TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1864. The Campaign ill Virginia. General Grant is certainly the master of the situation, not only in. Virginia but in Georgia. The simultaneous advance gives' /full occupation to the entire rebel force •east of the Mississippi, and Sherman's suc cesses make it impossible for Johnston to f givo aid to Lee. Every day’s nows justi fies the soundness of the great movement , to the soutli of the James river, and.proves that, for the first time in the war, the rebel •capital has been properly attacked. The ■■solitary achievement which remains to de cide the fate of Richmond is the destruction of the southern and western railroads. - As yet we have no positive knowledge that either the Lynchburg or the Danville road bas been destroyed, or that the Petersburg road is so completely in our possession that Lee cannot use it to bring his troops rapid ly toward the Appomattox. But it is cer tain that Oka st, with unequalled energy, is attempting to cut Richmond off from aid, and is thus far reasonably successful; in the enterprise. ! rpi ie order of tlie rebel commander at Charleston, placing five loyal, general officers under fire, while the rebel;batteries in that quarter arc still iu vigorous action, will excite amusement as well as contempt.' Gen. Poster fitly characterizes the order as “ weak and cruel. ” Tlie new rebel oom lnnndei' in question is one Gen. Samuel Jones, a relative of Jefferson Davis, and an extremely unpopular leader with the military critics of the Soutli. His last.bril iiant act is sufficiently Quixotic to satisfy Southern honor, and to catch some brief applause, but it will do no harm. Five general officers of the rebels are now on their way to Gen. Foster, to he placed tinder fire of the rebel batteries "• The precious metal, which philosophers assure us is tlie source of much misery and crime though we never saw the man who seriously held it as a thing to he avoided— gold has become dearer and dearer, and as its price goes up, the price of all things rise also. A poor man can feel without ' understanding this cause-and effect. He cannot follow lago’s advice'to “put money; in bis purse,” because as soon as lie has it in his hand it must be expended for daily sustenance, an<\ he thinks it hard that the greed and the cheating, the scheming and the stock-jobbing of others to obtain gold should double the price of the food which his homy-handed labor provides for him self and family. Be never has any gold, hut is terribly affected by the speculations Of others in its price. No wonder that he grumbles. ■ As for the precious metal itself, the now abundance of which, in ; California and Australia, throws Opliir and Peru into, the shade,: a proper editorial verdict has rarely been obtained, because the Slaves of the Pen, however great their labor, rarely have a sufficient quantity of the precious metal in their possession, or for a sufficient length; of time, to enable them to exercise a fitting judgment. For the most part they can do little more than speculate on what they would do—if they were rich : howliberaliy they would melt the ingbts; how gene rously they would distribute the coin • What libraries, pictures, and sculpture they would collect; what elegant hospitality . they would exercise; what gentle charities they .would silently indulge in S They sometimes; meditate on such improbable possibilities, their fancy wandering into’ the seventh; heaven of day-dreams, and, pre cisely at the moment when they are about; making the- best use -of their imagined wealth, a loud shuffle of feet is heard on tlie floor, a rough hand is laid upon the shoulder, and a brusque voice utters “■Copy;! sir”—and the day-dreaming editor : awakes, .hastily gathers .up the “ slips” of. manuscript that lie around him, and, as the “printer’s devil” evanishes, tries to recol lect the fancies which already are fading into indistinctness, and, as he sits do wn to write another article, for the pleasure or instruction of. on insatiable public,; mutters, to himself the aureate moral of Hood’s story of “Miss Kilmansegg and her Pre cious Leg,” expressed with equal quaint ncss as truth, in the following lines: / Gold! gold! gold!gold 1 .' • Bright and yellow,‘hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered, and rolled; Heavy to got, aqd light to' hold; - Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled:. Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; I’riec of many a crime untold: Gold ! gold! gold! gold! Good or bad a thousand fold ! How widely its agencies vary— To^gave—to ruin—to Oil r/e—to bless— As even its minted coins express. Now stamped with'thelmage.of good ducen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary! Gold is in 'the; market; at nearly double its real price, and it is conceded that while this continues the cost of food, apparel, and all oilier necessaries will remain high. Not the mere speculators keep.up this high , price, hut the public themselves, who will not dispense with costly articles of 'foreign manufacture, production, or growth.: What, is the use of. Ladies’ Leagues to - wear nothing hut home-manufactures, when tho crinolined covenanters do not relinquish their own .silks and satins,: velvets and pop lins, laces and muslins? The amount fef gold sent out of.this country weekly is immense, and it' procures l only about half tho quantity of,foreign imports that it ought. On Saturday last, three- steamers,, from New York to Europe, took out $1,204,000 in gold, and a fourth took $120,000 to Ha vana, No doubt, the latter sum was to ;pay : for cigars, which we ought: to he men ■enough, in honest and earnest self-control,, ■to dispense yvith. Here, however, in a . single day is a total of $1,324,000 sent out ■of the country, in gold, to purchase foreign ■articles—chiefly of luxury—neary all of which we coukl do without if we had a little honest self-denial. On the preceding Wednesday, $458,033 had been exported. ‘.To : morrow, which is toother packet-day to "Europe, another exportation of gold will probably be made. > The whole amount of gold exported to foreign countries from January 1 to 'June Iff, is not less than $25,526,170, and, adding in what was sent away on Wednesday and Saturday, the total of less titan six months is -,$27,412,800, This does not include What Americans about travelling in Europe take with them.■■;/;•;. . It is necessary to pay for foreign imports, though it is not necessary to have them. "When the time comes to remit, which must he done in specie, our importers; are com pelled to purchase gold, which lias curren cy everywhere. The gold-sellers are thus enabled to keep up the price, and, that kept up, tho cost of everything else remains high, to the grief of millions of hardwork ing men and women who feel that, in their '■daily expenditure, a dollar does not go As •far now as forty cents went formerly. It may he impossible to carry out a sug gestion frequently made, that the exporta tion of gold shall bo declared illegal and punishable by express statute, but we can . ourselves check the evil; by declining to use, wear, or employ any articles of foreign; production. There is no use iu forming . Leagues for this purpose, unless we steadily act upon its spirit, and submit to substitute homespun for : superfine Saxony broadcloth, linens and home made muslins for moire antique and velvet, unless we abandon Havana principes and long-nines for plain Lynchburg and Big Xick, and, if we must consume strong -drink, eschew the costly wines : and ; spirits of other climes, and limit ourselves (no difficult task) to the malt liquors of" Phila delphia, and the various distillations of rye nnd com. Once that the exportation of gold is stopped—only Ste can stop it—the 1 price must decline, because specie will then he ‘required only to pay customs duties to the Government, by whom it will be dis : hursed again, in the shape of interest, among the loan-creditors of the country. Secession Journalism Abroad. Of the loading British journals, in their relations to American polities and persons, it may he said, in Byron’s words, that of late “A change came o’er the spirit of their dream.'” This time last year, it may be recollected that a number of The Times which did not contain at least one “ loader ” abusing the Union, sneering at Mr. Lincoln, assailing . Mr. Seward, intimating that bur brave soldiers were an undisciplined crowd, while the Confederate “ chivalry ’'included all that was good and great in the United States, would have been looked upon with surprise; hard words against us beiug the condiment with which the remainder of that journalistic ollapodrida was seasoned. Then, too, the early and complete success of the rebels was exultingly predicted. Then, Mr. James Spence,; of Liver pool, not having retired from his double duties as commercial agent for rebellion and slanderer of the Union cause, was in the habit, like Milton's Belial, of making “the worse appear the bettor reason, ’ ’ in frequent letters signed “5.,” which contained a maximum of falsehood and a minimum of truth. Then, a Cabinet Minister declared, to a crowd of eager listeners, that Jeffer 'son Davis had “ made the South a great nation”—the sole exeu9C i for such a rhetori cal flourish being that this was a post-pran dial declaration, and all the/ world knows how truly thee proverb -intimates that “when the . wine’s in, the wit’s out.” Then, shipbuilding-for the rebels was held up, despite of its -violation of the foreign enlistment act, as an excellent thing for the artisans in Liverpool, Birkenhead, Glasgow, and Sunderland. Then, tlie . piratical creapodes of the Alabama, the Florida, the Sumter, the Georgia, and other buccaneering vessels, were, if not hailed as tTiumphs, T:ertaiuly not commented upon as, at variance with all that was humane and proper. • When, in short, rebellion found a voice in the English press, particularly in ‘ London, and the “ special correspondence” of The Tiines appeared to have been written under some such instructions as an Old Bailey advocate once found on his brief for the prisoner, “We have no defence, but pitch into the prosecutor’s attorney.’-’ In those days, too, when. General U. S.. Grant was besieging Vicksburg, it was the habit of the ‘English press, The Times leading, to predict that the place was im pregnable, that no physical power could take it, and that the besieging army would ; gradually die off, from the casualties of war as well as from the horrors of disease. Then, too, if we remember right, the Eng lish newspapers used to sneer at General Grant, attributing to him no military genius—nothing, whatever, but a dogged obstinacy, a firm pertinacity, both very good in their way, but utterly useless before Vicksburg, which , was not to be taken. . One day, however, news arrived in England that Vicksburg had fallen, that its brave defenders had surren . dered en masse to General. Grant, and hat the Union army were in possession; of .the famous fortress city on the last 4th/ of 'July, the glorious anniversary of our birth as an independent nation. As far as we recollect, the English, press published many very able articles, after the news reached them, to show that it was contrary - to all recognized rules of warfare for Gene ral Grant to have taken Vicksburg,—pre cisely as, in his first - Italian campaign, when Bonaparte first beat Wukmser, the Austrian General, oh one side; and then beat him on the other, at Lodi, at Castigli one; at ; Areola, , at Rivoli, . the veteran ; most bitterly complained that there whs no use in contending with a young man who violated .all the traditional rules of war, ; would not/understand, that he was beaten,. but made to-day’s defeat the stepping-stone to to-morrow’s victory. Just; so with Ge neral Grant at Vicksburg ; he ought not have conquered, according to the princi ples laid down’ by; Vadban, but he did. Since that time, let us: candidly.confess, there has been a great change of public opinion, in England.; The people of Unit ■ country, who have a long and dogged hate of slavery, were always sound at the core, as regards our great.struggle to make ’this country a land of freedom, not in name alone, with millions of /the colored, race subject to: the. whip, and the gyves, and the auction-sales, and even worse, of men who owned them as absolutely as, in other lands, men own sheep /and oxen. The; aristocracy alone were against us ; hot without many noble' and notable ex ceptions. The House of Commons (which never did and does not now represent the British people) ; were, divided in opinion, but the section which sympathized with secession and slavery—one and the same,; in fact—used have a field-day, every now and then during the session, when they, used to air their vocabulary of- abuse, and impute all; crimes and cruelties to us, all virtues' and valor to tlie enemy. There was Gregory, who became a Parliamentary orator, when the Jockey Club ;virtually,, declared that his pro-: ceedings on the turf were . very j like the practices for which black-legs wore usually expelled. There was Fergusson, who did not distinguish -himself in the Crimea. There was big Bkntinck, who has not an idea of his own, but recited speeches for which he gave so much per line. There liras -Lindsay, who, deeply: .engaged in, blockade-running, may finally; share the fate of-ZACHAiuAn Pearson, of Hull, who went in with equal ardor, and . came out a bankrupt, owing $3,000,000. And, among others who showed marked antipathy to the statesmen* arid fighters of our .Union, Was John Arthur Roebuck, 'the bitter ;Thersites of Parliament,- .or, rather. the Ismael of politics; with his hand against every mail, and every man’s hand against him.'/'' ■ Of late these blatant slanderers hare "been comparatively silent. During the present session they liadjbut a singlefield-day, and, routed by our good friends Bright and Cobden, have not got up tlieir courage to renew the tilt. The recent example of the Government, may, have its effect, but the will of the People must have been still greater,. Mr. H. W. Beecher’s speeches, in London and tbe provinces, did still more. Tbeir natural eloquence attracted all classes,. and tbe logic of facts with which they were filled was unanswered, because unanswer able, If you say that two and; two .make four, no logician, from .Aristotle aud Theophrastus down to; IJViiately and Mahan, .can persuade the world 'that the addition will produce a total of (/free or fine. An evidence of the changed feeling is the manner in which the British journals used to speak of General Grant, contrasted with their; language now. The Times ac knowledges, grudgingly . enough;; that he; is a great commander. But the Daily Telegraph, (edited by Thornton Hunt, who, moro tlian any writer, goes “ on the rampage” .when, lie talks about the .United States,) once a constant railer at the be seiger of Vicksburg, and for some time a ■ doubter of ; the fact ,of its fall—even, this inimical journal has turned round. Here, from its issue on May 24th, is its character of General Grant : “ No vulgar man, no more Ido! of-the hour, Is this .Ulysses Grant, wbo by sheer hard work and konosfc fighting bos raised himself from a position pf ob-' scarify to one of almost unlimited command—who : haß. U some reports concerning him be true, achieved time rarest Pi all victories, a mastery over himself : and bis. desires—and who, a virtue not often 1 pos sessed. by .the military celebrities or tiio United States, is still modest and unassuming.' Nor has be yet Jn, any way compromised the reputation which he worthily earned,; alike by honorable service -in the field and by exemplary eiric con duct. A man of merely: ordinary calibre would> scarcely have dared to accept the glorious but: teTrible' responsibility, which Grant lias quietly 1 taken ‘upon himself, as'mecame a - good* soididr who was hound to fear no porilv.oither material or moral, in his country’s causo. He was as well as boldj the more splendor of tbe office did not seduce him; and only on his own terms, which were; - wiEe and well-considered, would ho, consent to as sume supremo command. He would submit to no dlctaiipn from the amateur AuHc counsellors of Washington ; holding himself responsible for the Issue of the camimign, ho would not allow it to be Srejudiced by any undue publicity being given to is plans; he kept his own counsel, allowed tho gossips to. talk os they liked, and at lengthj strong in tbe confidence of his troops, and with tho whole enthusiasm of tho North to back him, ho set forth upon the great march from which he liud determined never to reLurn except in triumph. »Nor can it be denied that already he has done much. : Pushing doggedly onwards, with tho fierce re solution of a man who is intensely in earnest, ho has his wfty,lo°b by inch, Intotlievory heart of Virginia; and a victory, so close is now his army to -Eiuhmond,'would probably.place that capital in his 'hands. It is impossible to read the account of his operations without seeing .that: they are’tUoso of a leader who possesses daring and capacity not alto- aether incommensurate to tho mighty task that Hoa before him. ‘On to Richmond 1’ which, has so often boen simply the valn-gtorious cry of Nortkoro brag garts, Is with this stern and valiant captain some thlngmoro; It moans something not to be raoroiy talked about, but to bo done; and if 'tho whole strength ofthe North, entrusted to stfong and capa ble bands, can to do it, that purpose will yet bo achieved.” ‘ i. .. i • Deducting, by way. of discount, tlie in evitable sneer at tiie Government, and de spite of Mr. Hunt’s natural vulgarity of epithets, here is a just and fair view of General Grant, which, compared with what the same journal used to say of him a ■ year ago, completely shows how miti gated is tho tone of Secession journalism in England. ; >. The appointment of Professor W. H. Allen to the presidency of the State Agri cultural College is not more highly a compliment to this very able man and experienced educator than it is a real gain to the institution and- the State.-: As the late President of Girard College, Professor Allen has enjoyed the gene ral respect and esteem of this commu nity, and by various positions of responsi bility and honor is Well-known to the State and to the country. The admirable and prosperous condition of Girard College for so many years is mainly duo to his intel ligent. direction; -and, his resignation, therefore, has; occasioned wide regret. -It would have been fortunate had Dr. Allen. continued in its presidency; arid/we trust* that it will not' be impossible to see; him again in connection with an institution with whose best years his eminent services are so strongly identified. The Chicago; Times , the great Copper head newspaper of the West, endorses General Fremont's letter of .acceptance, and speak's in flattering terms of the Gene ral; There is nothing, in the world like a man being appreciated by his friends, . THE WAR IN VIRGINIA. FURTHER DETAILS OF FRIDAY’S BATTLE. TWENTY-ONE PIECES TAKEN FROM THE ENEMY. Petersburg at the Mercy of our Guns. the Garrison reinforces by early. THE FIGHT ON FRIDAY NEAR PETERS- ■ BURG.; , Hkad<iuai:tkiis Army os- the Potomac, June 18—8 P. AI. . The fighting yesterday was very severe along the greater part of the line, the most determined efforts being made to break the enemy's line at several points. But little ground wag gained, , however, except on the left, when the enemy was forced to fall back to an inner line on account of the advanced position gained by. Sedley’s division of Gen. Burnside’s corps on Friday afternoon. The enemy’s line is nearly in the form of a semi-, circle, with. the • ends resting on tho Appomattox rivor/l’otcrsburg being about the centre.; AV some points of the line our guns are within a mile arid a half of the city, and it can be destroyed at any time with ease. The heaviest fighting occurred on the right contre, where each division, of the 2d Corps at different times charged the works, but without success, the enemy being behind breastworks of the strongest character, with troops massed behind them, and our men having to cross open fields of two or four'hun dred yards in extent, exposed to a cross fire from the batteries .planted so as to swee,> the entire place. The last attack was made at 5 P, M., by the 3d Di vision, under .General Mott, and the loss was pro bably heavier than in either of tho others. ADDITIONAL FROM ‘ GENERAL BUTLER’S COMMAND. Bermuda Hundred, .lone 18, via Baltimore, June 20.—1 n all, twenty-one pieces of artillery have been captured from the enemy‘in our assaults upon the works at Petersburg, besides a large number of prisoners. .;,/./ '//-■/''/ When the enemy withdrew his forces In front of General Butler to reinforce Petersburg, Butler Im mediately sent out a force under Generals Perry ■and Turner, which succeeded in' destroying an im portant bridge and four miles of railroad track near Waithal junction. Early eorps (late Longstreet’s) crossed the James river, near Drury’s Bluff, in strong force, and was seen comintjAowu tho. Petersburg turnpike as Gen. Butler’s forces entered their works. Last evening the despatch steamer Amanda Wlnants, whilst passing Wilcox’s wharf, was fired into from the north side of the James river by a rebel battery: . Ton shots were fired ,at her, one Of jwhich passed through her hull near the water lino. No one was f . s . The James river Is blockaded a few miles liefow Drury’s Bluff, to prevent a emprise from the rebel rami ■■■ ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS—GEN. MAR TIND ALE’S ATTACK. Washington, June 20.—-General Pierce was .wounded while/gallantly leading his;brigado in a charge.- ' ; . General Martimlale in the night attacked tfie enemy, and succeeded in advancing his iine and taking a few prisoners. His loss is reported, to be about SQO, The sth Corps did not' lose-heavily in their advance in the morning, but lost a considerable number of men; in the afternoon, in their attack on the-left. - / " / Our losses during the past two days will reach at least eight thousand (probably an exaggeration); in killed and.wounded.; The loss.of the enemy at some points was greater than our own, but being gene rally behind entrenchments, they were not so much exposed, and suffered less on the whole.' All the prisoners taken so far are some twelve hundred, of whom two hundred came in yesterday. They all represent themselves as being from Beau regard’s army. .. ■ It is not believed such,resistance could be made to our advance without Lee’s presence, and tho aid of bis troops. ' ■ J We have no reliable nows from Gen. Butler. . The following changes have been made:;.. , : Gen.: Ingalls has been designated as chief quar termaster of the combined armies in‘the vicinity, to be stationed a’t City. Point, with General ' Lieutenant ■ Colonel;, Batchelder, chief quarter master, 2d. Army Corps, has been temporarily as signed as i'chlOrquartermasterat General Meade’s headquarters. - : Captain L. H. Pierce, the first assistant chief quartermaster of the ' Army of the Potomac,‘ has been promoted to be chief quartermaster of the 9tu Army Corps, with: the. rank of lieutenant colonel. '//-.-. ... ..: ■ ~. Captain Ransom, assistant to Captain Clinton, at Headquarters, of the ’ Army of the Potomac, has been assigned to duty in the: Commissary Depart ment Headquarters. ' PEN. LEE pif SRAWT’S MOVEMENTS. [From the Richmond Examiner; June 16.3 // Grant has determined on another change or base/ This was, indicated early yesterday morning by the following official despatch, from General Lee to tho Secretary of War,.: ;.-/’■•/.. / -t “ Headquarters Anjrr op Northern Vir ginia, June 14, 9 P., M.— Hon. Secretary op War— Silt: The .force of the enemy, mentioned in my last despatch as being on the Long Bridge road, disappeared during the night. It was probably ad vanced toxover Mio ;movemont of tbe main body, most of which, as far as I.could learn, crossed the Ohickahbmlny at Long Bridge, and below, and has reached/James river at westover and Wilcox’s Landings/ A/portion of. General Grant’s ■ army, upon leaving our front at Cold Harbor, is reported to have proceeded to the White House, and em-: harked; at that place. Everything is said to have been removed, and, tho; depot at the White House broken up. The cars, engines, railroad iron, and bridge timber that had been brought to that point, have also been shipped. “Very respectfully, Ac., R. E. Lee, Gcnoral;” THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST, A Battle iu Progress at the Cliat- talioocliie lliver. CAPTURE OF A BEARER OF DESPATCHES. SHERMAN’S ARMY. Louisville, June ‘lK—A staff offleor from tfiei Front reports heavy firing- on Wednesday, on onr .left.' z I - /'■;. . /- : Blair’s corps was storming the enemy’s works. Our/ whole army was in line, and firing, going on along the entire front. . : :- :. The rebels are being slowly driven back under fire, mainly artillery. Our: losses have been slight . Blair was reported south of the Ohattahoochie river on Wednesday night. Johnston has massed his'artillery to prevent our right from ..crossing, and a sovbro fight was expected there. ; /./ . A f rebel officer was captured -on Tuesday night with despatches lroin Johnston to Wheeler, ordering him .to destroy the bridge which Sherman recently built over the Etowah. t'f GENERAL FOLK'S REMAINS- Atlakta, Juno 15.—The remains of - General ■Polk arrived here this morning,'and wore deposited in St. Luke’s Church. The funeral sorvieos, and a sermon by Rev Dr. Q.uintard,woro delivered before a great assembly. The remains wore then escorted to f the Noose train lor Augusta with . military honors. , GUERILLAS IN KENTUCKY. Louisville,. junel9.—A rebel gang, numbering twenty or thirty persons, attacked Bardsfcown yes terday morning. The garrison of twenty-lire, men surrendered; The rebels then moved down the rail road, and destroyed a bridge and water-station near Boston. They then went across the Nashville Rail road, two miles north of- Elizabethtown, and when last heardfrom wore goingtowards Litchfield. A Canard and Its Contradiction. Newark, N. J., Juup 20.-—A private letter from a supposed-reliable source, ” that the ono imndred:days men at ■< Tretiton are under marching orders for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. A small force: of rebels, bent on destruction, is stated to have en tered the Cumberland Valley. They are, reported to be the ad vance guard of a large'detachment.” Ohambkr&»uju>, Pa., June 20.—General CouoU knows nothing of ;tho hundred-days men being or dered to Harrisburg, and believes it to be a lio, Tlie Cumberland Valley was never more quiet than it is to-day, . . Pirn at Beck Island. ' Chicago, June 20.—A portion of JYarron’s tiilery, at Rock Island, was burned on Saturday night, with a large quantity of grain. Tito toss Is seo,coo, ” THE PRESS-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDA Y, JUNE 21, 1864. THE OFF4CIAL GAZETTE. REPORTS FROM ALL THE DEPARTMENTS NO FCTITIIEIt fartiodlurs of OPE RATIONS ON THE JAKES. JOHNSTON HOLDING KENEBAW MOUNTAIN. GEN. SHERMAN FKESBING lIIM CLOSELY. FIVE UHION , GENERAL OFFICERS mBKI) IS CHARIESXOS USOKK FIRE. An Inual Number of Rebel Connuimilcrs (rent to General Foster. To Major Gmn'al Dix t Ncvj York: No operations liwlay upon the .Tames rlvot have been reported to tho Department. Unofficial statements represent our loss to have been severo in the assaults on the enemy’s works on Saturday, but no official list of tho’casualtios has J>een received. - General Shonnan, In a despatch datodthisovo . ning, at. 7.30, says: “I was premature in announcing that the enemy Had abandoned his position. I based my report on 'that of- all the army commanders. The enemy has thrown-back his flank, and abandoned all his works in front of the Kenosaw mountain, bat holds that ;■ mountain as. the apex of his position, with his flank I behind Noonday and Moses crook. ■ “AVe have pressed him pretty closely to-day, al though the continued rain makes all movoment almost an impossibiHty.lv . v General Foster, commanding the' Department of the South, at Hilton Head, forwards ; the following despatch, dated the 16th of Juno, at Hilton Hoad, 5.0.: I have the honor to report that I have to-day re ceived from Major General Samuel; Jones, com manding the rebel forces in this department, a letter stating that five general officers of the United States os prisoners of war, had been placed in Ciihrloston to be retained there under our Are, "Against this weak and cruel act I have protested. .In the mean time, the fire oh the city Is continued. (t I respectfully ask that ah equal number of rebel officers of equal rank may bo sent to mo in order that I may place them iffler; thW'onemy’s fire as long as our officers are expo.sed.in Charleston.” This Department has issued a retaliatory order transferring, to General Foster an equal number of rebel general officers to be treated in the manner proposed as loij£ as our~officcrs are exposed in Charleston. E. M. Stanton,;: Secretary of War. jf : GTON. The Senate to-night confirmed the following nomi nations : Colonel Win. F. Bartlett, 57th Massachusetts Volunteers, to bo brigadier general;: Colonel Elliott W. iticoj-yth^lowa, .to be brigadier general ; Thomas Steinburgh,' to bA. assessor'of internal revenue for the District of Kansas ; John F. Potter, of Wisconsin, to be consul general for the British North American provinces; Thomas Kirkpatrick, of New York, to be consul at Nassau, N. l P.j Henry W. Caldwell to be U., S. Judge for the'Di3trict of Arkansas. THE - GOLD AND OTHER RILLS »SIGNED BY THE The President has approved and signed- the bill regulating thecoastingtrade, by which it is provided that any boat, sloop, or other vessel or the” United States, navigating the waters, on our Northern, •Northeastern, or-No'rthwestem frontiers, otherwise than by sea, shall be enrolled and licensed' in such form as other vessels, which enrolment and license shall authorize them to be employed either ia>the coastlDg or foreign trade on those frontiers. They are in every other respect liable to the rules, regu lations, and penalties now m force relating to regls •tered and licensed vessels. The President hasalsoapproved and signed “An act to prohibit certain sales of gold and foreign ex change,” commonly called the goldbill' and the bill providing “ that all goods and--wares and merchan dise la public stores and warehouses, on which the duties are unpaid,which shall have been in bond for more than one less than three; years, may be entered for consumption, and the bonds can-’ celed at any time before the first day of September next, onthe payment of duties and charges, accord ing.torthe laws inforce at-the.time the goods shall he withdra wh,”; "'f r ' i ; - : The President to-day communicated to the Senate a'despatchdated June 10th, from Thomas Savage, acting consul general at Havana, relative to the case of'Bbn Jobe and the state ment that his arrest was sought because of his oppo siiion to theslave trade. Itappears that Aucjoulles captured slaves in the expedition, as was his official duty, but that instead of surrendering them • to the Governor he sold a portion of them and accounted •for them as having died of small-pox, and having been buried; He also bribed a parish curate to at test his statement. The testimony shows that thirty-eight were sold to one man, thirty-two to another,"and: that others were distributed in a similar way.: General Bux.ce, captain general, so much abused by Arguelles, has beea-very efficient in capturing slave expeditions, claiming that, but five have es? caped him during his' administration, while four have been captured. . ? Mr. Savage further avers that the statement of AKGcrELLEs’wife’spresence is not true, and that the woman referred to was not his wife. He represents that these captured slaves when surrendered to the Governor General are termed emancipadoes, and contacts with the planters at no minal prices are made for their temporary service, but that great frauds are perpetrated upon them, a common one beiDg>to report aportion of ; them dead, or when other slaves die. to testify to the death of emancipadoes instead, - and thus retain them in slavery.' ;V m ; Governor Curtin Is here endeavoring to haye the Senate pass the House bill providing for the expense the State was at during Hue's raid last summer. He has had an interview with several Senators; and there is every prospect that the bill will pass, j The result of the Senate’s action to-night on the bill .amendatory of the enrolment act was a refusa! by 3 majority to strike out the $3OO commutation clause. The section to make the draft for one year was retained, and the bill was recommitted to the Committee on Military Affairs, who will have a meeting on thcjubject. to-morrow. - GENERAL GILMORE REPORTED DNDBR ARREST AND A report Has reached here that General Butler had relieved General Gilmore of command, and ordered him to report at Fort Monroe, as under ar rest, and await a court martial, but that Lieutenant General Grant, upon learning the fact stated above, released General Gilmore from arrest, and • ordered him to report to Washington and kwhJt further orders. The subscription to the ten-forty loan, as reported at the Treasury Department to-day, amounts to $380,000. . - ‘ ■ : : ‘ The Navy Department has received intelligence' of tho capturc of the British steamer Syren off Beaufort, N. G., with a cargo of hoop iron, paper, ,&c.. She was taken by the United States steamer Keystone State, Commander P. Crosby. : The Syren is a schooner-rigged iron screw steamer of eighty-seven tons burden. Thirty Christian Commission delegates, with barges and stores, went to the front yesterday. Thirty more went to-day. Wagons, boats, and stores scnt.to Bermuda Hundred by the Christian Com mission, hare arrived safely. DEATHS AT THE WASHINGTON-HOSPITALS, The following deaths -of .Pennsylvanians have been reported at the office of Captain, James M, Moore, Washington: Joseph Tewell, K, 55 . Edward Hirsh, HV 90 Frank Leroj, K,17 Cav H Thomas, 3), S 3 Robert Martin, H, 45 ' ■ Korris L Wiser, G, 45 John Jaco, H, 63' Jacob Shriver, 3), 49 Paul Cass, H, 99 w Solomon 93 Forbes Kilgore, H, 105 Robert E Johnson, B, 139 Andrew r P, 48 , ' DavidM -Burkholder,D.lS4 Corleas Hogbm, H, 168 .. a : mYlllth CONGRESS —Ist Session. SENATE. The Chaplain being absent* Bevv B. H. NADAL, D. D. , made the morning prayer. -i. : Mr. GRIMES, of lowa, moved that when the Senate adjourn at 4.30 to-morrow it bo to ait at 7 o’clock P.M., which was carried. • Mr. HALE, of Hew Hampshire, introduced a bill au thorizing the Secretary to amend ihe contract with Mr. Ericsson for the construction of two floating batteries; also, aiiili forfche assiniilationof rank in the navy. -. Mr. HALE gave notice that he should call up . these bills on Wednesday. The bill to prohibit the discharge of persons from lia bility to military duty by reason or the payment of money, ami for other purposes, then came up. Mr. BROWN offered an amendment to authorize the enrolment'of the friendly Indians for the protection of tne border States and frontiers. . Mr SADLfcBUKY, of Delaware, opposed tho amend ment, and characterized it as inhuman, and against the sentiment of the civilized world. - Mi. BROWN replied and said the Indian soldiers were jntt-nded to be used for the defence of their own homes . and tbote of the settlers on the borders;' * • THE -ARGUBLLES CASE—MESSAGE FHOM THE -A message was received, from the President, commu nicating letters and papers relative to Mexican affairs, and also one covering a statement by Thomas Savage, Vice-eonsoi ; general at Ha vana, in relation to the Argnellea case. ■ ; : Mr. BALE reported a bill to repoal the act appro priating $200,0u0 fora n»val hospital at Kitcery, Maine. ’ MEXICAN AFFAIRS—ANOTHER COMMUNICATION ‘ .A message wftß received from the President, in reply i toafurther resolution of tho Senate, enclosings com munication of tho Secretary of State relative to Mexican ' affairs. Also, a message from the President, in further i aiswerto Mr. Johnson’s resolution relative to the de livery to the bpaninh authorities of a person named ’‘Arguelles,” for aUeged crime*. . • - Mr. SHERMAN, from the eominittee.of conference on the disagreement between the two houses on the leghla tive aed judicial appjoprlftUoa'biilj’inade a report, which was concurred in; - ; y . Mr. PoWELL, from the Committee on Printing, re ported a resolution for tho printing of 1,650 copies of the i JDirectoiy of Congress, prepared by Charles Lauoiaa,; for the use of the Senate, which was passed. - i : On motion of Mr GRIMES to-morrow .evening was ectapart for the consideration of District of Columbia business. •...•••• A bill for the relief of Goorgo F. Nesbit was passed.; It relates to his contract with the Poat Office Depart ment for stamped envelopes. ■ : The joint resolution for the relief of Carmack & Bam s6> was taken up, debated, and laid over ,• PROVIDING FOR BAIL IN* OASES OF MILITARY All ■ REST. Mr. MORRILL, from the Judiolary Committee, re-, jioited a bill providing for bail in cases of military ar rest uusdi- under the act of July 17,1862, to be taken before any Judge of a United States. Court, .chancel lor, judge oi the Supreme Court or . Superior Court, or chief judge of a Court of Common Pleas, who ahati exercise their diacretiou regarding the nature and cir cumstances of tlu oflenceaud of tlie evidence aud usage ol Jaw. •. s • *;• AUTHORIZATION TO SELL TREASURY mOFMRTT. * Mr. MORRILL introduced a hill drafted';by the Sq; crelaty of the Treasury, »athorlzing the sale of custom*, ‘houses, wharver, docks, aud r mval hospitals, and land in which they are looaled, whoa not neoded as Washington, Juno 20, 1864. 10 o’ciock P. M. ' Washington, June 29,1864. confirmations by the senate;. PRESrDHNT. THE ARGUELLES case. THE RAID BILL. THE ENROLMENT BILL. ORDERED TO WASHINGTON. THE TEN-PORTY LOAN, GAPTURB OP PRIZKS. THE CHRISTIAH'COMXnSSIOir. BILLS RELATIVE TO THE WATT. ENROLMENT OR INDIANS. PRESIDENT. FROM THE PRESIDENT. MINOR BILLS. Ruch, sml that the proceeds of such Hale shall be placed In the United States Treasury. TBLKQRAPH TO THE TACIP-ia, The bill lo encourago and facilitate telegraphic com-, municaiion between the eastern and western continents come up RHunnaisbed business. . Mr. DOOLITTLE offorod an auiendmeni that the rate of charges for public or prlvate ineasages shall not ex ceed on said line the average usually charged In Europe and America for the same nervice, or such rates as shall be ascertained ami fixed by a couventlou between Rus sia and Ort&t Britain. Tbo further consideration of the bill was postponed till Tuesday. THK COMMUTATION CLAUSE, ETC. The bill to prohibit the discharge of persons from lia bility to military duty by reasou of payment of money was called up by Mr. WILSON, the unction being on bißamendimnit, that every person who shall be dratted and serve honorably for the period one year shall re ceive a bounty of $lOO and au honorable discharge, and a similar bounty proportionate to the term of service for ai» ss period. The amendment was rejected. PItOPOBITION TO DRAFT FROM THE INDIAN TRIBES, Mr. BROWN offered the following as an additional section: . , “ And be it further enacted. That la any draft which may hereafter take place all the Indian tribes with , whom treaties have been made, and who ftTe receiving armuitbK from the Govonmenc. shall he required to furnish their quota of men; and that the duties of enrolment or ascertaining the ap proximate nutithor of said tribes shall, whenever the same is necessary, bo performed by the Indian agents as part of their appropriate duty without further comr PfUiHtion, under further instructions from tbo Provost Marshal General; and in the eveut that any tribe re ceiving annuities as aforesaid shall refuse or fail to furnish its reiiQtred quota, thou, anil in that event, the whole or such part of thesald annuity as the Secretary of the Interior shall deem hdequate topmeuresabstt tuteHshaii bvwithl.old from the auuaalpayment, and shall he placed in the Treasury along with the commu tation fund, heretofore paid for a like purpose; aud, provided further, that the force thus raised may be om-. ployed by the Government for the pu*pose of maintain ing the peace and protecting from hostile incursious the Indian and other Territories, ami uf relieving such troops br are now engaged in that duty. Mr. SAULfeBUIiY: said if we would pat men into the rervico who were wearing-our uniform in loyal State v and battling against the rights of loyal citizens, we would be doing the country more service than by em ploying the wild Indian. Men had boon used to infringe the rights of citizsnsof Delaware and M;iryl«*ul, wiio would have been employed to greater advantage in the field against the common enemy. Instead ofbeiag so used in the field they were sent into out* election dis tricts to infiueuce aud control our elections. We called upon Hie Administration before they placed any of these savages in the field to call .upon these white soldiers to take upuntjsag«insKthe enemy in :tho front as there was no Bane man who thvro was a necessVy for an armed-force among the peaceful and quiet citizen? of the loyal bfcates. Two raildons five hundred thousand troops, or one-tenth of bur entire population, have gone into this war, aud wewere not only calling for more men oi a kinured race, hut appealing for. legislation to callout fho savage tribes. ' Mr*” SAULSBUitY then went on to prove that the Wibuntof DiF-n lie had heretofore named had been in service, by enumerating the different classes. He said that if we passed this amendment we roust forget the indigntion with which it would have been looked upon b) our fathers. Mr, BROWN said his amendment might be justified by the course of the enemy against us, and his amendment only proved that the frontier Indians and settlers audit be protected; besides he believed that these Indians m that section would be the moat valuable arm of the service. Mr. DOOLITTLE raid the purpose was simply that these Indians should he employed to keep the peace ia these Indian Territories against hostile tribes. He offered a subiditut-, as follows: “That the Secretary of War is authorized to receive Ul« military perries of the United States Indians of tribes in treaty with the United Slater, to be employed, asjjait of the military force of the United States,for the Eurpr-seof nmiuainmg the peace and protecting from OBtile incursions the Indian Territory aud other Terri- * lories where the hostile or wandering forco is ia whole or in part composed of hostile Indians. ” Rejected—yeas 24, nays 12. Mr. Brown’s amendment was rejected—yeas 10, nays 29. • .... • ■ . t-,' Mr. Wilson's amendment, that every person who shall be drafted, and who shall serve honorably/or the period of ont year, shall receive a bounty of $lOO, to be paid.upon his discharge from' the service,.and evoiy person tOdxafud, who shall be honorably discharged after a term of strvicelesb than one year, shall receive a brunt y proportioned to Ills term of service, to be esti mated at the rate herein: proscribed for one year’s ser vice, whs debated at some length. Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, said when the war. commenced the people of the country,with a great deal of. patriotism, rushed in and filled up the ranks of the army. At the same time the war’brought alt kinds of business to a stand still, and wages to a . low rate. At such a-time it was not found necessary to draft men. We have raised about eleven or twelve hundred thou sand for the three years’ service, and. we have also au immense force its the field which occupied, to-day,a po sition more favorable than they had ever- occupied be fore. He had never felt such confidence as he felt now m the success of the two great armies, East aud We«t,iu the very heart of the rebellion. Ho approved the repeal of. the commutation clause, saying that no more odious act coufd‘bepassed by the present Congress.. With his amendment, he believed, we could speedily fill our armies. ' ■ - t . ; : - » . Air. McTOPGALL, of California, opposed the bill at some hhgih, avgulng that the Government had- a right to: aemand . the service of all her kems, and. while cha merchant could easily raise the price required as a com mutation for bis personal service, the hardy soa.of toil would be obliged to bear the military burden. Mr. Wilson’s amendment was rejected,and the Senate took a retess. EYENING SESSION. - Mr. TEN EYCK, of New Jersey, offered an amend ment providing that when a . non-commissioned officer or private tkaU bo discharged by reason of injuries re ceived in the line of his.duty, be shall receive the same bounty pay as a soldier wounded on the battle field. ■ ■ ■ : : : Y - ; Mr. HENDRICKS moved to further amend by insert- disabled by disease, or other causes. ’ V f The amendment to tho amendment was adopted, and the amendment prevailed. Mr. GRIMES, of lowa, then moved that the bill be recommitted to the Military .Committee, which was carried - * On motion of Mr. LANE, of Kansas, the Senate, at o’clock, west into executive session, and subsequently adjourned. HOUSE. DILL. TO' PROHIBIT THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. A.bill was introduced and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary to prohibit the inter-State slave trade. ADDITIONAL COMMITTEES. Mr. WILSON, of lowa, introduced a resolution which was referred to the* Committee bn. the Rules providing for the creation of two additional standing committees: one on internal revenue, and the other on hanks and hanking. TO TEOHIBIT STREET CARS FROM RUNNING OX X BTJXDAT. Mr. PRICE, of Iowa; offered a preamble setting forth, that it isand ever.has been admitted, since the fbrraa tion of the Government, that the prospects of this nation dependfon a recognition and observance of the laws of God; and the compelling of street railroad cars to . run on the Sabbath, as provided by a recent act of Congress, is it direct contravention of the Divine law, and incon* sistent with our professions as a Christian nation; therefore _ ' JtetfoJutd, That the Committee on the Judiciary be in structed toreport abill repealing the law compelling the htreet cars to ran on Sunday. The fcPEAKER said the Sauate.bas not acted on the bill yet. Mr. PRICE said it was passed so far as the House wag concerned;'- - ' Mr. COX, of Ohio, moved that the whole concern be lain on the table. Carried—yeas 60, nays 35. THE MISSOURI EJECTION CASE. Mr. TTPSON, of Michigan, made a report from the Committee pn Elections Uat John G.Scott is entitled to letain his seat as a representative of the Third Congres sional district of Missouri. GRANTS OP LANDS, The report was laid orer for the present. The House passed the.bill providing that no act passed during the present session giving lands to States and corporations to Bid in th*- construction of roads and for other purposes, or extending the time for makiDgjselections of gf ants, shall be construed to embrace 'mineral lands, which are in all cases reserved exclusively to? he United States. THE OVERLAND MAIL. Mr. KUSKEI, delegate from Utah, offered a resolu tion, which was adopted, instructing the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads to inquire into the expedi ency ofrepeaiing so much of the .existing law as pro hibits carrying newspapers and other printed matier in the overland Pacific mails. ' . . COMPENSATION TO PERSONS ARRESTED AND RB- LEASED WITHOUT TRIAL. : Mr.,ROSS, of lliiooi?,offered a resolution that all per sons hot in the military.or naval service of the United States, who have been arrested or imprisoned without processor law, and released without trial, are entitled to the same pay and mileage for being deprived of their liberty as members of Congress, aDd the Committee of Claimsare hereby instructed io repoita bill at an early day for that purpose. He moved the previous question,’ which was not seconded, and, a debate arising, the re solution went over. TRADE IN THE REVOLTED STATES. Mr.IKGERSOLL.of Illinois, offered a resolution that, in the opinion of the Housv, all permits issued to any person or persons, allowing them ;to trade within the limits of any State now or heretofore in rebellion.should at once be revoked, and that no more such permits should be issued. ' The Bouse sustained the previous question on its passage—yeas 65, nays 4G. A motion was made to table the resolution, which was lost—yea& f®, nays 71. r, ; The vote by which the previous question wassustaihed was reconsidered by thretf majority. CERTAIN CIVIL. EXPENSES. ATr, FENTON, of New York, moved to refer the reso lution to the select committee to investigate the affairs of the Treasury Department, pending which the morning hour expired, when the House went into Committee of the Whole on the r.tate of the Union on the bill making appropriations for certain civil expenses of the Govern ment.- • Various amendments were .made, including one pro viding for a marble floor for the old hall of Representa tives, ahd snitable'structures ard railings for that set aparr for statuary. The President is authorized to in vite all the States to furnish marble or bronze statues, not exceeding two of them for each State, of deceased citizens most illustrious for their military or civic ser vices; ■ • vT .'"r- ■ The bill also makes appropriation* for the survey of tie Atlantic and* Gulf coast, and for the light-house establishments for the Atlantic. Gulf, and lake eoasts. including $UX>,OOO l© enable the Light-house Board to re-establishiights and other aids to navigation which have been injured and destioyed on the Southern coast. The bill also appropriates for public, buildings and grounds of the Smithsonian.lnstitute, Government lios* piialefortbe insane, survey of the public lands, in cluding $*GO,OOO for continuing the work on the Capitol extension; $lOO,OOO for the ; continuation of the north wing of the 1 Treasury extension, and $40,000 for the annual suraidyfor facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States by electric telegraph, and S?&,OCG for finishing the Patent Office building. - Th« Committee rose without disposing of the bill, and the House took, a recess till half pastjseven. ■ , EVENING SESSION. ■ / MISCELLANEOUS EXFENSES. Mr. STEVENS, of Pemuj Ivania, from the Committee of Way* and Means,' reported a bill making appropria tions for certain inisccHaheons expenses, the considera lion of which was postponed till Thursday. ; . RULE OF LABOR FOR EMPLOYEES IN THE NAVY Mr. CHARLES O’NEILL, of Pennsylvania, offered" the tollowitig, which was agreed to: . ' Resolved, That tho Committee on Naval Affairs be requested to examine into the expediency of repealing all laws or parts of laws which require, at stated pe- the regulation and fixing of the rate of pay of the mechanics, workmen, and other employees in the dlf feitnt navy yards, according to the rates paid in pri vate ehiik yarde. workahops, or establishments In the neighborhood of the respective navy yards where me-. clmnicftl or active-labor is employed, and to report by bill or otherwise. , ’ THE TIME: OF. ADJOURNMENT. Mr. BROOKS, of NewTork, offered a resolution that the two Housefc.of Congress beinguuable to agree with respfect to the time of adjournment, that the President be requested to adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, that time not to be extended beyond the first Monday of December next. ■ .> ' Mr. STEVENS;,of-Pennsylvania,, objected. DECLARED -IN 'INSURRECTION NOT TO BE ALLOWED REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS. Mr.-ASHLEY, of Ohio, asked leave to offer a resolu tion declaring that when the inhabitants of any State have been : decl»red in a state of insurrection bv pro clamation by the President of the United States, by force and virtue of the act of July, lS8i» it shall be in capable of casting auy vote for. President, or electing Senators or Representatives in Congress,until the said insurrection .is suppressed or abandoned, and the said inhabitants returned to their obedience to the Constitu tion and laws. Objection was made to the introduction of the resolu tion. • * . A Mr. WILSON, of lowa, made a report from the Com mtiteeon the Judiciary in the case of William Yokutn. It concludes as follows: >*-11 appears from the factsre poued that the. proceedings in. the case of the *eaid Yobum wore regular;, that bis:lmprisonment was Ihe : ret ult of the sentence of the court which tried him* that nopardon: wasever issued'to him; that the order for his pardon was-suspended by the President, and that his continued confinement is in - conformity.-to the sentence pronounced against him by the court. The committee asked to be discharged from the further con slder&tionof thesubjeet. ; • The Bouse; in Committee,-then resumed the conside ration, frdzh the morning session, of the hill making ap propriatiouH for certain civil expenses, the appropria tion for surveys of the public lands, e ? c. .In the Terri tories, and in Oregon and California,being up'for dis cussion.^ GRANTING THE PUBLIC LANDS, Mr. BROOKS, of New York, said bore are about; ■s3io,ooo for the surveys, a small part of the annual expenauureH. How tnat tfte homestead bill is practi cally ova-ridden by railroad and wagon road bills,; giving aw*ay about all of the landsV and that corporation .after corporation is coming ht.ro for ©special donation, be Western men, at the next session of .Congress, would bringin feOme bill «dieving Congress, from all the,special legislation by taking all the lands; tiom the btates aud Territories, aud legislating upon tho readH tbeiDßelveß. If there was to bo no more revenue from the immense doinaini we should bo relieved from, the cost. away, therefore, to the States and Territories would be economy as well as a reLiaf from social legislation . . . StYeial comparatively uniiuportnut amendments were nmde, when tno committee rose. The House concurred in tho action of the comndtieo, including m appropriation of $3,0J0 jor the President’s summer residence at the;Soldiers* Home. This bill was passed. > . - THE $400,000,000 BILL. Mr. HOOPER, of Massachusetts,-from the Committee of Waysaud Means, reported back the bill, which was reforred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union; aud iU wuisiderationpostponed till Wednesday next. ; . THE DEFENCE OF :THE NORTHEAST BOUNDAHY, Mr. BICE, of Mitne, from theseleek committeo on the subject, made a report providing fur the dtfonco of the uoi theas'eru boundary o| Maine, The report Wits Qr» dtred-t« be priiitod and recommitted, * The House then adjourned, EXJROPES. ARRIVAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN. EXTENSION OF THE DANISH ARMISTICE. Oapk Race, N. F., Juno 20.—Tho steamer North American, from Liverpool on tbo 9th, and London derry on (the 10th of June, passed this place-at two o’clock on Sunday morning, bound for Quebec. The Hccla aud Louisiana arrived out on the sth, the Hibernian, from Quebec, on the 6th, and the City of London, from New York, on the 6th. The political news is unimportant. * It Is stated that the Germans assont to a fortnight extension of tho armistice. Cotton sales on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes day, 21,000 bales. Market quiet and unchanged, except a partial advance of >£d Tor American. Breadstuff's dull and unchanged. Provisions quiet and steady. Consols closed on Wednesday at oOK@&O>£ ex dividend. LATEST VIA LONDONDERRY, June 10. The Germania, from Now York, arrived out on tho Oth. The ship Rockingham was captured by the Ala bama on the 23d of April, and was burned. This happened in hit. 23 15 south, long. 32 west. . A resumption of hostilities in Denmark is feared. Cotton has advanced #d. for American, and has declined #d. for common qualities or all other de scriptions. Sales, for: the w0ek.53,000 bales, and on Friday 8,000 bales, closing quiet. - Breadstuff's dull and downward. Wheat easier. Provisions qiiiet'and stoady. Cousols 90>£@90,J£. Illinois Central shares 32@30 per cent, discount. Eric shares 53@65. 3n tho House of Commons, on : thcSth, the bill for closing the public houses on a two-third vote of the surrounding inhabitants, wa3 defeated by 257 ma jority. V, '■ • •• ' .The Conference was to meet on tho afternoon of the Oth Inst. TKOLONGATIOK OF THE ARMISTICE—THE BANISH ULTIMATUM, The Paris Constilutionnel learns that Austria and Prussia consent to a prolongation of the armistice fora fortnight. Itifl pointed out that the question of iYonticr is momentous for tho Danes, as tho line of .the Schiei is of first-rate sirategic lmportance, while the frontier proposed by the Germans re •'mains perfectly indefensible, and would loave the Danes always at the mercy of Germany. Hence the line of the Schiei is understood to be the Danish -.ultimatum. . THK HOUSE OF OLDENJBERG, It is confirmed that the Emperor of Russia has transferred to the House of Uldenberg all ciaims of tlie Imperial family of Russia to the Holstein succession. ' AFFAIRS IN FRANCK. * In France the political news is unimportant. The Bourse was steady; Rentes 67f. sc. The Emperor has rejected the appeal of La Pom merius ior a comPHltation of sentence. M: Deklsseleff', the Russlan'minlsier at Rome, is recalled. This is regarded as a mark of the . C7A.r’s displeasure at-the recent proceedings of the Pope relative to Poland. The duty on most kinds of goods exported from Russia and Poland, for purposes of European com merce, has been abolished. The news from other parts of the Continent is <fn tirelyunimportant. - r , THE LUNDON MONEY MARKET.—In the London money market the demand for discount continued very moderate, and the open market was easy, but the' Bank rate remained without,change, owing to the demand for gold for the Continent. The funds were quiet and rather firmer. J : FEDERAL RECRUITING TN TItKILAND; London, June 10.—In the House of Commons, the question of Federal recruiting in Ireland is be ing debated. Strong remonstrances were made against it. Earl Russell complained of the non attention by the Washington, Governmsnt. to the representations made bn the subject Lord by. Lyons. THE CONFERENCE. Tho Conference has been 'extended to the 25th.of June. : No advance has been mad© in the settle ment of the existing difficulty. : Commercial Intelligence. Liverpool, June 9. —Cotton. —The sales of Monday, Tueecay, and Wednesday, amount to 21,000 bales, Of whichb.tOu were taken by speculators and exporters. The market lias been quiet,and prices are generally un changed, with theexception of a partial advance>£d for American. - ........ TRADE REPORT;—The Maßchester..market is dull, and prices tend downward. Brkadstufps.— Richardson, Spence, & Co. report FlourdnlJ. Wheat heavy, and quotations barely main tained; red Western, 7s9d@Ss6d. Corn quiet; mixed, 2£s. Provibiohs,—Beef quiet and steady. Pork quiet. Bacon firm. Lard still-declining, and prices 6d@la lower. Tallow, fiat. Butter quiet. Produce.— Ashe&quiet and steady. Sugar do. Coffee steady and unchanged. Rice steady. . Rosin quiet and unchanged, spirits of Turpentine flat. Petroleum in active and nominal. ;,v : LONDON MONEY MARKET, —Consols 90}£@90J4 for money, ex dir. „AMERICAN SECURITIES.—IIIinois Central 31K@30>£ cent discount; Erie 54@5G. LATEST, VIA I,ONDONDBRBY- Livehpoot,, Jitne 10. —The Brokers' Circular reports tha gales of the week at 53,000 bales, of which 5,750 were to speculators, and 11,000 to exporters. The mar ket has advanced Kd. for American, but prices are kd lower for common qualities pf other descriptions The sales to-day (Friday) wereS.OCO bales,including3.ooo to speculators and exporters, tbe market closing quiet and unchanged. The authorized quotations are Middling Orleans2B3id; do. Mobile2S>£d; do. Uplaud&2B>£- The stock in port is estimated ut 293,QU0 bales, inclu ding 11,600 bales of American. .. Breadstuff's dull. Wheat easier. Provisions quiet aDd steady except Bacon, which is advancing, and Lard btill declining. - i . London, June 10, —Consols, for money Qo>f®9G.&* Illi nois Central shares, 32@30 3R cent, discount; Erie, 53®35 discount. The bullion in the Bank of England has increased £9 t 5OO during the week. ; Marine Intelligence. . Arrived from ’New York—Friede, at Bordeaux; 7th, , Lizzie Barman, at Liverpool; 7tb, Webster, at do. Arrivta from Philadelphia, June Sth—Tubal Cain, at Falmouth. Arrived from Baltimore, Jane Sth—Florence Chip man, at Liverpool. ' ■ Kaihd for New York, June 4th —Meridian, at New port; 7th, Parien, in the Clyde; sth, St. Lawrence, at Liverpool, V . ' Sailed for Boston, June 7th—Albert,from Liverpool. Sailed for Baltimore, June 6th—Gen. Williams, from Liverpool. ’ NEW YORK CITY. CSpecial Correspondence of'The Press.) r New York, June 20, ~ POLITICAL GOSSIP. ' The Coppersition press—a cross between the Cop perhead and Opposition—having already worked put through unique logic the problem of *-Little' Mac's” stupendous generalship, his statesmanship, and martyrdom, is now essaying to build him up a reputation fbr oratory, upon the basis of hisYVest Pointless speech. This poor young man is being shockingly treated: by Metropolitan friends j who, ignoring the bounds of discretion, proceed so far with their eulogies that a general cachinatlon and hiation greet each renewed effort instead of the solemn awe,for which they are laboring. One of these compositions is so unique that it de serves dissemination. "The oration,” it alleges, .‘‘will live forever.‘V* * * Which will be a for tunate thing for ’ the people in the next world. His admirers will con it again and again., The farmer and the laborer at their firesides will ponder upon its truths. The historian will interweave the sentences into his imperishable context. The future poet will.catch Snspiration”—moreprobabiyinspis sation—“from its.eloquent condensations of heroic events. The schoolboy”-^Teryproperly—-“will often ; extract from its Mosaic”—and Hebraic—“ finish the attractive sentences for his holiday exhibition. And long after”—and not before—” the fevered anti fanatical speeches of the day have perished, Mc- Clellan’s electric; orafcon will fire : the patriotic heart”—and the cigars—“of the generation who may look back upon this era of rebellion,” &0., &c. And this is the method that the metropolitan 7 friends of the poor young maa^adopt for building himupin the good graces of the and esta blishing a reputation which shall commend him to their most distinguished consideration, - The insani ty and inanity, of New York politics were never more forcibly exemplified. Madame Demorest, modiste, and authoress of seve ral works upon the Fashions, is supporting Fremont through the columns of the IllustraledNews. It is confidently asserted in some quarters; that the delegates to the Chicago Convention will be in structed to vote for whomever they may desire, with the understanding that: a- sort of left-handed fusion witli the Fremont' ticket is to be the practical result. The Copperhead and Coppersition have given great prominence to the trades* move ments, the Aarly-closing meetings, and those of the Fenian'Brofherhood, of . course without any idea of asking votes for their upon : of the great interest they appear to take in those-pro ceedings. ARTISTIC, ; Tlio Academy of Design closes its doors on Juno 25th, The artists arc preparing for the annual hegi ra. Yewell. goes out West, and other notables are very generally retiring to their country seats. Cra gin has a fine sign on his easel. Hojer is making ah exquisite German text study for a prominent mer cantile fihp on Broadway. A relishable : anecdote is at present- going the rounds. L———one day dropped into II —’s studio.-“ How do. youlike the Sanitary Gallery?” asked the latter, u O, it’s all G—, O—, C—; nothing 'but G— { Kow there’s his H— of the A—’s j it’s just like spinaeh. H In the course of-the day C— dropped in, an<J the same question was asked him.'- “Ah,”he replied, “it’s all L—, H—,X—’s. There’s /his Y-- 0, j it’s just like molasses pandy.” Who can * doubt. the literal truthfulness of artistic ; criticism 1 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. The society of “friends-” having for the time being given up the delightful sport of maiming and killing policemen, doubtless, as being too laborious for the healed term, has devoted itself to a variety of innocent pastimes. A perfect bouquet of varie gated Utile crimes has been the result. A few eve nings ago, a miserable boy of a tailor, aged forty years, undertook to correct his father withapairof shears, and succeeded in cutting him severely, in flicting wounds which, it fe feared, will prove fatal. Tho papers chronicle a frightful outrage committed by three youths, who will doubtless be spared to repent and vote at tho next election. The city, abounds witlri/young,rascals-—boys bred up In tho midst of 'physical" and moral filth, who are enly pests to the Proposals for a pestilence to sweqp them off should be immediately issued., Congregating at the corners, and heaping insults pu man and woman, doEying the law, and patronizing the - ''filthiest of liquor shops, 16 would, require tho keenest kind of philosophy to detect of what possi ble UsCtheyaretoth«world,and;Whythpyshouid not be carefully entombed; at the first favorable op portunity. The ordinances relating to street-clean ing should be made-applicable to them. THE COUNTS* WEEK. This week will ; be memorable for counts. The nobility Is. well .'represented at court. Count Do minico Od<lirso v .who was some time since deoorateil with an ordor of arrest, is to be tried for appro priating some elothibg at the ; St. Nicholas Hotel; also for pi similar offence committed at the Gra mercy Park Hotel. Count Covin© is charged* with having abstracted sundry and divers: artlolbs of vertu from the rooms of the Lafiwge House. ; Th(®o nbbiemeh'have experienced theb vilo mutability of mctropdlitan fortune. From tlie social "circles to the cells and the lowah awdalis i, Today the Jo kannes case oomes off. - LIBEL SUITS. The trial of Mr. John Clancy, editor oftho Lp<wlcr, upon the criminal charge of libelling the “ Count Joannes,’ 1 will take plac© next week. e It willcroato; a decided sensation injpurnailsUci as well as other circles. The Count has also a civil suit ponding, against the samqgocrioman, and, it is>ald, against tile editor of ik& Daibj Tron«rrip/, the legal paper of the city. Those, added to the suit which, according to report,he was about launching Against the Tribune, make four , casts in which the Count oocupies and would have oeoupiod the position oi plaintiff or ex rel -The Leader y ever, since , of- Its troubles, has given a spicy and joyial weekly ae . count of Uio position of aiialrs. The e^itor evidently is provided' with a fme vertibral deyelopaieut. Somebody will sustain damage before tlie matters are finally concluded. ■ COMt’ULfIORY’ ECONOMY. A ray of hope is illumining the minds of our un fortunate tnx>paye?s atlast, because there seems to bo a faint possibility of checking the insane extra vagance which lias heretofore characterized the dis bursement of the public funds. The old loungors who were wont to draw their revenues from the corporate purso are ieeling very badly about the matter. There will be no more Japanese balls for the city fathers; no more gigantic maelstroms suck ing down the public moneys; no anything to make their official lives agreeable. The Citizens’ Asso ciation has opened a complaint book at their rooms in Broadway, and therein any citizen may record the facts of any corruption, fat jobbing, or wilful extravagances perpetrated by our officials, and the association will Investigate, and sec that the guilty parties are prosecuted under the law which makes all wasteful and corrupt uses of the public funds misdemeanors. Some such method of punishing the corruptionists has long'.boon needed. They have laughed at the tax-payers until their sides ached, and grinned at the weak attempts made to over throw their schemes of spoliation. Mutters have now assumed an aspect evidently different, and who can say that from the most extravagant we shall not yet come to be the moßt economical of the great cities of the Unionl THE BHAKSTEARK MONUMENT. Some seven thousand dollars have thus far been raised by- the Shakspeare Monument Committee. Thirteen thousand yet remain to be procured. The work goes slowly on, but'will probably bo accom plished before long through the aid of a few large donations from prominent men. The sculptor to whom the task will be committed has hot yet been chosen/ Bumor points to Clark Mills, however/ ■ THE “ SEVENTH” REGIMENT. The Seventh Regiment started off this morning for another field dayjwitli full ranks. Its appcuranco on our streets has never evoked the old enthusiasm since its unlelicitous return from Washington du ring the first months of the war. . DESPATCH FROM SECRETARY CHASE-—THE PUBLIC DEBT, ETC.—IMPORTANT STATEMENTS. > . Secretary Chase Has sent the following despatch to tins city: “The present aggregate of the public debt, inclu ding alilegni-tendcr notes and-unpaid requisitions, is #1,719,395,168.88. The interest-bearing legal-tender notes which have been withdrawn amount to $38,890,700, The ordinary legal-tender notes which have been withdrawn, and placed in reserve, amount to $37,258,822. “Of course, it will be necessary to replace a por tion of the five-per-cent. legal tenders with com pound-interest six per cents/' : ’Terrible railroad accident. The New York express train for Boston via Springfield, about noon, when a mile north of Ber lin, met with an accident, caused by the spreading of the tracks. The two rear cars were thrown down an embankment and were badly broken up. Some thirty-five persons are reported injured, mostly by bruises. Among those hurt are 32. A. Enson and wife, of Hartford; Mr. Zenn, of the firm of Collins & Co., Of Hartford; and George Parker, a brakesman The latter is not expected to survive his injuries. * v . - BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition*©! the New York banka for the week ending June 20: ; Loans, increase .../$837,761 Specie, decrease. .1,125^413 Circulation, decrea5e........................ 90,361 Deposits, decrease. .3,091,-181 Gold closedat 198 ii- THE I‘HEbTDENCI. THE MEETING OF THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. ' We are informed that Mr. Belmont, the chairman of the National Democratic Committee, has refused to call a meeting for the consideration of the pro posal to postpone the Chicago Convention. We .understand that the reason given for this refusal by Mr. Belmont is, that he has conferred with the members or the Committee* and that they have ex pressed themselves in opposition to i the proposed postponement. There ia certainly some misunder standing about this, for the only two members of the Committee with whom we have communicated distinctly state that the chairman has not addressed them on the subject, either verbally or in writing. At all events, the proper way to ascertain the senti ment of the Committee.is to call a meeting and pul* the question to the vote. In view of the extreme importance attached to the proposition, and out of respect to the great numbers of tke Democracy who favor the postponement, the chairman cannot do less than consider the subject with formality.— N. F. News. THE TRLBtTJTE POLICY. To the Anxious.—As it has seemed to. us expe dient and proper to devote, for the: present, our columns and our efforts mainly to the iavlgoration of the warior the Union, leaving politics and Presi dent-making to await, so far as may be, the issue of the campaigns now in progress, some of our friends and a good many of the other sort are solicitous as to the course we may ultimately take, and some of them address to us letters on the subject which we have not time severally to answer. But we.can easily give a general rule that will enable any one to solve all such problems for himself. r If, then, you cherish any solicitude, any doubt, on this or any kindred subject, just drop in on the tea bitterest and most malignant pro-slavery Copper heads you happen to know, and ask each in confi dence what course He would wish the Tribune to take in this or any other, contingency; and, if ha answers you.truly, you may safelycbaelude that we shall act precisely as he desires we should not. This rule is easily applied, and has rarely been known to fail. And it will probably wear a good while with out wearing out.— N. Y. Tribune. THE t£ HIOAWBEP.” - DEMOCRACY. ; [From The h T ew York Times. ) So they are disposed to wait awhile and see if an available hero won’t turn up from some unexpected quarter. They have hopes of Grant, and are quite ready to take him provided he will'take Richmond. Itis about the first reward they have ever offered to , induce one to serve the country—but -Grant doesn’t need it. He will take Bichmond in due time we have not the slightest doubt.' So far as that goes, ifwewerein want of a candidate we should be quite willing to take him on trust. But the Demo crats evidently mean to make a sure thing of it— they will nominate ho man on the strength of what he Is expected to'do. v. We commend their prudence. We hope.they will posfcponetheir.Convention, until Richmond is taken, the rebellion quelled, and the Union restored. Then perhaps they can unite their forces. The Peace Democrats* who think the. war an infamous crime and demand that it be stopped, and the War Democrats who think it equally cri minal and iafanious, but demand that it be prose cuted with vigor* may possibly then unite upon some man who agrees with both. ' We trust they’ll try. ■ A WESTERN PLATFORM. The following despatch was received on Friday night from Governor Yates, of Illinois, at a recent meeting in Chicago; - Springexeld, 111., June IQ, To Colonel John L. Hancock: I cannot be with you to-night, but please say that I am for Abe and Andy, Dick No.* 2 and the Deacon—against all Copperheads, North or-South— against sla very— for the Monroe doctrine—for Grant and his army—for freedom and the Union, now and forever.; - * Richard Yates, Governor. “BREAKING IT UP.” > "Whatever doubt there < might have been as to the definite object of the Cleveland Convention, pre vious to its adjournment, it is now effectually dis pelled, for it is hard to find a single member of it who does not declare that he went there for the purpose of “ breaking it up.” .* •" XIK. LINCOLN* [From the Philadelphia Ledger.] Unless, therefore, there should be some defeat of the plans of Government so complete as to prove a hopeless incapacity in the present administration of the Government within , the next three months, the prospects ;of. Mr. Bincoln’s re-election are all that the most perfect unanimity of tho powerful body represented in the Baltimore Convention can secure. The unimpeachable honesty .of purpose and well-known integrity of character In Mr. .Lincoln have done much to secure this result. His tion in opinion, and the feeling , that hemow has more experience of the ropes of the ship of State than any one who has;not been in power during the last four years, have all tended to produce this nomination, so honorable, to tho President. There has, no doubt, also been a desire to show respect to one whose honest devotion to the Unlon has made him the mark of such gross personal abuse and misrepresentation throughout the South and even abroad. “ con’s blessing.” When the platform was under consideration in th e Cleveland Rev. Henry T, Oheever (brother of the Rev. Dr. Cheever of New York) moved to amend the first resolution by inserting the words, “ with God’s blessing,” so that it should read ns follows: : \ u ltes6lred, That, with the Federal Union must and shall be preserved.” . : The correspondent of the Herald tells us what was the fate of this.motion: ... - “Mr. Oheever’s motion caused quite a sensation among the Germans, many ofwhom were infidels j but Mr. Cochrane promptly put the question, as fol lows: 4 AH those in favor of amending the resolu tion by the insertion of “God’s blessing” .will say “ aye,” all opposed “no.” God’s blessing is lost,’ said Cochrane. The suddenness with which it was put, and several circumstances connected, caused quito a sensation. The moment that quiet was re stored the Germans could be heard whispering to each other, ‘Dash ish de man,’‘Dash ish de man.’ ‘"Vat’s dat he shays ’boutGod’s blessing V ‘Dish ish de man.’ From that moment on it was impossi ble to.get the Germans to think of any other person for Vice President but General Coohrane, and when his name was proposed they rushed it through with a will, all owing, to that one little circumstance, which only shows'how a little thing decides a man’s fate in political campaigns.” JOHN COCHRANE. IF there is in this country a more unscrupulous and slippery politician than . John Cochrane, -we know not where to look for him. In 184$ he was a Freo Seller, but, having succeeded in avenging the wrongs of Jjlr. van Buren by the defeat of General Cass, he abandoned the party, and, in 1552, was a supporter of the fugitive slave .Uiw.and of that ar rant tool of the slave oligarchy, Franklin Pierce, who rewardecUiis treachery to freedom by making him Collector of the port of New York. Hcsustain ed the Administration of the infamous Buchanan to the very end; be supported Breckinridge for Presi dent iii 1860, and, as a member of Congress In the winter of 1860-61, did all he could by Eis speeches and votes to betray the North; and, in April, 1861, alter the inauguration of Lincoln. he went to Rich mond and made a speech to the slavemongers, then plotting treason, of which the Examiner of that city speaks in the following terms : V; . * “This Cochrane wiil be remembered in Richmond as the New York politician who, from the steps of the Exchange Hotel, declared and avowed, with solemn appeals to the Almighty,that if the Federal Government should attempt to coerce the South, he (Oochranefwould be found sword in hand on the side of Old Virginia.” - And this man, without a drop of anti-slavery blood ini his veins, and whose lifo ha 3 been one long chapter of intrigue, is led in triumph to the chair of a political Anti-Slavery Convention by a nou-voting Abolitionist who can findco ground for confidence in President Lincoln, the emancipator of 3,000,000 slaves, and in whose eyes Garrison is an “ old fogy!? s *— AnU-Slavet'y Standard. - * AFTER THE NOMINATION. One of the editors of the in this week’s issue, gives an account of a trip to Baltimore in com pany with \V.Lloyd Garrison, to attend the Uonveu tiou. Subsequently he; visited Washington. Ho writes: “ On Mr. Lincoln’s reception day, after the nomi nation; his face,.wore an expression of satisfaction.: rather than elation. He made a moro favorable ap-. pearance, both in manner and dress, than in his latb unfortunate exhibition before his eloquent and pun- , gent critic, Miss Anne Dickinson, a wo-; man, could not help* noticing a wound, in the good ? man’s stookings. His honest countenance habitu-: ally justifies the expression of mingled humor and; sadness which Mr. Cordentor, the artist, has caught: in the large picture which he is now invinUng at the White Bouse of the President. amV hia Cabinet, i Bfr. Lincoln’s reception .of Mr* Garrison, was. an: 'equal honor to host and guest. I “In alluding to our failure Uhfind the old. jail, m > snid, ‘ Well, Mr. Garrison, when you first wont to; Baltimore, you couldn’t get otd; and the Bobbnd time you couldn’t get in.’ When onoof us mOnUbued the great enthusiasm at thi* Convention, after Sena tor Morgan’s proposition. to ; amend the Constitution abolishing slavery, Mr. Lincoln iDstßutly said, ‘lt \\fis I who suggested cn Mr.- Morgan that he should put that idea Into hia opening speech.’ This .was the very best word ho has Said since the proclamation of i'reedoin; President, therefore, and his party of BUpporters.standnowplo«lged to theoomplete eradi cation of slavory from the land j and they will be held to tho pisd&c, wby should sot Congress hasten to submit the same proclamation to the peopled The Senate voted In favor or such a measure by a wonderfully large majority, but the House opposed. Will the House now reconsider 1 If not, why not t” an instructive corrksfowdknob—tub fbb* MONT MOVEMENT IN WESTERN VmOllttA. We copy the following juicy correspondence from the Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer of Saturday: « Wheeling, W. Va., June 17,1864. “ To the Editors of the Intelligencer: “ 1 enclose you for publication a correspondence which 1 think will be very interesting; first, as a rich exposd of some of the movements to create ft Fremont furore; secondly, as a fit reply from an officer of the Government, who has tfeen solicited tt co-ojierate in the swindle. j, d. “ Baltimore, Md., June n, 1301. “ Major D. IT. McPhail, U. S. A. “ Bear Sir: I want you to send me the names of some two or three or more prominent Fremont and Cochrane men in West Virginia, if you know any such. 1 am chairman of the sub-Natlonal Com mittee of the Kadicai Democracy for Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia, and want to com municate with some of our leading friends In West Virginia on the subject of the campaign. Try and serve me if you ca n in the matter. j* They are going to have two Uncoin electoral tickets in Maryland. The anti-Blair men have theirs out. “ The Blair men are arranging to get theirs out. They say they have been cheated by the anti- Blairites, and will go before the people on the popularity of Montgomery Blair, as if anybody caTed anything about him.. I hope this may di vide . Honest people may then couie by their rights. , “We shall organize at once in this State, at least, eo far us anybody will go with us, hold a State Con vention, and get our electural tickets out. The whole of the loyal States will be thoroughly organ ized on the basis of our principles. {t l do not know your course, but Ido hope it will be with us. Lincoln can never be re-elected. His sins alone will prevent that. Andrew Johnson is besides a slaveholder. • “The Democratic party is split in twain forever, between the peace and the war parties; it .vill make no nominations at Chicago, but will rally personally all other discontents around Fremont, who wiu never yield his distinct organization. “1 want a soundman in Western Virginia, who is fit to go on the National Committee. Let me hear from you. Truly: yours, W. G. Snethbn/* “ Wheeling, W. Va., June 16,1864. “ IV, G. Snetkcn, Esq., Baltimore , Md: “ Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, and in reply have to say that since the adjournment-or ihe Cleveland Convention I have not seen nor heard of one Fremont and Cochrane man in West Virginia, “General Fremont has some warm friends in this State,'and none regret more than do these his sent political status.; ami lam surprised al anv true mend ofhls could not have ?*»- n A"? has been played off on .him ' aß< , t/o. by /eh pa/ ties as Henry inter jjavis A: Company. I never considered the ufSveland Convention from the start a movement in the interests of Fremont, and lata BtUi ol that belief Davis and his gang of trading politicians, in and out of Congress, have been the en irineersof the whole movement. Smart enough they, however, to keep away from it, and do better service in Congress ana elsewhere, in embarrassing the Ad ministration, in the hope that this, together with what might be done at Cleveland, would distract counsel at Baltimore, and thereby cause Mr. Lin coln to be dropped, and their men (Davis, Ylce Presi dent, for example) elevated. “1 presume no honest man .will for a moment doubt that Davis and his gang plotted for the de struction of Lincoln, notwithstanding their now pretended friendship for him and their hostility to Fremont, but these are they whom the Admiaistra* „ tion took into favor in Maryland to the exclusion of its true friends. “It has turned out with them as I predicted it would - , but they were caught in their attempt to sell Lincoln, and I shouldn’t wonder if he has not begun to ‘see it/; , “ I have considered pie policy of the President too tame—you know that—-but I do not see anything.ln the jjolicy now- being pursued that ought not to be considered radical enough for the new-born advo cates of the Monroe doctrine. If my memory serves, this has always been a cardinal feature in the creea of the Democratic party, and no one feature of that creed has received more of abuse from the tongues of such old Whigs as Davis than has'this one. As a Jackson Democrat 1 have always been an advocate of this doctrine, and will go as far as the farthest in. asserting it at the proper time, but X will never con sent to ils use as a means to embarrass the Adminis ' tration while rebels are in arms against the liberties of the people. Its introduction at the present time was designed for no good purpose; hence I 'can’t be * counted in/ “In conclusion, let me say that, however much I might be disposed to favor the election of Fremont, two reasons would prevent me from voting for him as now nominated. First* the platform does not suit me. It savors too much of red republicanism, with* its - concomitant of infidelity, and it offers too.. many, inducements for the rebels in the Northern A, and Western States, who call themselves Demo crats, to fair into line and move unitedly in pha lanx to break down the Government. Second, I have too lively a recollection of that speech of John Cochrane’s, delivered at the Maryland Institute Hall in the winter of 1860-61, wherein he was unable to see how a State could be coerced, agreeing, on " that occasion, with Buchanan. Possibly he may have since discovered how that thing can be done. No’thanks, however, to politicians, but all thanks to the armies of the still living Republic. “ Very truly yours, B. H. HcPhail.”. A CAMPAIGN LYRIC. • .* . im. Abraham TAncoin knows the ropes! All our hopes : . t Centre now about the brave and true. Bebus help him as we can, He’s the man, Honest for the country through and through. Others good, perhaps, as he ~ There may be : Have we tried them in the war-time’s flame X Do we know if they will stand, Heart in hand, Seeking for the right In Heaven’s name! Bet the Nation ask him, then, ■’ Once again ' To hold the rodder in this stormy sea. Tell him that each sleepless night.- Dark to light; : Ushers in a morning for the free. Bet us not forgetsour rude Gratitudef But lend our servant the poor crown we may l Give him four more years of toil, Task and moil, Knowing God shall crown him in His day I —N. Y. Independent. Mr. Vallandlgham aud the Badical Dew mocmcy. The full report of Yallandigham’s written speech at Hamilton, Ohio, Is published in the Cincinnati papers. We extract the following passages In which he alludes to the new movement inaugurated by General Fremont. Declaring that order No. 38, under which he was sacrificed, was' defied and spit upon>sy the people, and is, therefore, dead, he pro ceeds : The indignant voice of condemnation long sine*-; went forth from the vast majority of the people and • presses of America, and from all free countries in Europe with entire unanimity; and more recently, too, the platform of an earnest, unanimous, ana most formidable convention of the sincere Republi cans. * * Still further, the emphatic letter of acceptance by the candidate of the Convention, General John C. Fremont, the first candidate, also, of the Republican, party for the Presidency eight years ago, upon the rallying cry of free speech and a free press, gives re newed hope, that at least the reign of arbitrary power is about to be brought to an end in the United States. It is neither just nor fit, therefore, that tho: wrongs inflicted under “ Order Thirty-eight,” and the alter edicts and acts of such power, should any longer be endured, certainly not by me alone. But every ordinary means of redress has first been exhausted; yet, either by the direct agency of the Administration ana its subordinates, or through its influence or intimidations in the civil courts to meet a case which no American ever in former times conceived to be possible ' here, all have failed. Counsel, applied in my behalf to an unjust judge for the wrttof habeas corpus. It was denied, and now the privilege of that writ is suspended by act of Congress and .Executive order in every State. The Democratic Convention of Ohio, one year agobyaresolutionformally presented through a committee of your best and ablest men in person, at Washington, demanded of the President, in behalf of a very large minority of the people, a revocation of the edict of banishment. Pretends ing that the public safety then required it, he refused, saying at the same time, that it would afford him pleasure to comply as soon as he could, by any means, be made to believe that the public safety would not suffer by it. One year has elapsed, yet this hollow Eretence is still tacitly asserted; and to-day Jam. ere to prove it unfounded In fact. I appealed to the' Supreme. Court of the United States, and, Ijpcause Congress.had never conferred jurisdiction in behalf of a citizen tried by a tribunal unknown for such purpose to the laws, and expressly forbidden by-the Constitution, it was powerless to redress these wrongs.. The time has, therefore, arrived, when, it becomes me, as a citizen of Ohio and the United States, to demand, and by my own acts to vindicate the-rights, liberties, and privileges which I never forfeited, but of which, for so many months, I have been deprived. Wherefore, men of Ohio, I am again In your midst to-day. I owe duties to the State, and am here to discharge them; I have rights as a citi zen, and am hero to assert them; a wile, and child, and home, and would enjoy all the pleasures which are implied in those cherished. words. But I am here for peace, not turbulence ; for quiet, not con vulsion 5 for order, law, notanarchy. A. Concert at the; Fair,— To-night a concert will be given in the Exhibition Room of the Fair, In which many of the best amateurs of Philadelphia will aid. No more need be said for its musical value. . The/novelty of the concert will be the dPbut, in this city, of a lady-amateur from New York, whose voice is said to be unusually fine. ■/ " Large Positive Spring Sale of Boots, Shoes, Brogans, §traw Goons, Travelling- Bags, Hats, Ac.—The early attention of purchasers is requested to the large assortment of boots, shoes, brogtms, Shaker hoods, hats, travelling bags, &«., Ac., embracing samples of 1,000 packages of first class seasonable goods of city and Eastern manufac ture, to be peremptorily sold by catalogue on four months’ credit, commencing this morning at*lo. o’clock, by John B. Myers A Co., auctioneers, Noa 232 and 254 Market street., Sale of Elegant Paintings.— A collection of elegant oil paintings, richly framed, principally the works of American artists, will bo sold this morn ing, at 10 o’clock, at Messrs, Son’s auction store, No, M. 4 Chestnut street. - .. . SANITARY FAIR. Central Sanitary Fair, Juno 20—iQ P. ST. The following is the YOTfl Olf THE HOHJf. Good "Wi11Engine....2,645 Globa Engine-**-* *».s* Fairmotmi Engine...-.2*035 Moyamemdag H05e*..,..16' Pennsylvania Hose-.. 1, iSS Northern Liberty Hose. .21 Philadelphia Engine 699 Good Imeat Hose Phamix H05e'.......... 520 United States Hose DUigentEngine.vr.;..* 215 Weccacoe Engine.. United States Engine.. 155; Philadelphia. Hose... ....fit Southwark Hose;.***. 101 Columbia H05e...........12 ViaUant Engine....... 57 Washington-Hose. » Empire Hook & Lad. 49 Marion H05e...... 11 Spring Gardes Hose-- 1 Schuylkill H05e........,,1T Good Intent Engine... "-L6 Neptune H05e..... ..14 Wearera H05e.......... .-lO s ,Washington' Engine..... .Ik South Penn 805 e...... ,4.Reliance Engine 1 Humane H05e...8 Union Engine.--,,,,, 1 Spring Garden Engine. 1 Robert Morris Hose-.*..* % Mantua Hook & Ladder 1 FraakHnEugme-..** 2 IHliient 805 e.......... 1 Fairmouat Hose.. *.*. I Hibernia Engine....... 5 Shiftier Hose S Independence Hose*... 3 Columbia Engine A Western Engine........ , 2 Fame Hose... 2 Northern/Lio. Engine. '* 1 Franklin Hose S Persevorunce Dose*... 2 Humane Eugine $ Cofaocksink Rose* 2 Mechanic Engine 8 YOTE OS SWORD. ....S.S4I; Scattering. Total.... ttttl Meade Hancock.. McClellan. Grant..... VOTS FOK URE CAMP CHEST, ............ JBs’, M a uf * c h ............ 27? Scattering ..... Total.. ~.,,........-161 Biruoy.... Gibbons.. McClellan. Mcude...., Grant..... TC*B OX THK VA£R. Union League. .."..w. 625 Lincoln Weldi....“ I U. Bollows-w.*- Farragni 53 f«0P s &a** Snare ••• HfeA 8 """"*' rhai-e H MoCioUan Giant I.; IS Stanton BiiKht .. l Shertnaa letter 6»np0at........ Union Refr»«l>'t Saloon, :i' ' Tbeasei«s'Tkovb.—Some4l4,ooB of BogHstx RO veroiaos were ottered for sale on Friday, which S. r. Nu.yborry found in tlto collar of rehouse in Wow castlo, N. H-| once tlio residence of Governor Allen, who held Ilia oOHiiaissiou from tlie English QUTsrtt> meats ■. ' ~ «T 4,374
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