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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1864.
Fresldentlal.
General McClellan’s report is published
in full—a triumph for the art of Printing—
and it is reported that tlie Opposition mem
bers of Congress 'wish a very large number
of copies printed, at the expense of the Go
vernment, of course, to be circulated as
campaign documents. It will be pleasant
reading for the summer, no doubt; but is
the Government bound to supply the whole
country with literature ? If it is, should it not
at least have the privilege of selection. Perso
nally, we would not object to the printing of a
few hundred thousand copies; but, as a matter
of principle, we think it better that Congress
should spend the public money not to mul
tiply such a report, but to make another re
port like it impossible. If, after the usual
number of copies have been ordered for the
nse of Congress, the members of the Oppo
sition want campaign documents, they
should be indulged in the pleasure of
paying for them. Then, if the party can
not afford to publish so formidable a book,
it might print a synopsis in serial form, to
be illustrated with photographs of the wood
en guns at Manassas, a panoramic view of
the Chickahominy swamp, and a frontis
pifce with General McClellan mthe fore
ground with a drawn sword, and Richmond
far away in the dim perspective. This last
picture would be none the worse for being
allegorical. To such an edition we would
gladly subscribe, and we are sure that it
would be popular. In the language to which
enterprising publishers have accustomed us,
it would be “ a book which should he on
every parlor table.”
But why is General McClellan’s re
port wanted as a campaign document ?
Perhaps because the General is wanted as
a candidate. His nomination has already
been favorably referred to in the army—we
beg pardon, that Zttpsus calami is startling
indeed— not in the army hut in Congress.
Oie Senator, and more than one member
of the House, has spoken of General Mc-
Clellan as the probable Presidential can
didate of the Opposition. We know of no
one more suitable. Mr. Vallandigham is
clearly ineligible for the honor—doubly
.banished by the President and by*
John Brough, his Canadian tour is not
likely to end in a national triumph. Mr.
Fernando Wood has high claims for the
position, but his passion for peace clearly
unfits him for the turmoil of a fierce cam
paign. Mr. Wji. B. Reed does not, we be
lieve, wish to be the President of the United
States. Mr. Justice Woodward has al
ready been complimented with an honorary
nomination. Hone of the Southern mem
bers of the party can be voted for in the
North. Of all men, General McClellan
is the best fitted for the nomination,
for he-has the advantages of unpopu
larity m the army, the full confidence
of a party that does not wish the sol
diers to vote, and the prestige of his famous
and prominent part in the Woodward cam
paign. Mr. Justice Woodward said
that the time might come when slaveholders
would have the right to rebel in defence of i
their, slave junprty, and General McClel- !
LAN said Mr 7 Justice Woodward deserved i
to he made the Governor of Pennsylvania. ;
This alone should endear him to the party 1
which loves a slaveholder far better than i
a loyal soldier, and hates a colored man in
a blue uniform more than it hates a white
man in a gray one. Then Gen. McClel- I
LAN has the immense advantage of being
persecuted by the Government, which actu
ally removed him after he had failed three
rimes to take Richmond, and unjustly re
fused him trial number four. He is also
the General who told the President how he
ought to govern the country oh a pro-slavery
haris, and accused the Secretary of WaT of
doing his best to ruin the army. He is also
the General who would not let the Hutchin
son Family sing “John Brown’s soul is
inarching on” to the soldiers, and this
is not the least of his qualifications. Then
there is his report, which is a great reason
for his nomination, for, as it was written as
a campaign document, it would be a pity
for the party to waste it. We, therefore,
Bcmiuate Gen. McClellan as the Opposi
tion candidate for the Presidency, with the
express proviso 'that we have the privilege
of nominating any one else, if we see fit, at
ary future time. This is a privilege so
freely used by our Democratic contempora
rks, that they should consistently grant it
to us# Besides, several months remain be
fore the Chicago Convention will meet, and
in the meanwhile Mr. Fitz John Porter
may write a report twice as long as Gen.
McClellan’s, in which case we would con
fess him to be the better candidate.
foreign Borrowings.
There is a mania for borrowing, at this
moment, on the part of the leading Euro
pean Powers. Austria seeks a loan of
$50,000,000; Denmark, $7,500,000; the
German. Confederation, $8,500,000 • Italy
$40,000,000; Ilussia, $40,000,000; Prussia,
$10,500,000; Sweden, $36,300,000; Spain,
$15,000,000; Prance, $00,000,000; and even
the little Kingdom of Greece, already over
head and ears in debt, desires that some
soft-headed and kind-hearted capitalist will
undraw his purse strings, and hand over
$40,000, which will suffice, for the present,
to “maintain the dignity” of her Dano-
German boy-king, elected to the purple, in
the room of Otho of Bavaria. The sum
total of these monetary requirements is
'5£67,840,000—a pretty amount, at a time
when it is pretended that Europe is in a
state of peace—for Venetia in chains, and
kept under by mere brute force, Poland in
revolt, Prussia at drawn daggers with
her King, Hungary threatening to break
into insurrection, the German Confede
ration heartily preparing to relieve the
King of Denmark from the trouble of go
verning Holstein and Schleswig, and Prance
expecting another coup d’etat , are considered
mere trifles, so long as the whole fraternity
of Kings are not mixed up in them. Still,
two hundred and sixty-eight millions, to be
paid in gold , will cause a heavy drain upon
European capitalists—a drain which Cali
fornia and Australia, were their present pro
duction combined, would be inadequate to
provide for. Still, if European States must
have money, they will certainly try to get
some of the gold from us. They can do so
only by throwing their manufactures into
our markets at cost price, or under. *' •
It is an erroneous idea that the high price
of gold here is detrimental to this country.
The higher the price t the smaller amount of
gold will he sent abroad. When gold is
cheap, our importers rush into the foreign
markets to purchase luxuries, which, when
gold is dear, we discover can either be found
or made at home, or can be dispensed with.
Let gold fall down to par on Thursday, and
the mail-steamers that leave New York on
Saturday will carry out orders for many mil
lions’ worth of goods to the foreign markets.
Were gold now at par, the country would
be flooded with foreign produce of all de
scriptions. The high price of gold really,
to a certain' extent, is protective to Ameri
can industry. When Manchester tissues
become as expensive as Lyons silks and
Geneva velvets are now, perhaps some mo
diste will suggest, and some leader of ton
adopt, the idea that cotton can be made into
as fine cloths and muslins in America as in
Lancashire* if our fair ladies would only con
sent to patronize them—patronage making
a demand, and improvement in the manu
facturing processes closely following the
patronage.
The power of continuing peace, or making
war in Europe, mainly rests with half a
dozen great capitalists, among whom the
Rothschilds and the Bakings are most
noted. Money is necessary to carry on
war, and the fact being that the people
at large, in Europe, are not personally
interested the contests into which their
rulers precipitate them, the masses do not
care to venture their savings on such a risk
as loans to their Governments. [The ex
ceptional case is Prance, where, as in 1859
the working classes are casting their small
savings into the public treasury, literally
offering a great deal more money than M.
fcuiiP, the Finance Minister, proposes to
borrow.! In this foreign nations present
marked features of difference to the people
of this country. Since we became a nation
we have been involved in only three wars :
with England, with Mexico, and against
Domestic Treason. On each of these occa
sions the feeling of the country was strongly
interested in favor of the contest” from a
conviction of the justice of the cause.
Therefore, the means of defraying the cost
was cheerlully and liberally supplied by the
public themselves. We question whether
the “subjects” of any European ruler, ex
cept Napoleon, wou.d advance him, in
time of war, by voluntary loan, even a
fourth of that lately thrown into our public
treasury by the five-twenty popular invest
ment. This is the best proof of the sympa
thy of American citizens and the American
Government.
u Wr were acquainted for forty yeara with the or
ganization known at the democratic party, and wa
know it to be dead and buried. Not a vestige of it
is left. There la an organization of contract bro
kers that oscillates between Tammany Hail and Mo*
zart Hal], and buys and sells votes, that calls itself
the Democratic party, but there is no Democratic
party.”— Herald.
There is a story in “ Gil Bias” of an ad
venturer who, finding a hermit dead in his
hermitage, buried him, assumed his dress
his name, and the reputation of his piety.
The peasants found a singular difference iu
the supposed hermit, who soon became more
celebrated as a sinner than he had ever been
as a saint, and finally discovered the impos
tor. Messrs. Vallandigham, William
B. Reed, Fernando Wood, and Caleb
Cushing point the moral and adorn the tale.
They found the name of Democracy lying
where the people had left it, and clothed
themselves in second-hand celebrity. Strip
off the mask of Democracy, and you will
find the features of Aristocracy in its most
dangerous form. Democratic in name only,
and surely losing even that advantage, this
unscrupulous Opposition to the people and
the Government will be registered in histo
ry as Disloyalty.
Thb Troubles in the Pennsylvania. Sbnatb,
which have delayed its organization for a mouth, are
rrot likely to end with n new election to supply
IVlfljor White'll place. - The Democratic portion of
the Senate «ay that the Speaker has no right to Issue
his writ fer an election, inasmuch as he has not
been chosen Speaker (or the present Senate. This
wiil be a question raised berore a successor to Mr.
White makes his appearance in the Senate. The
whole difficulty is occasioned by the desire of each
party to hold on to certain offices. — Ledger .
' We think -the Ledger is wrong in sup
posing that a new election will not be held
to fill the seat of Major White. That the
Opposition is bold, we are aware, but
scarcely hold enough to defy the public and
attempt to defeat the organization. The
interests of the State would hear down the
paltTy quibble that Speaker Penney has no
right to issue his writ. We know that the
Ledger is wrong in saying that “ the whole
difficulty is occasioned by the desire of each
party to hold onto certain offices.” A more
profound misrepresentation of the purposes
and spirit of the Union majority could not
have been made, and it is only sufficient to
remind our readers that the Union Senators
generously offered to divide the offices fairly
between the two parties if the Opposition
■would consent to organize. Our contempo
rary, unless it doubts the sincerity of this
offer, is bound to retract its sweeping
charge. The Union majority stoo'd firmly
for principle, endorsed by the people and
the whole loyal press.
LETTER-FROM ** OCCASIONAL.”
Washington, February 4,18G4.
There is no better way to decide the
question of relative loyalty than to go into
the galleries of the two Houses and to listen
to the speeches, or arguments, of the actors
on the legislative stage. The first thing you
will hear from the Opposition side, will be a
violent repudiation of the' charge of antago
nism to the war and the Government, ac
companied by the remark that any assertion
to the contrary .is false and calumnious.
When, a few days ago, Fernando Wood
fell into the hands of that rough-and-ready
debater, Kinney, of Utah, who took occa
sion to draw a somewhat dangerous and
damaging contrast between the morale
of Wood’s constituency and that of the
Mormons, the leader of the Faubourg de St.
Antoine of New York took the loftiest airs;
hut it was when Kinney told Wood of his
somewhat odorous correspondence with the
Governor of Georgia, after secession had
taken place, i*lB6l, that Fernando showed
the grandeur of his anger. He was not
only loyal, but he was ready to meet any
one, here or elsewhere, who had the. au
dacity to denounce or doubt his loyalty, &c.
God help us all, if the fate of our country
had depended upon the fealty of these men!
In the midst of these professions of patriot
ism, come the speeches of Mr. Wood and
his “friends.” And what do we find here ?
Nothing hut bitter complaint of the Govern
ment, angry assault upon the Executive and
his advisers, and glffomy predictions of defeat
and disgrace. In the anxiety to rebuke and
to disparage the Administration, the heaven
offending offences of the rebel leaders, and
their fearful destruction of the lives of
Northern men, are utterly lost sight of !
Now, all this might he excused or de
fended, if the Congressional assailants of
the Government had not themselves helped
-to foster, to feed, and to hasten this attack
upon the American Union. In nearly every
case the men who now attack Mr. Lincoln,
and embarrass his efforts to defeat th* trai
tors, are those who, in 1860, refused to
allow the Democratic party to be united on
a Northern man with the right doctrine as
his platform, and deliberately voted for
Breckinridge, the Disunionist, who, after
getting their support for President, received
their praises while, as a Senator from Ken
tucky, he opposed the Government in the
summer of 1861, and faithfully followed his
theory by going into the rebel army to
slaughter many who had given him their
. suffrages, under the counsel of the so-called
Democratic leaders, less than one year be
fore. Take these leaders in Pennsylvania
to-day, and there is scarcely one worth
naming whose conduct does not illustrate
and complete the picture. Either they all
voted for Breckinridge in 1860 or concealed
their desire to do so undenwhat was called
the fusion electoral ticket. We had
a specimen member of this brother
hood on the floor of the House
yesterday afternoon—Mr. Stiles, of Le
high—a man who represents a frugal, -
prosperous, and patriotic people, and yet
who is returned to Congress without the
slightest real feeling for his country, and,
per consequence, the slightest power -to
help forward the great interests of his con
stituents.. Andlsaythisnotby inference, but
from what this man says and prints. Mr.
Stiles, it will he recollected, was one of the ex
treme supporters of the Breckinridge party
in 1860, How true he is to that connection,
and how sincerely his heart heats to those
with -whom he then acted, let his speech
of yesterday, in reply to the able and mas
terly argument of Hon. Amos Myers,
of the Clarion fPennaO district, answer.
The whole speech will soon be pub
lished. I give you a few extracts, as
they appear in the morning papers. “His
colleague” ("Mr. Myers ), said Mr. Stiles,
‘ ‘ charged that Judge Woodward had decided
that soldiers had no right to vote. This was
not true! He decided that soldiers hare a
right to rote on betubninq to theib
HOMES, AND THIS DECISION WAS APPBOVBD
by the people. ” The soldiers ought to
go down on their knees before his Majesty,
Justice Woodward, for deciding that they
may vote “when they return to their
homes!” Such'generosity shows that,,in
fighting for their country, they did not lose
their right to vote for it. What the soldiers
begged of the Copperhead Judge was the
privilege to vote for their country on the
battle-field, a boon never before denied to
the troops of the Republic. Mr. Justice
Woodward, according to his Lehigh county
interpreter, compromised the knotty ques
tion by saying they may vote “ when they
return to their homes.” Whoever before
doubted that the soldier had the right to
vote when he returned to his home ? But
let them be thankful to Mr. Stiles and Jus
tice Woodward for so liberal a donation.
Another sentence,.from the same speech,
is even more reckless and contradictory,
viz: “On the second Tuesday of October
Judge Woodward was legally elected Gover
nor of Pennsylvania, receiving two hundred
and fifty-four thousand votes. But fur
loughs were absolutely denied to Democrats to
return home to vote; and it was truly eaid
bayonets ruled, and not the popular will,”
A good way to expose this monstrous ca
lumny would be to refer it to the Democrats
themselves in the army. Why has
not this barren complaint come from
them ? Not a word of censure has fallen
from their pens or their tongues. And this
because they were not only not refused fur
loughs, but because furloughs were freely
oflered and generally accepted. And when
they got home, Democrats as they were,
they naturally refused to vote for those who
lately denied them the right of suffrage in
the field, and who were the busy and ran
corous enemies of the war in Congress and
the country. And because these Democrats
refused to sustain Woodward and his sym
pathy with Treason, Mr. Stiles proclaims
that Woodward was legally elected Gover
nor in the last October election!
The staple, doctrines of the Opposition
are to be found in this speech of Mr.
Stiles. He must have a .very easy
and indulgent constituency to be able to
fulminate such monstrous misstatements.
Intelligent citizens, however disposed to
censure their Chief Magistrate, are not
ready to believe that the whole gospel of
political or personal obligation consists in
vapid abuse of the constituted authorities,
in stubborn silence as to the crimes of the
traitors, and in the dissemination of gross
misrepresentations like those uttered by Mr.
Stiles. And nothing will do more to un
deceive them, aud to show them the paths
of patriotism, than the speeches of partisans
of the school of Stiles, who, with his con
federates, only occupies the ground of hos
tility to the war because he thinks he has so
deluded the people as to secure their en
dorsement of all his acts. Occasional.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, D. On Feb 4.
The Kill to Increase the Internal Revenue.
The Houie bill to increase the internal revenue,
aa it passed the Senate to-day, provides that alter
ita passage, in lieu of the duty provided for in the
act of July Ist, 1562, aud in addition to the duties
payable for licences,there shall be paid, on aU spirit*
that may be distilled or sold, or distilled and re
moved for consumption or sale, previous to the Ist
of July next, of first proof, duty 60 cents per gallon;
and upon aU liquors that may be distilled after the
passage of this act, and sold or removed for con
sumption or sale, on or after the Ist of July
next, and previous to July next, 70 oents per
gallon; and on all liquors that may be distilled
alter the passage of this act, sold or removed for con
sumption or sale, on and after Ist January next,
so cents per gallon; in addition to the duty hereto
fore imposed by law, there Is to be paid on aplrlts
distilled from grain or other material, whether of
American or foreign-produetion, imported from
foreign countries previous to the Ist of July next,
of first-proof duty, 40 cents per gallon, and on all
such spirits imported from foreign countries on and
alter the Ist of January next, a duty of 60 cents
per gallon. The Senate struck out the House
provision taxing spirits on hand for sale, and also
the olause proposing an addition of 20 oents per
gallon on adulterated spirits sold aa brandy,wine, Ac.
The Senate rejected the proviso increasing the
duty on cotton to two oents.
Mr. Kasson’s Cotton Bill.
The bill introduced by Representative Hasson,
of lowa, to-day, authorizes the Secretary of War,
-through the proper officers of the army in the several
Military Departments of the ootton-growing States,
to issue certlfic&tes of indebtedness, to be paid after
the close of the war, aud upon the permanent resto
ration of the authority ol the United States over
the State of which the party receiving such certifi
cates is at the time a citizen, to be delivered to any
person, the possessor of cotton in bales, who shall
bring the same, or oause the same to be brought, to
any military post or position occupied or held by the
United States forces.
The amount of such certified Indebtedness not to
exceed one half the estimated value of such cotton
at the seaports of the United States open to foreign
trade.
The Secretary of War is authorized to provide by
proper regulations, that no person shall be per
mitted to purchase In sueh districts any cotton which
Is not at the time of such purchase In the posses
sion of persons residing within the military line of
oeoupation of the United States, and removable
without military protection.
This bill has been sent to the Committee of Ways
and Means.
Destruction of Rebel Salt Works.
The Navy Department has received a communica
tion from Acting Rear Admiral , dated Jan. 27,
in which he says: “It affords me great pleasure to
report to the Department that the promise made by
Acting Matter Wif. E. Brown, of the bark Restless,
at the conclusion of his last report, concerning the de
struction of the extensive salt works in the vicinity
of St. Andrew’rtiay—namely, that he would com
plete the work so handsomely begun—appears to
have been kept.
"He reports that he went onboard the stem-wheel
steamer Bloomer, with two officers and forty- seven
men belonging to the Restless, and proceeded up the
bay, under the very unfavorable circumstances of
darkness, wind, and tide, some ten miles above St.
Andrews, where hie force was, and-degtroyed ninety
additional saltworks, together with all the boilers,
kettles, and buildings attached to them; whereupon
the enemy commenced the destruction of about two
hundred more, which were in advance of our party,
and thus saved 'us from all further trouble, except
skirting along the bay for a distance of fifteen
miles to make sure that the work of destruction
had been well performed by them. Deserters from
Captain Anderson’s and Captain Robinson’s
companies, reported subsequently that both officers
and men had broken up, and had gone home, as
the destruction of the saltworks, whioh they were
ordered to guard, had been complete, and six of
these men have enlisted in the navv, after taking
the oath ol allegiance.”
Congressional Matters,
The House caucus last night resolved that the
new enrolment act shall be adopted essentially as it
comes from the Military Committee; and the con
scription act, with slight amendments, is to be put
upon its passage as soon as possible.
The House Naval Committee commenced examin
ing witnesses this morning in the investigation of
the structure of naval engines. Witnesses from the
Navy Department were examined to-day, and to
morrow witnesses from Baltimore and Philadelphia
will appear before the committee.
The select committee on a military and postal
railroad between New York and Washington had a
meeting this; morning. Communications from the
War Department were submitted, in favor of a new
route.
The fortification bill, reported to the House to
day, contains appropriations of five millions of dol
lars.
A petition addressed to Congress, and signed by
nearly the whole of the bar, will shortly be present
ed, asking for an Increase of the salaries of the
judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia.
Capture of Blockade-Runners.
Information has been reoelved at the Navv De
partment of the captuie of the following blockade
runners:
On the 28th of December, the rebel schooner Caro
line Qertrude, loaded with cotton, was captured iu
St. Mark’e Bay, Florida, by armed boats from the
U. S. steamer Stars and Stripes, The schooner
was aground when eaptured. Fourteen prisoners
were taken. After taking out forty-three bales of
cotton and having a sharp engagement with the ene
my’s cavalry, finding they could not save the vessel,
they set her on fire to prevent her again falling into
rebel hands, and she, with the balance of her cargo,
was totally destroyed.
On the 18th of January the Stars and Stripes
captured, in the same locality, the steamer Laura,
hailing from St. John’s, N. 8., and purporting to be
from Havana, loaded with merchandise and cigars.
Five prisoners were captured on her, the captain
and fifteen others having made their escape in a
boat.
The Uoited States steamer Hendrick Hudson was
alto engaged in the chase after this prize. She went,
with the cotton captured on the Caroline Qertrude,
to Key Weat for adjudication.
On the 14th of January the United States supply
steamer Union captured, south or Tampa Bay, Flo
rida, the rebel steamer Mayflower, bound to Ha
vana, with seventy-five bales of eotton. When dis
covered she was secreted in Surosite Pass, with
steam up, all ready to steam out, and was out out by
three boats. Ten prisoners were taken, the captain
and two engineers having escaped in one of the
steamer's boats. The Mayflower, deseribed as an
old and almost worthless vessel, was towed to Key
West, where the cargo was condemned by the U, S.
Marshal, and was ordered North in the Union-
Tile Homestead law.
In a letter to Senator Morgan, Mr. Thurlo'w
Weed recommends the repeal of the Homestead law,
so that our Treasury can be benefited by the sale of
the public lands.
Military.
The following deserters have been arrested by
Captain Shbktz’s deteotives: John Wtlo, 27th
Pennsylvania Volunteers; Jacob Qarwaith, 6th
Wisconsin;- James W. KNArr, 6th Wisconsin;
Frank Bran, Ist District of Columbia; Jahbs
Wbilay, 2d Vermont Cavalry'; O- H. Nbwman, Ist
District of Columbia Cavalry; David Patter*
son, 2d Veteran Cavalry; Richard Murphy, 62d
Pennsylvania Volunteers. *
General Bibney has received authority from the
War Department to raise another colored regiment
in Maryland, and has opened recruiting offices on
the Eastern shore. The Government undoubtedly
intends to recruit as many colored soldiers as possi
ble in the border States.
Forty-nine prisoners received from Gen Patrick,
were committed on Tuesday to the Old Capitol, by
order ol Captain Todd.
The provost marshals throughout the country
teem to be unusually active of late. Arrivals of de
lerters forwarded by them are taking place dally.
Yesterday twenty-four reaohed this city from Phila
delphia, and thirteen from Harper’s Ferry.
Arrest for Taking Bribes.
G. A. Henderson, warrant clerk of the Treasury
Department, hat been removed from hit offloe and
arrested for taking bribes.
Appropriations for Fortifications.
Tlso fortification bill, reported to-day frdm the
1 .ommittee of Ways and Means, appropriates over
$6,000,000, including for Fort Schuyler $26,000, Wil*
let’s Point, $l6O 000, -and another fort in New York
Harbor, $lOO,OOO. Battery near Fort Hamilton,
$75,000 ; Fort Richmond, $20,000; Fort Tompkins,
$l6 COO; Battery at Staten Island, $76,000 ; Fort at
Sandy Hook, $126,000; Fort Miillln, $20,000j Forts
Wmthrop and Warren, 70,000.
THE PRESS —PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAS'. FEBRDAES 5, 1864.
THE WAR IN WESTERN VIRGINIA.
The Enemy Overtaken in their Betreat
A BATTLE COMMENCED NEAR MOORFIELD.
Naw Yobk, Feb. 4.—The Herald has received the
following special despatch:
Headquarters os' the Army or* Wbst Virgi
nia, Feb. 4.—Our forces have overtaken the enemy
at a ford near Moorfleld, in Hardic county.
The enemy evidently intends to dispute the pas*
sage of the river.
Our forces are in position; the artillery have just
opened.
Arrival of Deserters —Gen. Birney’s Ball-
Washington, Feb. 4. —Great)y-exaggerated re
port* have been publiihed a* to the number of rebel
deserters received by the Army of the Potomac.'
They last month from five to twelve per
day, but the arrivals have been more frequent thus
far in the present month, not, however, at any time
exceeding twelve per day.
A letter from the army, received to>night, says
that last Monday was the time appointed for the
rebel consoripts of Virginia to assemble at the va
rious rendezvous.
Refugees say that a large portion of them declined
doing so, and many will probably reach our lines.
A large lot of confiscated sutlers* stores were sold
at Brandy Station yesterday, by Oaptain Clinton, of
General Patrick’s staff. Notwithstanding an appv
rent combination of sutlers to get them at nominal
rates, they netted the average Washington prices
for such goods. The articles were generally in ex
cess of Ihe manifests and officers* orders.
The liquors, comprising a portion of the seizures,
were "turned over to the Medical Department, and
the proceeds of the sales, amounting to about $1,600,
were placed in the hands of General Patrick, to be
applied to the relief of our sick and wounded.
General Birney’s ball, on Tuesday night, afforded
much pleasure to a large company. The arrange
ments were far better than some of those whloh
preceded it.
** Within the last twenty-four hours,’* the writer
says, “we have passed through every grade of the
seasons, from summer’s heat, with thunder and
lightning, to winter’s cold, producing Ice an inch
thick. A cold south wind is blowing this morning,
but the weather is clear and pleasant. There is no
exciting news from the front. 11
Fobtbess Monkob, Feb. 3.—The following ves
sels have pasted the guardship;
Brig Mountain Eagle, Captain Jarvis, Fortress
Monroe to Philadelphia; schooner B. T. Bonnlng.
ton, Captain Herrick, Fort Boyal to Baltimore.
Three rebel prisoners of war and two refugees ar
rived to day, via Yorktown.
Lieut. Col. J.. MoLane Taylor, at his own re
quest, has been relieved from duty as ohief com
missary, and will report to the Commissary General
at Washington, His departure from this plaoe Is
universally regretted by his many friends.
THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST.
IMPORTANT EXPEDITION FROM MEMPHIS,
A Blow to be Struck in an Unexpected
Quarter.
Caibo, Feb. 4.—-The steamers Darling and Silver
Moon, from Memphis, passed here today, enroute
for Cincinnati, with 1,749 bales of cotton. The
steamer Perry, from Yickaburg, brought 204 bales
from St. Louis.
The rebels used artiUery against the steamers re
cently fixed Into, and engaged three of our gunboats
for a considerable time berore they were repulsed.
Thirteen of the rebels were killed.
The Memphis Argus of the 2d inst. says there was
a decline of two cents from Saturday’s quotations of
cotton. Experienced buyers are holding off, expect
ing heavy receipts, and a further decline in New
York. _
It Is rumored in commercial circles that two or
three boats are expected to arrive from below, with
an aggregate of 3,000 bales.
[OorrcsponJence of the Chicago Evening Journal. 1
Memphis, Jan. 28.—1 wrote you from Corinth the
otherday, apprising you of the abandonment of that
post, and of the railroad eaat of Lagrange. The
troops are new here, and reorganizing for a grand
expedition southward, of an important character,
under Gen. Sherman. Our brigade of the 16th Army
Corps, consisting of the 14th, 27th, and 32d lowa,
and the 178th New Yoik, under command of Brig.
General A. J. Smith, will form part of the expe
ditionary army.
lam not permitted to give details. The destina
tion of the expedition is contraband news, as also
are all the facts as to the number of troops, plans,
&c. Suffice it to say that the expedition Is about
ready to start, and that-Its object Is one of the
greatest inniortance towards closing up the rebel
lion in the Southwest. A heavy blow will be struck
in an unexpected quarter.
OPENING OF TRADE WITH WEST
Important Circular of the Secretary of
the Treasury.
Baltimore, Feb. 4—John T. MoJilton, Eiq.,
surveyor of the port of Baltimore, has received from
the Treasury Department at Washington the follow
ing regulation, which allows of the transportation
of articles to Western Virginia:
' 17. S, Treasury Department,
February 2.
The Secretary of War having transmitted to thia
Department a letter of the commanding general,
expressing the opinion, in reply to a letter addressed
to him hy the Secretary of. the Treasury, on the 16th
ult„ that the restrictions on all trade in the State of
West Virginia, within the national military lines,
may now be safely removed, the twenty-sixth regu
lation of trade, established (with other regulations)
on the Uth of September, 1863, is so far modified that
all restrictions on trade in the State of West Vir
ginia, within the said lines, are annulled and abro
gated, and all products and goods may be freely taken
into and transported Within the above-mentioned
portion ol the said State, as in time of peace; pro
vided, however, that no products or goods shall be
taken from the said State into any State declared to
be in Insurrection, or to any port in any such State
heretofore blockaded, which has been or may be
opened, except in compliance with the regulations
of September 11. S. P. CHASE,
Secretary of the Treasury.
The Inauguration of the Union Officials of
Arkansas—An Impressive Scene.
Caibo, Feb. 4.—The inauguration ol the officer,
chosen by the State Convention of Arkansas took
place on the 22d ult., in the Senate Chamber, at
Uittle Hock. The ceremonies were of a solemn and
Imposing character.
Alter a prayer by Rev. Jos. Butler, the Governor
addressed the Assembly in a touching and impres
sive manner. On the conclusion of hia address the
oath of office was administered to Governor Murphy.
The entire scene was of the most a fleeting descrip
tion, causing tears to trace down many cheeks, so
solemn were the words uttered and responded to,
which bound the new officials to loyalty to their
country and fealty to the Union.
Fifteen hundred recruit* arrived to-day at Spring
field. A portion of them are from Wisconsin. They
are en route for the army in the South to fill up the
old regiments.
DEATH OF JUDGE JENKINS.
Hon. A. M. Jenkins, judge of the Third Judicial
Circuit, died yesterday.
Arrival of Escaped Rebels—Marshal Kane.
Halifax, N. S., Feb. 4.—Marshal Kane and a
large number of rebel officers have arrived here.
They are said to have escaped from Johnson’s
Island.
Nothing definite was done in the Admiralty Court
yesterday, in reference to the ateamer Chesapeake.
The court haa adjourned till Friday, when it is ex
pected that the ship will be delivered over to her
owners.
The Nova Scotia Legislature was opened to-day
by the administrator of the Government, Major
General Doyle,'who, In his speech, referred to the
increased exports and large surplus revenue. He
congratulated the country on the sucoese of Its mili
tary organization, the increased traffic on its rail
ways and enlarged activity In mining operations,
aud recommended.amendments to the agricultural
and gold-field acts of the province.
He promises to extend the existing railways, to
complete the St. Peter’s canal, to promote educa
tion, to establish a maritime court to investigate
shipwrecks, and to inaugurate measures to unite,
under one Government and Legislature, the Pro
vinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince
Edward’s Island.
Boston, Feb. 4 The annual meeting of the
Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation took
place yeaterday. There was the largest attendance
or atockbolders ever present on a similar ocoasion,
it being understood that there would be a trial of
strength between the friends and opponents of the
scheme for uniting that road with the Western Mas
sachusetts road. Over 33,000 shares were repre
sented, and of these there was a majority of nearly
6,000 against consolidation.
Hon. E. W. Gantt spoke at Nashua, N. H,, last
night. He leaves to-day for New York, on his way
to Arkansas, and will, therefore, deliver no more ad
dresses in the Eastern country.
Conviction of a Counterfeiter.
Tsbstov, N. J., Feb. 4.—ln the United States
Distriot Court, to-day, Sylvester O. Cook was tried
find convicted of having uttered counterfeit fifty
dollar United States notes, and sentenced by Judge
Fields to three years’ imprisonment in the State
prison. The defendant had been indicted by the
Essex-county court for a similar offence, but was
turrendered upon an order to the United States
court.
Caibo, Feb. 4.—The steamer Belle Creole struck
A snag off Plum Point, on the 2d Inst., and sunk,
fine passenger was lost. Nothing was saved from
i he boat, which was insured for $lO,OOO.
Destructive Fire in New York.
Nnw Yobs, Feb. 4.—Kauffman’s confectionery
t aiabliahment, No. 444 Pearl street, was destroyed
t y fire thia afternoon. The loss will be about thirty
housand dollars.
Cokcobd, Feb. 4—The store of .T. H. Tufts, in
PI j mouth, was destroyed by fire this morning.' The
loss U SIG.OOO,
ARM! OF THE POTOMAC.
Curious Weather.
FORTH ESS MONROE.
Trade on tlie Mississippi.
VIRGINIA.
ARKANSAS.
NOVA SCOTIA.
BOSTON.
I<oss of a steamer*
Fire in New Hampshire.
XXXVIIIth CONGRESS—Ist SESSION.
SENATE,
Hr. SHOWN, of Missouri, offered the memorial of the
national Land Transfer Company* of Missouri, praying
•or aul to promote the emigration of skilled laborers
into that State. The memorial was referred to the fi
nance Committee.
Mr. LAMB, of Kansas, reported baek from the Com
mittee on Public Lands the bill setting apart a portion
of the State of Texas for Kansas citizens, with amend
ments. Ordered to be printed.
The Reciprocity Treaty.
Mh BUMMBR. of Massaobntetta, offered a resolution
requesting the President of the United States, if not in*
compatible with the public interests, to communicate
any correspondence in his possession relative to a reel*
procifo treaty between the Unl'ed States and the Sand
wich Islands, which was passed.
Mr BO WE, of Wisoonein, offered a resolution in
structing the Secretary of the Interior to sell at public
auction all public books and documents in his custody.
Adopted.
Equalization of Pay* to Soldiers.
The bill equalizing the pay of United States soldiers
was then taken np. on motion of Mr. WILSON.
Mr. FEBSENDEN, of Maine, was opposed to making
tbie bill retrospective in its character, though he was in
fa vor of placing oolored troops on the same footing as
other troops from and after its passage
Air. WILSON thought the bill should be a retrospective
one. for the troops in the colored regiments had been
assured before they were mustered into the service that
they would receive the same pay and be placed on an
equal footing with white troops. The gross acts of in'
justice heretofore done to this portion of our soldiery
should he rectified.
Mr. TEN EYCK, of New Jersey, thought this a matter
of iustice. If these colored men had been promised cer
tain things by onr war authorities, it became our duty
to legalize and recognize tbe promises held ont to them.
These were sufficient reasons to induce him to vote for*
the bill.
Mr. LANS, of Kansas, supported the retrospective
character of the bill.
Mr. FEfe SENDER said that the troops raised by Gen.
Hunter bad no pledge from the Government. This bill
proposed a very loose mode of legislation. Recruiting
officers were prone to offer inducements not authorized
by law to promote enlistments. If officers had under
taken to promise colored regiments more than ten dol
lars per month, it was from a misapprehension of the
law. It would not be proper to legislate to pay more
than we have contracted to pfty. He thought that, from
the passage of this bill, all of our soldiers, without re
gard to color, should be placed on an equal footing. As
to paying what tbe Government did not at present owe
these colored men, under its contract with them, he was
opposed to it.
Mr. CGNNEBS, of Callfornia.did not think the treasurv
could afford to make this bill retrospective. He would
propose an amendment giving them pay after the pas
sage of this set.
Mr. POMEROY, of Kansas, thought the treasury of
the United States was always sufficient to provide for an
act of justice.
Mr. CONNESS Would inquire whether this act would
cause the rebels to acknowledge the colored troops as
soldiers
Mr. POMEROY replied that the effect of the act would
be tbe acknowledgment of eoiorei troops as real soldiers*
Mr, COffHESS regarded thie a, a proposition involving
money and nothing more. It was a question as to the
payment of a certain amount of money under a contract.
Mr. LANE, of Kansas, said the Government was
under amoral, if not a legal obligation to redeem its
obligations to tbe colored, troops.
Mr. CONNESS would desire that the Senator should
introduce a separate bill for the purpose.
Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, stated that the pre
sent force of colored troops in the field, and in the de-
Eartments, would reach the number of 50,000. These
ad been mostly enlisted within the last six months.
Mr. DOOLIITLE, of Wisconsin, believed that the Go
vernment should act in good faith to tbfcge soldiers. At
the same time there were considerations which should
lead us to act cautiously in this matter. There were
many white soldiers in xhe army who had served with
out receiving the bounties given to subsequent recruits.
If we adopt this bill, we should give ine old soldiers
similar benefits.
Mr. FESSENDEN calculated that this bill, in its retro
spective action, would incur an expense of a .million and
a half dollars.
Mr. DOOLITTLE requested that as the wives and
children of many of our colored troops were being sup
ported by the Government, they should not receive the
same bounty and pay as white recruits, whose families
were dependent upon them for support.
The Revenue Bill.
On motion of Mr. FESSENDEN, tbe Senate then pro*
ceeded to the consldeiation of the Houbo Revenue bill,
with the amendment proposed by the Senate Finance
Committee.
Mr. HENDRICKS, of Indiana, moved an amendment
reducing the tax on distilled spirits to a uniform rate of
40 cents instead of 80. He argued at length to show that
the proposed tax discriminated against an' article of
Northwestern production, while it did not affect the pro*
ductions of other sections. He thougnt that in a few
yeBre» When the currency should become reduced,
liquor would not stand such a tax as that now proposed.
Be did not consider this a fair mode of legislation to
ward the Northwestern States
Mr. FESSENDEN replied that we should tax an article
to cbtaln revenue according to what it would bear. He
thought the article of liquor would bear the tax pro
po»ea by the Finance Committee. The tax would fall
upon the consumer wherever it was used. The tax im
posed In England was more thau double this, and yet no
one was injured or complained. If it was used as an
article of manufacture in the Atlantic States, the tax fell
there. Mr. Festenden deprecated any sectional feeling
in great measures like this. The bill originated In no
sectional spirit.
Hr HEN DRICKS would say that no one deprecated
sectional lames more than himself, and, as a Senator,
he could not give a vote for a bill imposing burden* un
equally ca any particular section of the country, as he
thought such a course would tend to sever the Union of
the6tates. Tbe Northwest had not nor-would it refuse
to bear its full share of the burden of this war.
The debate wa* continued at length by Messrs. Cowan,
Johnson, Bowe. Grimes. Doolittle, Harlan, and others.
Mr -HeudricVp’ amendment was rejected.
Mr. DOOLITTLE moved to recommit the bill to the
Finance Committee, with instructions to report a pro
viso taxing liquors, on band prior to July 1, 20 cents per
gallon, This was rejected by the following vote:
„ YEAS.
Foster,
Grimes,
Harlan.
Howard,
Morrill,
w WAYS.
Henderson,
Hendricks,
Hicks,
Howe,
Johnsrn,
Anthony,
Brown,
Chandler,
Doolittle,
Foote,
Buckalew,
Carlile,
Clark,
Collamer,
Conness,
Lane (Indiana)
I Lane (Kansas).
|Morgan»_
Cowan,
Dixon,
Fessenden,
Bale. Pomeroy.
Harris, Powell, (
On motion of Hr. LASTS, of Indiana, it was
Resolved, That when the Senate adjourn, It he until
Monday.
The Senate went into executive session, and shortly
afterwards adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee
on Ways and Means, reported a bill making an appro
priation for the construction, preservation, and repairs
of certain fortifications for the year ending 'with Jane,
1866.
Na-val Grades.
On motion of Hr. SCHENCK, of Ohio, a resolution
was adopted railing on the Secretary of the Navy to
cornmnnicate the report of the- advisory board of July.
1862. to establish and .equalize the grade of line officers
of the navy, together with the instructions to said
board, and all documentary evidence; memorials and
protests o f th ose who were not recommended, and others
in tneir behalf; ; and other papers and'proceedinss con
nected therewith, and the report of the said board
On motion of Mr. BENNETT, the Committee on Terri
torles was instructed to take into consideration the pro
priety of pacsmg a law to prevent the wanton destruc
tion of buffalo©* during the spring and summer months
Mr. HALE, of Pennsylvania, from the Oommittee on
Claims,reported a bill providingfor ascertainint and ad
justing claims against the Government for injury and
destruction of property by military authority daring the
present rebellion. *
Ox» motion of Mr. NOBLE, the Committee on tensions
was instructed to take into consideration the propriety
of giving bounty lands to all soldiers in the present army
vno have been, or hi ay be. honorably discharged, and
also to the soldiers engaged in the Oregon and Indian
wars.
Mr. IvASSON- of lowa, introduced a bill relating to
captures of cotton, and the disposition thereof, by the
force*! of the United States, which was referred to the
Committee cn Ways and Means.
Diplomatic Correspondence.
AMBROSE W. .CLARK, from the Committee on
Printing,reported ajoint re«olntion that there be printed
ten thousand copies- of the diplomatic correspondence ac
compsnying the President’s message, for the use of the
State Department.
Mr. DAVIS, of Maryland, said this wai the only mode
the Government had to enlighten the public mind of
Europe If this was not allowed, no one-could deny we
should be driven to the disreputable measures of the re
bel;, namely, tl at of buying up the public press of Eu
rope. By distributing the documents through the State
Department, it would have all the weight of an official
declaration.
Mr. WILSON understood the diplomatic correspond
ence ns already printed and ready forldistribution among
members. He wanted to know the cost of printing addi
tional copies, as the type was distributed.
Mr. POMEROY, of New York,- remarked that the
thousand copies heretofore ordered to be printed for the
rue or the State Department was not enough for the pur
pose of the distribution intended. It was important that
copies should be sent abroad, in order to a better under
tan ding of onr diplomatic affairs for the past year. The
public attention had been drawn to the subject of foreign
intervention more than to any other. It was the rock
on which or r enemies thought we would split, and their
prosperity be established. There was no subject on
which the people bad more right to demand information
than.on our foreign relations.
. Mr. DAWES, of Massachusetts, said, suppose we know,
just for cunoiity, liow much the printing will cost.
Mr. POHEROx replied, that the question was whether
additional copies shall be printed or not
Mr. STEVENS proposed that instead of one thousand,
two thousand copies of those already printed be given
for the ut eof State departments. He waß quite sure the
House did not want seven thousand copies. Besides,
the printing expenses had run up to a million and a
auaiter of dollars the past year, and had become alarm
ing as to expense.
Mr. DAVIS, of Maryland, said, if the House was dis
posed to higgle as to the sum for bringing onr diplo
matic correspondence before the nations of Europe, let
them do so.
McClellan’s Report.
Mr. JAMEBC. ALLEN, of Illinois, asked the Chair
man of the Printing Committee to include In the order
the printing of ten thousand additional copies of Mc-
Clellan’s report. We are. he said, annoyed to death by
inquiries for it, not from individuals in the Western
country, but from officers of the airay.
Mr. AMBROSE W. CLARK said a copy cf McClellan’s
report would soon be ready for distribution.
Air. JAS. C. ALLEN remarked that the number or
dered, namely, ten thousand, would give the members
only forty copies apiece. The demand was so great that
tbe exigency required a larger number to be printed
Mr. GRINNELL said the gentleman coulf have his
share of the cones. * ■
COX replied! the gentleman did not want Mb con
stituents to read the truth.
Mr- WILSON wanted to know what the printing
would cost. This ough t fir»t to be ascertained.
Mr. COX said he and his friends would not object to
nown th^e transactions of ail the departments—
ail the books eh on Id be printed—the diplomatic corres
pondence should be laid before the world. He would
say to the gentleman from lowa that his (Grlnnell’s)
com titueTds had ritten hither for copies of McClellan’s
reports. We want to know why It is kept back
#»r r *yA SHB^RNI6 * of Illinois, asked why the friends
of McClellan did not, in the first instance, ask for the
printing of a larger number of copies.
Mr. COX replied, we did not know there would be xo
much demand for them. Gen McClellan’s popularity is
aln cst equal to that of Gen. Grant. [Laughter. ]
The Home then rasped the resolution for printing 10,000
additional copies by the following vote—yeas 118, nays
Confiscation.
. The House resumed the consideration of the ioint reso
ilil 1 * 11 ameil , d f i oi , nt resolution, explanatory of the
confiscation act of July, 1862.
Mr, WOODBRIpGE, of Vermont, in the course of his
argument, said, if we concede the rebels to be alien ene
concede iheir territory to bo alien territory?
but if we adopt the theory that they are not out of the
Union, then confiscation becomes a municipal regula
tion, to practically operate on the property of those who
are in armed rebellion against the Government. The
rebels have broken the contract, and it is the right and
duty of Consress to restrain their persons and appro
priate their proptrty.
a & r * c i? x moved to lay the joint resolution on the
table. The question was decided in the negative by a
vote of seventy-one against eighty-three.
Mr. KERNAN. of New Tork. opposed the pending
resolution and asked the gentlemen on the Republican
tide to pause and reflect whether confiscation was not
destructive rather than preservative of the Government.
Let us not make this a war of conquest—a war of exter
mination, affecting six or eight millions of people. Let
rot their lands go to the speculators, to those who fol
low the army, not to strengthen it, but to fatten off the
plunder. He would prosecute the war for the purpose of
putting down rebellion and as far as possible restoring
peace and harmony to all sections.
, r - said the policy of confiscation is em
bodied in the living law of the land, and therefore, was
net before tee House. All that has been said by the oppo
nents of the resolution was a waste of time. He would
not be harsh beyond the measure of the hour, but his
patience had been exhausted by the efforts here to shield
traitors fr«m the penalty of their crimes. The gentle
man (Mr. Cox) had furnished thorough material out of
all the success in opposttion had been madebr
those who had been sailing in the craft belonging to the
Confederate navy.
Mr COX said. The gentleman from lowa was speak
ing by the courtesy of this side. After cutting himself
off by calling the previous question, he makes aperson
al attack on me. snd declines to yield.
Mr. VflLfeON. 1 did not interrupt the gentlemen when
lie spoke, and refused to yield.
Mr. COX. The gentleman dare not yield.
The SPEAKER eaid. The Chair will protect the gentle
men from Ohio.
Mr. CoX. I beg the pardon of the Speaker for the in
terruption.
Mr. WILSON resumed. He said the resolution was
strictly in accordance with the Constitution, and yet
gentlemen on the other side oppose it, with all their
profesied reverence for the Constitution, and their wil
linane** to leave such important questions to thealiu
dication of the Courts. Traitors had no right to expect
to be shielded from the consequences of their crimes.
The rebellion was not to be crushed out by ottering olive
branches, or by utterance of honeyed words, even from
•lie lips Of members of Congress While gentleman
were thus talking here for the benefit of their erring
Lxotbeis Hud wayward sisters, their relatives on the
Southern side were making desperate efforts against us
Weexpect to seethe Southern States rescued from a re
morseless aristocracy anti a seml-feud&l svstem destroy
ed, labor elevated to its juet dignity, and such institu
tions of republicanibin established as will secure the fu
ture peace end prosnerty of the entire country.
Mr. PENDLETON moved to reconsider the vote by
which the previous question was ordered on the passage
of the resolution. This motion was laid upon the table
by two ma.icvUy.
The S> BAKER announced the question on the passage
of the joint resolution, when Mr VOOhHEBi moved
ibe House adjourn, and Mr.-CRAVENS that the House
adjourn till Monday.
Three questions and others, evidently designed to
rtaveoff action on the confiscation resolution, occupied,
more than an hour, the voto being taken by yeas ana
i e vs
Mr. DAVIS, of Maryland, at i4£ o'clock. eaj
Washington. Fob. 4.1884.
Ramsey*
Sherman.
Sprague.
Trumbull.
Biddle.
Richardson,
Sumner.
Ten Eyck,
Van winkle,
Wade,
Wilkinson.
Willey,
Wilson.
LoKIiON MONEY MARKET.-The demand for dis
count is active, notwithstanding the advance in the
bank minimum to S per ceni. The Bank ofFrareahad
not followed the example of the Bank of England! and
specie continned to flow from London to Paris, ttU
The stotk market has been depressed by the warlike
appearance of affairs, and the action of the bank bat
th ere was more tone to it on the 21st, and consols were
fractionally higher, tinder the more pacific rumors
The American stock market is dull; Illinois Central
i?ilßafl?^fWK°* edat 25024 Bel “ nt - «"»“>“**
Commercial Intelligence,
? alea for the week 26,000
ispeculators, and 4,fi00 to export
ers. The market was dull, dAclinhs k tn kd mrvitiv
on middling lower snides, taleson Friday 4*ooo bale?
imc«™i°. p bE.Ssfi3ctadlng32.Coo
'Wheat heavy, and declined
2to 3d. Corn declining. Provisions steady.
London, Jan. 22 Evening.—Consols cloßeil at .00% for
money.
in the Bank of England has decreased
Mancbestbb—There is very little disposition for ac
tualbusiness.but the markst is not quite as depressed as
on Tuesday-there being a little more inquiry"
pri O eT4' a f K rf K 'Snfwq?i e t COffoe . <ialet ' flrm ’
m ARKet.—Firm No. 1 quoted at
mlxed numbers warrant 64b Bd@B4s 9d; No.
Oi 62fcSd [w63B.
Shipping Intelligence.
shta r initsta^Scaa a i?! P &‘&m“e ** Crookhavea;
wUh?o?s“flnddM!'eFo hU ’' delpllia ' 501 iatoduesmstown
Liverpool, Jan 21, Evening. —Breadstttffs Market.
—Flcnr 38 has an upward tendency, with.
tJlfl warlike wsorte; Com
.tesataMssffirsaj^ ll^s Bacott
Produce.--Ashes nat; sugar very dull: Linseed on
* tmdy : Koßin qufct;.Spirits of Tarpentine steady; Petro
leum firm at Is jld for refined. 3
Lokdcik, Jan. SL—Breadetnffe'doll; Sugar quiet and
steady; Coffee firm; Tta steady; R>c» quiet; Tallow
quiet but steady? Jute has declined j£i@3 1
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived from Bsilttaore Pec. 4, W B Alexander and
Join Janeiro! on Jan 20, ship. Verbs
uora, Ellida. and Teleciam at Livetpool.
New York, Feb, 4,—The steamer City of Lime
rick, hence for Liverpool, touched on'the Southwest
Spit but got off without damage and proceeded on
her passage this afternoon.
Baltimore Feb. 4.—There is very little grain coming
forward, aud the prices are unsettled Flour is a met at
$7.f.0 ior Ohio estra.r Whisky is yery n rm »8j for
,roV^olls aro firm* ana Mess Forls sells at $22.5.)
XT. Lours, Feb. 4.—The'opening of the navigation
gives a new impetus to general business, and the receipt
of various articles is largely increased receipt
Cotton receipts 169 bales. The market In «Hff< 7Rn />*.
<*?£•& aUit-i'j’.saAfflatr & has ■>«»■* * ®
(tornhas (.cclined 2@30: new #LlB©l.l9; old
’ Oats easier at 97c.
Provisions firm; il.COObnlk Shoulders loose. 6’a'c; 5.000
ribbed Sides locse s>*; Hams,pickled, 10c; Hogs active.
o>4®*7c w, , .
Cikcikkatt. Feb. 4—Flour dull at $5 7*35.89. Corn
;>cove, and holders demana anradvance. Whisky steady.
».tB7Mc. Foikbuoyant.at $20.25@,20 50 Bacon-Thare
lh a better reeling in the market for bu'.k meats, and
pr-cen have an advancing taniiaasjr. Lard is at
If, 4 \C.
these todies were continued by the Opposition it was eri
dfnt that they could do nothin* to day, therefore it
would be better to come here freon to morrow* and he
moved that tha Hoaaa adjonriu
The motion wu cwied. and the Hobs. adjourned.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Harrisburg, February 4,1864.
BE VAT B.
Mr. TtIERELL, Sneaker pro tom.. called the Senate to
Mr. COaNEI.Ii moved to ballot for clerk. Lost.
A Mr moved to proceed to the 13th ballot
°Mr. moved to amend by insertim ‘ ‘Ser
geant’at-Arms.’’instead of Speaker.
Mr. LAHBERTON moved to amend the amendment by
adding ' 1 Speaker and all other officers."
The amendment to the amendment was lost—ayes 12,
noes 12. The amendment was lost—ayes 12, noes 12,
Mr. JOHNSON moved to postpone the original isola
tion (to elect a Speaker) indefinitely.
A running debate as to the qualifications of Senators
Penney and Clymer for the Speakership took place be
tween Senators Lamberton, Johnson, and Donovan The
dieenssion finally tooK the usual coarse, each party con
tending that the other was guilty of usurpation.
The motion to postpone indefinitely was lost—ayes 12,
noes 12.
The original motion to ballot for Speaker was lost—ayes
12. noes 12.
Hr. CONNBLL moved to consider the amendment to
the Constitution allowing soldier's to vote. Lost—ayes
12. noes 12
Mr. REILLY moved to proceed to the 13th ballot for
Speaker,
Mr. CONNELL moved to postpone until February. 22d.
The motion to postpone until February 22d was loßt -
ayes 12. noes 12.
The motion to ballot for Speaker was lost—ayes 12,
noes 12
Mr. HOAG- offered a resolution to adjourn from Fri
da-, February 5, to Wednesday, February 24. The re
solution was refused consideration—ayes 7. noes 17
Mr. CONNELL asked leave to read a bill. Refuted—
ayes 11, noes 11.
Mr. CHAMPNEYB moved to consider an act relative
to the courts of Lancaster county, Lost—ayes 11, noes
Mr. NICHOLS presented the petition of citizens of Phi
ladelphia, in favor of some measures for the relief of old
and infirm teachers.
VariouH motions to adjourn were made, and lost.
Mr. LOWRY offered a resolution that the Senate will
not adjourn until measures are taken to allow soldiers
to vote. Refused consideration —Ayes 10. noes 11.
Adjourned until 11 o'clock A. M. Friday.
The House met at 11 o’clock A. M.
Mr. COLEMAN made an explanation with reference to
seme remarks made stveral days ago, to which the gen
tleman from Erie (Mr. Hill) took exception.
Mr. HILL accepted the explanation as perfectly satis
factory.
Petitions were presented as follows:
By Mr. PBRbHIhG, five petitions of citizens of Lu
zerne county, asking for the passage of a lawmaking
the mining ton uniform throughout eaid county.
Messrs. Hakes. Robinson, Walsh, and Jackson, pre
sented petlons of similar import.
By Mr. BOHG. petitions of the dtlsens of Lehigh
county, asking for an increase of the capital and exten
sion of the charter of the Allentown Bank.
By Mr. McOLBLLAN, petition of the citizens of Phila
delphia. asking for a change of law relating to evidence.
By Mr. COCHRAN, of Erie, a memorial of the citizens
of the city of Erie, asking for the passage of the bill in
reference to licenses in said city.
By Mr. PaTTON. a petition asking for the recharter
of the Farmers 1 and Drovers 1 Bank of Wayneshorg.
By Mr. RICE, one from the citizens of Northampton
county, asking for the recharter of the Allentown Bank.
By Mr. SPaNGLER, a petition of citizens of York
county, asking for the incorporation of the busquehanna
, and Allegheny Railroad.
Mr, ALLEM AN offered the followlng.resolution:
Reftolvtd, That 0,000 copies of Governor Curtin’s in
augural address, together with the attending proceed
ings, be printed for the use of this House.
Agreed to -yeas 46. nays3s
Mr O’HARRA offered the following resolution: .
whereas. By an act of Congress, passed in 1862, there
was made by the United States Government to this State
a grant of land, for purposes of education; therefore
Resolved, That a committee of three members of this
House be appointed to inquire into the propriety of ap
propriating the proceeds of such grant of land to the
colleges and other institutions of learning in this Com
monwealth. and to reportby bill or otherwise.
Mr. BEBG WIN moved to amend to rafor the matter to
the Committee on Judiciary General, instead of a spe
cial one. The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. WELLS offered the following amendment, which
was also adopted.
“And that the said committee take into consideration
iha propriety o* withholding the sale of said lands, and
also the propriety of locating said landß to be beld by the
State of Pennsylvania, for the present. ”
The resolution as amended was then passed.
Mr. GLASS offered the following:
Resolved , That the Committee on Military Affairs be
authorized to employ a clerk.
Not agreed to.
Mr. WIMLY offered a resolution for the appoint
ment of a special committee to inquire into certain
cb pries and allegations made by individuals against the
Bfttok of Montgomery County, which, is applying for a
recharfer.
„Mr. OLMSTBD moved that the subject be referred to the
Committee on Banks.
Before any.action was had on the resolution, the hour
of one o’clock having arrived, the Houbo adjourned.
Tlie Bank Suspension*
The Committee of Ways and Means, through Mr.
COCHRaN, have reported favorably upon the follow
ing act:
Be it enacted,' &c. % That all the provisions of the first
and Stcond sections of the act entitled 14 an act requiring
resumption of specie payments by the banks approved
April 11, 1862, are hereby extended to such banks as ex
changed coin for currency under the provisions of the
first section of an act entitled 4 * an act to provide fi r the
payment of the Interest on the State debt/' approved the
30th day of January A. D., 1863, until such time as the
State shall redeem from such bank or bankslthe specie
certificates thereby authorized to be given to them, by
the relnrn of said coin, and re-exchange for notes cur
rent at the time such exchange may hereafter be made;
and that said bank or banks shall hold the said certifi
cates until the said exchange sit all be made aB provided
by the said first section of the act last above mentioned.
LATER FROM EUROPE,
The Danish Situation—Whereabouts of the
Pirate Alabama, Ac
Portland, Feb. 4. —The Jura arrived this eve*
ning with Liverpool dates of the 2latult.« via lion*
donaerry on the 224.
The Danish situation is unchanged, with more
hopes of a peaceful solution, although the Austrian
troops bad commenced marching for Schleswig.
The pirate Alabama was reported to beat Singa
pore on the 22d of December.
THE LATEST.
21—Evening.—Consols for money closed
at @9O/i.
, 2he minimum rate of discount at the Bank of England
has been advanced to 8 per cent.
The steamers Olympus and Ist. George arrived at Liver
pool on the 13th.
The North American and City of Manchester arrived
out on the 2Qih, and the Hammonia cached Southampton
on the 21st
It is asserted that the Austria-Prussian troops have
been ordered to march forthwith to Schleswig.
SPEECH OF MILNER GIBSON.
Milner Gibson, in addressing his constituents, at Ash
ton, predicted a sp.edv revival of the cotton trade, and
plentiful {supplies. He combatted the idea that the Ame
rican war was beneficial to England. He showed that
tk* depredations of the rebel cruisers should be a letson
to England, whose commerce might be similarly attack
ed at pome future time, wad said the Government must
be supported in its efforts to stop the supply of such ves
sels. .fie asserted that England had not acted toward
America as si ewonld like America to act towards her in
a similar emergency He uttered no prophecies as to the
issue of the war, but contended that slavery was the
Whole in otive. and the South were the aggressors in
OTder to found a slave Empire He treated that the Da
nish question would be settled without a war.
The Gieat Eastern lottery scheme has been abandoned.
Another sun has been commenced against her. and
Captain raton had the vessel arrested on a claim of
THE HOiKTEIir OUESTION-
The Danish refusal rf the Anatio-Prussian demand,
had rea-.hed Jhoie Government!!, and is announced.
The Anstro-Prnesian troops would Inarch, without
further delay, into Schieewig.
A telegram, dated the 20th instant, says it is re
ported that the Saxon and Hanoverian troops were to be
withdrawn frofii thfir positions in Holstein, and con
centrated at Altona, m order to allow a free passage for
the Austro-Prussians. *
consternation prevailed among the people at
Lettersfrom Frankfort say that the opinion prevailed
that Austria and Prussia must have come to a definite
understanding with England. The London Globa ex
presses confidence that peace will be maintained, now
that two substantial Governments have substituted
themselves for the shadowy German Diet.
The London Times , of the 21st, says: Our columns
this morning might have contained a telegraphic an
nouncement of the first shot having been fired. Id this
critical moment we trust there is good ground for the re-
Eort which has reached n>, that the Danish Government
ave, at the eleventh ihour, made a conciliatory offer,
and entered into some sort of obligation, as yet, of
course, informal, to suspend the obnoxious Constitution
If such an offer has really been made it will, fora
time, arrest the imminent danger of war. The course of
events psußee. and the dispute comes again into a more
controlable ana more reasonable stage of negotiation
It is earnestly hoped that the good news may receive a
speedy confirmation. If Denmark has suspended the
Constitution, she will have taken the only step which
was wanting to deprive the German Powers of any de
cent pretest for hostilities, and she will have displayed
a power of control which will gain for her an overpow
ering moral support in foreign countries, aad a people
who can at once display so much determination and so
much self-sacrificing prudence deserve the utmost con
sideration.
Up to the time when the Jura sailed from Liverpool
there was no confirmation of these hopes of the Times
The Wurtemburg Chambers take exception to the pre
tensions of Austria and Prussia, and hsve unauimou«lv
adopted resolutions in favor of placing the army of Wur
temburg on a war footing, putting the troops at the dis
posal of the Diet, and requesting the German States not
to allow their territories and railroads to be UEed for
rtaborting troops which have not been called out by
FRANCE.
The debate on the Address still continues in the House
of Deputies. All the amendments have been rejected
but in one case they obtained sixty-two votes.
BELGIUM,
The King has called to his assistance in the formation
of a new Ministry M. Deschamps, who demands a disso
lution of the Chamber.
NORWAY.
CHnisirAiri, Jan. 21.—A loyal proclamation has been
issued concerning an extraordinary session of the Nor
wegian Storthing for the 14th of March.
RUSSIA.
Jan 21 —lt is asserted that Russia has declared
that if the London Protocol be suspended she will imme
diately renew her claims to Gotthorp as a portion of
Holstein,
AUSTRIA.
Viexka, Jan. 21.—Count Bechberg has stated to the
Finance Committee that the co-operation of Austria
with Russia was based on formal State treaties, and in
the Sthleswig-Holsteiu Question, upon a jnilitary con-
THE LATEST.
Tlie Steamer City of limerick.
Markets by Telegraph.
Rebelanlß.
“Nothing, If not pergonal,” might be
motto for Rebeldom juit now* The rebel
meat itself if only • personal affair, with Which tne
people have really nothing to do, except to support
it. But here the quarrel commences, and personal
matters take an eccentric turn, For a moment the
rebellion strikes a ludicrous attitude, and chivalry
and dignity are all agog. Poor Mr. Foote is abused.
A pang of pain has been felt deep in the heart of
the young Confederacy,” on account of the late un
provoked attaok upon the Father of his Rebellion*
Mr. Foote was onee the Senatorial rival of Colonel
Davis* The “ victorious torture” of '5O still clings
to his soul; 11 the hated memory of that hour still
twines its serpent folds around Ms heart; he re
members the • Southron ’ whom he met, and over
whom he triumphed; whose defeat was his ruin,
and whose star, but a moment eolipsed, arose re
splendent upon his downfall!” This kind of
writing is in the haughty Don Alfonso style,
much in vogue at the outbreak of the rebellion,
being very scathing and withering, but still easily
learned from melO’dramatic novels and the highest
type of the heroic afforded by the Richmond thea
tres. Mr. Foote appears to be the butt of every
body-—l* a great bore,” 11 an intolerable nuisance,”
much the same sort of person in the rebel Senate as
Garrett Davis is in ours, though not half so loyal
a man. Spite of accumulated troubles, Mr. Foote
is still alive and kicking. His latest scene was in a
committee room, his old victim, Mr. Commissary
Northrop, and the enemy-in*chief of all Yankee
prisoners, being present. Mr. Foote was good
enough to laugh at some corruption evidence, and
presented such apicture of reckless derision that the
Hon. Mr. Hanly became infuriated. Mr. Foote rose
and struck him $ both ellnohed and struok again; tum
bled and rose and rolled over, with coat*tails flying at
half-mast. It was not a fight, but, according to the
Arkansas dialect, “ a gouge.” Commissary Northrop
was “.knocked into one corner of the oommittee room
like a man of rags, which he is not,” having no
connection whatever with the Tebel treasury. In
the struggle Mr. Hanly lost his shirt-bosom, and
both left thefr coat-tails behind them. Though
more ink than blood was shed, severe loss is in*
volved, as it will require little short or $5OO to fur
nish these gentlemen with new coats, all of whioh
should be charged to the Confederacy as part of the
war expenses. Ruin should pay for ruin, and suoh
a Senator as Foote is not to be measured by the
yard.
This rule will not apply to Southern poetrv, how
ever. The great novelist of the South, Mr. William
Gilmore Simms, has written stacks of books, among
which are some good verses, scattered like needles.
His latest poetical emanation is entitled “ The Fiend
Unbound,” or whioh the following are suggestive
verses:
The Church, like some deserted bride,
In trembling at the altar waits,
'While raging fierce on every side
The foe ie thundering at her gates.
Noivy Rieen, nor glittering leaves.
No onimonberries, deck her wails*
Bat blood, red dripping from her eaves.
Along the sacred pavement falls.
Her silver longer chime
In. summonAffour sacred home:
Nor holy song at matin prime
Proclaims tea God within the dome.
Nor do the fireside s happy bands
Assemble fond, with greetings dear.
While Patriarch Christmas spreads his hands,
To glad with gifts and crown with cheer.
Mr. Simms’ talent as a writer of verses is pictorial
rather than poetical, and his own personal dcemon
is never a strong one. A number of fiends are de
scribed in a verse apiece, and after these come others:
And furious, following !n their train.
What hosts of lesser Demons rise:
Lust. Malice, Hunger. Greed, and Gain,
Back raging for its special prize.
Too base for freedom, mean for toll.
And reckless all of juetand right.
They rege in peaceful homes for 6poll,
And, where they cannot butcher, blight.
The Dragon, chained for thouß tad years.
Hath buret his bonds, and rages free;
Yet, patience, brethren, stay yoar fears:
Loosed for *‘ a little eoason. ” he
Will soon, beneath the Ithoriel sword
Of Heavenly Judgment, crushed and driven,
Yield to the vengeance of the Lord.
And crouch beneath the wrath of Heaven’
A “Letter of Three Little Boys,” (BobjLee,
George Bourygard, and Jo. Jonsing,) written with
innocent juvenility, is an appeal to their mock fa
ther, J. Davis, for bread and butter, and*ls among
the best humors of the rebellion. The reason, says
a Petersburg paper, shoes are so scarce hereabout
is beoause there are so many leatherheads in Rich
mond—a growl well given. Governor Leteher has
another Stonewall Jaokson story, that the Crom
well of slavery was in favor of raising the black
flag and carrying it himself; but a liar is hard to be
lieve, even when he speaks the truth. The Hon.
. Jarnette and Mr. E. A. Pollard, historian of the re
bellion, are bound over in two thousand dollars
each not to Bhoot each other for the next six months.
Captain Dade, who swindled one million two hun
dred thousand dollars from Richmond meohanios,
has got off safely to England, where the Confe
deracy will find it troublesome to reach him. “Old
Keppard” is the executioner at Castle Thunder, mo
nopolist of the cruel business of branding deserters
and “ the greatest demon in human form” outside
of Pluto’s kingdom. Another ourious story of Jeff
Davis, given on authority, relates that 11 Jeff Davis’
son, by his slave girl Catharine, was in the Federal
service on board of one of our gunboats on the Mis
sissippi for several months—a likely mulatto.
Among the letters of Jeff, taken at his house by our
Illinois troops, there was a batch of quarrelsome
epistles between Jeff and Mrs. Davis touching this
old flame, Catharine. Mrs. Davis upbraided, her
husband bitterly. I have tbis story from one of the
highest officers in the squadron, who had the negro
Jeff oh board his gunboat, and who himself read the
letters and suppressed them.”
“ Beast Butler” is still the mildest name applied
in Richmond to the Bluebeard who is said to carry
off errant damsels with ropes around their necks.
After a reading of much rebel tirade, it is refreshing
to pick up Parson BrownloWo Hcbd Ventilator.
Prownlotf is the very Javert of patriotism, and is
spiked and bristled on all Bides. If the rebellion
could be crushed with adjectives, the Parson could
put it down in a day.
Public Entertainments.
The Datentost Bovs.— The Davenport Bays,
or i at her young men, made their flrat appearance, at
Concert Hall, la>t night. About one hundred and
fifty people were present, exclusive of the gallery,
which contained from fifteen to twenty. The pre
siding genius, in the shape of a tall and intelligent
looking gentleman, appeared upon the platform at
twenty minutes to eight. The gentleman spoke, at
seme length, and said he would convince the most
skeptioal present of the immortality of the soul.
The Davenport brothers made their appearance.
A committee, consisting of a Mr. Bierce and a
Mr. X-eech, w/is selected by the audience. The'
young men were tied up in a sort of mahogany box
which opened with three doors, and which contained
a guitar, a violin, a tambourine, and a ball. The
doors were closed, the lights were lowered. After
a while, a hand protruded from the lozenge-shaped
opening (in the middle compartment), blinded inside
by a hlaok velvet veil, lined with eambrie. Then
the sound of cords being untied was heard. Then
the doors were unlocked, and the Davenport brethren
appeared unfettered. This was repeated again and
again to the admiration of the audience, and the
entertainment proper wound up with a musical en
tertainment inside the mahogany box.
Thle entertainment proper was varied with ever
so many graceful -and gratifying Incidents. The
lights on the stage and in the body of the hall went
up when they ought to have gone down, and went
down when they ought to have gone up. A gentle
man from among the audience requested permission
to join the committee on the stage, but left them at
short notice, when it was intimated to him by the
management that it would be found mutually
agreeable for him to do so. Sometimes a naked
arm appeared through the lozenge-shaped hole,
and sometimes three or four hands together.
A satirical spirit, (speaking in the fiesh,)
among the audience, would cry
out “Show us six hands at onoe!” Immedi
ately after the musical and manipulatory manifesta
tions, the doors would be unlocked, and the Daven
port “boys” would be found sitting opposite each
other, securely bound, and in all the irresponsibility
of media. The exhibition proper Closed at about
half past 9. The master of ceremonies (we do not
know his name, and no programme! were issued)
then stated that Mr. W. M, ray, of Chicago,
would hold a private meeting (tickets fifty
cents) in the dining-room annexed to Concert
Hall, after the audience was dismissed. About a
quarter of the audience chose to remain. After we
were all seated, huddled together in the low-lit room,
beneath the large hall, themaster of ceremonies (we
regret not knowing his name) stated that Mr. Fay,
not being accustomed to appear before such a crowd,
would.be supplanted by one of the Davenport;“boy«,”
One of the Davenport boys accordingly seated him
self aside of a little square table, with a fluid
lamp on it, without any fluid. One little gas-light
did the lightlngfor the room. The irrepressible horn,
and bell, and tambourine, and guitar (two of them
this time), were laid on the table. The other Da
venport boy sat around among the audience gene
rally, and a mild-looking gentleman took possession
of the chair on the other side of the table. The Da
venport brother and the mlld-looklng gentleman,
occupying seats ou opposite sides of the table,
were then securely bound. Their hands were tied
behind them, and secured to the basks of their
chairs. We all joined hands, and the light was ex
tinguished. We felt we were in for it. The bell
began to ring, the horn was flung about, the guitars,
breathing muslo, passed under our noses, and played
battledor and shuttlecock with our heads. Hands
patted our faces, poked us in the eyes, rapped us .
over the forehead, pimohed us in the back, knocked
us on the knees. The light was lit, and the bound
gentlemen were found bound as before. This was re
peated over and over again. A gentleman’s cane was
snatched up from between his knees, and oonveyed
cheek by jowl to a eane for which it felt an affinity,
between the knees of another gentleman at some
5 ards distance. One lady was found embracing a
guitar as if it were a baby. The light was extin
guished again. The master of ceremonies (we de
plore the circumstanoes that necessitate the repeti
tion of. this ungraceful phrase), was all this time
held in custody by fan auditor near the gaslight.
He requested a "spirit” to take off the coat of the
mild-looking gentleman. In a aeeond weTheard a
r-p-p-p-p-p-p, the gas was instantaneously lighted,
the mild-looking gentleman’s ooat was found in
the lap of a member of the newspaper fraternity,-
The member instantly suggested that his (the mem
ber’s) coat should be transferred to the shoulders of
the wild-looking gentleman, who, all this time, re
mained corded to the back of his chair. For this
purpose the member took off bis coat, and placed it
on the table. Light out as before, hands joined, soft
music, tunes indescribable, sparka(or light, punches,
and puff's of air. The order Is given. Wehearthesame
r-p.p-p-p-p-p, the gas Is relit, and the mild-looking
gentleman is found' Sitting bound, peacefully, as be
fore, and In his right mind, and elothed in Mr.
Blank’s overcoat. We all agree that it’s very funny,
and all that, you know, and are making up our
minds to “ come tomorrow night,” when the light
Is again extinguished and a faint myitle light, at the
further end of the Is Interpreted by one of the
mediums as the 'WKT of Mr. Fay that we should
“retire.”
Such la the performance that was given last eve
ning. We offer no explanation why spirits should
spend their time in tying up the Davenport boys,
and untying them again. Neither oan we olear
away the mystery whioh attaches to the Tact that
they (the spirits) seem to entertain an unoonquera
ble aversion to a brass horn, the horn being the first
instrument on all oceseionsto bo thrown out o(a
[ lozenge-shaped bole. Whet delicious
there lain destroying the tone of guitar,,
tone or a pereon’e constitution by knookin, h !J K
the ,hesd with them, we era likewise m, , >
conoelve.
It is, of oouise, not difficult to perc« w> a
spiritual relation consisting in the ringing o iV'
and the jingling of tamborines. Stui, » u \
th»t the thing is very funny, just MBUtr
funny. The mediums any thet they feel e sort or „''
shiver going through them while the cost, ate *;
exchanged. To have guitars P l *?* ll *the mi , <
about one’s ears, end to receive (for fifty oect,,, ,■
most|remorseleas punches In the heed and ohe,- '“t,
amusement which possesses the piquancy or 0o *
And since the whole performance hasthe m 0 ,t.'
deniable bearing on the immortality or tv e lr _-
why, so much the better! |We ate ratioasi t sl '
and of course should mingle pleasure with- B v, i; (
say instruction 1 Both pleasure and instruct!;. •
a certain order, are to be had by ajrislt to th 6 b,,
port “boys,” and so we leave the publlo to UH;;...
its own mind about the matter, i
The German Opera.— The si* of o EtJI |
Opera which Mr. Carl Anschutz will give wi; : J( f
tend through two weeks, the nights being the,, d
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The first |
“ The Merry Wives of Windsor,” was well pro t 0.,, |
last season, but with an Insufficient oast. The a( . a
basso. Hermanns, has a fine reputation in L |
and New York, and if his Falstaff 1« What the cr. ‘ J
of those cities declare It, we shall have the pic.|
Of hearing the best German basso who has 1
tsis country since Carl Formes. Mr. Anadir!.- ,
had time to fully organize his company, and has ~
fected the rehearsals of several new operas J
at. the beginning of his season be was unship 3
give properly, and, therefore, refused to giv? „ jj
all. We are very glad that the German 0p.,, |
will return. Nothing can supply its place. j
has musie and merits of Its own, which, are j
original and distinctive, and admit no rivalry, j
has conquered a permanent position; and our hig„ |
est musical Interests are Indebted to an enters,, j
which, without prestige, and depending solely
the publlo, has produced ten or twelve operas
beard before in Amerioa, and opened a new wo:!,r
of enjoyment. With its new claims upon the
steal public, this brief season should be, more ti, j
ever, a success.
Wu»dbblioh>b Zoobaphtgoit.—’The “ZogT lp!l|i j
con," now exhibiting at Concert Hail, is
more real substantial benefit to the community , b ~'
most person* Imagine, in this one respect, ati.J
that hundreds or youtMui minds are weekly re ' , •
ing the benefits to be derived from paying it a
which benefits consist in having pointed out h
them, in as graphlb a manner as paintings andluT '
gusge can convey, the road to avoid, and the pr,. ‘ ]
road to pursue, in order to arrive at a bright 4, i
honorable manhood, Tne Impressions forme; ~ ’
the mind by the various soenes from the “ Pilgrim,’■ ■
Progress” and “Ten Nights in a Bar-room," cu
never be effaced from the memory. Mr. Terry
manager, will reap his reward In more respects ;,' ln i
one, for his admirable tact in conceiving aa,i
pleting bis exhibition.
National Circus.—This place of amu-rem.-ip. „
as popular as ever. The arrangementc arc p
that the season must necessarily close in a*t-lr;
time. This evening, among other scenes, theshsp!
herd and Shepherdess will be performed. This t, „'
pleasing act of equestrianism.
Mr. Hermanns, the newly-arrived German 1)m!) I
who has appeared two or three times in connect;;,,
with the German Opera oompany, has at
achieved great and well-merited popularity, hia
ble voice, admirable method, and the great dramatti
talent he has displayed, tending to this to-be dealer;
result. He is quite young, or fine appearance, am
hia volae is in the full freshness of its vigor. Hi
would be an immense acquisition to Mareizek’s com
pany, and in such operas as “Lea Huguenots, ••
“ Kobert Le Diable,” etc., would create a prof-tun,l
sensation.
Miss Avoiiia .Tonus, now playing out West, t,
the daughter of “The Boy .Tones,” now etylci
Count Johannes, reeently convicted of barratry •„
Boaton.
Mb. 1,. R. SHstrau, has become an immense fa.
vorlte at the Boston Museum, where he is dra»u>
crowded housea. ,
Question. Why ic the author of the French
opera “Orpbede aux Enfers " the best man la tin
world to go on an errand 1
Answer. Because he 1s Offenbach at once.
The Union Leagues of the State.
At a meeting of the Union League of Bethlehem,
Pa., convened at their room February,lst, 1364, the
following declaration was read, and unanimously
adopted:
- The Union League of Bethlehem, founded with
the sole object of supporting the Government in iti
struggle with an Infamous rebellion, has ever en
deavored to unite men of all parties in the cause of
their country, that a loyal North might present an
unbroken front in the face of the traitors who are
seeking our destruction. Assuming these out
duties, they do not permit us to remain passive
spectators of the events in progress around ua.
Within our sphere of notion Jies everything tint
tends to uphold our glorious Union, and to bin!
loyal men in unity of purpose.
We have ever declared our principle!, anil have
spared no pains to render these principles tri
umphant. Once more are we called upon to declare
that we will do all In our power to further the objects
which we believe essential to the welfare oi the
republic.
It is now impossible to doubt that the strongest
hope that now animates the rebellion, and stimu
lates it to prolong a despairing struggle, k the ex
pectation that, at the next Presidential election,
the people, tired of the trials entailed by oivll wsr,
may place In power an Administration prepared to
saorince the glory of the Union in an inglorious
peace. It is therefore our highest duty, as loyal
citizens of the republic, to join In such a declaration
Gf public opinion, as shall show to traitors the futi
lity or their hopes, and avert suoh disasters as must
attend their fruition.
It is the settled conviction of this League that in
no way oan this duty be performed more effectually
than in the renomination of Abraham Lincoln, u
the Presidential candidate of the loyal Araeriua
people. The popular heart, whose instincts rarei?
err, has already designated him with a spontaneaua
impulse which baffles the calculations or politicians
ana designing intriguers. A unanimity so unex
ampled la the surest presage of auocess, and pled-cs
the support of the nation to the great principles in
volved in the struggle with rebellion.
Others there are whole eminent services merit the
highest honors that a grateful people oan bestow;
but the Chief Magistracy of the United Stater is not
ao much an honor as a burden, and the wellare of
mankind demands that it should be committed to
him who/ can beat discharge the momentous trust.
The approaching downfall of the rebellion and the
restoration of the Union, will demand in our ruler
the practical experience, the sagacity, the honest?
of purpose, and the single-heartedness which ei>
pre-eminently distinguish our present President.
The exigencies of the time require him, and the
country cannot allow him to retire into private lit?
at the very crisis when his familiarity with the
situation tenders his services more essential this
ever.
Believing, then, that the Interests of the cause t»
whioh we have pledged ourselves can best be sub
served by the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, wa
desire to join In the popular acclamation whioh de.
signates him aa the chosen candidate orioyal Uniha
men. As in April, 1661, the country arose with &
common Impulse to vindicate Ita threatened nation
ality, so let It now demand, with one voice, that the
task of restoring and perpetuating that nationality
shall he still entrusted to the honest and able tuaa
who has earned the confidence of ua all. Thus shall
we beat destroy the traitoroua hopes of rebels, and
thus shall we best perform our share of the duty wa
owe to our country.
IBA CORTRIGHT, President.
WILLIAM W. SBLVRIDGE, j
JOHN P. UOXB, j
Robert H. Sayrb, yvioe President*,
O. A. Luckenbach. I
John c. Wbbbr, j
„ _ „ David Rau, Treasurer.
Edward Rummer, Recording Secretary.
Robert J, McOlatchry, M. D , Cor, Secretary.
The Color Distinction.
A colored major in the United States service. sum*
moned as a witness before the court martial oi
which Colonel Willetts is! president, arriving half
an hour after his time, offered as an excuse a written
statement, to wit: that, dreised in full uniform, he
entered a car of the Washington and Georgetown
Horse Railrosd, at the other end of the city, to pro
ceed to the court, and was expelled therefrom, and
was compelled to walk, which delayed his arrival.
The president, Col. Willetts, promptly endorsed
the statement as an outrage upon the officer, and an
ir suit to the court, and referred the same to Gen.
53 a « 1 2? ,1 ? alb » who will investigate the matter.—
2v. Y, Tribune *
Geobgb Visit to the
States.—The Emancipation Society of London
pave a farewell entertainment to Mr. George
Thompson on the 16th ultimo, prior to his departure
for the United States. Mr. William Evans presided.
Letters were received from John Brown, Gold win
lii Professor Cairnes, and speeches were
made by Mr. Evans, Mr. Vincent, Mr. Morse.
American Corsul in London, and Rev. M. D. Cm*
way. Mr. Thompson was also presented an a3*
dress, and responded in a brief Bpeeoh, describing,
among other thing*, how, twenty-nine years a^e,
in the city of Boston, conspiracies were set on root
fer hia de.truotlon; how he found a gallows fixed
at his door as a hint of the fate to whioh the great
majority of-the people of the State wished to firing
him ; and how, at the same time, he received many
illustrations of the kindness entertained towards
him by the negroes. He said that during hi. first
visit to Boston he accidentally discovered that a bo lv
of one thousand negroes had been organized for Ms
protection, and that wherever he went he was
guarded by these men, who thus gave a bright ex
ample of negro gratitude and devotion* roheer. 1
He went to Amcrloa now properly on Drivate busi
btss, but happy, at the same time,™ 'have the op
portunity to witness the altered state
that country ; and he hoped, a. he
the cradle of revolution was rocked, or rather when
the Abolition principle was, for the flm timm borne
in the way of open utterance, he might hilHiK
to see that principle triumphant,
thrown while he was there. "*ery ova.
Colonel Joseph MoKibbln, formerly a
of Congress from California, and,
do-camp to Major General ThomasT half tend
his resignation, with a view to returning tothify^!
American Bank Noth Rbportbk, —-Mr. s K
Cohen_who continues to publish The Die! as a’
daily banking paper, also issues the above-named
periodical, which appears monthly and aeml-iaonth
ly. It contains bank-note lists, with designation of
value, corrected in Philadelphia, New York, Balti
more, and Cincinnati, and is published aimultane
ously in these four oitlgs. The National Banka are
given separately from the other banks, whioh is an
advantage. A lUt of latest counterfeits appears in
each number. "
A Captukbd Rebel Flag.—At Huntsville Ala
bama, some months ago, a rebel flag was captured,
by the gallant men of the 7th Pennsylvania Ca
valry, under the command of Colonel William R.
f‘P«- Tliough mutilated by the infamous servie*
'"“f “ h “* subjected, it is a more gorgeous
r flair than might he expected from that quLter.
Ihe flag may now be seen at the Military Futiish-
Mcl,,r *- Evans & Hassail, 413
Arch ktreet, and, being one of the first trophies of
the kind exhibited in Philadelphia, It is attracting
considerable attention*'
Auction Notice.— Wo would call the, attention
of buyers to the large and desirable assortments
ctty.made clothing, Moths, oas.lmeree, Ac., to ba
at auction, ou Friday mowing,
commencing at 10 o’clook precisely, by Gillette &
Scott, auctioneers, at their new store, 622 Chestnut
street. *
T^5 E i G ? TB Pennsylvania cavalry.—
expected to arrive ia
a « ut 1100,1 to-day. At a late Hour la«t
fim S£ jy.lS 1 ' < 2 a *C® r M. Berry received a telegram
first lieutenant, that the
Harrisburg and would leave
* avF?*®® o’lj’ißck this morning.
—ir -bsamenta were being made at a late hour last
to give these gallant veterans a handsome
teeeption on their return home.