a p moseißl•ll a •QUirik. VIES llllll-WEEKLY P1M099, riziloario tioleonfooro out of the dry as Yon. Dommasi. 1,3 SELL AND pair-Goons JOBBERS. 864. SPRING 1864. DRY GOODS ILIEGEL, WIEST, & IMPONTRUB AND JOBBM OF 1r Gr CO CF n) 47 F. THIRD STREET. PEIMADELPHM. vs now in store•and are daily in receipt of, all bands of FRESH SPRING DRY GOODS. OE THE VERY LATEST STYLES. Litre a Fun Stock of all the different kinds of pSILADELPHLAAVIA.DD GOODS l oatkonts I,lllllnd It to thotr Interest tR ...II and ex -itte OUT stoat. as WO can offer them (Ifigat 7 DtICEBIENTS. ninlo-2m ITST RECEIVED, IN CHOICE AND ELEGANT DESIGNS, FRENCH ORGANDIES, JACONETS, AND PERCALES. RICH AND HANDSOME NEW STYLES SPRING AND SUMMER 03331E.E!LIMiTZaffi. M. L. HALLOWELL & CO., 615 CHESTNUT STREET. ASLIgs WATBON. F.P.AIIIBLIN XLNNHT TEW BIER HOUSE WATSON & JANNEY, NO. 333 MAR STSB3Z WHOLEULLE DEALBER IA ~][L~t~, •BESS 000DS, SHAWLS,_ WHITE GOODS, EMBROT.DERIkk'ac EDMUND YAM) t CO., . ORESITETIT AND No. 614 JAY'S STRUT& ?► nox ie Store their SPRING IMPORTATION of HU AND FANCI DDT GOODS, OONIOBTINO OH .LTMOSS CICINCOMFreIs OF ALL KUMS; LACK AND FANOY &MSS, TINS . , GLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS, AND DI Eggii TRIMMINGS. lC GOODS, MEN% EKBROIDI AND MACES. hale and Mame assortment of I . BING AND SUMMER SHAWLS. BALMORAL. SKIRTS; An maws, ace. Which they offer to the Trade at the LOIN NSW f•L‘ii.taie. lei- SPEIN G DRY GOODS. ' , RUT IIiDIIOBBONTS TO OMB BUM& lIUOI, BONBRIGHT, & CO., Wholesale Dealers in VORRION JIND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, lOW LOMA' Street. and 526 COMMERCE Street. PHTLADELPELIA. Would reopostfully invite attention to LLRGE CS of leading DOMESTICS, DRESS GOODS, MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR, =any popular goods of lIIL3-2mPHILADELPHIA MADDFLGTIIIIII. 1864. DAWSON, BRANSON, a Co., 501 MARKET' STREET, CORNER OF FIFTH tvo now In More. and will be constantlyavoeivilli. daring the season. an attractive line of PARIS, GERMAN, AND BRITISH DRESS GOODS, BJ.ACH 13ILSB, NrIPLD AND TANGY SHAWLS. dra.. &a. of which will be sold at the HOTELS. AVI.NUE HOUSE," WASHINGTON. D. G. ne undersigned having' leaned the above Honee. 'tamed un the earner of adIVSNTH Street ...a FL` *1) AN) Avenne. for a term of yeare z eoiletta th e niter I)9l76bege and the travelling priollrreerally. EItYU, 1864. LOWEST MARKET PRICES -71 Pr - . 0. . _• (74 r vk._ A ..-;;- ,• PP sit - t "‘ / 0' \- ' o "' • • ,i - T s k• ' ~ 4 4 7;/./ - .:= 7 lllk' • lOW • rie oil. . • L k: • - -11." VOL. 7.-NO. 211. COMMISSION HOUSES. lIF. ATTENTION OF THE TRADE eaned to OUR STOOK OF 'ARMY WOOLIN to. all-wool Plain Flannel& FIiVILLSD naratiSLS. Varlona males in Gray. Scarlet. and Dark Bins. fItEHTED SHIRTING FL ADIFFHLS. PLAIN OPRRA morons. SLACK COTTOSI WARP CLOTHS, 15. 16. 17, 18. IL 20. 31. ti at_ rANCT GAWKIER% AND SATINISTTS. BALMORAL SKIRTS. all Grades. 3OTTOS GOODS, DENIM, TICKS, STRIPES, SHIRT. IRGR. Age.. from varlons Mills. W COUBSEY, HAMILTON, EVANS, 13 LETITIA Street. and fe27-weintteB 3g South FRONT Streak HoBAcE 33. SOULE, commiSSION MS ROB taTT., agi Noir 11 FRONT STREET PHILADELPHIA, Agent for the SAXONVILLE MILLS, • BALDWIN COMPANY. WILTON MAAUFACTURINO CO.. ABBOT WOhSrED COMPAAY. CARPET WORSTED AND YARNe. Fine Worsted. in colors; Noe 12e and 26 , 3, Jets Yarns. COTTON YARNS, in Warp and Bundle, Milllttfachired by Z SBRISKIE, YRALL. OAKMAN. and other Well-known Mille. CARPETS. CONTINENTAL MILLS, INGRAIN. AND VENETIAN CARPETS. LINEN MIRE A.D. SAMPAON't3 ARCVILL VIDIOINT MILLS. McDONALD'S. SATIN-F THREADOKBINDERS'. CARPET for Hale by BAGS! BAGS! BAGS 1 NEW SRAML A ESS. BURL 4P. AND ND SECON A D- GUNN YHND. BAGS, FLOUR AND SALT ORDERLL SIZE% PRINTED TO BY JOHN T. BAILEY a; CO. 1 . 017 tf 3 No. 113 NOTEL PONTR STREZE GRAIN BAGS.—A LARGE ASSORT MENT OF GRAIN BAGS. In various sizes. for sae by BARCROFT & CO.. jag Nu Nos. 405 and 407 MARKET Street. SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HIJTCHIN BON, No. 112 OHESTNUF STREET, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOR THE SALE OF PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. ar,26-8m IDJUEtPIETIIiGS. A_RCH-STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE. no subscriber has just received a well-selected stock of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN C A.TtPETIN GSA 708 SPRllfla TRADB JOS. _BLACKWOOD, tohlB-2m SIM ARCH STREET. BELOW METH SPRING, 1864. 1864. GLEN ECHO GERMANTOWN, PA. WIC CALLI-MTIVE eft MANUFACTURERS. IMPORTERS. AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CARPETING - S. on CLOTHS, &c. Warehouse-509 Chestnut Street, OPPOSITE INDEPENDENCE HALL. feltf SPECIAL , NOTICE_ RETAIL DEPARTMENT. McCALLIIM & CO. Beg leave to inform the public that they have leased the old- eanfilisbed Carpet Store, No. 519 CHESTNUT STREET, OPPOsite Independence Ball. for A RETAIL DEPARTMENT. Where they are now opening a NEW STOCK of Imported and Amerieen Carpet!, , Embracing the choicest pattern! of EXMINSTER TAPESTRY CARPETS, ROYAL WILTON. BRUSSELS CARPETS, VELVET. VENETIANS. Together with a fall assortment of everything pertain ing, to the Carpet Business. fel-tf gNTRIRPMBI6 MILLS ATWOOD, RALSTON, & t4:-5 LANCTIAWOBILI4' .95,D WIIOL.IILL.. DIALERS IN CA,RPETINGE, Oth)CLOTHS, BATTINGS, d4c. Vik.l4lMotsf, Olt CHEST/MT STEBV7t 4.44 a 83.4 JA.IIII STREW! BASKETS AND _WILLOW WARE. LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTED I=l WOODEN-NV - ARE COTTON GOODS LS THIS COUNTRY A. H. FRANCISCVS, 513 MARKET AND 510 COMNIERCIS STN., WHOLESALE DULLER IN WADDING, BATTING S TWINES, WICKING, CORDS, CORDAGE, BUCKETS, BROOMS, BRUSHES, BASKETS, TUBS, CHURNS, MATS, WHIPS, TABLE AND FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, BIRD-CAGES, JAPAN WARE, WINDOW PAPER AND SHADES, PUTNAM'S CLOTHES-WRINGER, LOOKING GLASSES, CLOCKS, FLY-NETS, FANCY BASKETS, ka., ha. mh29•lm FANCY BASKETS. A. 11. FRINCISCIIS, 513 MARKET. AND 510 COMMERCE STS., Have just opened a large and well assorted stock offing GERMAN AND FRENCH FANCY BASKETS OF HIS OWN IMPORTATION. GREAT INDDOBBIESTS OPFRIORD TO THE TRADE. nah29lm GREAT OPENING OF CEDAR AND WILLOW WARE,. THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY. NOW SELLING AT BARGAINS. &WO D 02.. CORN BROOMS. %COO DOZ. FANCY PAINTED BUCKETS. 1,000 NESTS CEDAR WASH TUBS. 1.000 CEDAR STAFF AND BARREL CHURNS. La) DOZ. WILLOW MARKET BASKETS. moo DALES COTTON-WICK AND TIE TARN. 2.000 BALES BATS AND WADDING. RETICULE BASKETS. OIL CLOTHS. LOOKING GLASSES. CORDAGE. dre., ass. AMOoods are sold at the Manufacturer's Lowest Cash Prices. orders promptly filled. - ROWE & EUSTON, 157 and 159 710$TH THLUD BTRISZT. Threa Doors Wow Ems "BEDFORb WATER"—INDIVIDII- Ms and dealers will be supplied with " Bedford Water." fresh from the Spring. at the shortest notice, at the following rates : POT Larrol, 40 gallons (oak) $3 00 Halt do do. Z 00 Half do ( mulberry ) 500 The barrels are well steamed, so that purchasers man' depend upon receiving the Water as pure and fresh as at the Spring. All orders addressed to 'F.': -VE /0- 1 -17 Ilia IL 11, LADZIAOIS.BscIford, ra.. HORACE EL SOULR. 32 H.rth FRONT Street. MILLINERY GOODS. TEE NEW YORK STORE GEO. W. MILES, Nos. 35 and 37 South Tenth Street, ABOVE CHESTNUT, IS NOW PREPARED TO SHOW HIS SPRANG IN- I' ORTATIO .5 OF FRENCH FLOWERS, STRAW GOODS, PARIS•TRIMMED HITS, FRENCH AND NEW YORK Bdx- NETS, FRAMES, and other MILLINERY GOODS. apa-et P. A. HARDING & CO., IMPORTERS AMR JOBBERS OP STRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS, No. :*l3 AREULE STIRICEPR. --- Mh3-2M. 1864. 1864. WOOD & CARY, 726 CHESTNUT STREET, STRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS. P. IS. —ATBROHANTS AND MILAINDSEI are Invited to examine before purehrosing, as our STOCK 1.2 PULL mid "PRIM LOW. mhB.2m WOOD & OAR" SPRING. 1864. BROOKS & ROSENELEIM, 131 MARKET STREET, WHOLESALE DEALER'S IN RIBBONS, SONNETS, LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S HATS, FLOWERS, AND MILLINERY GOODS GENERALLY. mh23.lm WE RESPECTFULLY CALL THE ATTENTION OP THE TRAD E TO OUR STOCK OF SPELNG MILLINERY GOODS. WE HAVE NOW OPEN A. BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF FRENCH FLOWERS, RIBBONS, SILKS, LEWES, VEILS, etc BERNHEIM, 726 CHESTNUT STREET. mh29-1m sip)MRS. J. HAMBURGER, 25 South SECOND Street, will open on WEDNES DAY, April 6th a handsome assortment of Spring Frenchummer MILLINERY. Aho, Aire iselestion of Pattern Donnete of the latest styles. ap6-St* spMRS. M. A. KING} WILL OPEN 03 THURSDAY. April 7th, a handsome assort ment of Spring and Summer MILLINERY. Also. a few cases of French Bonnets, at 1020 OELESTNEPA iltrest. apt 4t• 43)MILLINERY OPENING.-S. T. MORGAN, No. 408 ARM. Street, will open this I day, a large and splendid assortment of Fancy and Trimmed Bonnets, Dress Caps. Cep Crown Bonnet Frames and Ruches. Also. a frill line of straw Bonnets. Ribbons. bilks, French Flowers. and Millinery Goods generally. for the wholesale Miltinery trade. ap4 61* 11111011. --- ROBERT SHOEMAKER 8.3 CO., Northeast Corner of FOURTH and NAOS Streets, PHILADELPHIA, Wi14201..E3 tk:r F Mloit.T.JlG-G-lEirr€4, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS FO IN REIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS, MASEUFACTUREAS OF WHITE LEAD AND ZING PAINTS, PUTTY, 4c .AGEtTIi FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINO PAINTS. Dealers and consumer. supplied at 7a7•Bni VERIt Lo W PRICES FOR C 1864. PHILADELPHIA 1864. PAPER HANGINGS. HOWELL & BOURKE, HAISUFACTUREES 07 WALL PAPER S AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS, COR. FOURTH AND MARKET STS., PHILADELPHIA. H. B. — A Ane stock of LINEN SHADES constantly on Wad. fe27lm fp OIL CLOTHS, &c. G . w. BLA-Bow-db Co, MANUNACTUREED OF OIL CLOTHE, 10. I%* NORTH THIRD STRUT, PHILADBLPHIW, fifer to the Trade a full Stock of FLOOR, TABLE, AND CARRIAGE OIL OLOTIA.S. GIIBISN-OLAZED OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW -91111-2 m SHADES. GEORGE W. Mannfacturar and Wholesale Dealer in CARPETINGS, MANTLNGS, RUGS. ALSO, COTTON ♦ND. WOOLEN YARNS. At very Low Prices. No. 1 NORTH THIRD STREIT. ASOVR • ARCH mhl-21n Philadelphia. PAIIPITIWGS AND 1111GRAVING111. ELEGANT MIRRORS. LAI GE AISSORTMIINT NEW ENGRAVINGS, FINE OIL PAINTINGS, JUST REORPTED EARLE'S GALLERIES. 3)021-n 810 CHESTNUT STREET GAS FIXTURES, &C. 407:1ARyES PAGE, Favorably known for the last twenty years as Prlnel oat Designer of GAS FIXTURES for MESSRS. CORNELIUS & BAKER. is this day admitted a Partner in our firm. We wll I continue the sale and manufacture of OAS FIXTURES .nder the firm. name of TAN KIRK & CO.. HANTIFACTORY AT FRANRFORD_ SALEBROOI4B-91% ARCH STREET• February 1. 1864. fel9-finw2ul LONDON BROWN STOUT, SCOTCH ALE, BI THE CASE OR DOZEN. • ALBERT C.; ROBERTS. DEALER IN FINE GRoosanis; RLIVRNTR and VINE fareelii. PHRENOLOGICAL EX &MIN A- TlOllB. with fall deocriptlons of oit exacter. eyes DAT cod EVENINO. by J L. OARS , - sohB-W2ffib6ia Q. 4* 8. UNTIL Mit. PIIILADELPLIIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1864. CURTAIN GOODS. SJI - niNck EPA.HIAI3I3.B. VESTIBULE 1,4 4 9.VJE t AND A LARGE INVOICE OR BROWN SHADES, OF ENTIRELY NEW DESIGNS. I. E. WALRAVEN, 481700E650R TO W. W. OARKIL.I MASONIC HALL. 719 CHESTNUT STREET. WATCHES AND JEWELRY. WATCHES; WATCHES!! e." 1: WATCHES FOR $6. WITC"n" WATcHEs FOR $4, WATCHES FOR $lO. WATCHES FoR WATCHER FOR $l4. WATCHES FOR $lO. WATC HER 3 , OR VS WINCHES FOR CO. WATCHES FOR *2l. WATCHES FOR $22. weroins FOR M. WATCHES FOR 24. WATCHES FOR $55 AT,CLABK'S, 1024 MARKET STRUT. - . . . Composition Watches . tor ES; Silver Watches for NS: Myer iliPstchss for CO; Ituctilet- (lace Watches for *V; Fine Silver linnting-Case Watches [es 0114; rise Silver Etuiting C CLA RKS. eIed MARKETches. f,r $l6. .AT 102$ STREET. AMERICAN WATCHES. in 2, S. 4, and 5-oz. coin Silver Hunting Oases for $A No. $34. and S AT CLARK'S, 1025 MARKET STREET. A genuine Sandoz fine Silver Hunting Caee: fall jew eled. Lever Watch, for *2O. A genuine Robert Ruskell English Patent Lever. Chronometer balance, fall jew eled. Dinkel movement. Sterling Silver, Hunting-Caw% 015. Fine Geneva Watchee beautifully enamelled cases, *25. A great variety of fancy Watches, fancy move ments, fancy cases. fancy dial , duplex- doable-time, aid other styles, which we will sell at the lowest whole. sale Mice, by the case or sit gle one. A hundred differ ent kyles of gold and plated Vest Chains, Gold Pins, Gold Rings, Pine, Studs, Buttons, and. in fact, every article usually found in a first class jewelry store. Don't make a mistake, and buy before examining our stock. Comparison is the only test, and that is all we ask atW L. CLARK'S. whl2-emw.lar fp 10215 MAILItIrEr Street. CLOTHING. CLo , THING-. SPRING OF 1864. EXTENSIVE CLOTHING HOUSE, Hon 3oa and aos CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA E. The facilitins of this house for (loins business , 0 are Each that Choy can confidently claim for it 111 the leading , xeition among the Tailoring Er- tabliehments of Philadelphia. Then, therefore. ; invite the attention of gentlemen of taste to their at Is superb stock of c 9 BEADY-MADE CLOTHING," rsl m cat by the best artists, trimmed and made equal 0 to Customer Worlfr-AND AT er 4 - P4I33PTJI-ak]Et. PRICES. They have also lately added a CUSTOM DE- PARTDISNT. where the latest novelties may be 1-4 I> found, embracing some fresh from London and GS Yule W PERRT & CO., 303 and 305 CHESTNUT STREET. CUSTOM DEPtAiTMENT, 303 MISS= fIT STREET apl-tf GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS. R GRANT, No. 610 CBESTIIIIT STREET Rae now renal' 2. LARGE AND COMPLETE TOOK OF GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, Of his own importation and. manufacture. His celebrated "PRIZE. MEDAL SHIRTS," Manufactured under the superintendence of JOHN F. TaGGERT. (Formerly of Oldenberg & Taggert,) Are the moat perfeet-thting Shirts of the age aka- &dem promptly attended to. lal3-wfm•6m JOUN C. ARRISON, Nos. 1 AND 3 NORTH SIXTH STREET, MANUFACTURER OF THE IMPROVED PATTERN SHIRT FIRST OUT BY J. BURR MOORE, WARRANTED TO FIT AND OWE SATISFACTiON Importer and Manufacturer of GENTLEMEN'S FICTUNI.SEICING GOODS N. 11.—All articles made in a superior manner by hand and from the beet Materials. jal4 FINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY. The eulorcribers would invite attention to their IMPROVED CUT OF SHIRTS. which they make a speciality in their badness. Also. conetantl , LreoeiNing NOYEVIN 4 FOR GIINTLRMEIPS WEAR. J SODT'r eia CO., mareriamisni•s FDRIVISHIaIe riTORS. No. SIM CHESTNUT ST., jal64f Four doors below the Continental. GRAY'S PATENT MOLDED COLLARS Have now been before the public for nearly a year. They are universally pronounced the neatest and beet fitting collars extant. The upper edge presents a perfect cure, free from th e angles noticed in all other collars. The cravat causes no puckers on the inside of the turn down collar —they are AS SMOOTH INSIDE AS OUT SIDE —and therefore perfectly free and easy to the neck- The Garotte Collar has a smooth and evenly-finished edge on BOTH SIDES. These Coilars are nut strop - y flat pieces of paper ant in the form of a collar, but are MOLDED AND SHAPED TO FIT THE NECK, They are made In " Novelty" (or turn-down style), in every half size from 12 to 17 Inches, and in " Eureka" (or Garotte), from 13 to 17 Inches, and paned in "solid sizes," In neat blue carton., containing 100 each; also, In en aller ones of 10 each- the lattera vary handy pack age for Travellers, Army and Wavy Officers. Jar EVERY COLL AR is stamped • . CRAY 'S PATENT MOLDED COLLAR." Sold by all dealers in Men's Furnishing Goods. The Trade am plied by VAN DUSEN, BOEHME% & °a s Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Men's Furnishing Oocds. 627 CEIBSTNIIT Street. • uth3o-wim 3m Philadelphia. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. The undersigned would inform their friends and the pablic Izataialtaix to ha ve from their Old stand, 817 SPLENDID NEW WABEROOMS, No. 912 ARCH smtuicirm, where they will continue the sale of (JAB FIXTURES, CHANDELIERS, COAL-OIL BURNERS, &C. Having associated with our house Mr. CHARLES PAGE. wee(forly the Principal Designer for Cornelius Baker.) are now prepared to execute orders for Gas Fixtures of an grades and designs, from the vicsitteet to the most maestros and elaborate. VAN KIRK db CO. Ao. els ARCH STREIT. 60 BARBELS YOUN GER' S ALE, EL Anne's Brewery. In 9n113. In More, and for Tale by WILLIAM H. YEA TON 4 CO.. 4EI gel butial449/1 Matt, Ett Vrtss+ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1864 The American Conflict. Ender the above title, Horace Greeley has an. flounced a work to be completed in two octavo vo. lumes, with portraits, maps, and diagrams, one of which volumes will be published immediately in Hartford and Chicago, the other to appear as soon as practicable after the close of the War, The con flict of opinions, Mr. Greeley says, has caused the civil strife and upheaving of society which now troubles the land, and his intention is to note and record the progress of Opinion, prior to and during the War for the Union—and, in doing so, to render justice to those who have assailed as well as those who have supported the Republic in its struggle for integrity and freedom. 01 his ability as a writer, there is no doubt, and his extensive political knowledge is equally unquestionable. An honest book may be expected from him. About 140 specimen pages hsve been placed in our hands, sufficient to show what the book will be and bow its subject will be treated. This sam ple contains engravings on wood of Harper's Ferry and of the Shenandoah Valley, and a group, engraved on steel, of the twelve eminent opponents of the Slave Power, viz ; John Quincy Adams; Benjamin Lundy, H. W. Beecher, Wendell Phillips' William Cullen Bryant, John G. Whittier, Cassius IW. Clay. Joshua R. Giddings, W. L. Garrison, Ger rit Smith, Owen Lovejoy, and Charles Sumner. The portion of the letter press which we have pa rused treats of Texas and Per Annexation, the Mte efon of Samuel Hoar to Charleston, the Wilmot Proviso, r the Compromise of 1850, the Era or Slave hunting, tie Nebrseka•Kansas struggle, the Bred- Scott case, and our policy towards that case. The style is plain and clear, the statements &remade dispassionately, end the author largely refers, in foot.notes, to' his authorities. What we have seen of the work and our knowledge of its writer's abili ty, industry, and extended information, impress us with the conviction that is The American Conilict, ,, sui generic in some respects, will and ought to have a very wide circulation. HARRISBURG. [Correspondence of The Prene.] HARRISBURG, April 4,1864. The course pursued by the Democracy in relation to the amendments to the Constitution is rather a novel one. They may be able to make it appear consistent; an outside observer cannot. They are now struggling wish might and main to place them. salvos upon the record as the friends of the soldiers. Ail ,sorts, of resolutions are offered to excite their is) mpathy. Any quantity of speeches are made for home circulation, which are full of touching pathos, for those of our men who are periling their lives for their country, and urging an increase of their pay by the General Government. THB BOLDIBRB' VOTE. In view of the political contest which is close upon us, it may not be uninteresting to place a fen , facts in ;relation to this matter before the public. Fasts are better than long-toinded and high-sounding speeches. The decision of 2dr. Justice Woodward rendered an amendment to the Constitution neoes eery in order that soldiers might vote while in actual service. Consequently, at the last fission of the Legislature, senator Johnson introduced an amendment quite early in the winter for the purpose of extending to them the privilege of the elective franchise. This amendment, which related only to this one subject, passed the Senate ou the nth of February, and was sent to the House for its concurrence. It will be remembered that the House was then Democratic. The amendment slept in committee until the 11th day of April, just four days before the close of the session, and when reported it had two new amendments to it—one to prevent the passage of omnibus bills, and another to prevent the Legislatuze from passing any bills upon Subjects over which the courts have jurisdiction. They were called the Cessna amendments, and received the unanimous support of the Democratic party. It Will be noticed that this Senate amendment was held in committee for two months, and then reported at the last hour, and, having a majority in the House, they were able to dictate terms. The Union men had a consultation, and concluded that they had better receive the amendments, hampered down as the Democrats presented them, than have none at all. The original bill passed the House as amended, and was sent to the Senate, which body refused to concur in the amendments. A committee of confe rence was appointed, and the Democrats refusing to re cede, the Sec ate was compelled to secede to their terms. And upon April 14, the day before the final adjournment, the report of the committee of confe rence was adopted by both Houses. The Democracy of the House stood by their amendments, and would agree upon nothiog else. Now, what do they do this winter I It is well known thit the Constitu tion can only be amended by the action of two sue ceasive aesaions of the Legislature, and then by being ratified by the action oi the people. At an early day in this session a joint resolution was latmlassil Sato the /bum which was a perfect copy of the one of last winter. The amendment re lating to the soldiers was quietly allowed to pass, but when the others were reached the Democracy, in a body, was found fiercely opposing them. The very men who favored them at the last session now were found voting against them. They were repu• dieting their children, and why? Why did they in sist so earnestly upon the adoption of these amend ments then, and fight them now as a party? There must have been a reason, and it is found in the following : There are the best of reasons for believing that they have no affec tion for the soldier vote. They would not ob ject to their being excused. The best lawyers of the State (and among them the Attorney General) had given their opinion that these three amendments must stand or ;all together; that they must pass this House precisely as they did the last before they could legally be submitted to the people for ratifica tion or rejection. Hence, all at once, a "change comes over the spirit of their dream? and we find them trying to slay the creatures of their own brain. A majority of the whole number of members elected are necessary to secure the passage of amend ments to the Constitution, and upon the call of the yeas and nave several Union members were found to be absent, and the Democracy voting solid against it, the bill was lost, no constitutional majority having voted in the affirmative. In due time another bill was introduced into the Senate, and passed by only one Democratic Senator voting for it, Ruisey, of Bucks, who has too much soul to allow party to step between himself and his country. Wallace, of Clearfield, made a fierce speech against the soldier amendment upon princi ples which evidently was sanctioned by his Demo cratic friends, The Senate bill was sent to the House, and was suffered to remain until more than tiny of the Union men were present, when it passed without the aid of a single Democratic vote ; thirty seven voting against it, and the rest dodging the question. Such are the facts. Beautiful sentences and finely-turned periods cannot takeaway the great fact that they, as a party, from the beginning to end, have persistently opposed the soldier amendment, The record is against them ; will they please tell us why they insisted upon the two additional amend ments at the last session, and why they so bitterly opposed them at the present? Why did they last winter insist upon them in the committee of confe rence, and this session voted solid against them? There can be but one answer. They tacked on their amendments at the last session, hoping to be able to defeat them at this ; thereby indirectly but effectu ally killing the one extending the elective franchise to our volunteer armies. They have had a resolu tion before the House, relating to the increase of pay for the soldiers, but more about this hereafter. SEVEN HEROIC BROTHERS. Lieutenant John Irvin, of Tioga county, has just called upon me, and, during our conversation, made the following statement, the truth of which I am Willing to vouch for, having been well . acquainted with him before he entered the service. Re is now but thirty.four years of age, and belongs to thelo6th Pennsylvania Volunteers. At the breaking out of the war, he had six brothers (seven in all), the youngest only fifteen years of age, all of whom catered the service. One was killed at Fort Dennison, and the remaining six are today in the service. Four of the brothers are in the 106th ; have been in thirteen re gular battles; most of them have been 'severely wounded, but not disabled the service. Olin this be equalled I I merely mention this in order that 11 an other family of seven brothers have entered the velum, teer service, the country may know who they are. FRANS. PROPHETIC FORBSIGHT OP DOUGLAS.-1R A TO cent speech in the Rouse of Representatives, Arnold, of Illinois, made there interesting state meet.: Here I will plume a moment to state a most re. m.rhable prediction made by Douglas in January, 1861. Toe statement is furnished to me by General C B. Stewart, of New York, a gentleman of the highest respectability. Douglas was asked by Gen. Stewart, (who was making a New Year's call on Mr. Douglas,) " What will be the result of the effects of Jefferson Davis and his associates to vide the Union 7" Douglas replied: "The Cotton States are making an effort to draw in the border States to their schemes of Secession, and I am too fearful they will succeed. If they do succeed there will be the mustier] able elVil war the world has ever lean, for years. Virginia will become a charnel house ; but the end will be the triumph of the Union cause. One of their first efforts will be to take possession of this capital to give them prestige abroad, but they will nevertsusseed in taking it ; the North will rise en Inane to defend it ; but it will become a city of hospitals ; the churches will be used for the sick and wounded, and even the Minnesota block (now the Douglas Hospital) may be devoted to that purpose before the end of the war." Gen. Stewart inquired, tt What justification is there for all thisi" Douglas replied, "There is no justification, nor any pretense Of any. If they will remain in the Union I will go as far as the Constitution will permit to maintain their just rights, and I do not doubt but a majority of Congress will do the same. But," said he, rising on his feet, and extending his arm, "It the Southern Stan a attempt to secede from this Union without further cause, I am in favor of their having just so many slaves, and just so much slave territory as they can hold at the point of the bayonet, and no mole i" The Government Bounty. To the Editor of The Press: SIR : There ie considerable dieegreement in this pelt of the country in regard to the Government bounty or $3OO or $4OO. When did or when will the Government discontinue to pay the Barnet A totice in the editorial of your Press would give great satisfaction in thte part of the country. A SUBSCRIBER. LBI3 LORTON, Pa., Aorll 2, 1864. [The Government bounty imaged on the let or Alagv — riße ntigel . Gen. Meade and the Battle of Gettysburg. General MBADshas submitted a written statement to the War Committee, giving a detailed account of the battle of Gettysburg, together with en explana tion of his eanduct on that oeeasion. H e etate meats are corroborated by the te.timony of Generals RANGOON, WARREN, GIBBONS, and others, and triumphantly vindicate him front the accusations made before the committee by his enemies. General riaBADE denies, in the most positive manner, the Statement that he issued, or directed to be issued, an Order on the Ed of July, or at any time, ordering are treat to Taneytown, which is fourteen miles south of Gettysburg. He says he had resolved, from the ant, to hold the position there, and to fight the battle Which be knew was impending. He bad no bias of falling back, as he well knew, as everybody knows, that a retreat at that time would have in volved pursuit by the enemy, and, perhaps. resulted in a rout of our army. He denies positively ever seeing any such order ; and Oates that if the order was written it was without his knowledge or author" rity. The first intimation he had of its existence was received from General GIBBONS, who told him, on the evening of the second of July, that he had seen it in the hands of General BUTTERFIELD. He promptly denied at on this point General &RADE surmises is this : Upon assuming command of the army he foand himself without a chief of staff acquainted with the routine of business at headquarters. He requested General BuTreitentro to retain his position as chief of staff until the crisis had passed. Gen. BUTTER. ',MIX consented, and was at once ordered to survey the position, and make himself acqUainted with the rear lines of communication. This, Gen. MEADS contend., was what any prudent General would have done under *the circumstance?, and especially Mime our army bad been defeated the first day, and had only partially succeeded hi Anilsing the attack of the enemy on the second day. He declared that the purport of the order he directed to be issued was this, and nothing more. Gen. MEADS also states, that when he learned that den. SiCKLESS had be come ergased at Little Round Top, he immediately ordered Gen. SYKES, with the sth Corps, to his sup port. Gen. GIBBONS was also examined before the committee on Saturday, and corroborates Gen. MICADIO9 statements in every particular. Freed". oY General General Dix opened the great Sanitary Fair of New York, on Monday, with the following speech : LADIES . AND GnNTlatllinn : We have assembled p for the urpose of inaugurating what, I do not doubt, will prove to be the most munificent contribu tion of the day to the noblest of all objects—to Nereids for the relief of the gallant soldiers who have become disabled by disease and wounds while whiling their lives for the preservation of the Union. [Cheers.] The civil war in which we are engaged is, under all its aspect., the most extraordi. nary the world has ever seen. The enthusiasm of the Northern people in rushing to arms to save the go• vernno-nt of their fathers from destruction, their in domitable courage in battle, their patient endurance of hardahip, their steadiness of purpose under all vi eisituaes, the readiness with which the whole com munity submits to pecuniary burdens, the elastic hope and the unshaken confidence with which all °lessee look forward to a coming tranquility under the old inatitutions, are as realm, k.able as the mag nitude of the contest itself. [Applause.] Our ene mies abroad have said that the South are animated by the highest enthusiasm, and teat we are com paratively cold and unmoved by high motives of action. It is precisely the reverse. The contribu tions of the Northern people in treasure and bleed have been voluntary ofterirge and sacrifice's, on the alter or their country. On the other hand, the people of the South. at least for the last year, have contributed with reluctance to the cause of treason under the exactions of a despotic govern ment. Nothing marks more strongly the difference between them and us than the widespread opera tions of, the Sanitary Commission, and the earnest and devoted efforts by which the ladies of the North ate giving vigor and scope to its ministrations. [Re newed applause.] In the South manifestations of meal and devotion like these are almost unknown. Thle is, indeed, ones of the distinguishing °erecter istrea of the struggle on our side, and it snows with what intensity the public feeling is enlisted in it. It is a peculiarity which has marked no former con test. And while States, counties, and towns, with us, are imposing taxes enormous in amount to raise troops, the rebel Government in Richmond is sup. porting its armies through forced contributions from the Southern people, under a system of tyranny which has already become odious, and is every ma 'pent in danger of defeating itself by provoking armed resistance. Findings by General• Court...martial. General Court-martial in the Army of the Foto• mac have found the following : Lieut. Col. Chas. Townsend, 106th New York, guilty of disobedience to orders; 'suspended from rank and pay for two months. Remitted by the Pre old et; t Lieut. Col. A. S. Austin, Chief Commleaary of Subsistence Cavalry Corps, aunty of absence with out leave ; dismissed the service. Approved. Second Lieut. T. F. Null, 12th New Jersey, guilty of violation of the 45th Article of War ; conduct un becoming an officer and a gentleman, and conduct to the prejucice of good order and military discipline; cashiered. Approved. • Disjor James F. Ryan, 63.1 Pennsylvania, guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and military dis cipline ; dismissed the service. Approved. Private A. Wilder Robinson, Co. H, 24th Michi gan. guilt% of desertion, to forfeit all pay and allow- MIMS, and to be confined at hard- labor for the re. mainder of his enlistment. Disapproved Private James Randolph, Co. R, 148th Pa., guilty of desertion, to be shot to death with musketry. Approved. Private Williams Collins, Company B, 69th New York, guilty or desertion. Sentenced to be shot to death with natiiltatty. Approved. Edward Sanders, a civilian, guilty of selling whisky to soldiers on pioket. Sentence That he be marched through the principal streets of Warrenton, wearing a placard lettered, "I am the man that sold whisky to soldiers," under charge of a guard accom panied by music playing the Rogue% NEarels, and that he be then confined at hard labor under charge of a guard, While the army remains in this vicinity. DIM approved. In the ease of Private James Randolph and Pri vate Wm. Collins. the sentence will be carried into effect in presence of so much of the division to which they belong as the division commander can properly assemble on Friday, the 16th Indira, at such hour after 12 as the commander may designate. The Assertion of the Monroe Doctrine. 1 - ^:e following is the resolution which was unani• mouldy adopted in the House of Representatives on Monday, with the list of 109 members who voted on the occasion: Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled, That the Congress of the UM. ted States are unwilling, by silence, to leave the na tions of the world under the impression that trey axe indifferent spectators of the deplorable events now transpiring in the Republic of Mexico ; there. fore, they think it fit to declare that it does not act. cor d with the people of the United States to acknow ledge a monarchical Government erected on the ruins of any republican Government in America, under the auspices of any Europ•asn Power. YEAS. Eldridge. :Nelson. Eliot. , Norton. English, • ' O'Neill (Pena). Pinsk, I O'Neill (0), Prank, ; Orih, Glider. Patterson. I Grinnell, Perham. Griswold.'Pike. Herrick. :Pomeroy. , HigbY.i Prise, ' Holman, I Prayn. El (wiper, ;Randall (KY). Hotchki se. !nice (Hass), Hubbard (Iowa) Rogers. I Jenks, Rollins (N H), Julian, 3.10tt. Kalbileissh Shannon, Kellogg ((Nish), `Stevens. Spstuding, Kellogg (N 'I ), King, -- etrouse. Law, 'Thayer,y Lazear, rip.ent Long. , V Van alkenburg I Longyear. Waehburne (Ill.) !Mallory, West:Limns(Mass) `Marcy. Whaley. Mcßride, Wheeler MO - 1111re, White CI A, Men:lMM PVilliglllB. Middleton. I Wilder, Miller (N Y), !Wilson, Moorhead, I Wind em. Morris (Ohio). WinfleLd, Morrison. Wood. 3 Myers A, Woodbridge. Myers L. Yeaman. Allen J C. Allen W J. Alley, Allison, Ames, Ancona. Al. &nor, Arnold, Ashley, Baldwin. (Mich), Baldwin (Mass), Baxter. Beaman, Blaine. Blair (Mo), Bites. Blow. Boyd. Brooks, Broomall, Brown (Wis) Brown, W Vs Chards? Clark A'G, &U. Cole. Cox, Cl avenr. Doyle (ita). Dawson, Dennison. D xon. Drigie, Eckley, Brion. PRIZE-MONEY AND ITS DISTRIBUTION.—The busi ness of distributing prize money to the navy has been quite extensive during lastmonth. Nineteen hundred and forty-four claims, calling for nearly s3oo.ooo,wera settled in that time. Notwithstanding the attracs tive bounties catered for enlistments in the army, there is no branch of the service of the country that presents such inducements to enterprising young men as that of the navy. Common seamen and landsmen, in some eases, have already received nearly $2OOO each as their share of prizes captured, and still have Other sums duo them. The blockade runner Memphis yielded to even the coal. passers of her captor—the steamer Magnolia—sl,7oo apiece. Now that j the navy has received a large accession of the fastest ships on the seas, and the business of blockade running is as active as ever, the prospect Of further valuable captures is almost certain. Complaints have been made by parties evidently interested in making them, of the delays experienced in obtaining prizomoney, and of the heavy shave seamen must undergo in order to collect it. It should be known that there is no difficulty in obtaining prize money which may be ready for distribution. The fourth auditor's office, which has the charge of the settlement of these Claims, extends every facility to enable claimants to obtain their money at the ear liest moment. AU communications are answered courteously, and the letter of a seaman receives the same consideration as that of an admiral. The em ployment of an agent to collect prize money is use less in most oases. The office tells the seaman who is out of the service how to fill out his papers correct ly,-and sends him an order for the money on any navy agent he may designate. There have been delays in the settlement of prize cases, which have given cause of complaint against the Department ; but when it is understood that all prizes must pass through the courts of Admiralty, where the parties owning the captured vessel may come forward apd defend the cue, and always resort to. every quibble to insure delay, it is easily seen how groundless such complaints are. After cases pass the courts there is never any further delay in the distribution of the money. The law requiring all persons in the service to re (wive their prize money through their paymasters alone works many hardships, and should receive the attention of Congress. As it now stands, the money due a seaman in the service can only be paid to him self by his paymaster. If he is at sea, on duty, the order must fled its way to hint before he can receive his money, although his family may be suffering for want of it in sight of the treasury. Now. it the law was so amended as to permit what prize money is due to the men in the service to be paid, upon their or der, to whomsoever they may direst, for the benefit of their families, a great evil would be remedied, and the cause of the naval service much promoted. In this case the order should bear the attest of the pay master or commander, and they should withhold their signatures unless fully satisfied that the pay ment was intended for the benefit of the mailers' families. ENLISTMENT OF SLAVES IN MARYLAND. -- Gen • tlemen from upper counties of Maryland say that the disappearance of colored males progresses with astonishing rapidity. Recruiting parties, with Soul. stirring music and heating banners, have only to march through a neighborhood to sweep it clean of its black warriors. The war is so popular among these loyal Marylanders that its termination will ilnedietileti, hitherto dependent solely upon no gross for their labor, left destitute of a laboring populatiOn. Masters, as a general rule, inake but feeble resistance to slaves enlisting, and in some cases er courage them to do NO. EW,HBA hag acquired the distinction of a city. The Claity papers publish the provisions of the new charter, from which it appears that the only sala ried ()film . ' are the recorder. who is to receive $5OO ; wo pollee constables, at $BOO each, and a city clerk at $300; We imagine that offleial positions Under tAlti tilugtg WW onto MI Vw sl;ss, 1004.4 THREE CKNTS. Gen. Birney and the Battle or Pifede rieksburg. Plejor Gen. D B. Biruey has addressed the Tab , lotsing note to the editor of the Tribune: Sfs..: The followir g paragraph, which appears In your leaning eilitorisi of Semites , . 26th inst., I prr4 DOILUIS false in all that ri garde myself and my dint. aloft : • `He was defeated by generals who refused to obey orders; 17 pen Franklin. who declined cypress the a.. tack en the lett, winch was meant to turn and crn.h the emms 'a flank: and by pen. Billw. who etrifered Oen. which bad e rabid the plateau to front of him, to be halted. driven back, and nearly annihi lated ht the raided and reinforced enemy. °es Hiroo!, meanwhile, with a (refill division, looking ealwith na a:aturbed eousniudty.' I contradicted, by a - card in December last, a simi lar statement in your paper, and would now refer you to my testimony, as to Prederielleblirg, before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, which is contained in their published report; to the testi mony, alto, rd Major Generale Meade and Franklin, and the published official report. of Major Generals leynolds and Stoneman. I had reported to General Rea &ilea' at Fredericksburg, wee immediately under 111. Oi dela, as he was with me on the field, and I Car ried out promptly his wishes. In my repulse of the enemy on that day, my command lost in twenty minutes over nine hundred men killed and wound. ed. Mine was the second line, and did not yield an inch. I cannot be held responsible for the Bret line, nor for the orders of Major General Rep:wide to tre. to hold the position in the general limb I had, without pursuing the repulsed enemy. I Wets a sub. ordinate to General Reynolds, and. as he was on the field superintencing the movement, and receiving orders from superior headquarters, and expreised himself on all subsequent occasions delighted with the conduct of my command, I consider your state ment as a very unjust charge against a divhion that hat always done its duly. Yours, respectfully, D. B. BIRNEY, RN. Gen. Vole. The Tribune puts General Birney'S case on the testimony of Generals Meade and Reynolds, and replies as follows " There are two point.: first, that had General Meadel attack been sustained, the battle of Frede. ricksbuig might have been won; second, that Gene re Birney failed to sustain it, though he had a suf. flotent force within supporting distance. We call General Meade to those points, and quote from his testimony before the committee—pp. 691-2-3 of the report: Oneotion. And you finally failed in the object of the attack ? Answer. We were repulsed atter that success Q. To what do you attribute that failure and your re pt:use 7' A. It was owing to the fact that from inferiority of numbers we were unab e to hold what I hart gained. • • Q. And 1f you had held your ground you would have br,.ken their tines? A. Yes, sir. Q. And what would have been the effect of that upon the enemy? a. 1 shoald judgfithat the effect would have been to have yroanced the emanation of the other line of their works in rear of Akrtderichstnertt To the tame point, Gen. Reynolds, p. 700:. Q. Had that point been taken and held as contemplated by the inner. What, in your opinion. WOILLII have been the result ? A. f=that olnt had been taken and held. theen Imo ?ovoid hare been obliged to 'moats their position. We coma have thrown tee macs et on, weepe down below and act in their rear, and reached their line of comm canons. and they would have been unlined to fall back. lu other words, the Heights of St. Miry on the right, which our troops vainly assaulted all day, would have been turned, and the enemy forced to sbanuon them; and Fredericksburg would have been a glorious victory, instead of a calamitous de fea% liow, an to who is responeible for the failure to support the attack of -General Meade. neral Reynolds mays (p. 698) 111,atie's position war held fur some time. and sup• nor, relit for. But thty did not arrive in tints, betore tbe enemy had made a counter at - artic, and driven Meade train the position be had gained " Gemmel Illeade's testimony is (p. 802): Q Did on request support Iron those who had not crane up; and it so with What reßnitT t. 1 61-91,t lock three diArent times to lien. iltrney, brf tier to doff officers. Ely two of t nem 1 sent a rennet. t he woulu advance to my support. On the third occaa.on 1 fiat tubed the rerPOnalbiiity, and rent him an order— oiderea him to come up; and on sending back the third time mendlng an cyder—he came up. To the two provi ens mesa ages. which were reonsata, tl e F4C13190r wet that General baney was, under tee order of Gen. Fievnolds sintainiln Gen. Stoneman, and could not move wi;hout their orders! after having received two mses‘ges of that )ind I assumed the responsibility (at was alas sumptirn on MY part) of ordering him up. and he dad come up just in time to enable me to get my men out and prevey t tb- q rattily from following an, farther than she edge of the wooc a in front of oar batteries." I hat testimony needs no comment. Gen. Rip nay's excuse did not satisfy Cl-en. Meade, nor does it contradict our statement, nor will it relieve him in any measure from the responeibility charged upon him for the lose of the battle. PENNSYLVANIA. A PENNSYLVANIA GENERAL IN TEXAS.—Wo copy the following high compliment to a gallant Pittsburgher nom the Brownsville correspondence of the New Orleans Times! General Heiron is more than popular. Every man of hie army loves him. The loyal citizen, here are coming to much the same state of mind. Whether in the civil control of the community, the improvements in the country made through hie ap pointed officers, and under his control and supervi- MOD, or in the military improvements and illapoin lione to which his lint attention is given—in all the duties of the soldier and civil ruler, General Herron ha. ever been found the same cool, prompt, earnest, inflexible, faithful soldier; the same just, courteous, and Den ponied man. The young warrior moves among um with a dignity and affability which encourage the approach of hoiest men, but with an intuitive judgment, an in. flexible will, and a deeleiveneee of character which prevent the boldest man from attempting to modify any c.eeision dednelately taken. Though in years the soused major general in the United Stites army, contidence in his wisdom is unbounded. He is emphatically the man for this frontier. OBITUARY —Pennsylvania on Sunday lost two of her mostestimable citizens. The Hon. John Banks, some years *ince a member of Congress, subsequently the president judge of the Serbs county courts, and since that time an eminent lawyer of that county, lie, within a brief period, attended the session of the Supreme Court in Philadelphia, and soon after his return contracted a severe cold, and at an early hour on Sunday morning he breathed his last. His fame as a lawyer was not confined to the district in which he practised, and hundreds of friends through out the State will read with morrow the notice of his decease. The other, Mr, Edward U. Lytle, departed this life at his residence in this city. An uncle of the brave Gen. William H. Lytle, who fell at Chickamauga, he was endowed with all the noble traits which marked that lamented hero. In the western part of Pennsylvania and Ohio, where, from lor g residence, he was well known, the tidings of his decease will be received with poignant grief. DEATH OF THE LIBRARIAN OF THE STATE Se. NATE.—We regret to announce, this morning, the death of Captain William P. Brady, for many years the Librarian of the State Senate. The decreased bad, a few days since, injured one of his hands, which resulted in an attack of the erysipelas, ter. minating in his death. This announcement will cre ate a wine-spread regret, as Captain B. was largely acquainted with the politicians and legislators of the Commonwealth, having been an officer of the Senate for many years. We have no means of giving the age of the de. ceased. A soldier of the war of 1812, he had, of course, reached an age at which men look for death; and yet, had the old hero not met with the accident referred to, he might have lived for many years. He was, we believe, a citizen of Mifflin county, to which his remains are to be removed,—Harristwg• Tele graph, oth. PENNSYLVANIA TOBACCO.—One farmer in Lan caster county, in this State, has sold the product of three and a half acres planted with tobacco, for one thousand dollars. This farming is profitable. The crop in all that portion of the State has been large. It is now coming into market, and commands from thirteen to twenty cents a pound. It will be as pro fitable, probably, or more to, the present year. The old stocks are not cleared out, but they are reduced and held for larger prices. The stock abroad, too, has been decreasing, and none of the tobacco raised in other countries has thus far equalled the Ameri can. At three hundred dollars an acre, there are few mops more valuable than tobacco. It is eatitna• ted that $1.500,000 worth of tobacco was grown in Lancaster county last year. Tux OLDEST ARMY CONTRACTOR IN THE COUP , TRY. —The Harrisburg Telegraph says : u Our worthy fellow. citizen, John Noble, Eitk, the present con tractor for furnishing Carlisle Barracks with beef, may be regarded as the oldest army contractor in the country, or as coming from a family of men who have filled contracts with the Government for many years. The lather of Mr- Noble supplied Carlisle Barracks with beef as early as 1811, and was the contractor for making up that portion of the coin. military stores for the troops which went to the aid of the army then operating on the Canada border. John Noble succeeded his father, and is now, as we have mentioned, contractor at the barracks. These facts indicate that the Noble family have been faith ful in their dealings with the Government, or they would not thus long have remained in its employ." A RETURNED SOLDIER by the name of Chase, re• siding near Centreville, Crawford county, was in town on Monday, and, after getting pretty well 4. corned," pitched into :fir. Barnes Greeley, against whom he (Chase) had a grudge, inflicting quite se. vere injuries, knocking Mr. Ci-rceley into a pond of water, where he was nearly drowned before he sue. seeded in getting out. Tire officers caught the chap on Monday evening. An examination was held on Tuesday, resulting in a fine of $l5 (very low, we tbmk) and costs. Mr. CFreeley is a brother of Horace Greeley, of the Tribune.—Jameelown Journal. Ormr. SHOT. —An otter, weighing 15 pounds, and measuring three feet eight inches from his nose to the tip of his tail, was shot in the Brandywine creek, near Seeds' bridge, four miles west of West Chester, by a young man named Isaac Taylor. The animal bad just risen from the water with a large tine in his mouth, when be attracted the attention of the marksman, who fired and put an end to his career. These animals are plenty in some parts of Pennsyl vania ; but they are met with rarely in Chester county. The tracks of this animal have been no ticed in the snow during the past winter. A QUEER CIISTOMBR.—One day, a week or two ago, Dr. Wethezill, of Lower Providence, was some what surprised and startled to find a man in his woodland, slashing away with no mean woodcraft on some of his most valuable trees. Upon protest ing against such further proceedings, the woodcut ter replied that the trees were old and rotten, and ought to be out, and that, as he was out of work, he had undertaken the job. He had cut and piled some ten cords before be was discovered. Apprehending that the man might do more mischief, and of a more Belden' character, the Doctor had him taken into custody.—Norris own Republican. A Rine on A. HAIL.—The Reading Journal in forms us that Philip Huber, of Golden Oiroie re nown, was treated to a ride on a rail by some vete ran soldiers in the vicinity of Reamstown, this county, on last Monday. The afrair happened at a vendue, and occasioned considerable excitement. Except the indignity, and a little rough handling, Huber was not injured. GROWTH OF OIL GITY. — The number of taxable. in Oil City is live. hundred and twenty•three i num ber of permanent residents, two thousand live hurt. dred and seventy-four; miscellaneous and floating population, five hundred, making the total popula tion threrand sevent-four. The value.. tion of property in n the borough is y set down in the as. ressOOS books at $165,986. HEAVY VBEDICT.—In the case of Barnes va, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for S9A9B 20 This Wall an action for damages sustained by the plaintiff in con sequence of the neglect of the defendants to keep the canal in proper repair.—Pittsburg Gazette. A SOLDIRR, slightly inebriated, the other dav went into a news depot to buy a paper, arid seeing the Age bung upon the counter, inquired the coat; taking t w o (all that there were) at the price, he walked coolly back to the stove,.and (Mucked them io, say ing, " I'll buy all that you have every night, so long as my money lasts."— haute. Ate effort is being made by parties interested to have the Bank Of Northumberland moved to Run bury. A bill for this purpose has been brought into the House, at HarrlsbUtg. Tarr smallpox has become so prevalent in the mi ning districts or Northumberland county that tt was deemed prudent to adjourn court, which met in Sun bury last week. The juries were discharged, and the civil suits continued until next term. Tax Sunbury Gazelle lays that the foundations are being dug for extensive coal chutes at the Pensyl vania Railroad Oompanyos works at that plane. They are intended to expeditious manner to locomo tives with coal in an . Salim= WRIGHT, Esq., late editor of the Colum bia (Ps.) Spy, has been appointed an asslgtant adjui• tat pain/ Wt; tAis pr Q 104014 3r.33a Nv . . aLazt. {PUBIS ED WEIKIL7.T.I lenn Wan Mtge will be sent to anbeetlbuil by wall (per untrue In advance) al-- we rhYOIIIIOPIO. • II Viva 50rdeg..........*• • • •••••• • ••••••• • 6.44,466 sa Van eoatea •-•-• • • •rvs. • eit Larger Ciabe than Tee will ba shamed at the ame rate. SO per Sops Th. mnxt .Itocsnc accompany the oretor. wis4 (le frestance ean there teems be &maga from Nuns afford wry tittle more than the coat of paper aflr 'Postmasters era reanested to act as Agents 101 Tim Was Palm. Oa - To the getter•ap of the Clot, of ten or twenty, Olt extra copy of the Paper will be given. PERSONAL. The New Orleans Era notices the arrival of a di...banished French gentleman, Monsieur who Intends to make New Orleans his residence •' We apply to him the word distinguished,' be. cause, apart from his learning and his Merely au. quirerneuts, Monster Soil was the first writer la Paris wh,o dared, at a time when all the newspapers of France, without one exception, were opposed It ths Nedth, rcx,d in favor of toe south, to sound the key-note of lithertv in the columns of La Pram, aiuk to boldly defend the righteous cause of the United States, Now we have the Steele, the Journal deg Debate, and the „Opinion Nationale, upholding ue as IltUrdE7 :RAM a. do the Delp MUM atii the Mew in E ns ,And ; but when Monsieur Jut! took up the' cudgel kr rut he stood alone, and the American peo ple should not easily= forget what moral towage, statesmanlike judgmett, and love ct justice, must have influenced a man 8,, situated, —Colonel Q. D. Milky and Greenceilmith, (am, in.law and con of Gerritt Smith,) assisted by a narsi , her of ladies and gentlemeni lately gave three eater. raiment' in PCterboro, Now York, for the hermit of the Sanitm'y Commission. The church, says . correepOhdent of the Tribune, was well filled by the eitizens of the phiee on the flrst two evenings, to witness thecharade" and beautiful tableaux which • had been prepared. Buchstone's comedy, " Irish Lion," was finely performed each evening. Os the third evening, March 22,1, the crowd tilled every nook and corner, for, in addition to the other at. traction', the lion. Oerdtt Smith appeared In Moots lab costume and declaimed, in fine style, Othello's address to the Senate, &o: His daughter, Krs. ler, appeared as Desderriona. So grand a personation of the brave but jealous Moor, say. the correspond. ad. is pekloru seen. . m l lO Webb bas repeated, in Cincinnati, her reply to aTiss Dickinson, in which she made her oehrit this city, 'roe Gazette'says of the effort : .'s We think Talleyrand's criticism on the young oto, thor's bank will apply most admirably to Kiss Webb's lecture : 'lt bad some new things in lt and sons good things; but tie new things were not good, and the good things were not new.' The new things were her own ; the good things were the ex tracts she made from Miss Dickinson's address, and the 'Song of the Shirt,' before mentioned." Kiss Webb has not been fortunate enough in her new rOle to secure either the approval of her friends or the serious criticism of her opponents. Hen, Judah P. Benjamin, who is now playing a meet conspicuous part in the grand drams of the rebellion, delivered a lecture in San Francisco, ba. fore the war, in which he said, on the subject of dia. union, that those who prate of and strive to dissolve this glorious Confederacy of States are like those silly savages who let fly their arrows at the BUN in the vain hope of piercing it, and still the sun rolls on, unheacing, in the eternal pathway, shedding light and heat and animation upon all the world. Prez=Hui lately got into trouble with the Ye. netians, for singing in opera after the national com mittee bad warned her not to appear. She ran away from the city, but was pursued, and captured at Perchiers, and on returning informed the Venetians she sang under Austrian pressure, and concluded her engagement with three voluntary performances, the &slier the benefit of the Infant Orphan Aty the second for the chorus singers and orchestra, and the third for an artist in want. .Bey. Dr. J. J. Bullock, pastor Of the Preobp terisn Church, corner of Franklin and. Osthedrai streets, Baltimore, was arrested on Friday, by our military authorities, charged with harboring a rebel colonel at his house named Smith, a native of Ken. tucky, sod a relative of the Doctor, -- The Avurnal de Ramie., sonounees the death, ha that city, at the ago of 71, of Mr. John JAMBI' Ap. pleton, of Massachusetts, formerly charge d'Affaires foa the United States at Madrid and Stcckholm, at which latter city he negotiated our treaty of 00m. werce. He was a Bostonian. A. daughter of nr. Appleton is married to M. Eugene Pinagit, deputy mayor of Benny!. The city of Bergamo, in North Italy—a city well known in musical annals as the birth-phtee of Donizetti And Rubini, U about to publish a Ufa Of Beltrami, dedicated to the Historical fiooietyr of Minnesota. This Beltrami was a native of Ber.. gemo, who in 1823 explored the Upper Mississippi in a canoe with an Indian guide, and went as far north an Lake Itasca. He died at Florence in 1865, aged *evenly-five years. Lan Anderson, of Cincinnati, sends to the East Tennessee refugee fund a bequest of five hundred follsers from the late Nicholas Longworth, and adds thereto a gift of two hundred and fifty dollars on hLs o wit account. -- We bave published a list of five Gen. Smiths. One more is to be added, Brigadier General J. Rilby Smith, of Ohio, who has proved his gallantry on many battle.fielde. —The late King of Bavaria was only slok four days. A scratch on the breast from an order pia caused the lockjaw, The acting French minister at Washington, rd. de eofirey, is said to be seriously ill with the email• pox. From a well written biography of Genera Grant. in the Ohio State Journal, we taxa the 101101/• lag account of General Grant's visit to his father's house, about two weeks since On his way from Washington, last Sabbath, he called at the Spencer House, Cincinnati, about half: past ten in the morning,, and sent his son giiyogis the river to Covington to tell his rather to be at home, for be would call as soon as he could take break. tam In about half an hour he came up on foot, and for the first time in nearly three years, found his father and mother and three sisters at home. They saluted each other very affectionately, and con versed for a few moments. The neighbors aeon gathered in, and children who knew his children when last there, andsome soldiers also, who said to him they 'knew him on the battle field. , He an. swered all questions that were asked him in brief sentences, as his manner is, and did not lead in any conversation ; and, I think,,did not smile while in the house. He pulled out his watch on coming in and looked, Atli said he had only fifteen minutes to stay ; looked again, and said he must go, and started elf. I walked with him, and said to him,' 'some call Sherman's last move a failure.' He said, with some animation, It was an entire and complete success, and aceomplishei according to his instructions. , I made, in the convers'ttion, some alight allusion to political subjects. He did not seem to wish to talk about it—said 'he knew nothing about it, and should have nothing to do with it. While at the house of his lather, some one of the fa mily brought a costly sword that had been presented to him. He turned his eye to it, and said he had enough mere better than that.' He did not teem to think much of such things. "IL has been said that he drank to intoxication. It la, in my opinion, quite untrue. He has no such appearance, and his father lay. he feel, very lure he has not drank a drop of liquor in ten years, except a small quantity on one occasion, by order of a phy. aieisn.)s GENERAL NEWS. TREE COTTON.—A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer, writing from Butler county, California, says f am now engaged in raising tree cotton. The first year, from seed, it grew four feet. It has never been affected by frost. The second year it bears a small quantity of cotton, but the cotton is mixed with the seeds. The third year the cotton and seeds are separated. After the third year the yield Is one hundred pounds of cotton to each tree. The tree grows as large as the peach tree." THB losses of Gloucester, Mass u by fire and flood within thirty•tive years have been very great. In that time two terrible fires have completely swept and desolated Front street, the business centre of the town ; and the marine losses number hundreds of vessels ; in moat capes all of the crews went down with the vessels t leaving helpless and poor families to be aided. Since February, 1862, seven teen vessels with all their crews have been lost, and seven vessels were captured last year and burnt by pirates. BALTIMOREANS SENT SOCTH.—D(Lre. C. AL Wit• lett' and family, consisting of three children, who were arrested at their dwelling on Eutaw Street, neer Eutaw Place, some time since, upon the charge of corresponding with persons in the South, and who at the time were paroled to await further orders, bad a final hearing yesterday before Gee, Wallace, the result of which was that he ordered them all to be sent South. They lett in the steamer for Fort ress Monroe. Mrs. Willetts' husband is already in the South. Mn LINCOLN IN CALWORNJA.—With loyal men, says the Sonora (Cal.) Flag, there appears to be but one opinion in relation to the parson most (huffy leg of Presidential election. That one is brave old Abraham Lincoln, who has passed gloriously almost through the most perilous Administration the coun try ever knew, or ever will know. He stands in ex altation before the nation and before the civilized world, respected, honored, trusted in by all the friends of freedom. A GREAT CoMeer FlVEDluTlia—The following, say's an English paper, is au extract of a letter just received from Melbourne: "Professor Newmager, on a three years' scientific visit from Bavaria, tells us that in 1865 a comet shall come so close as to en danger this our earth; and should it not attaah Melt (es one globule of quicksilver to another) nor aunt. bilate us, the sight will be molt beautiful to behold. During three nights we shall have no darkness, but be bathed in the brilliant light of the blazing train." IT APPBAI7.I3 that personalities have been pretty freely bandied in the New Brunswick Legislature. The other day one of the Inembere denounced another as "ignorant and impudent." and charged him with having "fed on potatoes the most or his life.il One of the local papers is very indignant at this depre. elation of what it calla a" valuable esculent," ' and thinks the difficulty of getting these nourishing tubers greater than the disgrace of eating them. A FEW days ago the steamer Missionary, on the Cumberland river, bad her Beet blown out, and sus picions led to the examination of toe wood, which. resulted in the discovery of several pieces contain ing infernal machines. Further investigations led to the belief that there is a regularly organized band of amnesty Federal oath.teacrs and rebel ;wawa illizere, whose object is the destruction of boats anti engines. Alt unpleasant development was made in GMT 'Arnett' the other day concerning Catawba brandy. Responsible vinters declared that the pure article• would cost from five to eight dollars &gallon, adding , that there was no genuine article of the kind in the Market—the quality generally cold consisting of pomace, whisky, and fuse oil. AN INTIOINSTING ROLlO.—Among the articles rent to the hletropolitAn Fair, New York, from Washington's headquarters at Newburg, is a sheet of parchment with one of the stamps of ante-revolu tionary memory littaehed-11 relic of the stamp act Of nab. Two monitors—the Etlah and Shiloh—now build• ing at St. Louis. will be completed in .Tuiv. Each has a turret with as internal diameter of 20 feat. THIC fleripsus, for the first time in many years, sent an Invoice to the Trade Sale, whioh just took place in New York. - - How GEN. GRANT WAS NOT CAPTURED-^The Violist)lDE correspondent of the St. LOUIS Repel/tic" writing under date of Nana 20, says : As a matter of history, and tq. inform the friends or Geneva Grant how near hIF came to travelling another route than the one which has v on m to goo top Munn of the ladder of fame, I sen eopy of a communication written by the adiutantseneral of Van Dorn. which will explain itself: HEADQUARTRRS DISTRICT Tnicensewen, Turemo, August S. CAPTAIN : The major general commanding climate ma to say that be submits it altogether to your owe discretion whether you make the attempt to °whirs General Grant or not. While the exploit would be very brilliant, if successful, you must remember that failute might be disastrous to you ant your men. The general commends your activity and energy. soli OX_Peola you tO continue tfl aIIOW theme qualities . Very respectfully, ea,, THOMAS L. SNEAD, A. A. General , Ovule George Baxter, eommatulleg lieauregat d, 4g9lith
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