rrttfi PRESS. t, PATH ffICEDATS IXUftTTftUI roEUBY, *’ til SOUTH PODETH BTBSR. Off * 0ti St daily press, _ Pll Weak, beteMs to tbs svrUlt out of tha city At Sets* DoIIABS Jea ftzn Qat.i.arh un Putt Carrs toe Six Pomak abd Betihtt nva Cbbts fob TTT’jjjt-e*. UanlßblTlß adTAEca tor tiatlma or- bunted %709 GOODS, DSHIMS, TICKS, STUPES, SHIRT INGS, *».. from Tarlonx Hill*. iSCOURSH, IAMILTON, & STARS) S 3 LETITIA. Street* end ■MrsmtsaS 33 Sooth TKOXTT Btrert. OBAOB SOUI/E, COMMISSION MERCHANT^, 8* NORTH FRONT STBKBT. PTTTT.ATIHI.FgIA* it for ft, BAXOHVniT ,B MILLS. COTTON YARNS, “4 *“4i«-sygf^Sf 4 bT PBALL, oakmaJt, othsr Treil-known Mills. CARPETS. [TIBBKTAL HILLB, IfTGRAIN. AtTD VBSITIAE • CARPETS. . LINEN THREAD. SAHPSOB’B ARGTLB, VIAOBMT MILLS. MoDOBALD’S- BOOSBIHPEHB’. gonslafcr HOBACB H. SODI.B, .SB 38 Morta MOOT Bint*. (J 3 ! BAGS! BAGS I gW AND SECOND-HAND. BIAMLB3B. BURLAP. JJHJ> GUEfJffT BAGS* [OHN g#&y^ R o^ T %&fr. lain bags.—A LaBGE assobt un of GBAIH BAGS, itoa «!««• tax BARCROfT Bt CO., -Cn Hoe. «Ol ni AOT MARKET Strait. [IPLEY, HAZABD, & HUTOHIN IO*' 80. 1U CHEBTHBT STREBT. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, TOR THX sale or PHILADELPHIA-MADE! GOODS. fi-6m CARPETINGS., 10H-STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE. EttiEcrUisr Lee jnst received a well-edlectsd. clock of ENGLISH AND AMSBICAN CARPETINGS, FOB SPUING TBADB. JOS. BLACKWOOD, 16-Sm HI ARCH STREET,'BELOW NIHTH. 64. spbing, 1864, LESS echo mills, gsrhaktowk. pa McOALLUM & CO., staotdreee. importbks. asd wholesale dealers ih OABPBTINGS, OK CLOTHS, Ac. arehonae, 500 Chestnut Street, OrroSITE HTPEFEHDEEOE HALL. EGIAL NOTICE* BET AIL DEPARTMENT! HcCALLDM & CO. r leaoafcifonn the pnblie tbit they hare iMHdtbi It&bliehed Carpet Store, Mo. Sl9 CHESTNUT STREET, Ooppoilte Independence Hall, tot A BITAIL BIPARTMIKT. tbeT are bow openln* a NSW STOCK ol IFOSTED AID AMERftAH CARPETS, CAB .ynww. BineSKLSCBKFKrS. tetiiiT x fall kwortment ofeverytMnf W»Wa* 'tin Qumt'SiutaUfNk fUL-tf_ [TEKPRIBK MILLS. hlWm, BALSTON, A ‘iornssuts isi> TraoLisAii ciAUsa nr C4BPSTINGB, OIL-CLOTHS, iJiTTINGS, &0., Ac. ABEHtKJSB, «» CHESTHTJT STBEBT, •U JITB* STRUT. on CLOTHS, die. W_ BLARON A CO., MAHUFACTUBRRB OF OIL CLOTHS, 31 HOBTH THIEF STREET, PHILADELPHIA, o the Trade a full Stock of .OOR, TABLE, AND CARRIAGE OIL CLOTHS. 3ES-GLAZED OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW -2m SHADES. ORGE W. HILL, Macnfactorer and Wholesale Dealer in MATTINGS, RUGS. ALSO, COTTON AND WOOLEN TARNS. At very Low Prices. '"6 HOSTS THIRD STREET. ABOVE ARCH, Philadelphia. 9KUGS. beht shoemaker a 00., ! «si Qenai of TOOSTH ui SiCB StrnU, ?ariiADja.?HiA, OLBBAIiB DItDGQISTS, >STns MB SIALXBB I* foßEiax in Bojrsgnc *WI>OS un) SLATS SLABS. ■AWVAovmtssa or »i lead im zuro paijits. rtrmr. *& AQUTI FOR, m CHUBB HATH!) bench zinc paints. K*** «<>Mmurt supplied at VSBT LOW P3ICSB TOB 04SH* GAS FIXTURES, Ac. CHARLES PAGE,' taotrn for the lent twenty yean ae Prlflcl toer °r <3 AS FIXTURES for 11E-BEB. COBSELIUS * BAKES, ay Emitted a Partner In our firm. (lil tie sole and maaaf&ctnr* of gas fixtures * rL ‘ GHtae of TAX KIRK h CO., AT FBAHBFOED. ABOH BTBEBT. ' *• ! »4- felS-fmw2m hotels. k KUe HOUSE” v . * WASHINGTON, D. C. •nth*?®* leased the above House* b ?VBNTH Street and PBDhS >a;ma/°* v a **rm of years, he solicits the - '■»-M house, Harrisburg, pa., ! SiEKET STREET UfD BASKET wmm Terau, *2 p« 4»r. WANS & WATSON’S , V' BTOM, BAiAM '* J ' Daß BAH W AOfh FOURTH STUBS? I Tl>l tHILADSLPHIA. paT*** ’W«ty of JTBI-PBOOT BAFSS tin,, „ ■ WABEHOUSE. IRVING, & 00, eh.,,. 810 MTOH BTKKKT. l *a>lDMS?£ t WHaPPSKB ’ BOOBL * *»• “ 4CBOWH MAJHUiAoi W J“»I4 for rope in lire* or unJi qmnti- VOL. 7.—NO. 203. “A T detail." JAS. R. CAMPBELL & CO., 727 CHESTNUT STREET, laTite attention to their stock of STAPLE AND FANCY SILKS AND DXISSIS g-oods, Of very recent Importation* embracing ft. moat oxton-* Hive and desirable assortment, that they hay. OTer offered. COURVOISIER’S KID GLOVES, BLACK, WHITE. AND GOLOBBD. MOURNING GOODS. 8-4 and 8 4 BAREGE HERNANI. 1-4 And B*4 GRATE MARETZ. B*4 And »4 TAMARTINES. 8-4 And 8 4 DELAINES. BYZANTINES And FLORENTINES, a, FRENCH And ENGLISH BOMBAZINES. ALPACAS, In All qiulltlm. MOURNING JACONETS. BLACK SILKS In great variety. / All wldthe and beat brande. mhfl-lm JjEW MOURNING STORE. The undersigned would reepectfollr announce that they Are now roeeivlng tboir SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK MOUBNING GOODS, Bareges. Crepe Haxetze, Einanls* Grenadines, Talmatines. uli&lile' FlOTectwet SHAWLS, Shetland* Grenadine, Silk, Barege* Late Tissue. &e.» &e.. ... in a wtt.es of the newest styles. __ _____ , ▲ splendid assortment of LIGHT BILKS always on t “ d workmen, eu no. nUe the utmost utDfution So all who may fayor thoai rlia their custom The Beualrinc business will be continued bv Me fACOB LOUDfiiigLAQHIL at the old stand? onOLOVXS Kiml. r«r of Concert Mall. laf >Sm OF REMOVAL. The nndereicned would Inform their friend* end the public generally that they hey* removed from their Old Btand> 617 ABCH Street, to their SPLENDID NEW WABEBOOMS, NO. SIS ABOH BTHSET) where they will continue the tale of GAS FIXTURES, CHANDELIERS, COAL-OIL BURNERS, &c. o. H. HAMM. associated with our house Mr. OHABLIB (formerly the Principal Designer for- Cornelius s. Baker,) we are now prepared to execute orders for 6m nZturM of all grades and deeign*. from the to the most massive and elaborate, VAN KIRK A OCX, feM-Sm Vo. 016 ABOH STREW- niICQUOT CHAMPAGNE. WIDOW GLIOQUOT PON6ABDI* or iriUfilM: tOT *° th * lrada •*«“ 200 bukatl LATOUK OLIVB OIL. WILLIAM H. TBATOM A 00.. Ml Boatli IKO*T «!•*. retail dry goods. Mozambique*, Organdies,. Poplins, Valencias, Lawns, Mohairs, Foulards. Sc . Sc, ALSO, XOUdb CHBSTgQT BTHBBT. SPBDfG TRADE. E M. NEEDLES 10)14: CHESTNUT STREET. CARRIAGES. ■!T.g AHD dry-goods jobbers. JUST RECEIVED, IN CHOICE AND ELEGANT DESIGNS, FRENCH ORGANDIES, JACONETS, AND PERCALES. ALSO. RICH AND HANDSOME NEW STYLES SPRING |AND SUMMER SSAWXiS. M. L lIALLOWELL & CO., mh26-tf 613 CHESTNUT STRKKT. 1864. 1864. DRY GOODS 1 RIEGEL, ” WIEST, & EMIN, IMPOBTKBS AHD JOBBBBS OF DRY GO ODS, HO. AT H. THIRD STREET. PHILADELPHIA. Hit, now In store. and ars daily in receipt of, all kind, of FRESH SPRING DRY GOODS. or THB TEST LATEST BTTLBS. Have a roll Stock of all the different kind, of PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. Honhanta will and it to their interest to call and me amine oar stock, as we can offer them UNEQUALLED INDUCEMENTS. mhfl-2m OHABLKB WATBOS. FRABKUR JiSIIY. SILK HOU^E. WATSON & JAOET, HO. 3»3 UASEBT STBBBT, WHOLESALE DIALHBS Iff SILKS, DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, &C. To whleh they respectfully Invite the attention of buyers. mhS-Sm 1864. SPHINO ’ 1864. JAMES, KENT, SANTEE, & CO,, IHPOKTXBS ADD JOBBBBS or DBY GOODS, ffJBSO and 84-1 NORTH THIRD ST., above Rase, PHILADELPHIA. Rare now open their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK FOBBIOM AHD DOMESTIC] DRY GOODS. Rotwlthstandlnc the scarcity of many kind, of Dry Soodi, ooi .took la now full and varied in all lta da partmenta. Special attention is Invited to our assortment of PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. A fall assortment of Cloths» Caeslmeres, 4te» A full assortment of Prints, DeLalnes, &e. A fall assortment of Notions, White Goods, fte. A fall assortment of Sheetings, Shirtings, 4c. „ ~ A full assortment of Ornish Goods, he. fell '3m CASH HOUSE. GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD FOB CASE LITTLE & ADAMSON, 3*5 MARKET STRBBT, Invite attention to their entire new and Splendid Stock SPRING DRESS GOODS. BLACK BILKS, MOURNING SILKS, FANCY BILKS, POULT DE BOIES. SEASONABLE SHAWLS, CLOAKING CLOTHS, MANTILLA SILKS, MANTILLAS, Manufactured hr themselves from lato Fails Styles. fllhl»2m 1864. 1864. SPUING DRY GOODS. GBBAT INDUCEMENTS TO CASH BUYERS. HOOD, BONBRIGHT, & CO., Wholesale Dealers la TORBIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, MB BASKET Street, end 526 COHMEBCB Street. PHILADELPHIA. Would respectfully levitc attention to their LABGfB STOCK of leading DOMESTICS, DRESS GOODS, MEN’S AND BOYS’ WEAR, utd man, popular cool, or PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURE. mU-Sm H|EUOB, BAINS, A MELLOB, Noe. 40 and «S NORTH THIRD STREET. IMP ORT B R 8 OP HOSIERY, SMALL WARES, ira WHIT E GOOD S. MANUFACTURERS OF SHIRT FRONTS. fol-Sm 1864. SPRING, EDMUND YARD & CO., No. (IT CHESTNUT AND No. «14 JAYNE STREETS, Hay, now In Store their SPRING IMPORTATION of SILK AND FANCY DOT GOODS, ootrsiewHo op DBESB GOODS, OF ALL KINDS; BLACK AND FANCY SILKS, BATINS, GLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS, AND DRESS TRIMMINGS. ALSO. wma GOODS, LUIEIfB, BMBKOIDIBUB, AND LACKS. A lana and handaome aaaortmant of SPRING AND SUMMER SHAWLS. BALMORAL SKIRTS, - Oftilsrade*. ft*. Which they offtr to th* Trad* at Uu LOWEST PRICKS.* jaSO^m £JHOIOE SPRING IMPORTATIONS, 1864. DAWSON, BRANSON, & CO., 601 MARKET STREET, CORNER OF FIFTH, ; Eutc now in store, and will be constantlySrecelving, during the season, an attractive line of PARIS, GERMAN, AND BRITISH DRESS GOODS, BLACK SILKS, STAPLE AND FANCY SHAWLS, So., fta All of which will b* soli at the f«2S-im LOWEST MARKET PRICES. IMPORTERS. ALEX. WRAY & CO., u. a 39 CHESTNUT Street. Philadelphia, Importer, of British DRY GOODS. HOSIERY, GLOVES, tte, , Ac , have just opened, in addition to the above, a very large and varied assortment .of MEN’S SPRING UNDEBShIRCS, coneletingof Merino, Imitation Me* rino, India Cause, and Brown and White Cotton, to which they most respectfully invite the attention of buyers. fe29-lm* (PAINTINGS AND BHGRAVIEGS, JjjLEGANT MIRRORS, A LARGE ASSORTMENT. NEW ENGRAVINGS, FINE OIL PAINTINGS, JUST RECEIVED. EARLE’S GALLERIES, no2l-tf 816 CHESTNUT STREET. WINES AND LIQUORS. IMPORTERS OF *• WINES AND LIQUORS, LAOMAN, BALLADE, SS ctoSP"* No. >l* CHBSTNUT STBBBT, Tour doer* below the Continental. PAPER HANGINGS. gOT.TC PAPER HANGINGS. HOWELL & BROS., Ninth and Chestnut Streets, Would offer to their customers and the public A SPECIALITY IN PAPER-HANGINGS, EXCLUSIVELY THEIR OWJf MANUFACTURE* VIZ. SILK INSERTINGS IN PAPER HANGINGS, To vHcb they ask the attention of parties seeking BIOH DECORATIONS FOB PARLORS, Ac., HOWELL & BROTHERS, 8. W. COBNEB NINTH AND CHESTNUT. 1864. We would also respectfully invite the attention of our customers to our Hew Styles of PAPER HANGINGS. DECORATIONS, Ac., Ac., for Parlors, Halls* Chambers, Ac., Ac. mhl6-wfmBtfp 1864. PHILADELPHIA PAPER HANGINGS; HOWELL A BOUME, MANUFACrUBKKS or "W ALL lE> .A. IE» E IR. S 3 AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS. COR FOURTH AND MARKET STS., PHILADELPHIA. V. B.—A fine stock of LINEN SHADES constant!, on hud. faQ7-2mft> gFRING GOODS. EDWARD P. KELLY, JOHN KELLY, TAILORS, 619 CHESTNUT STREET, (JONES'HOTEL.) LATE 143 SOUTH* THIRD STREET, Hat. jut resolved a lain stock o! choice SPRING GOODS. TO LBT.-BOOMB DP BTAIBB, SIS, Bid CHBSTNCT BTKEBT. feJ3 tf CEDAR AND WILLOW WARE. QRE AT OPENING OF CEDAR AND WILLOW WARE. THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY. NOW SELLING AT BARGAINS. S,OOO DOZ. COBH BROOMS. 8.000 DOZ. FANCY PAINTED BUCKETS. 1,000 NESTS CBDAB WASH TUBS. 3.000 CEDAB STAFF AND BABKEL CHUBNB. 1,000 DOZ. WILLOW MABKBT BASKBTS. 3,000 BALES COTTON-WICK AND TIE YABM. 3.000 BALES BATS AND WADDING. N BETIOULB BASKETS. OIL CLOTHS. LOOKING GLASSES. CORDAGE, As., Ae. All Qooin are sold at the Mannfiwitnrer’* Loerect Out Frleaa. Olden promptly filled. BOWS & EUSTON, 15T and ISO NORTH THIBD BTRHET. mhl-Sm Three Doers below Bass. CA'BP BT&-JSOW IB THE TIME they are fresh, and yery best of colors. Just in. mh22 Im* WM. GRBAOHILB. ■ Wo. 44T J. SECOND St, bel. Noble,east atde. UHXON’S bTOYE POLISH. XJ GEO. F. GALE AGO.. uUi-la* Iw, dtwiOCfflWW^lbwik MANUFACTURER OF CIiOTHING. MONDAY, MARCH 38, 1864. HARRISBURG [Special Correspondents or The Frees. I Harrisburg, March 3S, IBM. THB BBASON AT HABBISBUBG. For several day* put thia city hu had a freah sup ply of pickpockets and light fingered gentry gene rally. Several member* have had their pocket book* disappear mysteriously, and we almost hourly hear of lome ’person being “relieved.” Several have been arrested thia week while industriously plying their vocation, and are now on the high road to jus tice. Thi* city ha* been aadly infested with thieve* thi* winter. It may, perhaps, be owing to It* being filled with returning soldier*, who generally have plenty of money, and are not upon the lookout for logues. A great many soldiers have been robbed during the past winter. Most of the otfender* have escaped detection, notwithstanding the yigilanoe of the police. To all outward appearances Harrisburg has been “gay and happy ” during the paat winter, and were it not for the thousands ef soldiers who have thronged our streets, we should not have realized that we ate In the midst or a terrible, mercileis, desolating warfare. The places of public amusement were never as well patronized before. All of them have been nightly crowded, and thia week we are to have an. other—a obureb having been bought up. remodelled, and turned'' into a coneert saloon. In this small olty there are now tlx places of publlo amusement, and all' of them well attended and considered as paying institutions. Brant’s. Hall baa been occu pied by Rouse?* combination troupefor the last two months, and no company ever met with such ane cess here. The ball has every evening been crowded to its utmost espaeity. IMPORTANT, BUSINESS BBPOBB THB LBGISLATUBB. The Legislature has much important business before them, and I predict a late session. I do not see how they esn finish before the middle of May. They have yet to act upon, and dispose of, the mili tary bill—which la of great length—the revenue bill, the apportionment and appropriation bills. The apportionment bill will be framed with muoh diffi culty. All cannot be suited, and there being but one majority, the Union members should be willing to sacrifice something for the general good. THE LAST CALL—RECRUITING IN THB BUBAL DISTRICTS. Since the last oall for 200,000 men there have but few new recruits come in. I think that oall just at that time bad a tad effect upon recruiting. In the rural districts the enthusiasm of the people has been seriously ehseked. Had it not been for this, our quota for 600,000 would ere this have been entirely filled. This call coming upon them when they were straining every nervy to fill the demands of the Government, has disheartened them, and in many instances counties have resigned themselves to the ehancea of a draft. If the draft comes off on the 10th of April, as reported in yesterday’s despatch from 'Washington, it will out into us heavily. It would have been better lor the Government to have filled tbe first oall before it made another. It would have had a better effect upon the country. The people here are looking anxiously to the Army of the Potomac, feeling that upon its success depends, in a great measure, the reiult of the coming campaign, Hverybody ha* the utmost con fidence in General Grant, and believe that he, in conjunction, with hie oorps commanders, will be more tban a match for Lee and his Army of Vir ginia. FRANK. HEW YORK. [Correspondence of The Frees. 1 New Yobh, March 26, 1864. A BATTLE DEHIND THB SCENES, The old English system of admitting “friends” in theatrical green-rooms has no counterpart among the more respectable managers of oar metropolitan theatres. In fact it is somewhat difficult for the un professional man to gain admission except he pin himself to the articulated skirts, or the apron-strings of some star—male or female—whose word is law, and not to be encezed at. However, the green-room of the Brooklyn Academy of Music appears to offer an exception to the general rule. A few nights ago, or e ©1 the very few miserable, fatuous beings,lounged into the gieen-room of the Academy. The play was the “ Duke’s Motto,” and Vestvali walked the stage in pantaloons, as Henri de Lagadere. After one of the exits she stepped between the wings, and was there met by tbe vendor of pins and needles, wbo, laying bis hand upon her with undue famili arity, greeted her as “bullv boy.” A scene ensued. Vestvali drew her sword, lunged at his pericardium, and placed his pectoral anatomy in periclitatlon. A friend of the tape-measuring-worm of the dust was likewise put in jeopardy, and fled in panic from the scene. The worm was severely cut, and paid a merited penalty for hi* brutal faoetious ness. It is said that the case will oome before the eourte; that the tape-worm of the dust is In a com posite state or what may be pithily called gangrene backs, Inasmuch at he desires to bind up his wounds with a portion of Vestvali’* salary, while she re torts with the charge of assault. The whole affair is shameful, showing that, as long as the green-room is open to such men, no actress is assured against insult. Of eourte, the worm ha* not yet told hi* story, and the'facts as here related are those which represent one side of the narrative. If they are true, however, the fatuous being will meet with little sympathy from judge, jury, or public. THE BENT QUESTION. The vast increase of taxe«, and the heedless ex travagance'of those In municipal office, hare had an effect to raise rents beyond toleration. New York is no longer a city for people with moderate in comes. A respectable income ia soon devoured, and those having nothing to fall back, upon must advance to the very northern boundary of the olty, or live in neighborhoods which, like comparisons, are odious. In view of these facts, efforts are now being made for the relief of such, and the press urges the adoption of 11 flats.” There are a few buildings in the eity divided into floors, comprehending a kitchen and an appropriate suite of rooms, suah as smaU families may find suited to their wants. These may be obtained at reasonable rents, and not a few have availed themselves of the accommodation thus offered. Doubtless, the .number will be vastly increased before another year has passed, and in this regard, we shall become quite Parisian. The fact is, that rents are beyond all precedent, and equally beyond all reason, In many Instances land lords are now demanding advances over the lut year of from fifty to seventy,five per cent,, and in some eases even more. How long we shall be able to put up with such disheartening inflations of value remains to be seen ; and whether persons ol moderate means will not be forced to fold thelrtents, like the Arabs, and silently steal away to some happier land where house-hire Is lower. And yet, tenants are plentiful, and there seems to be a greater number of would-be-hirers than there are dwellings to let. Especially Is this the esse in de sirable neighborhoods. A ehanee in Fißh avenue is a wind-fall to those who have auddenly acquired wealth through speculations. Such men love to vegetate in atiatooratio placet ; and for the privilege they are not only willing, but eager, to pay ex travagantly. oitt iTrssrs. A project for the erection of a French and Ger man theatre and opera house is being vigor ously agitated. A committee has. already been ap pointed, and subscriptions are being solloited. The sum to be ratsed is two hundred thousand dollars; the locality fixed updb, in the neighborhood of Union Square. “ Joe Coburn,” pugilist and bar-room keeper, is about selling out his drag dispensary, and departing for Europe. Arrived in Great Britain, he Intends peppering Mace, the champion, and securing the belt. Of course there is mueh excitement in fancy circles. * 'William A. Smalley, whose name was mixed up With oustom-house frauds some time ago, has just been ordered to Fort Lafayette by General Dix, upon charges not yet eommunleated to the public. He was accompanied in his trip by a Mr. F. B. Marsh. The “ friends" have been good this pastweek. But rew murders are reported. Patrick Brennan quar reled with his partner, and ehopped his skull with a plate of glass, causing death within twenty-four hours. A delicious couple named Bowman have been arrested, by order of Coroner Hanney, charged with Inhuman treatment of a child fire and a half years old. The child died, and it is oharged that hia decease was lndlreetly hastened by auoh treatment. George W. Albro, a canal boat captain, had his head crashed by a lamp of coal which was thrown at him by one of tbe innocent people. A grand billiard tournament is to be given at Irving Hall, for the benefit of the Sanitary Com mission, The best players of the country are to par ticipate; inducing Phelan, and Estephe, Nelms, and Bird, of Philadelphia, Edwin Booth commences his engagement at Niblo’s, on Monday, in Tom Taylor’s “Fool’s Re venge.” The play is new to this eity. STUYVESANT. The Speaker’s Page. No one who has been accustomed to attend the sessions of Congress during the past fifteen years, baa failed to notice, at the right of the Speaker, a tall, slim, pale-faoed, bright-looking lad, who gradually grew up into manhood, and still re tained bis position and title, whieh was that of “Speaker’s page.” No matter what party was in power hr Congress, Thsd. fllorrloe was retained. Every new Speaker found him an almost In dispensable assistant. Standing just at the Speaker’s elbow, with his arm leaning upon the detk and his chin resting upon his hand, which was between the Speaker and the audi ence, in that attitude of whispering to the Speaker, the faithiul Thaddeus has stood, during many ses sions of Congress, the prompter of Boyd, Banks. Orr, Pennington, " roW, and Colfax. It is said he knew more of Parliamentary law than any man In Ame rica. And he knew every member of the House In all there Congresses; it was his speelal business to know them. No Speaker oould get along without such an assistant, At first. 'When Pennington was Speaker, a good portion of all the words he uttered were literally put iuto his ear by Thad. He did not know one-quarter of the members even by sight, and was sadly deficient in parliamentary law. When any member arose, he would say, “the gentleman from,” generally without the least idea what State he was to name, but to prompt wsi Thsd to give it, and so unobserved in doing so, that not one in a bundle d who was not cognizant with the process would imagine but what Pennington knew all the members. And many and many a time the old man would commence the statement of a question, not knowing how he was to finish nls sentenoe. whieh was furnished and finished by the youthful parliamentarian at his elbow. No Speaker that ever presided over the House was to well able to dispense with the services that Thad. Mortice performed as Schuyler Colfax, who is tbe most successful Speaker ever elected by an Ameriesn House of Representatives; yet Mr. Ool lex cannot fall to miss greatly the “Speaker’s page,” and many old members, amid the bustle and hurry of legislative affairs, will find time to indulge in a retrospective glance at the services, and pay a tribute to the memory of the ever faithful Thaddeu* »lorrlce, whose prompt and timely needrul word* will never be whispered Into the ear of another Speaker.—Cor. Missouri Republican, THE REBEL PRESS. A Sj>«ecK from JeffeiMn Davls-Officlol Re port of Gen- Joseph Johniton, ebc. File* of Richmond paper* from Msroh 15 to 21 fuiniah the following tnterortlng extracts: RECEPTION OF PAROLED PSI6OKBBS. Xhe prisoners wbieh &en. Butler sent up from Fortress Monroe, a few days ago, bad a grand time upon their arrival* A procession conducted them to Capitol Square, and Jeff Davie was called on for aft pee oh. Taking hi* stand .on the platform of the Washington monument, he welcomed the soldiers to their native lan& He had often heard of the severe trials to which they had been subjected in their captivity, and bis heart had reamed for the brave “boys” who had proved true under every trial, and had resisted every offer made to them to desert the fortunes of their country. Though they had passed through so many bitter trials, there were, perhaps, many yet in store for them ; but he knew that they would not shrink from, them—that they would assist in achieving the independence of the country, and in driving away the hated foe now pol luting our soil. [Cheers. ] After a brief respite, said the President, you will be again called to the battio field. *«I know you will come ” [Responsive shouts and cheers.] He hoped that they would all find their families better provided for than they might expect to do. The President closed by invoking tho bless legs of God upon those he'addressed. Davis was followed by Governor “Extra” W, Smith, who said he had not responded to the popular clamor for retaliation against the Joe because he knew that he would thereby sacrifice your lives. He forebore his tenderness to the soldiers we had in the hands of the enemy . The Governor told his* hearers that he wanted them to win new laurels, and thin, at the clore of the war, when they returned home, perhaps with a leg or an arm gone, they would talk to the “old woman” and who would clamber around their knee, how they put it to the Yankees here, or put it to them there. [Daughter.] They tell me, said the Governor, that I am getting old, but where there ift a Yankee dra woman to be met I wish it understood that I am only tioentyjive, [Daughter.] THE CAMPAIGN OF 1363 IN MISSISSIPPI—JOHNSTON’S REPORT. [From the Richmond Dispatch. ] The official report of General Joseph It* Johnston of his operations in Mississippi, although oalled for by Congress on the llth of December last, has only -made its appearance in print within the last few dajs. In referring to it at present,it Ishotforus to attempt to account for the delay In its publica tion. many of the facts embraced in this report have already been given to the public in the synopsis of the correspondence between General Johnston and the Government authorities in Richmond. Passing over these, we dome to the despatches between General Johnston and Dieutenant General Pemberton with reference to the operations around Vicksburg. On the 9th of May, Gen. Johnston, then at TuUa boma, received a despatch from the Secretary of War, directing him to proceed at once to Mississip pi, aud take chief command of the forces there* On the 16th of the same month he received a despatch from General Pemberton, dated Vicksburg, May 12, asking for reinforcements, as the enemy la large force was moving from the Mississippi, south of the Big Black, apparently in the direction of Edward’s Depot, and expressing the belief that that point would be the battlefield, if he could forward a suffi cient force, leaving troops enough to secure the Safety of Vicksburg. On the 13tb, General Johnston despatched Gen. Pemberton, notifj ing him of his*arrival at Jackson, informing him of the occupation ox Clinton by a portion of Grant’s army, and urged the importance of re-establishing communications, ordering him to come up, if practicable, on Sherman’s rear at once, and adding: “To beat such a detachment would be ol immense value* The troops here could co-ope • rate. All the strength you can qulokly assemble should be brought* Time is all important.” Subsequently, General Johnston ordered General Pemberton to evaouate Vicksburg and to take the load leading to Clinton. This order was disregarded. Inconeluding his report, General Johnston says: Convinced of the impossibility oi collecting a suf ficient foroe to break the investment of Vicksburg, should it be completed—appreciating the difficulty of extricating the garrison, and convinced that Vicksburg and Port Hudson had lost moat of their value by the repeated passage of armed vessels and transports, I ordered the evacuation of both places. General not receive tills order before the invenstzsent of Port Hudson, If at all. General Pemberton set aside this order, under the advice of a council of war $ and though he had in Vicksburg eight thousand fresh troops, cot demoralized by de feat, decided that it “was impossible to withdraw the army from this position, with such morale and material as to be of further service to the Confede racy but to hold Vicksburg as long as possible, with the film hope that the Government may yet be able to r.iftnt me in keeping this obstruction to the enemy’s free navigation of the Mississippi river. Vicksburg was greatly imperilled when my instruc tions, from TnUahoma, to concentrate, were no* Elected. It was lost when my orders of the 13th of May were disobeyed. To this loss was added the labor, piivatiocs, and certain capture of a gallant army, when my orders for its evacuation were set aside. In this report I have been compelled to enter into many details, and to make some animadversions upon the conduct of Gen. Pemberton. The one was no pleasant task—the other a most painful duty. Both have been forced upon me by the official report of Gen. Pemberton, made to the War Department instead of to me, to whom it waa due. Gen. Pemberton, by direct assertion and by impli cation, puts upon me the responsibility of the move ment which led his army to defeat at Baker’s Greek and Big Black Bridge—defeats which produoed the loss of Vicksburg and his army. This statement has been circulated by the press, in more or IeBS detail, and with more or less marks of an Official character, until my silence would be al most an acknowledgment of the justice of the charge. A proper regaid for the good opinion of my Go vernment has compelled me, therefore, to thro w aside that delicacy which I would gladly have observed toward a brother officer, suffering much undeserved obloquy, and to show that in his short campaign Gen. Pemberton made not a single movement in obedience to my orders, and regarded none of my in structions ; arid, finally, did not embraoe the only opportunity to save his army, that given by my or der to abandon Vicksburg. ANOTBER INVASION HINTED AT. The Charleston Mercury argues against an attempt, which it thinks will soon be repeated, to invade Pennsylvania. It s&ys: “ Our previous advance into Pennsylvania was the very thing the Lincoln Government wanted. They could cot raise troops, and the war fever was dying out in the United States. Our invasion of Pennsy 1- vadia rekindled the war spirit, and enabled Dtnooln to raise the troops be wasted, The United States are now in the same condition they were then. The greater part of their troops in the field go out of the service in May. They have refused to re-enlist to so great an extent that President Dincoln has or" dered a conscription of a half million of men more, to fill their places in the ranks of their armies. The campaign of this spring proves the reluotanoe of the soldiers in their armies to prosecute the war. If things continue as they are, there will be no volunteers, and the new conscripts will be reluctant and few, and in all probability we will be victorious throughout .the summer, and win peace and independence by the fall. But if we Invade Pennsylvania, the same result will, in all probability, be produced again. Our enemies will again fill up their armies, and prolong the war. we will do exactly what President Dincoln longs for—prays for—if suoh a blasphemous wretch can pray.” HOW THE “AMNESTY” IS RECEIVED. Is it cot evident upon the mere statement of the case thst Lincoln’s amnesty was never expected or designed by himself to have any other effect than irritation and insult to the Southern people 1 No one, however, knows better than Abraham Lincoln, that any terms he might offer the Southern people which contemplate their restoration to his bloody and brutal Government, wouid be with soora and execration. If, instead of devoting to death our President and military and civil officers, he had pro posed to make Jefferson Davis his successor. Lee commander-in-chief ol the Yankee armies, and our domestic institutions not only recognized at home but readopted in the free States, provided the South would once more enter the Yankee Union, there is not a man, woman, or child in the Confederacy who would not spit upon the proposition. We desire no companionship upon any term* with a nation of rob bers and murderers. The miscreants whose atrocities in this war have caused the whole civilized world to shudder, must keep henceforth their distance. They shall not be our masters, and we would not have them for our slaves* M'OLBLLAN’B VERACITY AND STRATEGY. [From the Richmond Dispatch. 21afc.] McClellan, in the official report which he has juit published, puts down his losses in the battles around Richmond, from the 26th June to the Ist July, in clusive. at 4,582 killed, *7,100 wounded, and 5,953 mieiirg; total, 16.249/ When it la recollected that the Confederates actually took, brought away, and confined upon the island, and In other prisons, more than 11,000 men, we may be enabled to judge of the claim which this document has to be eon* sidered truthful. A lie stuck to, says the proverb, is as good as the ti uth. To cover one of the most shameful as well as complete defeats recorded In history, McClellan’* vanity prompted him to indulge in a system of de liberate falsehoods whioh justly brought upon him the c eilsion of the civilized world. But it did him no manner of service. His employers saw through his devices, as his opponents had already done from the beginning. No man, least of all McClellan him self, believes a word of what he writes. He has found his proper level, and all the lying reports whioh he «an manufacture between this and dooms* day cannot raise him above it. He came here to take the city of Richmond. He had, first and last—from Fortress Monroe to MechanicsviUe—as documents furnished to the Committee of Inquiry by the War Office, substantiated by the Assistant Secretary of War, prove beyond all doubt, 158,000 men. He waa beaten in every battle, from Williamsburg to Malvern. Lincoln found him at Westover, or Shirley, with but 50 000 men. What had become of all the rest? Had they sunk into the earth, or melted Into the air 1 They had sunk into the earth, victims to the bayonets and the shots of the Con federate troops, or to the disease of the olimate, ag gravated by incessant exposure and unremitting toil in ditebibg his way to Richmond. At last, only be cause it was necessary to withdraw our troops to repel invasion from another quarter, he was per mitted to slink away with the miserable remnant of bis troops, cowed, broken-spirited, and effectually brought down from the lofty tone of braggadocio with which they commenced the siege of Richmond. A more entire failure is nowhere recorded, and a more thorough charlatan never lived. BAID INTO KENTUCKY. [From the Richmond Sentinel, March 21. 3 The Bristol Gazette announces that Gen. William E. Jones had entered Kentucky, through Fulker son’s Gsp, with some fifteen hundred men, including the Bth Virginia Cavalry and Witcher’s battalion. Hence, we presume, the recent report of the recap ture of Cumberland Gap, whioh is still a subject of anxious speculation. We learn that last week, a cavalry skirmish took place below Morristown, resulting in our forces driving back tbe enemy. A foroe of the enemy’s cavalry appeared at Whitesburg, twenty-two miles 'below Greenville, on Saturday last. It is said that our forces drove them back. In this skirmish we are reported to have lost eight killed. A general engagement is expected. Cumberland Gap, March 19.—The announce* mem of the capture of Cumberland Gap appears to be premature. THB REBELS AMUSING THEMSELVES. Dalton, March 16 —Dieutenant General Hood bad a grand drill of his eorps to-day, which, not withstanding the severity of the weather, was large ly attended, especially by general officers. After the drill a sham battle was fought by the entire corps or musketry and artillery. The firing was splendid and the whole affair very imposing, and drew forth the warmest praise from all who witnessed it. The weather here ie excessively cold. Thu Archbishop of St. Domingo receives no less than $14,000 a year; the Captain General 835,000; the Canons of the St. Domingo Cathedral $14,000; the Supreme Court of Justioe more than $80,000; while Santana, the traitor, who told the country, revels in plenty at a salary of $13,000, and la allowed a private secretary at $2,000 a year. HiBTFOBD has a greater bashing oapital than the State of Ohio, and ManaehuaetU more than ail the state* and Territories west of the AUegtuwleni THREE CENTS. Address of General Prencb. Headquarters Third Army Corps, Bbahdt Statior, Maroh 24th, 1861. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 26. Having been detached from the Army of the Poto mac, in oonaequenoe of it,|reorgaulzatlon into three oorpa, I deelre to express the personal feelings of re gret with which the order is received. The consolidation of the oorps gives this army greater strength. The generals to command them are eonspfououi for their gallantry and ability. Only known in the department where bullets whis tle, there la a strong probability that I may soon meet in the field those brave soldiers with whom I have been so long associated with pride and distinc tion. Will Hi FBENOH, Major General YoluuteerSi The Mammoth Passenger Railway. To the Editor of The Press:' Sir : I was glad to see a paper so popular as The Tress using its influence against this huge specu lation. No one pretends that the public will be benefited by suoh a road. Could not the editor of The Press publish a map of the route, which occupies foity or fifty streets ! It would be a great curiosity, ard expose the corruptlou of the meaaure better than anything else. But lome argue thUI i let the company spend their money In making the road, however ridiculous it may be: it will- cost the olty nothlDg, and if It will not pay it can be removed. Do those persons refleot that if the road be not needed it will be a nuisance 1 And is it a small mat ter to have suoh a nuisance in forty or fifty streets ef this great city 1 Do we forget the railway nui sance on the old plank road to Germantown, and that part of the route on Broad street! The country members in the Legislature, we understand, take the position that they have nothing to do with It, and leave tbe decision to the elty members. But does not every legislator know that the public street! belong to the Commonwealth, and are under the jurisdiction oi the law-makers as much as the public" roads of the State") The most obnoxious feature of tbe bill Is that wbloh deprives tbe Oouuclls of the city oi the privilege of exerclslngtheir judgment as' to Its usefulness and necessity. The city members lirthe Legislature claim the power themselves to decide whether it shall be made or not. It was fully expected that Olty Oouneils would take action on It on Thursday; but if they did, such action was not re ported in the leading papers of the olty. But let us have the map of this beautiful road. It will pay any person well for the trouble of projecting It. They would sell readily for a quarter. _ Yours, ANTI-NUISANCE. Tbe Income Tax. Assessor's Ovfiob, Fourth District, United States Ihtbbhal Revenue, 427 Übeatnut street, (Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank Building.) Pniz.Aimz.pmA, March 26, 1964. To the Editor of The Press: Sir : A good deal of dissatisfaction Is expressed on the part of Income, tax payers on account of the statement, derived from the official report, June 30, 1863, made by tbe Commissioner ■ of Internal Re venue to Congress, that there was but a very small amount of income tax collected. The true state of the Ate is, that there was no amount of income tax, worth mentioning, assessed as early as the 80kh June, 1863, let alone tne amount collected. It was not until three months after that date that the amount of income tax in the loyal States could be arrived at. In this city the amount assessed of Income tax was about thirteen hundred thousand dollars; and I pre sume that not less than one million and a quarter dollars, out of that sum, have been collected and paid Into the Treasury. Iu New York olty the amount of the Income tax was not less than $2,600,000; and in Brooklyn, at least $1,290,000 more. In Boston, about one million ; Cinainn&tl, about five hundred thousand; Chicago, three hundred thou sand ; Buffalo, one hundred and fifty thousand; while the tax on dividends and Interests from stocks and bonds, returned by corporations direct to the Government, Is to be taken into the aeeount as form ing'avery large portion of the iuoomeoi those who would otherwise hare been compelled to return through the aaseiaor. The amount received at the Office or Internal Revenue, up to the 31st day of August, 1863, direct from corporations for tax on ' dividend and interest, was $2,740 268 40. The foregoing, relative to the Income tax, is only with reference to the Income of 1862. Assessments are now being made for the Income of 1863; and citi zens are reminded that the law requires the return of income to be made "on or before the firs! day of May,” In default ot whleh the penalty must be added by the assessor. Very respeotfully, D. P. SOUTH (FORTH, Assessor Fourth District, Pa. An Equal Bounty Throughout the State. To the Editor of The Press: Sib : It is well known that as the businoßC or re cruiting is now conducted, tbe bounties paid are un equal in dltfOrenl parts of the State, and that a large proportion of the money paid by the people goes aot to the recruit, but to a horde of greedy speculators and brokers in the lives of men. Now, to protect the tax-payer from imposition, and to secure to the patiiotic volunteer, or his family, the sum which may prove to be the price of his life, I beg' leave to suggest; That a State Convention be held as soon as posiible ; that It shall agree upon a certain bounty, to be equal throughout the State; that it appoint a rrciuiting agent in each county, and that these agents, or the Convention Itself, appoint a general State recruiting and bounty agent, to bs located at the seat of Government. ReapectfUlly, BENJ. F. MILLER, Newport, Perry county, Pa., March 26,1861. PERSONAL. Louis Napoleon’s present personal appearanoe is thus described in a late letter from Parle; “The personal appearanoe of Napoleon 111, would puzzle the most accurate observer of physiognomy. The face of the man with the iron mask ii not more de void of expresssion than Is his. One may study it for hours without deriving the slightest satisfaction mto tbe Emperor’* mental charajterirtica. Those fishy, rayleic eyes, the parchment like cheeks, the stiff, pointed moustache, all suggest a sort of arti ficial face prepared for the ocoacion, while the real man, like the prieetess oi Apollo, lies hidden, and delivers short, oracular responses behind it. He la short in stature, though his body Is full the average size. Hence he appears to greater advantage in a sitting posture. Of late years he has grown some what corpulent, like the first Napoleon and the other members of bis family. Hie habits at the present day are said to be simple and regular, per haps necessarily so, if the stories told of his early excesses be true. His appearance on horseback does great credit to his horsemanship, which is generally allowed to be the moat skilful in Europe. He is very fond of horses, and has that thorough under standing of their nature which establishes a certain sympathy between that animal and his rider.” The London Court Journal, after quoting Sala’s Trollopean account of his interview with President Lincoln and his wife, say*: “ Mr. Sala’s description of bis interview with the President and Mrs. Lin coln is in tbe worst possible taste, and is not -mended by the elaborate apology which accom panies it. He was introduced at the White House by Mr. Sumner; Mr. and Mrs. Linooln evidently tried to be atvil to him, and their reward Is hair a column of ridicule and ofiencive personality. Yet Mr. Sala has constituted himself tbe censor of Ame rican society, and has undertaken to expose its vul garity and hollowness! Marry oome up! We can’t help criticising the orltio, and pointing out to this censor morum the palpable breach of good manners which he has eommltted. Mr. Sala can make hla letters readable enough without pandering to the vulgar appetite. What would he think and write of an American who described, in the same offensive way, his presentation to Queen Victoria t” A late Paris letter says, “at a representation a few evenings since, at the hall of tbe Conservatory, Mrs. Moulton (formerly of Bostpn), had an im mense success. She sang an air from the 1 Noses t!i Figaro,’ In a style which few professional artists can rival, being applauded with a furore which Patti alone ean now excite at the Italian Opera. All of the great ladies who have any claim to be thought sjsiriluelles . are giving themselves enthusi astically to this amusement. The Prinoees Julie Bathyani Apraxlnis Is to appear soon in two rdles quite opposed to each other, in order to display the versatility of her talents—first, In Phedre, and af terwards as La Gamin de Paris) In order to be quite up to this latter idle the lady devotes a part of her day to learning to spin a top with the true Gamin air and style, and is to Introduce the two popular aba with wbloh all Paris is ringing this winter: 'Ah, sut alors,’ and ‘Fallalt qasqu’y nine.’ ” A luit baa been commenced in Waahington under the law of Maryland of 1777 (ahapter 12, «eo tion 9) agslnat a miniater, the Bey. John Thrueh, of McEendree Ohapel, to recover £5OO penalty for marrying a “ female under the age of 16 years, and not before married, without the consent of the pa renta.” The young lady has, aince the marriage, been divorced from the bonda of aaid marriage, and the father now auea for the above penalty. A man named Phelpa, who died at Salem, Oh, recently, by hia own agreement aold hie body to a aurgeon in Boston for $l,OOO, the money to be appro, priated to the uae of hia widowed mother, and hia body to purpoiea or aoientifio investigation. Hia death was produced by an enormous tumor upon hia batlt. A man named Orion Jones reoently brought a suit againat the tewn of Andover, for damages for in juries in consequence of a defeot In the highway. He lost his ease, as the aocidant occurred on a Sun day evening, while he was engaged in taking meat from South Beading to Lawrence. The new Bishop of Hayti, Monseigneur Tester du Ooaquer, was at lateat dates at Paris, about to start for bis island diocese. He is forty-four years old, a native of Quimber, In France, and was conse crated at Borne in Ootober last. The London Morning Post announces with mush formality that the infant prlnoe will be called by his Christian name, with the prefix of Prince, until It may please the Crown to confer a peerage upon him. —Captain Sawyer, recently released from the Libby Prison, has been promoted to the post of ma jor In his regiment (the Ist New Jersey Cavalry) by Governor Parker. His new oommisaion dates back to last October. —Beacon John Phillips, of Sturbridge, Mass., will be 104 years old on the 20th of next June, and has never been severely sick slnoe he was 14 years of age. Be was chosen deacon, in the place of his father, in 1790. —On the 2d of Maroh, Mils Bnrdett Coutts laid the foundation-stone of a new churoh in Carlisle, Bug. It is to be ealled St. Stephen’s Church, and will be erected entirely at her own eost. The New York Sun announce* a determination to contribute its entire gross reoelpti of March 29 th to the Sanitary Fair. This Is a generous offering to our wounded and sick soldiers. Prince Albert Agamon, or Western Afrloa, nephew of the King of Bahomey, Is at New Haven, and the colored inhabitants of that city have been giving him a grand reception, —Mrs. Mumford, widow of the man who was bung by General Butler at New Orleans, for tramp ling OH the American flag, passed throngh Colum bia, S, o>i a few day* ago, on her way to Blohmond. Mr.' J. W. Young, of Eufaula, Alabama, has three machines In operation, invented by himself, which turn out three hundred pairs of socks per day. Recently, In Salem, Maes., died Captain Wil liam Story, at the advanoed age of 89H years. He was the oldest brother of the late Judge Story. —Miss Thackeray has written a novelette in the CsrnM», under the title “ Ceuito FMIIU." WAR FXUSSa. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) tax Wax Faxes will be ssattorabssitbanbr mall (per annum la afivaaM) ok ....gn g* Three copies. —*♦<....................... a eg Wt* copUc - ■ gg Tea seels* —— u eg barter clubs than Ten will be charged at Uuaw rate. 6160 per copy. The money must always accompany the order, ossa in no instance ean these terms be deviated from, os Mas nfordvery little more than the cost of paper. Afr-Toaimutera an requested to act a* Agenta tot TaWstFmu, tar To the tetter-up of the Olnb of ten or twenty. a» extra copy of the Paper win be riven. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. THE MONEY MARKET. Philadelphia, Much 21,1994, The gold market was rather deal, tbe prio* Atlug between. 166@169X, closing at 133#, Governments declined a fraction, owing to a alight pressure te sell* and the deolme in gold. Thera ip no change la the money market worthy of note. Stacks weredull. the extremely unpleasant weather pre venting th« attendance of many of the outside operators. Prices w«*« well maintained* however, and considerable mocks chaegsd hands. Goal companies were in the as- F 6 all ,°J? 15. bSOs Tamaquato 6H: Big cZfon to 3X bS ° ! R6W Tork and Mlddl « MK: "old down toy. i Vcnaugo was active at l7i" bid for Po^ CrS6ki “ ,OU »*" k “> ld Aliacs Iron rose to 3. Connecticut nickel to 1 Onta pason Copper tc 2X, and fcy Wester Baltpetrs to 110 MaT dan sold at 6«. Marquette declined 14. 7 wa.hlf Guard. H for P«m Mining. »•»***« Reading closed at 71>. Catawlsea preferred at ton Rorth Pennsylvania at 36 Philadelphia and Erie del diced %. Penneylvania Jf. Long I&landr.old at 48. Ftrst claes leeurities were firmly held. The market dosed somewhat dull but steady. Quotations of gold at thePhilndelt>h.la*Gold Exchange, No. 84 Eoulh Third street, second story • 9H A. M . 170 11H A. M ..gee 169« 12k P. Me.... 109 I)£P. M 109 by* P. M 168 V 4HP. M * Ifctf Market weak. 7 he New 1 ork Evening Post of to-day utys* Gold is dull at ltt@269& and has rold as low as I Q9U. Exchange is nominally quoted at 1810182. bet no boat- D « I V *! v T ? e U Boa of the gold certificates next VrfeftSf ****£* to depißßß considerably the price both ofgold and exchange. 'The loan market is well supplied at 6@7 per cent considerable activity, and a number of loans hare been cbuic«dto>day. Ti«*tock market Ib irregular. Governments are firm. Btale stocks quiet, bank shares dull, and railroad bonds strong/ J : Coal stocks are ln»eiive. Central are quoted at 95XA 95R, America*‘at 113@115. Oumbetland at 85X®8SxT Pennsylvania at <3lO. and Delaware and Hudson at 2W. Railroad shares, are feverish and irregular. Harlem being the weakest on the list. A>ieprcferred has advanced 2 per cent, on absurd rc mors that this stock would be made convertible into the common stook. lbe cheaper stockb are not bo much in favor as for some weeks past. The discovery that some of these stocks are worthless has naturally caused & temporary valuable* lheprlce 01 otters which are frwffwil Ip bt The appended table/sxhiblts the chief movements at the board compared with the latest prioea of yesterday: United Stales 6a. 1881. regia. .***..%2>4 111* (Tnlted States 6#,1851, coupon.****.ll2)£ mw United States seven-thirties......ll2# lliK yt United States five-twenty, reg -.U9& 1007£ yc United States five-twenty, coop. ,1( 9H 10PJK ~ it United Statw 1 year cor. ■ enr 98X SWii American Gold**. *-**.***.«»****...lo9)? 108 1H Tennessee Sixer......****.*.,.**,* 6l& 61 X Missouri Sixes,*....7B 72 1 .. Pacific Mai! 226 228 .-2 Hew York Central Bailroad~««,.l4otf I*o H Erie Preferred.— ~»~llo£ 119 X Hudson River. HH HttltHHl H*H 166 H. Vfitt .V 1 HBrIOM 11>. 4 Reading —*l42# 142 # Michigan Central*—** 143# 143 V .. % Michigan Southern** .*.*116?? 11 f>H Michigan Southern guarantied... 148 149 .. 1 Illinois Central Scrip***..***.***.l4l 140tf Jf Pmehnrt,A.*..,.,,....paUiK 127 7! gtf galena.* 124 .. if Toledo..**...*. ...w*™., .***.***, ,14ft* 147)4 2 -. Bock Island.*.*******..***.***-....,125k: IXK .. if gortWajne....***.** ..**.**,*l4l* 143* .1 g* Prairie Du Chien*...**.79 78M 1 TerreHaute**. 86 88 .. 8 Terre Haute Preferred............. ftB ICO .. 9 Northwebtevn* 88 M 67K - 1W ClDtOL***.... f 9% 70 .. J? Cumberland..*. B6 .. ys Qtrcksilver 69 67 ..2 Ohio and Mississippi com 63j£ 63 )€ •• Aft«r the Board the market was heavy, and prices re ceded per cent. Harlem sold down to 203. Phllada Stock Sxchsngs Sales, March 06 (Reported by 8.8. Blatvakbs, Philadelphia Exchange. ] BEFORE BOARDS. 2CO Connecticut M 1% 100 Reading R.... 2dya. 7U£ 4UI do b 6. \yi 600 Clinton Goal . ..blO. bfi SCO d 0.... 1)1,200 do***.o6. Sj2 200 do IXifiOO do. MM.blO. sS 600 do IX 700 do * 3& 600 d 0.... blO. IXIOO do. b3o.3)tf P4O do 1M 600 do b3O. 3)4 fCO d 0..... b 6. W 160 do 3 110FultonCcal.b6&int. do.. 100 do blO. WVa 150 do 3 SCO Venango Oil. 2m 600 Tamaqua Coal.. b 5. 6 60 d0.**..,... 816-16 300 do b3U. Gftf SCO 23£ SiO Mineral 0i1..,.. 7 SIX) do b 5. 2X 2CO Schuyl Nay pref b3O 48« 100 Rig Mount Coal- 2ds 12 2CO Marquelte Ml.bfi&lu 10)f 2CO Beadingß 71K FIK&T ICO U S 5-20 bonds 109% 4CO do 109% 10C0 20(0 Tessa War loas f 15.107% 3CO Tessa 5a 98% B azleton Goal 7i S6O Fulton Coal.. ..bjJO. 14% ICO do.** b 5. 14 2(0 do 14 3 d 0..... 13 7CoGreen Mountain... 10 , 10(iMountain..b6. 11% 2(0 JE-na Mining 19% I 200 011 Crook 13% 200 do bSO. 13% 10.1 d 0.,. I*% 1(0 do bd- 25% SCO do blCflat. 38% 200 dc :b3O. 13|S 4CoSchttylN4V.~. 87% 200 do 28 BBTWBEB 100 Empire sswn 8 100 Bobezn Mining..b6 11 , It 0 Wyoming Valley. 77% 760 Fossa 6s 9?% I H O Big Mountain* >t>so la ICO Sueq Casal b 5 28% 10 Wyom’g ValCl 6s. 99% 1(X0U tf6 20 bonds. £ol3tr. ft 16th-st Bbs 41* ICO Fulton Coal.«».bSo 14% ICOO Elmira fis. 80 12?M1neh1UR......... 64% G (»I?ST7-90Jf8nd...110 2000 do cash. 110 HO Green Mount....bs 10 dOVenango 2% SOo Connecticut 1% 100 l-win 17% 100 Vandan............ 6% 2(0 Mineral 7% 4LoSu.S lOOSuaa OasaliMitbC. 23* ; ion do .....bs. 2s£ 16P«ma B. 74* SCO Beading B b - 71# 3000 do....bonds *7O 10S 5000 Penna coupon 55.. 102 85 Lehigh Yal b 5. 99 100 Gatawis £ prf.ca»h 40# 100 . do prf 4o# 5 do 23# . 100 do b 5. 25 i 100 do .....b6O. 24 [ 3000 Hunt &B T Ist mt. 104 i 12 Phila & Brie R..... 37# i 4000 do bonds. 108 [ 100 Jj Island JB sS. 43 i 60 Girard Col R ..85 I 50 do b 5. 3 S SECOND 1000 Wyoming Val bds. ICO 3000 US 6*20 bda.reg.fall 109# 7000 do 10924 100 Delaware Div. 3dya 4621 4000 Allegheny Co 6e... 8024 800 Fulton Coal *6 14# AFTER ] 100 Schny 1 Nay. . • . pier 46 300 do* M...bSo.pxef 46 1( 00 New Creek 2U 100 Fulton C0a1....b20 14# ICO Union Canal.... b3O 3# Ifo Girard Wining..bs 7# 3000U56-20 bonds 109# 6600 do 109^ 2600 d 0.... 109# 100 NT & Middle 18 10G0 Wj omtng V Can 6b 100 100 Clinton..*. 3# 100 MeCilntock*...***. 12 250 Conn Mining...... 1# 300 CllßtoniH'iMM»b& 3# 100 Connecticut. ...blO 1# ICO Big Mountain...... 12 ICO Nav pref *~b3o 46 200 Fulton b3O 15 100 do b 5 14# 200 do. b 5 14# 600 Pay pref........ b3O 46 100 Mineral....... 7 StO Nav pref. 45# 4CO< 1int0n...... 3# 300 Cons ec ticut 1 # 40 do. 1# fi(Ct)US 5.205.. 1(8# 20CO do -...109# KOTaznaqaa 6 SCO d 0.... ..bio 6 361 Clinton 3 100 Venango 2# 660 Clinton.. 3 200 Mineral***- 7 £OO Clinton blO 8# ICO Fulton 14# ICO Connecticut 1# ICO Clinton. 3 ICO do b 6 3# 60 do 3# SCO do 3 IGO do bSO 3# 6CO do blO 3# CLOSING PRICES’ Bid. Ask. Gold * .. U & 6-20 s ....108 109# Readlngß 71# 71# Pej na R 74 74# Catawtasa E...... 23# 26# Do pref.**..*.* 40# 46# North Pent a 86 86# Phila & Erie R... 37# 38 Bchuylßav . .... 37# 38 Do pref... 46# 46 Union Canal f# B# Do prefnu.M. 6 7 Sufcj Canal 27 28 Fulton Coal •*...» 14V 14% BigHonntCoal... 12% 12% SY & Mid 18% 18% Grets Mount Coal 9% 10 Philadelphia Harketi, # March 26—Evening. There le more demand for Floor for shipment. B*l* comprise about 4,000 bbls, including 600 bbls extra at $6.60; extra family at s7@7 26; high grade and fancy do ats£@9. and 1,600 bble do on private terms. The re tailers and bakers are buying moderately at from s6@ 6.26 for superfine; S 6 6C@7.for extra; s7®B for extra family, and sB.6C(3ip.£o bbl for fancy brands, as to quality. Rje Flour is dull. Small sales &io making at •6 $ bbl. In Corn Heal there Is little or nothing doing, and the market is dull. GRAlN.—Wheat continues firm, with sales of 8.000 bushels at 166® 168 c for prime Pennsylvania reds, and 176@i92%c^bushel for common to prime white. Rye is selling in lots at 1270 ¥* bushel. Corn Is tcaroe and In demand, and pricesare better; 7,600 bushels sold at 120 e in store, and 122 a V bushel afloat- Oats are In fair de mand at about former rates, with sales of 3.700 bu.hele at from 50@650 ?* bushel, the latter rate for heavy Oats. BaKK.-Quercitron has advanced; about 80hhds Ist 80. 1 sold at 937 ¥) ton. COTTON.—The market Is firm, hut there Is very little doing in the way of sales; small lots of middlings are reported at 76c cash. uKOCbßlEb.—Sugar continues very firm; small sales are nblclEg at full prices Coffee Is also firm, with sales of 6iob*isLaauayraat£Bc%!Jb, . ... , Ph'IROLhUM. —Holders are very firm In their views* Kui the transactions are limited; about 860 bbls sold, in loti, at fTum 31@320 for crude, 47©49c for refined, in bond, and 6e@£Bc 3* gallon for free, accordingto quality. KBEDS-— Timothy is rather dull, and Belling tn a small way at $2.76@35) bushel. Flaxseed is In fair de mand at $3.26®3 30 bu*h»l. Clovtrseed is In. steady demand, with email tales of prime at s7@7 26 j* 61 lbs, PROVISIONS. —There is no change to notice in price or demand; small sales of new Mess Pork are making at *23 60 $ bbi. Bacon Hams are in demand, at 14@160 Ik lb for plain and txacy.i 100 casks Pickled Hams »old at Is}%@i3*c & lb; aw bbls Beef Hams sold ats23 ¥> bbl. Jbsra is selling atl4«i for bbls and tierces, and 16e« lb for hens. Butter ie in demand, with sales of roll at 35@400 lb for common to prime. WHISKY.—The market is less active;about 800 bbls Western sold at $l, and drudge at 98c 9 gallon Tbe following are the receipts of Flour and Grain si this port to day: Flour. ♦ 1,800 bbls. Wheat. 0,740 bf»*. Corn 6 900 bus Oats z.fctf baa New York Market*—March 80 Ashbb—Remain steady, with sales of 26 bbls at $6 87% foipote and $lO 6u for pearls. „ ~ -J^readstuffb—The market for State and we«ern flour is leas active, but without decided change im. priest, closing tamely at our jar, sales 700 lbs ai »7.20®7.65 for superfine Baltimore, and. 'aMfiHaaFknw/ia&t. vrithralasof 400 bbl. at ,7®, 7 i(j for common, and $7- i®|M ® choice extra. 7 Bye Floor i® quiet at $6.26@6.25 for the range o! fine , , Wheat la dull and e ihade eaiier; aalM of 18.000 bu» at *1.71 for Amber Mich lean, delivered, and ,1.7/5 for Am ber Jsney. to sbJ?*iSyP5 b J?*iSyP. p U ß *. l ' wwlwtl »t 1184 @1 66: Milwaukeeolub,l.«@i.67i Amber MUwaukas e1.6f@1.70: winter red'Wejtern *1.6&3L72. Br • is quiet at $1 28. Barley 1b steady, with eales of 3,000 bushels Canada West at $1 4fi. Corn is Aimer, with a moderate demand ; uia, 39 000 bushels at $1.2801.29 for new yellow* and SLSI%®I 32 for Old Western mixed* with, some parcels reported as high ae $l3l Oats are firm, and selling at 69@90% for Oo&ada, 90@N. (or ftft* &C@9l (02 ‘WfkWnk BOARDS. 100 Fulton bSO UK 100 do U Conn. Minins lJtf 500 do oo i>» 5.0 do Vi 200 Folion bBO 143 f 20u Connecticut IX 200 do— ..bBO 1«J 200 Connecticut .. lx joo Falton* IPO Alsace i 2>s 200 Clinton. 3 100 Connecticut IX 100 do If} LOOO C1int0n,..,... 3 400 Tamaana 6 100 Clinton —.... Bf£ 66 do s 200 Conn Mlnlzur, \K 800 Fulton. blO 14* 200 Alsace.. 2 800 Clinton— bSO B>f 700 do 100 Fulton Coal eSSdye 14# 100 do 14# 2(0 Union Canal. •**•** s# 150 New Creek 2# 400 Reading R ........ Tl# 400 City 65... New Gw. 104 lOARDS-. SOMcClintooEitM **** 12 100 Reading K......... 71# 00Penna 74# 1000 US 0-208. ...10*# lOOCatawlssa pref.... 40# 2 North Penna 35 200 do * 36 100 d 0.... 36, 50 Nay pref. * 45# 200 Union Canal 8# 100 Faltou bBO 15 100 Big Mountain..b3o 12# 100 do. b3O 11# 100 N! & Middle.....* 18# 100 d 0............... 18# 100 Readings. ..**.b3o 71# 100 Venango 2m 200 do 2f 100 do 2 H 100 Mineral ... 7# 800 do 7# ICO 7# 10J Reading B. ....b3O 7i# 200 Tamaq.na.6# 100 do. 6 100 Clin ton *..**3# 300Minera1.........b10 7# lOOAlaace. 3 100 Readings****....7l3-16 300VenaDg0........ m. 2 X 20)Mineral 7# 3CO do blO 74# *1(0 Fulton **.-b5 14# 360 do bls 14# 100 - 1# 100 Aliace b 5 2# fOO do 2# 2CO do. ..►♦*. 2# 200'Readingr 71# 2foClinton..« 3# 100Ontonagon ....*•** 3# 100 Clinton ...♦ 8X 200 Alsace 8 i-FOUS O’GLOGK. Bid. JUflt. Penn Mining 11 11% Girard Mining.... 7 7% Btna do - 19 21 Mandan. 6 6% Marquette»* 10 10% Oil Creek-... IS 13% Keystone Oil 3% 4 Venango 0i1...... 2% 2% Mineral Oil 7% 7% Maple Shade'Oil.. 19 19S McClintoch Oil.-. 10 12 PannaFet. C 0.... 4 5 TamaquaCoal.... 6 6% Clinton do .... 3% 3% Irwin 0i1... 16 18 Perry Oil 9 10% Alsace 2% 3