gljt MONDAY, JULY 10, 1885 REDUCTION OF TERMS. The vice of THE Paws has been re- awed as follows City subscribers, $8 per annum, in ad vance; or, 15 cents per week, payable to the carriers Mailed to subscribers out of the city, $7 per annum; $3.50 for sir months; .1.75 for three months, invariably in advance. The TRI-WKLY PRESS, nailed to sub soribers, $4 per annum, in, advance. The above notice is sufficiently explana tory; but we may add, that while the re duction in the price of subscription will introduce TUE PRESS to a larger circle of readers, it will not be less attractive in its Various departments. We have made ar rangements to greatly improve it. ONE process by which we celebrated the glorious Fourth of July, was the putting 'TRH Piss into entirely new type, on that 3iational anniversary. A newspaper which aims at popularity, should be readable in a double sense ; in the quality of its contents, and also in the typography which brings them before the public. Tan .1 1 'nEss, we can truly say, has always been distinguished for its handsome typogyaphical appearance, and we have constantly endeavored to give the`public NV h t was worthy of being read— we might modestly say, " apples of gold in baskets of silver." A week has elapsed since we put THE PnEss into a new dress, and we take leave now to draw attention to its appearance. Not long since, most of the book-work in this country was fur inferior, in beauty of a.spect and accuracy of text, to the sheet now befbre our readers, a portion of which was put into type only half an hour before . the publication went to press. This broad sheet, so full yet so clear, was an unstained virgin page only a few hours before, in its present form, it came into its readers' hands. The morning journal is the history of the day, collected from a great variety of resources— condensed as well as collected, in many in stances, and thoughtfully commented upon in some. By the aid of intelligent com positors this vast variety of intelligence is put into type, night after night, six times in each week, and by a semi-miracle of speed, one of HOE' s lightning presses puts the stamp of intelligence upon the blank sheets of pa per by thousands every hour. Yet the perfect newspaper, such as we aim at pro ducing, requires more than the skill which our compositors literally have "at their fingers' ends," and the lightning speed of the wonder-working printing machine. The objection to most journals is that the type (worn or bad,) does not give clear reading; that the blurred page soils the fingers; and that inferior paper is used. As to clear reading, we submit that THE PRESS, at pre sent, may he claimed to be as well printed as any newspaper in the world, with the best ink, which prevents its being blurred; and we carefully eschew straw paper, which, besides being discolored and coarse, is so fragile that it is almost impossible to handle it except with annoying tenderness, for fear of its getting torn up, or rather becoming shivered into fragments, from mere want of fibrous texture. The type now used on TUE PRESS has been made by COLLINS & IticLEF.smt, 705 Jayne street, Philadelphia, who had Supplied us with priuting materials twice before. It has emphatically been made for.. TILE Pr.Ess, because it presents what is called an entirely new face, and new matrices had to becut expressly to pro duce it. The best judges of typography have admitted that the perfection of art has 'been reached in the production of this type; And we have too much reliance upon their opinion to contradict ,it. The sheet in which these lines will be read is a proof of the perfection with which .the delicacy of l'Ausios art is seconded by the wondrous power of that which WATT may be said to have created. Our subscribers, we lmow, from the conviction of experience, Will credit us with the desire to present them 'with a journal superior to its contempora ries, not only in reliable information, but also in appearance. We hope that we have succeeded, and feel that it is more than ever incumbent on us to make the intellec tual in complete Unison with the mechani cal execution of this journal. OVR SISTERS OF MERCY. The suggestion which we threw out, a few days ago, that the true and tender hearted American women who self-devo tedly formed our FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. legion of humanity, in camp and hospital, during the last four terrible years of war, zhould individually receive some tangible national acknowledgment, has been ,well received, if we may form a judgment froin the numerous letters which have been written to us upon the subject. One of these letters, from " A Surgeon," is as follows : 818. EDITOR: I have read with pleasure your remarks on the services gratuitously rendered either in the timid or hospital by the women of our land, and the propriety of onicial recognition thereof. A friend who has seen a Certificate intended for those who served for "more than throe years gratuitous ly in United States army hospitals s n describeS it as a photograph miserably designed and in differently executed. He says the soldiers are banditti in appearance, and that the vacant sleeve, by some unknown power, swings abroad like a sign post, on one of the figures. Your suggestion of a medal, or cross of honor, is the right idea, and surely our Government, can afford a few hundred dollars to honor those who again and again saved valuable lives. When you think of the number of women who " enlisted for the war, and never failed for more than three, yes, nearly four years, to meet their painful, but self-elected doily duty, surely some worthy sign should be given them of national gratitude. Pray, fol low up the subject, and perhaps the Secretary of 11 ar and the Surgeon General can be - warmed into a grateful and generous feeling - towards the legion who worked for nothing. We have no doubt that Mr. STANTON, if the matter be properly brought under his consideration, will do all that is proper. The necessary steps for advancing our sug gestion are obvious enough. It can scarcely be expected that our Sisters of Mercy will themselves advance claims or submit proofs of public services performed by them ; at the same time, no doubt, each would grate fully accept and proudly wear any decora tive honor which their country might be stow, in acknowledgment of their worth. The commanding officers and the surgeons of regiments, who had the best opportuni ties of noticing and knowing those who had rendered humane services to the sick and wounded soldiers, ought to be called upon, in the first instance, to send in reports naming the persons in question, and noting the duration and extent of service rendered ; and, on the publication of these lists in the leading newspapers, omitted xiames might be additionally forwarded, so as to obtain a complete catalogue of the de serving, and of them alone. No man, 'Worthy of the name, could or would object to this simple but not insufficient mode of doing honor to the Worthy atm other sex. There is nothing extraordinary in thus rendering the homage of public gratitude to the noble, because humane, self-devotion of - the excellent women of America who tended on the sick and wounded during the war. "Several Chivalric Orders have been ex pressly established, in various European states, to honor and reward female hu inanity—a virtue not less noble, it seems to us, than manly valor. In England, ANGELICA KAIIFFISAN, a painter, was elected a member of the Royal Academy ----an honor also awarded to the Ame rican artists, WEST, COPLEY, ALLSTON, TUAItT , awl LESLIE and Mrs, Som- SSEnVILLE, one of the most successful phi lot3ophical writers of the age, even now is a - Fellow of the Royal Society of England and an honorary member of the Royal As tronomical Society. The other day, the very latest act of the Empress EUGENIE, as "telexed France during li&ror.nozesvisit tcrAleita, was to give the Cross of the LeOM.;lof Honor to IlosA BONGEITR, the pa and that young lady is now a Che valier of the Order, all Europe acknow_ jedging that it was honorably deserved and gracefully bestowed. If there; be, such re wards for talent in othe'i'latidto, with Wilat honor shall we acknowledge the bigls claims of fair humanity in this ? If it Were simply a matter of cost, we might be certain Of its being met by the gratitude of the sol diers whom our Sisters of Mercy tended and cared for;- but, to be fully acceptable, it should be made a National acknowledg ment. 0170 TWO LEADERS. During the civil war just- -closed, which involved so many, conflicting ,interests and aroused such strong partisiit. feelings, it seemed a special interposition of Providence that the Government was for the time "vest ed in the hands of a man who was, by the circumstances of his life, so able to recog nize the real diffieUlties in the position of affairs. It must be regarded as a most fortunate occurrence that, during a war which ar rayed Mirth and South in direct and' deadly hostility, the Union leader should have been born in a Southern State, and one, too, where the differences between the systems of free and slave labor were forced into glaring relief by close proximity. While his early impressions were drawn from such a condition of society, fortune had cast his, manhood in a community having not only all the vigor of the North but the enterprise of the West, so that he was familiarized with the capabilities and resources of the North, at the same time that ancient bonds still connected him with the South. At least, he knew, by personal experience, many of those difficulties with which the Southern people had to contend, and which could hardly be fully understood except by one who had lived in their midst. Ms intimate acquaintance with the South made him patient with their errors, while his experience of the North gave him con fidence in our unfailing resources and un conquerable vigor, and faith in the right eousness of ottr cause. In war, our leader and President was pa tient and merciful to the rebellious breth ren, with whose difficulties he sympathized, and over whose sorrows he mourned, while his truth, justice, and integrity bound him unswervingly to the cause of law and Union; and now, when gentle Peace re turns, we are again under the leadership of a man as fitting a representative of the pre sent conflict as our martyred chieftain was of the past The reorganization of society - and labor in the Southern States is the question of the present time, and our present President has, through a long personal experience, studied the question in all its bearings. In his earlier life he was in direct sym pathy of kindred feeling with the poorer classes of the whites, and experienced all "the disadvantages of their peculiar position. While during his maturer years, while steadily working his way up to the position ' to which his character entitled him, through the various offices of trust and honor, he has been, in the various phases of his event ful and useful life, the representative of all the different degrees of that very society which he is now called upon to reorganize and secure on the only true basis of justice and right. • THE REFORMATION OF SOCIETY. When Sir TimmAs Moonn, wrote his Utopia, and HARRINGTON his Oceana, they were both at liberty to exercise their fancies in constructing model conditions of society, without any constraint from the actual facts, necessities, or circumstances then existing. Their unshackled imaginations were allowed "to body forth the forms of things unseen," and bestow on the airiest of nothings " a local habitation and a name." Those au thors were building Utopias, and - such ar chitects are beyond rnd above all the prosaic criticism of the every day world, which is nevertheless performing soberly and consci entiously the actual work of which the fan ciful builder is only dreaming. We would not disparage their work, or de tract from its merits in the slightest degree. Far be that from us ! For the visions of the prophet, and the fancies of the poet are the actual truth, and will appear in their mate rial form at some future day. Such visions strengthen many a worker to bring about their own fulfilment, and such fancies en courage many a laborer, faintin,g and dis couraged at the obstacles which he has to surmount. • But these broad perceptions al ways extend into the far future, and reveal only what it will contain without throwing light on the immediate present and its harsh. details. Such a 'lifting of the veil is wholesome and salutary, and has a genuinely practical advantage in the triumphant hope and in vigorated faith that it gives to the beholder; but those lovely visions are too generally only an extensive prospect, where the mountain distances are fair, while the im mediate foreground is impracticable to the footsteps of the wayfarer. The instruments by which man is to work always lie ready at his hand; they have been brightened and sharpened by the actual attrition of past events, and are the only means by which the labors of the present can be accomplished. In the Sacred Text we are told that "the Law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ," the Apostle recognizing that the cumbrous machinery of the Mosaic dispen sation, and the backslidings and stubborn ness of the Jews were yet, nevertheless, the appointed means by which the 'perfect law should be brought to men's hearts, and the instrumentality which should lead, by a long and devious way, to the ultimate re demption. The reformers and social philosophers of our day have done a noble work in fear lessly pointing out the wrongs of, the pre sent state of society, and the evils of the ex isting condition of things. They are justly entitled to our reverence for their good deeds, and admiration for their courage and steadfastness, but they too often regard the whole mass of mankind as a species of chemical substances in false combination, only requiring some slight and simple change to free them from their old entan glements and permit them to fly back in stantly and naturally into the true combina tion which they were intended to assume in the grand system of the perfected uni verse. But to the men to whom the actual hard work fails—the men who perform the practi cal, physical, political regeneration—another view of the ease is familiar. They learn through a bitter experience that assimilation and combination .are not the instant result of the removal of old obstacles—that habit and prejudice are among the powers that control mankind, and are exceedingly diffi cult to overcome, and almost impossible to eradicate. They find that the memories of men are not an intangible thing, to be de spised, but a reality, that must be regarded ; that established customs must be considered, and that, in the workings of government, the ruler may well copy the movements of nature, which, by the regulation of the All wise Director of creation, are slow, though sure, and under fixed and invariable laws. THE READERS Of THE PRESS, doubtless, observed in the interesting account of the execution of the assassins, furnished by our special reporter, on Saturday, that PAyNE, in confessing his guilt, acknow ledged that he was animated by a desire to serve the Confederacy, and by a hope that its authorities would reward him with pro motion for his terrible assault upon Mr. SEWARD and his attendants. While it does not appear that he alleged in his general statement that JEFF DAVIS had directed him to strike his fearful blows, he felt that he was doing the work of the rebellion, and that its leaders would not fail to com pensate him as a useful ally in their damna ble schemes. Tnn article in favor of the nomination of General JAs. L. SELFRIDGE, /Or Auditor General of this State, by the coming Union State Conventien, strikes a chord that will he replied to by every patriotic heart. We must prove to the people, at the election next October, that in all preceding' and in ertnediate action we do not remember the saviors of the Republic in words' alone. Our gratitude must be substantial and practical. r. 'ILEITTiIeFIIO,BIWOCCASIZIF.A.L.,” WitsllrritatorT, - 414 . 1y- 8, 1865. I . l l 4 `practice ' .9f 'ho'lding - everybody .re sponsible for' the strong - measures of the Government but the President'.' hinthelf, was most sedulously maintained during the term of Mr. Lincoln. At first he was denounced as a usurper and a tyrant ; but gradually he came to be discussed as a sort of protest against the decided doings of his Cabinet. Whenever he sanctioned what, looked like a resolute policy, he was credited with a reluctant yielding to exacting counsels. The accession of An drew Johnson did not discourage those who preached on this text. Only they made a different application of it. The new President was to be a. soft and pliant ruler, because he was a Democrat As soon as he took the place made vacant by the bullet of the traitor, he was ex pected to be uncommonly lenient to all traitors-;-to the same who, until ho became • President, made him the target of the most shameless and nameless caluinnies. In fact, he was no Democrat then—nothing but an Abolitionist and a despot. It is not for me to unravel these metaphysics. That Andrew Johnson should fear to strike at treason because he is a Democrat, may mean that those who expected this sort of timidity think that modern treason and modern Democracy are terms of equal meaning. The Democracy of Andrew Johnson is not that kind. It is made of Sterner stuff. It is of Jackson metal. In the hard and bitter teachings of his life, not to be afraid was the watchword of his success. "Sir," said Andrew John son to Jo Lane in the Senate, in February of 1801, after one of the threats ef the lat ter : " Sir, I tell that Senator these eyes never saw the man of whom I stood in fear I" The . Democracy of Andrew John son is instinct with horror of cowardice and hate of treason. His very first Presi dential act was to decide how to treat the assassins of Mr. Lincoln. The whole laud was tkrilling with indignation, and black with the thunder-clouds of uncom mon wrath. How should he proceed ? Wait to take advice from the courts-- mayhap from Mr. Justice Wylie here—or from lawyers--mayhap from Mr. Charles O'Conor in New York—how much re ward he should offer for the capture of Booth, and if that virtuous young 'wan was caught, whether the Government Would pay the reward ? Had he any right to search for the accomplices? This was another question. And when as the proof oozed out, drop by drop, like the blood that betrays the slaughtered body, showing the relations between Jefferson Davis and the assassins, it would have taken a college of philosophers to know what he was then to do. How would Old Hickory have met such an exigency ? Suppose him to have been Abraham Lincoln's successor, we do not think even Mr. Reverdy Johnson would have induced him to take a conservative course. Instead of a sour apple tree, he might have found a more convenient and a shorter method of transmitting the high priest of Secession to his original la boratory. And I apprehend that his military court would have been far less formal than that of which General Hunter was President. General Jackson had a very sincere regard for the law, in time of peace ; and, no doubt, if Judge Hall had been on the bench while the General was visiting New Orleans, as a gay young Tennesseean, before the war, he would have been terrified at his frown. But when the enemy was at the door of the city, and the latter infected with treason, and Jack son himself in command, even Judge Hall, and the lawyers and the dignities of that place, had to give way. Andrew : Johnson has not been cotemporaneous with a part of this great man's career, has not lived in Tennessee, has not been a Jackson boy, for nothing. I suspect that, following his example, and recalling how > that ex ample was endorsed by the people, has been a part of the ctnternplation of his si silent hours.. Anyhow, I fear that the leaders who expected him to be lenient to traitors because he was a Democrat, will not be so eager in his praise when they have realized that his Democracy has taken another shape, and that with him country is high above all 'party. PCCASIONAL. Let the Luton Party be True to the Soldiers. To the Editor of The Press Sin: The time for holding the Union State Convention to nominate candidates for Audi tor General and Surveyor General having been, postponed, we have some time for looking out for good and available candidates. ' Until a few days ago I took for granted that the great party which elected Lincoln and Johnson, and saved the country, would, with entire unanimity, practice what we all preached whilst our gallant soldiers were in the field and pouring Out their blood to defend us and our homes, by giving them the preference when we come to appoint and elect civil officers. But lam assured that, in the patriotic city of Philadelphia, a majori ty of delegates elected will favor the nomina tion not of a soldier, but of a politician for the office of Auditor General. I sincerely hope I am misinformed. But fearing it is only too true, I, for one, feel disposed to make good our pledges to the soldiers during the terrible struggle for the life of the nation, by nomi nating one of their number to the highest or flee now in the gift of the people of Pennsyl vania, I therefore take the liberty of naming, as a candidate, that gallant veteran, Brig. Gen. Jeans L. Simpams, of Northampton county. General Selfridge, was one of the very first to respond to the call of the President for 75,000 men, by raising a company for the Ist Pennsylvania (three months) Volunteers. At the expiration of said term he assisted in raising the 46th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and became lieutenant colonel, and afterwards was promoted to colonel. The bloody battles in - which his regiment was engaged, under command of the officer in question, are too numerous now to mention. He has since been promoted to a brigadier generalship, which was well deserved. Last fall, the friends of the Administration placed Gen. Selfridge before the people for Con gress, in the Eleventh district, and the fact that he was far ahead of his ticket, proves his great popularity where he is best known. lie is a gentleman of the highest order of intelli gence, of strict honesty, eloquent as a public speaker, formerly a merchant by profession, and would not only 1111 the office named with honor to himself and great advantage to the State, but also prove that the soldiers, to whom we are indebted to-day for the salvation of the country, are not forgotten or neglected by a great, free, and grateful people. TUB notrfru TABLE. We have received a specimen copy of the Round 111b/e. This well known and favorite weekly journal will issue its first number in the first week in Septem ber ; and, devoted as it is, to the advancement of American literature, we have no doubt that the promises Of the proprietiirs will be fulfilled. Entering, as our nation does, upon a now career, and especially in this country, where the cause of education is so nobly ad vanced, a paper of this stamp will doubtless be warmly received and well supported. Tun letter received an Friday, from "Penn sylvania," we would gladly publish, if he would send his true name. We cannoE publish anonymous connunnicatiOnS. IT IS STATED, on apparently good authority, that Miss Anna Suratt is completely prostra ted. Fears are entertained that she will never recover from the terrible blew she received on Friday last. THE ANDBICAN LINE INSDNANCE AND TRUST CONPANY.—rby an advertisement in another column it 'will he seen that the trustees of the American Life Insurance and Trust Company, of this city, on July ith declared a diVidend of five per cent out of the profits of the last six months. SALE OF ARTILLERY 11ORSES.-011 July 12th there will be sold, at Ilerkness , Bazaar, Ninth and Sansom streets, by direction of the Quar termaster General, sixty-nine artillery horses. The animals mUSt be sold, and are believed to be in a sound and good condition. See adver., tisement. The Opinion of the Captain of the Great Eastern. Captain Anderson, of the Great Eastern, which is to lay the telegraph cable, writes thus to a friend : "I think we shall certainly sail from here about the sth or 6th Ot July, and very soon after from ValentM, but we shall dodges little if need be, for a good starting chance, any would as soon sail on the 25th of July, as other time. "My confidence is great in the engineers of the cable—clear-headed, earliest, ,good men. Every one connected with their department means success, and precaution seems exhaust ed, so that failure can only arise from what human foresight cannot determine. Yet it leaves enough to apprehend and keep 11.8 from being boastful ; one has seen so ninny things go wrong because of some vile little thing that nobody could be blamed for, and then we are dealing with a mere thread—so that after all there *ill bea great deal to thank God for should it succeed.".:; II I ' A, 41 1 1, • 6 I • THE CRIMINAL WAYS OrTiE WORD.` Murder in All Its Phuses. A CURIOUS CHAPTER OF CRIMES. From our exchanges from all parts of the world; we gather the following chapter of crimes. A FIENDISH ATTEMPT TO nLow or A ixotrsm IN The Baltimore Clipper contains a detailed account of an infernal plot, in that city, to blow op a house, with all its inmates. The Clipper says: About three o'clock, on the morning of July 4, the family and boarders, in the house of Mr. Patrick MeEany, No. 16 Preston street, near Pratt, were aroused from their slumbers by a terrific report, as if from the explosion of at bombshell, shaking the house to its foun dation, and producing considerable conster nation among all. Upon repairing to the yard, it was discovered that some explosive article or infernal machine had been set off in the corner, where the front and back buildings join, and that the door leading to the yard had been torn from its hinges, the first and second-story rear windows demolished and Pieces of boards blown from the fencing. of iron were picked up on the pavement, show ing that something like a bomb had been ex ploded, although their appearance did not in dicate anything like the usual messem.•er of war. In the house adjoining Mcltany lives a Welshman, named Owen Morris, between whom and tbe former it is alleged had feelings have existed for some time. Suspicion natu rally rested upon Morris as the party who hail made the attempt to injure or murder Me- Eany's family, but he, upon being accused of it at the time, stoutly denied it, and threat ened to shoot any of McEany's friends, who came near him. About sunrise on Tuesday Morris and his wife left the house, apparently for a jaunt into the country, the wife carrying a covered bas ket on her tom. They were followed by Me- Eany's wife out the Washi „I - I.ton road, who seemed to be satisfied that Norris had made the attempt to blow up her house. Meeting an officer, she called him to arrest Morris, which was no sooner done than the woman threw her basket down an embankment-for the purpose of concealing its contents. This availed nothing, for when the basket was picked up an iron castinn , was found hi. the shape of an acorn, about' the .size of w six pound shell, Upon exit - Initiation !3 appeared . that it isms tended with pOwder, With a fuse attached. Morris was taken to the West ern station, but the evidence was cleMied insufficient to hold him, and he was dis charged. Morris, however, was subsequently re arrested and committed for trial. A WELL-ENOWN CITIZEN .0P PITTSBURG SSW BY About half past ten o'clock last night, as William Noble a well-known citizen, was passing along Third street in company with severe frienils, a man named Julius 'Hoffman, tobacco dealer on Third street, passed in front of them, to the outside of. the pavement, with a pistol in his band, and, as Mr. Noble thought, was about to lire it off. Mr. N. said to him, "You better not shoot that pistol, as the po lice will pi& you up. ,, The words were scarcely spoken, when he deliberately tired at Noble, the ball glancing off one of the ribs and lodging in the arm, above the elbow, inflicting it severe but not dangerous wound. Hoffman _was arrested and put in the lock-up. It ap pears that, for the last three weeks, he has been partially out, of his mind, and although not violent, acted strangely. On being brouht into the Mayor's office he appeared to realize that he had done wrong, and was considerably frightened. Under the circumstances it is probable he will be sent to the Insane Asylum. —Pittsburg Dispatch, 6th inst. A NOTED GUERILLA KILLED BY CITIZENS. Mention has already been made in the cot: umns of The Press, of the surrender and parol ing Of Jim Jaehson, a noted cut-throat and guerilla of-Missouri, and his band Of rebels. The latter then :separated, but their leader was subsequently captured by a band of citi zens; and was shot by them. It appears that amen named Bullard, belonging to a company 'of militia, of Mexico, Andrain county, Mis souri, stole a horse, and deserted his company. Pursuit was made, but without success. The pursuing party on their way, found Jackson and a comrade, whom they arrested. The rest is thus told by the gt. Louis Democrat: "The point where they were overtaken was in the northeast corner of Pike county. The prisoners were secured, and the party started on their return, They reached the town of Santa Fe, where the citizens,. learning who the prisoners were, demanded that they be summarily despatched. Accordingly Jack- Son and Farley were informed that the must die. The intelligence seemed to have but little effect upon them. Jackson re marked : 'I want brave men to shoot me ; if I must die,let it not be by the hand of,a, coward; lam a brave man myself, let me be filled by one.' Few and short were the prayers they said. They died, as many others bad by their hands, unshriyen Of their Sins. "Jackson was from Texas .- but formerly bailed from Bourbon county, Kentucky. - They were endeavoring to reach Illinois. " Bullard, who stole the horse, was formerly in the rebel army; but, on proteStation of peni tence and a desire to reform, he was admitted into the militia company which he deserted so disgracefully." TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT BAII.XIAGTON, N. The quiet community at Farmington, N. li., were awfully shocked by a fearful occurrence about half a mile from the village on the after noon of the 4th. Mr. Thomas Pinkbaut, who had returned home only the Saturday pre vious. after havin g served in the 10th N.H. Regi ment;was killed by his son, Chas. E. Pinkham They were under the influence of liquor, pro cured in a neighboring town, as none is now sold in Farmington. somewhat sportively to see which was strongest, the•son got excited and angry, and with a scythe Struck his father, severing the.museles, veins, artery of the- arm, and injuring in other places, so that in a very few moments the father bled to death. The sonwasiirrested, making no resistance. The wile of Mr: F. died last winter, leaving a family Of children, now in double mourning. The Montreal (Canada) Oazelte of July 3d, says: A dreadful tragedy was enacted at St. Da mace, a parish in the vicinity of St. Hyacinthe, last Friday. A Iran named- Droletrauraered his mother. It appears that he had strictly observed his religious duties, being N very as siduous in his attendance on the ovens, at the close of which it was noticed that he was deranged, and in a great state of excitement. Two days before the perpetration of the mur der he excommunicated, and, in the course of the day, declared that excommunicated, and, was lost beyond redemption," at the same time manifesting the intention of killing the cure of the parish. He wee consequently watched and locked up. His father came to see him next day and brought him home. On Friday morning he appeared to have recovered his senses, and was very affectionate to his mother, a woman aged sixty-two years. In the course of the day, how ever, he felt unwell and his father pressed him to tak sonic food. ire refused to do so, saying he only wanted some milk. Thereupon he pro ceeded to the dairy in the vicinity of the house, and was followed by his mother. His father Was looking out of the window at the time, and saw her fall at the door. He immediately ran out, and perceived that she had been struck by an ax. The unfortunate wretch had struck her three times on the head. She died a few hours after. Young Drolet evinced the greatest composure when charged with the crime, and did not make the slightest attempt to escape. At the coroner's inquest, held the same and succeeding day, he declared that he did not recognize the body of his mother, and displayed unmistakable symptoms of insanity. After his arrest, however, lie acknowledged having killed her s and being interrogated as to his motives for committing the crime, said., "I had a good mother ; but something impeded me to kill her. I first intended to kill my fa ther, but preferred killing my mother." Dro let has heretofore been known as a man of a kind, peaceable disposition, and only mani fested symptoms of derangement three days before the murder. ANOTHER rite.OEDY IN NEW YORK. On the night of the 29th ultimo Mortimer Maguire, son of Mark Maguire, proprietor of the Red House, One Hundred and Tenth street and Second avenue, New York became in volved in a quarrel, corner ofHouston and Crosby streets, with a stranger, during which Maguire received injuries in the head which soon reduced him to a state of insensibility. After remaining in that condition for several hours, in the porter-house 14 East Houston Street, Maguire was removed to the New York Hospital, where he lingered till Monday - last, and exipred. Coroner Geyer was duly notified of the tact, and made an effort to secure the attendance of witnesses who were present at the time of the fatal affray, but it was found impossible to find them till Thursday. An in quest was held on the body, when the follow ing verdict was rendered: "We find that Mor timore Maguire came to his death from apo plexy, the result of violence, at the hands of some person or persons unknown. ,, Maguire, who was a native of New York city, aged twenty-one years, was employed as messenger in the County Clerk's ollice. The East nous ton-street gang decline to divulge either the whereabouts or the name of the murderer. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY IN TROY NNW YORK. rllll,4Dant.rnra. The Troy - (N. Y.) Times of July sth gives the following details of an extensive burglary hi that city on the night of the 3d of July. It says: Yesterday morning, Mr. Garrit Quacken- IMO, On Visiting his store quite early, saw a gas-light binning,. This seemed Very Strange i and led to an examination. 110 900 e. foram many shelves cleared of their valuable con tents, while in the southeast corner of the building, about twelve or fifteen feet from the round, was a hole which showed how the rob bers had effected an entrance and made an exit. This hole had been tunnelled through two walls and more than thirty inches of solid brickwork. it led into the second story of Mr. G. B. Warren's barn, in the rear of Third street. The burglars had clambered the fence on the alley, ascended tO th 0 left Of Mt:barn, and there commenced operations in a secluded corner. Whether they operated for two or three occa sions, or effected their object in a single night, cannot be determined, It is thought that with keen tools they could have done the work be tween the hours of nine P. M. and three or four A. M. The calculations were splendidly made to reach the desired spot. A surveyor could scarcely have succeeded better. There was a quantity of 'bottles and barrels in the corner of the barn, which must have been used to deaden the sound. The hole was quite small, yet large enough fora good-sized man to enter. Through it was passed silks to the value of ten thousand five blunlred dollars. How the burglars car ried.off the goods without detection is a mys tery, for the watchman never left the outside of the store until after daylight. There was much noise in the street, it us true; but it is strange that the sound of tunnelling the walls was not heard all over the neighborhood. The burglars seemed to have hurried away with their booty. On the barn stairs and in the gar den of Mr. Warren's house several pieces had beenArOnped in their hasty night. Numerous tracks also greeted the eye. A Ginar.u.r.A. TO Ind TRIM FOR FORTY-POI% A correspondent of the Cincinnati Owner• etas, writing from Nashville, under date of July 3d, says:. It will be recollected that about six weeks ago the noted guerilla, Champ. Ferguson was N captured at his house, and brought to ash ville. He is a tall, muscular, brawny sinister looking man„ with a piercin4 roving, dark eye, is inclined to be swagger g Ms man ner, and without showing in his face .any marks of a high intelligence, impresses the be holder as a bold, determined, dangerous man, possessed of strongnative intellect. His atro cities have been almost countless, and the blood-thirstiness of his murders are enough to make one shudder. lie is known to have boasted, just before the occupation of Knox ville by the Union forces, of having killed ninety-seven Lincolnites, as ho termed all loy alists, end bragged that he was going to Salt ville, to till up the number to one hundred. It is well known that he fulfilled his threat at that point, by brutally murdering three men in one of the hospitals there. He appears to have felt himself commissioned by BALT.I/tIOICTS. Alt ALLEGED INSANE MAN FATHER KILLED BY HIS OWN SON. =E! MIIIIDEILEI Mann/ GO orb ; the devil, to take the Men, ;and in perpetrating:his barbarities was almost -always present: in, person; generally, giving with his own hand, by platel or bowie- •knife, the fatal blow which ended his victim's misery. One of the specifications of the charges against hire, is for torturing to death three of his prisoners.. In about two weeks, or as soon as the Court and witnesses can be gotten together, Champ . Ferguson is to be tried by a court-martial. Testimony by deposition will be taken of officers now in the North, relative to the cold blooded and inhuman umrders committed by him at Saltville. It is expected that IL C. Blacknm,42d United States Colored Infantry, will be the judge advocate. The accused is einployed in writing out a history of his life for publication. When Ferguson was brought into court to hear the chargeS against him read, the Nash vine De.vatch thus sketches the scene: "Fer guson was brought in by Ave guards, who were stationed around the room. lie was seated at the table in the middle of the room, and resting his elbow on the table, reclined his head on his hand. In thit attitude he remained, with his baze riveted on the judge advocate, while the loody charges and specifications were being read. We observed him closely, and through out this trying ordeal he never evinced an emotion., His iron-knit countenance never changed once. At the conclusion the judge advocate remarked ' That's all ;> to which Ferguson drew a long breath and, in a low voice, remarked, Ws enough, I think.'" HORP.IBIX MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER HUSBAND. The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal of a late date gives the following account of a horrible mur der in Sigourney county in that State, It says: Sheriff Merriam, of Keokuk county, came up on the Western train yesterday, with a man named W. J. Allen in custody, who was arrested on charge of killing his wife at Si gourney last Tuesday. When charged with the crime, Allen denied his guilt, and said it was dOllO by two strange men while ho was working in the field_ Circumstantial evidence was strong against him, however, and he was arrested and taken before the magistrate, who bound him over for $lO,OOO to appear at the next term of the District Court, which, being unable to pay, he was started off to jail at Oskaloosa—there being none at Sigour ney—under charge of the sheriff. They had hardly gone over eight miles ere they were overtaken by a large number of the citizens of • Sigourney, who demanded the prisoner, swearing they would hang him on the spot. The sheriff promised to take him to the Mus catine county jail, when, the crowd seemed satisfied. _ The whole party then turned back to Si.; gourney. They had not gone more than half -way, however, until the mob spirit again broke out, and fresh attempts were made to seizethe prisoner. Firmness manifested on the part of the Sheriff, and Allows promising to make a full confession, quelled the mob. Allen then aonfessed, that lifer dinner ho went to work in the held, leaving hit Wife asleep on the bed, but soOn returned to the house, and taking a single-tree, went to where she lay, and with it beat out her brains. Ho gave as his excuse for this heinous crime, that he was engaged to be married to a girl fifteen years of age. He thought he could kill wife and get out of the serape by.charging it to Some one else, and then settle down with his new With. After this 'confession the sheriff and his prisoner-were permitted to go on their Way unmolested. Allen now denies his confession, and says he . made it only because he was compelled to. There js no doubt, however, in the minds of the citizens Of Sigourney, that he is the guilty man. He is a man of middle ago and of rather dna appearance. lie was married to his deceased wife sonic - fifteen Tears since, and apparently lived happily with her during that time. He had no children. Public Amusements. NEW ARCIMTREET THlGATan,—This Opening, at the Arch, Miss Ettie Henderson will begin an engagement of only six nights. She ap pears in four characters. NEW CHESTNUT-STREET TEEATRE.-0/1 MOE day evening next, the 17th of July, the Chest nut reopens for the summer season, with Pon eleault's great and justly celebrated Irish drama, ".Arrah RE Pogue." The scenery, me chanical effects, etc., will, we understand, be entirely new, and prepared with great care and nicety. The play will be cast from the most prominent artists of the three theatres— Chestnut, Walnut, and Arch. This week the theatre will remain closed, so•as to give suffi cient time to prepare for the opening night on the 17th. NATINBIG AT Tim ACADEMY.—Next Saturday afternoon, July 15, a burlesque East Lynne matinee will be given at the Academy of Mu sic by Messrs. Frank Drew and Stuart Robson. Many prominent members of the dramatic Profession of this and other cities haVe 'volun teered, and, to judge from present appear ances, the matinee will be a grand affair. The orchestra will be under the direction of Mr. C. R. Dodworth, who has so often delighted Philadelphia audiences with his most perfect music. STATE ITEMS. —We thank the Delaware County Republican for the following : The Philadelphia Press made its appearance, on Tuesday last, in a new and beautiful dress. There is no better newspaper in the Union than the Press. Fred, manly, independent and outspoken, it has won its way to popular favor everywhere. Every department is conducted with marked ability, and can always be relied on for correct information. We are gratified to see this evi dence of its prosperity, and hope its worthy and patriotic editor may be amply rewarded for his efforts to furnish the public with so ex cellent a journal. — . Oil developments in Warren county are being actively pushed forward, but for some weeks no strikes have been made. Operators there have great confidence in sonic heavy strikes soon. Engineers are now at work on the Cele brookdale Railroad route, from Pottstown, through Boyerstown, to a point on the East Pennsylvania Railroad, near Topton. The authorities of Harrisburg have de creed that, hereafter, no saloon or other place where liquor is sold shall be open after mid night. —Anti-Meat, Chiba are springing up in many towns and-boroughs throughout the State. —Savannah is now garrisoned by the 47th Pennsylvanialrolunteers. —A new theatre in Pittsburg is nearly com pleted. The Fourth was very quietly celebrated in Columbia. —Pic-nice are the order of the day in Lan- eater. HOME ITEMS. A day or two since General Grant received a letter from an enterprising attache of a lead ing New York journal, calling his attention to the fact that he had written up very fully and flatteringly his journey to Chicago, and the Ovations received on the trip, and stating that as be (the writer) was in straitened circum stances, and found living very expensive, etc., any donation that the General might see fit to make as a compensation would be very grate • fully received, and he might rely upon its being considered strictly confidential. The perusal of this letter highly amused the Ge neral. We are happy to state, on the authority of the Memphis Co7nmercia; that a recent tele graphic dispatch printed in the papers of the North, to the effect that Maj. Gen. ffurlburt, of Illinois, was to be tried by a court-martial, for alleged malfeasance and neglect of duty,is whol ly untrue. The Generalhasjust returned from New Orleans ; and we have no reason to doubt that he is as high in favor with the Govern ment, army and people, as when he so gallant ly led our victorious columns at the battle of Ilatehie.—Chicago Tribune. A Nevada Democrat agreed to saw in pub lic one cord of the mahogany wood which grows in that vicinity, if George B. McClellan was not elected. Re performed his task, and the wood was sold to a Republican, who had a maul made from some of it, bound with solid silver bands, He hind intended it for Mr. Lin coln, but on his death, presented it to airs• Lincoln, by whom it was placed in the Chicago fair. —On the 22d day of August the people of Royalstone, Mass., will celebrate the one hun dredth anniversary of the settlement of that town. lion. A. 11. Bullock will deliver a com memorative address and Albert Bryant will deliver the poem. A fellow lied a $l,OOO diamond set sent from a jeweler's .to his room at a hotel, in Cincinnati, last week, to show to his Wife, who, he said, was ill, and whilethe attendantwaited he stepped out another door, and has not been seen since. The trimming of bonnets is supposed to be mainly a question of taste. One of the largest millinery establishment in a neighbor ing city employs an able-bodied man to do this heavy work. The New Jersey Herald newspaper oflice at Newton, together with the contents, was totally destroyed by fire on the 7th inst. It is supposed to have been the work of an incen diary. A newspaper correspondent from Cairo, iii., says " The season here is usually opened with great eclat by small-pox, continued spirit edly by cholera, and closed up brilliantly with yellow fever. Sweet spot r A party of roughs attacked a soldiers' dance, in Syracuse, on the 4th, but were re pulsed at the point of the bayonet—their Leader being killed, and from twenty to thirty others injured. —lt is proved that married printers aro ,Anarter than unmarried ones. The married nine, at the Printers' Base Ball match, on Mon day, in Albany, beat the single nine badly. A wild man is exciting tile inhabitants of Niagara county, N. Y. Organized bands of men have been out tO take him; but hitherto, by his fleetness, he has eluded them. —Jas. Jenkins hung himself in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Monday, because he was ar rested for drunkenness. He could , nt bear the shame of it. —The daily ' newspaper establishments in Detroit, Mich., have discharged their old prin ters, and refuse to employ any bound by a union. Burglars tunneled two solid stone walls in a Troy building, on the sa, and robbed Quackenbush's store of $lO,OOO worth of silks. Herman, the magician, has leased the New York Academy of Music for the latter part of September and part of October. -- At the grand ball at Saratoga, a lady wore (:n her dress Chantilly lace half a yard in 1 op ill; and a shawl or the same material. The President's family, including his two ceretaries, when all assembled, will number fifteen persons. There is a baby in Manchester, Virginia, wo years old, that weighs 2+9opounds. The Richmond Republican estimates the outhern loss by the war as 0,800,000,000. Boys only twelve years old have become highway robberit in Troy, Watermelons in Charleston, S. C., at ono FOREIGN ITEMS. —The FreriehPamrs announce the death' of Madame De Marrati..who founded the cOngre gationi of the Saere Cour, and has since di rected it. She was_a : person remarkable - for her Charity, her'poWerfelintedeet, and her -goodness of -heart, and bad attained the 85111 year of her ago. It was at Amiens, sixty-five • years since, that she laid the foundation of the ' work which she directed with so much skill to the end of her life. Madame De Rairat founded more than 100 branches of the Sacra. Omer, in one of which the Empress Eugenio was edu cated. The present Emperor, whose faintly gave several nuns to the order, ratified the ap probation formerly given to the congregation by Napoleon I. Count Albert de Revel has, according to a Parisian correspondent of the Athenceam, been left £2,000 a year, by an eccentric uncle, on the condition that, within two years, he shall marry a tall, slim lady, of "harmonious pro portions," with long and thick golden hair. She must have an open forehead, blue eyes, a brilliant white skin, a well-made nose, a small mouth, graceful limbs, and she is to be full of grace; and her character is to be slightly shaded with a poetic languor." Albert admits that the condition is not a hard one, save in the difficulty of finding the peerless beauty who is to share his 4000 a year with him. A new process of boiling the juice of the sugar-cane has recently been introduced in island of Antigua, West Indies, which does not convert the juice into separate articles, distinct in nature, such as sugar, molasses, and rum, but into a solid compound contain ing all these articles in a single mass, from which, afterwards, the refiner extracts the various articles of commerce which it con tains. The new process was discovered by an English chemist, and it is thought that it will work quite a revolution in sugar making everywhere. —A curious story is told of - a marquis who let his house, in 1862, for 20,000 francs, on the condition that the rent should be doubled if Florence became the capital of Italy. That event having now occurred, the Marquis claimed the fulfilment of the contract, but the tenant refused, on the ground that Florence had become the capital under circumstances which the marquis could not have foreseen when the contract was made. The matter was eventually brought before a court of law, and the Marquis gained his suit. • The Prince of Wales made a speech lately in behalf of poor clergy. It was a common place though kindly little address; yet it was received with as many cheers as if it possessed the eloquence of an oration of Demosthenes; and later in the evening the Archbishop of Canterbury assured the Prince that "the words he bad spoken that night in advocating the cause of the institution, would moisten many an eye with the tear of gratitude, and Would= many a heart with thankfiliness." At a sale which occurred at Saint Sebas tian a week or two since, a copy of the "Let trey Juives" was sold for less than eighteen pence, and was found to contain fifty-two in edited letters of Voltaire, Diderot, D'Alem bert, and their contemporaries, An amateur of Bayonne heard of the discovery, and gave two thousand francs for this promising lot of autographs. The following very nave advertisement appeared in a French paper a few days after the Grand Prix: "The individual who, on Sunday, deprived 31—, 37 Rue de Sentier, of a gold watch, chain, and ornaments, is re quested to return the locket. As this article is of slight value, and only dear to M— as a souvenir, Id— thinks he may so far rely on the delicacy of the individual, and therefore begs him to accept (agrier) his anticipatory thanks." The committee on the bill authorizing the city of Paris to borroW two hundred and fifty millions has just presented its report. Two hundred millions are to be devoted exclusively to the works rendered necessary by the exten sion of the .limits of Paris, and the surplus Rill go to the extraordinary expenses of reli gious edifices and hospitals, municipal build ings, itC. —Last summer a cargo of iee was imported into England from Norway. Not having such an article in the custom-house Schedules, ap plication was made to the Treasury and to the Board of Trade, and after a long delay it was decided that the ice should be entered as "dry goods ;" but the whole cargo had melted before the doubt was cleared up. It is said that the waiters of the Paris cof fee and eating houses are thinking of follow ing the example set them by the cabmen, and striking for an advance of wages. There is, too, a partial strike among the washerwomen, and some who left off work are said to have as saulted those who have remained constant to the washtub. Hubbard, of Paris, says that out of one hundred persons, sixty-flve marry, three of these get divorced, eight leave their part ners without any formality, fourteen stick to the marriage relations but fight all the time, thirty vegetate, and perhaps ten out of the sixty-five bye and enjoy themselves. It is a moderate estimate to put the various railway works now in hand, shortly tote coin menced, in and around London, at an aggre gate length of one hundred and twenty miles, and involving an outlay of about £30,000,000. This vast network of railways is designed for the convenience of a population already ex ceeding 3,000,000; which is every year growing with rapid strides. Count Lagrange and. his frienda, antici• pating the success of their horse Glidiateur, hired an army of six hundred boxers, which was stationed in detachments round the weighing stand. This precaution having be come known, no doubt prevented the hostile demonstrations of the evil-minded. Hence the enthusiasm which followed the victory of Glacliateur. ' Russian prisoners sentenced to coloniza tion in Siberia, are left without any assistance on the part of the Government. Those that have some little money may eke out a tolera ble existence. The rest go about in tatters, and have to work for their daily bread on the farms of the half wild colonists of the region. —ln consequence of the cholera having broken out in Egypt, the whole of the India, China, and Australian mails were sent from the general post•oisCO On tlie 20th, in - boxes, instead of bags, to prevent infection from being carried out of Egypt by the mails pass.. ing through that country, The telegraph cable between Marsala and La Calle, on the Algerian coast, has been suc cessfully laid. Direct communication is.now open between the continent, Algeria, and Tunis. —The Count Cavoun a Turin journal, has published an address of the Italian press to President Johnson, begging him to accord a general amnesty to all the Confederates with out distinction. —Mad. Tepliskow,wife of the Russian general of artillery of that name, was receently burnt to death at Kiel, from the accidental setting on fire Of her clothing by the" ashes of a ciga rette which she was smoking. —The London Gazette publishes the notifica tion of the United States Government that passports will no longer be required from per sons entering the States. —lt is said that some new value has been discovered in coal ashes. A collector has paid *9,000 for the privilege of collecting them in a single district in Manchester, England. A society for providing lifeboats and establishing stations along the German shores has been founded at Bremen. CITY I'r3EMS. Tim SPLENDID NEW "CHINESE SHE ILVJ," sold by Wood & Cary, 725 Chestnut street, is decidedly the moat popular article of Ladies' apparel of the season. The entire stock of Straw Old Paney Goods of this extensive house is now selling off at much below cost, THE BEST FITTING STUNT OT THE AGE ie" The mproved Pattern Shirt? made by John C. Arrison, at the old stand, Nos. 1 and 3 North Sixth street. Work done by hand in the best meaner, and 'warranted to give satisfaction. His stock of Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods cannot be surpassed. Prices moderate. ORTITLERIBIT'f; Furaosturto Goons.--Mr.George Grant, 610 Chestnut street, has a handsome as sortment, of novelties in Shirtiuw Prints, beau tiful Spring Cravats, Summer Under-clothing, tte. His celebrated "Prize Medal" Shirt, in vented by Mr. John F. Taggart, is unequalled by any other in the world. VISITORS TO THE SEA-SHORE ShOßld - provide the.IIISeIVOS with BATHING DRESSES from JoaN C. AREISON , S, Nos. 1 and 3 North Sixth street. Fon ONE. DOLLAR.—AII the time spent in tying and untying, and half the silk in the tie and scarf, are saved by the use of Eshleman , s patent cravat-holder. Price, one dollar each, wholesale and retail, at 701 Chestnut street. Also, gentlemen's furnishing goods- 7 large as sortment. CONNUBIAL Lira IN PAms.—Dr. Hubbard, of Paris, says that out of 100 persons 05 marry, 3 of these get divorced, S leave their partners with out that formality, 14 stick to the marriage re lation but fight all the time, 30 vegetate, and. perhaps 10 out of the 65 live and enjoy them selves. Here we manage things differently, principally because the husbands insure the respect and admiration of their wives by pro curing their wearing apparel at the Brown *toilbciOthing Hall of Rockhill & Wilson, Nos. 003 and 006 Chestnut street above Sixth. A RAID.- - Now COMPS the season of flies—a nuisance intolerable. Let everybody know, then, that Dutcher's Lightning Fly-Killer will utterly annihilate them. Use it, and rest sweetly and securely through the summer heat. Sold by druggists and dealers every where. je2frmwfltt SPEER'S Wrx - e.—We have examined a Speci men of the Samburg Fort Wine - of Mr. Alfred Speer, referred to by a correspondent of the American Baptist, and have no doubt it is the unadulterated juice of the Portugal grape. We should judge from its taste and appearance, that it is certainly valuable as a communion wine and as a tonic for w•caklypersons. It has the recommendation of some of the first physi cians in this country as well as Europe.— Washington Stan jyadt FOllll STEOIC & Co.'s PIANO'S (MOO used) for sale at bargains. These pianos have 'bemused during the past winter and spring at concerts, at public halls, and in private houses, and show no marks of use. Price $2OO less than now ones of same style, though all new ones have been reduced $75. J. E. GOVLD, Je21,366 Seventh and Cheatlllit atrequ, ••• .I.ro rosszsam•rJ, - 7 . 77!. FIN T I C/Ai .*' . 01Y - 40MMERC/Al/ IP At the commencement of„ the rebellion it Was the opinion of many Americans, and the almost universal opinion among Europeans, that our resources were ,Inadequate to the continuance, of an expensive and protracted war. Renee, in English and French tinanebo. eircleii,thc disruption of the Union was as sumed as a foregone conclusion. Facts which have lately come to light, show an unparal leled advancement, oven during the continu ance of the war, all the elements of torn mercial prosperity. ,A writer in the Atlantic Monthly, - makes a comparison of the resources and means of payment respectively of England and Ame rica, On the assumption that the rebellion had continued until 1519, and that the United States should then owe a national debt as large as England's at the close of the Napo leon War in 1815, viz $1;305,000,000. Lot it be remembered that England has not only sus tained this debt (even reducing it somewhat,) but has prospered and grown rich during the succeeding fifty years. At the respective pe riods of comparison suggested, to wit : 1815 and 1869, the population of the United King dom of Great Britain was less than one-half of what the population of the United States will be, and in amount of foreign trade was less than one-third. In 78.15 the " factory system , ' was in its infancy and imperfectly organized, the steam engine was unperfected and in corn_ paratively limited use. The railway, the steamboat, the telegraph, the reaper, the thrasher, and many other important improve ments and discoveries which tend to augment the productive power of nations, have all come since that day. So far as relates to the question of ability to sustain heavy financial burdens, England, in 1815, can hardly be con/- Pared for a moment with a country like our own, possessing, as it does, in abundance and perfection, the potent agencies of productive and distributing power just referred to. The stock market was very dull on Saturday and the sales limited. There was no regular meeting at the Stock' Board, the members having accepted an invitation to spend the day at the Tinicum Fish Ifouse. Reading Rail road was in demand; about 1,400 shares sold at the outside board at from 49%at4 , closing firm at the latter rate. Goyermnent bonds arc firmly held at full prices; we quote 5-20 s at 105 :u5 ;6s of 1881 at 1064; 7-30 s at 993 ©lOO, and 10-tea at 971/407X. Coal Oil sharea con tinue dull and depressed; Caldwell sold at 2 Junction at 3x; Walnut Island, X; Dunkard, and Excelsior, The following were the quotations of Gold on Saturday, at the hours named: 10 A. 11 11 A. 11 12 M IP. Al 31'. 11 F. 31 The subscriptions to the 7-30 loan received by Jay Cooke, on Saturday, amount 0V: 251 1 500 , including one of $1,630,000 from First National Bank, New :York; one of $200,000 from First National, Boston ; one of i 311,250 from Ninth National, New York; one of $150,000 from Fourth National, New York; one of $lOO,OOO from First National, Reading; one of $240,000 from Second National, Chicago ; one of $120,000 frOm Third National, St. Louis ; one of $250,000 from Clark, Dodge, ,14 - Co., New York; one of $lOO,OOO from C. A. Putnam & Co., Boston; one of $lOO,OOO from Brewster, Sweet, & Co., Boston; and one of $lOO,OOO from Heny, Gloms, & Co., New York. There were 3,675 individual sub scriptions of sso@loo each. The subscriptions for the week ending the Bth inst., amount to 8:10,848,800. The new seven-thirty treasury notes aro a very popular investment, and within a few days large amounts have been bought up for German bankers. These notes are of three classes ; the 'first issue of August 15, 1864, ma tures August 15, 1867; the second issue of June 15, 1865, matures Juno 15, 1888, and the third is sue of July 15,1865, matures July 15,1863. These are all payable in currency at maturi ty, or are convertible into dve-twenty bonds at the option of the holder. The July seven thirty notes differ from the first and second series, in that they have the following edlidi. tion printed in red ink across the face of the notes: "The Government reserves the right of paying in coin the interest on this note, at the rate of six per cent. per annum." _Each of the issues of the seven-thirties bears a different value every day OR account of the adjustment of the daily accruing interest. The following table shows the price for the current six days: FIRST SERIES—DATED AUGUST 15TH, 1864. [The August coupon off.) 1008. 500 s. 10003. July 8, 1805 91 21490 20 992 40 10, 1805 99 i 3 4% 40 993 60 11, ISOS TJ 80 999 50 993 00 " 12, 1865 95 V. 996 50 993 20 " 13, 1865 99 31 496:0..993 40 " 19, 1865 99 SO 496 80 903 00 SECOND SERIES—DATED JUNE 15111, 1865. 100 s. 500 s. 10000. July 8, 1805 100 40 502 30 1004 00 " 10, 1865 100 50 502 50 1005 00 " 11, 1665 100 52 502 60 1005 20 " 12, . 1165 100 54 502 70 1065 10 13, 1865 100 56 502 80 103.5 00 " 14, 1865 100 58 502 90 1005 80 TIIIRD 8/nOEB—DATED JULY 18TII, 1895. 1009- 500 s. 1000 s. Jilly 8, 1865 90 gg 459 30 0,18 60 10, 1V,5 40.1 50 999 00 " 11, 1865 99 92 999 00 999 20 " 12 1855 99 94 499 70 999 40 "13,1805 99 96 499 80 999 60 " 14, 1865 99 98 499 90 999 80 Controller Robinson, Albany, addreSses the following letter in reply to one of the numer ous communications addressed to him relative to the asseSaing of the sbarenoldrae tuuattonal banks: 'I`AT.I2 OF NEW YOUR, CONTROLLER'S 09TIOE, ALBANY, June 29, Iti6s. DEAR SIR: Your letter, making inquiries in relation to assessing shareholders in national 'banks, is duly received. 1. hadpreviously•read the circular published by the lion. B. H. Spaulding, to which you refer. The printed circular issued by me states the duty of asses sots in this respect, as I understand it. Con gress expressly authorized the taxing of the SilarehO/den 111 national banks. The Legisla ture, at its last session, passed a law, -4 ‘ the enabling act," so called, which directs them to be taxed in pursuance-of that authority. Ido not see how any assessor can disregard that law. , The act of Congress requires that they shall not be taxed at any higher rate than State hunks. Mr. Spaulding's circular assumes that they will be taxed at a higher rate, be cause they have no deduction on account of U. S. stocks held by them, while the State banks have such deduction to the extent that their capital is iuvestcdiuthesestocks, The error of this assumption is manifest. The rate of taxa tion is one thing; the amount of assessment is quite another and different thing. If a State bank has invested any portion of its capital in Government securities, it, can only be assessed for the residue, but it is taxedat the same rate as if it had no such investment, but not for the same amount, Its Government stocks are ex empt by act of Congress. But Congress made no such exemption in the case of national banks. On the contrary, in the very same act in Which it requires them to invest in eloyera ment stocks, it authorizes them to be taxed, and makes no exemption hi their favor. The decision of the Supreme Court does not affect the question, for it does not and cannot over ride the express act of Congress upon which authority is based. If Congress has in this Particular inadvertently given an advantage to State banks, the assessors have not, for that reason, any right to disregard the law. Con gress alone has power to remedy the defect. Too much property is already exempted from taxation by reason of its being invested in privileged securities,leaving the great burden of taxation to fall upon the less fortunate. The line of exemption should not be, extended beyond the strict requirements of law. The following will show the weekly receipts of Flour and Grails at the places indicated for the week ending July 1; Flour, Wheat, Corn, Oats, Bar., Rye, bbls, bu. bu. be. bu. bu. Chicago-. ..... :61,744 318,214 1,080,183 458,072 4,190 22,076 Milwaukee 5,370 274,754 4,136 17,757 Toledo 30,092 217,493 18,740 1,335 Detroit.'.. ..... 20,953 37,051 9,065 7,330 129 Cleveland 1,042 79,071 2,816 16,724 700 Total 97,201 926,583 1,11 , 1,9-10 501,218 6,009 22,076 Prey. week.. 101,043 917,445 758,849 654,969 3,207 16,334 The London Economist of June 24 says : The bank return Of this week indicates that the usual precautions are being taken by the mercantile community at the approach of the half year. There is less money offering in the general market, where the bank rate is fairly maintained. The provision for the anticipated expenditure at the coming elections tends also to limit the supply of money, and, in conse quence, there is more activity in the discount department at the bank. Exceptional opera tions have nevertheless taken place at 2,,N per cent., and there are no appearances to indicate that other than the temporary causes alluded to influence the marketer its future prospects. In the stock exchange there is a steady , inqui ry, with sufficient employment for money at a per cent. on Government securities at short periods. The same Journal says: Telegrams from Marseilles announce the failure of Messrs. Charles itostantl Al Co., sugar refiners, with liabilities estimated at about .E 500,900. A favorable liquidation is expected. Advmes from Bombay state the liabilities of Mr. llyriuniee liermasjoe Coma whose failure was announced in London on lie 23(1 reach about £3,300,000, and the assets £2,800,000. A deed of assignment has been despatched to England. 'There has been a very excited cot ton market at Liverpool throughout the week, and the sales have been on a very extensive scale. On Wednesday 40,000 bales changed hands, a number which has never been ex ceeded, if even equalled. All classes seemed ready to buy, and there is no doubt, if holders had not exhibited some reserve in selling their cotton, that the sales would have been larger than they were. YeSterday, although there was less excitement, yet, through the firmness ofholders, prices advanced y 2 d, Prices may be quoted li d to. 2:Md higher than last Friday. To-day tlie market is much quieter, the late large purchasers of spinners having given them a present supply. The following arc the exports of cotton from Alexandria from October 3 to June 1: Great Britain. Frame. Austria. Total. Bales. Bales. • Bales: Bales. 1880-1861 84,999 33,275 7,291 125,565 1861-1862 MAN 21,878 5,420 187,975 1882-1863 141,208 34,596 7,297 186,391 1893-1864 194 9 78 59,185 11,667 265,100 1804-1865 205,920 30,116 7,042 243,078 It is stated, in consequence of the scarcity of corn and the high price at which it has sold during the last twelve months, the cultivation of that cereal is being rapidly renewed in Egypt; while the cultivation of Cotton is, in several districts, being discontinued. Mr. Satterthwaite ( s American Circular says: The London market for American securi ties has, during the past week been charac terized- by considerable animation and buoy ancy.. United States Government Bonds have boon in request on home account, and a rise of five per cent. has been established since our last. There have been numerous buyers of a good class for Illinois shares, which at one time to-day touched 8734, closing &I% to;6 1 a rise of nearlv eight dollars 0n the week.. The inquiry for the various securities of the AtlaM. tic and Great Western Railway still continuos, the bonds being scarce and the (lobe/awes finding daily investors. The New 'York .Pod , of SatutdaY evening says _ . Gold is quiet at 139X@140, and foreiga ex change is dull and nominal at 10N9109. Tim loan market is easy at 46 and large surplus balances are offered to-day D at low rates to secure the two days' interest. Com mercial hills are dull at 6@B, The stock market opened dull and closed with more mlimallinl. GOVOrrulielltS two 44, Wincing, railroad bonds steady, mining neglected, petroleum stocks flat, State h; ' 44 firm and railroad shares strong, oype c Pelta those of the best Western roads. The heaviest business of the inorninp been in Pittsburg, Erie, Hudson., Reedingli Northwestern preferred. Of Erie, 1,700 s 11:11 were sold at SPAWN ; of Hudson, 1.200 et ,4 ' guly 2 ; of Reading, 2i . 00 at 98 1 40319014 . of 1 .,4 4 burg, - ,500 at 70 1 /0g70%; of Northwe'siern j,;4' ferred, 5,600 at 02)4:003%, and of Pon 11'12 V . ` 1,350 at 0%@99. /Ito Before the first session, Now York. 0.„ was quoted at 96; Erie, 81%; Hudson 11014; Heading, ; Michigan Southerir Rock Island, 107, Sales of Stocks July N. THE PUBLIC BOARD. 100 Caldwell 2 1100 Dunkard 100 Junction 3% , 300 Dunkard 100 Walnut island • 941400 ........ 200 .do 141200 do .. ......... • OUTSIDE SALES, .... soo 'ExcMsfor 100 Reading 11,. ..... Norristown It .... 531 k, 100 do ........ 109 5 Beading It 49-50 100 d0........' • " . is ma d 0.... 4934 200 do .......,, • 200 d 0.... OM 100 d 0........ •.... 100 100 do do 49,K 100 d0... '......... 49,1 i . •• 1. Drexel & Co. quote: New U. S. Bonds, 1931 iorp?6,ll U. S. Certifs. of Indebtedness, new.. U. S. Certifs. of Indebtedness, old New U. S. 73-10 Notes 11%%41:1 GoQuartermasters , V0ucher5........... Orders for Certifs. of indebtedness , ": Cold Sterling' Exchange indh urt 5-20 Bonds, old 5.20 Bonds, new 105 r„l7 ‘,f 10.40 Bonds 1013:o,910,. M. Schultz & Co. make the following (p) 4 . 95 *lions of the rates of Exchange, pet t 's emu" City of Boston: London, 00 days sight. " 3 day& Paris, 60 clays sight. ,4 3 days Antwerp, 60 days.- 00 days lianiburg, 60 days... Lelpsic, 60 days Berlin, 60 day 5...... Cologne, 60 days Amsterdam, fib days Frankfort; 60 days Market steady. . JULY 8-13veulnR. The Flour market is dull at former ott e , , there being very little demand eithof for port or home use; about 500 bbls fair (..xt7t family sold at $7.25 bbl. The retailers rum bakers are buying in a small Way at from + 1 6.25 for superfine, $0.50@7 for extra, s7.2Tqiz for extra family, and *8406:6.50 bbl for law, brands, as to quality. Rye Flour if. filleted 4, $5 and Corn Meal at i 44.75 GRAIN,---Wheat continues dull and Indee , 4 unsettled; about 3,000 bus sold at ble@lose t o : good to prime reds, and white at frOml77QNi; yi bus, as to quality. Rye is selling et svz bus for new and old. Corn is rather qefe' sales of yellow are making at 87(P0e t;,t, air to prime. Oats have declined ; fO,OOO bus Delaware and Pennsylvania Soli at 1860i7c bus, mostly at the latter rate. Bantt.—Quereltron is without chanv, small sale of Ist No.l was made at Bi3/90 Covrow.—The market is firm" brit the, are limited, at 48@50e I 1) for middling, • GnOOICRIES.—The pales are limited, but the market is firm; 216 Wilds Cube. damaged, sold at auction to-day at Irora '0) /W O X. lb, in currency. ETIMLIEUM.—Prices remain about the Am ; as last quoted, but there is very little aoh. Small sales are making at 3.3Q33* for crud ; 50Q52c for refined in bond, and 70©72e gelleb; for free. 140 140 139 1 ,4 140 140 1 4 140 llAT.—Baled is selling at $20@22 1 ton. SEED.—Clover and Timothy eontinuctha Flaxseed is selling at 432.3.5.02.40 % bus. Puovisiows.—There is a fair demand at :601 former rates; we quote Moss Pork at from $25.00627 11 , 1 bbl. 'Bacon Rams are selling il l l o t ; at from 20(p7e ih for fancy CallVaSSeq, awl. Pickled. Hams at 20@21e NAVAL STORES continue rather ; small Sales of Spirits of Turpentine are makins $1.40@1.45 vip gallon, and Rosin at @WOO lihl. Winskr.—There is very little doing inlhi way of sales, but holders are firm in tlwir views. Small sales of Pennsylvania and NVt,t, can bbls are making at $2.12@2.14 The following are the recipts or Flour ad Grain at this port today Flour.. "%rhea. Cora.. Oats.... ASHES are dull _ - - iIItEADSTIEFFI3.--The market for State rot Western flour is very firm and quiet; sale; 8000 bbls at $5.3065.65 for superfine state; S).11 @0.20 for extra State ; $6.20c05.e0 for ohoirr a30a5.70 for superfine Westerii; $6.1.506.216.2 common to medium extra Western, and 4.“1 @6.70 for common to good shipping'brand,: tra round hoop Ohio. Canadian flour is quiet and firm • sales 500 Mils at $6.2.5@6.00 for coo. moo, and $6.3508 for good to choice eidn, Southern flour is quiet and firm; sales A bb IF at $6.9007.60 for common, and $7.65 , g11.64 fancy and extra. Rye flour is dull. Corn inNi is quiet. Wheat is quiet and dull; salts bus Winfer red Western, at $1.42, and 7,0001)6, Chicago Spring at $1.31. Rye is timer; sak, 11,000 bus Western at 900. Burley is quiet. liar. ley malt is dull. Oats are (lull and dreerit4 at 680 for Western. The Corn market is dal! and drooping ; sales 26,000 bus at 72(@78e for on. sound, and 7Vaec for Sound mixed W.:Stern. PROVISIONS,-.-The Pork' Market is Mum. Sales 6,800 Mils at $26.37e26.76 foe now utl9l, 023.50@21 for '63-4 do, cash and regular way s $18.50@19 for prime, and 4`0.50(30.75 for pritr, mess. The Beef market is steady • sales 510 bIOF r.l about previous prices. Beet hams are galvt Cut meats are firm; sales 075 pkgs pit 1 . 2;q11 , 2 for Shoulders and 18Q2le for Hams. The Lai market is firm ; sales 1,350 bbls at 10f320 Wausux is dull; sales 100 bbls Western fa $2.08. Pittsburg Petroleum Market, July c Business in the oil way remains inactive Dealers manifest no disposition to Operate any extent at present. The supply of CriLi in the market is not large. The receipts at. on the increase ;•buyers in some instances ale disposed to hold off; The reports from the Allegheny oil regions are beginning to atria some attention; and if only partially true, wit, naturally increase the supply on the openha . of navigation, as we have before mentionol; The price at the Pit Hole wells has been axv , l at Oe'f bbl. What effect the new discoveries will have on prices aro matters that will be hereafter detertained. The rates in otr man ket were unchanged, with sales at 21.i14Pc, packages included. The sales were as foikni: BENZOLE was dull, and dealers did net scout anxious to operate at this time. Prices were irregular and nominal. The market containi a fair supply. T.A.n.—The demand was light, and sales wets Of a similar description. The ruling rated were ifa,23 - Gq1.40 bbl, according to the NM Of the brand. CRUDE.—So far asprices were concerned, no change was perceptible. Sales 1,000 bids at'!c, pkgs returned ; 250 do, 2114 e, pkgs exchanged; 500 do 21 3 Ae ; 150 do heavy, 22c; 500 liy; 50 do, 21 1 ,4 c, all with packages returned or es, changed, and 400 do, 20 , lc, pkgs included, limmven.—Among the sales were 1,0 bbb bonded, for immediate delivery, 45 1 / 4 'o; 100 do, 44c, and 100 bbls free oil, 64c. PHILADELPHIA BOARD OF TRADE, THORNTON BROWN, EDWARD LAFOUROADE, }CON. OF THE Mom' }Um LEWIS, MARINE INTELLIGENCE. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, July 9, BUN n/SMS 447 Su :4 SETS 711! IGH WATER Steamship Propontis, (Br) Higginson, from Liverpool via Boston, 46 hours, with mast; to AR McHenry & Co. Schr J II Moore, Nickerson, 4 days from Bos ton, with mdse to captain. Schr Sarah Elizabeth, Kelly, 4 days from DN. ton, with salt to Wm Damn & Co. scar 1t M Price, Kelly, 4 days from ranker!, with headin,,os to John Mason & co. Sehr Star, CrOwell, 6 days front Boston, with mdse to Crowell it Collins. Brig John Aviles, Upton, 12 days from its tunzas, with molasses to 8 Morris Wtt]n & Co. Sehr Planet (WO Shannon, 14 days front Na• vassa, with guano to order. 26th lon 74 20, spoke bark Mary Ann, 10 days eat from New 'York for New Orleans. same tat) told place, George A Gray, fir rneer, of ~4. sachusettS, aged 45 years, died of typlhal fever. Schnr Minnie Kinnic, Parsons, 1,; days front Boston, with ice to 1) Bliershow .%; Co. Schr 1 0 Thompson, Holmes, s days from Roci;• land, with ice to Holbrook k Hughes. Schr C lI Moore, Corson, 6 days from Not Haven, in ballast to captain. Scbr S A Taylor, Dukes, from Daversport, it ballast to Caldwell, Sawyer,lt Co. Schr L S Levering, Corson front Wilmington, Del; in ballast to Wannamacher Maxfield. Schr J Burley, Shaw from Boston, in Who!. to Gabbier, Stickney, Wellington, Schr J 11• Al Allen, Case, froth Nantucket, in b" last to Castuer, Sticknev, Wellington. Scbr H B Metcalf Rodgers, from Aitnoq, in ballast to J G and lx S Repplier. Schr 11 J Mcreer k Somers from Boston, in NO last to Castner, Stickney, £ Wellington. Steamer B Meander, Bloomsburg, from AWN . - andria, Va., in ballast to Captain. Steamer Anthracite, Green, 24 hours front New York, with mdse to W M 'Baird k Cu. Steamer Alida,- Lenny, 24 hours from A - L'W York, with mast: to W 1 Clyde Steamer C Comstock, Drake, 24 hours it New York, with mdse to W M Baird ft (.!0. Steamship Norman Baker, Boston. Bark E McDonald Chr), Morton, Cronstadt Brig Ottawa (Br), McDonald „Havre. Brig Argo (Br), Alkcma, Halifax. Brig W H Biekmore, Lippincott, Port ROI. Schi. Starlight York, Portland. Schr Marion, Pryor, Norwich. Schr Wm Loper, Outen Roxbury, MMuss., SCbi: Reading RR, No BUM, A'Orfoik. Sehr heading ER, No. Iti_,Havis, Oeorgota th Sehr Only SOn, Parker, Norfolk. Sehr JO3 Maxfield, May, Boston. Sehr L S Levering Corson, Boston. Schr It NV Dillon Ludhun, Boston. Seim J Burley, Shaw, Boston. Schr It J Mercer, Somers, Boston. Schr J B Allen, Case, Nantucket. Sehr Amos Edwards,Somers, Fall River. Sehr Sarah Cullen, ollen, Boston. Schr S A Taylor, Dukes . , Lynn. Selo! N E Clark, Clark, Boston. Sehr B Metealf, Rogers, Boston. Sehruicksteil, Richardson, Boston. Q Behr L Leach, Grace, Boston. Schr Angenoria, Higgins, Boston. Solar Josephine, Waterbury, Norwich. , Schr Mary L Van Kirk, Van _Kirk, Nowilar' , Schr John Rodgers, Roathel, Cambrid Sehr _Northern Light, Ireland, am Sehr Rappahannock, Russell, Baltimore. Schr Ida L Howard, MeDuille, Portland. Steamer A C Stimers, Knox, Washimglon. Steamer Liberty Pierce, Now York. 0 ,1 Steamer David Reeves, Calm, Norfolk a Richmond. Steamer J S Shriver, Dennis, Baltimore. Correspondence of the Philadelphia reeimaitic,, Lawns Dcl., July 7-40 ' Sehrs Alice B_ , froutßkiladolphirt for 1 ,to Susan do for New York. Pallas, do for k J land; C Calhoun and garalt, from Baltirels for New York; Warren, do for Provitle!!', and 0 M Pettit from. New York for Ilra? , 1 1, :p ton, are in the harbor this morning; 'lttl revenue cutter W Seward, which came the bay this morning on a cruise. Wind • 1 onto, Ste., JOHN Notice to Mariners• s Si; LIGHTS AT CAI RACE A ‘ 111) CAPE EAST COAST OF REWPOITNDLAND. -411 f 0t1031,, bus been received at the .11.dmirtaty that been decided to make the follming 'oil in the lights at Cape Race and Cape 3'9 1, : the southeast coast of to i l Newfoun d, The fixed light at Cape Rae° is r i!. 1 ,;:. t ,1t• to a revolving white light, attaining lib lo est brilliancy every" half Iniuute. The revolving light At, Cape Pine is 4 0 ' toyed to tt fixed white ligltt• Li lo It is expected that these changes. place some time in August, 1865, but Ult . ., 1 ,4 else date, with further information, al , published in a subsequent notice, Eq command of their Lprdships , GEO. HENRY Ricnsaus, ILydrogral' Lowpozr, au= 12, LW, Philadelphia Markete. New York Markets, July 8. Arrived. Cleared. . 152 '4f0" :;f, bitsdi ..if. :if 5 • ... 4,180 bh 1 ,5u0 ))11., .3,600 ix,
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