex
hibited.
Mr. Hiram A. Kimball exhibited his patented ar
tificial limbs, made of vulcanized india rubber. They
stronght in weight, well shaped, and exceedingly
Being hollow, all the machinery is contained
inside, and is not liable to be deranged or broken.
These - limbs can be much more readily manufac
tured, and in less time, than those carved from wood
or made of iron, as in the ordinary manner. -- •
MEETING OF THE BOOKSELLERS AND PUB
LISEBILS.—A meeting or the booksellers arid pub.
linkers of this GM was held at the Continental Ho
tel last evening, to discuss subjects of general inte
rest to the trade. The attendance was very large.
Mr. A. S. Martien was called to the chair, and Mr.
Hazard acted as secretary. A communication was
then read inviting the book publishers of this
city to be present at the trade sale to be held
at Boston in February next, which, on mo.
tion, was postponed till a future meeting, in
order to ascertain whether the Boston book pub
lishers would be represented at the next Philadel
phis trade sale. The next subject discussed was
the fixing of the retail prices of books. It was re.
ported that Borne of the publisher, were selling their
Docks at a much lower price than othera, and there.
by doing a great injury to the trade. After a few
remarks from some of the gentlemen present, a com
mittee was appointed for the purpose of drawing up
a series of resolutions opposing this system of under.
selling books, copies of which are to be presented to
those who have been complained of as carrying on
this business. The meeting then adjourned.
THE GOTBRITMENT CREDIT—Taff FIVE
TWENTY LOAN—EXTRAORDINARY FINANCIAL EX
CITRAIRNT. The announcement that the five.
twenty loan was almost exhausted, gave an extraor-
dinary impetus to that class of Government mud
ties to-day, nearly a million dollars being subscribed
for at the office of Jay Cooke & Co., of this any, and
eight millions ordered by telegraph from all parts of
the country. The orders from the West alone
amounted to $600,000, and the amount in iralfliki
cannot be estimated.
with
which
its co oncccausoionn dw bayx t hist nde d and tsh n e i'
v cl e a r t
been equalled in the financial history of the world ;
and it is gratifying to know that it has been mainly
encouraged and participated in by the people gene •
rally, and not by any combination of espltallete.
This effort of Secretary Chase, no triumphantly con
cluded, is certainly deserving of the hearty congra
tuistions of the country,
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL/
THE HONEY MARKET.
PHILADSLYBIA, Tan. 31,1864
The Ave-twenty loan is about exhausted, the Govern
ment agent. No. 114 South Third street, expressing the
*Platen that all the remaining bonds would be taken
to-day. This is a very gratifying result: and is especi
ally so if the opposition Which was made to a Phila
delphia agency be considered. ♦ city not a hundred
and !My miles from ours likes to control all extensive
financial operations, and is not satisfied unless she gets
the llon's share of everything But our Philadelphia
agent carried the day against all OPPOSitiOn, and clearly
proved that there is a world outside of New. York.
There is no reason why our men of talent and capacity
.honld not receive some of the Government patronage.
There is no lea on why the elephant in a managerle
should swallow the food belonging to the whole estab
lishment
That the task con milted toPhiladelphia has been. well
done, no one can deny: but it has been so well and so
stumessin , ly done that we consider it the duty of the
VS as - oington officials to ask themselves serionaly whether
or net a great deal that is now done in Newt York might
not be done a greet deal better in Philadelphia. If Be
crater Y Chase would do another what+ act, he wilt not - only
continue our agency for the management offuturia/oette.
but be will make an earnest odors to, relieve the South
of its cotton, and by this means bring down the pries of
cold. Suppose we pay thsm our Kreenbachs---no one can,
ray that It strengthens the rebel Government. It may
enrich the p'anters, a number of whom are loyal, but it
ill certainly be a good plea to Stow Meta, so meaty
!Liles backs for a consalstable period without interest,
Let there be a free trade in eotton, and, let, hug de of
sum:dater& rush from tam loordere and take the of
L Kline the et tton to market. By means of a tam the G o _
venni:teat smuld Profit by it. and the internal strength or
the 11. Wk. on be in reality abort. •
ti h a money market is well supplied at fait rates. ft old
fluctuated widely today between 1660157, closing' about
1.5614 Gtverament securities firm.
The stock ma. kat was vsrlahle and irreeollar, but
Nice, are generally nnehr need" Thedettrtnd seems to
be shifting into the coal and canal companies. Fulton
leas in strong demand at 6@5;',4. an sairsaye ti pf ‘4 : B ig
Mountain rose t.i 7: Orson Mountain to 6%; New Creek
declined Isr; Union Canal sold at S. thit.oreeser,kt tit 64- 1
Bustinehanniseold Ifinel? Waytigntion
at :0!..,-;. thy' preferred at 84. Sixes 1.382 at 654; Lehi g h
Scrip sold at 49 : tin!" SIZE " at 29 ' 1 -
e atawteeg p) , - eferred fell cff to 40'..f; tho r >moron to 1.114
buyer so . N e i., h Pennsylvania advanced .17 healing
declined 54. Peni16711111111.6. !Old at 794. beaver Meadow
M M3L_ mi ao w a t CO. Philadelphia and Sriedeclin e d 14.
p assenger ra ilway! .woreeterady. Firat.4l,l6ll/oana &rein
fair demand, and bank' shares dull. The market closet
steady.
Drexel & 00, quote:
V. S. bonds 1881 •••-• li? e 141 .
Certificates of Indebtedne I. DOW
Certificates of Indebtednea, % old 1125$
17. S. 7 3-10 Notes,. , 108 K 101
Quartermasters Yortchere....'. ~ 2x, A
Orders for Certificates of Idol, teux939l 1 IX
Gold MX 673 e,
trzstagn
Sterling Exchange '.•
Quotations of gold at the Phila.& Ilphta Gold Exchange.
34 South Third street, second attn 7
9 1 .% o ' c l ock A. DI .......... . ...... ••••• • ...wig
11.4 A. M .157
12,14 •• P M
/34 . • 1/56%,
34 ' "
'' P
P M .
M 166
Cloced at 4 " P. M 167
Market firm. tales 4000,000.
Robert Clarkson. Esq., was on Mrednesn'ar last eleutell
a member of the Philadelphia. Stack Eurohange. Kt
Clarkson has for several years been conner,"tod With tko
house of Jay Cooke 44 Co., from which he c! ithdrame to•
open a new banking house on the let proximo'
The following ,bows the amount of coal tz 'Blle9orted
over the Lehigh Valley ArtiLroad for the weak endiut
January 18. 1964. and previous since Decombe r L 1883,
compared with same time last year:
Week, Previonety. Teta •
6111(60. Tons. Cwt. Tons. 6Wz, Tone. OwV
Hazleton 6,159 06 14.973 CO 26.131 1.4
East Sugar Loaf 6.315 10 6.315 19
Council Ridge 2,218 19 5.069 17 3,298 .12
Mount Pleasant L(81 03 11.861 14 9,935 17
Spring Mountain..:..... 211 19 Z 852 07 3.061 CO
Coleraine 16 02 1,646 15 1,661 17
Beaver Meadow 11 08 49 17 61 CO
New York and Lehigh. 1,244 08 - 2992 09 4 526 11
IC Springatountaln 3.243 li 7,099 02 10.342 13
Jeddo 2.672 06. 7,391 08 9,963 Or)
Harleigh —.. .... . ' 941105 2.77804 3,726 09
German Penns.
Mbervale Coal Go 183 12 4.84911 - 5.033 121
741 06 1,G19 14 I, WS /9
Milimcvidle 920 16 2,395 08 3.318 14
Buck Mountain 411 01 3,648 17 4.077 18
1., M. Coal 1.678 15 3,404 01 5, so LI
Lehig Shipp e r s d Nay... 2,695 02 39(1
Other 2€o 15 ' 4 916 00 5, 176 LIS
Total 23 092 03 79.723 18 97.41 k IQ
Oorresp,ondistweek last
year 19,942 11 126,928 17 146,1171 03
Increase.
Decrease
The following shows the sh!pments of coal over tha
Delaware. Lackawanna. and Western Railroad. for the
week ending Saturday. January N. MI. compared wit&
name time last year
Shipped North...
Shipped South. • •
Total 19,4801 i
For the corresponding time last year:
Shipped North 1.005 02
Shipped South I,IP. 04
Increase 37M2 OL
'lhe folloveng statement shows the tonnage of the
Delaware. Lackawana. and Western Railroad. and its
distribution, for the year 1863, as compared with IOU:
Tone.
L 510.14.3
RE calved from the mines
.an increase over 1862 of 1.16.807 tone.
Of this wee mined by the company 605. fee
Perebat ell from other parties 634.961
1,210,143
DEBTRIMITION AS FOLLOWS
Sold at the mines .
Scranton and line of Northern Division,
Binghamton and Chenango Canal
Syracuse, and from shipments
Ithaca, do. do
Line of Erie R. and connecting roads..
Ilizabethport
On line of Central R.. New Jersey.
Flushington and Morrie Canal
Southern Division D. L. & W. R. Road
The New York Evenly g Post says :
Raven =intone only of the five-twenty loan remained
unsoA this Inerning; and such is the demand that the
Whole Will , no doubt, have been taken before the ales*
of business this evening...
Gold is lower in tonsequunce of the:reaction from the
speculative fever prevalent for some days past. The
quotation has fallen from 167%. the Opening rate. to
Irsg, closing at 185. g.
'1 he loan market is active and somewhat stringent at
seven per cent Most or the speculative arms are, how
ever. provided for thirty or Sixty days. Though the
banks and lending institutions axe less disposed to lend
on miscellaneous securities to the brokers, with the
mercantile firms loans are more easy of access.
The stock market Is feverish and unsettled. Govern
meats are strong, State stocks dull, bank shares firm,
ana railroad bonds steady. Railroad shares axe heavy.
Toledo and Wabash being the weakest on the list.
Before the first session gold was ceiling at 187;491501 . ,
New York Central at 137H)137%, Brie at 10840108 A. Hud
son River at 1413e@142g. Harlem at 97%09E4 llllnoia
Central at 131@)13134, Reeding at 1170117%, Pittsburg , at
]1534019U. Gleams at Dearlieu, Rock rsiend at 144. Fort
Wayne at RM. Northwestern at 60%@51. Chicago and
Alton at OR.
The appended table exhibits the chief movements at the
Heald compared with the latest prices oOresterdar t
Th. Wed. Adv. Dee.
United States 6'e,1881, regls ex dam; 101
United States 6'0,1881, c0up0n ..... 10634 1 - 15
United States seven-thirties 106 X 106
United States 1 Tear ger.. g01d...J1M% 1.02%
Do. do currency. • 97X 9 7k
American Gold. Mg 168%
Tennessee Sixes 57 67
Missouri Sixes 68,34 683 E
Pacific Mail 228 We
New York Central Railroad 137 137
Brie ex. div 108% 108%
Brie Preferred ex. div 1044 104 _
Hudson River .... ...142 1403‘ lg
Harlem94. l 4 97.44. 231'
Harlem Preferred 103 105 2
Reading 116 g lla —1%
Michigan Central 13834 140.% 2,4"
Michigan Southern 87 SS 1
Michigan Southern guaranteed... 136 1363 144'
Illinois Central Scrip 123% 131.1' 1g
Pittsburg 118 g 117 X
Galena .115 116 %
Toledo 1394 14 1 — lsla
Bock Island 148 144% 334
Fort Wa, ne 8734 /37% — 34
After the board the market was heavy. New York
Central closed at 186. Erie at 108%, Hudson River at
14tai. Harlem at 94, Reading at 11634. Michigan Central
at IS7. Michigan Southern at 875.4, Mint& Central eerie
at 126 g, Pittsburg at 118. Galena at 11434. Canton at 36.
and Cumberland at 47,
Phi Lida. Stock
(Reported by S. R. SLA7MAX.I
FIRST
200 Fulton Coal ..... b2O 5
..... 47.
SOO' o '5 b 5
660 do ...•• . 5
200 d
' o .
100 d 0..... .... . . b 4 .
6
100 Big Mountain, b6wn 635
100 do ......... 6%-
160 do eti , ay.
200 doa6Stint 834
66 blinahill . S. . . .
60
6 Beaver Ilteadow.... 8035
26 ConEw'tb Bk, sswn 4336
100 Catawbosa R. pr, bSO AOX
100 do eSO 40% -
50 do . . • • • 40%
100 do ..• • • .. 40%
100 do 1105 49X
101 do b6040X
11,11 North Pa B. a6O
200 do a6O 29
SALES AFTER
IMO Arch. street R .32
HO Race & Vine 204
100 Big Moun'n Coal— • 63s
100 do 0%
701 N York & Middle
MO Coal Field Co.blo 11X
11
100 Phi & Erie R eh 37
BETWEEN
3000 Cam &Am Be 1883 103
10L0 do 1876 103
60 Catawlsea RR, pfd 40n
100 do ...... .....b2O 40Ri l
200 do 45%
50 81 nehill RR 80
. . SECOND
100 Fpruce and Pine 11, /334
300 Union Canal..,., 3
2 50 00 Cie; Mountain Ca 8.%
do l'
634
1( 0 do ...... 7
110 do 7
6 _..
.... 60_
280 Race and Vine R.. rx
Treaver 8034
6 Penna. R 7.33,
5000 Phila and Erie 6a-103
48 Reading R dB
714 Mew Creek 1.4"
76 F alien Goal 6
AIPTRR
19
• • —1041"
S Cata R
/331 °high Fla
ItO Schyl Nay pref.
CLOSIIG PRI
Bid Asked.
8 6s 'SI ... .1653 i illy.
6 7-30 Notes.... 106 107
Phila6 100% 101.34;
Do new.. ...... 104%
Pelona Os 96 97
Do Coups ..c...
Read N. ea. &v.... 583 y 58 31
Do bds '7O•
.... 106 106
Do bds 'B6 conv.lls 116
Do 6810 ..
Penna.
• •
Do Ist m 65... 4 .107 163-
Do 2d 'm 6a ..106 166
ISchnylle 98 413 N.
Norris 01. consul. 66
Do prfd 387
Do 2d rota ..
tiohu7l Nov Stook 20 2034
Do Os 'B2 83 87
Bludra R 35 .87
Do ..... /37
Do 7s '73.....-304 1493
Do 108
L Island
Do bds
Lehigh Nay • 60 6o
Do scrip •• 49 50
Do . shares .....
N Penn er 29 2934:
Do Bo.", I/ I 9334 94
Do ......
Philadelph
JANUARY'
for
g.
The demand for Flour is limited to -der', both for ex
port and /mine use, but the market continues firm at fors
»ler rates. Sales of mprise about 1,000 bbla Western and
Patmayl*ais, extra family, in lots, at $ 7 . 5 007.75, the
latter rale for better brands. The retailers and bakers
are baying moderately at from *a 2.706. 60 for superfine.
$5.7/07 26 for extra $7. 25(013.26 for extra family, and
sB.6fLtip to $lO per bbl for fancy brands, amierding to
- outlay, Bye Flour continues scarce. With smell sales
at Is 60 per bbl. Corn Meal is very quiet; BrandYWitte
is selling at $0.75 per bbl.
GRAIN. — Wheat continues quiet at the late advance.
With sales of about 6000, bushels at 1700/75c for. good to
prime Western and Pennsylvania reds, and white at
from 180 c up to 200 c 52 bushel, the latter for Prime Ken.
tuck,. Rye continues scarce and Worth 140 c it bushaL.
Corn is less_plenty and the , demand limited , with small
sales at Mlplll2o 9k bushel for newt Fellow; about 3.00)
bushels sold at these rates. Oats are Arm with sales of
about 10.0(.0 bushels Penrisylvania, part at 860 , and
on private terms. 2.000 bushels Barley Malt sold at 1.6M11
170 c Ti bushel
BABIL-Ist No. 1 Qnercitron is firmly held at $379t
ton. but we hear of no sales.
COTTON.—The market is Arm, but there is very little
doing in the way_ of sales; about 80 bales of middlings
are reported, in hots, at 134 c lb. cash.
GROCRRIEB.—Th e r e is not roach doing in Sugars, but
they are firmly held, with small sales of Cuba, and New
Orleans at 1234(91434c id it. Coffee continues scarce.
With small sales of Rio at atii•so4,s‘c th.
PETROL2.ISIII — There be more doing; small sales of
crude are Malting at W14030c; 2,000 bbls refined, in
bond. at 41446 c. and 700 bb/s free at from 533,1. UP WOOS
gallon. accord ;xtg to quality.
bEIsDP.--Clevereeed continues scarce and in demand,
with small sale& at 98 25,n0 60 $9 di tbs. Timothy is
selling at from $2.76(43, and Flaxseed at $2.15 ilit bushel_
PROVISIONS —The market continues very firm. but
the Bales are /Bolted, owing to the high views of hold
ers. Small sales of Mess Pork are making at $20022 59
bbl for old, and new. A sale of Beef Rants la reported at
$2l Whiff. Dresred Hogs are selling at from $11:010.50
MOM.. Palma W e ster n Lard in sellina.ab from laireiro l4
for tierces.. Butter le In good denatakch, th awes an-
frrni 73 up , to Me It) for (501111[10111 toMina
wi
WH/Slakri. —Th VI e
market is misetnad. with sales oil •
600 bbls, at from 96®.60 for Perna ardti Western bbls.an-rf
drudge at 0 , ,i99lc 9i gallon
thisYhe following are the receipts Of Flour and Grain Qill
Pen ta-day :
Pions. ......................... ......... 2.860 little.
corWhost.. ........... . . . .... .........,... ...... .6.500 bunk.
a ........ . ............ . ..... , ........ .4 2017lamda,
... .
011.1.11 .. t ......................... ....... ...Gadd Ruh.
New York ntaritotz. aran. X 1..
&SUES are ilrmer with salesof 60 bbls at $2.9.l.K@S t 75
for Pots. and $9. 7611@10 for Pearls.
BREADMVP6.—The market for State an d, stern
Flour is heavy and fully, 'lO costs lower. th, only % a
limited brad can doing-
The sales are 7,230 hbla t At did 501/3.60 for anotofitt
State; $6.9((0700 tor extra State: 3 6 . 6 0@&79 for (taper
an. M ichig an . Indiana Xo.ll(tit Ohio, acc i, 9 7 .05197` 70 for
extra do. including shipping brands of r o und,-ho c Ohio
at ea. eigq. 60. and trade brands do at $7 Wigaff 01
Southern Flour Salaam active, and a shade lower: sales
ere hi Is at ex t rae3 le for superfine Baltimore, and 92 .1 5
QM 75 for do
choicCanadian Flour is quiet, and 5 centelowert sales 415
e $7a57. /5 for coritmon. and.s2.2o(da 90 for good is
extra
Rye F oar is doll, with small salsa. at $0 60®8. 60 for
the range of flue and superfine.
Corn Meal is quiet, with sales, of 2,50 hbla Jaeger , at
/6 60.
Cats
are lowseaud dull at 5040.91,0 for Canada; 94222,4'
for State. and week lot wome n ,.
ot
Corn is he_o , y and lower .1, sales 29 cOO bashela atl94 s -
Dv prime Western motet suit $1.206L.2.3 for yeitosf
Jersey.
CoTrort. The demand continues very fair. sold W 6 44 ka
an a. vane, the marital Wetting Arm at 64c for mud/inns.
with sales of about 2.800 liable The light receipts from
New Orleans, both present and proenecLive. and the lain
advance in told, } eve 43.1 bald a tendency to produce Ilia
sctve demand, ppktch I ns . b een ti me r" epeollattr,
though a tail. amount of the sties Gave 'teen to somusle .
lifer -- North Ulmer itab,a is steady, datti in, IM)danti Oa'
Ullttld At Iv awl, 65 fog ehiptiug asd tetfitli 4%
4502 Lt
6 9 .2C6 04
Week. • Yew.
Tone. Cwt. Tone. Owe
16,60 3.8207 06 07 3/ 0, .364980 06
.
4 41 , 14 05
10,617
46.462
72.4C0
160.852
48.904
667.656
17.191
19,974
181,474
1,240,14$
nage Sales, Jan. Sl.
Es, Philadelphia Ricehanal
BOARD.
100 Girard C011ege.... , VAX
19 n Liberty Bank.. Off
100 Soh/ Nay
250 co
;CCOII S6e 1881 .....
200 New Creek 121
1000 do ..
..?.0 Lehigh Scrip 4Dat
1:0 Union Canal pr Pre ef, . 6
150 do t 6
4000 CamdcAmb rat 6e..105 '
80 Reading B. 88 44
100 Phila & Erie R. bBO
101 do 3734 .
2ro 134 h iltisth rd . 32'4
200' do .. .. 3IK
6 Second dr Thixd R. 80
500 City 6e ICON
1000 do new 104
10.000 Union Canal ..... 26
FIRST BOARD.
100 Cataw prat
SCO Fulton C'l Co b 5 5
100 do ...... blO 5
100 do 4 15-16
IWO Pant Mlninl. - ..b3O
200 do • , 1 ';
100 Union Canal prof. : - 8
200 Reading R b 4 52 1 :i
BOARDS.
16 Minch!ll It ao
26 Lehigh Scrip 49
liCeo Union 6s.b6wrt 2914
106 City 64 new :... . .•./01
200 do scas.,,.. •• 1 24! 01
4 North Pa ER ::
BOARD.
100 Pull Coal C&P...b.1 654
200 do . ....... 690 6% -
all do 6
800 Stunt Canal b 5 ILV
000 Schyl Naves '82... 85
200 do 'B2 854
100 Green Mountain... 6
2500 do bfs 6
200 do !.‘
2000 North Penns 6i.....
94
100 Lehigh 5crip......,48
100 Northß 2
00k
ItO
Penn. 20hi
ItO do b6O 2014
: OA RDS.
•••
1 BB "geiiil Nay. ... ...
990 Lehigh Diay . tis '76... 77
ico cats R pre -MO 401 4 .
OBS—STEADY.
Bid. Asked.
Catawlasaß Con...
Do mid .
Phila & Erie R.
Second- at 78 80
Do bonds.....
Fifth-at ....
Do bonds ... .,
Tenth-at R. • •
Thirt ee nth-et B. .. 31
Seventeenth -at 1/34
Spruce-at R. • MX 14
Clbeatant•at 59 67
W Phila 75
Do bonds ... . .
Arch-ot ..... .. 8134 at
Race-at R• 20k1 7/ 1 51:
Green-at .. 41
Do bonds.... . 1
• .
Girard College 26 2d.
Lombard& South
Ridge•av .• .. . • •
Betty Mead R.... .. • •
Winehill R. ... . ..
Harrisburg. •
sna—.•-• -• • •
Wilmington R.
Do
Val' B;
. ...
Lehigh Val 3,.
Do b0nda.......
Phila Ger ac Nor. .. • •
Cam & .azob
Delaware Div-. • • • •
DO bond /. ...• " "
la Markets.