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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.
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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.
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