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TOM DAILY PRESS, 70 Car Noboorlbors. DODLARS PS6 AMIN, sivone; or FIFTEEN OFFTs PE. WEEK. parable to Is Carrier. Nailed to Slabecribers oat m the clip, , VB'S DOLLARS re; Axiom THANE DOLLASH Firrr ;.5 , 7,9 Foe six MoNros; ONE DOLLAN .4,ND SEVENTY. , 7E CHWTI , roll Tama MONTHS. illVallablY in advance pr the time ordered. Advertinorilonto inserted at, the anal rater,. TEL TBIACEEHLY PRESS, Mailed to Subactibara. TOUR DOLIAgg PER jiamm, in -01PEMME006111141104.23111SUC311" SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1565 THE NEWS. A veritable black flag, raised by the rebels over he oollego handing et Russellville, Kentucky, in /362. Was deposited 111 the Indiana Stele Library, or, Wednesday, by Colonel Wells, of the Seth In. diana Regiment. The hag is about seven foot in isnath by roar feet in width, and is Made of black % ,:,,eca. In the centre is a large white skull, with .I:asily grin, and beneath it the oross.bones, done r-Iyite pant. It was captured by a detachment of , c .a;lany A, of the both, under command of Lieut. r ;:ay. it is a Striking illustration of the chive:- , an= craraeter of the fiends we have been fighting. 1 - :ow Marsh 1,1864, tO March 1, 1:865, lowa paid ere more money into the Nortinorstern branch ti ro Sotitary Commission than :he States of y;ztican, Nino% Wisconsin, and Minnesota com -101.-0— and Asalso furnished a greater number of 6,:itary sw;.pllss than any of the above States, wept The same gallant State has fur 72Cee more men than her quota, under all ItiTles. It is also said that, of over 000 esidiers she furnished the army, only One was L . , scnr‘ ehlr discharged. Mate -day Howell, with his three depu• IRE. made 3 earn to Justice Thompson, Of the Su" pie o Court, that hs had served the writ of habeas celms. on Provost Marshal Frink, but that that onicor refu to oeey it, and called on his provost o sustain him in his decision. The Court ;lecided to Jay the matter over until this morn wiv,s fur`bor action may be expected. It is der JO that Pennsylvania troops are to be dqoirrti M Ile ,tisburg until atter the Fourth, in mho. to assist In the celebration there, They are p c i Dg raid itr and Vent home as quickly a 0 possible, Gs. - csrib:r Curtin is making arrangements to oh. UAL the r.t Men of all the Pennsylvania cold1.3:8 who hart . diod in the rebelprisons. The Miller who furshhtt the list for Andoreonville was Adjutant Trip!or, rhs 37th Missouri. The mt , trder system has been such a SueceSS tb7t , the clibles Lave been Increased from two hun dred and DlP'a* 9 to four hundred and twenty. HOrttW72,me-.• Lows[, of the Internal Revenue peparimw:l. , otiro , l yesterday. HO bat been rue- Cteded .631:, Orton, formerly eolleetor of the Sixth eistrisa:, New York. The ne.y!zea arc protosting a.gainst the appoint ment of judge Sharkey as provisional Governor of : - ,nd claiming the right to vote. gevemor Bramiette delivered a lengthy argrt trt,, in Louisville, in favor of the constitutional amorAir-lent. He urged the people to adopt Immo. osttly a system of free labor. ruPitary commission for the trial of the con ilare agreed upon a sArdiez, which has submitted to the President. It Will not he i:nort for a day Or tWO. A Nwell:lan 13 tD be hold In Alexandria, Va., on tie 21 of Auvust, to devise means for the welfare of ^elev.', troops. l;. g. (labor, the naval reporter, who has been on tm:3 for the alleged furnishing of contraband news, 1..0 LEO" released on parole. W. Gale, the man who offered the $lOO,OOOOOO, • alto Asmisination of Mr. Lincoln, has been lent • rikhLrait for The 50th Pennsylvania Regiment will arrive In Puladoptia this' morning. It has been In thirty :v.:, nacos in sixteen different States. G, - „neral Sheridan bee gone to Taxes. The lower mein of the State is infested with guerillas. The tuber riptions to the seven-thirty loan pester dal amounted to $2,156,200. The weekly report of the Philadelphia markets :Mow that the produce markets have been quiet. The lirearlat ff wßiiVota PerS dull, flora-being quoted • S6FIC 25 for suave:me, ea 1057 12 for extra, and etki2la for fancy brands. Wheat is quoted at $1750 2.50 ; corn, 556460 e ; and oats at 72075 c. Pork ie lower, selline. ac $25527 per bbl. Cotton has ad vanced. Sugar is firmly held, and coffee is swarm 'Welsty corAtineit dull, and BMW are reported at 72.0152.10 per gallon. Tie Stock market is excessively dull as to Sales, het prim are well maintained. Government 10408 advanced yesterday to 97 ; Reading closed at 4.834, taich t a farther advance, and the general list cl;ved steady. No improvement In the markets is sttioipated until after the return of our business.. pew Iron their summer tours. 'nee wars, no salsa of gold, at stook board lag g; sou in Now York, but after call sales wore rwido at 4134. Vinai Speech of Bon. John A. Bingham. It is to be regretted that the proceedings of the Military Commission were so protracted that the patience of newspaper publishers and re:steers Was: welinigh exhausted be fora the delivery of the able and conclusive fetel speech of Hon, Joins A. BING-BAII. The gist and substance of the whole pro ceeding is therein presented in a syste matic end connected form. Unfortunately, its extreme length has prevented its general publication. We printed, a few days ago, ;la, overwhelming argument on the legality of the Commission, in which he complete ly demolished the positions of Hon. RE VERDI, JOHNSON ; and his comments on the evidence, which were summarily dis posed of in a short column report of the Associated Press, fill more than fourteen columns ref email type in the Washington C'bronicle. The subject was so vast and comprehensive that every word he uttered bore directly upon the case, and every point he made was essential to complete the logical chain of reasoning by which he demonstrated With mathematical precision that the prisoners were guilty in manner lied form as they stood indicted; and we deeply leg:7d that thousands who have read the evelence in detached despatches, and who have also perused the arguments pre eented in behalf of the defendants will have no clear idea _Of the history of the assassination, as it is truly and justly de- Scribed and illustrated by Mr. BINGHAM. It will be remembered that the accused are charged with having conspired with 6 ' JOHN 11. &HUTT, JOHN WILKES BOOTH, JEFFERSON DAVIS, GRoRGE N. SAUNDERS ; BEVERLY TUCKER, JACOB THOMPSON, WILLIAM C. CLN,ARY, CNN :GENT C. CLAY, GEoRGF. Hoorna, and GEORGE erouso," to murder AnnAMilf ID,COLII, ANDREW JOHNSON, WILLIAM H. i';EWARD, and ULYSSES B. GRANT. An es sential feature of the subject, therefore, is the complicity of the leader of the rebel lion, and his agents in Canada. About one-half of the comments of Mr. BING- Wm on the evidence are devoted to an ex pleeetiee of the testimony against these lerlmf-eveeers of the conspiracy. After muses tee legal authorities which main rain that "it is an established rule that *whew several persons are proved to have eelebiae(l together for the Bente illegal pur pose, .tiny act done by one of the party, in pursuance of the original concerted plan, anal in reference to the common object, is in the contemplation of law, as well as in sound reason, the act of the whole party," he proceeds to enumerate the evidences of the guilt of the rebel leaders. In brief, they consist of the following facts : That the Canadian agents were duly accredited by enerrEnson Daves, and supplied by him with money, blank commissions, and fall power to perpetrate crimes of the deepest dye against the people of the Northern States. That by them KENNEDY was em ployed to burn the hotels of New York ; BENNETT H. Yo - am to Commit arson, rob bery, and murder at St. Albans; and GOD FILLY RYAMS to introduce yellow fever into our reties and camps. That DAVIS is proven, by his endorsement of OLDHA3I'S letter, to ;have had a guilty foreknowledge of the plot of Knuoior ; and by his endorse ment of the letter of Lieutenant ArisTom to have cordially received that vil lain's proposition to undertake the assassi nation of Union leaders. That i es early as October, 1854, the agents in Canada an nounced their determination to compass the death of iennenem LINCOLN; that they began then to discuss this Filibject in their correapondence with JEFFERSON DANTB ; and that about this :period they were visited by Boom and that the contemplated assassina tion was repeatedly spoken of by them is the presence of witnesses who have tes tified before the Military Commission. That about the 6th or 7th of April, Jonas 11. &maw arrived at Montreal, direct from Richmond, and delivered to Jams Thome- EMI a despatch in cipher, from Jaye Davis, 'Which was virtually the death warrant of AP.RAHATI LINCOLN. That THOMPSON, about this time, drew from the Bank of 11 °Ltreal etlBo,ooo in certificates, which could he used anywhere. It is the theory Of, the prosecution that BIIPATT immediate /Y. hurried back, with a portion or all this t " r teY to Washington, where he was seen ort the fatal 14th of April, and that this VOL. 8.-NO. 287. reward furnished the last incentive needed to nerve the murderer and his ac cemplices for their horrid task, That So new had, that evening, a short time before the murder, a final interview with his mother, and then hurried back to Canada, *where, it is supposed, he still remains con cealed. That he was despatched to Rich mond in March last, by Boone, for inetruc tons and money ; and that his subsequent journey to Montreal was made because it was safer and more convenient to obtain the blood money in the North, from whence he could return in safety, than at Richmond, as, in travelling back to Washington from that point, he might be detected when he passed through our lines. That the manner in which Jze- Femme DAVIS received the first intelligence of the assassination indicated his guilt, his expressions implying neither astonishment, joy, nor horror, but simply regret that " the job" was not completed by the murder of Aaennew JOHNSON and EDWIN M. STAN'- Torr. That upon BOOTH'S body was found the key of the same cypher which wax habitually used by the rebel State Depart ment, this being a State secret which was doubtless communicated to hint for the express purpose of facilitating his confi dential intercourse with the rebel authori ties, and which he would not have trea eured so carefully for any other purpose ; and that the bill of exchange drawn by the Montreal branch of the Ontario Bank, dated October, 1864, for P-61 121 which was also found upon his person, is the unexpended balance of the sum he received from JACOB Tnofersole, when he visited Canada, to carry into effect his murderous purposes. All these points, and others, which space will not permit us even to enumerate here, are elaborated, discussed at length, and sustained by the testimony. They form, in the aggregate, an unanswerable proof of the guilt of Devis and his official agents. The concluding portion of Mr. BING HAM'S speech is devoted chiefly to an anal ysis of the testimony that bears directly against the criminals on trial. First in order is Dr. SAMUEL A. MUDD. His part in the conspiracy was more important than is generally supposed. He did not merely aid the flight of BoorN. He assisted him, in November, 1864, to purchase one of the horses used by the conspirators on the night of the 14th of April, and from that time till the conclusion of the tragedy he visited the assassin at the critical periods (luring the progress of his schemes: as, for instance, in—December or January lest ; in March, shortly before the inauguration, and in April, a few days before the assassi nation. He was Boomer's instructor in the route he selected for escape; his assistant in perfecting his business arrangements ; his counsellor, and his surgeon and pro tector at the•first stage of his flight. O'LAIIGIaIue was selected to murder Gen. GRANT. For this purpose he repeatedly sought opportunities to study the counte nance, appearance, and bearing of his in tended victim, that he might strike a cer tain blow. Of his guilty intercourse with BOOTH various proofs are adduced, and when his plans were unexpectedly thwart ed by the sudden departure of our illustri ous Lieutenant General to Philadelphia, it is believed he was retained as a vigilant aid and sentinel by the assassin. " SAM" ARNOLD, whose letter was found in BOOTH'S trunk, professing warm friend ship and devotion to the common cause, but who advised the further consultation with the authorities at Richmond, which was effected by SUBATT, and who was ar rested subsequently at Fortress Monroe, is believed to have been stationed there for the purpose of assisting BOOTH'S flight into the rebel lines after he had reached the region in which he was arrested. The testimony against ATztanovi is re capitulated in a forcible manner, and the opinion is expressed that he was prevented from perpetrating the fearful crime he was hired to commit, by the promptness with which many citizens rushed to the pro tection of ANDREW JOHNSON, immediately after the murder of ABRAHAM Limo's. Of his complicity with BOOTH, and his agreement to complete "the job," accord ing to the wishes of JEFF DAVIS, there can be no doubt. PAYNE'S attack upon Secretary SEwARD is confessed by the defence of his counsel ; and if any additional proof of the guilt of Mrs. Sun Are were needed, it would be furnished by her solemn denial of all knowledge of this abandoned villain on the night of his arrest, when he came to her house; it having been shown by the testi mony that, a short time previous to the assassination, he had passed four days under her roof. That PAYNE, after wan dering through , the country for several days, weighed down by his heavy load of guilt, should select her as the only person he could trust as a protector ; and that she should, in the presence of the detectives, deny all knowledge of him, is an incidental piece of circumstantial evidence that is equally conclusive against both, of the con spit acy which linked them together. SPANGLER is shown to have aided Boorrrt's escape from the theatre very materially. He performed, without com punction, the part which CHESTER could not be induced to assume. In Mr. Brno !Am's searching analysis he discloses the whole workings of this fear ful plot as skilfully and minutely as Dionsms unfolds the mysteries of the imaginary crimes of his most famous cha racters. He paints in colors of living light and of unerring truthfulness, tlae whole panorama of infamy which robbed the na tion of its chosen chief, cruelly wounded the Secretary of State, and threatened the lives of ANDREW JOUNSON and iltirssas S. GRANT; and it is impossible to resist the conclusion that the case of the Government is clearly established against JEFFERSON Davie and his agents in Canada, as well as the wicked instruments whose trial has just been concluded. Casualties and Costs of War A work on the Crimean War, written by M. Cuanu, and lately published in Paris, gives some statistics, for the accuracy of which the author vouches. The war lasted twenty-two months. The nations actively engaged in it *ere Russia, France, Eng land, Turkey, and Piedmont. Austria was semi•neutral, merely occupying the provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia, and Prussia declined any participation in the contest. Russia lost 630,000 soldiers; France, 95,013 England, 22,182 ; Turkey, 35,000; and Piedmont ;194—making a loss of 784,991 soldiers of all nations. Includ ing the cost of putting Austria on a war footing, the money spent in the Crimean war by all the States engaged in it amounts to 1,450,000,000 francs, which is equiva lent to $292,000,000. We suspect that the money estimate in this instance does not include the disbursements made by Russia. The coat of the Crimean war to England, has been estimated at $300 1 000,000, or more than is here set down for the whole expense to all the nations. The estimate of loss of men, from sickness and fighting, agrees with what former writers have set it down at. The Volunteer Bounty-Vaud Law. A legal question of great importance was determined by the Supreme Court of this State, yesterday. The constitutionality of the act of the Legislature empowering va rious authorities throughout the Common wealth to contract loans for the payment of bounties to volunteers had been ques. toned in the case of Speer et at, vs, The School Directors, &a., of Indiana county. As Philadelphia was deeply interested in the principle involved, our City Solicitor participated In the argument en behalf of the defendants. After an elaborate discus sion by COUDBeI, Judge Amaw, in an able and lengthy opinion, which was sustained by a majority of the court, affirmed the constitutionality of the law, thus setting at rest all doubts on this vexed question; Judge Too:Amon . delivered a dissenting opinion, in which Judge Woonvann con curred. O rat correspondent " Occasional," makes an allusion to Ma:vain - lAN, the forlorn, and soon to be fugitive Emperor of the French power in Mexico. -He seems to think:that BANTA ANNA has a better chance for the halls of the Montezumas than the brother of FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria. He may be right. Hein 30hn Wentworth. The following speech of long JOilt: WENTivonTn, member elect from the city of Chicago in the nest Congress, was made last week to a regiment of returned volun teers. It is eminently characteristic and well. timed "FELLOWCITIznNS Oe TIM Ban, BUTTER KNOWN AS Tan fleaxne. 1111015IHNT! It is lettil pride that I address you upon this occasion, for your history is well known to me, and the part you have taken ever Since this war commenced is familiar to me. You were Or) of the first to go into the battle field, and you are the last to Como out. [Voolferoas cheer ,• There are a great many of our fellow-citizens who would like to know where you have been, but it would be better to inquire whore you have not been. [Great laughter.] You have made your selves familiar with the geography of the country. Leaving the great lakes, you followed down the or rivers or the Gown,. and we whereght of you for a long time, and did not know you were bound to. You travelled under the nee of your country, and wherever you went you pleated that iisg, and no ruthless hand has dared to take it down. [Tremendous applause.] Vlore is another capacity, my felloseettizens, in which you deur° before us to-day. Eat a few years ago the question was raised whether foreign inhabitants of this coon. try could Ise trusted with the politiaal franohise, and organizations were started all over the country to deprive them of the right of suffrage. Bat a day came which tried men's souls; whoa men who ware not willing to pay for labor, but to have men in leeway, undertook to destroy the country. Than it WAS that the country needed your services, and you welt teeth and proved that this country owes its existence to the foreign element. For even whilst you wore in the South, you foreigners remained tree to the Government, when native-born dumdums in your own city were conspiring to barn ft down, and to open Camp Douglas to lot loose the traitors upon our city and destroy it. While you foreigners wore defending the liberties of our country, Dative Amer!• cans conspired and eneceseled In assassinating our beloved President, Booth was not more guilty of that massinntion than was the weapon that be had. It woe the power behind him, It was tee tiave power—the men who want to (skeet their fel low• Melt out of their wages, because they aro black. It was they who assassinated the Prentlerit. "They are the men who commenced this war. They are the men who are responsible for the dead men left behind you. I have boys that were your comrades, who went South with you, and every one of them owes hie death to the alave•power. And when, in our country's trials, with an enemy in the front and an enemy in the roar, we wore obliged to call upon our colored brothers to help us and when they had helped us, there was a class of men that railed at the negro, and what feel Because they were fighting for their country. They were defend ing the 1148We...tone of our fathers. In New York these white men went further, anti tore down the homier of those poor negroes, and they followed them from city to city, and would not hear of them tatting up arms to defend their country and them selves. "And now, gentlemen, having proved that the foreign born citizen can be true to his country, you have got another duty to perform. You will have to maintain your rights at the ballot-boa. Those men who tried to barn Ohbago ; those men who got up the mob in New York ; those men who bred upon our troops when they went through Baltimore; those men who first fired upon our iitg at Fort Sumpter, watt $0 be our equate. They want to come to the pone and vote us down. They Wan: to do at the ballot-boa what they have failed to do through their Booths, and their traitors, and their on3hasfi.S. Now they are as loyal as anybody. Their loyalty commenced with the campaign in which Lee surrendered. Why, here in Chicago, they nil thought they were embraced in Lee'e surrender [laughter,] and I came out hero and addressed them, and told them that Lee's Bur render did take them too. I will tell you what they ale. They may as well be exposed now as any other time. They want Some military man that will head them, and put them in power again In this country. TrAfie assassins want to have the name of loyalty, in oilier that they may get at the head of this Union. I have taken the grollnd upon my own responsi bility, that the loyal negro is infinitely batter than the white traitor, [Great cheering,] and when Ina men standing In the Streets of °Melo, and hear them d—n the negro, I say d—n all such men as you are that want to destroy the bast Government In the world. [Tremendous applause.] ;The ree sponslbility for all the calamities of this war rests arOn the alien/acre of the Northern tie-operators of Southern traitors. This war would never have broken out if the Southerners tied no4.bslloml that they would have had co-operation from the North. But they miscalculated, for the war Is over and the country is safe. ely good fella w-eitizens and eel diers, you must take care at the polls that no more traitors get where Brig can steal, plunder, and be tray our Government. , Mr. Wentworth then finished amid loud cheers. WASHINGTON. WABEIBOTON, June 30 wiz TRILL OF THE CONSPIR&TORS. The military commission recently engaged in the trill of the conspirators met this morning, and after a brief consultation made out their finding and adjourned. The result will not be positively known until officially announced. THE CASE OF O. W. GALE. G. W. 0 - ALS, who last December advertised to the Selma Despatch. for one million dollars, to pro• cure the assassination of President LINCOLN, Score. tary SNWANN, and ANDBISW .Tonasoir, was, It is roper ted, taken from the Old Capitol jail today and sent back to Alabama for trial. TO DE TRIED BY MILITARY COMMISSION. Along the oases to ba tried before tbe mffitary commission of which Colonel CHIPMAN is judge adVtleate, and 'alien. IS sitting In this city, is that of a resident of Virginia who, a year ago, ooneplrad with a guerilla to oausa the death of a loyal °Main, the accused having furnished the guerilla with a United States uniform as a disguise. GEDERAL MEADE. Major General lanAhnEnds It impossible to to cent en invitation to visit Boston on the Fourth of Ally. lie has decided to tab as. Gettysburg on that day, when the corner-stone of the battle monument to to be laid. VIRGINIA COLORED CONVENT/ON A convention of dalogs.tes repreSentlng the color. ed population of Virginia is to be held at Alex. ardria, on the 2d of August, to take Into oonsidora tion their present and future condition, and to de vise means for the good and welfare of the colored people throughout the State. FOR RORIE The NM Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel SOMWRIIIC, which has pneeed rhrOagli thir• ty-two different actions, in sixteen different Steles, since the war oommenaed, leaves for Phiiadeiphia to-night. INCREASE OP MONEY—ORDER °PRICES. The moneporder offices are after today, to be in creased from 280 to 420, principally in the Western States. Measures have been taken to extend the system to the Pacific coast. The result of tho asps. riment has so far!been satisfactory to the . FosbOffice Department, while those who remit small same are perfectly Insures from lore. TnE commiSSIONEF. OF ItiTnan&L TOEVENUE. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Lams retiree froth. office to-morrow, to be succeeded by WILLIAM Othrow, of New York. TILE ISSUE OF PASSPORTS. The number of passports issued at the State De. partment daring the past month is unpreeedentedly large. THE WEATHER The temperature to day hos been a Mgt i4O 96 degrees in the shade. Leto this afternoon there wee a heavy raineterm, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Letter froin the Sea-shore. [Special Correspondence of The Press.] CAPE MAY, Tune 80, 1865 What a grateful feeling one experiences as he Welke, in the owl of the evening, upon the beach of Cape May, listening to the roar of the Mighty ocean, and thinking of the suffering and almost roasting mulutudes in the city of Philadelphia! Re almost forgets, or thinks it impossible th3t it oar; be warm anywhere, and looks upon the at , counts of the extreme heat, in the city papers, as the fabrications of, some:poor "Local' , mourning over the scarcity of items. But the arrival of a train, bringing its loads of dusty, travel-worn pal imagers, soon satisfies him that such things, are. Yes, it is true that, While the favored few are snuffing the ocean breeze, and dipping in its brine, the many are laboring on, as if there were no breezes but the blast of the furnaces, and no salt water, save that which trickles down their cheeks. The Island City is rejoicing in an early season. The intense heat of June is bringing out the rich men who can afford luxury; the poor men who think a cottage cheaper for their families than physician and nurses ; the thin men who want to lose their dyspepsia, and the fat men who have a dread of apoplexy. Tire Cape DI ay Railroad is alreadre ware n a ah v a e r r - VCSt, The radiant faces of our landlords brighter. Every one wo meet looks happy or We. fol. The ocean furnishes our solemn music, until the bands engaged for the reason shall come to regale us with more varied airs. • The bathing IS as Bolen. did es ever. Cape May has lost none of the aims'. Sages for which It has been so long and sojustly celebrated. And while the ocean is all that can be desired, the land has Its comforts. The hotels offer tempting bills of fare ."for a consideration," andethe cottages are Who with the beauty and sprightliness of those Who prefer the quiet home to the gayer itfe of the hotel. Strangers And a pleasant community about them ; and even Invalids forget their maladies, and sleep to the muslo of the ocean as eseetly as they ever slept under the soothing of a mother's The: feet number or the Clepo May Duty maw tg expected to .appear within a very few days, This paper, if well edited and carefully conducted, WM iiarery pm§ S MOM. PHILA_DET,PITTA, SATURDAY, JULY 1; 1865. HARRISBURG. An ireerrect Despatch Contradicted . — Paying' the Troops— Oar Martyred Dead. HARRISBir-Vli June n—Tita special de etch to & Philadelphia - paper, relative to the detention of the military at C4frpost, in order to swell the num bers in the local Oolebration of Independeneo Day, is without fount atlim ill fact. The paymasters nor? here are working night md day to pay off the troops, and every lability is af forded the man, as soon al they are paid Ott; to leave Harrlsbrirg for their distant homes. Adjutant Thomas G. Titpier, of the STtb. sours Volunteers, is the name of the patty who fur nished the list Of martyr 00/diara who perished in the Andersonvllle robot prison Re deserves the thanks of the friends of those burled in that locality for his great sot of humanity. Governor Curtin is making arrangements to pro- cure a lint of Pennsylvania soldiers who died in other rebel prisons, so as to enable their friends to recover and remove their remains. THE SOUTHWEST. Desires of the heroes of yiekftbleig— Guerillas—Personal, &e. 041/DO, JUDO 00.—An arrival from Memphis brings 270 bales of often for St. Ltda. 100 bales pas,ed up the Ohio yesterday. A Special despatch to the Memphis Bulletin, dated New Orleans, June 27th, says the negroes at ViOliSburg are protesting against the appointment of Judge Sharkey as Governer, and 01&Wag the right to vote. General Sheridan has gone to Texai. The steamer Dix was recently sank la the lied river, and is a total loss. The lower country, and other portions of the State,*are infested with guerillas and outlawa. Gen. Canby has Bout troom after them. FORTRESS MONROE Soldiers en ronie—Sole of Xforses—Ship FORTRESS MONT.OII, June 20.—AliORt. on hurt• died Government horaa3• were sold at auction at Damp Hamilton today, at prices varying from ton dollars to one hundred sail fifteen dollars. Arrived Steamer Salvor, from Philadelphir,; steamer Starlight, (rota Morehead tiny. Sailed— Steamer Norfolk, from Morehead City. Nearly five hundred aoldiers, from several dlt remit regiments, passed through thie place to-day on their way home. JUE CONRTITETIOMILL ASNENDNEVT. VI GOVBIWOR Or IMITUCKY'S OPINION OH IT- AN ADDP',Ii66 eT LOIIIBVILLE LoursvlLLß, Stine M.—Governor Bram'tette ad dressed the citizens of Louisville, this evening, in favor of the constitutional amendment, and advan- tages offree over slave labor in Kentnoky. He said slavery has 'been utterly overthrown, and proved the iropossibiltty of its restoration. He urged the people to proceed to establish a system of free labor, as dictated by wisdom and their interests. He showed by the statistics of the population and the occupation of the ludo by Slave and non eaveholders, that the Ash lands of the State were in the hands of a eless exceedingly small in comparison with the popular masses. Ho urged the organization of the free white laborers of the State, to take care In future of their own interests. He said the necessity existed for the Immediate action of Kentucky in disposing of this vexed Tees- Mtn of slavery, the progress of events having practi• catty destroyed the institution itself. He alumna at some length the second }motion of the amendment, and, with overwhelming power, replied to the objections urged &gait= it, am% as that the amendment gives Congress the power to confer the elective franchise upon the Manor pated slaves, and thus create sootal equality' He raid the second section gives Congress no more power than now exists under the Constitution, and this second section meant simply that Congress should by appropriation or necessary legislation prohibit slavery or involuntary servitude is the Staten. THE SECOND CORPS' LAST CAMPAIGN. OFFICIAL REPORT OF GEN. RIIMPRILEYS. General Humphrey, Commanding the 21 Army Corps, makes hts official report under date of April 21, of the °parental:3 Of MB rieMmaied from the open ing of the spring eampeign to the euerender of Gen, Lee. It is an elaborate and leteresting deComeat, and gives an insight into serious dittlentles which at times seemed to threaten the attack on Lee's Mice tenth of Petersburg. It appears that troops from this cents were Bent along various portions of the lane to strengthen them, when they were weaker, tea been driven back, and in every Instance had succeeded in affording the required relief. Teta report shows that the enemy's obstructions and petitions were very formidable, and that des perate fighting and exoelleet strategy ,only ea mired enecese. After Sheridan's seances at Five Vorluf, General Grant canoe on the ground, and personally directed the movement of this corps and other co-operative ones, which so soon ensured the downfall of Petersburg. General Humphreys, with his commend, was at this time aloe ordered to report to General Sheridan, thus showing that all or the troops at this period on the west of Petersburg. were VOW under the command of tie hero of Floe Forks. It afterwards appeared that Gen. Humphreys was superseded in command of the 2d Corps. Gen. Grant directing the change ; but that General Sheridan had received no Mien& tionil regarding this oorps from Gen. Grant. Gee. Humpbroys was almost immediately directed, after the change was announced, to still continue with his corps, and to report to itrefule, but to follow the route of march designated by Sheridan: The report then details the captures of artillery and prisonera up to the time Lee eurreedered. The captures Of the 2d Corps during the campaign were thirty-five guns, sixteen Sage, over 4,000 prisoners, and the capture or datruction of over 400 wagons and their contents. Nothing could ba finer than the spirit of the °Mean and met/ durlug all tee ouerationa of this campaign. General Hum phre7S asks the At/Mi t:en of the commanding general to the sereeeee of Breset Major Geberal Mlles, whose division had the good fortune to be most frequently and most teavily engaged with the enemy; but praise is due to Generals S. l%lott, Berle w, De Trioblend and his elate A fitting tribute was paid to General Smith, who was killed. IStPVTHERN PLEA. WV7 TEE SOUTH SHOULD 1 . 40 T an nONDIeettIRD POR TECH SLOW TORTIIMS AZID ar.1711.138ft OP TIMOR PH/SONEUS. atom the Riclirectul Bulletin Arraigned before the nations as monsters of cruelty, in re the prisoners at Andersonvil le, and unable, in our own purnals, to make defense, we ask 18 there no Northern paper fearleaa and Wear- MI enough to offer the following pleas in bar of Charges preferred eteinst us : 1. That the Sift and wounded Federate Iron) the first Pteuassas were placed la the new almshouse—the best, most commodious and airiest hospital in this city, while our own wounded were - huddled In tobacco factories and stores. 2. That our wounded were brought to Richmond in box and cattle oars, while Federal prisoners, hale and hearty, were brought in passenger cars. 3. That Federal prisoners aeon ululated on our hands in soitel of our earnest and repeated entreaties and prayers for a resump tion of exchange. 4. That we abandoned ail Prejudices, and offered to eviliango negroes ; that is, to recognize negro equality. 0. That WO offered to treat with Benjamin F. Butler. 6. That the Confederate Government did this in spite of the almost unaniutotte remonstration of the - people and the press. 7. That medicines were contraband of war. 8. That our ports were blockaded. 9. Pet senora In danger of being rearmed by raids. 10. Every able.bodled man—even the cradle and tha grave robbed "—and carried into tile field. 11. Hence the necessity of keeping the prisoners in Southern Georgia, where a few men could guard a groat number, and where there was little or no danger of their being rescued by raids. A Letter of the Late President Lincoln. The following letter of President Litman has just been published. It explains itself: EXIKTUT/Vlt 111AIGHON, WASHINGTON, Ductufnan 27, 1864, MT DEAR SLR: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your note of the 20th Decornbcr, conveying the announcement that the Trustees of the College of New Jersey had conferred upon me the Degree of Doctor of Laws. The assurance conveyed by this high compliment, that the course of the Government which I repre sent has received the approval of a body of gentle. 151013 of such character and intelligence, in this time of public trial, is very grateful to me. Thoughtful men murt feel that the fate of eiviliza lion upon this continent Is InvOlVti u >afo issue of our contest. Among the most gratifying proofs of this conviction Is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and eollegee to the national cause. I am most thardiful I( my labors have aciamodto conduce to the preservation of those institutions, under which alone we can expect good Government, and in its train mind learning and the progress of the liberal arts. I am, sir, very truly your obedient servant, Dr..Tonir. Blouran. NSW YORK CUM • NA"? Yana, Jana 30 TD2II RPERING STOOK BOARD. At Gallagher's Exchange this evening. the fol lowing were the cloning quotations Erie, 78%; Michigan Southern, 62X; Pittsburg, P,W; Northwestern Preferred, 5B; Fort Wayne, 95%; Cumberland, 40%; Mariposa, 1 8% , The market was drill but firmer. There were no Soles or gold on eall, but after call Wee were 'made at 14IX. No evening exchange will be held.. until Wit Wednesday. MLRINE. Arrived, steamer Guiding Star, from New Or leans; ship Victory, from Liverpool. THE STOOK EICCHANGIB SECOND BOARD., EON T. Oen R 21.03 do bib 94% 200 do„. • • 94% '.lOO Brie 78.% ST. do 781; F.OOOO II IA Ca 110% 3C1,0 IT F., es G 20.,.....c.101 Matt B bz 10-40..... c 975 g icev do 5731 tcoo Try 7 3.10 24 se. 997,,,5 6( Do 'Erg 6e ly un loan liggi 600 . do GCCO II Ei 6fi 1y • • 6 , 04 t loo do elO 7634 100 Otmob erptf 430 do . . ... zo • ••• • • 41g: 400 Bud - favor 8,,b60,110 Quicks'i• ti Co ... • 68 1200 Bonding ICU wartp'a M C0.....1000 100 NY Cen R. • Ot 1000 do ATA , (00 do 94, Of* Markets by Telegraph. BALTIMORE, June 30.—Wheat dull; Iliaaeur erop Jo inferior in quality. corn dull; 33 10w47. Flour dull ; sales of 1,033 bbls Western' extra. at 17.28. Picialtions adyrailgag. Whisky Shady at $2.10. Groceries dull. CINOINTIATI, June 49. — Flour 18 dull at $0.7801 vit bbl. Frevielons quiet. Lard era at 180. ‘IP CHICAGO, Tune 30.—Flour dull. Wheat sattge, and advanced 3:i'litlo; sales No. 1 at 105e1.06 %a; No. 2 900. Corn Etrady ; No.l 8340040 ; N 0.2, 21 @5130. Oats dull, and declined 2;2@30 ; sir:ies No. 1,48;;@43;F0. Provisions dull. Higkirltle2 eadlat $2. RecelPts- `dhlpmente. Flour, bble 4 000 8,800 Wheat buil. , 400,000 2.00,000 Um) bun 120,000 171,000 Oats, . 69,849 42,00 Freigliti tirPl.,., POSTAL MONEY ORDER SYSTEM. Official Lief or 920 Ilioneywillrdrre Offices. The postal money.oider system, which went into operation on the first day of November, MI, when Off) !Inhaled and forty.one post-offioe , .: in the lOyal Stan were mad:, roonepordor °Moss, has been er..% for did BO as to idolv.de tour hundred and twotty offices, in nearly tho States. By far the largest proportion of the dew offices are, of course, in the North, where facilities for the transmission of Money to this and other points were most niodod. The working of the system has, so far, given uni• versa' satisfaction. In the business of the New Fork offices with othor oMees no losses either to the senders or receivers of orders have occurred. In a few oases of error or carelessness in the drawing or tin USO of orders, it was neressary to cancel or du• plicate the drafts but the familiarity of the pub lic with the system renders•ouch oases very rare. It will be remembered that orders may be drawn for any sure from one to thirticlollAts, on payntrit of ten to twenty cents ; and larger sums are trans mitt:d by using additional orders. The business of the new ofkoes will begin on Monday, the 3d of July. The lq.ew York Mining Poet furnishes the follow. effiCial list Of all the titelkno.ted postootnoos on which Orders may be drawn or paid LIFT OF lIONET:ORD2.II POET oynnosp, .1 . 17 LY 1, 1885. Corwconotrr.—Bridgepart, Danbury, Derby, Guitiord, Hartford, Litchfield, Middletown, New Lmdfm, Norwich, New Britain, New irlliford, New Haven, No:waik, putnam, Ntioksllle, .Thotapeon- Weet Meriden, Wateroury, Willimantic, West KtiltEetk. DaLaNrAloa--Delaware City, Dover, Wilming ton. • . .IireTVICT OBLUMBIA.—WieIiingtOLL. FLOUTDA.—Ke7 WOBt, Iladlvois,—Alton, Aurora, Belleville, Bloom ten, Cairo, Canton, Carlinville, Centralia, Cham mdan,' , :lialeago, Danville, Decatur, Dixon, Elgin, Freopm!:, Galena, Galesburg, Oeneceo, Jackson vine, .I:liet, Kankakee depot, Lo,OOD, rd aunt Vernon, Olney, Ottawa, Paris Pcozla, Pon tiac, Pziocetcin, Quincy, Rockford, 'Rook Simwoectown, Shetbyvilie, Sptingfield, Sycamore, Waukegan. Bloomington,Oolumbus,Craw fordsville, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Green Castle, Ci-rcen4;tnag, Goshen, Huntington, indionapoits, .Teffetanville, KrikOino, Ingeyesse, t Porte, Law rer.crierg, Logansport, olatheon, ~ 1 1.nnele. Now A.l. bßwv, Plymouth, Princeton, nongsAltter, RiC4lo).o[o, Sohn.. South Bend, Torre Hance, Valparalco, Vitt cenne:„ Wabash, Warsaw, 10w.. 2 ....—.130r1itigt0n, Cedar Rapids, Corlett Blufr3, ./) , ,reut-tor, Des Nit.oittes, Dubuque, lowa City, Kea Leous, Marshalitowu, Mt. Ploannt, iqusta. Ike, Newton, Oskalooss,, Ottumwa, Sioux. Oity, Wesittugton, Waterloo. KA.Ve.M3 —Atohloon, Fort Leavenworth, Law. reitee, - Tt , poka, -Katervoki.--DowlingOreen, Louisville , Lazing. ten, Rinvevlllo, Paducah LCIUISIANA.—riew Orlestme. ^Axilline. Banger, Bath, Belftl9 l 4 Blade , ford, Brunswick, Eastport, Ellswortn, Lewistea, Porac4 Rockland, Skowhegan, Waterville, RIAWYLAND.—AnnapoIis, altintore, Cumberiand, Easton, Ellicott's Mills, Frederick, Ha,gorstown, ne.vre de Grace, Sra M.ss Bridgewater, Boa. tan, Chicopee, Fall River, Fitchburg, Gloucester, Greenfield, Lawrence, Lre, Lowell, Lynn, Milford, Natick, New Cecllord, Newburyport, Northampton, Pittsfield, Plyir,outh, Salem, Springfield, Taunton, Westfield, Worcester. Itlicuidars.—Adrlcn, Allegan, Ann Arbor, Big Ilavtoe, laid Water, Detruit„ - Eaet Saginaw, Grard Rapithi, 11111fdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Let:Sire. Marshall, Monroe, Niles, Pantiao, Part Enron. Plllil‘PSOTA.—Farlbanlt.if4stings,lllertkato, Red 'Wina. Rtohrster. St. Cloud, St, Pout, Winona. 1113 - ss.ount.—Jeifft.rson Barracks, Jefferson City, Romeo City, Pilot Knob, Riehir.ond, .Rolla, St. Cherlos, St. Joseph, St. Louis. ri.r..un.store. TKERITORY.—NebraSka City, Omaha Oily. • NEW IlemrSainn.—Olaremont, Concord, Dauer, Exeter, Great Palls, llshover, Keene r Laneaster, Illanattter, rinsboa, Portemonth. Naw Semmx.—Brldgeloll, Burlington, Freehold, Jersey City, Morristown, Newark, New Brunswlok, Newton Paterson, Plainfield, Prineeton, Trenton. New YOurr.—Albany, Albion, Auburn, Batavia, Bath, Bnghamton, Brooklyn, Bard°, Canon. ortigua, Cooperstown, Cortlandt Wage, Delhi, Dunkirk, Elizabethtown, Elmira Fort Hamilton, Genesee, liudeon, Ithaca, Jamestown, Kingston, Little Falls, Lockport, Lyons, Malone, Newburgh, New Fork, Norwich, Ogdensburg, Olean, Oswego, Owego, Penn Tan, Piatisburg, Port Jervis, Pough:. keepers River Head, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, sellter. Fells, svracare Troy, Utica, Warsaw, I Qu'atertoWil, 'West Point, Whitehall, YenkerS. NORTa OArtown.s..—Newberri. Oara—Akron, Athens, liellefontaine, Bucyrus, Cambridge, Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Circleville, Cieesiand, Columbus, Dayton, Deanne°, Dolawaro. Finley, Fremont, Gallipolls, Hamilton, Illitleho rough, Ironton, Jaekson, Jefferson, Kenton, Lou. Outer, Lima, OloConnellsvfile, Mansfield, Mariot. te, Massilon, Medina, IVllamievllie, Ht. 'Vernon, Newark, New Philadelphia, Zkiesvile ; Norwalk, Oberlin, Painesville, Piqua, Portsmouth, Ravenna, Ripley, Salem, Sandusky, Steubenville, Tiffin, Toledo, Urbana, 'Van Wert, Warren, Wor. , titer, Xenia. PintiiSYliviarra.—Allentown, Altoona, Bedford, Bellefonte, Carlisle, Gbernbersbtifg, Cheater. Don stile, Easton, Erie, Franklin, Greensburg . , Harris burg, 11:dieseal ,o Johnstown, Kittanning, Lancas ter. Lebanon, Lawishurg, Look. Haven, Milady/ilo, New Oastle, Norristown., Lewistown, PilUburgßottaville, Reaotng,Sorauton, Sascitha,n. na Ilept. Towe.aoa, Warren, Washington, Wells boreakti,ZWeSt Cheater, I,llliamsport, York. IZFS CADS ISLAND.—BrMoS, Newp3rt, Portsmouth. (Move, Frovidence, Westerly, WoOnaoekat Faits. NOna'n. lasmovirr.s..—Port Ro Trairessu.—Ohattenaige, ' 14.65aph31, VERmozir.—Bennington, Brandon, iiruttlebo• renek, 13urlinufor, Patddlebnry, Nientpelter, Rut, lard, Sr.. Attnitts, St. Johnsbury, Springfield, Mad sen, 'Woodstock. Vnaome.—illexasidrtz, Old Pi.lat Oonscott, Nor. WHET VlEGlTlLL—Olarkeburg, Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg, Parkersburg, Wheeling. ulaok Rivar Palls, Dating ton, Ean claire % Fend - da Lae, Green Bay, iitileonj La Crone, iiiv.dizen, Manitowoc, ANLZWInGkie, Can kosh, Portage City, Prairie do Chien, Presoott, Ra cine, Sheboygan, Sparta. Steven's Point, Wan. ;meta. THE STATBB OW THE thaorr.—Tb.e following IS a list of the States constituting the Union, svi . sh the dates of their admission. Oolorado and Nebraska had authority, but refused to form State Oonstita. time. The thirty-six stars in our national flag are, therefore, designatod as under: Dela,ware popnBylvitnla,. jerseg . . Georgla Tannery 2, 1788. Oenneptiont January 8, 1783. Illeeeeettusetts - February 6, 1788. IVTuryland April 28, 1788. ,Sc.uth Caroline, Play 23, 1783. New Hempel/re Jut 21, 1788. Virginia Tune 26, 1788. Nei York July 28, 1788. North Carolina November 2t, 1759. ts hod e leland hlay 29, 1790. Vermont 'Kam b 4., 1701. }Centricity Tana z 1192. T0171109E08 June 1, - 1796. Ohio November 29. 1802. L01.112i Ina Elprll la, 1812. Indiana December 11,1816. • Illlnt.le Alabama - 16W - de Riaroh 15, 1820. Mirsoutr Auzu3t 10, 1821. Arkansas Juno 15, 18 . 36. Mielltgan January 26, 1887. Florida IkUrob. 3, 1R15• Texar D6oembor 20, 1845. lowa December 28, 1646, Wisconsin. May 29, 1848. California September 9, 1850. Minnesota Ilacminnor, 1851. Ortgon December, 1858. KansaB tattroh, 1862. Wed Virginia... Nevada. —Boston Journal, June 29 (From the Mahon Dtmocret.] • On Juno 7th the mail wag robbed at Chester, N. Y., of all the letters for • Now York city, la eluding a package containing seven cheeks drawn by the First National Bank at Warwick, on one of the New York haulm The robbery was detected by the time of the arrival of the mall at Paterson, and measures wore at once taken to bring the culprit to justice. It was known that the letters must have been taken out of the twelve.o 9 clock mull oar during its brief stay at Chester, and by some one accus tomed to have amen to the oar. Fortunately, how. ever, the labors of the detectives were greatly lightened by a little oirCumstamoe that occurred about this time.. TWO young men . of Paterson, both or them of very respectable family, had boon batting on the Malt Of the recta Oh the day the eirair oeeurred, and the Icier of the bet tendered in payment of his loss a check on a New York bank to the amount of one hundred and thirty dollars. The other, who WAS Mr. Alfred Nalpas, of the telegrapheffice, supposed, of cOnne, that all was right, and a few days ago want to New York, and presented Ids ohook for pay ment; but to his surprise, instead of the money ',Ong handed over to him, he was himself handed over to the custody of an officer, on suspicion of haling come fraudulently by the cheek, the pay ment of which had bean stopped, Mapes, however, satisfaotorilo explained hOW ha came by the cheek, and the Masers accordingly followed up too clue thus given them, and arrested the other yollt g man on Tuesday, while Creasing on the ferry boat between New York and Jersey City. Officer Geller, of the New York Post-office Detective Corps, has the whole matter in charge, and has made another arrest, two of the chocks having thus far been presented. A. LutooLni President Lincoln, sooording to liAgate, )) the filneinnatl Gazeite s was favorable to the escape .of :toff Davis. The late President is represented, on the authority of Gen. Sherman, as having said "Out in Sangamon county there was an old tem. y.eranCe !Canter who was very strict in the doetrine and practice of total abstinence. One day, after a long ride in the hot sun, he stopped at the house of a friend, who proposed making him a lemonade. As the mild beverage was being 'mixed, the friend insinuatingly sated if he wouldn't like the Raab drop of something stronger, to brace up his nerves after the exhausting heat and esordte. 6 N 0 5 ,14- . plied the lecturer, I,th:hid:Vt. think of it ; L'ut op wed to it on principle. But,' he added,:; with a longing glance at the black bottle that stood Con• contently at hand, .1f yon could manage to put in a drop unbeknownst to me, I guess it WOsidlet hurt we much I' "Noir, Genoral," Mr. Lincoln is Wit to have concluded, "I'm bound to oppose the eaeapo of Jeff Davis; but if you Gould mango, to let him elle out unbohnownSt like, I guess itwoulein , t hurt' me much 1" The health Of Prealdeat .TOb.IISOt 10 MUOIL better. /PM. Thaddeus stevens is IsttWasblngton. Tionry A. 'Wise arrived at Norfolk on Wodnes day afternoon, Intending to stay a test days,: General Lee has gone to a country float in Cumbefland county, Ya.,, to spend the summer months. B. (Mon, the naval reporter, who hoe BO long been In the handa of the Government, charged nth pnbltshlng contraband news, Was yesterday released on parole. PIOEON.SEMOTING "FOE 2frB lJ PIONS r?.— The match for the ptgeon•ahooting ohamplOniddp of the United States and 82,000, being the largest stele ever shot for in this country, between John Taylor, of Jersey ally, and Fred. Erb, of Lafayette, Indiana, the oraok•shot of the West, came off on Wednesday, the 28th Instant, at Lafayette. The march Was to shoot at fifty double birds eaoh, out of a spring-trap. After shooting at forty double birds eloilt, - Erb was so far behind Taylor that finding it Impessible either to win or tie, he resigned the eon tea, and Taylor wee detdand theylifter. December 7, 1787 December 12, 1787 peCeMber 18, 1787 December le, 1817, December 3 1818. Decorator 14; 1819 .February or illar4h, 1863. Ootober, 1864. Mail 'Robbery. PERSONAL, THE COAFLICT OF AUTHOINT. Preliminary Itearing in the SupreMe Court—The Writ of .tiabea-s Coxlms Resisted HE CASE LAID MR TILL TIIIS MORNING, J . lstice Thompson Hopes' Reflection will Bring the Resistants back to Reason. At' 'A (Mock, yesterday mottling, the Hon. James Thompson, Associate Justice of the ,tiuprome Court, took 3:13 seat for the purpose of receiving a return to the writ In thocase of W. B. IL Omens, referred to byu9 om .Friday, Daniel' Dougherty and Fred. Carroll Brewster, Tours., appeared for Mr. Cozens, and Celia. Gilpin, Esq., represented the Sheriff. A number of dieting:Asked members of the bar were in attendance to listen to the proceedings. The followingaa the petition of Mr. Commas : TO Hon. Jones Thompson, one of the Judos of the Supreme CAW of The State of Petertsylannta The petition of W. B. N. Comm humbly shewath that he Was illegally arrested en the night of Sep. tember 16th, /364, at his dwelllog - , in this city, and was carried the neat day to Washington, whore he was illegally ermined In the Old Capitol Prison for ten days, and then discharged on boll entered by a stranger. During his said confinement, petitioners' store was entered; his lire-proof opened, and his books and papers - taken therefrom. The same have never been restored to him. And your pennioner aiaeweth that this war/ without any lawful warrant, Without any charge wed without any. information to have, then or since, at the existence of any charge egalust him- That after hie discharge he was informal throngh the public newspapers^ that a court-martial would be convened it tele elty for his trial, norm an al legation of fraud in the delivery of tents ander. eer. tam contraMe between - the Government and him. self, Upon the damn allegation, followed by an ex-parte appraisement, the Government oft oars wrongfully appropriated and used Cattle of his property, for which he has never been paid ate dollar. After the newspaper an• nouneentent of his approaching trial, petitioner was served with a copy of eltarges preferred AgainSt bin, which copy was signed by the judge advocate of said oonta•Martial I pas deponent was not then, nor has he ever been, notified of the name Of his prosecutor, nor bas he been ever /dolly confronted with We accusers. Deponent was then plamei on trial before said court, He et once denied its Mies. diction; and has thence protested against and never acquitted its authority to try him. His said objee Cons and pleas were, however, overruled, and, atter many months, he has been informed that a secret finding of said court has been transmitted to Wash legion, which is not yet approved or published. Your petitioner has recently, to. wit : this after noon, June, 29,1865, whilst quietly and pe scantly walking through a public square, In the city of Philadelphia, been arrested by one John Milton Johnston and Henry 0. Perry, under orders, as petitioner le infermea, of one fi. A. Frisk, (calling himself a provost marshal, and David P. Weaver, as petitioner, believes, in ceder to carry him forthwith to-some fort or other place out of this jurisdiotion, but whether said ar. lest Is la connection with the proceeding of said court, or otherwise, petitioner haement been notified, and cannot state. JPetltlonet was, and is, wholly innocent of the charges preferred against him. And your petitioner further showete. that he has ever been, and now 18, a loyal citizen of this State; that he has never been in the army or navy, nor attached to the military or naval service, nor subject in any way, mariner, or shape to thejurisaletton of a court. martial, .or of any military authority whateYer ; and be 'tatter shOWisth that his said arrest and his present confinement are violations able rights, and of the Constitution ot the United States anti of this State; and if any act of Congress Is, or should be relied upon as a pretext for bald arrest, and his pre sent ouninemerit, your petitioner distinctly charges that the same is in violation of the Constitution of the United States, and particularly of the sixth ar ticle of the amendment to the said Constitution of the United States; and your petitioner therefore shows that he is illegally retained and deprived of his liberty, and ho humbly prays for relief, and that a writ of habeas oorpus may issue, agreeably to the act of Assembly of February 18th, Hatt Leave to swear to this petition has been refined to petitioner by his said captors. WILLIAM B. Ili C.Ozzarnh Witness present, David Filson. The following writ watt issued is response to the petition: City and County of Philadelphia, 5. 5.: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to • the Sheri: of the county of Philadelphia, Greeting: You are hereby commanded that you , attach H. A. Frink, David P. Weaver. Henry C: Perry, and Joseph A. Eauffman alias John Milton Johnston, and that you have their bodies before the Sen. Jame Thompson, one of the 3rumow of one Su. promo Court, in the court rooms of the Met Palos, on the 20th day of June, 1866, at 10 Weimar. A. M., then and there to answer for a nomooncy.intuele by them with the command of a certain writ of habeas corpus duly served on them commanding. them to n" educe the body of Wm. B. N. Cozzens, oltbsee of the State of .Penneylvania, illegally restrained, as it is alleged, of his liberty by the y said A. Freak, David P. Weaver, Henry U. Perry,. and Jo seph A. Koeffutan alias John Milton SWIM% And hemi fail not at your peril. Witness the Hon. George W. 'Woodward; Doctor of Laws, OldefJustice of the Supreme Court of tee State Of Pennsylvania. Tested at Philadelphia, this eatb day of June, 1866. Witnet4B my hand and real. [Sea rel JAMES ROM aNDWO ate, Prothonotary Of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern. Dished. Mr. Gilpin made return to the writ of attachment as fellows : Hewn C. Howell, Sheriff of the city and county of Phztadelptrie, to Me within writ makes return: That he was unable to attach toe porous within yawed, viz H A. Frinok, David P. Weaver, Henry C. Perry, and Joseph A. Kauffman, alias John Milton Johnston, and have their bodies- before the Hon. James Thompson, as within commanded, and that he was hindered, and prevented; and resisted In the execution thereof by the said persons, and a large force of persons, whose names are. at present unknown, by reason of all which he, the said Sheriff, is unable to have the bodies of the Said persons as within commanded. liiesUrir C. Howeat a Sheriff. PnILADSIrnIA, June 30,1865. The examination of witnesses Wag effeeeeded With: and the following testimony adduced : William Andress,sworn . —l am a regular Deputy Sheriff, appointed by Henry C. Howell, sq.,E the High Sheriff of tide city ; the attachment from the Supreme Court was placed in any hands yesterday afternoon by F. Carroll Brewster, Eapait,Wati in the neighborhood of eight o'clock or toward davit ; I went up and got McArthur, a Deputy Sheriff; we west to Filth street, this side of Noble, and there stopped the cab ; we then went to the barracks, on Fifth street, near Buttonwood ; I found the defendants named in the attachment there ; at lout, they were pointed out as H. A. Frinek, David P. Weaver, Miry C. Perry, and Joseph A. Saatifman, alias John Milton Johnson ; they did not deny that they were the parties ; Mr. Ashton, a Deputy Sheriff who was with me, told , Colonel Prinolt he had an attachment for him, and wanted him to. go with us ; a long conversation ensued, in which Frinck was told that he would be taken to Moyamenaing Prison, and kept there until ten o'clock the next morning, when he would be taken before the court. Colonel Frinck. than said if these areyour orders, I suppose you are going to take me anyhow we told him that was what we came for, and we wanted peolleSsion of the-parties ; he said he would not go ; that he was toting under tile orders of General CadWalader ; we tried to persuade him to go, when he said if we wanted him we would have to take him by force ; he struck a bell, and the officer of the day appeared, and he was directed to turn out the guard, and they were drawn up in line on the pavement; there were about 80 or 88 men in the guard ; they were armed, having muskets with bayonets fixed, and eartridgtabowee I thought we three men had a small chance with the guard ; the Colonel finally said that he would go and sea Gene. ral Cad walador, and abide by what he said; the other men refused to go with me, saying that they were under the orders of the Colonel. Mr. Brewster. Did Colonel Franck come back from General Cadwalader I Witness. He did not go while WO were there. Mr. Brewster. The substance of your testimony is, then, that you were prevented from executing the writ by the force at the barrack(' Witness. Yen, sir. James Bain, sworn.-1, am a deputy sheriff; I went to Finh and Buttonwood streets to join Ildr. Andress; I heard his statement here; when the guard was called (Intl told Colonel Frinok that tile Sheriff could Call a guard that would beat his force; Colonel Frinek replied that he had a large number of men at Camp CaeWalider, that he 001/10 oltain at a moment's notice, and they were live or six ti.oneand in number ; I told him that Philadelphia, had a great many mom men than that, and the eherilf could command ail of them; Colonel Frinok said he would obey the order (of the court if it was discretionary with himself, but he eras acting under the orders of Geberal Cadwalader, who acted under the orders Of Secretary Stanton, of the War Depart ment. The other particulars are the same, sabstanticily, as testified to by Mr. Andress. During the °waver &Wen, Colonel Frinok asked us if we thought to play smart with him. Mr. F. Carroll Brewster, tele of the counsel for Mr. Caracas, then said that forcible resistance to 'a lawful writ, was, thank God, a thing so :aro that he might be pardoned for being so embarrassed by the emergency, that he could hardly submit any thing to the court in the ease, or even suggeat any thing. His learned friend and himself had. only to say that they trusted that the reflection the parties might bestow in the matter, and possible consults,. tion with friends, might induce them to change their action. The counsel, would Content themselves, therefore, if it met the approval of the court, to let the matter rest Without further action until tomor row (this) morning, in order to see if anything would be done in that behalf, and to keys that delibera tion =smeary in the oats. Justice Thompson approved of that course very much. It was now to be seen what would be the next stop to be taken, taking for granted there had been a eutlielent resistance to the. sheriff in hie Mimes to carry out the mandate cr the court. In taking this step, it was necessary to 'know whether authority thegain to be given to tbe mime depoel t=y ; whe an should again. be given either to the Sheriff or Governor for the execution of the :urn. The counsel should looleup the preeedents for the benefit of tee court. Those Were to become the moans of asserting the authority of thr law. .A.n exceedingly grave mistake had been made, for the very not of Congress suspending the habeas corpus, and under which they pretend to act, required them to make a return to the court under oath, giving all the facts, even though. the body be not ere dueed. But they had disregarded the law—ells. regarded the authority of the court, when the Wart only desired them to show the authority by which they held the man. eke nod citizens they could net thus hold any one in custody. They had done this, and the jletioe hoped that, ir his remarks mine to their notice, they would: think better of their aottois and alter It. The punishment they Me= night tre only from the court ;:but they were also reepensible to tae parties to whom they refused a hoaxing. He desired the oounsel,to leek carefully afteewhat was to be done. On le account was the law to be ex ceeded or set 'at naught. The military was net to set aside or contemn the civil power moth a course was to be stopped. Mr. Gilpin had heard nothing Abort the ease Until he read of it in the newspapers in the teeming, and did not yet exactly understand it. HO would sug gest, however, that there might be some mieappre• tension of the law on the part of these men. Their action may nut have been wilful, but through Igno rance. Justlee ThOleplon then Thad the following section from the acts of Oonerese, len:gaging - it With a re mark or two : During the present rebellion the President of the United States, whenever la his judgment the public safety may require it, le. authorized to suspend Use privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in any case throughout the United States, or any pert thereof. And whenever and wherever the said privllegeshall be suspended, as aforesaid, no military or other oftffi• oar abed be compelled, in answer to any writ of habeas corpus to return the body of any prisoner or prisoners detained. by lam by authority of tie Frail dent ; but upon the certificate, under oath, of she osi. cer having charge of any one 80 detained that such per son is detained by him as a prisoner under atatherileof the President, further proceedings under the writ of Cu habeasse u ph r ee t z h ao :f rP riu r nbugyat4itsstseed Presidentt abl adjournedsuspended said e shalli l i n e t d n o r o b s i t w y e aulut t i o li o :g .T or : l nii esi d ir g oo e s gr a e o a l e d r : and said rebellion 19 0'0109141 THREE CENTS. STATE ITEMS. —On Thursday afternoon a small boZ raft found floating dowtahe easter,aboat a . Inns below the first look, by a ClVVillan, with the ' name of a prominent merchant of Lancaster, from ' Whom it had been purchased, inseribid thereon', and towboat the fact Was made known. grifiploionsWere aroused, When the merchant immediately reported the facts to Deputy Coroner Snyder, whomiipaired to this Spot, and found that the box contained the desi tiody . of a female child, about two days old.' An In• vestigial= was had, when it was found that the child bad Man given birth to by a mania& woMan, a stranrer Lancaster, en Tuesday moraium'and, according to the testimony of the testimony of 'the woman acting in the capacity of nurse, died artlirea o'oioc3•obTuealayafternoon. A man, a reoldemt of Lan caner, wcurequested r.O bury the child, and finding Inillioulito got a prover burial place, acii eluded t 7 throw It the *mete, 7,hioh wag d one , an d the body itund as above stated. A cortst of the' ?Imnsylvania railroad MCA office a: Pcrrycille waft struck by lightning. on Men. clay. The Molt was fall of persona but none were Injured, Dmilits' the storm the electric acid en. tered the telegraph In Patterson, bursting the bat. tory, blowing up 'the Instrnmont, and Injuring Kr. Thomas Johnsmo, the operator. A eat in Titusville tins given birth to a litter of four kliters, vital)]. arc 3 oitrod together at the back sad sides in such a mannerthat when two of t,11091 arfi - valking. the other two are on their back; with their feet stickins; up. Thoy are doing well, and will most likely be aria t 5 Ditneum. The Fourth will 'be - appropriately Celebrated try the people of GerIlolc; The college campus has been selected as the yieoe for holding the examine. Addresses win Lo deliver:ed, entl the Declaration of Independence read., The 33keraele band will be in attendance, The Gettysburg Mara Era urging tho oonsoli dation of the Gettysburg atd' lianove? Breach Railroad. The Lutheran Theolsgioal Seminary at Gat• tyaburg has just had some ildiooo added to Its en dowment fund by subscriptions from s2.ltinfOro. We notice by our exchanges that nearly all the Masonic Lodges In this State intend visiting Get tysburg on the Fourth. The Clearfield County Bank has surrendered Its Charter, and a private balliillfe, 4 lwaso has been startrd in Its stead. • There will be no celebration of the Fourth In Indiana of this State. ROME ITEMS. The reports of the circulation of newspapers In Cincinnati, made to the assessor of Internal Reve• zue, eshlbit a flourishing condition of journalism in that city. The daily papers show the following circulation The ce=ette, 26,000 ; COMM avid, 22,000 ; Enquirer; 10,ceo ; Time*, 11,000; Volksfretmd, Leoo;i Volkablatt„ 80,000. Total daily editions, 82 750 ; abeltly, 125,200. There IS said to be a falling off at this period of the year. The religious weekly papers report as fellows t Christian Advocate (!Vie• thodirt), 31000; Christian Apologist (Methodist), 19,000 ; Sunday School Paper (Methodist). 76,000; the Prestykr (Old School Presbytarian), 6,700; Central Christian Herald (New School Presbyterian), 1,000 Journal and Messenger, 6,000; Catholic Telegraph, 2e00; Wahrheitsfreund' (Roman Catholic), 10;008; /Midge, 1,500 Deborah,l,3oo—in all, 1.57,300' The Sunday papers 60 Dot display a corresponding de. Free of prosperity. There are but two of them— the NUtional Union, with a circulation of only 31000, and the National Banner, reporting only IMO: Congress having appropriated the old Hall of liepreSentatives, in Washington, for a gallery or statuary, each State to contribute two statues, the last Legislature of Massachusetts authorized 'the Governor to appoint three commissioners to select ibe erne In the history of the Commonwealth to tie commemorated. The appointments are John 0.132. Palfrey, of Boston; Richard Frothlogitam, of Charleston, and Solomon Lincoln, of Bingham. • There only three rebel' priSoners at Johnson's Island who are unwilling to take the oath 'of atie• glance. One is a Brittsh.tutblectwho was conscripted and does not wish to beeome an American citiseni a second insists upon his discharge without taking the oath, and the third has not yet made up his mind what to do about it. The New York Independent ootoplains Of the scarcity of competent newspaper ealtora, and our gads that the system of a special comae or training be adopted, with the view of Atting young men for the editorial profession, as they are now fitted fob the legal and medical professiona. On the stairway of a roctiess dwelling in Mott mord, witch was' rendered untenantable by the great fire of April 3d, several stalks of corn have attelned a growth from the debris of fifteen or twenty Mabee, and bid fair to yield a few roasting A wandering paragraph says that Edwin Booth' has not yet decided whether to return to the stage; that he has a little daughter only flee years old,' who is a born actress, and that he IS to be married to a young lady of this city. Dr. Jnitus Cone, of Concord, N. H., one of the beet chemists in the country, has been presented by his frierds with $1,30D and a great variety of 'agri cultural implements, wherewith to complete the purchase and fit out a rural home. —ln the eourfe of the next six weeks nearly all the general hospitals will have been broken up. Convalescent patients are being (Mohamed or trans. !erred as fast as possible. There are about 10,00 W sick in hospital at present. A New Orleans paper Ms : "A war has been commenced against the banks of this oily, which threatens, if not promptly arrested, to add to the troubles and annoyaliCOS that at gallant vex and oppress our people. Gen. Dix recently visited a Cathollo seminary at Montreal, and was presented with an address by the students. In his reply he said he was a pupil of it iiity years ago, and not one of his teachers was now living, Slavery now MS an existence only in Delaware and Kentucky. In Kentucky the best men of the State favor its immediate abolition, and in Pale. ware It is so insignineant as to be an absurdity. —The Petersburg Express says that hares and squirrels were never We abundant in that motto:L. The woods in the adjacent counties aro alive with game. The West Point graduates are to have a three months , leave of absence from the Ist of ;filly. This was the old Custom, but has not prevailed during the war. —The Petersburg (Va.} News advertises the want in that city of "one hundred honest Irish Servant girls." —The Sanitary Fair at Ohleage *lola on Satur• day night, and the total receipts were about three hundred and twentplive thousand dollars. —" One hundred tom of old bones wanted,”" Is a cheerful poster on the walls of a cemetery at Ifon. wish, Conn, The editorial page of the Troy Whig. was " pion " the other morning while going to press. —There is in Califerilla one Cherry erehard ten acres in extent. The Cincinnati colored people are Subscribing to present Chief Justice Chase %the silver pitcher. —Daniel Webster's widow is spending the sum. mer at New Milford, Conn. good many Connecticut soldiera are going to Virginia to live. All bars aro to be closed at present in Patera. burg, Va. FOREIGN ITEMS. A daring attempt to defraud the Ba nff or Ire. land of £B,OOO has just been frustrated. Bat a Mort time since, a check for that amount was forwarded to Dublin through one of the London , banks. It bore the name of Sir Robert Peel, cud as the amount was large, it was deemed advisable to oom• munleate with the right honorable baronet, who at once pronounced the dormant a forgery. A clerk in the Bank of Ireland, who obtained leave of absence a few days before the forgery was com. matted, is suspected of the fraud. Re has ab• goaded. The Posen journals Say thitt On the Ist Instant forty political prisoners were embarked at Prage, to be transported to Siberia. The celebrated lawyer, Koutlauski, who was delivered up. to Russia by the Austrian authorities, and was sentenced to hard labor for fifty yearn, was forced: to submit to have big bead shaved, and lb wear the clothing of the most degraded convict. Many of the unfortunate prisoners were heavily chained. A report was our rent at Warsaw that the kingdom of Poland is to be divided into ten governments. —The Paris strikes are diminishing. That of the carriagemakers, biaokentithe,, and saddlers is now ended, after having lasted nearly two months. The hatters ' carpenters, and farriers have also resumed work. The chief cause of the failure of strikes in Paris is insufficiently of , funds, the machinery of trade unions being In Ranee, an yet, in a very un developed state, and beanies, being much restricted• by law. Several membemor the French opposition are about to mud an address to President JOhnSon, re minding him that tho met act of the French republic+ of 1848 wag to abolish capital punishment for- po- Most offences, and suggesting to the Government of the United States the application of this.prieel• pie with regard to-tbeir own political prisoners at the present Um.. General Noatie, the adjutant of General Ble ober at Ligny and Waterloo,will be created a field marshal on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, The rank it but rarely 00eferred in the.Prustlian army, and at this moment is held but by a solitary general—Fleld•Marehal 'Wrangel, NU% commanded in the Danish campaign. Marshal Munn died In eudipatinniary du ll oulties, that, shortly before his last illness, he drew three years' pay in advance as ehlef huntsman of the court, and the diamonds or his military orders were found in the Mont-dsePlete. Caroline Latham, the imsteele who was the calm of the disgrace of Prince Eugene of Lstioh tenburg, hail returned to Paris With X4,Cb'o In refl. bins, and £3,000 In diamonds, which were purchased for her at St, Petersburg, hy her heoldeSs lover. Lord Palmerston, IS is stated, will retire from public life as soon u the pending appeal to the country is finished. Ilia. increasing Infirmities and failing health are the Masons alined for hie retire ment. A wend letter has, it is Said, been addressed to Prince Napoleon by the Emperor, the tone of which is very mutt moo frielhllythell that of the one pub lished by the Dioniteur. The Bmpreint, too, apeearg to have related towards her imprudent oevalu. A pamphlet entitled a Birth, Life, and Death of A Lincoln," has had a great sale in Paris. It I filled with cute of Lincoln's early life, extending down to the 1 ' lad scene of all" at Ford's Theatre. Tke pas s age of the Cunard mail steameeOuba, frogs New Tory, is mod MI rentarkab/e. CIE WAR PURRS. (PUBLISHED ABBRIT. ?re '10:40t Pause will be sent to subscribers by maA per inn= In advance) 00 rye 00 Ten e0p1ee........—"•""" 00 Lanier Chiba than Ten will be charged at the unte rateol2.oo far GM. The VIIOttel) snug ahrgna aceompanf merger, and in 110 in/dance can than terms be *rotated from, or they afford very tints more than the coat V pavan (13- Postmasters are requested to set as was for TM& W.Ol PREPS. rfir To the eetter-nr of the (Rob Of ten or iIr•RIT. AZ litre copy of the Paper will be niten. Tier average rate of eptud aernas tka Atbattle Wag twolderably over 800 ranee a day. Tho negotiating betwean Canada and the mother country are about to be brought to a gotta faotorl conclusion. Than; are at present 11 her Majesty's enrolee, exolnelve'of the Indian army, seven hundred and thirty-elgl2l aniMint surgeons: The election of an Irish representative peer, In the room of rhdlate Earl of Desert, has terminated In the return a Visetunt GOrt, E— At Yokoi2ttha another of ratt Inurdorors of Major Baldwin and tfantenarit Blrt Elan been taken, and le in custody at' Todd*. The Paris Payspliilisheit a report that General Prim had secretly Vitelted Valencia, Mid had in terned to Franho. Tho Prussian ritgernuMe in the Dtottiel no 1);rely to undergo aril Vary sensible alteration whatever resistance lan to offered it by the Keller. ----IL 10 proposed to atrike out the ship seen in i.vtrrleetne, ,, et the Perla opera. The street pro• doood is trifling, and the time lost is Immense. The death is annottnoad of stephen .ilea Batt ay. ftn , eight years Presitent Of Liberia, who Mel on the 24th of January last. Tbz Serbs Federal °emboli offers a prize Of 20;0001. Sort the beet model or s , bromoteloading fire arm. .... The Peels Soctety for the' Ilnoonragoment of National Indrietry hag offered e prize of MO for an bale wWeli will not corrode steeTpena. It le gated that Waionreki win succeed Prince Napoleon ag Pregident of the ?aria Eland. tlon: coieroitlee, The Arab atria who came to nee Napoleon, In Algerfa, wore noaggays fa their earl? The health of the icing of the Defeats 19 any thing but 'statutory. L 10109714 INTELLIGIZNVZ. &FOLIO'S IN Tall my. Rev. Hyatt Smith,—A short time since we announced that this gentleman had resigned the charge of the Illeventn Baptist Churoh, of whloh he had bean .pastor for about six years, We have since learned that, under the pressure of partiality from his own charge, and the remonstranoe of his numerous friends In thiccity, not oonneeted wish Ma church, he has reconsidered the step, and decided to remain. We are glad of this, as the pulpit of Phila. delphis can illtdrerd to !coo aft gifted and earnest a reptemtative. Timoughoot the war, OW happily terminated, Mr. Smith's oarneetnete and manly in. dependence, in the pulpit and out of it, in sustain ing the Government, gave him as noble a stator among the patriots of the day as he had before en. j eyed as a fearless and independent divine. Signs of the Times,—Last Sabbath a member of the Orthodox body of the Society of Friona, living within forty miles of Philadelphia, walked four miles to unite, by epeetel request, two rather Small Sabbath Schools, lately conducted separately by the hlothodieto , and PrB9byteria/19, into one rcheol. It may be particularly noticed that the present superintendent is a Baptist, Bore we have four churches represented, all uniting In this great and good work. Besides union, this shows faith, hope, and charity."" New CongregatiOne' Church,-.lt will be BOOR by a notice in another column that the Cen tral Congregational Church have secured the pleasant, hail at the northeast corner of Broad and Arch streets, lately occupied' by the Methodists, BDO will bold mildew there tomorrow, and until the completion of their now chapel at Eighteenth and Green streets, Bev. Edward. Hawse, having jest reterned from attendance upon the National Congregational Council, at Beaton, will, In the evening, give some account - of the proceedings and results of that meeting. Religious Feast.—On Friday the festival of St. Peter was celebrated in• all the Episcopal and Catholic churches. Friday was- observed by the latter denomination as Commemoration Of St. putlness.—Rogiong netts. lu ttlie het weathers seorohlug and melting as It le, la as dui/ as ever% other species. Resorts by the-sea r and It our yore dant country sides are attracting hundred(' and thousands away from the city, so that many or our churches present thinned numbers of worshippers. The Fresco of the Transfigure Eon at St. klatachi , t Church.—Mr. George Selling, an artist of this city, after six months' hard work, has , reproduced Es pbaelis groat mastewpiece, " The Trauetionrotion,f , on the ceiling of St. Malublis Ohurob, Eleventh, above Master Street, le group oonstoto or twenty. nine figures, mooing irons six to nine feet high, atid is raided in a Mile one hundred and twenty feel In circumforenoe. The painting deplete Our Sae vicur transfigured on Mount Tabor, with the Die. owes awaiting him at the -foot of the mount. To those is brought a youth poeticised by an evil spirit, who is awaiting the deeoretvf Christ, by whom he is to be liberated from the demon. The possessed youth is shown in a-distorted attitude, stretching forth his limbs, crying, roiling• his eyes, and exhi biting ill every movement the selferlng he endures ; the flesh, the veins, the palm are allseen to be mew tominated by the malignity of the evil spirit, the tenor and pain of the possessed being rendered manliest by tie pallid color and writhing gators& This figure Is supported tIY an old - moor IA whose *Vey. open eyes the light, le reflected. Ile is em. bracing. and seeking to comfort the titillated boy; Lis knitted brow and the expression of his face stows at once the apprehension he feels, and the force -with which lie is laboring to combat his fears. Ile looks fixedly at the Apostles, as If hoping to derive courage and, consolation front their aspect. These is one woman among others in this picture who is the principal figure, as amid. rabbi type of maidenly beauty, and who, kneeling before the twOint described, town her head tar wards the Apos tles, and seems, by the movement of her arms in the direction of the possessed youth, to be pointing out his misery to their attention. The Apostles also, acme of whom are standing, some seated, and others kneeling, give evidence of the deep compassion they feel for teat great misfortune. In this work the master has produced figures and heads of such beauty, so new, so varied, and In all ppm; so admirable, that, of the many works axe. onted by , his hand, this, by 09114M0n lolistto consent,. is declared to be the most exeellelit. Whoever fliall desire 10 see In what manner °heist transfigured should be represented, ht him come and behold It in this picture. Oar Sulam is shown floating over the Mount, in the clear air; the figure, foreshortened, is between those of Moses and Elias, who, illumined by his radiance, awaken into Me beneath the splendor or the light. Prostrate on the earth are Peter, James, and John, in attitudes, of varied grace ; one has his bead bent entirely to the ground; another defends Monett with ltis hands from the brightness that proceeds from the splendor of Christ, who has ills arms thrown open, and xis head raised- towards heaven while o The Godhead that dwelloth o:important within him if is made apparent its the utmost perfection by the =Mime art of haphitel. Bet as if that great genius had gathered all the force of his powers into one effort, whereby the glory and the majesty of art should be made mantiest to the Countenar ea of Christ; having completed that, se one who had finished the great work which he hal to accomplish, he touched the pencil no more, being shortly afterwards' overtaken by death, in hie thirty. seventh year. 'When it was said that painting might hallo departed also; fee when he closed his eyes, she, too, wee left, as IS were, blind, The original was taken to Paris in 1797, bat is now iu the Vatican, and is admitted to be the finest paint ing in the world. 14.7/PAIITS IN aNNEN.A.L. Ecctcafaslical Reconstruction,—By far the Melt important event whioh has ever occurred In the way of ohnroh reconstruction, in the South, is the recent organisation or an annual Conference of the Methodist Bpl4oopal Church in East Tennessee. Bishop Clark having constituted the OoMarone° by the transfer of six ministers from a Oonferetoe of the loyal States, admitted Into it no less than forty three:ministers from the Southern Methodist Chung:. Tho new Conference starts with a membership of 0,494, and has preachers stationed in Tennenoo. North Carolina, and Georgia. statistics of the Congregational Council,—The NM Donal Connell of. Congregational churches, number.. big five hundred delegates, and representing three thousand congregations, assembled in Boston, Jena 14, sat through two passions a day till Jane 24, and adjourned sine die. By thestatietios to widen it has given ollorellOy, we understand that it Wag cams posed of the representatives of 275,000 cOMMUnt+ cants and of nearly three thousand churottes, the basis of repreSentation being one minister and one layman to every ten churches. The total number of delegates in the council, tiooording to the corroot M roll was rat, as follows : aine, 43; New Hamp.. shire, 40; Vermont, 31; Massachusetts, 109; Con. necticut, 67 ; Rhode Island, 4 ; New York, 90 1 New Jersey, 2 .Pennsylvania , 6; Delaware, 1; Mary. land, 2 ; ciao, 80 ; Michigan , 27 ; Indiana, 3; IIM. hole, 40; lows, 82; Minnesota, 10; Missouri, 1; TerdlOPB6o, 1; Kansas, 6; Nebraska, 2i Idaho, 1; Colorado, 2; California, 41 CregOn, / Wisconsin 27; honorary members, 29—United states, 11; re+ reign, W. Total delegates And honorary member% 599. Competition of Non-gpitcopal Neff waists,—The Oon• volition of the various bodied' of Non.Episoopal Me. thodiets have hold a session of three days in the Wesleyan Chnroll in Oleveland, the main Object of whlbh was to adopt a basis of union. On the third day a report from the Committee on the State of the COtintry, favoring negro suffrage, was unanimously adopted, The Committee OA tee "Basle of Union"' also presented a report, which was adopted. After a few introductory patWapee, it reads thus We recommend for adoption by the Convention.. to be hereafter forwarded to all the Methodist bedlel here represented for their Information—the follow• log resolutions as our full and final report 1, That the union of the Methodbit bodies here re presented, is respectfully recommended to the early consideration of the annual Conference of the hie thodist Protestant Church of the Wesleyan Naha dirt connection; of the Free Methodist Church; the Indeportene Methodist Conference, here represent ed, and ny othere Of IRO illutrailter who clay de sire to unite with these. 2, That we rooterilliend the calling or a 0011Velle Lion to be held in the Union Chapel, Cincinnati, on the second Wednesday of May, 1866, and east'. toted on the following basis of representation, visa One minister and a layman for eaoh five hundred. members, and fraations of over half of five hundred. Said Convention to befalls authorized to fir upon 1111 basis of union, and the mode of in consnintleitteit— subjertt to such conerinatorraetion by the bodied represented, no may be agreed upon by said Con. yentlon. That we reconitnend teat the plan of union shall luny and " L ump secure the nbarty of the seas churches on Now Testament prinelpise I . two fa efficient itinerant ministry Shall be ilialetnitieds and that annual po w erner terenne ithalt int maintained, with to m a keall needful regu lations consistent with the prinelplee andsbistita• • sons of the New Testament, as may be necessary' to carry into effect the great principles offorlptetal Christianity. Charitable Bequeete.—liev, John A, Vaughan, lately deceased, made the foll Owing, um*, this* paid over after the death of his wife Board or Foreign Minion of the F. E. 0h1er04,4000 ; AMIl• rtoen Bible Soolety, ; Kenyan gollege, Ohio um lo ra n., ter war amide and mllitary poste; *Lew ; Bieber whit* PreIoNSIME b'uoiny i lor pariah librariee for the UBO 01 *impel WWI tern, s2so' for the ednostion of poling men pre • paring lor the mialstry of the.grotestant Epl.oopal Obarob, the home of the deoeased, at 1433 Moen Street; for Epteoopal lUiltiroh In Hallowell, Blaine, $lOO. Fl% IiPPORTS TO AHD PROM TRH SOOTHe•MiII Unliaßtlblld that the condlUbtl Of nio tolograPh , On" at the Southi and the pressure of Maud butithers is such that the triniontooloshf Press reports to and from the South will not be praot loable before shoat the middle of July, mon after whtoh the A.sooolated Preen will be able to rtnqiit itA old relation with. *Ma= 1.0119 M