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Anti-Slavery Sentiment iu England and
America.
“Everybody,” says Mr. Thomas Hughes
(author ot “ Toni Brown” ) to Mr. Mos-
CCBE D. Conway, “is coming round, but
disgustingly slow and in his letter from
London Mr. Conway states: “ The fnends
of William and Mary Howitt, who may
have been pained at hearing that their sym
pathies were r-goinst the North, from time
to time, will be pleased to learn that now, at
hast, tbev see things truly and feel warm
ly.” We fan appreciate Mr. Hughes’he
roic contempt when we see how hard it has
been to convert even the literature of Eng
land from a position of neutrality and indif
ference, if not an actual and earnest sympathy
with the physical cause of the South, to an
enlightened moral feeling in favor of the
Union as identified with freedom. It seems
that this identity was never understood, for
we cannot ensify charge the genius of Eng
land with moral perverseness. Nevertheless,
anti slavery men in America drew up moral
indictments against Dickens, Thackeray,
and the whole guild of talented English
men, either tor not sympathizing with the
North at all, or only giving half sympathy.
One of the wonders of the time|eems the
fact that Thackeray never understood the
subject, and begged Mr. Bayard Taylor
to explain it. We are just over the disgust
excited by the apparent snobbery and bathos
of Mr. Henry Kingsley’s apostrophe on
the news of Thackeray’s death — how it
would trove? till that grave statesman, Jef
ferson Daws f so like “ our own ” Strat
ford de Behcltffe.), would look up from
his papers, let fall a tear, and cry heart
brokenly, “The author of The Virginians is
dead.” It is more than probable that Jef
ferson Davis would be too busy with the
work of keeping men enslaved, in fact,
cares too little for Thackeray, and still less
for England, to act out, even for the sake of
effect, the sentimental bosh and twaddle of
Mr. Kingsley. But Mr. Kingsley ap
pears to be a fool chiefly from ignorance,
and sometimes we must pity even the wise.
Like many other Englishmen, heretofore
regarded as friends to progress, he has found
much to admire in the unquestionable ability
of Lee, and the fanadc and romantic daring
of Jackson ; noil who seemed better than
their cause, and brought good morals and
earnest religion to the support of great
wrong, though history was never ignorant
or the actual paradox of religion defending
crime, and crime defending religion. On
the other hand, onr first military leaders
seemed inferior to their cause, and indiffer
ent English observers found it convenient to
call the Noilh a mob without principle,
without adequate leadership, fighting for re
venge and pluhuer. Lee and Jackson were
themselves their own gospel—their own cause,
so to speak—audaslong as we had not leaders
equal to cur cause we had no cause at all. The
world judges just as the blind read, by raised
types, and monarchists especially are not
ready to acknowledge the principle which
in a irue Republic exists aloof from one
man, and is, in a measure, shared by all.
Had the monstrosity, of Stonewall Jack
son’s career been justified by the complete
triumph of his cause, Carlyle, an equal
monstrosity, M ould be writing his biogra
phy, making hero-worship of another man
who, by main force, makes the world take
wrong for right, Tv c may forgive the littera
iews when we find the philosopher such a
despicable sophist, and, as Mr. Cobden
would say, “practical atheist ” We fiad
Carlyleism at ihe source of all the opinions
of the Times, ar.d of those Englishmen who
prefer monarchies and hereditary tenure to
republics —to whom a powerful fact is suffi
cient right, and any right beyond is merely
an idea —who, in no case, recognize the
gospel in the republic. However, events have
accumulated, and the North has at length
achieved the victory. Now that we have
#o much power, Englishmen are better able
to perceive the truth. Abraham Lincoln
is to-day more identical with Freedom than
Jefferson Davis is with Secession or
Slavery. The rebelleader seems only a rebel,
for the reason that his cause is growiag
weaker and weaker every day, whereas the
North improves in every respect, and, be
sides being a better mac, Abraham Lincoln
is a greater ruler. “The world is coming
round,” we repeat, with Thomas Hughes,
“but disgustingly slow.”
But are theTe no other causes for the sloth
in English sympathy ? Can England bring
an indictment against America? We re
member that even Abolitionists in England
advocated the secession and independence
of the Poulh, and we can find no other cause
for this than the fact that, previous to the
war, the most important class of Massa
chusetts Abolitionists held for Disunion as
a means of getting rid of slavery. We ex
pected much of the anti-slavery senti
ment of England; but what should we
expect of the cistern when the fountain
is impure ? If Disunion is right in one
case, it seems to be fair in another; and so
the anti-slavery opinion of England regarded
it The Abolition party here, however
great or small its earlier influence, took its
time, we tear, and made its toilet before it
came to the support of the Government,
while Aekaham Lincoln was working in
his shirt-sleeves. Shall we wonder that
English sentiment, quite as much in love
with its own consistency, should he even
slower V The horizon is now much clearer,
we know, and the opinion of the world is
fast growing up to the unity of our people.
We find no more significant indication of
this than in Mr. Garrison’s endorsement
of Mr. Lincoln. His admission of the
President’s capacity and honesty is also a
candid confession of error, and not until
this admission was made did Mr. GUbbison
cease to be an Abolitionist and become a
patriot. There has been danger that, as the
Abolitionists were at first too slow, they
would become too faßt. But Mr. Gabbison
will now support Mr. Lincoln as conscien
tiously as General Gantt. “We must cease
to be Abolitionists,” says Mr. Wbndell
Phillips, “ and become American citi
zens but Mr. Gabbison has already
practised what so far Mr. Phillips has
only preached. If the Government must
have its critics, let them be its friends
and servants also, for the Government has
to serve its own great master, the people,
who are more important sometimes than
heroes or martyrs. We cannot make a gal
lows of the Presidency, and put John
Brown there. Our battles should not be
Aspromontes. We must win, and win with
the people.
The European Difficulty.
The latest news from Europe is highly
Important. England, which haughtily de
clined being “hand, act, or part” in Na
poleon’s suggested European Congress,
five er six months ago, has now proposed
that a Conference of the leading Powers
shall he held in London in order to effect
the pacification and insure the entirety of
the Kingdom of Denmark. Austria and
Prussia are reported willing to assist in this
Conference, for Congress under another
name,,) but without promising the slightest
cessation of hostilities while it is proceeding.
Napoleon is said to decline participating in
this new plan of pacification. He eertainiy
has some grounds for objecting, inasmuch
as, had his Congress met at Paris, last year,
it is more than probable that this Danish-
Germanic difficulty would then have been
quietly cropped in the bud. Denmark,
with great stupidity, declines entering into
negotiations or arrangements for peace
until Schleswig is in statu guo, as before
the army of the German Confederation
invaded that Duchy.
As we are upon the subject of Denmark,
we take leave to suggest a doubt of the
accuracy of the statement adopted by the
German meeting in this city, on Saturday
evening, that the Duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein had “an old, time-honored
/■four hundred years oldj, common Constitu
tion.” The Quarterly Renew declares that
“ Schleswig has been from the most ancient
time seither united to Denmark or a fief
held under the King of Denmark ; while
Holstein and Lauenberg have always been
fiefs of the [Holy Roman Empire,” in other
words, of the German Empire, and that
“ the boundary between Schleswig and
ITolstein, which is formed by the river
Eyder, was also the boundary between the
feudal jurisdictions of the German Emperor
and the Danish King. If so, how*could
Holstein and Schleswig have had a “ com
mon Constitution” four hundred years old ?
We entirely agree with our German friends
that the new King of Denmark blundered
exceedingly when he endeavored to assimi
late Schleswig, against its will, with Den
mark, in the stupid and denationalizing
manner he did.
The Keport or Sherman's Defeat.
The World of yesterday publishes some
correspondence, which, beginning with a
sneer at “Government papers,” concludes
as fellow's:
‘ ; lt i 3 repovtecl, on tlie credit of persona who
came in from the Jiceoft.be .TAckeron Railroad, where
troiß ia telegraphic communication, that- on thelGlh
Site, man was totally defeated at Chur.k’y r.ycr x a •
cr.l of the Oktibbeha, not far from Meridian, where he
suffered a loss of ffloat thousand men , and his arm//
«h/a totally broken up. The position at UhunUee rive?
is rani to have been equal to that of Lee at
Ficderickeburg, and that Folk had been reiuforced
by Breckinridge and Cleburne, and was more than a
match for Sherman.
"One thing is well ascertained, and that is. that
the Contederates have full pro»teß&ion of Sherman's
line of communication with Vicksburg, abd have all
t‘;<ir cavalry under S. D. Lee, Wirt Adams, And
For? eat in his rear. If such & battle has taken
place, and with anything near ouch a result as is
claimed, the cavaby operating in the rear, in fnishing
vp, ?vill probably make it one of the few decisive engage
?hinls of the war. But the whole of our information
resis, so far, upon reports, which the credulous oa
both sides believe in proportion to the vehemence of
tacir partisanship.”
We find it hard io conceive bo w the three
coips d’armce of veterans which, according
to both rebel and loyal advices, u r ere sup
posed to be acting under Sherman, could
meet any enemy in Mississippi large enough
to defeat them. These corps were Under
Logan, Hublbut, and McPherson, and a
rebel estimate places the force at 30,000.
According to advices gathered .from sources
both rebel and loyal, ths army under Polk was
not larger than seven or ten thousand, and
we know from the expedition under Grier
son and Smith, which encountered the com
bined force of the rebel cavalry in Mississip
pi and Alabama, that their number did not
exceed six thousand. The improbable
force captured at the impossible battle of
Chunkey river was large enough in Itself to
defeat the army of Polk. But who could
have been at Chunkey river to describe the
position so accurately, when Sherman, ac
cording even to rebel accounts, had cut all
the lines ? " One thing is well ascertained,”
remarks this absurd correspondent, who
says afterwards that “all our information
rests on reports.” The whole country
knows that Breckinridge has been ap
pointed to command in West Virginia, and
made a farewell speech to that effect to his
soldiers in Georgia, which speech has been
extensively copied from the rebel papers.
The Army of the Cumberland is just as
well aware, or our telegrams are very inac
curate, that General Patrick Cleeurne
has steadily commanded the advance of
Johnston’s army. We shall leave further
disproof of this story to further news. But
it is very evident to us that the story of the
correspondent of the World is an absurd
and malicious falsehood.
Kilpatrick’s magnificent ride through
Virginia, from Culpeper to Yorktown, is
one of those gallant and startling incidents
of the wst "which give it its romance. And
it has higher value than the destruction of
rebel property, of railroads and bridges. It
shows what our cavalry can do, and what
must be done, in the campaigns begun. Here
are five thousand men who gallop up to the
very gates of Richmond, defy its defenders,
and perhaps were as near achieving its cap
ture as was the entire Army of the Potomac
when McClellan led it up the Peninsula.
General Kilpatrick may not have suc
ceeded in doing all he wished to do, but he
certainly did not fail. The ride alone was
worth the risk, as a threat to the rebels, a
promise to the country, and an example and
inspiration to the whole army.
New York, in her grand reception of the
20th Regiment of Colored Volunteers, has
done much to wipe out the memory of the
riots of last year. Perhaps, among the men
who bore, amid the cheers of thousands,
the banner of the Republic through her
streets, were some who, not one year ago,
ran through them with cruel mobs behind
eager for their lives. At least, the race,
which the respectability of the city was not
then able to protect from the gallows and
the pyre, now triumphantly asserts its rights,
and is honored as a defender of the Union.
The whirligig of time, in its
revenges, has never brought more magnani
mous revenge than this which the black
soldier is now taking upon his Northern
oppressors. The colored regiments are
going to the war, and the respect and trust
of loyal men go with them.
Description of Important Positions in
Georgia.
Tunnel Hill U tidrfcy-one miles distant from Chat
tanooga and one hundred and seven miles from At*
lanta. It is in Murray eounty, Georgia, where the
mountains come together, forming an amphitheatre.
It receives its name from a tunnel which is 1,477-
feet long, 18 feet high, and with a clear width of
13 feet. It is cut, in a great measure, through
solid rods, and the approaches to it are proteoted on
both sides by massive masonry.
Dalton is seven miles beyond Tunnel Hill, and is
one hundred and ten miles by railroad from Knox
ville. It is the county seat of Whitefield county,
and was laid out in 1846. Its location is in a fertile
valley, surrounded by mountains. Dalton contains
& steam flour and lumber milt, and an extensive
foundry. Its importance, in a military point of
view, consists in the faot that it is naturally capa
ble of formidable defenee, and is one of the angles
of a railroad triangle whereof Chattanooga and
Cleveland, Tennessee, are the other corners.
The next important plaoes south are Kingston
and Home. Kingston is seventy-nine miles from
Chattanooga and firty-nine from Atlanta. It is a
small village on the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, but is important as being the junction point of
the Rome Branch Railroad. Rome is looated twenty
miles from Kingston, a little north of west. It is
the county seat of Floyd county, and is situated on
several hills at the confluence Of the Etowah and
Ooatenauia, which forms the Coosa river. Steam
boats run up from Mobile to Rome. There are two
rolling mills and two powder mills there.
Gen. Seymour and the Florida Disaster*
The New Yorl t Evening Post publishes a comma*
r-icetion defending General Seymour from some re
marks made in that paper. The writer says: “We
take the liberty to make a few remarks in reply
to the unjust attacks upon General Seymour con
tained in your respective issues of the 27th February
aid Ist of March. You state that ‘Gen. Seymour
is a virulent pxo-slavery mas, 9 which is decidedly
rot the case 5 but, on the contrary, he is in favor of
its abolition as a war measure purely, and is alive
to the fact of its being a powerful blow at the rebel
lion. Under the heading, ‘The Florida Disaster,*
you continue your criticisms in still stronger lan
guage, based upon no authority whatever, and con
taining additional misstatements, the evil design of
which Is only surpassed by the attempt to attribute
cowardice and 1 loss of presence of mind ’to onq who
has proved himself, on more than tventy battle
fields, a brave and reliable soldier.
“ There is no need of further comment on this
point. The Army of the Potomac will not soon for
set bis services at the Seven Days’ battles on the
Feii insula, at Fair Oaks, at Antietam. The state
ment ‘that Gen. Seymour had been previously sent
sway from the Department of the South by General
Hunter, for unruly conduct and language,’ is utterly
false. General Seymour was relieved through hu
own repeated application to the War Office to that
effect, and for no other reason, and through the In
st 1 umentality of no other person. As to the negro
regiments, General Seymour himself says: ‘ The
colored troops fought splendidly— magnificently.
One fellow, a color-sergeant in his regiment, stood
holding the colon of his regiment until he stood
almost alone; then he fell, covered with wounds. 1
The same letter says: 4 Many of the officers thought
tbe expedition unwise; Gen. Turner, chief of staff,
and Gen. Seymour, protested-most earnestly against
it.’ ” ✓
The Post examines one by one the points In this
letter, and says:
“If to treat the colored race contemptuously, to
speak of them with scorn, and to revile people for
being Abolitionists, is any symptom of a pro-slavery
man, General Seymour Is one, or, at least, has been.
If he has been converted lately to the opinion that
slavery is in itself a great wrong, wc are glad of it,
and shall be happy to see the proof.
“To state that he is for the emancipation of the
slaws as a war measure purely, is only to say of
him what may be said of General McClellan, who
Uss given bis assent to that measure, but who is
nine the less a pro-slavery man, and the candidate
of the faction at the North which makes a stand for
slavery.
11 Another mis-statement of the writer is that
which makes us charge General Seymour with
cowardice.* Thli we have never done, for we have
E!7 €t a ?y doubt of hia personal bravery, though
we said that inihe battle of oiustee, * either through
obstinacy or loss of presence of mind, he kept his
JJ he £® tfce enemy wanted them.* This,
we believe, is what all who carefully read the ac
counts of the battle will admit. •
“The writer denies that General Seymour was
sent away from the Department of the South bv Ge
neral Hunter, and affirms that he was relioved on
his own application. That he applied to be relieved
may. be true; but that between him and General
Hunter there was an entire discordance of feeling in
regard to the colored people in the department, we
have heard from a source which does not allow us to
question it#” _ ' _
Pkbsokal— General Henry Prince, the hero of
» Wapping Heights” and “Loeust Grove,* 1 who
commands the 2d Division, 3d Corps, Army of the
Potomac, arrived in the city yesterday, and u stop
ping at the Continental*
WASHINGTON-
Washington, Miroh 1361.
The President and Mr. Chase.
A recent correspondence between the President
and the Secretary or the Treasury has given occa
sion to some telegrams unjust to both parties. Pains
have been taken to ascertain the truth, and there is
the highest authority for saying that neither letter
contained more than a frank explanation of their
respective positions, and that nothiag in them
evinces the slightest- abatement of their mutual re
spect and confidence.
f.'en. Kilpatrick’s I,ate Raid.
Colonel stbbioht and Edwabd P. Riob arrived
from Fortress Monroe to-day. The latter is ohap
lain of the New York Harris Light Cavalry, and
accompanied the recent expedition as a volunteer
on General Kilpatrick’s staff. He had an Inter
view this afternoon with the President, who de
sired to make special inquiries in relation to the
raid, which is spoken of by gentlemen in high posi
tion as characterized by boldness, daring, and gal
lantry, and aa evincing a commendable spirit of
military ambition, and it ia known that the Presi
dent shares in this opinion.
Gen. Sherman’s Expedition.
Nothing official haa recently been received con
cerning General Shskmak’s expedition.
Violating 1 tile Oatll.
Yesterday afternoon Officer J. F. Parker ar
rested William H. shell, an iron-moulder, upon
the charge of violating his oath of allegiance. The
charge was made by one Skal, a refugee from Vir
ginia, who stated that early in the rebellion Shell
went to the Confederate States, and served in the
aimy. He then deeeited and returned to the loyal
States, and took the oath of allegiance, and since his
residence here has been indulging 'in treasonable
language. It was aleo staled that before his de
sertion from the rebels he was taken prisoner by ill ?
Federal tioopa, paroled, and then returned to the
rebel ranks. Shull is a native of Winchester, Va.,
where his iamily now reside. Shell was taken to
the Central Guard-House, and delivered to the mili
tary authorities for trial.
Indian Treaties Ratified.
The Senate has ratified the treaty made with the
various branches of the’Shoshone Indians by Gov.
Dott, of Utah, for the protection of overland emi
gration, and the security of the proposed Pacific
railroad and telegraph line, and of miners and pros
pectera in Idaho and Utah. The principal band is
allowed an annuity of $lO,OOO for twenty yean; the
northwestern band of Shoshones 05,0 00 additional j
the Gosh'tp tribe $l,OOO, and the mixed band of Ban
nocks and Shoshones, of Shoshonee river, in
Idaho, 03,000.
The Goshipc living south of the Great Desert, and
between Steptoe Valley, on the west, and the Salt
Lake, Will*,ned Ruth veileys, on the east, guaran
tee thounmolested privilege of living and prospect
ing within, tboir boundaries, os do the Bannocks
and Shoshones in their own.
Appointment oi United States Officers iu
Kansas.
James S. Short has been appointed District At
torney for Kansas, and Abel Bennet, agent for the
Eiekapoo Indians In that State.
Homesteads lor Our Soldiers and- Sailors.
The Solicitor of the War Department has sent a
long letter to the Committee on Public Lands in re
lation to the confiscation of Southern lands. That
committee, It is understood, has prepared a bill in
accordance with its suggestions, to secure to persons
in the military or naval service homesteads! on eon*
fiecated or forfeited estates in the insurrectionary
dieixict*.
Cojffirmations by the Senate.
The Senate to-day, in executive session, confirmed
the nominations of Robert Sherman as United
States Marshal for the District of Rhode Island, and
Private Harvey F. Douglass, of the 23 New York
Volunteers, to be assistant quartermaster, with the
rank of captain.
Government Receipts and Expenditures.
Official announcement is made of the receipts and
expenditures of the United States, exclusive of trust
funds, from October Ist to December 3let last (three
months), by which it appears the receipts were as
follows:
From customs, nearly ..$23,333.1000
From public lands • 170. COO
From direct tax.*.......... • 14.000
From internal reverae.over . »* 27.0H0 000
From incidents' and miscellaneous sources* •*. 2,C00.000
The remainder was from bonds, certificates of in
debtedness, and interest-bearing Treasury notes*
The expenditures were $357,260,000, including:
For the War Eepcitment $163 333,000
For tbo Kavy Eepartmeni 24,000,000
>‘exemption of certificates of indebtedness...* 37,001,039
Reimbursement of temporary loans 82.000.00 J
Doubts of Dablgrcn’s Safety.
It is understood that subsequent despatches, re
ceived here, throw doubt upon the correctness of the
infoimation of the arrival of Col. Dahlgbbn in our
lines at Fortress Monrce. Nothing official, how
ever, can be learned about the matter.
Personal.
General Grant will soon be here, and some im
portant military changes will take place soon after
his arrival.
General Meade’s friends are much pleased with
his vindication of himself before the Committee on
the Conduct of the War on Saturday. His accusers
assert that other generals will sustain the charges
against him, but there is no longer any doubt among
intelligent men on the subject. General Meade’s
aim pl« denial of the charge against him is consider
ed sufficient.
Senator Fessenden, who has been quite ill, is
better tc-day. but will not be able to be in the
Senate before to morrow. .
THE WAR IN VIKGLViA.
BEBEL KAII) OK CHESAPEAKE BAY,
Baltimore, March 7.—There are exciting rumors
on the streets to day or an extensive rebel raid on
the Chesapeake; that the steamer Louisiana’, of the
Norfolk line, had been captured by a party of rebels
while on her downward trip to Fort Monroe, and
had been takeatinto one of the rivers of the western
shore of Virginia. It was stated that the rebels
were in an an armed tug# As far as can be ascer
tained, this rumor is false, but three other small
boats have been captured, one of them th& side
wheel steamer S. P. Thomas, Captain Webster, em
ployed as a despatch-steamer between Fort Monroe
and Cherrystone Inlet. The other two were tugs
emplcyed between the same points.
The party making the capture were in a schooner,
supposed to have come out of the Rappahannoek.
They boarded the steamer, and compelled Captain
Webster to give bonds to the amount of $20,000, and
then released him. They stole $ll,OOO from the
captain. Information was yesterday received at the
military headquarters in this city that the wires
were cut by raiders, on Saturday morning, which
was doubtless done by the same'party who made the
captures. The two tugs were the Titan and lola.
The latter was burned, and her crew paroled. The
Titan was taken up the Rappahannock. These are
the facts, as far as they can be gathered.
THE RAID IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Nxw Ckbxk, Va, March 6.— The cavalry scout
ing expedition sent out to Pendleton county, under
command of Lieutenant Colonel Root, of the 15th
New York Cavalry j returned today. He reports
that no enemy appears to be in f orce in that county
or neighborhood. Several small guerilla parties fled
on the approach of our foroeß.
The expedition effectually destroyed the saltpetre
works south of Franklin in Pendleton county#
Another scouting party had a slight skirmish near
HOOl field, capturing some few of McNeil’s guerilla
cavalry. Five of our men are yet missing.
Everything seems to be quiet in the Shenandoah
Valley.
EFFECTS OF KILPATRICK’S RAID ON THE
REBEL ARMY.
Nrw York, March 7,— The army correspondent
of the Hirald sends the following despatch:
Three deserters came inside our lines yesterday,
who report that the rebel supplies are entirely ex
hausted, and the army is receiving nothing from
Richmond, owing to the destruction of the railroad.
Large details are made daily from the rebel army to
forage in the country south of the Rapidan, and the
greatest difficulty is experienced to subsist the
troops.
These deserters belonged to the 43th Mississippi
Regiment, in Ewell’s corps. They state that on
Tuesday a report was read to their brigade, on dress
parade, that Butler’s cavalry had joined Kilpatrick
at Hanover Court House. The next day another
report was read to them that Kilpatrick had made
an attack upon Richmond, but was repulsed with a
great loss in killed and wounded, and over 1,200
prisoners, who had already arrived in Richmond.
A most intensely feverish anxiety pervades all
cloeses in the 2 ebel army in view of the prospect of
Buffering in the future. Kilpatrick had destroyed
tbe principal mills upon which they relied for their
subsistence.
Guerillas in Kentucky—An Flection Pre-
vented.
Nashttllb, March 7.—The guerillas prevented
the election in Hielrman county on Saturday last,
destroying the boxes end Mattering the ballot.
The bend we. under the leader.htp of a notorious
fellow named Cowan* This 1# the only item of in*
terruption occurring in General Roieerana’ diatriot*
All quiet at Chattanooga.
Departure or Missouri Colored Troops.
St. Lpnis, March 7.—The zfl ana 3d Missouri
(colored) Regiment#, now In this city, have been
ordered to New Orlean.. They will leave im.
mediately.
Arrival ot Rebel Prisoners.
Uaiko, March 7.—Tbe-Steamer. City of Alton, with
61 bale, of cotton, and Silver Moon, with 36a bale.,
have arrived from Memphii. They brought also 64
men and S officer., rebel prisoner., who will be sent
North at once.
Fire at St. Louis.
St. Lotus, March 7.—A Are on Market street,
this morning, dertroyed elx dwelling houae., several
stable abed., and wagon shop.. Theflloss amounted
to about $33,000, on which there wa# an insurance
of about $13,000.
Tlie New York Gold Market.
New York, March 7.—Gold dosed to day at I62jf.
Markets by Telegraph.
Baltimore, March T —Flour ateady; aalea of
1,000 barrels Howard atreet superfine at $6
Wheat dull; red $1.65@160. Corn active ; aalea of
30,000 bushels at $1.16@1.18. firm at 96c.
Coffee quiet.
St. Lodib.. March 7.—Cotton drooping; receipts
162 bales. The Goi'ernment auotion sale, to-day
embraced 320 bales of low ordinary to middling,
4S@63c. Oats advanced 3c; S9@9oc. Other articles
unchanged.
Movement of Maryland Colored Troops.—
Brigadier General William Birney’s oamp of United
States colored troops, In Charles county, Maryland,
was bioken op on the 3d and 4th instant, and the
troops have embarked for the SBat of war. General
Birney ie a brave, energetic, and capable officer, an
Alabamian by birth; he has achieved a remarkable
success in managing the enlistment of colored troop,
in Maryland, and be will lead them a. gallantly and
auccesstully in the field, if he has the opportunity.
John G. Whittier, tbe poet, atates that while
Wm. Lloyd Garrison was in prison in Baltimore, in
1830, Henry Clay wrote from - Lexington, Ky., to a
friend in Baltimore, “ directing him to pay the fine
and OOSts, and liberate Mr. Garrison.” This foot
bas not beea publicly known until very reoently.
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA. TUESDAY. MARCH 8, 1864.
THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST,
the rebels pressing; our lines.
Our Forces Withdrawing from Tunnel Hill
LOJVGSTBEET STILL RETREATING.
Reports from Mobile.
GEN. SHERMAN REPORTED AT VI€KSBITRG.
McPheTfioirs ami JacKson’s Positions*
DEFINITE NEWS EXPECTED*
Cincinnati, March 7. —A despatch from Chatta
nooga, dated the 4th, saya that our army has re
turned from its late reconnoissance, and not? holds
a position in advance of its old lines. We have now
closed Paiker’B and Hookei’a Gaps, and the army is
in splendid condition.
Colonel Hanison, who from Baldface Ridge had
a full view of Dalton, states that the rebel foroe
there on Friday was from 20,000 to 30,000 men, nearly
all of whom came up from the rear on Thursday af
ternoon.
Lieutenant Colonel Slocum, of the S2d Indiana,
whq,WRS wounded in the reconnoissance] is dead.
The tilth Pennsylvania passed through Indianapo
lis on Saturday for home, haviDg re enlisted.
Judge Moulder, one of the moßt influential citi
zens of Mississippi county, Mo., and a staunch
■Unionist, was murdered by the guerillas in his own
house on Thursday night last,
Another despatch states that the rebels are press
ing our lines.
Our advance has been withdrawn from Tunuel
Hill to Ringgold. The rebel furnaces at Atlanta
have stopped running for want of oo&i,
KNOXVILLE.
Cincinnati, March 7.—A special despatch from
Knoxville reports Longatreet still retreating.
The rebels lately shot seven deserters, and are re
lentlessly hunting down conscripts. They have sent
forty pieces .of artillery to the great Virginia Sa
lines, which place they will doubtlessly stubbornly
hold, under Bucher and Breckinridge, and from it
threaten Kentucky. 1
They are not fortifying Bull’s Gap.
.General Cox has been appointed chief of staff to
General Schofield. For the army in the field, Gene
ral Potter remains chief of staff.
Our advance is said to be near Morristown.
A CANAHD FROM NEW ORfflBANb.
NBW York, March 7.—The World has arumor,
via New Orleans, that Gen. Sherman was defeated
on the 16th uifc* at Chunky liver, near Meridian,
with the loss of 15,000 men, and the army totally
broken up. The rebel cavalry under Lee, Adams,
and Forrest are reported in his rear* This story is,
without doubt, a canard, as Richmond papers of a
much later date than the 16th have no mention of
such an engagement.
PERSONAL.
Cincinnati, March 7.— General Negley left this
city for Louisville and the front yesterday. Lieute.
nant General Grant left here this morning on the
way to "Washington,
FORCE AT MOBILE EIGHT THOUSAND.
St. Louis, March 7.—Captain Hopkins, who was
well known here before the war at a river oaptain,
arrived on Saturday from Mobile, which he left on
the 18th ult. He says that there were but 8,000
troops in Mobile, andS thought the fortifications in
the rear of the city were good, though they could be
carried by a large force.
General Sherman’s movements had frightened
the people terribly, but a desperate resistance would
have been made had he attacked the city.
Evefy-male there between eighteen and fifty-five
years is & well* drilled soldier. The captaia also re
presents that there is no distress in the South, but
the people are willing to acoept peace on almost any
terms. The leaders, however, are determined to
fight to the last.
Four of the gunboats in Mobile Bay are iron clad.
The Tennessee was the most formidable.
PEMBERTON AND PRICE.
- General Pemberton arrived at Columbia, South
Carolina, having been laid on the shelf*
General Price had not gone' to Mexico, but was
still in command of his Missourians in Arkansas.
Memphis, March 7.—A report is current that
General Sherman has arrived at Vicksburg, and it
is generally believed in official circles that he has
done so. No definite intelligence of his operations
has, however, been received, there having been no
arrivals rrom that place*
General McPherson’s carps is reported to be be
tween Jackson and Black river, and Hurlburt is
&e*r Brandon.
Definite news from the expedition is hourly ex
pected*
Adjutant Cohen haß been arrested for furnishing
exemption-papers for $5O apiece.
MFARTMEHT OF THE SOUTH.
Continued Bombardment of Charleston—
Reinforcements Sent to Jacksonville—
The Rebel Loss at Olustee.
New Yoke. March 7.—The steamer Arago has
arrived from Hilton Head and Charlerton bar, with
date, to the 4th inat. She brings detachment, of
the 47th, 64th, and 116th Mew York j Bth Maine,
and 86th Penntylvania Volunteer., and 3d Rhode
Island battery. Also, some twenty officer., wound
ed in Florida, and fifty-four rebel deserter.. Colonel.
Belet, Moore, Sammons, Meyer, Slidell, and Jack
eon, are amotg the paseengere, the total number of
whom is 950.
Nothing flew from Charleston except that the
bombardment was continued with good effect. The
rebels replied at interval*, but scarcely doing any
injuiy.
The supply steamer Bermuda is reported to have
captured a rebel privateer in sight of Fort Pickens,
alter an exciting chase. The rebels had juat put a
prize crew on board a captured trading vessel,
which was not overtaken.
New York, March 7.—By the steamer Arago,
which has arrived from Hilton Head, we have in
teresting news from Florida.
All was quiet at Jacksonville. Reinforcements
were rapidly arriving, and General Seymour 7 *
position was sufficiently formidable to repel any
attack.
Our troops are outside of the town, some of them
at a distance of eight miles. The fortifications in
itont of Jacksonville are of an extensive character.
Flags of truce had communicated with the rebels for
the purpose of endeavoring to obtain our wounded
who had fallen into their hands, but the request was
refused.
The main body of Abe enemy is encamped between
Ten-Mile Bun and'Baldwin, with a considerable
force at the former place. The rebels admit their
loss to be enormous, some even stating it aa high as
two thousand. On the 27th, a small skirmish oc
curred between our cavalry and the rebels, near
Camp Finnegan. Tbe rebel* had are wounded.
None oi our men were hurt.
General Gilmore arrived at Jacksonville on the
29th.
The lie Soto at Havana—Rebel Threats
Hrw Yore, March I.— A. private letter deted
Havana, March let, state* that the United State,
gunboat De Soto wa. on the dry-dock there. The
blockade-runner* and «ece*aionißt. had threatened
to burn her. and had ai*o threatened violence to her
office,.. The Spani.h authorities bad given the
officer, permission to wear side-arms, and they now'
visit the city fully armed.
The Florida Occupation.
Ntsw Yobk, March 7.—^The World's Hilton Head
letter says that Gen. Gilmore has sent order, to
Florida that in future only Jacksonville will be held
by our troop.] and no effort whatever made to occu
py other towns.
Tbe Yt recK or the .Bohemian.
Portland, March 7 —The steamer Bohemian is
fast breaking up. Part, of the vessel and cargo, and
tome of the bodies of those who were drowned,
have come ashore.
Movements ofldeut. Gen. Grant.
CiNoiMHATi, March 7.—Lieutenant General Grant
passed through this city this morning, bound for
Washington.
Tbe Steamer St. Louis.
Npw Yobk, March 7. —The steamer St. Louis
lett Panama at midnight on the 23d for San Fran
cisco.
Tbe Union Ticket in Portland Sleeted.
Portland, Me., Maroh7.—Jacob McClellan, the
Union candidate, is elected Mayor of this city over
John B. Carroll, by a majority of 1,130. The vote
Btands: McClellan, 1,941; Carroll, 805; scattering, s.
AU the ward* have gone Union, electing every Al
derman, Councilman, and subordinate officer.
Illness of Fernando Wood.
New Yobk, March 7,—Fernando Wood is lying
at the point of death with an attaolc of pneumonia,
at hi. residence in this city.
The New York Bounty Fund.
New \ oek, March 7.—The bids for the $1,000,000
soldiers’ bounty fund bonds have reached $4,000,000,
all at a premium, one bid being as high as $lO5.
Rumored Capture of Newhern.
new yobk, March 7.—There are rumor* afloat
here of the eapture of Nawbem by the rebel*. They
are doubtless untrue.
New Yobk, March 7.—The following is a state
ment of the condition of the New York banks for
the week ending Ms roll 7 :
Loans, increase $7,337,278
Specie, decrease 1,05i.029
Circulation, increase 25-898
Deposits, increase 4,048,88 s
Boston, March 7,—The morning train from Bo*
ton for Concord was thrown off the track, at Salem,
N. H., to-day, killing Phineaa Davis, engineer, and
a fireman, whose name is not given.
The train was considerably wrecked.
The Bohemian Gone to Pieces.
Poktlabd,March 7, P.M.—The steamer Bohemian
has gone to pieces, and her goods are strewn on the
coastfor miles. Collector Washbume has placed a
strong guard on the shore to prevent stealing. Per
sona from the aeene of wreck late this afternoon
report that nothlr g is to be seen of the steamship.
Municipal Election at Lewiston, Maine.
Lewiston (Me.), March 7.—At the election to
day J. B. Gam (Union) waa re-elected as mayor,
and the other Union candidates in every ward were
sucoesslul.
The New York Bounty Fund.
New Yobk, March 7,—Over $4,000,000 in bids
were opened to-day, by the City Comptroller, for the
$1,000,c00 city bounty fund for soldiers.
Arrest or an Alleged Counterfeiter*
Jbbsby City, March 7.—John Burdiek was ar
retted here to-day on a oharge of oireuiatlng oouater
felt fives on the Union Bank of Massachusetts.
to Ringgold.
CHATTANOOGA.
against her Officers.
Bank Statement.
Railroad Accident.
Return of New Hampshire Regiments.
Boston, March 7 -The 3d and 4th New Hamp
shire Begiments, composed of veteran soldier. In
the war for the Union, reached Concord at 1 o clock
to-day. They met with an enthusiastic reoeption.
The steamer Guide, from Norfolk, arrived below
to-night, with portion, of the loth and 13th New
Hamphlre Regiments.
Fortress Monroe—Col- Dablgren*
Fortress Mokrok, March 7.— News has just
reached here that young Dahlgren, captured on the
recent raid of Gen. Kilpatrick, is safe, having made
his escape.
All is quiet in front of our lines between Ports
mouth and Suffolk.
List of casualties in General Kilpatrick’s com*
xnaud iU hia tecent raid on the Peninsula :
James Florey, 17th Pennsylvania, wounded.
Robert J, Eastman, Ist Vermont, «
Anson Kearney, 6th U. S. Cavalry, “
John H. Bennett, Ist Vermont, 41
A. E. Davis, let Maine, “
J. E. Lipiell, Ist Maine, “
Benjamin Sheldon, let Vermont, *’
■Win. B. Rowe, sth Michigan, “
Geotge H. Young, 2d New York, “
George A. Oils, surgeon, “
[By Telegraph 1
Fortress Monitor, March 6. —The following
vessels have passed the guard-ship Young Rover
Within the last twenty-four hours, outward bound:
Sclir Maryland. York tc Fortress Mouroe.
Scbr 1), Sbacfcleford, Cherrystone
tetr A E KeeTee, Yeung, 1 IniadetpUia do.
SchrFiCfrlla. H»wl*y, do. ?“■
Sclir M A Bxooiuly. Morriesy. d*. ao.
Schr Jus Sparks. Willetts flew Y prk do
►,r’r fiMnonicus. Penny, New Yorlt-to Port Royal.
St’r New Jereey, Hoxle, Beaufort to ffor.redS^MonrJO.
IchrVKraiWe. to Fortress
W Ect?t Toylor. Parr*. New York to Wkshlnston-
Scbr M Kennedy, Howes. Philadelphia to flewbem.
ichr Philip Bride. Toons- to York hiver.
Schr J Freeman, Youn*, Baltimore to Boston.
Schr Trade Wind, llabbase, Alexandria to New York.
Sloop A Frazier White, New York to Fort Monroe.
Schr O P Winns flail, do. do.
ScfcT Thos E French, SlUby, do. do.
bt'r City of Albany, Martin, do. do.
Sclir Kile Francis. RicbrForfcraes Monroe to New York.
Schr W J JSUioiti Newcomb. Fortress, ilonroe to flew
Monitor. Eich, Fortrers Monroe to Boston.
Schr Ail Desparanduw. Fortress Monroe to Boston.
Schr J W Lawrence, Tooßer, Fortress Monroe to JNew
fich'r John Gilpin, Ginnety, Fortress Nonroe to New
North Pacific. Webb. Fortress Monroe to Phil*-
d ?chr & j H Allen, Newell, Fortress Monroe to PUila
des?£J8 Wm A Dresser, Hatch. Choottmte to Bo.ton.
Schr J 3 Newkirk Wright, Alexandria to Philadelphia.
Dotted States steamer oassacns-
Btbiß JMaxfieM and MAHoyer. .
fct’r New Jersey, HoxJe. Fore Monroe to Yorktown.
ScbrKio Giande, Cropper, do. Philadelphia.
Schr Sarah. Heilen, Stuart, do. do.
Schr M Webster, Newcomb, do. Boston.
Schr B A Johnson, Collins, do. New York.
Schr Morris, Smith, do. do.
{schr Helen Miranda, do. do.
Schr Prince of Wales. M Quin, do. do.
Schr Julia Franklin Van Name. do. do.
Schr £ F Prindle. Ward, do. do.
Schr John Warren, Lower, New York to Newbern.
Additional Foreign Mews per the Steamer
City of New York*
A FIGHT IN DUBLIN—THIS FENIAN BSOTHEKHOOD
At an immense meeting held at the Rotunda, in
Dublin, on the evening of the 22d February, by
“The O’Donoghue,” and Mr. Sullivan, of the
Nhtion f to protest against the erection of a statue to
Prince Albert in College Green, a tremendous dis
turbance took place, ending in a fight.
The first speaker was Mr. Gib, who said they
were assembled to repudiate the insult offered by
the corporation, in preferring the Prince Consort to
Henry Grattan. He called upon them to express
tbeir feelings like men, and to be like brothers
banded for fatherland, under their gifted leader, The
O’Donogbue. He begged them to maintain a calm
and dignified demeanor, worthy of a people who
were struggling for freedom.
The O’Donoghue then attempted to speak, but
was interrupted by men-supposed to be members of
the “ Fenian Brotherhood. 77 A correspondent of the
Dordon Times thus describes the scene that fol
lowed :
“A regular fight commenced on the platform, and
simultaneously in several parts of tne house the
battle raged. With the exception of a few of
us, who stood on a form at the wall, looking
on, the whole mass on tne platform were en
gaged in a terrific struggle, flourishing shille
laha, boxing, . throttling, tumbling over the
chairs and forms, sprawling on the boards,
kicking, jelling. The Fenian' men being well
drilled and commanded, pressed on in such over
whelming force that they carried the platform in
about ten minutes. The O’Donoghue, Mr. Sullivan,
ard some piie&ts fled; the chairs and tables were
broken up, and converted into weapons; the report
er weie knocked about, and quickly lost in the agi
tated mass. The victory was won, and the Sulli
vanites were utteily vanquished. The vlotors seized
a piece of green cloth that covered the table, and
waved it as a flag of triumph. This put an end to
the fighting throughout the room. The Fenians
kept waving their flag, amid all sorts of noise and
uproar, for about a u hour. A priest attempted IQ
vain to get a hearing. ll ,
TUB PEOrOSBDCOUFBBBNCR ON THBJ3ANO*OBBMAN
QUESTION.
Berlin, Feb, 24.—1 t is stated in diplomatic circles
that the conference for the settlement of theDano-
Geiman question was proposed by England with the
concurrence of France, and that the proposal was
supported by Bursia.
Prussia and Austria, as already stated, have ac
cepted the conference, to which a representative of
the Germanic Diet will be invited.
The same Powers have refused, however, to grant
an armistice, and hostilities will not be discontinued
during the conference.
THE WAR IN DBNMABK.
Hadrrstadbw, Feb. 23.—The Danish outposts
are stationed opposite the Prussian guards at
.Tudsoe. Unimportant skirmishes ave continually
taking place. The Danish forces occupying Frede
ricia are composed oi many Sohleswigera.
Copenhagen. Feb. 23. —Government has publish
ed the following official communication:
Vessels have been ordered to the Mediterranean
and the English Channel, to cruise in search of
Danish ships.
The Secretaries of the Danish Legation at Berlin
and Vienna have been recalled. The Secretary of
the Austrian Legation at Copenhagen has already
•left. The aulkoriHea at Hamburg bare seized the
money in the Danish post offiee in that city.
A DANISH CRUISES IN THE CHANNEL.
Pltmouth, Wednesday. The Danish frigate
Niels Juef has filled up with coal, and is about to
resume her search for prizes, but it is reported she
will shortly go to Copenhagen.
POLAND.
BEB*LAu,Teb. 23.—A rumor is current that 80.000
Russian troops will be concentrated on tbe frontier
ot the kingdom of Poland.
Reconstruction in Arkansas—Address of
General Steele to the People.
General Steele has recently issued the following
address to the people of Arkansas:
“ Headquarters, Little Rock, Feb. 29,1884.
”2b ihe People of Arkansas :
14 It affords the General Commanding the high
est gratification to be able to say that by the con
duct of the army under his command, in connec
tion with the wise administration of the Govern
ment by itß officers at Washington, peace has
been so far restored in your midst as to en
able you to institute proceedings for the restora
tion of the civil government, by which order
may be firmly established, and the rights of
persons and property secured against violence
and the danger of anarchy. The Convention
of pour citizens, held at Little Hook during the
last month, has adopted a constitution and sub
mitted it to you for your approval or rejection.
That eonstiiution is based upon the Drinoiples of
freedom, and it is for you now to say, by your
voluntary and unbiassed action, whether it shall
be your-fundamental law. While it may have de
feoti in the main, it ii in accordance with the
views of that poitlon of the people who have been
resisting the fratricidal attempts which have been
made during the last three yeais. The Conven
tion has fixed the 14th day of March next on which
to decide this great question, and the General
Commanding is only following the instructions of
the Government when he says to you, that every
facility will be offered for the expression of your
sentiments, uninfluenced by any considerations
save those which affect your own interests and
those of your posterity. If you will institute a
government of your own, he feels great confidence
in assuring you that quiet and security will soon be
restored to your entire State. Those who have
been unwisely led, by the counsel of bad men, to en
gage in this unjustifiable and wicked rebellion, will
speedily return and acknowledge the rightful sovt*
teigaty of the State, as well as the supremacy of the
National Government over the whole domain, and
peace will prevail throughout the land. The elec
tion will be held and the return be made in accord
ance with the schedule adopted by the Convention,
and so interference from any quarter will be allow
ed to prevent the free expression of the loyal men
of the State on that day. Theschedule will be hereto
appended to render the election valid. There must
be east five thousand four hundred and six (5,406)
votes. “FEED. STEELE,
“Major General Commanding.”
A letter from Fort Smith says that Union meet
ings are held in that vicinity almost every day, and
the vote will no doubt be large. At Little Koch
nearly three thousand voters have already been re
gistered. .
Tlie Catholic Church and the Rebellion*
The Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph of last week ha*
this striking paragraph:
“As rats abandon a sinking ship so the advocates
of slavery are taking a long lareweli to the peculiar
institution. Even Brooks, of the New York Ex
press, has turned his back on it. Before many
months, the white laborer will have a field of enter
prise opened to hia energy such as was never seen
oeiore in this or in any other country. Let the
Church prepare for the new order of things. The
land that was desolate shall blossom like the rose.
'Where the pestiferous breath of slavery heretofore
destroyed eveiy holy effort of our faith to take root
and flourish, now that the evil is removed, the pure
breath of freedom, prevails, and the sign of the cross
will be seen where a few years ago no one thought
or its appearance The enemies of the Church and
of our humanity rage in vain. Senseless political
prejudices must disappear before the light of Divine
truth.”
The same paper says: /
11 A bishop, writing from one of the rebel States,
warns us against encouraging clergymen to return
to the South while the Confederate Government is
In power. All elergymen not in charge of con
gregations, he writes, have been conscripted; and
even the pastors in charge, he says, will be forced,
ho fears, into the ranks of the army.* l
The Expedition into Florida*
The President denies distinctly, especially, and
emphatically* that he has given any Instructions or
orders to General Gilmore, requiring, directly or
impliedly, any movement of his command into Flo
rldawith either military or political objects. He
•ays that Gem ral Gilmore had no other instructions
in regard to the restoration of Florida to the Union,
under the amnesty proclamation, than those sent
to him through Major Hay. They have appeared
in the public prints some time since, and as they
did not call for the occupation of the State by the
forces in his Department of the South, General
Gilmore must have undertaken the expedition en
tirely upon his own responsibility.
It is strictly true that neither Secretary. Stanton
nor General Halleck had any official knowledge or
intimation of the intention of General Gilmore to
enter upon a regular campaign in Northern Florida,
and the first intelligence they bad of his projects
was received through the newspapers. General
Halleck, upon hearing of the contemplated opera
tions, addieiied a letter to General Gilmore, in
quiring for the authority under which he was under
taking them. General Gilmore’s reply was that he
was acting under the special orders of the President
of the United States.
General Gilmore’s answer was received about ten
days ago. It was, of course, an “astonlsher” of
much force to both the Secretary of War and the
General-in-Chief, in the absence or any information,
written or verbal, on the subject from the Presi
dent. "What their views were, relative to what they
could but consider an undue Executive interference,
may be easily imagined. In some way or other, they
became known outside of the War Office, and the'
opinion became general, in the course of last week,
that on the President’s shoulders rested all the re
sponsibilities in the premises. That this opinion
culminated in great indignation, when the news of
the defeat of General Seymour reached here, will bJ
readily understood.
Gen. Gilmore’s despatches, relative to the disas
ter, reached Gen. Halleck on Friday night. Owing
to their calling, it Is supposed, for some immediate
action on the part of the War Department, Secreta
ry Stanton submitted the matter to the President on'
Saturday morning. Explanations, of course, ensued.
It was then that the President made a statement,
the.tubitsnce of wbich, ai above eiven, he repeated
tbenext flay to other p&iliei. The Secretary, b«-
yoDd doubt, waa greatly aurprUed at the unexpsateJ
development.— Cir.cinneU Commercial,
XXXVIiltb CONGRESS—Ist SESSION.
WAaHiNOTOir. March 71 13&L
SENATE.
Petitions.
Mr MORGAN, of Sew York, presented a memorial
from the American Geographical ana Statistical Society
it, ftLvnr of Surfiaon McGowan's proposed commercial. -
industrial, and eolentiiic mission to Eastern Asia. Re
to the Oommitiee on Foreign Affair.
‘ S™i! WILSON. MORGAN, and SUMNER presented
n.titiona for the increase of railroad and mol
Boston. New York, and Philadelphia,
which wwi Semd to the Committee on Poet Offices
Vermont, presented a petition from lift
dB °L r !» SSSffi on SLSSnr Ltd Freed-
m Mr. COBNESS introduced a bill to amend the act.to
aid in tlie confitruction. of a rai 1 road f
flour! liver to the Pacific Ocean. Rail-
Befemd to tee Special* Committee ou the raciu
"on motion cf Mr SUMNER, the bill llP«Iln* *|}»«?
for the rendition of fugitive slaves was made the special
order for Wednesday next, at 32>* ©’does.
Important Resolutions*
Mr. SBEBMaB, of Ohio, offered the following raaolu-
That a qnorum of the Senate consists of
a majority o; the Sonasoie duly chosen and qualified.
Resolved. 0 hat if a majority of the Presidential elec*
tors, duly appointed and qualified, vote for ono person,
he is the President. , _ ~ . , 1-A
Rtaolvtd. That if the election of President devolves
upon the House of Kepresentirtiyea. and the votes or a
majority of the States represented in the House be cast
for one person, he is thj President. , .
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and or*
dered to he printed.
Minnesota Railroad.
The Senate, on motion of Mr. RAMSAY - , of Minnesota,
mcceFdtd to the consideration of the suit grantia* land*
io aid in the construction of a railroad from bt. Patti,
Minnesota, to the head wateis of Lafce Sapsnqr
Mr HOWE opposed"the bill at considerable length-
Ses.*rs. RaMSAY, WILKINSON, and JOHNSON sup
ported the ©ill. . . ,
Mr, DOOLITTLE replied to the remarks of Mr. John
son, aid defended his State from any narrow-minded
Policy as against her lister Stat« Minnesota.
On n otion ol Sir DOuLllTLE,the bill granting lands
to aid use construction of a railroad from St. Paul to tne
head of Lake Superior was postponed until Thursday.
The Senate «ent into executive at 'a. 1"> P. Al..
and Bkortly afterwards adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Several weeks ago a resolution was passed ordering
1 fioi Copies of Lanoian’s Dictionary of. Congress,'at
apifce This resolution was afterwards repealed
(To-day, Mr. bPAQLDINQ. of New York, offered a re
■nlntion to remove the dotfbts which had arisen as to the
binding force and efficacy of either of these resolutions,
uVd affirinicr in all particulars the on® which heretofore
miE&id providing for the priding of the work, save only
that the price shall be limited to $1 per copy
Alter au hour f-.pent on .his subject the resolution was
pa sped by ten majority.
Mr- CuX of Ohio, offered a resolution calling upon
the President, ifyonupaUbie with the public interest, to
inform the House what steps he has taken, or is about
taking* for an exchange of pileonerß.. and that ha com
municate au the unpublished correspondence in relation
to ihe taid exchar go.
Mr. DAWES, of Massachusetts, objected, and so the
resolution lies over
Foreign Mails
Mr. ALLEY, from ihe Committee on Post Offices and
Pout Reads, reported a bill for carrying the mails be
tween the United Slates and foreign countries. It re
quires all steamers and Balling vessels to perform the
service when so directed, and promptly to deliver the
mails, fcr wMch they are to receive such reasonable
comi elation as may be allowed by law. Mr. Alley ex
plained the remaining provisions, saying the committee
thought the above was just and proper, inasmuch a*
those vessels received the protection of the United States
at a vast expense- The next section authorized the Post
master Generarto make contracts for four years for the
transportation of mall matter other than letters by the
Pacific or Nicaragua route, provided the expenditure
fehali sot exceed one hundred and sixty thousand dol
lar* per annum, and if in any case more than oue
company shall be engaged, the Postmaster Gene*
ral shall determine the proportion to be paid to each.
At the present tim* the Department contracts for the
carrying of the overland mall at a cost of one million
dollars* The newspaper mails, conveyed by the sea.
cost one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Thi< is
contracted for by the overland mail contractors. The
Department thought it better the Government should
itself contract immediately for the service, so that it
might have direct control The fourth section provides
that til mailable matter overland ah all be subject to
prepaid letter postage, but not be held to exclude news
papers—oie copy to each regular subscriber. Vast
amounts of mail matter are, Mr Alley said, now sent
overland, which should go by sea. The Postmaster Ge
neral,by this bill,may enter into contract not exceeding
one year,for carrying mails in steamships between the
Unitv d Stv.es and Pacific and Gulf ports. The bill also
legalizes the transportation of mails to and from New
Grleanx. Pains and penalties are provided for the vio
lation of the provisions of the bill which was passed.
The Deficiency Bill.
The Hotite look up the Senate’s amendments to the de
ficiency bill.
Mr. BROOKS, of New York, said when this bill was
origin- ihr repoittd from the Committee of Wavs and
Means, it contained an appropriation -of four millions
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; when it
passed the Berate, the sum had been increased to seven
and a half millions, but, to this, the senate added
amendments to the extent of nearly ninety-nine million*,
eoth&t the'eppropriations had swollen to a hundredaan-i
six millions at the commencement of the session. The
Secietary of War had not asked a single dollar for defi
ciency s, but now he demanded ninety*nine millions dol
lars. In the course of four or five years, at this rata of
increase, the burdens would be too heavy for any nation
on earth to endure. For the fiscal year ending with
June, 1664, including payment of bounties* the expendi
tur«& for the War Department would be a thousand mil
li0 jan BROOKS contrasted the former war expenditures
under this Government, for the purpose of showing the
appalling increase of expenditures. His mind failed to
fully comprehend tbe subject, for the ficnr«s confounded
Mm It was beyond the power of arithmetic to under
stand the calculation, and the principles on which it was
founded, fie regarded it as uDiast that tuch an enor
mous debt should be left for posterity to pay, instead of
making provision for its liquidation by taxation. In ex
amining the estimates of thirty millions for the Q uarter
n. aster’s Depar>ment,he eaid, some of the transportation
was for carrying soldiers to New Hampshire, Connecti
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and
Maryland, to execute the purpose of the party in power,
in order to carry the elections The money, he believed,
was not expended for the legitimate'expenditures of the
war—not ferthe capture and overthrow of the rebel ar
my, and to carry the stars and stripes to Capitol Hill, at
Richmond, or to the forts of Mobile and Charleston—
but to subdue the conservative power of those States.
This he denounced, with all his power and vigor. He
appealed from the majority of this Hoase to God Al
mighty, to put His niaik of reprobation on such wicked
ecte. fie would not vote one dollar of these items until
their objects were made e'ear,
Mr. S .'.EVENS, of Pennsylvania, was glad the gentle*
m*m had. lakt-u this time to get before the country this
campaign document. There was no batter time for It,
as to tne appeal from tne majority of tills House to
another tribunal, be (Mr. Stevens) did not know either
party nad in that court to try the issue. The
tentlemaixs declaration not to vote for transportation
veiy weil suited the tactics of the other side, who
would have no proof, or if we had proofs, would keep
them out of the field. . . .
He (Mr. Stevens) did not expect any check from the
other side of the House. He and the gentleman from
New York wire formerly members of this branch of
Congiese. and of the tame party, and when a gentleman
ficm Alabama, as chairman of the Committee of Way.*
and Meana, repair ted extr&v&iani appropriation biils,tae
gectlemaamade such & speech against erfravaganca
as he aid 10-u&y. This speech fitted just as well at that
time a& it did now, but be (Mr. Stevens) hoped the com
mittee would at once proceed to comlder the Senate’s
amendments— eighty in number. In explanation of the
increase of appiopnati-'iia for deficiencies, he said when
the bill was first reported there was no call for five hun
dred thousand troops, but when the call was made new
estimates had to be furnished, and which were presented
■to the senate and the House. If any of the items were
improper, the Bonse could vole them down, bus the very
id* a that we are to paraljze the arm of the Oorerament
and starve our brave soldiers, might become the other
side of the bouse but would be disgraceful to patriots.
The item of thirty thousand dollars for medical attend
ance of contrabands having been read, cave rise to a de
bate, daring which
Mr. SMITH, of Kentucky, said the South cared nothing
for us, and would dost* oy both white and black if ne
cessary to maintain their independence and overthrow
our Government. For himself, speaking as a slave
holder, and whose family, as far as he could trace back,
were slaveholders, he would be ever ready to give aid
and comfort to any slave who would escape from his
rebel master, and* make him a free mau. The Govern
ment, if wanting jneans to pat down the rebellion, was
at liberty to take hi* horses,negroes, corn, or anything
else, and he would no more undertake to restore to sla
very those who had fied from their rebel masters than
he would cut off his lijht arm. . . . . , _
Mr. MALLORY, of Kentucky, did not mean to be led
into t. humanitarian discussion: but white men as well
as black are daily coming into our lines, and are enti
t ad at Jeatt to & proportion of the Government's charity.
He would not consign any class of people to.starvation
In this world and perdition In the next He repeated
what he had heretofore uttered in debate, namely ; that
the negro is not fit for free men and not able to compete
With wwite men. He was willing to contribute money
out of his own private pocket to assist all those indis
trMr.‘ SMITE, of Kentucky, in replying to Mr. Mallory,
said he knew petitions had been sent hitherfrom Mis
sissippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas planters, in favor of
tlie system of free labor; some owning from one to three
hundred slaves, have agreed to enter upon that eyetesu
and to-day are employing iheir slaves on tlieir planta
tions at w*ges, and are thus making more money than
they ever did before under the old plan. The policy is
iust and right, und should be maintained.
'Mr BLISS, of Ohio, opposed, and Mr FARNSWORTH,
of Illinois, briefly supported the Item under considera
ttMr. JAMES C. ALLBN was opposed to voting money
for the benefit of everybody who may aitaeh himself to a
military caxop He said that at one time in East Ten
nessee our soldiers were on half rations, while tie Go
vernment was supporting contraband negroes. The
entire policy of fostering and protecting negroes in mili
tary camps was vicious in its effects.
Mr BLOW, of Missouri, supported the Item, and
asked Mr. Mallory whether he did not know the last
that men in Missouri have bfcen engaged in running off
free persons of color to Kentucky to be resold into sla*
t Mi! MAiLORY replied, that If such was the fact, h,
was nor aware of it; but if so, there was a statute in
Kentucky to punish such crimes as to mixed classes.
He had heard of a convention recently assembled at Lou
isville. They were neither Chase. Fremont nor Lincoln
men. but all got along lovingly together, and consti
tuted a happy family. He did not know until now
thfre were table gentlemen present at thecosvention.
Mr. BLOW never heard of any one being ponishe 1 for
such offences in Kentucky,
Mr MALLORY. Have you yourself ever heard of any
colored persons being forcibly carried from Missouri into
Kentucky ?_
Mr. BLOW I have. . t
Mr. MALLORY. If you point out the guilty person in
Kentucky, he will be punished
Mr FRANK V. BLAiK, of Mirsoun, in reference to his
colleague (Mr. Blow), remarked that it could not pro
perty be that freemen had been run from Missouri into
Kentucky. He knew of no authenticated* statement of
the bind, and defiei bis colleague to produce the proof.
His colleague and kla colleague’s friends had seized on
the sorrows of the negro race to make political capital.
He recollected when hie colleague was a pro-slavery
man, tnd that sot a gri-at while ago, when he suppor.ed
In the Legislature a pro-slavery Senatorial candidate
against Colonel Ben»on. . . . ~,
Mr. BLOW said he had never owned a slave m hii life,
and never favored a pro slavery candidate
Mr. RLaIK reminded him that he voted for a pro
slavery candidate when he belonged to the dark- lantern
va, sr' BLOW Kftid he was himself & member of the Ame
rican party, while the party of hi* colleague (Mr. Blair)
was divided. He knew what his colleague claimed to
be, but did not know what faction of th* party he be
longed to. With regard to voting m the Legislature for
United States Senator, the American party supported the
candidate because he belonged to that organization irre
spective of his views on the slavery question.
Mr BLAl&-replled that the contest in tne Missouri
Legislaturewasnota question of Amerioanitm* but only a
subterfege ot the American party to overthrow Colonel
Benton, and hie colleague voied instead of Doniphan for
Atchison, as the latter better represented hie colleague's
pxo-elavery views. Be appealed to his colleague (Mr.
Rollins) to say whether the statement was true or false.
Mr. RoLLIN ts, of Missouri, replied that he was too
modest a man to be drawn into a fight of tlii»character.
He was outside the bar of the House when the contest
commenced* and therefore did not fully understand it
Mr. STEVENS said he most call the gentlemen to or
der. Let them speak on the amendment or not at all.
Mr. BLaIK to Mr. Stevens. Yun take care of your
own battling
Mr. STEVENS. I don’t take care of anyb: dy: nor do I
care for anybody. (Laughter. ] (A voice— That’s a
fact. ”
p Mr. ROLLINS then stated a few facts from recollec
tion. Whateter credit Is attached to emancipation In
Missouri, his colleague ou the left {Hr Blair) was cer
taiuly entitled to be called tbe father of It m that State.
being willing, as far back as l&OQ, to break a lance on
the mfcjfcct. be had always understood hia colleague
on his right (Mr. Blow) to be opposed to his other col
league (Mr. Blair) in 1E66. He (Mr. Rollins)' had the
honor of msetlnalhis colleague (Mr Blow) In the dark
lantern association. [laughter,) and recollected very
well that in the Legislature of Missouri his colleague
preferred Atchison because the latter had- strongerpro- :
slavery views than Doniphan, the candidate or the
American party. He (Mr. Rollins) represen:ed a con
stituency known as Whigs, strongly inclined to Pro
alavery* and therefore he uniformly voted for Doni
phan. Although his colleague (Wow) was-some years
ago a Know-Nothing, he was now the repreeentative of
the Germans of St. Loais. [Laughter.] while the one
(Blair) was for emancipation, the other (Blow) was all
the t;moan luveterate pro slavery man.. ...
Mr. BLOW said in all his controversies h® had never
descended to personalities, nor had. he done injustice to
any gentleman. He would scorn to rob Ms colleague
(Mr. Blair) of a sing e honor, although his colleague
took every occasion to ittduge in personal almsiona to
himseli; but he would let these pass as the idle wind.
His colleague had himself defended hixn against tee
charges which he had juat made. The defence was re
corced in the columns of his own organ,, where the as
sertions were pronounced falsehood*. H.e other col
league (Mr. Rollins), in speaking of the- action of the
Legislatnije, had failed to make a point- His colleague
could ut t Hiow that be (Mr Bio w)was ever a pro-slavery
man Tnere was no such Issue at tho ttiae.
Mr. ROLLINS said; Did you not at oue time vote for
Mr P BLOW rep'ltd that ha did so- vote, with, every
UI® r &'as not Doniphanar-ro-sUvery man?
Mr. BLOW replied the gentleman, knew as well as
himsfrlf the position of the Amernraa party, to which
both of them belonged. They knew the American party
made no such issue. It was an extraordinary spec-r&cle
fur his colleague, who. claimed to be a Fre» Soileza, t*
vote forty-four times for Doi>ipb&a,wbo, it was now said
by him. war a pro*slavery man.
Mr. ROLLINb explained that he voted for Mr Doni
phan In efder to carry out the wishes of his constituents.
His colleague, anxiona to defeat Mr. Benton, entered. In
to aa alliance agalmt him.
Mr. BLOW said the g * ntleman was welcome, to all be
could obtain by an explanation. He voted one way,
while he tbonabt another way. , , ,
Mr. ROLLINS remarked that he would he glad if he
could help his friend to get right. _ .
Mr. BLOW farther defended Ills po»Ulon. alluding t >
what had been said about him as poor, miserable slau
deru. prtduoed ?n every available ©ccaeiva, and *aid
be still adhered.to the principles of the Amenc-ia part-.
Mr. ROLLIN 6 thought his laagutge was
cot a fair ipecimaa of chaato £ogt>.aU laozdagi* He
right‘te If‘Seyd*d & » would bo
than rose. and at flv* o'clock tha
House adjourned, . -
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
HAREiSBtrRa. March 7. 1864.
SENATE. lt . ,
The Penafe met at a o'clock P. M., and was called w
ord*r by Speaker PENNEY. . o—ja*.. mi
A somber of pfetitiona relative to travel on Sundays on
city railroads (pro and con ) were presented.
Bills Introduced.
Mr. WILSON, a supplement to act Incorporating the
Fall Brook Coul Company. . ,
Also, an act authorizing the Auditor General to open
and settle the accounts of Jobn Donaldson „ ,
Mr. GRAHAM, an act extending the charter of the
Back of PlttabuTK - _ • „
Also, an act incorporating the Pittsburg and Franklin
Railroad
Mr. LOWEY moved to bold an evening session. Not
agreed to.
The following billß were passed to a third reading:
Act relieving Daniel Fuller, a disabled soldier.
Act authorizing re examination of certain accounts be*
tween the State and Centre county.
Act changing the organization of the Courts of Com
mon pleas of Lancaster county. *
Adjourned until 11 o’clock A. M. on Tuesday.
The House was called to order At # P M
Mr GLASS offered a resolution appointing a committee
offive to invite General Grant (who is expected to ar
rive in Harrisburg on 7 uesday) to visit the Legislature.
n he resolution was adopted unanimously. ,
Various petitions for and against Sunday travel were
presented. .
Bills Introduced!.
Mr. GLASS, an act relative to the Western Fennsyl
vania Rnilroad. , , ta .
Mr. COCHRAN, of Erie, an act relative to sherlns,
which was passed finally. ,
A supplement to tlio Mount Alto Iron Company, and
an act incorporating the Newport final Uompiny. were
also introduced, wiih other local bills. Adjourned.
A Probable Movement into Texas.
A late letter from Leavenworth, Kansas, says
“General Steele, at Little Kock, is evlilontly eon*
centraling a force lor operations in conjunction with
Banks. He has an army of considerable magnitude
under his command. It is quite probable that he
will enter Louisiana and Texas by way of the old
Shiec-.veport emigrant route.
“General Blunt was promised, while at Washing*
ton, a command of 20,000 strong. Whether lie will
get it is doubtful. But as Brigadier Generals Jeff
U. Davis, Thomas Ewing, Jr., Robert B, Mitchell,
and Davies, of Island Mo, 10 notoriety, are ordered
hereto report to General Curtis, it » more than
piobable that some large operations are really in*
tended.
“The. 9th Kansas Cavalry, IJBO strong, are or
dered to General Steele. They leave here at an
early day.* 1
Public Entertainments.
Chestnut-street Theatre. —The manager of
the Chestnut determined at the opening of the sea
season to. organize a stoolc company the abilities of
whose several members should be proportionate and
great. He haß hitherto carried out his idea, in the
main, well. If his theatre is utterly devoid of the
attractions of the “star, 11 it is, likewise, destitute
of the unpardonabteldefloiencies of “sticks.” We
cannot came one member of his company who can
he classed with this abject condition. The theatrical
world, like every other sphere, has its levels and its
grades, and a performance may be acceptable to the
most hypercritical, and yet by no means produce
that exquisite keenness of delight experienced by a
sensitive witness of the acting of the grand old
masters of their profession. The management
of the Chestnut have succeeded admirably in
drawing paying audiences* The imaginative pub
lic have, indeed, sometimes dreamed of a the
atrical Utopia, where all the walking ladies should
be capable of being singing chambermaids, and
where all the singing chambermaids should be wor
thy of the rdlcs of leading ladies. Perhapß managers
of theatres are not fully awake to the fact that
Philadelphians are willing to support a really ex
cellent stock company. They prefer tti see a play
equally performed. They thoroughly enjoy an even
flow of cast. They are removed as far as possible
from the wish for importations from the West.
They claim the right not to have thrust upon them
performers who are privileged to earn a very re
spectable living in less intellectual communities,
but whom their expectations have left as unpro*
vided for as a seven months’ child. A part of these
remarks will apply to the company at the Slew
Chestnut, for although, we congratulate Mr. Grover
upon the evenness of the cast, we cannot bu^ think
that there is ample room for improvement. The
continued illness of Miss Denin, the indefinitely
prolonged absence of Mr. Barron, (in Washington,
we presume,) the non* appearance of Miss Johanna
Clausen, are remarked upon.
To place ourselves, however, upon the level upon
which Mr. Grover places his stock company, we
acknowledge that it is the only one in the city
capable of producing the plays which he has hitherto
procuced with the same success. Miss Gimber and
Miss Germon, the only ladies who appear to be his
principal cards, possess the the advantages of youth
and good looks. The male force is scarcely equal in"
these respects, though such qualities are not as
eagerly looked for in them. “Pure Gold” was pro
duced last evening. The plot, to state it briefly,
consists in the happy restoration to his daughter of
a father who had been imprisoned for a false charge
of robbery and murder. However excellent Mr.
Feaison may have been as Robert he loses
his efficiency as Frank Rockford. Mr. Chapman has
been so irresistably associated with the Germans
that his appearance in any other character sug
gests the analogy of a fish out of water. Mr.
Donaldson, who was Hawksaw in “ The Ticket
of-Leave Man,” was unexpectedly good as Sir Gerard
Fane , Bart. Mlbb Eftie Germon looked exceedingly
pretty as Helen Fortescue. She has clear, candid
features, and a charming completion. Miss Sophy
Gimber, on the other hand, marred her good looks
in Eveline Rockford, She was not dressed in good
taste, and her features were suffused with a chronic
blush. She acted, however, with her accustomed
feeling. One of the scenes—the first, at Baden-
B&den was new, and, being at Boden-Biden. of
course had tropical trees in the foreground. The
orchestra at this theatre is the most highly appre*
ciated in the olty. Although the company at the
.Chestnut is not precisely a star stock company, yet
the smoothness and general justice of its representa
tions ate such as render it, as a whole, one of the
pleasantest places of amusement in the city, and, as
such, for a time we leave it.
Actors 5 Ordbr or Friendship Ball.— Whin
evening, at Musical Fund Hall, the annual Drama
tic Chaiity fdtc will come off. It will be a costume
aDd a dress ball, at the option of those who partici
pate in it, and a very pleasant evening is expected.
Philadelphia County Medical Society.—
The Annual Address will be delivered by Professor
Samuel D. G-ross, M. D., retiring President, on Tues
day evening, March 8, at 8 o’clock, in the Hall of
,tbe University (upper building). Subject—“ The
Mutual Relations and Obligations of the Medioal
Profession and the Public.”
Labgh Positive Spring Sale of Boots,
Shoes, Brogatss, &c.—The early attention of pur
chasers is requested to the large assortment of boots,
shoes, brogans, Ac., embracing samples of 1,100
packages of first-class seasonable goods, of city and
Eastern manufacture, to be peremptorily sold by
catalogue, on four months* credit, commencing this
morning at 10 o’clock, by John B. Myers A Co.,
auctioneers, Nos. 333 and 23* Market street.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Philadelphia, March 7. 1864
Gold ruled steady at 161>5@152. The various rumors
from the several army departments did not much affect
it. Government securities advanced largely. The five
twenties sold up to lG9’a; April and October seven
thirties up to 112)£, with a demand for all classes. The
money market is still largely over-supplied, and rates
moderate.
The stock market is feeling the effect of the conlinued
cage, and all classes of securities are advancing. Read
ing was the special object of attention to-day—-rising to
71M» closing firm. The large earnings of this company
are being appreciated by the public, and the present
price of the stock is fully warranted by the prospects Of
the coming season. Pennsylvania was not offered under
72>a; 76 was bid for Beaver Meadow; Catawbsa preferred
advanced to 45h£i North Pennsylvania to 36?.j; Camden
and Amboy to 175; 63& was bid for Minehill; 49 X for
Little Schuylkill; 37J4 for Elmira; Girard College at
30&; Ridge-avenue at2OK; Seventeenth and Nineteenth
at 1834.
Fulton Goal was in strong demand, and rose to 73i,
with heavy sales. Big Mountain rose to 93« ; Girard at
6X ; Green Monntain *t 7.
Schuylkill Navigation, sympathized'with, the upward
movement in Beading, the common rising to 35. the pre
ferred to 47-closing X lower. Union Canal bonds sold
at 3&!s. Canal stocks generally are neglected, and the
better class of securities in demand at higher figures.
The market closed strong.
Jay Cooke A Co. quote Government securities, Ac., as
follows;
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U. 6. 7 S*lo Notes, Aug ~~ 1093S@110*
•• Oct —luk&uzx
U. S. new Certifieates of Indebtedness.—,—. 9034$ 99&
Quartermasters’Touchers 9S3i@|99
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Five-twenty bonds - 109 -SOllO
Registered 110 @lll
Deliveries of 5-20 bondß made to January 19, inclusive.
Quotations of cold at the Philadelphia Gold Exchange.
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Clearings. Balances.
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October 6
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March 7.
The New York Evening Pont of t,, 4ay f; _
One of tie most giatifylng feature* , *
rapid advance in Government «eruriti c
demand is very large. Before tea o’clock i ••
a quarter of a million ofnve*twentiijft w» rf . -
street for Amsterdam*
Gold has risen to 162. ana ©Zenana is \
The loan market Is very abando aiiy 1 •
cent., and the transactions at 6 are mon. . '
last week. The currency from the WV t ' ;
its way to this city in considerable V -> -i..* 1 ’
plethora of capital which is now aer>fcj. u . !
vestxneit will be shortly relieved by it,.; v
ten-forties, for which the plates are iq-m " -
most co mpleted. '
7he stock market exhibits the npual c,.-
&n exuberant supply of anevploycd c-,n’“' -
ereahieg currency Specnlation H ax-iW;.
most descriptions of securities are rapid] l ''> ~
Coal stocks are strong; Centralis iniu*-/ I ''
Ameiicanat 1C8@109; Pe: m-ylvatiU at iivi
warennd Hudson atV22;and L'olaw,
and Wettirn at 22?. • ' ,ir,s ‘ L
. Railroad shares are excif- d .n j -
Michigan Southern, and rOdaiuir ’’
attention. Jl ° K aHractii*
Before thefi«ts«s«;ioß
New York central at !:?o -..a v ,- , fC ! ‘‘
@lfcS>£. Michigan,b.miheni . ■;*}{ **■*s>'■
at Pittsburg at i'.,h fl jk , 1 J» ln, &
Rock IsiflndU 124'.'‘2 S 2l - 0
North Western at 1
Tn© appended ta»>;o U;-j cbWf
the board compared with thoii-.loet
United States 6s, 1881, regie.......1'1g 11 r.‘l ••
United States 6s. 1681. coupon n>: ii,;'
United State* eeven-thirciee in p. :
United States I year eer., g01d... .103 »;v ;
Do. do corrsr.cy.. V
American Gold. .......1615,' \r- "'
TennoMßO Sixes 62 6.-.
EfUfourl Slxea 73 • 7 7 ’
FacificMail. 229 '
Nctt York Ceiitr*! Rnffroad h7->
Erie- 118>£ 117 ,
Erie Preferred - 110 }.y-. [
Hudson River -
Earlem 143 H 74
Harlem Preferred jns
Reading 141 j;*fl
Mleblgr.n Central .144 ?s.•{
Michigan Bonth «b li 'i jn -
Mifhlgan jruarttr*tie4...h!io )4R'
Illinole Central 5crip......... jjgjf- isg
Pittsburg j2i 520
Galena.-.. v i2n?f -iu»i£
Fort Wiinc 120 lil
Mil. and Prairie Du Chiea........ 72 67k
TerreHaate 74 7n\,
Northwestern ssm
Canton 61 >4 53
Cumberland Si 1 ., ft,
Quick silver...... .............. 09 fjO
and Alton Ss
Burlington end Quincy ....14$ 14'i
>ffer the board tho marke*’-was firm; Kr*a
Hwriem at 147r.4®148, Readi:;g«t Hi
Central at 144>a. Michigan Boucbernat 104>5
170/a- Fort W&vneatlzi.Vf, NorUnves.ernat.it,
beriaDd at S4H.
Philadft. StocJU: Exchi
C Reported by S. 33. Spatmakb]
BEFORE :
6CO Sch Nav Pifd... b2O 45
100 do 2dys4s
K 0 do s6&int4s
]fo do t-5 4kH
500 _do bfikiot 4B}£
100 Peedicg R t SO
200 do bln 45H
ICO d0......156i*1nt45}?
100 do 45k
300 Sch Nav 33}*
FIP&T*
500 U S 5*20 Bds 108«
COCO do .......full l(8fc
880C0 do 10U
ircco U STr 7*30 Nts. -112?**
fi'UO City 6s New-IOFJa
1800 FnJton Coal 7^
200 d 0..-.. b3O
2ToGreen Mountain.. 7
S 5. Girard Mining-... 6
300 do b3O
40SchylNav...Pref
300 do..2dys Pref MX
ICO do .blO.-.Pref 46X
500 do..cash.Pref 46
200 do Pref 46
SOOO d0..65, 1882... 06J£
2CO do S3^
sro do rm
200 do.*b6*intPrf
1300 do 34
IfOOO Union Cl Bds, b 5 30X
6000 d 0... cash SOX
between
100 Fulton C0a1....b30 7?*i
ICO Girard Gr.lE »-M',
100 Reading R. .....eSO
100 do.*. 2<iys 69k i
SECOPD
100 Bch Kav Pref. 46ft 1
60 do Pref 97
100 do 2dysPref 46ft
£6O do Pref 46%
60 do Pref 46%
£OO City «’s 10SM
450 Fulton Gcal....bFO 7ft;
400 do catla 7ft
3C2 Phil & Erie R- cash -88%
S 3 Ridge *y R ....... 20ft
32 Fenna R 72ft
'BE I
SO Bch Nav 36
200 Lou gls K... .«6wn 47
lf'o i!atawi*Baß....l>3(i 2?}£
26 First Natßk... b6H7>f
QLOSIKGPB
Sid. Ask.
US6< 81.m.......11l
UBT 73-10 Rotes. 113
PhllaCs 10 m -.
l)o new 109
Penna6b-..,,,.,.. 97
Eeadtr g B 71 71
Do bda ’7O~-»..106
Do 6s *B6
Do 6s’Bo 43
Priina, R 72
Do Dtm 68-
Do 2dm 6s 112 113
LSehnj Drill 8...109 ..
Morris C’l consol. 73 75
Do pTef........139
Bchnyl Nav Stock 35 86>£
Do pref. 46ia 47
Do 6a *B2. S6>£ ..
Elmira E S7>£ 38. M
Do pref.......
Do 7s j 73
L Island R 4B 47
Lehigh Fav....t. 61 62
Do *crip 05 . •
PMla&Erie 8... SSH SS‘a
March 7
The Plcur markf t continues inactive, bat priori
without change- Pales reach about S:0 bbls Wedon* •
tra family at s7@7 57 for fair to good, and
Mills extra on private term®, The rotailera and &a'i:
are buying moderately, at from $6(38.25 for sonar::
$6.5C@7 for extra; $6.75@7 75 for extra family, an-3 >i
9. SO 3* bbl for fancy brands, according to quality, ?,■
Hour is dull; small sales ara making at $6 bbl. C r
Meal is also very dull, and we hear of no sales,
GRAlN.—Wheat la rather firmer, but the deni:;.:
limited; about 4»CCO bus sold at $1.6G@1.62 for vr,
Fennsylvania reds, and white at from sLCs@l''> ;
bn, according to qnalltv. Rve is steadr; tmu!
are making at $1 iC@l 33 bu. Corn is in daniia
and prices .have again advanced, With Bale? 0* fi’o
£O.OOO bus vellow. mostly afloat, at $1.20*312;. v
bu. in store Oats continue dalJ:al.
4,000 "us sold at S3@&4c bu tor good Pennsylvania-
BARE .—Quercitron, continues veryduil; first No. I
offeree? at $37 ion.
COTTON.—There is very little doing iu the way:
sales, and the market costiDues verv dull. Snuii :-n
of middlings are reported at 78@73c lb, cash.
G E OCERiEs —lu Coffee there is very little doiusr, V.
the market is firm.and prices looking up. ’Sugar is s! !
very firm, small sales ol Cuba are making at c;s
IP ID
PETROLEUM. —There is no material change to a-v.!«
sales reach about 1. ICO bbls, in lots, at for Crab
45@46&'c for Refined, in bond, and 53@55c V- gallon &
free, according to quality
SEELS. —Gloverseed continues' very dull, and p'- tt
are rather lower; aboutBff bushel* sold at $7.7-5 f ‘.u }•
Timothy is selling at *3.25@53.60, and Flaxseed a: t
bushel,
provisions.—There i? not much doing in any Kii
but the market is steady, Small sales of Mess Pork
**523.50 bbl,- 200 casks pickled Hamsun*
l;-s@14c $ ib; 35,000 lbs Shoulders, in salt, at ftV?l c
the latter rate in boxes, and Sides at ll!j<&!l£ic ?*■
Lard is steady at for tierces, and 15H@lfo 7'
for kegs
WHISKY is firmly held at 94@90c for Peansylviub
and Western bbls, and drudgeat9o(©9lc
The following are the receipts of Hour and Grila u
this port to-day *
Flour,.. bbU.
Wheat. hn«-
Corn. ..20.5i0 bas.
Oats, i ***....... .*♦* ~,4.100 bas.
PhllAdelphla Cattle Market,
The arrivals and tales of Beef Cattle at Philip
Avenue Drove Yard are larger this week, reaching
about 1,722 head; the market in consequence Is dslL
and prices have declined; Ist quality Pennsylvania *ii
Western 8 leers are selling at from 13>4©i4&e; a few
choice sold at 15c; 2d quality at from 12@18c; and'con*
mon at from Bup to lb as to quality. The aratSws
closed dull at these rates, and several sales wars ruih
late in the day at lowot prices than the above.
aw I T uho ? t change; atoout 20° head sold at fir®
82i@50 w head, as to quality, ■*.
dTlll ; 10 ' 000 head arrived and sold at froia
7%@8}4 ¥ lb, gross.
HOGS are firm; about S,Boohead »old at the dittwat
T a jdP. at prices ranging fr. m slo®l2 the 100 lbs. n«.
Ihe cattle on sale to-day are from the fo’l'wUt
etaiesr
1.(50 head from Pennsylvania
400 head from Ohio.
3tQ head from Illinois.
The following are the particulars of the sales;
_ Martin ft bhnver, 115 We»;tern and Lancaster count!
Stee- s. telling at from 12K@14cfor good to extra.
. P. Hathaway. 60 Lancaster coonty Steers, sellia? at
.from 12?-2@I4>aC, ihe latter for extra.
™A.^ l i u . eif . A Vo- , 60 Western Steers, selling at from
12@14c for fair to extra.
tlllman ft Bachman, 80 Chester county Steers, selling
at from. 12@14>*c for fair to extra.
Joses McCltee, IS Chester county'Steers, eelliul s'
from ii@lac for common to extra
John Kixwtn, ai Ohio Steers, selling at froml2@l4cftt
fair <0 extra.
7* Chester county Steers, selllnsr at fto“
U@l4c for common to extra,
• B. O. Baldwin, 24 Chester county Steers, selling at
from ll@l4c lor common to extra
Mooney ft Smitb,l4o thlo Steers, wailing at from 11 ni>
to c for common to extra.
Owen Smith. S&UPnOifi Blears, selling at from
for common to choice.
C Amman 42 Lancaster county Steers, selling at from
ll@l6c for common to choice.
hanaker ft Brother, 61 Ohio Steers, selling at from II
@l4c for common to extra. * 1
Frank ft Shamberg, 75 Western Steers, selling at troffll
10@l«o for common to extra J
L. Frank. 15 Pennsylvania Steers, selling at fromd@
l?c for common to good,
Christy ft Brother, 2i Ohio Steers, selling at from 13®
14c for fair to extra.
.The arrival* and *ales of Cows at Phillips’ Aveaoe
Drove Tara reach about 200 head this Week There D *
good demand, and prices are unchanged. Springers ars
selling ai ftrom and Cow and Calf at SM®- I ’-)
head, according to quality.
Gai ver. About head sold at prices ranging to®
e©7c m, &b to weight and Condition.
THE 6HBEP MARKET.
The arrivals and sales of Sheep at Phillips’ Avanti*
Dr<-ve Yard are larger than they have been fot‘
time past, reaching about 10.000 head; the marketla c*'
sequence la very dull, and prices have deoTined Com
mon to fair Sheep are selling at from 7&7Kc aid ff aoi w
extra at prices ranging from lb gross
THE HOG MARKET.
Themarket continues firm; about3.Boo head sold
Saa DroTe
fro'i t |.C@l2 S the mSfZl**"' VMOn DrOT9 T>li “ l
SiO fcea« sold at the Avenue Drove Yard hv T.
ft Co ,at irom §ll@l2 the 100 lbs net 1 a * - J
lCOllfad sold at PhlUipH ft M*nth*n 'Riaino-gnn DfOVB
T«d. at from >lOOl2 the 100 lfaT. a?cor^ln g qaalitT-
Kew Kork market,, march T.
mS?£nllnSB°d£to“ ld6d chan ® 9 in wttk ainodr
*B i <frrfi>7 T ?n 9 f?°° *t >6.4508 6!) for ,aperfl»»
sr'i’mn’w mi'?. s^ *o BP'kK brantlß of ’round-iioop OMo at
.JP™ 4 ® of a ° at * 7 40® ) W ,
a., rn , on X.' fl rathor morn stoadr. withamodorato
«J®7 7#‘for Bupaifina Baltt
more. and>i,Bo®loSofor.xt.ado, .
Canadian Hour Is firmer, with sales of 600 bbls at &.35
@ J> r £. *amoD, and $7 05®8 for good to choice extra
Jfbmr its-quiet and firm at |5.5C@3.50 for the raa«®
01 fine and tnperfine.
towJ?? 8,1 ls , steady at previous prices. , j^ l 4
„w neat is quite firm, with a moderate
aovanee; sales &f 9J,(00 bushels att1.60®1.63 for
Springj *1.61@1.6j for Milwaukee Club; 1-Gl@l B 2 for
SSfS?y^R a fA ee * W-W@l7l for wtuter red Western
and >1 7e for amber Micklgan.
Bye la steady at >1 28@1.50. , , «
Barley la steady, with sales of 10 500 bU'hois at * 1 "
for Etate unA Eastern, and >l5O for prime Canada j
>» with a fair demand: sales I»•“
prime Western mixed, eash, to
*V 3,1 ®1 355; for do. regular; *l3O for uoaooad. > 3J
>1.28 for new Fennsylvauia. _ -„i
V e s mor »nd s6lllnc at 90@910 for Canada. a» J
91@92af.r State and Western ,
Bat.—North rlvAr haled Is sU&dr&t $1.25(31
shipping, and >1.1001.45 for retail lots. ,
f ov* qutot, and common grades are heavr*
primeloteareiteady; ealea 7,5 bales at 23® :2c w)lAj f
Tea —The market is active end firm; 385
chests natural leaf Japans. 1.050 Greens. 850 G.eea*
English order, asd 11*000 Oolongs at faU price*
s’!
Bl
* tin.
| Loans, j ; f , - -.
137,879,673 1! Ska!
37.2ri3,894'4,002..^,
.**7,901,030 4,267 fiMP ~JV ,
37j5i«..m ist&U-.:,. V ■■■-
3t>,597,294 137,4.7 .»<.
37,143,937 4, V- * i-
.r;--'
34,390,179:4,167k" .77
35,773,596 4 1J
58.798.830 l 1 22-
3£WPo.42lj4,te|ftM • •
36.414 704 U lbr;S-‘-,
35,098.80814,1ns
84mi£8 4,1 C ™
34.UG.fi75 'XV*ih]
SI/rtOJK 4,*pV.|, ,• ( M.<
85,059,«7«U, 102 r,',v •
35>)3.334j4,102.672i>’; •
ia»g© Saleif ainir
m, Philadelphia £ X(: .
BOARDS.
200 Fulton Coal C-
do ,
SOI Beading
201 do '*
200 do ‘ v
• 00 do .. "
200 . d 0....,, t
400 do 1
500 do ).
board.
;000 tsi mira 5s
lsl7ch&l9thl<M.
ioj do •
-1«5 do Wr (
200 sli H
400 do
ino do *
150 do
1400 d 0...
?50 do
son do b f
60 do
29 do
30 do
60 Cam & Arab R
1000 Penna R. .\*i L v
SO do c u - ■
19 Catawissaß.
650 Philida ft Ei
50 Girard Colletf*’ R
BOARDS
100 Reading R.... *ir.
100 Lodst Island H •’
100 Camden. & Am h
BOABD.
20 Penna R
5200U55 20Bond.in,
lonn- do ..re:
6CO Big Mountaiu . .
200 Beading R.
100 do b'A.;-
800- do V,
350 do ;r
300 do
2CO„ do hr,**
8 Par & Mech 8i...
JOARDB.
60 Little Sch R j
104 Penna R *<\ v <
15 do
tICES—FIRM.
tfPennaK........ &;•.
Do 6s c.;
CatawiK«a R Coin ■■■■
Do peef.. 4'
Second-ft B i
Fifth st R... *>l
Tenth stR .v- ■
Thirteenth-«tR.. ;
Seventeenth-st R. ik,
Sprnce-st R
UhSbtDUt-Bt £.... ?;
WPliilaß 72
Areh-etR ?
Race st B '2O ■
Green-st R........ 4! •
Girard Coileee R 30
Lombard st R.... 17
Ridge ar R....... 2-j ; i ;
Sasq Canal •
Mid Coal Fields.^
*>il Cree^Co--..*-prj i
Big Hoantain. .. ■>:
Green Monntaiu.. -•
Fulton Coal.«-"- .
Philadelphia Marketo
March 7—Eveaia?-
COWS AND CALVES