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MONDAY, JUNE. 27, 1864.
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es~ Volunt ary correspondouco is soltoitod from all
part* of the world, and espaolally from our different
military find naval departments. When used, It
will be paid for.
The Great Campaign.
One of the healthiest evidences of the
stability of our cause is tho general feeling
of confluence everywhere soon among the
people. Tlio nation is waiting with eyes
fixed upon the grand army: now slowly
drawing its lines around Petersburg.
■Whatever local preference: or affection
there may exist for any other commander
in our army or . navy, it is certain that the
heart of the country is centred in General
Gkant. W c regard him among warriors
as we regard Mr. Lincoln among states
men. He is a plain, direct, unpretending
soldier, whose strategy is simply to strike _
the hardest blows and" keep on striking
them. This is really the true way of man
aging a war like this. There are some who
think that victories should he gained very •
much as a sportsman captures rabbits in a
warron, with gun and trap ; that it is a mat
ter of trickery or subterfuge, that guns can
he captured and fieldworks evaded by the
same sort of science that enables a gambler
to., deal his partner the winning cards.
When mean speak: of strategy, they too
often give voice to: such thoughts, and so,
whenever they hear of a bloody battle, they
throw up their hands and lament that the
advantages of the battle had not been gained
without the sacrifice of life. Now, there
have been surprises in war, and decisive
battles in which few of the victorious were
slain, just as there arc earthquakes in na
ture. These surprises may be called the
phenomena, and not tho; laws of war. The
greatest battles of .NAroLEOH were hard--
'pounding, long-contested fights—battles
in which the scale of victory lingered
long in the balance. , The . timely ar
rival of Desajx .saved ''Marengo; the
untimely delay of Gnoocirv lost Water
loo ; but .Marengo mhd. Waterloo were
bloody, long-enduring combats. Napo
leon himself reduced Avar to a simpli
city that would astonish our pick-and-spade
critics. “Two armies are bodies that meet
and endeavor to frighten each other; a
moment of panic occurs, and that moment
must be turned to advantage.” To sup
pose that a general like Lee, or an
like the rebel" army of. the Potomac, could
he overcome like a covey of partridges is
to adopt the logic of a madman. * General
Gbakt has adopted the policy of frue : ge
nius. Ho secs the rebel army before him,
and rightly judging that Richmond is in
the legion s of Lee, and that when they are
crushed Richmond and all that it represents
will be ours, he has moved directly upon
the enemy. Grant has beaten Lee in
every encounter, and we have every reason
to hope that he will tlefeat -him in the
end. •
Public opinion may Rave wayward mo-
ments, and at times bo petulant and unrea
sonable. “ The crowd that shouts at my
triumph to-day,” said Cromwell, “would
shout more hastily if I were going to be be-
headed to-morrow.” At the same time
public opinion is patient and 'generous. It
sustained McClellan, the Cheat Unready,
even when he stood bewildered and hesi
tating amid his own parapets and counter
scarps on the Peninsula. It believed in
Fremont long after it had been proved
that his capacity ended with the appoint
ment of a staff which reads like the schedule
of an opera troupe. It believed in Bronn
when it was shown that his ineompo
tcncy or want of sympathy brought Brass
and his army into ■Kentucky. It is-the
instinct of human nature to he confiding
and hopeful, and when, as in the case of
General : Grant, confidence and hope are
■well-bestowed, the people believe in him
and love, him, and pray God that his
: genius will take them through the pre
sent time of tribulation. The more we
-view this campaign, the more thoroughly
wo are convinced of the justice, of our
faith in Grant ; ; -and’ when we read his
assurance to the President,, as reported in
the newspapers, that he will take Bich
inond, we do not regard it as an evidence
of vanity or presumption, hut the confident
calculation of a man who has examined 'the
work before him,—-a master-craftsman who
finds it .within his power. should
like him to do., it, in our way and time.
Wc should be delighted if he could do it:
dramatically, and take Richmond as lie
took Vicksburg, on the",-Fourth "of July.
But still we care little for days and dates,
or the pomp and splendor of the event, so
that.it is finally accomplished. "We cherish
this opinion the more earnestly because we
believe that, when Richmond falls the re
bellion will be at an end. The rebels scorn
to desire this, for they make Richmond, as
it were, the focus of their power, by draw
ing afound that city all their strength and
substance. It is the heart of ti'o Confede
racy, and when we take it we shall have
taken life itself from the body of this mon
strous rebellion.
Tlie End.
Wc are in the last hours of the Great
Fair, find before many days this: little Lo
gan-sqttare city will pass away. It has had
a brief, busy, .romantic life, and will live,
many days in the memory of the tens of
thousands who have been. its sojourners
and. inhabitants. We have : had romance
enough for a library of all . mariner of
books, from an In ilemoriam to The JTeic/jate
Gaiendar. We have had death and crime
In our little world, for it seems that
wo cannot make our gardens all roses
•. or- our “skies all sunshine, . Shall yvei
' . end. the parallel here; or, as we think
of this, closing Fair, continue the' train
. of thought? How much of common every
day, morning-newspaper life wc crowd.
Into all our enterprises; for this great
Fair has been very much like a morning
newspaper. All the/world brought contri
butions to its columns, The Dead; Sea and
the river Jordan, Damascus and'infidel
Smyrna were there. And far on. to the'
ends of the earth until we looked out into
the Polar seas, and Saw the ship tumbling ‘
in the pitiless iec. There was France with
her looms, : and English great guns that
- might have thundered in the ears of Map.l
uonouoir, at Ramifies and Malplnquel.
Curious -people. looked at tlie. old and
strange; practical people examined with at-_
tenlivo eye the ploughs and sewing ma
chines ; bright-eyed boys with harmless
muskets brought the circumstance of war
in their drills and dress parados; : the
children laughed at: the legerdemain
- of Signor Blitz ; and. respectable Indians,
ciyil.ii'.ed anil-neighborly, became wild for
the time. It has lived its little life, its in
terest'has died away, the bazaars begin to
look faded, and the pretty girls, .having
.tired of flirtations and ice-cream, begin to
look pale with ennui and late hours, and
much importunity to buyers "and-'sellers.
The Art Gallery still exists in its freshness,
for the beautiful can never die. Even, that
must dissolve and resolve itself back to
dim parlors and closely-guarded galleries,
.... where the sunshine rarely comes. Is this
not barbarism ? Why not lay aside selfish-'
ness, and say that this .Art Gallery shall'
last forever? But wo feel that we" are
speaking to men and women, who love these
treasures and have paid for them in dearly
canicd gold. Let us look upon them once
: again, for soon it will ho too late.
. . The Fair opens its doors to the poor for
the remaining dayspind ail who have been ,
prevented by the largo price of former ad
inissipn will find it within .the humblest
means to see all the trctjjjfcof the great
Fair, It is yet too soon tijHßp results,, but
we know that we have stWfsKssed every fair
held in the country, with the exception of
New York, and it would not surprise us,
' when the aggregates are added up, to find
lhatwehave surpassed New York. It is very
certain that in hard tugging work we have
excelled our neighbor. We have not had
one-hundred-thonsand-dollar . subscriptions
to swell the great sum. This fair has been
carried on to success by constant, driving,
unremunerated labor. Men have laid asido
all business, and given months of time, that
thousands of dollars could not buy, solely
to this great work. Men and women have
forsaken all cares and interests to make
the enterprise worthy of the cause and the
country, and their success will give these
closing hours all tho joy that a husband
man feels as ho stands amid his sheaves and
sees around him the reward of a vast, la
borious, and bountiful harvest. Philadel
phia may foci proud of her Sanitary Fair,
and of the magnificent results of an enter
prise that came from love, and was
sustained by love. The honor of this
belongs to all, for so widely-spread
has been this benevolence that every
school girl who has worked a cushion, or
given her last Christmas present to the toy
baby-houses, may feel that she has given
all to the cause of the . country. Now that
the Fair is ending, let us think of nothing
: hut the joy and delight it has given to ns.
tet us think with pride of the-opportunity
thatwc have had to do . our poor brothers
and friends in the field an everlasting ser
vice. If wc have succeeded in soothing
the 1 agony of some wounded and dying
brother as he lies upon the 'ficldjjf- death
•and fame, wo can fed that all our efforts
have been repaid more than a hundred
-fold. This is the moral of the Sanitary
.Fair. • ’ . ’
.The debate between Senator Ten Eyck,.
of New Jersey, and Senator SAtrLSßuitY, of
Dela ware, a portion o f which appears on our
first page, will he read with interest. The
Senator from New Jersey-never made a,
more striking and effective speech during
his brilliant career as a representative of
the loyal sentiment of New Jersey. In his re
r plv to the Senator from Delaware, lie shows
•conclusively the true course .of the loyal
man, particularly when compared with the
course of those who give lip-service to the
Union and heart-service to disunion. The
whole debate exhibits power and earnest
ness, and, next to our joy at the hold and
manly course of tho Senator from New
Jersey, is our sorrow that a gentleman as
able and distinguished as the Senator from
Delaware should hesitate in a time like:
this to repeat those assurances of loyalty to
the Administration ’which, he so proudly
affirmed in the beginning of the Avar.
LEI TER FROM “ OCCASIONAL.”
Washington, D. C., June 25, 1864,
We are in the midst of one of those in
tervals of suspense to: which the American
people have been accustomed since the be-,
ginning of the war upon free government;
■This is the fourth year of the rebellion, and
before every .one of the three last fourths ■
of July there has been precisely: that con
dition of things which again agonizes the
public mind. Last year, while Gen. Grant
was lying before Vicksburg, and the embat
tled legions of slavery were advancing into
Pennsylvania, the nation for a long time :
Wavered between hope and fear. And yet ;
the cloud lifted, and Independence clay was
CGlebratedjiwitk a gush of gratitude and joy.:
Undoubtedly the enemies of the Republic ;
are busy in the free States, and we should .
be most uncandid todeny that those who are ;
in arms against us are fighting with the
desperation of men who feel that their en- 1
tire existence is at stake. For proof of the
first, I have only to refer to the Satanic
efforts of those who are laboring to depreci
ate the national currency, to’rob labor,;to s .,
paralyze.enterprise, and so lo fill the public''
mind, with contempt of, the Government it
self. Let any man ask himself why gold
should have lately advanced at the rate of
.five per cent, daily, and why the necessa
ries of life should be enhanced until the
honest rich are made poor and the worthy
poor beggars? Look.around you, see all
the elements of physical and industrial
wealth. Have they diminished ? Does the
soil refuse to furnish forth its fruits? Are :
the. skies ungenial? his- there any- in
dication. .-of poverty; in any of the great
elements of natural wealth in ..the free.
States? And yet such is the zeal of the
men who are . anxious to precipitate the
overthrow of the Republic,:that, notwith
standing every effort of the Government,
national currency has steadily depreciated.
We need not, in proof of the second allega
tion, state: that the armed enemies of the
Republic are fighting with desperation,
foT we realize it every day. We must make
up our minds to one of two things—either
to fight, out this battle to the hitter end, cost
what it may, or else to agree to a division
of the Republic. We. never can be united
with the slaveholders until we subjugate
the rebellion. By this phrase I do
not mean . subjugation -of the people
who have been hurried into the war
against their consent, hut- the sub
jugation of the leaders, who not only ori
ginated the war, hut now stimulate it for
their own safety. This is the entertain
ment set before us. Which of these propo
sitions will the people choose ? We all
mourn for those who have fallen; but we
cannot stop the effusion of.blood unless we
consent to our dishonor, and agree to wear
the badge ofan inferior race, or win the
victory by stout blows. Intelligence re
ceived-to-day from the headquarters of the
army induces me to believe that the confi
dence heretofore reposed in General Grant
will be increased by quick-coming results.
He will carry out his promise to “tight
<it out ou this, line if it takes all summer.”
You may rest assured that the Government,
is every nerve to shstain him.
He will never yield, and although his ad
versary may bo obstinate and determined,
yet the. forces under the American General
are’ now so seasoned.to. war, and so resolved
upon victory, that however anxious -and
solicitous we are at this moment, there is
another bright 4th of July in store for us.
Occasional.
. ‘VYashington, June 23,1804.
CIRCULAR OP THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL
The following circular was issued to-day by Pro
vost Marshal General Fry: .
■ ‘War Department, '
Provost Marshal Gestural’s Office, ,
Washington, Juno 28.
not fitfor tailitary duty, and not liable to
draft from age or other causes, have expressed a de
sire to be personally represented in the array,...
In addition tb the contributions they have made in :
thewayof bounties, theypropo3e to.procure, at their
own expense, and presenyor enlistment recruits to
represent thorn in the service. Such practical pa_
triotisin is worthy of special commendation and on! :
couragement. Provost marshals and all other
ccrs under this Bureau are ordered to furnish all the
facilities in their power to enlist and uiusterpromptly
the acceptable representative rceruit3 presented in .
accordance with the design herein setforth; the narao
of the person whom the recruit represents will be
noted on tlie enlistment and descriptive roil of the
recruit, and will be carried forward from those pa
pers to the other official records which form hisraiU
tary history. Suitably prepared certificates of thl3
personal representation in the seryieo .will be for
warded from this office, to he filled out by the pro
vost marshals to the persons who put in representa
tive recruits. " Jas. B. Fry,
- ' Provost Marshal General,;
THE INTERNAL REVENUE RILL.
The following are a few of the principal features
of the internal revenue bill, as. passed by both
Houses, and which waits the signature of tho Presi-'
dent to become a law:
In addition to the duties to -bo paid for licenses,
thcro is to be paid on all spirits that may be
distilled or Bold„ or distilled and- removed for
consumption or sale, of first proof, on and after
the first' of July next, and prior to the first day of
February, IEB6, $1.50 per gallon, and on and after
tho Ist of February $2; alt spirits which may bo In
the possession of tho distiller, or in the public stores
or bonded warehouses, on cithor the Ist of July or
'Februsiry aforesaid, duty having been paid, Bhall ho
held'and treated as If distilled on those days re
spectively.: Brandy distllted from grapes is to pay
a tax or 25 cents per gallon. On Illuminating gas,
when tho product shall bo not above,2oo,ooo cubic
feet per month, the duty Is 10 coats per 1,000 cubic
feet; when above 200,000 and not exceeding 500,00,
15 cents; above 500,000 and hot exceeding 6,000,000,
20 cents, and above 5000,000, 25 cents per 1,000 cubic
feet. .The gonoral avorage of the monthly product
for the year preceding the return required by this
act is to regulate tho rate of duty Imposed.
. On the hulls as launched of all ships, barks, brigs,
schooners, sloops, sailboats, steamboats, canal boats,'
and all other vessels or water eraft notinoludiiig en
gincaor rigging hereafter built, made, constructed,
or finished, a duty or 2 per centum ad valorem is
imposed.
On cavendish, plug, twist, and all other kinds of,
manufactured tobacco,; from which tho stem has
been taken out, In whole or tn part, or which is
sweetened, 35 cents per pound j on smoking tobacco
of different kinds, 15 and 2f, cents; on iine-eut, 85
cents; cigarettes enclosed in pajjor wrappers,
valued nt not over $5 por hundred paokagos, each
containing not uioro than 25 cigarettes, $1 per hun
dred packages; those valuod at over §5 arc to pay
tho same duties as are provided for cigars of like
value; on cigarettes made wholly of tobacco, and
also oh cigars known as cheroots, or short
sixes, valued in each case at not over $5 por I,QGQ»
$3 per 1,000;on cigars valued nt’over $5 and not over
$l5, $8 per 1,000; over $l5 and not over $3O, $l5;
valued at over $3O and not over 646, $25 per 1,000;
at over $45 per 1,000, $4O por I,ooo* The valuation
will in all cases ho by tho value of tho cigars exclu
sive of tho box.
• On bullion in tho lump, in the bar, or other wise, a
duty of of 1 por centum ad valorem.
All sales, transfer?, exchanges, transportation, and
exportation of gold or silver assayed at ony. mint or
by any private assayor, unless Btawpod as proscribed
by general regulation, ate declared unlawful. "
A duty of i-24th of one percontum each month is
required to be paid upon tho average amount of tho
deposits of money subject to tho payment by chock
or draft with any person, bank association, or cor
poration engaged in the business of banking, and a
similar amount upon tho avorago capital stock In
vested in such business beyond tho amount invostod •
in United States bonds, and a duty of l-sth eacli
month upon tho average amount of such cir
culation issued, beyond the amount of 00 per cent,
of tlio capital—ho average: amount of tho cir
culation for . the six months preceding the first of
duly next. Incomoa Jn excess over $600; not cx
. ceeding $6,000, pay a duty of 6 per centum; in ex
cess over $5,000, and not exceeding $10,000,7 )£ per
cent.; nnd in excess over $10,000, 10 per cent.
The points settled by tho committee of conference
wero many, perhaps throo hundred in number, and
each House concurred in tho report after a brief ox-
IdftnatlonbrsQveral oftho proinloeat features only.
Among the changes ■ln the Idll, as originally re
ported, blooms, slabs, or loops made directly from
the ore, are $3 per ton, which is the same as rail
road iron. .
Iron castings, used tjpr bridges or other permanent
structures, and stoves and: hollow-ware and cast
ings of. iron, exceeding ten pounds iu weight for
each casting, $3 per ton. Cut nails, spikes, and
rivets, of certain sizes, $5 per ton.
CONGRESSIONAL BUSINESS,
The two Houses of Congress have yet to act upon
amendments to: several measures, including the
fortification, tho miscellaneous, and tho tariff bills.
The Committee of Ways, and Moans havo no more
bills of a public character to report, the lost one
being for sundry civil expenses, and upon which
there has. been no legislative action. The House
bill amendatory of tho Pacific Railroad act, and the
loan bill, have been sent to tho Senate for.lts coa
.currcnce. Tho Senate having passed an re
peal the $3OO commutation clause, and the House
having previously refused by a decisive vote to do
so,: H is: supposed that final action on the question
of the draft will bo settled by a committee of con
ference./:
NOMINATIONS MADE AND CONFIRMED,
The Senate confirmed the nomination of Colonel
Edward A. Bragg, of the 6th Wisconsin Volun
teers, as. brigadier , general. Also, that of John
Kelchek, of California, as Register of Land Office
at Humboldt in that State.
The President has nominated Major Jacob Zet
lan, now in command of the barracks at Brooklyn,
N. Y.,to the position of colonel commandant of
the Marine Corps, made vacant by the death of Colo
nel Toni* Harris.
INTERVIEW BETWEEN GENv&ILMORE AND THE T?RE-
Gen. Gilmore, who is now in this city awaiting
orders, had an interview with President Lincoln
this morning, which lasted for some time.
DISINTERMENTS.
By special order No. 218, from the Secretary of
War, the disinterment of the bodies of soldiers and
Others dying in the service of the United States, 1 in.
the Uistrict of Columbia, Is prohibited until the Ist
of October, ISiU.
DEATHS. OF. SOLDIERS,
The. following, deaths of Pennsylvanians in the
hospitals-here have beea reported: , .
; Amos Hartshorns, F, 140tk Pennsylvania; George
W. Zarring, B, ISStk do.; Wiliiani Faikner, L, 2d
do.; J.P, Horner, A, 130th do.; Elwood Brooks, B,
ISSth do.*, Freeman Scott, F, 21st:do. Cavalry;-Fer
dinand Gates, H, 2d do. Artillery; F. M. Klutz; A,
81st do.; Budolph Bieter, A, lloth do.; John O’Kcere,
11, Both do.; George W. Altman, E,doth do.
TREATY-WITn THR.UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.
The treaty between this Government and that of
the United States of Colombia, made in this city
last February,.was ratified by the Senate to-day, in
executive session. It revives the commission in the
clause under the Convention with Now Grenada, of
September 10, 1857.
THE,l3th AJEOrr CORPS DISCONTINUED.
By direction of President Lincoln, the 13th Army
Corps has been temporarily discontinued. The Geno
ral-commanding the Division of West Mississippi has
been ordered to assigp the troops of this corps, j :
RETURNING REGIMENTS.
This morning the steam er Koyport arrived, bring
ing up the Ist Excelsior Bcgimont, numbering 127
men. The sth Maine also arrived on the City of Al
bany. Both of these regiments came out at the
commencement of the war, and have been In soma
very severefights.: The small number with which
they return, after serving out their full term, gives
. evidence that they are composed of the right metal.
XXXmEtii CONGSESSHrmSX
SENATE.
SUNDAY TRAVEL.
Hr. MORRILL, of Vermont, presented the memorial
of the Rev. Dr. Sunderland ana other* against ranaiiig
cars on Sunday.
POSTS!ASTERS* SALARIES.
Mr. .COLLAMER, of Vermont, called up the bill to:
provide for the compensation of pootmaaters in lieu of
commissions..
.Mr. HALE, of New Hampshire, asked if the hill in
creased the par of postmasters.
Mr. COLLAMER replied that it only fixed their pay
on the basis of the average compensation of previous
years. :■ •
Hr. CONKESS, of California, explained that its effect
in to make postmasters salaried officers.
On examination of tlie business of the Post Office, the
salaries areregulated according to the average commis
sion of each, and are arranged in daises, and subject to
chßßgefrom one class to another on revision once in ten
years. It was not intended to increase salaries.
Mr,. WILSON, of Massachusetts, asked to know if it
increased the discretion of tbo Postmaster General. Ha
•was opposed to any such increase of the power of secre
taries. •
Mr. COLLAMER did: not regard the hill as liable to
such objection.
•Hr. HALE objected to making a return of box rents
and other emoluments, especially in small towns, and
offered an. amendment, inserting the words “where
the box rent shall exceed S2CO. ’
Mr DIXON, of Connecticut, objected, and said it
would defeat the obiects of Ihe bill.
The amendment was lost, and the bill then passed. ,
THE INSANE HOSPITAL.
Mr, GRIMES called up the bill to provide for the im
provement of:the grounds of the Government Hospital
for the Insane, by an exchange.of land, which was con
sidered and passed.
PRIZE MONEY.
Hr. POSTER reported the hill to regulate the distri
bution of prize money, without amendment, end ex
plained that it was a consolidation of various bills on
the subject,had been carefully examined and concurred
inbyiheNavy Department, and met the approval oi
the judge and attorney of the District Court of Massa
chusetts.
SALARIES,
Hr! SUMNER,-from the Committee on Foreign Rela
tions, reported a bill to increase the salaries of judges
and arbiters appointed under the treaty w ith G roat Bri
tain for the suppression of the slave trade.
THE PREVENTION OP "-SMUGGLING,
- Hr. MORRILL made a report from the committee of
conference on the bill to prevent smuggling, and for
other purposes, which was concurred in.
CIVIL EXPENSES.
The bill making appropriations for certain civil ex
pense? of the Government came up in the regular order
of business.
Messrs. COLLAMER and SUMNER made remarks on
the amendment to repeal the coastwise slave trade. The
amendment was lost-yeas 13, nays 20, as follows:
TEAS- '
Lane (Kansas), [ Sprague,
Morgan. . [Sumner,
Mornli, IWafle,
Pomeroy, [Wilson.
... NATS
Bneknlew, Hendricks,;
Cariiic, Hicka,
Clark, .... Howe,
Collaiuer, Johnson,
Cowan, - Mcßongall,
Davis, - Nesmith, .
Harris, Powell,
THE $4,000,000 LOAN BILL,
Conness*
Grimes,
-Harlan,
Howard*
Mr, FESSENDEN obtained leaVo to report, from the
Finance Committee, a bili to provide ways and moans
for the support of the Government, being the four mil'
lien loan bill. . It was ordered to be printed.
REPORT ON THE'INTERNAL REVENUE BILL.
Mr. FESSENDEN made a report, from the Committee
of Conference, on the disagreeing amendments of the
two Houses ou the bill to provide internal revenue to
support the. Government and r*ay the interest on the
public debt. He explained, ai the request
tlic recommendations relative to the io comes of banks
and incomes, as follows: On incomes five per .cent, on
all ust exceeding $5,000; seven and a half per cent, on
incomesover SSDO and -not exceeding sl,tfH); ten per
cent on-all exceeding $1,000; on whisky $1.50 after
July. 1864, and s2after February Ist, 1565. .
On banks the tax is essentially the same as the So
nale’s amendments. The other recommendations of
the committee were read, but the report of the commit
tee was concurred in.
THE APPROPRIATION BILL,
The consideiatioh of the appropriation bill was con
tinued. •.
■Mr. COLLAMEK moved an amendment appropriating
§IO,GCO for publishing the continuation of the work of
Schoolcraft upon, the North American Indians, which
was carried, ufter discussion, in which several Sena
tors said they would not vote for it now as an original
proposition, but they would do so as a continu&tiouof
the work, ou which much time had already been ex
pended. The motion was carried—yeaa 19, nays 18.
Mr- WILSON offered an amendment to increase the
salary of the book-keeper of the Springfield arsenal to
twelve hundred dollars, and his clerks to one thousand
.dollars.
Mr. SHEKM AN, of Ohio, hoped It would not be agreed
to, as this bill was but one for the inauguration of a
general increase of salaries. The amendment was
then withdrawn.
Mr. ANTHONY offered an amendment to increase the
salary'of the foreman of the bindery of the public
printing office to eighteen hundred dollars.
Mr. SHERMAN opposed it, as not appropriate to this
bill. Lost. : . n
Mr. SUMNER offered an amendment providing that
ip the courts of the United States there shall, be no ex
clusion of any witness on account of color, and road a
letter from J udge Underwood,, of Virginia, testifying to
tho i tnporraccc of aueh a provision.
Mr. BUCKaLBW, of Penns? Ivanta, submUted an
amendmentto the amendment, as follows: “or be
cause he is a party to or interested, in the issue tried. *'
Mr. SAULSBUftY, of Delaware, opposed, the first
amendment, but favored tho second only as an amend
ment to the negro proposition, but sot as a separate
quvfctiou. .
Mr. HOWARD, of Michigan, faid the true test in mat
ters of evidence was as to tho probability of its truth.
It is a cruel assumption that a mau with a black skin
could ndt tell the truth, as seemed to be the belief of
the Senator from Delaware.
vMr. WIkKiNSuN, of Minnesota, said he would rote
for the amendment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania
if ye would confine its action to civil eaaos.
Mr. BUCKALRW so modified H. The amendment to
the amendment was agreed to.
Mr. Smnner’B was then adopted-yeas
22, nays IG, as follows;
YEAS.
Orimoß, Morrill,
Hale, Pomeroy,
Harlan, Sprague,-:
Howard, Sumner,
Howe, . Wade,
Lane (Kansas), Wilkinson,
Morgan, Wright.
Anthony,
Brown,
Chandler,
Clark,
Coliarnor;
Coonets,
: NATS.
Hicks,
Johnson,
Nesmith,
Powell,
Richardson,
Backalew,
Carlile, ■
Cowan,
Davis;
Hendricks,
Mr.WILKTNSONYof Minnesota,offered an amendment
repealing clauses in certain laws of 1862, making appro
priations respectively of one huudred thousand dollars
and five hundred thousand dollars for the exportation
and colonization of negroes freed bylaw, and abolishing
slavery in the District of Columbia.
Mr.; wiLSON said the scheme was a miserable fait*
nre, and the negroes had suffered, many had died, and
the remainder had'been brought back recently in a
wretched condition, notwithstanding the flourish that
was made with regard to the enterprise and the facts,
and that a member of the Cabinet had gone to Concord,
New Hampshire, to eulogize the enterprise. •• •
Mr LANK, of Kansas,opposed the amendment. He
already had a bill before the Senate appropriating this
inouoy for colonizing blacks in Western Toxas.
Sir. JOHNSON said wo needed the laborer negroes.
Be did noi agree with the gentleman from Kansas.
Mr. LANE, of Kansas, asked the Senator if altera
Southern State had returned to its allegiance its blacks
could remain in familiar intercourse With their former
m &fr ei JOHNSON replied that thoeajwho worofroo In ths
past had not only been allowed to remain but woro pro-
Mr. UICKS, of Maryland, said ho wished to raise the
THE PKESS-PHILADELPHIA:; MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1864;
voice of warning to those on tlie other side of the Cham*
her who were determined to ring in aud wake up the
negro on every occasion. - Bonn tors talked an though the
rebellion was put down. Or was it the feeling that the
Democratic party was to gain ascendancy and r ostore
the country to peace? He was an original Democrat,
hut that he should affiliate with the present Democrat" c
party, God forbid! It was a question'which would bo
the greatest affliction—success of the rohelHou or the re
surrection of the Democratic party, A convention of hi*
State had just voted to abolish slavery—an act at which
no cue was more gratified than himself. But ha Uopnd
the Senators would hereafter talk of somethlug beslduu
the negro. The amendment wairad opted. .
Mr. HARLAN offered nu< amendment appropriating
f 3,701 to pay for contributions to the agricultural report
for ISfil-ranmiciug unpaid by.the Commissioner of
Patents. It was adopted. .- *
Mr. If ARLAN offered an amendment .milting New
Mexico with Arizona in oae district, with ono Surveyor
General; Idaho and Nevada with Colorado district, and
Racotab with Montana. Agreed to.
Tho hill hoiug reported from tho Committed of the
Whole, the amendments were considered iu open Senate
aud agreed to. * ...
Mr, SUMNER asked a positive voto on tho amendment
repealing the .provisions of the law regulating the im
portation of slaves into any part of tie United States.
Adopted—yeas 23, nays 14, as follows;
Anthony,
Brown,#
Chandler,
Clarke,
Commas,
Dixon,
Doolittle,
Feateudeu,
Buekalew,
Curlilo,
Hendricks,
Hicks,
Johnson,
The bill was tboi
viz.; Messrs. Carl
bury.
THE UErOKT ON TUB TAX BILL—MOTION TO KKCOX-
Mr, HENDRICKS moved to reconsider the vote by
which the report of the conference committee on the tax
hill was agreed to. The report havitSg been sent to tho
Hour#, and having boon there concurred in, the motion
was declared out of order undeV tho rules.
COLLECTION OF TAXES. ]N JtKBItLLIQUS DISTRICTS.
On motion of Air. HARRIS, tho bill relative to the col
lection of taxes in Insurrectionary districts was taken
■up.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
On motion of Mr. 'WILSON, the Senate went inlo ex
ecutive session, and subsequently atljourned,
AMENDMENT OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD ACT.
The nouso passed the hill amendatory of the Pacific
Railroad act—yeas 70, nays 37. It remove* some of the
restrictions in the original statute, with a view to facili
tate the Construction of the road.
TIIB ENROLLING OF.THE NATIONAL FORCES. ,
The House resumed the consideration of the House
bill further regulating.aud' providing for tho enrolling
and calling out of fcue National forces, aud for oiher
purposes.
Air. SOHENCK, of Ohio, offered a substitute for the
bill, which bo explained. It dispensed with tho-com-,
uralattou clause eufcirely, leaving the law id relation
to substitutes as it:now stands. It provides that tho
President, in his discretion, may order a draft for not
more than tliree nor less than ooe.yeav. Any person
volunteering or offering as a substitute for a drafted
■ man"-mustered: into the service for a term of one
year, unless sooner disehargedi shall receive ’a
- beauty of SKO, au& if for a term of two years a bounty
of &2CG, and if lor, a term of three years a bounty of
$3OO, one-half of which bounty shall bo paid to tho sol
dier at the time of Uis being mastered into tho service :
onc-fourtli at the expiration of one-half ofliisterm of
service, and .one-fourth- at the end of the term of ser
vice; aud in case of his death, when in the service, the
residue of bU bounty shall be paid to his legal represen
tative, and in case he is honoraoly discharged, from
. wounds or sickness incurred in the service, ho shall re
ceive the full bounty. Amoog other provisions, it per
mits drafted men, substitutes or. volunteers, to'select
the companies or corps of their respective. States into
which they will go, \ : . , ; . .
The-Secretary of'W'av is-required to discharge any
minor who entered without the consent of his parents
or guardians as a -substitute; permits soldiers to be ob- -
Uined from States in rebeiiiou, to be incorporated with
regiments of the loyal States procuring them.
Sir. gchenck, in conclusion, said the rebellion must
be put dowu. If not now, hereafter. If not in tun
years, itt twenty vtars, no matter how long the war
will last. II jieace should be made to-day on compro
mise, every sensible man must .know it could not last
sixty days. If we recognize this Southern Confederacy
as & difcUnct nationality,we living ou thlssldoand they
on the other, with a border from theltetomau to the
Gulf of Mexico, we may expect marauding guerillas,
war, murder, robbery,'and everything else Nothing
but the putting down of the rebeiiiou could insure
peace. He had heretofore said* and now repeated, that
although the war was not prosecuted for thedestraction;
of slavery, ret. such would be.the consequence. No
peace couldbe made on any other terms iban that this
should be a republican g> vernment throughout all the
Slates. There could bo no peace but by submitting to
the Constitution, and by putting'an end to slavery.- He
would no more think of procuring-peaca withont this
tbau he would of healing up the wounds in the body of
one of ourpeor soldiers by ienving ihe ball in, than he
would be for retaining slavery to fester and vitiate the
'body politic, ; " '
; Mr. ODELL, of New York, was opposed to the repeal
of tho commutation clause. The people have received
that provision with favor. In his own State many citi
zens bad relieved themselves from three years’.service
by the payment each-of three hundred dollars, and
' ine} bad certificates to‘that effect in their pockefs,. But
by the substitute of the gentlsmant'from Ohio (Mr.
fiebenck) other citizens are to be deprived of a eimilar
privilege. There should be no: such discrimination. .
Congress should so legislate that the people may un
derstand that we have a fixed principle aud purpose.
■Ho was not one whit behind that gentleman in his
anxiety to fill up the army. His State was first in the
war, and would be the last one out of it. *
But theio was no better war than that now proposed,
and he believed that by volußteoring and enUstutents,
with the bounty,’weMb get allilm men we Want. It is
deep in the hearts of the peoplo that the Government,
In the prosecution of this war. shall be sustained, aud
the Democratic party, to which he belonged, is not be
hind the other in the accomplishment of this desirable
purpose. We are in for the war. Whether the contest
shall continue for a long or a short time, New York,aud
the other Northern States,‘w ill sustain the Government
in carrying- on the W&r, j.../--- . . ;
Mr. GARFIELD,ofOhio, said if Congress should persist
in retaining the commutation clause, our armies will
not be adequately filled, ahd the rebelltoa could-not be
put down during the term of tbisAdministration. He.
referred to the example of England, in raising troops,
IMhls was hot sufficient to'stimulate ourselves* we
should take a lesson from ; wha,t our fathers did in the
Revolutionary war. We done as mnob as
they did to this end,'and in vuwof tho circumstances
of the country. Wa.shAU"Jjot rise to the height o'f
occasion ; all the representatives of the people had
meet them in the way of manhood and victory, ffwa
■will not take example by England and OUf
ary sires we should take ex&umU *•-u.
Ttftwnsfr®* * . . -com our encimea.
rte •» -o io -say* they foughs well, and they were
Americans. Until we go into the war with tke|dcspe
ratioii and abandonment of our foes, we shall not suc
ceed. Fortune, life, everything they have plucked up
by the roots, and flung into the contest. Volunteering
drafting were resorted to during the Revolutionary
war. We have a right to force free men into the field.
He appealed to the House to strike out tlm' commutation
clause, which is: a stumbling-block, in this* that it
would give us an army, victory and peace.
Mr. MALLORY, of Kentucky, repeated what he said
on a former occasion—namely, that the policy of ro-:
sorting to conscription iusteading of volunteering, was
the worst that the Government could adopt. In the
spring of 1862 volunteering was progressing so rapidly
that the Chairman of the Sedate Committee on Military
Affairs (Mr. Wilsou) said dt must stop, and it was
stopped by.tho Governments.: Afthe-commencement of
the war it was conducted oa the .principle that if those
who engaged -in the. rebellion would lay down their
arms they should enjoy tl&tr constitutional rights in
tact. There was then no rjack of volunteers who ral
lied io the defence-of ihe 'fiag. It was tho factious
meeting of the Governors at Altoona, in 'Pennsylvania,
which.operated upon the President and induced him to
change the policy and substitute a new.one, which has
failed, aud which fact the Republicans adroit. He re
plied to Mr; Garfield," contending that the power to con
script was never exercised during tho Revolutionary
war or the war of 1812. Men were not thea forced to
become soldiers in the army. ’
• It was reserved for this Googress to raise armies in this
way. After volunteering, which progressed so rapidly*
had been stopped, alt know that the effort to procure
men by drafting is a failure, and now iiwasproposed to
; put the iron hand of oppression on our own people as
- we do on those of the South; The day of reckoning is
appioacbicg. If the people are cot interfered with they
will burl the. present party from power, saying,
“ Away, we never knew-you. ” And they will place
in power instead those who respect the rights of the
people. He contended that the policy of enlisting ne
groes into the'imtitary had caused the loss often
white men for every negro that was recraited. He said
the attempt which had been~made.td make out the ne
gro a better soldier than the white man was founded
upon lying despatches, tub nufoctuTed for the . purpose,
which the facts, upon investigatfoii, did not sustain.
Sir. MALLORY read a letter from Governor Brain
lette, showing that the despatch read in the House some
time ago by Mr. Blaine, of Maine, applauding the valor
of the colored troops at Frankfort, was founded in
ervor; that so far from showing their bravery the ne
groes fled in terror, and were confined to tberear.
Mr. BLAINU3 said the gentleman would acquit him of
having wilfully endeavored to deceive the House, ‘ He
had merely read the despatch received here, and he
would say he bad been informed that the negro troops
employed in Esypt were us good as white ones.
Air. MALLORY: said those troops were not negroes;
and repeated that black troops never could be equal to',
white soldiers. *
Sir. MORRILL, of "Vermont, made a report from the
> Committee of'Conference on tbo. internal Revenue bill.
He explained that ihe tax remains a dollar por barrel
on ale: oa Bpirits from au-1 after July to firstof Feorua.-
ty, $1.50, andafter that day $2 per gallon; coal 3 per
centum instead of 6por centum,and on express company
receipts 3 instead of 2K per cent. The income tax is
so arranged that r»H not receiving above five thousand
dollars arc taxed live per centum; above five, and not:
exceeding ten thousand, 7&; and over ten thousand, 10
per centum. The tank tax is I per centum on circula
tion, 1 H on capital, and ir on deposits, and 2 per cent,
on all circulation above ninety per cent. These were
the principal points explained. The House concurred
in the report.
Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, in reply to Mr.
W&shbttrne, said tha Committee on Ways and Means
had very little business before them.
Mr. WASHBERNB, of Illinois, remarked that he was
informed by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on
Finance that if we got through the amendments to tho
tariff bill to-day, Congress could adjourn oaTkuraday
next. ’
Richardson,
Riddle,
Sant&bary,
Sherman,
Truro Hull;
Van Winkle.
\ M V r of Otio, asked that the vote on the
bin farther to regulate and provide for Jlie. enrolling
and calling out the National forces, which had been
under consideration to-day, he taken up on Monday
next. J .
Mr, COX, of Ohio, moved that the bill, and pending
amcncmeiitsbe laid on the table. Disagreed to—yeas
56; nays 79. - - .
The House refused to order the main question to be
put—yeas 52, nays 7-i. The effect of this vote was to re
sume the consideration of the subject. *■
Mr. DAV7.ES, of Massachusetts, replied to the part of
Mr. Mallcry a remarks referrlcg io'tlmtState. Although
Massachusetts had been freqneutlv brought before the
House, till members were tired of it, the House would
bear witness, that her members had-not brought this
subject here. Ho wished to put Massachusetts right on
the record. .
~Mr. MALLORY Raid he had never slatidered Massa
chusetts, but had spoken only of bar Governor. .;i -
Mr. DAWES referred to official figures toshow that
Massachusetts his a surplus of live thousand men.
Thus it would bo seen that Massachusetts is not, as
liadbeen charged, behind her quota As.long as there
is a Ilfo loft or a dollar to spend, she has not yet done
alt her duty.
Mr. COa, of Ohio, asked what proportion of these
troops wire colored men enlisted in Maryland, Ohio,
Canada, ami Washington. .
Mr. DAWES replied that the estimate did hot include
colored men rniii.-ted since the Ist of April. .
Mr. Boiri’WELL, of Massachusetts, slid be: would
withhold'bis yote for the repeal of the commutation
clause, in deference to what he supposed to be the pub- .
iictemiment. Ah to Massachusetts, she has most sub
stantially met every call of the President for troops
She does not desire by a rigid conscription to give of
fence to her citizens or to the country, scUar fca the war"
can be prosecuted vigorously, and, with a reasonable,
hope of success by military means. In rooty to 3h;-
MaUory, he laid he happened to knowitthat the desun
to issue emancipation precedent
to the meeting of the Governors at Altoona. and there
fore the Governors had nothing to do with it.
Mr. PENDLETON, of Ohio, asked whether ho under
stood the geutieinsurto say that the proclamation was
not dependent on the meeting of auy sot of mem : •
Mr. BOUT WELL remarked that when he took the
floor he specifically stated that he would cot be pat on
the witiihsß stand. He had made the declaration, and
was willing to abide by it. Tlio decree of emancipation
Is eternal on ililscoutiiicnt. Kentucky, ofall the States,
should have been for the Union, bnt m the. hour or trial
«he bowed her knee to slavorj . She has rendered her
self the suMfcctof pity of the people of this continent
amlthe world. She had his sympathies.
Mr. MALLORY, interrupting, said he m«t that re
mark with *corn and despised it. CCries of order. 1
Mr. BOUTWELLsaid he had still hope that Ken
tucky would rede-in herself. '
Mr. MALLOHY again interrupted, and;tvas loudly
called tu (-rdcr. Ho said he would defend lus State
even in itself.
Mr. BuIITWELL remarked that.some.of the sons of
Kentucky wore irno to liberty, supporting the Consti
tution and the Union, and against an institution of
slavery. '
Mr. FERNANDO WOOD, of New York, obtained the
fio*T, but yielded it to
Mr. MALLORY, who said it ill became the member
(Mir. BontweH) fodenouuce tliq Institution of slavery
hi full blaze of the fact that, as aDemocrat, he was the
most violent pro-slavery inuu to he Tound, aud advo*
cated rendering up fugitive slaves to tho3C whom he
low regarded ns infamous scoundrels in the slave
States. [Laughter.] But tho member had sold himself
to the enewhsof slavery, and he supposed for a price.
Now, however, the member got up and denounced
slavery ■nsone of the direst crimes ever jjerpetrateii, and
th'o>-e who own Klttvc.s as sinners and miscreants. He
hud always beatd that onereuegudo was woraethan ten
Turks, and this one renegade was worse than ten of the
old Abolitionists. t
Mr. FERNANDO WOOD aaid H amounted to very lit
tle what Hjlh House should do, on the sabjoct of con
scription. The whole prmciple is anti-republican and
anti-American, and if lorce is resorted to, thofaada
mental principle of Governnteni, namely, the assent of
the people, is violated. The law'which it waspropoaed
to amend is a failure. He repealed that, until some
government or administration shall adopt the policy of
recrußfructlon and concoßßion, and return to the prin
ciples on which the government is founded, wo will go
on, from one expedient to another, in a down-hill
course to disruption, destruction, and disintegration.
Until the olive branch Is extended we cannot have
peace, and this must be reached through tho olvil, and
tun the military department. He would lay down his
life and all that ho held dear to restore the Union, and it
was because he was in favor of Union that he was op*
posed to war-
Wer Ts disunion, annihilation, and destruction. Al
ready there has boon expended more blood and trea
sure than could ho accumulated for such a purpose for
twenty five years, and tho fact that laws of this cha
racter are resorted to shows tho people are against tho
war. In )-1h opinion all the btates in this Onion can be
once more gathered together without the firing of
another gun and shedding of another, drop of blood.
He then proceeded to prove bia aeserUonoy referring
Saulsbury,
Sherman.
Trumbull.
Van Winkle,
Willey.
YEAS.
Foot,
Harlan,
Harris,
Howard,
Ilowo,
Lane (Kansas),
Morgan,
Morrill,
NAYS.
Lane (Indiana),
Nesmith,
Powell, :
Richardson*
Saulsbury,
ra passed by a vote 0f32 yeas to 4 nays,
lile, Hendricks, Towel],, and Sauis-
HOTJSE.
RETORT. ON THE INTERNAL REVENUE RILL.
THE NATIONAL FORCE Hitt REiu^Ht),
to the unanimous address of the members of Urn Uon
federi’to Congress*, in which thoysaid they wero wil
ling for peace on terms consistent with honor, integrity,
and thoindepondencooftho States, and compatible with
the safety of their domestic Institutions. lie aloo re
ferred to other Southern aiuhoritioa. In conclusion,
Mr. Wood said that no party should succeed la tho
Presidential election that does not meet this issue
fairly, squarely, and broadly. Tho peoplo tre tired of
thU bloodshed. Had hepoworbo wonld put two can
didates in the field, ono tor war and the other for nego
tiation and roconstiucting the Union. He would forfeit
all Mfipre?cut and fnltiro prosperity and possessions if
the peace candidate did not receive an ovmwhelniiog
majority. In tbeso ylews ho had expressed himself in
dependent of «U parlies. „ ....
Mr. STROUSE, of Pennsylvania, said they had hotter
adionrn this circus, winch was a disgrace.
The fePEAKEIt reminded the House of»ho duty to pre
serve onlor. . .
JUr. KERNAN.of Now York, in replying to Mr, Woid,
said ono of tho misfortunes of all civil wars, calamities,
and dUusterff wa« that extrema imm to cnotrol
events, giving to moderate and conservative men no
share iu public affairs. Wo have extreme men on one
side and tho other rdntly control ling public events. It
was not wull that extreme men should have their way,
because by following their course wc shall go down to
ruin. We have gentiemfu who will stand up bore,
like hitt colleague, under the circumstances. surround-.
ingus, and fay that without another gun ( being fired
wo cau have peace and union. Oh! if his colteagne
could only allow theiouat reasonable chanuoof roatornig
the Union aud preßervlug the Government without fur
ther .bloodshed! Who did-not know that every man
would i-tniggle to do what bis colleague said could he.
accomplished? .. . . . , ~ , ,
His (Mr. Kernan’s) colleague had spoken of obtaining
renco without tho firing of another gun. To what line
could you withdraw your armies? What would you
do with Kentucky? Would you leave her to the tender
mercy of Secession lenders, as well as the other Border
Stalemvlnch stnnd by the eld flag? . * .
Mr.: FERNANDO WOOD said three several efforts
' have been mndo for the negotiation of an honorable
'peace, and rejected by the Administration.
Mr. KEKNAN supposed the first was before Fort
Sumpter was fired upon, and yet tbegeuttemau, when
that was done, was one of tho strongest men for putting
down the rebellion. This was when the cause was
popular, and he was one.of those who raised the Mo
zart regiment. .
Mr. WOOD said ail ho had sought to do with that re
; giment was to protect tho capital, not to carrv on a war
to subjugate the Southern States, and his eolleagne had"
heretofore heard him state this fact. . .. . „
Mr. KERN AN replied that, in the years ISSI and 1562,
when the popular current ran iu the direction of pro
tecting tho ConstUhliou and the Union, his colleague
did not raise Mb voice against it. He (Mr. Kernau) was
iu the Democratic Convention in 1861, and the potui*.
clans with whom hie colleague acted rd<l tho. Conve
ntion passed resolutions declaring against secession, and
In favor of putting down tho rebellion, protesting at the
sazud lime figalnst the course of the Administration in
putting in iorco martial law iu the loyal States. Tho
gentleman and bis friends denounced us for embarrass
ing the Ad ministration,-and they went for tho Union
ticket.: CLaughterJ Tho Momt regiment was a threo
years regiment, and his friend from Now York (Mr.
Udell) W 8« authority for the statement...
Mr. FERNANDO WOODsaidthis waauotso.
' : Mr. ODELL, of New York. The Btateaient is exactly
so. [Laughter and applam-e. 3 . , •- .
. Mr. ELDRIDGE. of Wisconsin, raised a point of order
that the Mozart regiinont bad nothing to do with the
question before the House.
: The STEAKER said the question was pertinent.
Mr. ODELL. The regiment whs raised by the Uaiop,.
Detence Committee, of which my colleague was a mem
bMr, or acting as su«:h. , , ,
Mr. WOOD. As Mayorof New York, I was a member
of that committee, [Langhter 3 .
Mr. ODELL. When T&mnmny’Hall proposed to raise
a regiment of soldters, Mozart Hull, under the patronage
of my colleague (Mr. Wood), wonld not bo behind, and
they asked permission to rai>e oae. My colleague began
the work, and said he raised tho regiment at a private
expenditure of six thousand dollars. A better and braver
regiment never left New York to defend the country.
.Its major hfidbeen brought hither ia a dying condition.
. I was sorry to bear my colleague say be raised the regi
ment merely to defend the capital. It was not so. It
enlisted for the war.and many of its members had fought
with the soldiers from my own district. My colleague
exhorted , men to go by thousands. If l bad power to
send troops iDto the field. I would not,like my colleague,
repudiate them. [Applause. 3
Mr. WOOD. If it is true that I raised so many men
for *ueh deeds of blood, may Almighty God forgive ine
for tho sin and crime. [Hisses from the Republican
side. ] I repeal, the regiment was raised to defend the
capital when if was menaced. As to the term of its sor
. vice I had no power over it. - . , 4
Mr. KEKNAN resumed his remarks, speaking against
the extremes of party, and repeating- that we .canuoi
■'havepeace except by showing that we. have power to
put down armed resistance He expressed himsoLt to
be opposed to repealing 'the commutation clause, and
he was authorized by & number of fallow- Democrats to
say ibat they will, vote men. and money to put down the
war. but not in a vindictive spirit, or with a view of
exterminating those in arras against us. ' ■. .
No question was taken on the pandmg amendments
to lh> bill, and the House adjourned.
Pomeroy,.
Sprague,
Snmuor,
Ten Eyck,
Wade,
Wilkinson,
Wilson.
Sherman,
Truin hull,
Van Winkla,
Willey.
LATEST FROIVi GEN. GRANT’S ARIBY
A RAID OF WILSON’S CAVALRY.
The Petersburg and Weldon Railroad Cut.
BBBHSIIHE ATTACKED OX SATCKDAY.
TIDE ATTACK A. 3? AXX.TJHE.
THE ENEMY SUFl’Ell A HEAYI IOSS.
OTDK A-RMY COaVFXXJEiVT.
Gen. Hunter Safe and His Mission Eulftllea
REBEL ACCOUNTS OF AN ATTACK ON
HEBEI ATROCITIES IN MISSOURI,
GEN. HUNTER'S MISSION EUEEILEED-
•Waskixotos, •rSoe.26.—The S(or says:/We learn
j ■'-•■matlon from Gen. Hunter’s'com
to-foytkat -v These advices show that
mand has befrS feesireti,. _ : ?t was sent,
having fulfilled the missiontipoh yrhm* r .... ' v the
viz., the destruction of the. Central RailrOfl-d * u *-■
vicinity of Staunton, of theGoraonsviiiean<l X»7hCii'*
burg Railroad, and on an important p’oSHioirPf
James River Cana!, is successfully nSoving forwai?.
to a point in Western Virginia, which Gen. Hunter
was ordered to make for, after haying done the work
in the valley assigned him. His losses have been
sniall—smaller than was anticipated when, he set
out. The services his little army have rendered are
of great Importance indeed, and his losses are of
comparative insignificance. !
GEN. WILSON’S GAYALRY ON A RAID—
DESTRUCTION OF REBEL COMMUNICA
TIONS.
WA&BHKvro*, June 25.—’The Star says.: A de
spatch from General Grant’s headquarters, received
this forenooh, states that yesterday’s Richmond pa-,
pers say that amnion eavalry force, under General
Wilson, after Saving up some miles of the Peters
burg and Weldon Railroad track, a considerable
distance below Petersburg, moved next for tho
South Side Railroad, connecting Petersburg with
Lynchburg, and were on Thursday last tearing that
up also. ■'
We take it that he was operating in
the immediate vicinity of the junction or crossing
of the South Side Railroad and Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad, so that he may be able at the same
time to tear up both roads as far as possible.
•The Ist Excelsior and sth Maine regiments
have arrived on their way home, their time having
expired.
Three Confederate officers, a colonel, major, and
lieutenant, were captured yesterday morning on the
Jerusalem plank road by our cavalry, with de
spatches from Lee to ißeauregard, x
The prisoners-were brought up on the steamer
Keyport.
GEN. GRANT IN A COMMANDING POSI
TION—‘VICTORY ONLY A QUESTION OF
Washington, Juno 25.—Gen; Grant’s army oc
cupies a position or positions in Plney woods, upon
the outskirts of Petersburg, which were not long
since in the possession of the rebels, including all
their works on the south side of the Appomattox
river, constructedprevioua to the arrival of the ad
vance of our army to those points. These portions
entirely command the town of Petersburg and the
railroad communication (through Petersburg—-the
only one) between Richmond and Weldon, the town
being also commanded by the enemy’s works on the
north side of the river, and therefore not to be occu
pied by us so long as those works remain in the
hands of the rebels.
Nevertheless, for all practical purposes, the com
mand which, our guns hold of tho town ami tho rail
road there, stops all continuous communication by
rail bowcen Richmond and any points south Of
Petersburg. General Butler has effectually destroy
-efi at&ut three miles of the road between Peters
burg jIBd, Richmond, twisting the rails so that they
must bo recast or rerolled before fchey.can be again
used, which they'are not doing now. So lohgasGon.
Grant elects, he can hold the enemy thus by the
■ throat at Petersburg, hiA, camps being, perfectly,
healthy, with good and abundant water for the use
of his men, and entirely secure communication with
his base of supplies at pity Point. From his pro
sent.position lie can move at will towards the South,
with say twenty day’s supplies, compelling Lee to
follow him*' and risk heavy engagements on unforti
fied ground, as he must if possible prevent the even
tual total destruction of his rail communication with
■Weldon. -
v On the north side of the James river HunteT and
Sheridan have effected results of immense import
ance in their bearing upon the balance of tho cam
paign? having so effectually destroyed all Lee’s
railroad communications north—the railroad ; to.
Lynchburg and the Virginia Central Railroad—aa
that he cannot make them again available this sea
son.: They have also consumed and destroyed aU
the supplies.remaining" in Virginia, in tho valley,
and between the two -Annas and Washington city,:
which, together with the destruction of the railroads
lastahove referred to, renders it impossible for Lee
to send any respectable force northward.
The rebels In and around Richmond are there re
stricted to the use of the Danville Road, of the de
struction of a part of which, by Hunter, wo may
hear at any moment, wo apprehend. That railroad
is of different (broad) gauge from all other Virginia
railroads, and, therefore, no machinery adapted to
them can be -used upon it. Thus, any- damage it
may receive in the loss of cars or locomotives willbo
irreparable for months to come.
; The meaning of all this is, that Grant, by hi
move south of the James,- has cut Leo’s rail com,
munications in all directions except via Danville,
which., as yet are incomplete mid cannot bb avail
able for the receipt of supplies for his army from any
considerable region of country. In achieving this
important result he has placod Lee in a situation in
whichho must not long hence come, out from behind
his fortifications |and risk a battle on a fair field, or
abandon Richmond and Petersburg, whero ho can
not much longer obtain supplies.
•"Wo have the authority of Assistant Secretary
Dana, who arrived last night direct from General
Grant’s headquarters, for stating that up to the mo-:
•nient ho left there on Wednesday, our entire loss in
killed, wounded, and missing,: since crossing tho
James, has not been more than ton thousand, while
there is little reason to doubt that the loss of the
rebels there has-been proportlonabiy as great: as
Ours. ■ u
WHEREABOUTS OF GEN. LEE—STRENGTH
OF BUTLER’S FORTIFICATIONS.
Headquarters Army oy the Potomac, nbAr
Petersburg, June 22.—Tho problem of the last few
days, other than how to occupy Petersburg, has
been to locate Loo’s army. ,l It is now pretty well
ascertained that, after garrisoning Richmond and
Petersburg, and holding with slender force thojline
between, he has not only detachod nine brigades to’
operate against Huntor, but has guarded his atm
unbroken railroads with largo numbers. Mean
while ho provisions Richmond, and looks to wearing
us out should ho be driven to stand a slogo. We
havo to tako Petersburg, when the breaking of all
his roads will follow. Aftor the first city falls, the
awful wastage of the war, the effusion of so much
precious blood, will cease. Then It heoomo3 a. work
of time and vigilance..
Gon. Butler’s lines, from the Appomattox to.tho
James, are immensely strong. The defences of
THE WAR.
Lynchburg.
da»a.ge.to the hbbehs,
Washington arc not morn carefully constructed,
certainly not wore Impregnable, Intended to enable
a small force to hold at bay a much larger one—for
during a full month it was within power to fall
upon IJuilcr with all his own army added to Beaure
gard’s—will and labor have done their utmost to
that end.
It is but two and'three-fourths miles from ono
river in the other, but tho continuous line of ditch
and parapet and abattis cannot be loss than five.
Conforming to ridges and ravines, eminences and
depressions, according to tho rules of military engi
neering, so as to meet the necessities of cross iiro»
direct Arc, and Coneentratod Are, that one point
shall strengthen anot her, it Is bowHdoringty sinuous
and zigzag, now-scml-elrcllng, now turning abrupt
ly right or left at an acute angle, and now at an ob
tuse one, until, with its isthmuses, and peninsulas,
and tortuous way, only an engineer can pursue it
and retain any knowledge of the four cardinal
points. Tho whole length is piled with sand-bags,
six or eight deep, and crosswise, forming port-holes
for fharpsliootcrs.
Then there are outworks, complete enclosures—
I think I heard one, that looked very formidable,
called a redoubt—and Inner works, whose cannon,
bristling through embrasures, looked towards us as
we followed; the line j possibly there are rodans,
and there are re-entrant spaces, with stockades
running from point to point, making enclosures;
aud there are great bomb-proofs, excavations
covered with logs and deop-banked with earth, de
signed by engineers, and smaller ones built by the
men of lheir own accord for safety, “when shak.o
the hills with” rebel “ thunder rivenand there
are snlly-ports, so constructed that from no rebel
stand-point can they be : detected; and ;there are
guns, guns every where, trained upon every ap-.
proaeh, some oblique artown tho line,some straight
out into the woods; and bo suio there is no. road or
open ground that is not swept by a score of them.
These lines were originally laid ou t by Captain
Farquhar, then chief engineer of this Department,
but have .since been altered, improved, and vastly
strengthened by Goncral Wcitzcl, who seems to have
expended upon them all the devices of modern en
gineering, and then suporadded those ofliis own ex
haustless contrivances, resources, and energy. They
are pronounced by General Barnard, and other com
petent authorities, who have lately inspected them,
marvels of skill and labor, impregnable against as-'
aault, no matter by wlfet numbers,'and tenable
against a protracted siege, in force and by regular
approaches. v
DETAILS OF THE REGENT AT TAOK ON THE
SECOND CORDS.
IIEADQUAItTERR AIDIY OE TUB POTOMAC, June
23.—The attack upon the 2d Corps, on Wednesday,
near the. Weldon Railroad, did not result so disas-
trously as was at first supposed. The lino was
formed by Barlow’s Division being on the IcCt, Bir
ney’s (General Llott in command) in the contro, anil
Gibbons’on lhe r right. •.
It was expected that tho Oth Corps would have
connected on the left with Barlow, but it seems quite
a gap was left, into which A. P. Hill’s Corps enter
ed, and before our men were aware of it they receiv
ed a volley from the rear, which created a panic in
the ranks, and caused a rapid retreat to the woods
in the rear of the 8d Division. /
This left the flank of tho 3d Division unprotected,
and the enemy taking; advantage of it, charged;
through and fairly into the pits, ordering our men
to surrender.
Tho troops, however, left the trenches # and foil
back rapidly, but many of them were captured, and
quite a number killed and wounded.
Our loss in prisoners is reported at about 1,000,
while some make the figure higher. Our loss in
killed and wounded is probably 1,500.
At eight P. M. a charge was made by the 2d
Con )? j and the line of works from which they had
been .forced in the afternoon recovered ' We lost
scarcely a man in the advance, as the enemy fired
too; high, and the balls all passed over the heads of
our men. A number of prisoners were taken.
- Barlow was marching raxudly towards the rail
road, Gibbon followed, and the troops moved in
echelon by divisions. Capt. Crowninshield, of tho
Ist Nlassachusetts Cavalry, had 700 mounted men of
tlie Provisional Brigade, composed of. detachments
from all regiments and commands. He fought the
rebels on the plank road long after hi 3 ammunition
was exhausted, holding with: determined valor a
-whole brigade of rebels in check.
In the meantime, the rebels had succeeded in
getting between Gibbon and Barlow. They were as
much surprised as our men were, but, being the
first to make the discovery of the position of things,
were quick to take advantageofit. There was very
little hard fighting, the men being taken before
being fully prepared for resistance. The horses
were cut from the battery, and the guns spiked.
"When the line , was reformed the rebels came, up
again, hut were repulsed twice with great slaugh
ter. ' •.
• The Sth Corps charged the enemy, driving thep
some distance,, and forming on the left of the 2d
Corps.'
Skirmishing was kept up all night along the line,
the pickets at some points not fifty yards apdrt.
At daylight this morning an advance of tho cnfri£o
line was made, when it was found the enemjr.had
taken a new position, some distance farther b&?k,
where they had thrown up strong
duriDg the night, which they still ho]d,
Col.'Blaisdell, 11th Massachusetts, was killed to
day by a sharpshooter whilQ yelling gKlTffll?]!
line.
W. H. Child, 45th _ TO .. ■
been reinstated ye#*--', who was to have
• ' • * rj' • as first lieutenant, was
shot; dead. ,by a rebel sharpshooter on Tuesday eve
ning.-. .
Major Halsey, 11th New Jersey, is missing, and is
supposofto be captured.
‘ 6th Corps moved towards the railroad this
morning, vl rivlngtil{i encm I before them, and during
the afternoon rJ^ ortcd that tlie y were in possession
of the road, and arrau^ :eaie { lts we f once made to
destroy it. 'At 5 P. AT. a force ofthe enemy
were seen moving towards the frouj 25 to re3istihe
advance of the bth Corps. An engagement in that
direction is to-night. ,
June 24, 5 A. M.—Nothing but picket firing took
place during the evening or night, and very little is
going on this morning.. . ;
LATER FROM GRANT’S ARMY—AN AT
TACK ON BURNSIDE—THE REBELS RE
PULSED WITH LOSS,
ARMY OFPoTOiTAC, JanO 25
6 A. Iff,, (Saturday.)—The only fighting that took
place yesterday was an attack made by the enemy
on Burnside, but whether intended as a feint to
cover some more important move or an attempt to
break through his lines, it was a failure.
They opened with a* heavy fire of artillery, which
was returned by our batteries, and the rebels mak
ing a charge wore, driven back in confusion, up
wards of one hundred of them being captured. This
occurred about 8 A. Mu, and the artillery firing was
kept up for an hour, when all became quiet at that
point. ■ '
About the same time a battery opened in front of
a hospital on the left of the sth Corps, which tho
rebels seemed desirous of cleaning out, but they
were deterred by our guns before any damage re
sulted to us. ...
Picket firiDg is still kept up along nearly the en
tire line, and in almost hospital are a few vic
tims of this species of warfare. .
It is almost impossible for a change to be made in
the skirmish iine_ without some loss from the
enemy’s sharpshooters, and these lines have to be
relieved always after darken that account.
• The engagement between the Gth Corps and the
enemy for the possession of the railroad on Wed
nesday was quite severe, particularly in/ront of the
2d division,commanded by General Wheaton. Only
a short distance of the milroad had been destroyed
when the party were attacked by a heavy foree of tho
enemy,under General Anderson, supported by Wil
cox’s division.
Capt. Beattie, of the 3d. .Yermont, was in charge
of the party that reached the road, and he fell back
slowly, while tbd skirmish line held the enemy in
check, but a body of made a flank movement,
expecting to turn the ieft flank of his lineof battle,
They, however, did not penetrate far enough, al
though they succeeded in taking a large number of
the skirmishers prisoners, principally ofthe 4th and
llth Yermont Regiments, of tho Yermont Brigade.
The enemy afterwards advanced and attempted to
break through the line at several points, but were
met with such a heavy fire from our force's that they
were driven back every time with heavy loss.
~ They finally, itt dark, gave up the effort, and re
treated across the railroad embankment, where
they took up an advantageous portion.
Our Joss wa3 very light in killed and wounded,
white that of the enemy, it is supposed, was more
than double. We lost quite a number of prisoners,
but the figures cannot'be correctly given.
The railroad from City I’ointJ.o Petersburg is
being placed in order, and an engine and ears , are
already procured to put on it as soon as it is in run
ning condition.- . . :
Supplies arrive at the front regularly, and the
troops lack nothing in thi3 respect, but they suffer
some from from the scarcity of water. r
; AFFAIRS ON THURSDAY.
Washington, June 25.—A iettcr from tho Army :
of the Potomac, dated Juiio 23,8 P. Id., says:
“We have had plenty of skirmishing all day, and
the sharpshooters on both sldes. aro continually ex
changing shots, and frequently picking off men who
-ai-e, perhaps, nearly a thousand yards distant.
« One battery of 32-pounders is trained on the re”
bel batteries near Petersburg, and every morning
we are treated to’a splendid artillery duel.
“ The weather has been warm and oppressive, and
eases of. sun-stroke are quite numerous. Every
indication of rain gradually melts . away with tho
morning: mists, and. by mid-day the heat is insuf
ferable.”
REBEL ACCOUNTS FROM HUNTER’S DE
PARTMENT.
AW ATTACK ON LYNCHBURG—A REBEL VICTORY
CLAIMED—BOASTED SAEETY OF TUB CITY.
The Lynchburg ihyntMicun. says that on the
morning of Saturday, ISth instant, at daylight,
the enemy, after having gained; an advantage on
the previous day over General Imboden, advanced
in two lines of battle’ to capture our-outer lines of
entrenchments, on tho left of the Salem turnpike,
at “Quaker Church,” four miles from the city.
The battle-STOund was on both sides of the Salem
turnpike, botweon tho Quaker Church and the toll
gate, and about two miles southwest of the city.
At 12 M. their left opened with artfilory on our
centre, but wore repulsed and driven down, the
“ Forrest” road, two and a half miles from the city,
after losing five pieces. .
A cavalry demonstration made on our extreme
right, oh the Lexington pike, five xnilos from tho
city, was easily repulsed. .
It was reported here on Saturday night that 700
Yankee cavalry passed Alexander’s mill, three
miles from Campbell Court House, on that evening,
in the direction of South Side Railroad, for the pur
pose, it Is supposed, of again cutting the road. It
is said, also, that 2,000 of the enemy’s cavalry were
moving on tho Ward’s Bridge road, in the direction
of Danville, with tho supposed intention of tapping
the Richmond and Danville road. Our friends at a
distance may-rest assured that Lynchburg is as safe
now as it would be were there not a Yankee within
a thousand miles of the city. .
. GUERILLA OUTRAGE IN MISSOURI.
St. Louis, Juno 22,— 1n parts of the State the
movements of guerillas are not only troublesome,
but atrocious. Thecounties of Saline,Pettis, John-:
son, Jackson, Lafayette, Oass, and Betts aro so.
completely overrun by rebels that lafge bodies of
troops are the only travellers, and human lire is not
regarded with the.least sanctity. :
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES.
On the 10th a party of iourteon militia, forming
an escort to a telegraph-repairing corps near Kings-
Tillc, In Johnson county, wore captured by gueril
las. Twelve were shot dead, and the other two
escaped by running Into the brush. On the 12th.
eight Government wagons, guarded by seventeen
soldiers, were captured by forty guerillas, and all
the guards but one wero killed. The wagons were
burned.
Three soldiers going from Independence to Kan
sas City on the 12th, wero caught and hanged by
bushwhackers; ant! many cases have occurred whore
militiamen going only a.fcw miles from their camp
have been killed. There is no pretension of mercy
on the part of guerillas. They wore part of Q.nan
trel’s men, who have orders to shoot, slay, and de
stroy everybody and everything opposed to Jett
Davis in that section of the Stato.
TtAll> ON THE RAILROAD,*?.
' The bushwackors seemed to respect the railroads
from motives of prudence, and for the farther rea
son that the railroads bring supplies to tho interior
whore they aro accessible to raids, yet they are not
0.11 scrupulous iu this respect. Last week they visit
ed two sections on the Sonthwest Brunei! Itaiiroad,
near Holla, and at Dillon burned two ears, loaded
with. Government liny., The week before thoy
visited several stations on the Iron Mountain Rail
.■troad.
To-day wo learn that guorilias sacked the town or
Laclede on Saturday last, on tho Hannibal and St.
Joßcph Eailroad. This was <;uite a bold raid, con
sidering that there were only a handful of guorilias
,nr,d that a full company of soldiers wero stationed
at a bridge within a mile, who might have annihi
lated the rebels, yet they boldly entered the town,
robbed the principal stores and the freight house in
the railroad, beside the express offlje. Thus far.,
they have not torn up any rails orattackerl any
bridge guards, but liow long this exemption will
continue is beyond computation. - ■
BUKNINO TOWNS.
This favorite pastime of the_ bushwhaokors has
been resumed, upon a small scale, in several locali
ties. The" rebels dashed Into a little place called
Melh'illc, in Dado county, a few days since, and,
after stealing ail they could, burnt the town. They
wound up their visit by killing four citizens.' Dover,
in Lafayette; Shanghac, in' Johnson; Frankford, In
Saline, and three or four other small places have
been blotted out by rebel incendiaries since the first
of this month.
SICK AND WOUNDED PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW
JERSEY SOLDIERS PRo3f' SHERMAN’S ARMY AR
RIVED AT NASHVILLE,
ITenry LnDdermntb, C, 46
WmsiMcDtnvel; fi, 77
Thoa Wallace, E, 23
i John Dager, B. 9
I Joseph Cap. C, 77 .
{Henry Seigmed. L, 7 Cav
fOOCJA, JU.VB IS.
j Peter Hartzel, A, 77
r 2L _ _
rKOM'CHATTJLS'
WraCarnagsy, G,4l
JUKI
Alabama Cadnvna, A, 13 H J
Jas G Marshal, H, 46
TH Greer, C,13J5 J
B Stintuatt, H, 46
Alfred B Illgler, 0, 46
K Calahan, A, 29 .
Wm Hancock. l>, 46
Francis Y Feuitick, B, 79
CHWSwift, G. 46
Sami Black, C, 77 :
Win Lambert, D, 13 N J
PetfirSroitli, B, 4
Robert Slnnuet, H, 48 .
HRCittesebro, 0,46
C £Lovel!,G, 40
David Boyer, 0, 30 5 J ,
Henry Kinsey, G, 46
Geo D Tbompson, H, 111
Jaw Glenn, 0, 109
Jacob Stauly, C, 7S .
.AUSrSRRED TO X AAHVII.LE.
jßenj Lewis, F, U
|Win Mason, I, 7
IJ Raymond, A, 111
KfirosToy, cuiOßniA,
rg 13.
Heal Crate, Capt, F, 48 .
J B Getter. -Ist Lieut, B, 40
M Jacob, K, 40
H SewiUinin, G. 46
D I) Tompkins, sergt, B, 46
Edwd Richmond, Corp, G,46
¥ k Fritz, I, 29
T Bilev, 8,33 5J
Thos Waylaad, E, 335 J
Emil Dow, D, 111
Leonard DiU, F, 111 :
Jno 11 Sharply, G, 23
L Barkly, D 7.) ■
Peter Lynch, H, 33 5 J
Caleb Jones. A, 20
J H Flynn, P, 33 NJ
G H Bradley, 0. 40
jSergfc S WelLingmeycr, C,29
• LIST OF PATIENTS TO BE Tit.
JC FnlJiuer, I, 46 j
Cyrus- Lyjnau, C, 111 . |
J S I)eveart>y, Sergt, l ,13 2* Jj
PATIENTS IJT fiENKKAL lIOS
jun:
Jacob TibbeU, E, 46
Homy Woof, C, 46
Alex EUioy. C, 45
JasToner, J 3, :i9
S U Osgood, Capt, K, 111
JII Sharply, C, 25 .
Geo Miller, A, 2?
l r A Fritz, I, 20
.Tames Kelson, H, 29
Jo>,epii Winn, B, 29
Win Kami, B, 59
Wm li Kvans, E, 3S
Henry Sharp, E, 111
E Handy, F, 111
Theodore Jhu>onr, -A, 2D <
Christopher Bough, A, 29
J&S Hanson, 33 S J
J no L McGill,
.DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTHWEST.
From Gen. tSlwnnan's Army—Situation
of Hie Opposing Forees.
The Cincinnati Commercial lias details from Gen.
Sherman’s army to the I7th. They are unimportant,
however, as they give the results of skirmishes for
position, in which our troops were uniformly suc
cessful. Folio-wing is the situation as given by the
correspondent, who writes from Big Shanty, Ga.:
“Joe Johnston holds steadily on his position,
twenty-six miles north of Atlanta, His line is now
closely circumscribed by ours. In no place arc the :
hostile parallels more than a musket-shot apart.
The rebel right rests oh Kinesaw Mountain, on the
railroad, four miles north of Marietta-, their left on
Lost Mountain,-some six miles west of Kinesaw.
Between these two formidable ridges the rebels have
gradually been forced back from a triangle, with
the apex toward us, until their line is hut a faint
crescent, their centre still being slightly advanced.
Bight, left, and centre, their position is closely in
vested. Out troops have shed parallel after paral
lel until the country in their rear is furrowed with
rifle pits and abattis, and scored with a labyrinth
0l *crhe conn try is covered with primitive forests, and
in very few places are there cleared spans suffi
ciently large to display the movements of a brigade.
There is an abundance of scrubby undergrowth
which hides everything a few yards distant from
view, and when one inspects the difficulties, ltseems
hardlv credible, though such is the case, that we
have fully developed the enemy’s position with two
days’ skirmish enterprise.”
CHARLESTON.
Ttlfi Efl’p! jytii'tliwOTks on John's Islam;
Destroyed— -A Rebel Steamer Items ifie
Bloclcade.
New ’Yobs, June 26.— The steamer Arago brings
Port Boyal advices to the 23d Inst, r- : -
The rebel steamer Fox, with an assorted cargo,
ran into Chariesion Mi the night of the 7th, and out
again on the 11th.
Admiral Dahlgren was at Port Koyat.
The gunboats Sonoma and McDonough landed &
force on John’s Island, who destroyed the rebel
earthworks, and retired safely.
Private John Smith, of .the list New York, Has
been executed for desertion. ’ .
Private 'Wallace Baker, of the 55th Massachu
setts, was shot for mutinous conduct and striking
his officer.
FORTRESS MONROE,
Arrival of am English Frigate.
Fortress Monroe, June 21.—The English fri
gate Phmton arrived this morning in Hampton
Beads, and fired a salute, which was responded to
by the water battery of the fortress. The l’hseton is
from Halifax.
No arrivals to-day from White House or Bermd- 1
da Hundred up to the time of closing the mails.
CALIFORNIA.
The Monitor Cainamche—Arrival Trout
Saw Francisco, June 21.—'The ChamberofCom
merce and Board of Supervisors will memoralize
the Government, urging the construction of the
new monitor Gamanche immediately. All her parts
have been rated,but the contraetors refuse todo'
the work on acoount of the depreciation of green
bocks since the contract was made, eight months
ago.
Major Farland, commandant of marines at the
navy yard, is dead.
Sugars"aro dull, both raw and refined ; crushed
selling atl6@iGH- At auction, to-day, one refinery
sold their entire produciion of Golden Syrup, 565,000
gallons, at a decline of 100 per gallon, long ruling.
The secret oftheir heavy sales o.t such a deeiino is
owing to a desire to take advantage of the present
high price of gold.
The steamer Golden Age is three days overdue
from Panama.
San Francisco, June 22.— T1i0 supervisors held
a_ meeting to-day, to take aetion " concerning the
Camanclie. The contractors state they would put
her together at the contract prico.
The underwriters will pay them the damages sus
tained on the wood work, furniture, sails, Ac.,
amounting to $60,000 in gold.
The steamer Golden Age has not arrlvod, and the:
Uncle Sam takes her place to-morrow.
Receipts df bullion for the last ten days nearly
82,000,000. Currency excharsge, 75@S0c premium;
coin bills. 'l®OK prcmimii.
British ship Avon, for Hong Kong, takes oyer
8150,000 in specie.
Grain market dull.
Sax Francisco* June 17.—The ship Bunroth,
from China, arrived here to-day, bringing four hun
dred Chinese passengers.' One was found to have
S2SO worth of opium concealed. jj
There is muck anxiety to know the 'details of the
new tariff law.
American vessels are in less disfavor at Hong
Kong, according to advices.
Arcbbisliop Purcell and Catlidlle lili.-ip-
New- Yoek, June 25.—The Now York Tribune, of
to-day, contains the following: “fTe learn from a
private letter, addressed to us byiArehbishop Purcell,
of Cincinnati, that the Roman Catholic soldiers of
our armies, who happeD to be stationed upon the
territory of the dioceses of the rebel States, are no
longer dependent upon-the ministration of the
priests of those dioceses. Archbishop Purcell sends
usa printed copy of a letter which he received from
Home, dated March 14,1862, from which it appears
that, our military chaplains, are authorized by the
Pope to exorcise their functions any where in the
Southern Confederacy with or without the know
ledge of the Southern bishops.’* The Archbishop
adds The Freeman’s Journal and thoJlecord ns
.when they say the Pope has written to reprove me
with loyalty to the North, or expressed one senti
ment disparaging to the cause of the Union,”
Inccmliary Vires 111 Missouri.
St. Borns, June 28i—The block between: Thir
teenth and Fourteenth streets and Franklin avenue
and Gay streets, was burned this afternoon.
The principal losers are Messrs. Cogswell fc Co.,
flouring mill, who lbso 830,D0S on buildings. and
$15,000 to 520,000 on the stock; H. Spilbrlck, grocer,
whoso loss is $lO,OOO to $20,000. The total loss is from
$BO,OOO to $100,000.. The amount of insuranco is not
ascertained. ■ ■ - ■.
The woolen factory of Corwalt & Sons, Mexico
Mo., and the flouring, saw, and carding mills at
PlaUshurg, Mo., wero burned-last week. . The total
loss was $lO,OOO. A considerable amount of wood
was burned at'each place. Both Arcs were the
work of incendiaries.
Indiana Volunteers.
. IxDiAXAroLis, June 20.—Govornor Morton has
addressed a memorial' to Congress relative to re
cruits enlisted Into the old regiments and batteries
prior to IS6S, with the understanding that they wore
to serve only for the unexpired term of the organi
zation to which they were attached, and who are now
held for the full term of three years. . . ,
The question has heretofore been .submitted to the
War Department, but reliel could not bo granted,
owing to the form of enlistment. The memorial
sots forth the facts fully, and prays Congress, as a
matter of justice and good faith to the soldiers, to
take such action as will secure their discharge ac
cording to the original understanding.
General BfeClcHaii »t Bake Ceergc.
Base Georob, (N. Y.>, June 26.—General
McClellan, who Is travelling In this part or the
country, was serenaded last nlgrUt. He appeared
upon the balcony of thejiotel and mada a spoooh.
A Hotel Burned.. ■
Jamaica, B. X., June 25.—The Pavilion Hotel! at
Rockaway, was totally burned to-day,.
EUBOPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF CORK.
RUMORED TISIT OF. THE CZAR 10 PARK
banish AFFAIRS.
He Germans Withdrawn Sonih of Bannel
Nkw Yoßff, Jane 26. ~TlseKt*aiosb!pCitj-*fCorie.
arrived. Sbcloft Liverpool on theTUhiaat., and Soul
anrpton on tbo K-J£ii. .
The latetu papers contain the following
Madrid, June ll.—ln* to day's Bitting 1 of ingress
Senor I'iocedo said that the diffusion of democratic idea*
mm* ho prevented by all means. The sole mention c
the word democracy j?j the newspapers ought tomafct
them liablo to puut>b»ieat._
ITALY.
Tufts, June 11.—The Stampaot ibis date nays that
the statement made by the dazeU*. de Cologne that ne-
Prttiatit)H3 bad recently takeu place between franco and
Italy was partly inaccurate, and partly fatso.
FRANCE,
Paris, June 31.-—The Emperor will return to Paris os
Tuesday next.
Baron do Bcedberg will shortly proceed to Kissoogan
to pay his respects to the Czar.
The Onzdte de France, of this evening, publishes,
under reserve, a rnmof that the Emperor of Russia wilt
come to Paris on Monday next, under the strictest in
cognito. .
Pakis, .Tone 12.—The Moniteur of this evening ratys
that the disiurhauces which have broken out at Sfax
appear to have no connection with the insurrection,pro
perly so called.
It ib assertt-d that Aral> Boy,elec tod by the insurgetna.
sent some cavalry to Hfax to disown, by that demon
stration, allconnection with the authors of the disturb
ance.
Paris, June 11 —3P. M.—The Bourse has been dull
and the Rentes closed at R7f,or;>c lower than yesterday*
Denmark.
Copekhages, Jose 11.—The Germans haveabandoi
Lforgand -withdrawn Booth of Danneborg.
Th q JDagobladet, of to-day. says Schleswig as a sepa
rate State within the monarchy is incompatible with.
Denmark's rights and honor. 3»o Danish king can lis
ten to such apian. A government inclined to each &
proposal would soon learn that the people will not sa
crifice their national independence at any price.
. AUSTRIA.
Yuotwa, Jane 12.—The Qwterrisch?, Ztitimg of to-day
says thcr British Cabinet vehemently opposes the line of
demarcation proposed by the fienftao rowers, and even,
goes bo far as to threaten warlike demonstrations.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Lospok, .Tune 12.—Consols, after official hours, closed,
at 9Cft@9o#. ' ~, „ . ,
A Cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon.
MEXICO AND NEW GRENADA.
Arrival of the Ariel—Acapulco Captured
l>y the French—Advices from New Ore-
New YoitK, June 20,— The steamer Ariel has ar
rived from Aspinwail with dates to the 17th,
The Trench hare captured Acapulco. The fleet
entered the harbor on the 2d of June, landed forces,
and drove the Mexicans from the town at the point
of the bayonet. The casualties were light. The
blockade of tho port has been renewed.
The New Grenadian Congress adjourned after
agreeing to a loan of eight millions. The total
debt of the country is now fifty-six millions. Tha
Government has resolved to dispose of its interest In
the Panama Baiiroad, and make an arrangement
with the present company, If possible, in order to
have their charter-extended.
The Isthmus was healthy, and the dry
keeps off wonderfully,
.The Ariel brings $258,000 In treasure.
Bepublican Ratification Meeting.
New H avbst, .Tune 25,—The Republican ratifica
tion meeting last night was largely attended.
Speeches were made by Governor : Buckingham,
Hon. ,T, IT. .Babcock. E. S. Scranton, and others.
The meeting was very enthusiastic.
Iremont Ratification Meeting*.
St. . Louis, Juno 28.—The Fremont ratification
meeting last night was very respectable in point Of
numbers, and highly enthusiastic.
NEW TOBK CITY.
[Special Correspondence of The Press. 1
Hew Yobs, Jnno 25,1884.
THE COUBT CASES.
V The motion to remove the case of Marshal Mil
ray and his subordinates to the United States Cir
cuit donrt was argued yesterday before Judge
Bussei and Kecorder Hoffman. 3Yo decision wag
rendered in the matter. The grand jury, teaching
the: matter of the suppression of the “ educated* 1
World and the Journal of Commerce, made the fol
lowing endorsement upon, the Information whi'
had been lodged with them bytheDistrictAttor'
Resolved, That the grand inquest respectfully re.
»ent to the honorable Com l that, in their judgment
iff inexpedient to examine into the subject referred t
the communication of the Executive of the State,
the charge of the Court, namely, the action of the Gei
ral Government in relation to certain newspapers in r
city. v
. The District Attorney stated that, at thecpei
of the Court, the attention of the next grand
■would b(j called by him to tho same matter,
Tne Leader libel suit has been again post]
this time because of Mr. dibcy’s illness.
“ Count Johannes 11 protested against the delay,
It would inflict an injury upon himself and fam"-
hnf the Court set It down for the — •—
- rtr e>yptember term.
A.OTSE3TENT9.
TTe hare had another week of extreme dutaess
theatrical affairs. Passably good things hare £ei
the boards, because the Impending- elosing-an da>'
has rendered it inexpedient for managers to produce
novelties, The #9RTiIJJOt farifetani when \r» shall
he forced to rely upon summer managements with,
their second-rate companies for amusement,.at least
for the intellectual part, for the minstrel bandsnevor
. cease their reiterations. They cling to ns closer
ti»n “a man and a brother.” Heller, the prasSidigt
: tateury lfill probably continue his diablerie th»ugh
outthe heated term, possibly out of respect tohsred
hot assistantMephiytophiles,who now-a-days das not
feel pat out, Jas in old times) by the application of
holy water. There are rumors of summers -at Wat
■ lack’s by Mr. Moes, the present treasurer of tint es
tablishment ; and at Winter Garden by Mr. Hark
Smith, of Wallaek’s company. As a general king
these seasons have not paid very well. The oissed
Public understands that the theatre is only t fur
nace, despite the illusion and sweet assnraice of
Indian fanning-machlnes, and that tbobalcoiyat
home, or semi-dark street, is the place where Ui of
the cooler biesjings accrue. Therefore has the
-temptation been resisted, much.to the dlsgistof
’managers.
T ■
. Stctyvesajt-
AEP-IYAL OP SICK AND WOUNDED.
The steamer State of Maine arrived to-day tom
City Point with three hundred sick and wourded
soldiers.
THE CITY.
[foe additional errr news see fotteth pais.J
TEBRIBLE CAMMTY OS THE DELAWARE.
XiOSS 03? I>IPE,
' Testerday afternoon, about half-past four o’eieit,
during the heavy gale, tie yacht America c.apsled
at the month of the Sehuylkill, about sixty jails '
from shore. A number of persons in vessels in ha
"neighborhood saw the occurrence,'but on aecouuiof
Abo severity of the storm were unable to remer
any assistance.
It seems that the persons l sailing the America 19.
glected to take in any sail, as others did injantieba
tion of the storm, and the gale coming up sudde’ly,
struck the America and completely capsized btr.
She carried so much ballast that she sank fmmdi
ately. .. After the storm had subsided several yaats
went over to where the America had gone do/n.
Her flag and part of one of her sails were abovahe
water, but not a sign of any who had been abard
was visible.
.It is reported-that there were but four' drowDd,
but after continued exertion wo have been unolo
to ascertain definitely who the unfortunate rar
were._ Thofollawing ore knowntohavebeen abtrd
at the time of the occurrence: William Eihtt,
Charles Yost, Edwin Scanlan, William Peala, ~D.
Watson, John Moore, Thomas Brown, John Hod,
Wm. W. Watts, Henry Irvin. We have keen tT
formes! that Elliott, Yost, Peale, and Moore wet
drowned, but are not able to state that Tact wli
certainty.
Great escitement prevailed In Camden durin
yesterday afternoon and evening. Any who ha
friends on the ntimerous boats wero in a terribi
stato of doubt. We have not heard of any otht
fatality. :
The Botus broke her Doom and had mainsail tom
the Delaney and Oiffle fouled. TheW. H. Abbet
had not arrived at a late hour, hut was believed U
be safe. .
BASE HALL.
The great game of the season will take place on
Thursdav, SOthinst.. between the Nassaus, of Prince,
ton. ahd'tbo Athletics,'of this city, on the grounds
oi the latter, Twenty-fifth and Jefferson. This will
be the deciding game—the Athletics having wor
the first, the Nassaus the second. Capt. Kleinfel
der, of the Athletics, will select his nine from th<
following players—Kleinrelder, Mcßride, Berken
stock, Buemrene. Reach, Pratt, Malone, Smith
Gaskill, Colleen, Wilkins, Wallace, Paul, McClean
Iloyhurst, Bipp, etc. The Nassau is a first-clot
club, and nothing but remarkably fine play wL
beat'it.
On Friday the Olympics-will play them, when w>
may look for another brilliant contest.
- On Saturday tho Nassaus will play the Eureka®
of Newark. _
On the 2Sth of July the Besolutes, of Brooklyn,
will visit Philadelphia for four days’ play with the
Camden Club, the Athletics, the Keystones, and
tiie Olympics. The Besolutes are superior players
and accomplished gentlemen.
ACCIDESTT-
John Henry, sixty years old. fell through the ires
tie work at the coal wharves. Kensington, yesterday
morning, and was seriously injured about the head.
He was taken to his home, on Fourtfi' street, abovo
Thompson. ■
ArtCH-STHEET Theatre,— This week is an
nounced'as tho last, of tho season, which will elosa
with the- engagements of Cecils Bush, a lady who
is well known to Philadelphia, though she has nn
frequently played in our theatres, and-Miss Botta,
a young lady of sixteen, who is said to have aston
ished California with her comic powers. Mrs. Bush
produces a new play in three acts, and-Miss Botta
will appear in the operatic burlesque of “ Jenny
Bind ’’ and also in a banjo solo, and a reel, said to
have been originally danced by the celebrated Mrs.
McGowan, whom very old Londoners still remem
ber with delight.
Closing Feremttory Sale oe Frisxoitll&v
Goons, Straw Goons, Umbrellas, &e.—-The at- j
teutfon of dealers is requested to the -valuable as- ■
eortment of Frenoli, Swiss, German, amt British
drv goods, -umbrellas, straw goods, stock of dry
Moads &«., embracing about 2KS lots or fancy and
staple ar tides, in silks,worsteds, linens, eottous, ana
woolen”, to he peremptorily sold, by catalogue, on
fbur months’ credit, commcneing this morning, at IQ
o’clock precisely, by John B. Myers St Co., auo
tioneers,Nos. 232 and 234 Market street.
Auction Notice—Sale of Boots and'Shom.—
The early attention of buyers is Invited to tha
largo and attractive'' Sale of 1,000 cases of boots,
shoes, brogans, balmorals, gaiters, slippers, buskins,
Congress gaiters, cavalry boots, Ac., to he sold by
catalogue for cash, this (Monday) rooming, June
27th, by Philip Ford A Co,, auctioneers, at their
store, Nos. 525 Market street and 622 Commerca
street, - .