% 1 1 firm. THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1865. FOBNEY’S WAR PRESS, *o* vn max mmra SATURDAY, VAT 27,18«fc L POBTRT—“ Abraham Lincoln* ’' from the London j*ua»h—"To Mn. Lincoln, 11 by M»ry A. Dwniwu— ••Tictojy.*' by Kn GUr* L. M*ch*m— *’ An ln«i dent of fort Warner,” by Phoebe G*rr—" Oar P*r liWf.”by Ooylord J. 01*rte-“onrSoMier.'* byQw. Cooper—” Let xu Hake the belt of it. * * by 0. P. J>oa phy. U. •• OWSB LEAVITT, ” an original Roreletlet con tinued- _ 111. EDITORIALS. —Organization of »«• Conspiracy— Tb« War la Texas—JToble Compliments— Dealings with Pirates—AcrJonltoro the Great Field for Labor—Booth and Atxerott—The “Blunder” of Grime-Pennsylta. nla and Virginia— i he Last Bay aof the BebeUlon—Lin coln and the Common People. Ac. IV. LBTTBBS FBOM “OCCASIONAL.” V. THE GBAUD REVIEW AT WaBHIHGTOf.-The Army of the Potomac in Line— Official Order of the Pro. cation— fplendld>pp«arance of the Troops—Descrlp tWe Letters from “Occasional,” and oar Special Cor mpotdent. YI. TBB OAFTOKE OP JEFF DAVlS.—Stephens, theßebel Vice Frerldent, also a Prisoner—Their Arri val at Fortress Monroe with their aulte—Description of the Party. VIT. TRIAL OF THE ABBABBIHS. —’The Proceeding* daring the Week—Summary of the Evidence—Descrip tion oi the Conspirators VUI- CITT IHTBLLIGBNCB-Burnioi of Herrick A Sors’ Machine Vhop—Arrest of Bark Bobbers, Ac IX ** OTJB FARMING,” an ORglnal Sketch, by knmaFKxleEon. X. GEEBBAL NEWS—Proclamation by the Presiden t Opening of Trarfe Legalized—Adjournment of the Committee on the Cocdnct of the War—Besnme of its Report—The fellow Fever Plot, Ac. XL FINANCIAL. COMMERCIAL, AND AGRICUL TURAL, An i Ae., Ae. Specimens of the "Was Pbess ” will be for warded when requested. The subscription rate for sin gle copies Is $2.60 a-year. A deduction from these terms will be allowed when clubs are formed. Single copies, put up In wrappers* ready for mailing, may be obtained at the counter- Price live cents. National Debts. A. proposal, in the Hew York Herald , to'pay off the whole of our National Debt, }>y 150,000 persons contributing $20,000 each for that purpose, Which would yield 3,000 millions of dollars, may at first ap pear impracticable, but a little considera tion will show that it can be done. Only, instead of allowing 150,000 persons, how ever wealthy, to effect this liquidation, it would be more equitable to include persons of all means—so as to distribute the pay ment throughout every circle of society, from the highest to the lowest. Let Capi tal contribute its thousands by all means, but let Industry also take its part iu this national achievement. It would not be any very great sacrifice for each person, whose labor yields any compensation, to bestow one week’s income, earning or sa lary, to wipe off the entire National Debt. The united efforts Of Capital and Labor can easily do it. If this were done, this country would Stand as free of the world as she was in 1836, when her whole National Debt was extinguished. If this were done, we should stand as the only people which, in modern time (National Debt is of modem creation), had paid off its whole indebtedness. In addition, we should wipe away, “at one fell swoop,” the enormous taxation now required to pay the interest on the Debt — a taxation which has so awfully increased the cost of living, for where the tax is one cent the advance on,the price is two or three— a taxation, imposed in ignorance of all proper fiscal principles, and to collect which an army of tax-gatherers must be kept up at the public cost. The Debt paid, collectors, assessors, deputy assessors, with their brigades of clerks, would go to the wall, at once, for their occupation would he ended. It may be assumed that, in round num bers, our debt amounts to 3,000 millions. This is exactly $lOO per head of our whole white population—not such a very large amount for each man, woman, and child. Take the debt of the other great Powers, and estimate how much per head each really is. England’s debt amounts to $l4l per head of the whole population there. On the other hand, England, hav ing gradually reduced the interest on her national debt, her inhabitants pay propor tionately much less than must be paid in this country, annually, where, in our anxi ety to raise the wind, we fell into a double error—first, of promising to pay a very high rate of interest for what we borrowed, and then, as if determined to reduce the value of our greenbacks, to pay that interest in gold, which was as good as saying that tesanPOM to pay an extensive sum, by way of interest, it clearly would be most economic to make a bold, national, united effort to liquidate the Debt at once, and have done with it. Low prices—of rent, clothing, food—cannot be calculated upon until Internal Taxation is ended, and ended it cannot be until there is no further demand for annual interest. Let us pay off our national debt, and thereby show the world a double novelty—first, that without borrowing a dollar from abroad ■we could raise $3,000,000,000 to conduct an unexampled contest to its successful ter mination ; and, next, that when the war was ended we had the means, the pru dence, and the patriotism to unite and pay off the debt, rather than leave it, as other nations have done, a burthen on posterity. We ought to make any sacrifice to do this, and it can be done at a very small sacrifice, indeed, for our resources are moie elastic and expansive than those of any other na tion’in the world. It has been recommended that our Go vernment “may Tapidly fund its debt in an American consol drawing but four per cent interest, free of taxes and deductions of all sorts —that is to say, one per cent, in gold or its equivalent quarterly, or $l,OOO inte rest every three months on each $lOO,OOO invested. This will reduce the burden of our debt to $120,000,000 annually; for we are confident the principal will not exceed three thousand millions when all just claims shall have been paid. This interest we can meet, this debt we can gradually extin guish, without exhorbitant or oppressive taxation.” We say, go beyond this, by paying off the debt and clearing the national estate at once of its mortgages, for which there is the annual drain of money to pay the interest. No country except the United States has ever paid Off its war debts, m did it in 1836 ; we may do it before 1866, if we are so minded. ’ Other countries, with few ex ceptions, have gone on increasing their debt. At the end of 1815, after the pacifi tion of Europe had been effected, by the defeat and captivity of Napoleon, the National Debt of England was $4,205,000,- 000. In 1854, Mr. Gladstone tells us, it had declined to $4,119,670; and on the 31st March, 1865, it stood at $4,041,410 its present total, of course. It would ap pear, then, to shallow observers, that the ■whole reduction in the National Debt of England, in the fifty years between 1815 and 1865, was only $164,590,000. Bnt it must be remembered that, in 1834, Eng land bad nobly disbursed $100,000,000, which she borrowed to pay the West India proprietors for their slaves, emancipated "by act of Parliament; that, in 1847, the sum of! $35,000,000 was also added to the National Debt, and was given to the starving .Irish; that, in 1855-56, it was necessary to add $80,000,000 more to national burdens, to pay for the cost of the Crimean War, and that, from 1859 to 1865, a still further sum of $62,000,000 was added in, to defray the expense of increased national defences. Taking these items into account, the real reduction of England’s National Debt, between 1815 and 1865, is not $104,500,000, but actually amounts to $440,590,000. In the laßLsix years, (Mr. Gladstone tells us,) the reduction of that Debt was over $88,000,000, or $15,000,000 per annum. We can do more than this, and we onght to do it. We can pay off our National Debt, Which is about three-fourths of that ■of England. We can do this by a simul taneous, but'not very exacting co-opera tion. If we doit, we shall stand alone among the nations of the earth, as having bor rowed the taaaeyfrom ourselves and repaid it ly ourselves. England never will pay Off her Debt, but stagger under it for ever, With it hanging round her neck like a mill stone, weighing her down to the dust. Emancipation In the West indies and In the United States. Emancipation in the West Indies was followed by such an immediate decrease of exports, and so great a neglect of all agri cultural pursuits, that fears have been, and still are entertained by many thoughtful persons, of the result of the sudden enfran chisement of the blacks in the Southern States. The history of those unhappy Islands might well lead many to doubt the practicability of establishing and maintain ing industrial avocations among liberated slaves, but there are some very important and essential differences to be considered before instituting any comparison between the two cases. A mere glance at the sta tistics of the slave populations will exhibit a dissimilarity of condition from which we may draw a most favorable augury. It is calculated, from a careful consideration of well authenticated data, that two mil lions (2,000,000) of negroes were imported into the British West Indies during the continuance of the “trade,” yet only 660,000 remained alive to be manumitted, that is, but one person for every three im ported. What a story of suffering do these silent figures utter to the ear of the intelli gent reader ! The planters themselves struggled hard and long to maintain the slave tirade, convinced that their system of labor could not be continued without the addition of a constant foreign importation to supply the fearful yearly waste of life. This constant diminution in the number of the slaveß, and their comparative value lessness, rendered the remuneration of the masters feasible. Great Britain could easily afford to pay twenty millions of pounds to free herself and her unfortunate colonists from the desperate predicament. No need of applying to humanity, unless to round a period or emphasize a speech, when the fact simply stated was that the purchased laborers, worth so much a head, like any other cattle, had been dying off and diminishing in numbers at more than one per cent, per annum for fifteen years. Let us now turn to the Southern States and see how the result will vary. The imports of slaves, carefully counted, cannot be made to exceed more than 380,- 000, while the total slave population, in 1860, amounted to very nearly four mil-, lions—an increase of ten for every one im ported. If the blacks in the West Indies had fared as well as in the United States, they should, at the period of emancipation, have amounted to nearly twenty millions, and, if our slaves had fared as ill as those under British rule, they could not have counted, at the commencement of the re bellion, 150,000 in total numbers. Such is the story of the transplanting of the tropic African into these two countries. Although the West Indies were most suitable to the constitution of the ne gro, the climate resembling that of his own country, and the abundant native fruits, such as he had lived upon at home, yet the unaccustomed toil and severe treat ment destroyed generation after generation, until hardly one was left. But in the United States this fertile race has increased with marvelous rapidity, and has SO flour ished and multiplied on our soil, that not withstanding the privations and servitude to which the negro has been subjected, and the many disadvantages under which he has labored, he may be considered as a native of the land, and bound to it as to the country of his birth. He is literally an “American ot African descent.” How different then must be the character of the two classes at the period of emancipation. Almost every slave manumitted in the West Indies was a native savage, tom from his African home, his memory still fresh with all the dreadful details of his seizure, the separation from his kindred and friends, of the fearful voyage in the fatal slaver, and of all the harshness and severity by which he had been constrained to hated drudgery. The fact that the mountains were made fearful for years by the presence of run away slaves, who carried terror and deso lation into the very centre of the plains by their sudden depredations, shows that the savage love of freedoip and desire for ven geance was still burning in their hearts; while the formidable character of the Ma roons is proven by the treaty of peace made with them after forty years of warfare. The native negro characteristics have so littlejnodifhyl islands“is a strange medley of the various tongues of their various masters with a predomina ting admixture of African dialects. What stability and industry could be expected from a population of savages fresh from their native forests, unused to labor, un skilled in any trade, with all their natural disinclination to agriculture and contempt of menial occupation, with the addi tional repulsion gained from com pulsory labor beneath the whip of a taskmaster ? Under such circum stances it can be no matter of surprise, that in the years following the emancipation, the crops fell to one-half and often some what below that; it is rather more to be wondered at that in Jamaica, such a popu lation for many subsequent years raised from 32 to 50 thousand hogsheads of sugar per year, while for eight years previous to the emancipation, with very favorable seasons, the crop had not averaged above 82 thousand per year. Savages as they were, with none of the cultivated necessi ties of civilization, the abundant fruits of the islands were enough to support their simple needs, while a very -little labor would return them an abundance sufficient for all their wants. With us the conditions are very much more favorable. Through the whole broad extent of the South there has never been a repetition of the fearful ravages Of the Maroons, and but rarely even an individual case that could be fairly compared to them. Notwithstanding all the manifold injustice and the oppression inse parable from the institution of slavery, the negro is in fact a resident of the land, and re gard s himself as such. In many cases he has been kindly cared for, he has been healthy and happy, and has seen healthy and hap py offspring grow up about him, while children and children’s children have played at his knee. Many a black at the South at the present time has never even seen a native African ; he hag no recollec tion of former freedom, and none of that immediate sense of outrage and oppression that would be felt by a savage even after years of bondage. Perhaps, the plantation has become his home, and contains all his nearest attachments as the place of his birth, and the home of his grandfather and great grandfather before him. In addition to all these strong distinctions another can be added of Btill more importance to the es* tablishment of the system of free labor—that is the diversity of education and employ ment given to onr blacks. Many of them aTe even now tradesmen and mechanics, and the moat able and reliable in all branches of industry have already Been ac customed to work for themselves, or at least to have some share and advantage in their own skill and industry—a very fair training for the right acceptance and wise use of freed om. Intelligent labor can only be obtained from a man by that cultivation and liberty which gives him the use of his faculties and the desire to train them. No hopeless bondsman can he prompted to rise above the necessities of his daily task work into the requirements? of a higher avocation—in his eyes sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof— without the sorrow of retrospect or anxiety of prevoyance. When we find that the slave at the South has not only been the farm-hand and the house-servant, the cook and the mil liner, but also the mason and the miller, the carpenter and the cordwainer, the cooper and the cabinet-maker, the tan ner and the tailor, the saddler and the smith, we must draw the only fair inference in the case, and that is, that such intelli gent and diversified industries necessarily elevate the operative far above the stolidity of the field hand, or the ignorance of the wretched laborer in the rice swamp. Such men must have acquired some knowledge of the necessities, requirements, and ad vantages of organization in labor, and con sequently of stability and organization in Societary relations. When freedom is be stowed upon them they will not utterly abuse its advantages; to them liberty will not mean license, and enfranchisement will not cause them to decline again into the savage freedom of the barbarian. Men of such training, education, and habits are bo numerous in the Southland the work of that portioiyef the Union has been so com pletely in their hands, that we may safely rely on a large number of freedmen to assist in the organization of industry so abiy planned by our Government and 80 strongly endorsed by our President. Their co-operation will be freely given, and thei r assistance intelligently directed. The Correspondence of Davis and Thompson It is not often that the warnings uttered in the heat of a political campaign find an emphatic confirmation after its close. New issues arise to distract public attention, or the opportunities for testing the truth of prophetic utterances are in some other way destroyed. But the intercepted cor respondence between Thompson and Da vis endorsed the soundness of the argu ments of the Union journals and orators during last September and October as clearly as if it had been specially written for that purpose. While we, in common with our cotemporaries, contended that the election of Lincoln would ensure the downfall of the rebellion, Thompson was admonishing his chief that it would over throw all hopes of recognition, and de prive the Confederacy of the valued aid upon which it relied mainly for final success. While we were declaring that the most effective advocates of Mc- Clellan were the rebel armies, and that the invaders of the North were his most reliable campaigners, Davis was urging Thompson to colonize more voters, and assuring him that Longbtkeet would go far enough northward to “assist the Re publicans in collecting their ballots.” The nation has now more reason than ever to rejoice that the wishes of the malignant enemies of our country, of the conspira tors who, after protracting a desperate war fare in the most inhuman manner, invoked the aid of all the weapons that the arsenal of crime could furnish, were not gratified, by the action of the American people at th!h polls last November. The people of the United States wiH be assisted materially in beariDg the burden of the national debt by the freedom from heavy taxation, which they enjoyed for a long period previous to the commencement of the war. European nations of a popu. lation and wealth approximate to our own have been maintaining standing armies of from 300,000 to 500,000 men during the last half century, while we have been called upon to support but a few regiments. When we were at peace we had no bur densome peace establishment to consume our surplus earnings. Our expensive Ti tanic warfare was preceded by the most rapid accumulation of national wealth that has ever been known, and we were in a better position to maintain our credit, despite the heavy drafts upon our treasury, than any land of nacient or modem times. The Union Soldiers at the National Fireside; [From the Washington Chronicle, Hay 24th. 3 The heroes who have rescued the political metro polis of the Union from the hands of rebel barba rians are now gathered around It like children who duster, after a hard day’s work or a long absence, to the comforts of fireside and home. Nearly two hundred and thirty thousand of these citizen soldiers are quartered on the fields and hills and along the streams that environ the proud capital that boars the name of the Father of his eonntry. It Is Byron who says that “Dear is the creature we derend against the world.” Trne as this Is of aU other things, how snhllmely applicable It Is to the fervent love awakened for this noble city, In oonsequenoe of the Incalculable sacri fices necessary to hold It securely to the Kepub- Ho and to protect It from the vandals. We noticed, as Meade’s massive columns rolled, wave after wave, through the main artery of the oity, how the veterans composing them brightened and oheered as they looked upon the unsnlUed and unbroken di mensions of the Capitol building itself, never more beautiful than on that orlsp May morning, when smiling down npon them as Impregnable and unsha ken, and as white—though not as cold—as those eternal hills whloh wear their crowns of snow and seem to look nndazzled Into the very eye of the tropi cal sun. So, too, as they swept by the Treasury Building, the Department of State, the Presl* dentlal mansion, and beheld in the near distance the architectural beauties of the Patent and the chain of hills, brlst ling With fortifications, yet blooming with the pro. mire of a peaceful and plenteous summer, and with quick glance tracing the broad Potomao upon whloh the wings of a renewed oommerce are preparing to extend Into a trade beyond all former example— they might well say, "If all these things have been saved to our country, it la we who have done the work. If there are peace and harmony here at the the very heart and hearthstone of the Republic, it is we who have pro duced them, if the national family Is strong and Irresistible against domestic foes, and respeoted and reared abroad, It Is because the members of It have adhered together, and no longer quarrel among themselves. If there Is welcome to bed and board, to feed those who have fought, and magna nimity to forgive those who have dlsobeyod, It Is because our armies have been successful—bcoause we have neither feared nor faltered—and beoause we return from triumphant fields without a stain upon our escutcheon, or a recollection that we regret or recall.” Never before has there been such a family meeting. Elsewhere, In other nations, the conquer ing armies are treated to a row holidays, or driven back to harder service, or permitted out a miserable existence with no more lot In the affairs of their country than so many monkeys or savages of the islands of the sea. Bat here the soldiers oome back not only to rejoice over what they have done, but to reflect upon what they are to do; not simply to answer book the grateful applause of their fellow-citizens, bnt to adjust themselves to the increased responsibilities of civil lire—to throw off the uniform of the army and to put oz| the habiliments of Industry—to leave the battle-field for rthe field of labor and of art—to go back to eduoato their ohlldren, and to In stil Into them those great principles for whloh they have fought, and those Invaluable lessons they have learned In the hard straggles of the war. May God protect the lives of the bravetheroßS of the republic!; and when they depart from the heart and hearth stone of the nation, may they feel that however far they wander, their affeotlons will always be, after their allegiance to their families, first for that coua. tryand that Government which then have saved and preserved. Harper’s Magazine for Jane. Harper U gettlrg into years, for It enters npon Its thirty-first volume with the present number, whloh contains forty-ionr fine engravings on wood. Twelve of these illustrate 11 Washoe Benslted," by Boss Browne (a new and livelier series than the first); ten refer to the remarkable journey from Teheran to Samarcand, performed, in 1833, by Dr. Armlnlns VSmbdry, the Hungarian philologist, to whom, within the last three weeks, the Boyal Geographi cal Society of England voted a testimonial, vqlae $2OO, for his published account of this very tour; seven In Napoleon Abbott’s “Heroic Deeds of He roin Men,” including portraits of Generals MaOalt, Helctzelman, and Kearney; a couple of Delmonleo hits; a superb likeness of Gen. Grant, and platos to “ Armadale”, by Wilkie Collins,and “Our Mu tual Friend,” by Diekens. Among the letter-press, In addition to articles already noticed, we think highly of the oloslng paper npon the University of Oxford, a subject whloh could have borne a third paper; Personal Becolleotlons of General Grant, and some Impressive and touching elegiac poems, short lyrics, “trivia), fond records,” by K H. Stoddard, on the death of a beloved boy called soon to God. These poems are touohlng, beoanse true. No one can fairly estimate them who has not tasted of that enp of bitterness. The Monthly Record, Editor's Easy Chair, and overflowing Drawer are as good as usual. We have received Harper from J- B. Llpplnoott A Co. Among Harper A Brother’s announcements are the two -concluding volumes of Carlyle’s Life of Frederick the Great; the Lite of Joslah Wedg wood, the Staffordshire Potter, by Eliza Meteyard; Dr. Livingstone’s Zambesi and its Tributaries; Dr- J. W. Draper’s Civil Policy, being Thoughts on American Civil Policy; Miss Mackenzie, a novel by Anthony Trollope; Colonel Brackett's United States Cavalry; Carry’s Confession, by the author of Mat tie, a Stray; the Atlas to Napoleon's Life of Osesar; Belial, a novel; Denis Donne, Os Guard, and Theo. Lelah, a leash of novels by Miss Annie Thomas; The Heiress of the Blackburnfoot, a Soottlsh story; and Hand and Glove, a novel, by Amelia B. Ed wards, whose latest tale, entitled Hair a Million of Money, Is now In course of publication In Harper’s Weekly. _ Extxnsivb Positive Sale op 600 PaOKAOBS a»d Lots of Euuoi-uau act. Domestic! Dsv Goods, Ac., Taw Day.—'The early special atten tion of the trade Is requested to the large and choice assortment of British, German, Frenoh, and American dry goods, on four months' oredit, em baclng about six hundred packages and lots of staple and fanoy articles, In linens, cottons, woratod, and silks, including full linos linen damask table cloths, shirting linens, dry goods, shawls, oioaks, bilmo rale, 570 pieces cloths, fancy oasslmarcs, &c., 1,000 pounds patent thread, 2,000 dozen spool cotton, 500 dozen linen oambrlc handkerchiefs, shirt fronts, &0., so cartons, silk sun umbrellas; also, heetcry, sus penders, See.; also, 125 packages domestics, for cash, commencing this morning at 10 o'clock pre cisely, by John B. Myers A Co. Sale To-day—Law library of the late Hon. John Sergeant. To-morrow, executors' sale of floe wines, &0., at th« auction store, and elegant furniture, 131* Spruce street. The superior and elegant furniture of Mr. Hen kels may be examined on Friday with catalogues. THE PRESR.-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 25. 1866.~ The Doylesteini Democrat states that petroleum has been found In Boots county on a farm in Sole bur; township, situated m a valley through which tt e immense stream from the Orest mgham spring flows, aid rising on either side of It are large hills, giving It the obaraoter of the oil lands of the West. The deposit Is described as a dark oily substance, with a strong odor of rook oil. Portions here boon analysed and pronounced petroleum. From recent examinations It is believed that petroleum exists there to a large amount. Our Rtate exchanges, without exception, speak of theprospeots of the coming crops as remarkably flattering. Wheat and rye promise a most abundant yield, and the season has been favorable for onto and corn. So far we have heard of no oomplatnts that the fruit has been Injured by the Irost. The prospect Is that the orop of fruit will bo a full one. The PhaMs says tbat two seals have b£an seen in Black Bock Dam, on the Sohaylklll. It is sup posed they esoaped from a menagerie. The largest is judged to weigh from 200 to 800 pounds. One of them has been shot. The story may be true, but It looks bogus. In the neighborhood of California, in BookhlU township, Bncks oounty, the hell storm was so great on the 9th Inst, as to destroy all the growing rye orops. The farmers are' cutting It off and food, lug it to the cattle. The wheat not being so far ad. vaneed was not Injured SO ffraoh. —The Rev. Asbury z. Boring, who was tried, convicted, and sentenced at the February term of court at Doylestown, to six months’ Imprisonment In the oounty jail, was pardoned by Governor Oar tin, and left prison on Monday. Tbe thirteenth yearly meeting or the Progres sive Friends will be held at Longwood, near Himor ton, Chester oounty, on Fifth-day, the Bth of Jane, to oontlnue probably throe days. : Mr. Richards, the now proprietor of the Ham burg Advertiser has added to its title. It Is now oalled the ” Weekly Herald and Hamburg General Advertiser.” —Hundreds of convalescent Pennsylvania sol diers are dally passing through Harrisburg, on their way to their homes. —Tbe camp for mustering out the troops belong ing to Central Pennsylvania wIU ba located in York, or Cumberland oounty. Strange to say, a theatre Is In operation in Lancaster, Pa. —The Richmond troops speak in flattening terms of tbe Pennsylvania troops on duly In thatolty, Tbe publisher of the T.ambertvlUe Beacon has procured a oalorlo engine to drive his printing press. A new iron foundry has been established at Qnakertown for casting all kinds of work. —ln tbe town of Portage, Livingston eounty, New Yolk, ODe night last week, a burglar entered tbe house of Mr, Dneny, and as he rose up In bed, shot him through the Head, hilling him Instantly, The assassin then threatened the wife of the mur-; dered man, unless she delivered up what money there was in the house—after obtaining whloh the sconndielesoaped. ' One of the persona nnder sentenoe of death at Indianapolis, for treason, Wn.A. Bowles, Is au old gray haired man, who was colonel of a regiment In the Mexican war. His wife Is now In Washington Interceding for a commutation of her husband’s sentenoe. The sixty days allowed to deserters from the Colon army to return expired on tbe 10th Instant. Tbose who have failed to avail themselves of these terms are outlaws, aooordlug to the laws of Con gress. The Jersey City aldermen, eighteen la number have voted 237 times for a president, but haven’t got one yet. They stand nine to nine, and not one of them will budge an Inch. The Boston Provident AlSOfllatlon expended $14,121 last year, and received $ll4 more. The pre sident is Robert 0. WJnthrop, treasurer, Edward Jackson, aid seotetary, Samuel Wells, Jr. Tbe propriety of exchanging the damp, under ground depot, at New Haven, for one out of doors, In a different locality, is undergoing a lively dis onssion. There will he a Commercial Convention at De troit In July. All the leading Boards of Trade In tbe United States and the British provinces will be represented. The Minnesota people are clamorous for the annihilation Of the Indians there. The', Indian troubles are no sooner over than they bleak out afresh. ] Thera is not a single unpaid requtsltlqn In the Treasury Department, and all the ascertained and audited claims have been paid, except tie pay of the army. The receipts of treasure at the mint lu Sau Franclsoo In ten days, were lately about 32,000 ounces of gold and 12 000 onnoes of silver. Hundreds of officers and soldiers of onr army are going into business In towns along tbe railroads radiating from Memphis. The prospect of a union between the Presbyte rians of the ” Old School ” and those of the ” New School” are not so favorable M they were last year. The army of paymasters Is depleting. Several scores of those offiolals have boon dropped from the rolls. The average pay due eaeh soldier Is $250, and the Government IB ready to pay off and discharge every man of the two armies now In Washington. General Banks, It is said, was not removed from command for any political consideration what ever. Strawberries, new potatoes, peas, and beans have made their appearance in liberal quantities at Cincinnati. Tbe rapidity with whloh President Johnson despatches pnbllo business is remarked by all who visit the Executive office. The salary of a New Tort Common Council man la $2,000, bat his « pickings ” are Illimitable* . Some ol Ike sheep at the oana» y 55 '‘® snow •ere rn.inaia-~ > - > ---»«"—■» *«*manwouldbpahorn -4JS&sff£firthem. Jeff Davis was bom In the same year with President Johnson, bat will probably die some yean sooner. The New Haven County Bank, at New Haven, has voted to beoome a national bank. The price of wood Is still on the deoline In Bloh mond. New York expeots to have clean streets soon. She Is to expend $300,000 for that purpose. The Nashville race 00013. Is being prepared for the June sporting season. * The San Francisco publishers Intend to use Chinese paper. E— M. Aspln, formerly editor of the Courier des Etats Unis has recently deceased. A somber of Rnsßlan soldiers and Polish peasants meeting near Oonln, a Cossack boasted be was snob a good shot that be could strike a man’s esp witboot touching tbe bead. A peasant accepted the challenge, but tbe moment tbe ball strnok be fell dead. Tbe soldier was condemned to a month’s Imprisonment for bis imprudence. In bis deienee he alleged that tbe fault was the peasant’s, and to prove It, he would repeat the experiment with the judge himself; only be would advise him not to pull bis cap too far over bis eyes! —A matrimonial union is announced between two great champagne-growing families. M. de Werle, whose father waß formerly managing part ner In tbe femons bouse oi Cliqnot, is about to mar ry Madlle. Matblldo de Montebello, a daughter of the duke, whose vine has almost eclipsed tbe laurels of bis family. Eecent returns to tbe English Board of Trade state that outofforty-seven'thousand seamen daring tbe twelve years ending 1864, no less than twenty thousand died from drowning, and more than two thousand from varlons accidents. Tbe Brazilian squadron wa3 still at Monte Vi deo and Bnenos Ayres, and the land forces concen trated In Monte Video were being marohed back to Bio Grande. K— Another specimen of British ignoranoe of Arne' rioan affairs IB furnished by a colonial newspaper referring to tbe venerable Francis F. Blair as tbe “Nestor of Whig polities in tbe united states.” A photograph of Wilkes Booth was offered by a “ female relative” of bis to a photographer on the Boulevards, at Farts, for reproduction, at the mo dest price of two thousand francs. There is praotleally perreot religions liberty in Paris. In 1630 there were only three French Pro testant places of worship. Now there are thirty five. Monslenr Saint Benve was offered a “ Brevet Of Senator” to write a kindly orlttclstm on the life or Ctesar. The bribe, some twenty thousand francs a year, was refused. s, The Empress Eugenie is said to make a charm ,-lcg Regent. Her demeanor in council a desorioed as quiet and dignified, An Australian j rlshes—more than half the whole number—did uot contribute one cent, Twelve parishes contributed year whioh never did so before. Of the $B,OOO received by the Board, a single parish (St. Peter’s) contributed one-seventh of the whole amount, and two parishes (Holy Trinity and St. Mark’s, Fran.fc ford) nearly one-fonrth. Twenty-tour eity and elghty-slx country churohcs have had no part in the work. - • : The trustees of the Christmas Fund for the relief of disabled clergymen, and the families of deceased clergymen, reported that the collections on last Christmas day amounted to $5,467.18. and from in terest upon temporary Investments $289 97, making the total leeelpts applicable to the purposes of the' trust $6,747-76. To the fund 126 parishes have con tributed, a larger number than in any previous year, and the amount contributed is muon greater. Aid has been extended to eight clergymen and five widows. Six (Clergymen and five widows are now upon the list as permanent beneficiaries, a smaller cumber than for some years past. The report was accepted. It was, on motion, agreed that the trustees of the Christmas fund be authorized to increase si lpends to ministers and their families, upon the recommen dation of the bishop and the approval of trustees of the fund, provided that no stipend exceed $6OO la one year. On motion, the sum of ten thousand dollars was placed at the disposal of the Bishop to employ a sec retary. The tellers announced that the Bev. Drs. Morton, Vaughan, Newton, Goodwin, and o. D. Oooper, and Mobsth, John Bohien, W. F. Griffith* Thomas Bo oms, B. S. Smith, and OharM E Hex, Esqrs., had been elected members of the standing committee to serve for the ensuing year. , . _ A committee, appointed at the last Convention, to report where the sessions or the Convention should be held, reported in favor ofPhiladelphia. After severol ballots, the Bev. Thos. O. Varnall was chrsen as the remaining olerloaldelegate to the general Convention. The laity failed to elect. On motion, the Convention adjourned, ... Fourth of July.—This day is more doubly dear to the American people. It eat.noo back the mind to the dais of ’7B It Is made more glorious by tbe victories of Vicksburg and GefcW* burg Id *6S* The forth-oomlDg anmvcrsMy will probably be a day of very great United States, to auoh an extent that It Will have no parallel In tbe history of national holiday*! If there 29 to be **y public d- monetratlon, tbe city authori ties should confrstnoe at once. Fourtn of July without pyrotechnic displays would be tamo* tne union League, oompoaed of a body of enterprising, valuable, and prominent oltlsens, will, in all proba bility get up a fine display in front of thoirnew and beautiful building on Broad street. Whatever Is to be done should be done quickly. Orders for fire worts, and the programme of pieces should be arranaed at occe, so that time may be given to to fulfill them without fcurry. Pro fesfior Jaokeon has had his establishment exploded on occasions, because of delaying the issuing or tbe orders to the last moment, thus hur rvlfiff film ID the performance of tne work. He has already arranged some new ftDd bSftUtltul pieoes suited to the Victorious age In whloh wo live, hat as It is evident the demand will be very extensive, the orders ot societies, 'corporations, Union Leagues, &0.. should be made at o&ce. , Stopping awhile at Chester,a few days since, we found the Professor busy In making cartridges for the General Government. Everything here worts with precision. The building used is located on the river front. It is an did stone structure, built in the year 1720, as we observe on a tablet. The old fashioned brass bnooker on the door contains the name D. Porter. This place was once the mansion of Commodore Porter. It Is surrounded with au old-fartloned piazza, and plenty of shrubbery. Daring the recent rebellion It has been occupied as one of the most extensive cartridge*malting eatab' biifehments lu the country. Professor Jackson will devote a portion or bis tins®—having secured the best artists la the country—to the making of such pieces as may bo ordered. Several thousand pounds of the material have already been prepared to meet the great emergency incident to the great national holiday. From present orders already received, there will be a pretty general display of first-class fireworks, by private parties. In some neighbor hoods, tbe residents have commenced the collection of funds, among themselves, for grand exhibitions. «Italian aune,” the " danoe of the serpents,” and u magic rings,” seem to be among the most popular of the smaller range of pieces. Apfbal to the Charitable.—Patrick McGufpan, private of Oompany A, 29bh Regiment, P. V., was badly wounded in the leg at ftesaca, Georgia, May 15th, 1894. He Is an Inmate at the Nicetown Hospital. This soldier is just able to walk on crutches and too ill to be discharged. He has not received any pay since February, 1804, near ly sixteen months since. His wife and two cnlldrea are of course in distress. She reoelves $5 per month from the relief committee, bat pays $5 50 rent. She has received some work from the arsenal, but Incessant application at the needle has caused her health to decline. Application In her behalf having been made to Paymaster Taggart, this gen tleman gave her the following note to the editors of The Frets: ”By order of the Paymaster Gene ral we have to retain all funds for the payment Of muster ed-out and discharged men. These require all our time and money. 1 trust lu a abort time we shall be able to pay all.” The ” Olty Pastor” has visited this woman and recommends h»r to the sympathy of the people. Persons desiring to ren der any assistance may Bend their contributions to him at his residence, 1341 Lombard street, or may call upon the family. No. 9 Earl street, between Twe&ty-fourth and Twenty.fifth strests, and Green and Coates Streets. Wo have beard of numbers of solders Who have not yet received their bfldlf pay, but Unole Samuel will soon make everything right. Until that period, however, private assistance 1* ne» ccßE&ry, How a Street was CLEANSED.—Yes terday morning Mr. William M. Cooper, president of the Cooper-Shop Commutes, employed a man, liorse, and oart for the purpose or having Otsego street oleatsed. This was considered Imperative, as the public scavengers had not paid an; attention to that well-shadod thoroughfare. The women general!;, residing on the street, tamed ont, and applying their brooms In a most lively manner, the street was speedily made unexceptionable la regard to cleanliness. Soldiers are expected to arrive there in the coarse of a few days, and many seenes of congratulation will take place. A proud welcome home awaits the victorious veterans. Ascension Day.—To-day will be the solemn festival of the Ascension, and It will be duly observed in onr Episcopal and Roman C .tln- Uc oburobes. At tbe oathedral of St. Peter anil it. Paul on Eighteenth street, there will be Impressive services. Lecture at Concert Hall.—Master Alfred Taylor, of East Tennessee, has consented to deliver a lecture for the benefit of the Ladles Asso ciation for the Belief of Befugees. The young gen tleman is an entertaining orator. Tae leotare wIU tnke[place on Monday evening next, at Concert May Festival.— The annual festival for the benefit of the St. John’s Orphans 1 Asylum, wIU take plaoe this afternoon on the grounds of the Asylum. There will doubtless be a very happy time. It Is a noble charity, one that appeals at once to true sympathy. The Soldiers* Return.— Laurels are being collected by the Union Volunteer Refresh ment Committee for decorating their saloons, and for presentation to the soldiers upon their return home. Bov Drowned. —Thomas Welsh, aged five years, reeding in Gay street, Manayunk, was drowned in the oanal at that place yesterday after- 1 noon. THE. COURTS. United States District Court—Judge Cadwalader. CHAB6B OV-BHTIOING SOLDIBBB TO DHSRRT. The United States VB. Clark, Ramsey, and Mai* lin. Indictment for enticing a soldier to desert, and harboring and concealing deserters. Before report ed. The defence in this case was the hitherto gene ral good character of the defendants, and the ques tionable character of the witnesses for the United States, upon whose unsupported testimony a con viction wae asked. The veracity of these witnesses was attacked by the defence, and it was shown that one of them, Michael-Graham, had been convicted In Schuylkill county of stealing, and had been sen tenced to the prison of tbe oonntyfar four months. It aleo appeared that at one time during the rebel lion he bad been In the rebel service. It was also shown by the admission of White, another of the witnesses for the United States, that he likewise had been in the rebel service. It wab contended for the defence that such men ought not to be believed, and that It would be unsafe fora jury to convict upon their testimony. The testi mony closed at a late hour yesterday afternoon, when, alter the argument of counsel on both Bides, the cate was given to the jury, under the instruc tions of the court. They had not agreed upon a verdict when the court adjourned* District ConiWndge Hare. George Hall vs. Henry P. M. Btrklnblne, John Blthlnblne, and Henry Stewart. This suit is brought to recover from defendants, who are officers of the Water Works at Fatrmount, for burning a oanal boat belonging to plaintiff, which had got loose and, floating down, had lodged upon the dam, where It remained, with one end projecting over, for several days. Plaintiff complained that the defendants caused his boat to be burned without having first made an effort to ascertain who Its owner was, and without knowing whether be was or was not making arrangements to have It removed from the dam. He olsimed that he had made arrangements to have the boat removed, and was only awaiting a fall in the water to commenee operations. The defence was that the position of the boat en dangered the safety of the dam, and that after waiting a reasonable time, three days.for the owner, who was unknown to them, to remove the boat, de fendants thought It their duty as public officers and as custodians oi the works upon whioh the city re lied for a supply of water, to remove the threatened cause of danger to the dam. The only way to do this was to destroy it, and they accordlnglv ordered the boat to be fired. Negllgenoa was also, charged upon the plaintiff in not having properly scoured his boat, and It was shown that It had not been fastened for several days, but having broken loose or been un loosed, had floated until flooded off by high water, and thence down to the dam. Ic was also ia evi dence for the defense that the plaintiff hid given but $6O for the boat a short time before. Judge Haro lnstruoted the jury that if the de fendants believed the dam in danger by reason of tbe craft resting upon It, and that on account of the stage of water she oonld not be got off. then they were justifiable in setting her on fire. If the con trary, plaintiff ought to recover. Jury out. Earle and white for plaintiff, Selles for defendant. THE POLICE. [Before Mr. Aldermen Toland 1 DISTUBBANCE IN A TAVERN. William Eokbrlne, Alfred Crawford, and P. Baker were arraigned, yesterday, on the obarge of Inciting to riot- It is alleged the party went to the “ Astor House,” on New Market street, above Willow, and engaged in a disturbance, daring which a man was very badly beaten. Tbe prisoners were arrested, on board an oyster boat in the Delaware, about fonr o’clock yesterday morning. They were committed to answer. COUNTRRPEIT OUERENO7. James Andrews and Joseph Trnmbull were ar raigned before the same magistrate on the charge of passing oounterfelt fifty-cent currency. Nearly twenty dollars Of tbe Bpurlous paper were fonnd npon the aoonred. The prisoners were committed In default of $2,000 ball to answer. [Before Mr. Alderman Settlor.) MURDEROUS OCCUBBBNOB. Philip Thomas and Charles Burke were arraigned yesterday on the obarge of beating a man In a most violent manner. It Is alleged they knocked him down in the vlolnlty of Second and Walnut streets, and kicked him. He was badly li-jored. The prisoners were bound over to answer at court. [Before Mr. Alderman Paichel. 3 STABBING OAJSB. -John Lynoh was arraigned yesterday morning, on the charge of stabbing a man able danee house, near Seventh and Lombard streets, at an early hour yes terday morning. A general disturbance occurred, during which one of the belligerents was stabbed. Lynoh was committed. CITY ITEMS. THE GB3ATEBT M AHUPACITtJBING SBWING Ma chine op the Age.— We have already taken occa sion to notice the celebrated new large-size Shuttle Sewing Machine recently Introduced to the public by the Grover & Baker Sewing Maohlne Oompanyi and would here state that we have examined its work and seen it in operation, and that nothing eould be more satisfactory in Its results. The bold and substantial manner in which it performs the most difficult and laborious sewing, and tbe faolUty with whioh it glides from the lightest work to the stitching of even threefold heavy leather, without change of tension or thread, is most surprising. The maohlne, moreover, operates more noiselessly than any other manufacturing in use, ana is cer tainly destined to supersede all others In use. The maohlne referred to may be seen at the agent’s warerooms, No. 730 Chestnut street, where opera tors are taught without charge, whether they wish to purchase or not. We advise all who desire to see a perfeot piece of mechanism to call at 730 Chestnut street. The Best Fitting Shiet oe the Age Is 11 The Improved Pattern Shirt,” made by John C, Arri son, at the old stand, Nos. 1 and 3 North Sixth street. Work done by hand in the best manner, add warranted to give satisfaction. His stock of Gentlemen’s Famishing Goods cannot be surpassed. Prices moderate. ■ GHBAT Hbddotior in PeiobS.— WOOll & City, 726 Chestnut street, in view of the advanced state of the season, are now selling their entire stock of trimmed hats and honnßts, and fancy goods gene rally, at coit. Their stoak of these goods is the best in the oity. Ast.— Among the paintings to be sold this eve evening, at Scott’s Art Gallery, 1020 Chestnut itreet, we notloe subjects by Paul Bitter, E. Mo ran, Merle, Yon Jeben, Naysmltb, Carrabaln, Ben nington, and othejs, all worthy the thorough exa. a.iiiatlon by connoisseurs. Sale to oommenoe at 7 % o’clock. Mbs S. A. Allen's wobld’s Hair Ksstoheb Ann Dressing have no equals, and should be used at this season, my2s-thmBt Ladies' Sundowns.— We have received another lot el Mackinaw straw Sundowns, and advlso ladles wanting a novelty In sun hats to call at onoe.pn. Charles Oakford It Sens, continental Hotel, my2o-6t <■ AnßAjuwJd2loai.lt ab A FATHaß.’’—From the original plotnre, presented by Sir. Lincoln to G. Gumpert, Esq., of Philadelphia. COPT BIOHT BBOUBRD. The attention of the pnbllo Is oalled to this very admirable Photograph of onr lamented President, and his son Thomas, familiarly known as "Tad.’’ The original of this Interesting picture was pre sented by Mr. Lincoln to Hr. a. Gumpert, of Phila delphia, and is generally regarded aa the best pic ture extant ef our fatten chief. The faithfulness, as a likeness, of this, the original plotnre of President Lincoln and ran, is endorsed by Bey. Edward 1 D. Neill, private secretary of the President; Bey. Dr. William H. Farness, ex-Gowemor Pollock, Hon. William D. Kelley, Thomas w. Sweney, Etq., United States Eevenue Department, and by all who were brought into frequent Intercourse with Hr, Ltneoia. * ALSO, JUST BBADT, a now and very char&c terlstlff plot ore, termed “ I WIBH AM BTH« TO BB 7BBB," ropresontlng Mr. Lincoln In a sitting posture, on. gaged In reading. The features, position, to., of this Iplolmre are the same as In the one above de scribed. {These, the original pictures, have the titles “I Wish all Men to be Free " end " Abraham Lincoln as a Father," autograph of the late President, and copyright entered by G. Gumpert.) ABBAHAH LINCOLN AT BOMB, This beautiful plotnre, 24x20 Inches In elxe, repre sents Hr. Lincoln at his home, In Springfield, 111, His two boys are with him, Willie sitting on the fence, and Thomas, better known as Tad, standing beside him. This plotnre was taken hat a few days before Hr. Lincoln left Springfield for Washington, on the occasion of his first Inauguration. Also, con nected with this work of art, and most beautifully executed, Is Hr. Llnooln’s farewell address, de livered February 12,1891, to his eld friends and neighbors, and whloh has proven so prophetlo. Every friend and admirer of our lamented Presi dent should have a copy. Ohaelbb Dhbilvbb, Publisher, 1229 Chestnut street. Also, for sale, fine pictures of President Johnson, General Grant, General Sherman, General Sheridan, Panorama of Btohmond, Views of Libby Prison, Views of Castle Thunder, Views of Tredegar Iren Works, Baker Planning the Oaptore of Booth, together with a well-seleoted and extensive stock of interesting pictures, views, photographs, Ac., con nected with the rebellion. Frames of every description supplied. Send for oatalogue. mj2s ths2t Mbs. S. A. Ambn’b Wobld’b Haib Kbstobbb and Dbbbsino give life, growth, and beaut; to the hair, myat-thmSt Froh Nbw York AUOTIOJf Sale.—Most do elded bargains in Dress Goods.—One lot of 2,000 ' yards of beautiful Plaid Lenoes, at 29 bents per yard. Dress Goods In great variety. Splendid styles In Frenoh Lawns, 39 eents. Alpacas, Mohairs, De Lalnes, Valencias, Grenadines, All reduced In prloe. Linens, Table Linens, Towels. Napkins, Dollies—bargains. * John Bubnb, 247 South Eleventh street, . above Spruce. Mbs. S. A. Aura’s Wobld's Haib Bbbtobbb aud Dbbbbikh for restoring color and natural beauty. my29-thmst Chbhkt.— A Chinese tiller, having stolen a mis sionary’s watch, brought It back to blm the next day to learn how to wind it up. The missionary gave the scamp some good advice, recommending him to leave the country, and told him that ir ho wanted to look like a gentleman while acting like an honest man to get his wearing apparel at the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of Boekhlll & Wilson, Nos. 608 and 60S Chestnut street, above Sixth. Mbs. S. A. Aura's Wobld's Haib Bbbtobbb ahd Dbssbibg : the people appreciate them In this country and Europe, my2s-thnBt Attbrtiob Is called to Faotory and Hill property at a sacrifice, under real-estate heading. my 29 st* Mbs. S. A. Aura’s Wobld’s Haib Übbtorbb add Dbbssimo act upon the roots, producing rapid growth and new life. my2s-thmst Eva, Ear, and Oatabbb, successfully treats, ky J. Isaacs, H. D., Oculist and Aurlst, 619 Pine at- Artificial eyes Inserted. No obarge for examination. Mbs. 5. A. Allbn’b World’s Haib Bbbtobbb abd Dbbssibs for restoring, invigorating, and beautifying the hair. my2S-thmBt FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The reoent proclamation of the President raising the blockade of the Southern ports marks the coal' meccement of a sew era for the South—an era of probably greater commercial prosperity than has ever been witnessed before. It may be two or three years before that prosperity is fully developed and exhibited, for the old-fashioned machinery of the Son them trade is considerably out of order. Since the fall of Blohmond no leas than fifty-two vessels, exclusive of Government transports, left New York for Southern ports, eighteen of which cleared for Blohmond and the James river, six Tor Charleston, six for New Orleans, lour for Mobile, six for Wil mington and Beaufort, and ten for Savannah and Fernandina. All these vessels took oargoes largely composed of foreign goods, the owners of which wish no better than to barter them for Southern pro ducts. The Journal of Commerce remarks that the official opening of the Southern ports will not laud to an active trade unless some steps an taken to supply the South first with the necessary currenoy, and to Increase the floating eapltal available there Tor business purposes. An early settler In Ar kansas onoe remarked thathehad seen the day when a whole seotion of land In hts neighborhood would have been exchanged for a good pair of boots. When asked If he did not desire the land, he replied In the affirmative. “ Why did you not buy it thon 1" said tbe questioner. “ Beoause,” he replied, "I hadn’t the boots!" This will apply to the South. Those who look only at the Southern need, have visions of an Immense demand for (supplies j and so far the prospect is wide enough. But when we look for tho ue&ns of payment, the enumeration 13 more simple, and the view narrows to an Infinitesi mal point. A few capitalists heretofore identified with Southern trade, and having funds In England, have drawn for them, and taking the proceeds In greenbacks, have gone South to open business ne gotiations. But there must be more of this pioneer work before the trade can he aetlre. The needy are spread over the globe; bnt mere want does not create commerce. The means to purchase that which Is needed Is the motive power which sots the wheels of Industry In motion and attracts tile enter prise of the merohant. Tie StOCk market was steady and quiet yester day. There was little said in Government bonds, tho market generally being quiet for this descrip tion of securities. The only bonds that appeared to he in demand were the five-twenties, whloh sold at 103—a decline of x. State loans wero firmer. The war-loan sixes sold at 101 x, whloh is an ad vance of IX- City sixes were unohanged; the sew sold at 94X, and the municipal at 94X- Company bonds were In moderate demand, with some slight Improvement In prices. The share list wa9 general ly better; Beading closed at 4f, an advanced X> Pennsylvania Ballroad at 65X, an advance of %; and Philadelphia and Erie at 20X, an advance of X; Catawlssa preferred and Camden and Amboy were weak, at lower figures. The oil stocks were generally dull. The Board of Directors of the Maple Shade Oil Co, bave declared a dividend of four per cent, on the capital stock of the company, clear of State taxes. Stamford Sc Houston is tho name of &[new firm who bare just opened a stock and exchange and general banting noose at No, 25 South. 7)11(1 street. Both of the gentlemen thus associated are compe tent and Intelligent business men. Mr. Houston was formerly of tbe firm of Howes, Miller, A 00. The following were the quotations for gold yea terday at the hours named: 10 A, M 11 A. M....... .12 M 13d;,' IP, M ISSJf DP. M 134J4 *P.M 134 X The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan, re. celved by Jay Ooohe yesterday, amonnt to *1,078,- 600, Inelndlng one of *176,000' from Philadelphia ■ Oh* Of *lOO,OOO Iron* the First National Bank, St, Paul) one Of *lOO,OOO from Hanns, Hart, & C 0„ Pittsburg; one of *50,000 from the First National Bank, Allegheny; one of *OO,OOO from the Second National Bank, Cleveland, Ohio, and one of tine,- HeCllntortOU.. .« 3 Ail« ATMeoufce. 1 .. Mineral OU.'. M «. x; . Big Tauk~*> IX 181 Mingo. 2>£ 2^c Bruner Oil K Mcßiheny Oil..** .. sy. Bull Ur««k...~~ H ll-16 McCrea&Cherß. 11.16 . 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Cooper Shapley, Jr., of til© Philadelphia bar, has prepared with great oare and accuracy a pamphlet under the title of a “ Legal Guide for Oil Companies and stockholders, Inducing a Digest of the Mining Laws ol Pennsylvania.” The booh Is Invaluable to persons interested In the mining and petroleum interests and business men generally. All the eats Of Assembly relating to the organiza tion of mining and oil corporations are, given at length, with numerous decisions by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, showing the rights, powers, and liabilities of corporations In general, with the liability ef subscribers, stockholders, *o. The pamphlet Is published by Messrs. 1 owler & Moon. The First National Bank ol Phocnlxville has re solved to Increase Its stock £50,000. This will en title each stockholder to one additional share for each two now held. They must be taken by the stockholders before June 8, or they will be offered for sale to other parties. 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S' }•§ 100 do —MO IX wo - 8 31 THE PEOPLE'S STOCK KXCHAHGB. 200 Dank «ri .... *OO K>w«tanfcftrd»*** 1 3? ]CG % lCOKejßtoj«o!lecoMc 8 BALBB AT THE &lOUL£ Reported bjt Bemt, Miller , BEPOEB 100 Reading 4^l 200 City 6> 4000 Alta coeoopoa ob.. 73^! lIBOTBOABD. «gBS::fia * SS**aS“Bg fi SO2dA 84-« t 8..~.. 77 100 Jersar W.uV .*& SOXJpion Pb*». 20 100T7ppsr EdUnd..*. ,5J KOBeadieilß..iown 46» 809£vk«>. ->H % IPO. do—.♦—»*»ls 488 lOQlfcTllntock OH 200 00 caah 4B* 350 M)D*o ** MO Corn Planter S« 500 MoOr.a &0 R. .t,™ 200 Cherry 8un....... 2.31 100 Oil Ore ah a q 'J® Jg 12TO do bfi. lots 231 100 do S 3 6CO do——— 2% 500 St Nicholas .i O U 600 Caldwell Oil.—* 3% ,w “ 2 * BETWEBI 4 Cam & Am B.—-127 100 RoatdiJßrß—.ttW 46% SCO do.— - 47 SOO do *3O 46% SCO do. ——. 47 200 do..— - 47 100 d 0.—47% TiO 1t5..b60 47% 200 do— It6.2dy» 47 ICO do—2dye4B% era os 5 20 fids 105 KlOli do cih.103% 60 Corn Planter...... 3 SECOND loro City <8 umi 9i?{\ 610 B * B T 3d m Bde 8j GfiO do—. ■»* 80 2CCO doe—... latmt 90 4 Penna B— mx 110 Catawprf.—..b3o 24%j APTBB BOARDS. ICOBcWe& vßel .-M. ft% 2000 Cltr 6a old Manl., an- ItGOSehuyJ Jaarda ’B2. 78 200 d 0.... whl 109 Beading K—‘.eSQ. 47 70»Dctakard \t? ICO d 0..... eft). 47 100 Jersey Well ..id SMAltest &Tidet6o 11 16 100 d 0.... fa3o 3 10U Oil Gk ACh Ban-• 2% 300 St Nicholas 0i1.... Ji? KOOCarr&Am snort 6s 100 400 Royal 0i1,.. fi* m do In KiOs.lOO 60 U S 5- 20 bonds 7COOClly6s old Mont. 94% IWO State WarLoaa6s.l3l% SALES AT THE CLOSE. SraCatawi After the hoard the market was buoyant. Erie rose to 74K, cloßlng at li*{ ; Now York Control closed at $2 ; Hudson at 10(J14: Beading at 9'! y. ; Michigan Souihorn at eojjr. Later, Brie sold at 73 %, Philadelphia markets. May 84—Evening, The Flour market Is rather firmer, but the de mand 1b limited, and the sales are oonfioed to the wants of the retailors and bakers, at from *6,259 6,76 for superfine, *6,8737.25 for extra, $7 M@i,6o for extra family, and *9@lo $ bbl for fancy brands, as to quality. Bye Flour and Com Bteal oontlnue dull, and we hear of no sales or either ,• 100 bbis extra Flour sold at *7, and 800 bbls extra family at *7 ooa 8 50?) bbl. Gkaim.—Wheat i« ratter seatse, and prime Is In demand at foil prices; about 6,000 bushels sold in lots at 166@i650 for fair to prime Western and Pennsylvania reds, and white at l76@*ooe « has, as to quality. Bye Is better, 1000 bqs Wes ern s>ld at 800. Corn Is firm, with sales of 3,000 bu3het3 prime yellow at 78@80o ¥i bus la the oars and In store; at the olose most holders ask more. Oats are scarce and In demand, with saleß at 65e « bus. Bask.—There Is very little domain Quercitron, bntflist No. 1 Is firmly held at »so $) ton Cottok.—The market Is firm at fully former rates, but the demand is limited, and the sales are In small lots only at 85@600 ft lb cash for middlings. h'KTKor.KIiM continues dull; small sales are re. ported at 36c for etude j 60@610 for refitted 111 bUDII, and Tree at from 70@71e gallon, as to quality, Gbooebieb.—Sugar Is in fair demand at abont former rates, with sales of 300 hhds Cuba at Tram BK@o%t 9 fli, in gold. Coffee Is scarce, and we hear oi no sales worthy of notice. Sbbdb.—Cloverseed is very dnll, and we hear of no Sales, Timothy IS alee dull and quoted at s4@ 4.36 bo. pioaseed Is selling In a small way at from ti 6«@2 65 $1 bn. Pnovisioss.—The market is very dull at about former rates, and the sales are in small lots only; Bless Fork Is quoted at s2s@2f bbt; Bacon Is sell* tug Is a small way at 20@28c $1 lb for plain and fancy canvassed Hams. Butter Is very dull and prtceß are rather lower. Eggs are selling at 2s@2?o dozen. Hay.—Baled is selling at $20@23 V ten. Whisky.— There Is little or nothing doing In the way of sales, and the.market Is very dull, Pennsyl vania and Ohio bbls are offered at 205@20g0 y gallon. The following are the reeelpts of Floor and Grain at this port to-day: F10ur..... ,.1,420 bbls, 3,800 bus, 3 000 bn*. 3,200 bus. ■Wheat... Corn Oats Mew Terk Harkets, Hay 154. Bread£tufpB,—The market for Stats and West, ern Flour Is 10@15o better; sales e,ooo bbla at (6a 020 for superfine state; to 59@6 65 for extra State; *6 70@8 86 for eholee do ; *6@B.2ofor superfine West ern; *6 50@7 for common to medium extra Western; *7.C6@7 26 for common to good shipping brands ex* tra round-hoop Ohio. Canadian Flour Is 10@15o better; sales 500 bbls at ss.so@aso for common, and (7@B 75 for gond to aholce extra. Southern Flour le nrmar, sites 700 hbls at $7.2(@8 20 for comma, a«d *8 SG@IS.S6 fIP faney and extra. Bje Flour la dull. Corn Meal is Arm. Wheat Is 2@9e better; sales 14.000 bushels winter red Western at *1.45. Eye Is quiet. Barley Is. dull. Barley Malt Is dull. Oatl are dull and drooping. The Oorn market Is 2@30 better, with a limited supply; sales 7,500 bus new mixed Western at 820. Pbovisiohs.—The Pork market Is lower; sales 6,£00 bbJs at *21.76@22 37 for new mess; *2o® 20.60 for 'O3-s do. cash and regular way; t18@18.50 for prime, and slo@ls.so for prime mess. The beef market Is dull; sales 300 bbls at About previous prices.' Beef hams are steady. Out meats ate qolet; sales 175 pkgs at 13@14 for shoulders, and io@iB for hams. The lard market Is a little firmer; sales 100 btup at I9@iB?j. Whisk? 18 dull and nomtnal »t *1.95 for WelteM. Tallow Is Arm; sales 174,(00 Its at io@io.if. Chicago markets, Hap a». There was a more active inqalry for Floar. owing to advices from New York reporting the decline there to have been checked, but there was no visi ble change in quotations. We note sales of 1550 bbls at $9 for white winter extras; $5@e.62, l .£ for fair to fanoy spring extras, and $455@4 75 for spring snpers. At the morning session of the Stock Exchange Vo. 1 spring Wheat sold at $1,16%@117 for “spot,” a decline of }&@?4o on the closing price of yester day, but on the “curbstone” there was a good In quiry by “ short sellers,” and the market sold as high as $llB, at which figure It opened on ’Change. There was a good inquiry for Corn, and the offer ings being light the market ruled unusually buoy ant, and an advance of 6j070 was obtained on No. l, c@4c on No. 2, and 2@30 on rejected, In store. Canal Corn was quiet, and in 11# bt supply. The sales foot up 73,000 bushels, at 62@680 for N 0.1,43 @460 for No. 2, and 42@430 for rejected, la store, atd 52c fcr No. l. canal, afloat—the market oloslng quiet at the outside figures for corn in store. Under an active speculative demand, the Olt market was quite firm and buoyant, and we note an advance of s@4o buthel, with sales of 224,0 m bushels at37)£@4oo for No. I—mostly 3BW@4Qo —and 3e@37c for No. 2, In store. LETTER BAGS,"""- AT THB MERCHANTS’ BXCHANOB, PHILADBLTHIA. Bark Roanoke, Cooksey,Laguayra & P Oabello, soon Brig Ella Reed, Tuzo Havana, soon Brig Emma, F0u1ke...... Port Spain, soon PHILADELPHIA BOARD OF TRADE* AKDRBW WBBBLBR, ) Edward Y. Townsbnd, > Com. of thb Month. Horaob J. Smith, ) MARUVE EVTEIiUfiEarCE. POKT OF PHILADELPHIA, MAT 94. Sum 8ibb5.4.41 I Sun Sbtb.7.ls | Hioh Watbk. .2 43 ARRIVED. Brig Julia Ford, Burgees, 6 days (Tom Port Royal, In ballast to oaptaln. Schr Four Sisters, Sheerer, 6 days from Hattoras Inlet, la ballast to oaptaln. Sour O A Stetson, Somers, from Newborn, In bal last to oaptaln. Sett LAndenrled, Compton, 4 days from For tress Monroo, In ballast to oaptaln. SehrJUkry D Ireland (new), Ireland, from Egg Harbor,lAbsllaet to oaptaln. Sota S A'Taylor, Dnltes, from Washington, In bal last to oablant. : Schr CraJeester, Perry, from Somerset, In ballast to L Andhnrled ago. _ Schr Jasß Watson, Little, from Weymouth, N O, ifi ballast to oaptaln* Sehr Jas Bnehaloo, Adams, from Norwich, In bal last to oaptaln. , Sour Alexander, Bowen, ftom Washington, lu bal last to oaptaln. Sobr iiacbal Stiller, Baker, from Washington, la ballast to oaptaln. Sobr A. D scull, Scull, from Fortress Monroe, in ballast to captain. Sobr J Clark, scull, from New York, In ballast to ° a |teamer Rotrglea, MoDormott, 24 hours from Now York, with mdse to W P Clyde. Steamer 1) Utley. Davis, 2t hours from New Fork, with mdse to Wm M Baird St Co. CLEARED. . Steamship Tonenr*nda, Teal. City Point Bark Victoria bb New York for Panama, was spoken U6tk March, lat 28 6i> Hi lon 34 60. Sobr Join Sanderson, Oarroil, kenee at HallFa* 161 b Inßiant. Sokr Boxer, Oonrler, from New York for B isjon- Wltll a coroo or ooalj went «*«> o« Oosben Res* on Sunday evening, beat wr, and sunk 111 aonnE lour fathoms of water, two miles S 3 W from New London llehibouse. All bands saved, -Ship Monsoon, lost on Howland’s Island, mas tered 1,0091 ns, rated Al-, was built at Ne«“!»“'"f Maine, in iB6O, and owned br l Nlokerson & Co, *1 Boston,