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TUESDAY, JULY
. 18, 1865
THE NEWS.
The City of Washington, from Europe, ar
rived at New 'Fork yesterday. •
E ar l Russell had presented to the. House of
lords the American despatch in regard to the
Ivithdrawal of belligerent rights to the rebels,
in answer to a question of Earl Derby,
said that said despatches contained nothing
show that the usual courtesies would be de.
3ned British vessels. The English Parliament
Ind been prorogued and dissolved. The
Queen's speech expressed satisfaction at the
termination of our war, and a hope that, our
prosperity would soon be renewed. She re
grelS that the Confederation scheme of the
Tritish North American Provinces had been
Tejected. Forty-live of the passengers of the
burned ship Win. Nelson had arrived at Liver.
3,001. Consols were reported at 903,44003( 3 , and.
:>'2os at 714g72.
The North American, with Londonderry ad-
NiceS of the 7th, passed Father Point Yester
day. The Lord Chancellor announced his re
pignation ip an appropriate manner. Lord
Cranworth is his successor. The Fourth of
Only was celebrated in Paris in an appro
priate manner. Drouyn de L'Huys and the
diplomatic corps were present. The Madrid
journals assert that the Spanish Government
itt soon recognize the Kingdom of Italy
without prejudice to the Catholics. The cot
ton market Was irregular, with a decline of .
30(1. Consols were firm at WAWA', and
five-twenties were quoted at 7/
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The Government has entered into prelimi
mary arrangements for giving to the city of
Troelclyn certain lands in consideration of
*amender to the Government certain streets
bleb run through the Navy-Yard in that city.
Au address by General . Hancock to the
4311 leers and num of his army corps who have
ijurve been detached will be found in another
volume. Ile trusts that in their now position
they will so conduct themselves as will sus
tain the high opinion everywhere entertained
of them as veteran soldiers.
A Havana despatch says that Captain Page,
of the rebel ram Stonewall, had gone to Eng
land to engage in the merchant service. Other
officers of the same vessel had departed for
Mexico. Monto Christi and Puerto Plata had
been evacuated by the Spanish. Some three
hausand of the latter still remained in St.
Pawing°.
A tremendous storm passed over the country
. Drill and east of our city on Sunday last.
en Accounts will occasion surprise, since the
tthicii fell in our city was quite ordinary
- 11 quantity. In soma localities in New Jersey
'mules:se destruction was caused; and here
lie Wissahickon, romantic as it is, and the
overflowed their bauks, destroying
voperty and carrying away bridges. A local
article elsewhere gives all particulars. No
f ices, happily, are known to have been lost.
The crowds of rebels asking for Executive
Ivineney grows larger every day at the Pre
, idential mansion. Among those yesterday
- ere Messrs. Orr, of Mississippi, and Royston,
.1 Arkansas, both members of the late rebel
'engross, and the chief engineer of the Ala-
fall%
The Spanish Government, through its minis
er at Washington, has placed at the disposal
, f our thnrernment the rebel ram Stonewall,
Welt had been surrendered to the authorities
Celia. The letter of the Spanish minister is
our Washington despatches.
We print some additional particulars of the
laming of the German emigrant ship Wil
al2l Nelson. The fire occurred whilst the ship
as being fumigated, and when it was seen it
mild not be subdued, the captain, with his
•nnily and crew, left the ship in two boats.
e balance of the passengers were left on
yard, aml it Is supposed all were lost, though
:4114) was seen Ave or six miles from the
reek, which it is probable saved some cif the
San Francisco despatches say that General
cDowell has ordered all rebels arriving
'axe to take the oath of allegiance. The
uaynaas correspondent reports a battle near
here between 3,000 Liberals and 8,000 Frenell
coops. The former became panic stricken
nd were defeated. The Mexicans lost 250 and
a French three men. A portion of Forest
ity, Sierra county, was destroyed by fire on
e 28th of Jnne. Loss 860,000.
We have none or the names those saved
OM the William Zi - elson, and who had arrived
t t. Johns. They were thirty in number—
'ne females and twenty-one males.
Gen. Sherman, in a speech at Columbus,
hio, on Thursday, announced that he was in
Ivor of Gen. Cox for Governor, and that he
l not intend to be a candidate for the Pre-
MICy.
delegatioll Of the Corn Exchange, of this
r, were at the Executive Mansion, yester
endeavoring to have Mr. Thomas retained
allector of this port. A dtegation of Con
,suieu, with a contrary design, preceded
State Department has received °Metal
nation from Paris, which justifies the ex
ttion that the rebel property turned over
to Mexicans by the Texans after the eapi.
rtion will be restored to our Government.
demands on the Treasury amount to
)00 a day. •
rushington despatch denies that the re
lion of Commissioner of Patents, Hollo
ws; to prevent a rupture between Presi
folinson and Secretary Harland.
said the stock of cotton and tobacco in
Carolina is very large, but the people
lo means of sending it to market.
, ert 11. Clark, a paymaster in the navy,
Delaware, lamissing.
stock market was very dull yesterday.
rament bonds were without change,whilst
tires of Railroad shares were more steady.
flag sold at 503/..;(0150%, and Camden and
.oy at 199. 57% was bid for Pennsylvania.
arr P. M. gold closed at 113.
flour market was dull yesterday, extra
quoted at 447@7.25, and fancy brands at $9
Wheat sold at former rates. Rye was in
Corn was sold at 96 cents, and oats
cents per bushel. Prices of cotton were
a., and of whisky the, same.
a.; sales of beef cattle this week reached
it 1,300 head, prices of steers varying from
ate to 17 cents IRTh. Six thousand head of
1) were sold at 5 1 ,403 1 4, and 1,200 hogs at 13
ants 100 its net.
' closed last night in New York at 143.
ER FROM "OCCASIONAL.”
WASTIIIIGTOTT, July 17, 1865.
vicious as the prospects of the peob
tncl perpetuity of our Government
the presence of the ruins of the
d rebellion, there are some elements
future national greatness which
. and command primary considera
md applause. Arpong these is the
)1) of empire as connected with the
Territories, including all the mil
of unorganized acres to which the
titles are not yet extinguished, and
lion over which the incongruous
of Mormon profligacy holds its
i sway. The southern politicians
feared the Territories. They ap
led and anticipated in them the
1g of other republics, the nurseries
;ration, and the armories and fort
-a most aggressive freedom. There
a a Southern leader who took broad
in favor of the acquisition of terri
it did not end the bitter antagonist
doctrines of the pro-slavery propa-
The names of Thomas 'll.:l3en
,bert J. Walker, and Andre* John
r!e of the most ardent and thorough
Ale Southern chiefs, are historical
ibis statement. Following out
lective theories of acquiring the
it, 4ccording to Benton; of re-
Texas to the Union, according to
and of dividing the land obtained
Aiation, conquest, or purchase,
le landless of our own and those
countries, according to Andrew
; they could not resist destiny, as
din the eternal laws of justice,;
icy all came squarely and finally
) hostility with slavery and with
Calhoun saw this with trem
icitude, when he vainly and
led to frighten the North into the
)f . California, by which half of that
chase was to be poisoned with
and, when again he and his fol
tcceeded in making such a pros
partition of Texas as would,
'Sure, give several now slave States
out of the original .dimensions of
ificent creation and combination
lin], agricultural, manufactur
mmiercial advantages. But emi
:st, secession next, and rebellion
true to tleprive them of the prize;
mt they had set. apart as the new
tavery--the seat of.an extended
id .seraglio of their divine insti
as, thank God, been forever
tr) CiYilization, -Christianity, and
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Freedom. To show what was hero lost to
Slavery and gained to Freedom, let me quote
.from : the illustrious Benton, who, on the
16th of January, 1810, in the United States
Senate, described Texas as follows :
She covers sixteen degrees of latitude and
fourteen of longitude. she on of extends
north
from
twenty-six to forty-two deg
lati
tude, and from ninety-six to one hundred and
ten West longitude; that is to say, from tour
degrees south of New Orleans to near four de.
grees north of St. Lou% and from the lon
gitude of Western Mis uri to the summit
of the Rocky Mountains. Her southeast cor
ner is in the month of the Rio Grande,
region of perpetual flowers. Her north
west corner is near the South Pass, in the
Rocky Mountains, region of eternal snow':
She has a •
gulf frontier of near a thousand
miles . ; a river frontier on the Rio Grande of
two thousand miles; an indisputable River
frontier of a thousand miles on the Arkansas;
about five hundred more on the Red River;
nearly another five hundred on the Sabine
frontier, and an inland frontier of three hun
dred miles more-between the Red River and
the Arkansas. She base, circumference of above
five thousand miles, and a superficial content
of three hundred and fifty thousand square
miles She is large enough to make seven
States of the first class, and ought for her own
welfare, as well as that of the other States, to
beyeduced to a reasonable size. The proper
time for the reduction was the time of her ad
mission into the Union, (1844-15,) and I proposed
it at that time—proposed the reduction and
the settlement of all questions with her before
she was admitted. TINA proposition was over
ruled. She was admitted as a State with all
her questions of extent, boundary, public
lands, debts, and Indians unsettled ; and were
not to he waled afterwards except upon her
own terms.
It was a wise precaution to send a large
army to garrison a State of such enormous
capabilities, after a rebellion so momentous
AS that just defeated ; and it may turn out
that, in helping Texas to get rid of the re
bels, we not only relieve her from a worse
evil than the Mexicans who robbed her
twenty years ago, but give to the people of
Mexico a neighbor ready to help to• rid
them of a new foreign oppressor. But to
return to the starting point. The Ameri
can Territories have become, by events, a
stronger bond of Union to all the States.
Weakened within by dissensions that
were eating out the heart of the Republic,
we were getting to be without the respect
of our outlying relations. California was
beset with traitors who caught inspiration
from our internal strife. The flag of re
bellion was raised, and for a period waved
in triumph over Arizona, New Mexico, and
Nevada. Utah, dogmatic and selfish be
fore, grew insolent in flattered inde
pendence, and exultant in the bloody
trials of the Central Government. The
Indians were bribed and bullied and
lied into rebellion. tven Kansas was
in peril. Overland emigration was
stopped, and our treasure ships had to
be convoyed from San Francisco to New
York. With the end of the Confederacy,
however, came the commencement of the
double dominion of peace and of power. In
ternal feuds and injuries have been healed,
and a new life is growing fresh and
vigorous on the grave of slavery. THE
CENTRE BANDS AND THE TERRITORIES
ARE A TROT/SAND TIMES STRONGER THAN
THEY HAVE EVER BEEN. They hold no
unwilling hearts together. If they clasp
the old States with the embrace of a love all
the fonder, becauSe it is the embrace of re
conciliation, it is something to glory over
and to thank God for, that there is almost
equal affection, unity, and brotherhood
between those who have lately been seek
ing each others' lives, And if there is any
old hate left, it will soon be lost in the uni
versal sense of the restored prestige and
influence of. the. Government.
OCCASIONAL.
WASHINGTON.
THE REBEL GUNS SENT INTO DIEXICI
TO RE RETURNED.,
THE TREMBLY DISBURSEMENTS,
$5,000,000 A DAY.
GENERAL HANCOCK'S ADDRESS TO HIS
VETERANS.
The Rebel Steamer Stonewall Delivered
to Our Government.
Correspondence on the Subject between th
Spanish Minister and Secre
tary Seward.
WASHINGTON, July 17,1885.
The Brooklyn Navy ;Yard.
Admiral Surrn, Chief of the Bureau of Navy
Yards and Docks, has entered into prelimi
nary arrangements for giving to the city of
Brooklyn certain lands, and the advantage of
the dock at Wallabout, in consideration of the
surrender to the Government of the streets
which run through the Navy Yard grounds.
The action of the New York Legislature, it is
believed, is necessary to ratify the terms of
this exchange on the part of the city of
Brooklyn.
Address or General Hancock to his
Veterans.
The following order was promulgated to•
day:
HRADQUARTERS IST ARMY CORPS ..
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17,14,5.
GENERAL ORDERS No. 11.—Most of the regi
ments Comprising the Ist division, Ist Army
Corps, have been ordered to the mustering
rendezvous in, the different, States. Conse
quently,.they. will be temporarily detached
from their division and brigades.
In view of their approaching departure, the
Major General desires to say thut, as veterans
who have served with honor on every battle
fteid of the rebellion, their conduct will be
closely criticised by citizens and soldiers.
It is expected that each member of the corps
will feel an honest pride to the veteran organi
zation teWhieh he is attached, and will realize
that he represents not only his own locality
and State, but also the armies of the Union.
The Major General commanding trusts that
during their absence the members of this corps
will, by their good conduct and superior disci-
Pline, fully sustain the high opinion every
where entertained of them as veteran soldiers
of the United States.
Bp order of Major General Hancock. •
Euri.sv Asnintsow,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The Delivery or the Pirate Stonewall
to the United States.
The following correspondence has just taken
place in relation to the Stonewall : '
No. 34.—[Translated.]
LEGATION or SPAIN IN WASHINGTON,.WASHINGTON', 14th July , 186.3.
The undersigned, MiniStct Plenipotentiary
of her Catholic Majesty, has the honor to bring
to the knowledge of the Honorable, the Secre
tary of State, that agreeably to edictal Com
munications which'he has received from
Madrid, the order has been given to the
Captain General of Cuba to deliver the war
vessel Stonewall to the person whom the Go
vernment of the United States may commis
sion for that purpose; according to the due
formalities of intervention.
in thus acting the Government of Her Ma
jesty judges that the reasons adduced, in the
note of the 3d of May last, are not sufficient to
found the right of revindication, which that
of the United States believes it has over this
formidable vessel. Animated, nevertheless,_
by the same noble and loyal sentiments which
it has shown during the four years of the war
happily terminated in this country, it omits
entering into a (URSA:MS/0G without an object,
and the Stonewall is placed at the disposal of
the Government of the United States.
With reference to the statements for the ex
penses to the commander to the Stonewall of
$16,000, which sum, having been 'considered as
the sole and especial cause of the surrender of
the vessel, it is to be believed that the Govern
ment of the United States will not refuse to
reimburse it, it being understood nevertheless
that this is not a condition for the delivery of
the Stonewall, which delivery is and must be
considered absolutely unconditional.
The, undersigned avails himself of this occa
sion to reiterate to the Honorable Secretary of
-State the assurance of his highest considera
tion. GABRIEL T. TASSARA.
To the Honorable Secretary of State of the .
United States, &c., &c.
sawARD TO MR. TASSARA.
DEPARTMENT OP STATE,
WASHINGTON, July 17, 1383.
The undersigned, Secretary of State of the
United States, has the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of a note, which was addressed to
him on the 14th inst. by Mr. Tassara Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Queen of Spain.
In that note Idr. Tassara informs the mi.
dersigned that her Catholic Majesty has or
dered that the armed titeam vessel, called the
Stonewall, - which has been the subject of pre.
vions correspondence between the two coon
tries, shall be delivered up to the Government
of the United States, and that this decision
has been made with a waiver of the discussion
upon the question whether the claim of the
Lnited States for the surrender could be main
tained upon the strict principles of interna
tional law.
Mr. Tamara has been pleased also to assure
the undersigned that the surrender has been
ordered upon the ground of the mutual good
will which has happily prevailed. between the
two countries earfpg the period of the insur
rection which has heretofore so greatly dis
turbed the relations of the United States with
many of the foreign Powers. The undersigned
is still further informed that while Spain will
receive from the Halted States as they have
heretofore offered to pay the indemnity Of
416,000, the amount of expenses which the
Captain Goneralof Cuba incurred in obtaining
poeseesion.of the Stonewall, yet that the aux.'
render is tendered without making it depen
dent on such reimbursement as a condition.
Mr.' Tessera's communication has been sub
mitted to the President of the United States,
and the undersigned has now the pleasure to
inform Mr, Tassara that orders will be prompt
ly given for the bringing away of the Stone
wall from Havana and for the reimbursement
of the slim of slt,ooo to the Spanish Govern
ment. it only remains to be added that this
Government appreciates equally the prompt
ness, the liberality, and the courtesy which
bare marked the proceedings of her Catholic
Majesty's Government on this interesting sub:.
ject, and that 'these proceedings will have a
strong tendency to confirm and perpetuate
the ancient and traditional friendship of the
two nations.
The undersigned avails himself of this occa
sion to offer to Mr. Tassara renewed assur
ances of his highest consideration.
WILLIAM H. snwicao.
To Senor Don Gabriel Garcia Y. Tassara, &C.,
Washington.
• Presidential Appointments.
The President has made the following ap
pointments:
Direct Tax Commissioner for Alabama, Taos.
31-Axwm.ti.
Consul at Augsburg, Russia, CALVIN BROWN;
of New Jersey.
Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, AARON GERM)
of Tennessee.
Assayer, Branch Mint, Charlotte, N. C., Jonx
11. GIBBON.
Governor of Utah, CHAS. llunxiiE, formerly
United States Senator from Wisconsin.
Governor of Idaho, Wu. 11. WALLACE, in place
of CALEB LYON. Mr. WALLACH was lately a
Delegate in Congress from Idaho.
The Return of Rebel Guns from Reale°.
Official communications received at the De
partment of ,State, from Paris, justify the ex
pectation that the cannon and other property
carried across the Rio Grande by the rebel
leaders after the capitulation, will be freely
and fully restored to the United States, in
compliance with the demand heretofore made.
The Carding of Wool.
According to the ruling of the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, the mere carding of wool
is not, regarded as a manufacture ; and, there•
fore, not liable tb duty.
The Payments by the Treasury—Five
Million a Day.
Owing to the number of troops being mus
tered out of service,. including bounties and
other necessary obligations of the Govern
ment, the daily demands at present upon the
Treasury are, it is saidoto the extent of be
tween four and•five millions of dollars.
Cotton and Tobacco in Worth Carolina
There is much scattered cotton and tobacco
in North Carolina awaiting purchasers, but
the holders have no moans of sending it to a
market. Two of the citizens of that State left
here yesterday for New York, in order to make
arrangements with the merchants of that city
for its sale and conveyance North.
The Resignation of the Commissioner
of Patents
The reasons assigned in some of the news
papers for the resignation of Mr. HOLLOWAY,
the Commissioner of Patents, such as that it
was to avoid a rupture between the Secretary
of the Interior and the President, and similar
statements, are all wrong and calculated to do
injustice. The Secretary has never had any
disagreement with Mr. HOLLOWAY, and the
displacement of Mr. 11., or the appointment of
a new commissioner, has never been the sub
ject of a conversation between the Secretary
and the President.
Applications for Appointments
There are at least ten thousand applications
on file in the Treasury Department for ap
pointinents.
The Philadelphia Custom House.
A large delegation from Philadelphia, head
ed by the President of the Corn Exchange,
were at the Executive Mansion this afternoon,
waiting for an interview with President JOHN
SON' in relation to the retention of Colonel
THOMAS as Collector of that port, a delegation
of Congressmen having preceded them to of
feet his removal.
Appointments at Baltimore.
A delegation of Marylanders also had an in
terview with the President in opposition to
the Baltimore Custom-house reappointments
made on Saturday. There seems to be no con
troversy relative to the reappointment of
Mr. Pun-eta.-as Postmaster.
A kissing Paymaster of the Nary.(
The Navy Department evinces much solidi.
trade regarding the mysterious disappearance
of Paymaster ROBERT H. CLARE, Of Delaware,
who has had important orders addressed to
him but cannot, after earliest inquiry, be
found.
Calls on the President—The Executive
Clemency.
At least a .hundred persons—some of them
ladies-were, at half past two o'clock this
csteencon, in waiting to seethe President, but
the reception terminated at three o'eleek.
Among those in the ante-rooms were Oun, of
Mississippi, and ROYSTON, of Arkansas, both
members of the late rebel Congress. The
latter' has just been pardoned. A man was
pointed out in the throng as the engineer of
the pirate Alabama, who, with others present
from the South, had come to seek the Exeen
tire clemency.
FORTRESS MONROE.
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FORTRESS MoNROE, July 15.—Lieutenant S.
Hawk, 3d Pennsylvania Artillery, has been ap
pointed superintendent of the Freedmen's at
-
fairs for this military district.
The United States steamer Malvern is going
into the dry dock at Portsmouth, Va., for re
pairs, and will sail for the Southern squadron.
The steamer, Hugh Jenkins arrived from
Philadelphia, and sailed for Washington.
The propeller Leader arrived from Washing
ton; also propeller J. S. Green, from City Point,
bound to Baltimore, with troops.
Steamer . Nary/and, from City Point, and
bound to Fredericksburg with troops.
One hundred Government horses and fifty
Government mules were sold at Portsmouth
to-clay. The ' former averaged *GS each, the
latter brought an average of *93 each.
Propeller Charles Osgood arrived from New
York.,
'Schooner Edward Slade arrived from New
York,!bound for City Point.
Brig Sea Lion is ashore near Point of Shoals
James River. Lighters were sent toiler assist
ance toolay.
FORTILESB 3lostaoc, July 10.—There are 2,100
patients in the Hampton general hospitals at
the present time, mostly colored.
The Slumber of patients admitted into these
hospitals during the last fourteen months has
been ' 26,122
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Returned to duty • 7,113
Transferred to other hospitals 8,527
Died 2,05
Discharged 2,072
The balance admitted are rebels and ci
vilians. Dr. Eli McClellan has had charge of
these hospitals for nearly three years, and has
recently been relieved from his responsible
duties at these hospitals, and ordered to duty
at Philadelphia. This is much regretted by
all who have witnessed the manner in which
the Doctor has discharged his arduous labors
for the last three years.,Perfect system of
order, neatness, and convenicncehave marked
the twenty-seven wards in this Department
during the Doctoesisuperintendency.
Dr. J. F. Frantz is ordered to duty in charge
of these hospitals. He has for some time been
in charge of the Balfour hospitals at Ports.
mouth, Va., recently discontinued.
Arrived—Schooners S. E. Jayne, from City
Point; Clara, from City Point for Washing
ton; James and Franklin, do.; J. M. Baylis,
do.; E. R. Bennett, from New York for City
Point.
The Riehmond boats have arriyed, but bring
no news.
NORTH CAROLINA.
No Malignant Disease in Newbern.
E W Yonx, Julyl7.—Newbern advises of July
14th have been received. The Times is assured
by the Board of Health that no malignant dis•
ease prevails in that city. •
Our Murdered Dead.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE INTERMENT AT ANDER.
ECZEM!
NEW Yonx, July 17.—The steamer Chase
brings Savannah dates to the 13th.
The Steamer Virginia arrived on the 12th,
with fencing material, head-boards, and other
lumber to be used in enclosing the prison at
Andersonville. All the remains of our mur
dered prisoners will be decently interred in
proper graves, and, where identification is pos
sible, the name of each martyr will he legibly
marked upon neat head-boards. The whole
area is to be henceforth consecrated ground,
and when the fencing is up a suitable monu
ment will be erected.
HAVANA.
Movements of Rebel Naval Officers—A
illocAnde-Itunner to be Converterd
into a Slave Trader.
Nsw Yeas, July 17.—The steamer ilavans,
has arrived with llaVana advices of July 12th.
The Mario denies the report that Captain
rage, of, the ram Stonewall, had entered the
Mexican service, and says he has gone to Eng
land to enter the merchant service.
It is well known, howevei: 3 that several of
the Stonewall's officers aid go to Me r alee, and
that Others have engaged in the Spanish Navy.
It is reported that the blockade-runner Ze.
Phinec is to engage in the slave trade.
Monte Christi and Puerto Plata, in
,St. Do
mingo; have been evacuated by the Spaniards.
There were yet about three thousand soldiers
at St, Domingo.
The Corn crop 1810 St, and it is feared the cane
damaged.
crop will be irreparably
The Laborers , Strike in New 'fork.
BUFFALO, July 17.—There was a large proces
sion on Sajurday afternoon of the Laborers ,
Union, including the strikers, numbering 1,700
in all. No trouble occurred. The railroad
companies have supplied the places of the
strikers, and tin Vaasa la entirely beaten..
PHILADELPHIA,
THE DESTRUCTION OF T
SHIP WILLIAM NELSON.
Further Particulars—What Passeng:
were Saved—Heartrending Scenes
ilatrsex, July 17.—8 y the steamer Alpha
have received the statement of Captain ID
of the bark Meteor, who says Wo searc
a day and a half for the unfortunate pass.
gers of the ship William Nelson, the vrree
which was scattered for miles over the wat
The saved passengers say that on Sunday,
25th ult., the captain of the hapless ship
termined to fumigate her, and for this-p
pose ordered pitch to be taken into the 10
hold, and red-hot irons to be put into it. T
pitch ignited and boiled over, and the s
took fire. Finding it impossible to save t
ship, the captain and other officers, with t
cabin passengers, lett in the boats of the sh
which soon burned to the water's edge, cart
ing down over four hundred. steerage p
sengers."
The scenes on board the 111-fated vessel a
described as most heartrending.
Captain - Hart says that a ship, five or s
miles off his vessel, was seen by , hitn,am
rently engaged in searching for the wreels . , a
1.
he thinks that she undoubtedly saved so n 0
the passengers from the wreck, all of 7
to
bad been three days and nights in the ate;
The mate and cabin passengdrs are recd VI
from their injuries, but the women are
burned about the legs and arms, and a I ,
progressing so well.
HALIFAX, July 17.—0. 0. I.,each,.Eso., U' :
States Coma at St. Johns, N. F., on the , r
for the Unita States, furnishes the folio ".
statement of the most intelligent of the s , •
passengers of the ship William Nelson:
On Monday, the 26th ult., the steerage
sengers were all ordered above, and the
was thoroughly washed and fumigated,
The fire broke out about one o'clock in
afternoon. The captain, with his family,
the ship's crew in two boats, left the ship a
three P. M. Two other boats then attem
to leave the ship, but these were injured
swamped. Many of the saved passenger-
badly burned. The ship seen by Captain I
Probably saved some of the passengers
board the wreck.
FEARFUL STORM IN NE
JERSEY.
The Fields and Meadows Complet
Flooded—Honsss and Barns Nen
Lost to hight—Drest Destruction.
Somata - ILL% N. J., July 17.—A heavy al
set in here yesterday afternoon, causing e:
most extensive flood known in these p: s
since the year 1811. Along the line of the F.
tan River the fields of grain and the mead. s
are completely flooded, and the damage m
be unpreeedentedly great. Houses and ba
are nearly submerged, and the fences
highways are completely lost to sight.
At Middlebrook a bridge was eompletel
dermined, and caused the smashing up
.!
freight train, at 1 A. M., on the New Jetie
Central Railroad. In consequence of this bl
aster a number o 1 cars, containing cattle,
sheep, and hogs, were piled into one another'
in ruinous confusion. Many of the animals
were saved from the wreck only to And
watery grave. The flood at present prevents
the employees of the road from clearing away
the debris, and the bridge remains impassa
ble.
SOXERTILLE, July 17-2 P. AL—About two hun
dred feet of the road-bed of the South Branch
Railway, near the bridge across the Raritan
River, is washed away by the freshet, causing
a suspension in the Dinning of the trains.
The water is now falling,
REW Bauxinvics., N. J., July 17.—This city
has been visited by a heaVy freshet in the
Raritan River. The lower part of the city is
under water. The rise in the river began
about two o'clock this morning, and quickly
rose ten feet above high-water mark, but is
now slowly falling again.
The Delaware and Raritan Canal --is broken
in several places, and several daysmust
before navigation can be resumed on it
large number of boats, barges,. and rafts hav:!
teen carried away. The amount of damag
cannot well be estimated at the"present tim
but it will be considerable.
HAYTI.
Political Affairs in the North yet 17
settled-Cape Haytien Still Held
the Rebels
BOSTON, July 17.—The bark Springbok,
this port from Port au Prince, - brings advi
of June 20th.
Political affairs la the north . were still
settled. The rebels continue to hold C
Haytien, and the Government forces w
making slow work In reducing that town.
The place has been declared in a state
siege, and all the foreign consuls notifle
the fact, but it was considered a difficult w.
on the part of the Government to make
effective; owing to the want of vessels.
rebels were eonfino to cape Itaytiee, the r
of the island being in a tranquil state.
SPEECH FROM GEN. SHERMAN
HE ANNOUNCES 'HIMSELF IN FAVOR OF GEN. C.
FOR GOVERNOR-HE CONSIDERS A MAJOR. GEN
RALSHIP BETTER THAN THE PRESIDENCY.
On Friday, Gen. Sherman was accorded
grand reception by the people of Columbn.
Ohio. In the evening he was honored virii
a banquet, and, in reply to a eomplimentar
toast, made a speech, during which he said :
"Ithad been surmised he had political asp
rations. That was a great mistake. Re woul
not accept the office Of President were it Were
him to-day. He could do better. Twenty-fly ;
thousand dollars a year was no induceme
for him to assume the duties and respons ,
hilities of the Presidency. Se would prefer t :
retain the military position he now_liolds.
was quite satisfied with the rentation h
had gained in it, and he intended to take ca
of it. The Presidency had well nigh kille
every military man that had meddled with i
and he had no purpose or desire to have an
thing to do with it. And it had been said h
could not favor his friend Cox, here, fo
the civil office for which he is now a °midi '
date. Here, again,liehadbeen misunderstood.
What he cua say was, that he wondered tha r
the General would exchange a Major General
ship for the place of Governor of Ohio. ilu
he supposed that, possibly, General Coy eon
sidered it was giving up an uncertainty for
certainty.. For himself he would mot have the
office if he could, for two years, or 4,hou
sand years. Again he thanked his friends for,,
the evidences given him of their confidence,
and esteem." •
Speech of Gen. Hooker at New York.
Yaw Yon a, July 17.—The 2d Massachusetts
left their temporafy quarters at the Battery
at four o'clock this afternoon, andtook up the
line of march to the steamer up Broadway,
escorted by Col. Howe and a few sons of Ma
sachusetts, receiving a hearty welcome from,
our citizens on the route. The New England
rooms were decorated to the roof with waving
colors, and the old 2d received from the
wounded and convalescent soldici , s et the:
rooms a continuous round of cheers, while a •
salute was tired from the roof of the institu- •
tion by a detachment of one-armed Massachu
setts battery boys.
Arriving in front of the Astor House, the
regiment halted, and saluted Major General
Hooker and staff, the colors dipping, and the
boys giving nine cheers for their old corn
mender. General Hooker responded as fol
lows: •
Co/onef and companions in arms of the old 2cl
Massachusetts Infantry: I thank you, fellow
soldiers, for this compliment you pay meit'
touches my heart, which responds in its quick
beatings. lam happy to meet so many of you
returning to your homes, Where thousands of
warm hearts will give you a warm welcome!
the moment you pnt_your feet upon the glo
rious soil of good old Massachusetts. I welcome
you from my heart thus far on your Journey
to your homes—for, at one time, I did not
think there would any of you ever be able to
get so far as this metropolis on - your home
ward trip.
Your regiment, fellow-soldiers, has always
been famous. The old 2d Massachusetts has
always been famous in the army for its disci
pline ; and, in the ranks of the rebels, it has
always been more famous for its bravery and,
devotion to our country's
Again, fellow-soldiers, I thank you for this
compliment, and congratulate you upon being
able to return to your good old city of Boston,
where, doubtless, you will be crowned with
laurels commensurate with the long-tried,
noble services and sacrifices you have render
4
ed for your cause. Farewell, soldiers, and God)
bless you!
After shaking hands with the Colonel n.nds
officers of the 2d, the General retired arnhistt
the cheers of the regiment and the immensei
throng congregated in front of the Astor.
The regiment then resumed its march to the'
boat, resolving a continued ovation to the mo
ment of its departure.
NEW YORK CITY.
New YORK, Jlay 17.
NEW YORK BANK STATEMENT.
The bank statement for the week ending on
Saturday shows:
An increase of loans *2,74 0,00 0
An increase of specie 1,290,000
An increase of circulation 240,000
An increase of deposits 2,220,000
A decrease of legal tenders.-- . . ... 1 400 000
,
THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
SECOND BOARD.
5000 U 6 Os 'Bl 0.107% 200 BrUllB. C. Land- 1334
100000 U. S. 6s, 6-20 c 200 Erie It sso siX
new issue 106 100 do s3O 81
511000 U. S. Gs, 5-20—c Jai%) 100 do 510 83
17000 T 2a, 7.5-10..2d 3.3.00 400 do 82.
:5000 N.' T. St 6s, '75.. 97 200 do - 8 - 2 g
5060 0 1 311 Ct 253 200 Hudson It H 106 X
10000 Am Gold 143 600 Clt I R Island $.106%
700150 du 615.142 500 do 1330.106
100 Canton Co 393( 400 Reading R... 810.101
130 PFtIV .2 C 1t... 97)6 400 do 530.1009 E
100 do 97% 1600 do 101 X
THE EVENING BTOOR BOARD
At Gallagher's Exchange, this evening, gold
closed at .143• New York Central, 9334 • Erie
Railroad, 81 Hudson River, 107 X ;
100; old gout ern, 65%; Fittsimrg,67%; Rook
'island, 105 1 4; Northwestern 27%; Northwest.
ern preferred, 61%; Fort Wayne, 96y; Ohio
Central Certificates, 24%; Alton anti Ter r e
Haute 26 • Cumberland, 42; Quicksilver, 55%.
Movements of Gov. Curtin.
SAIIATOGA, July 17.—Gov. Curtin, of Penni3yl
- arrived here on Saturday. •
DAY, JULY 18, 1865.
TIES
EUROPE.
THE. BRITISH PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED
"Queen Victoria Rejoices at the Termi
nation of . our War.
Some More of the Passengers of the Burned
Steamer Nelson Saved,
NM YORK, June 17.—The steamship City of
Washington, from Liverpool on the sth, and
Queenstown on the 6th, arrived at noon to-.
day. Her adviees are one day later than were
furnished by the Hansa.
The steamer Beatrice formerly the rebel
cruiser Tallahassee, left Calais on July 2d fOr
Liverpool.
In the House of Lords Earl Russell presented
the correspondence from. America as to the
termination Of the war, and expressing satis
faction at the withdrawal of belligerent rights
to the Confederates. In reply to Lord'Derby,
he said there was nothing in the despatch to
indicate that the usual• courtesies were to be
still denied to British• vessels.
The session of the Corps Legislatif has
closed.
The Bourse was firm at 67f7e.
It is stated that Count Beleredi is the new
Austrian Minister of State.
. _ .
Telegraphic advices from Bombay to June
29th report a decided improvement in the
markets.
THE LATEST,
[By'aelegraph from London to Queenstown.]
L0141:0011, July 6,—Mr. Bigelow, the American
Minister at Faris, gave a fete on the Fourth of
July, which was largely attended.'
The British Parliament was prorogued to
day,_ and a dissolution immediately followed.
The Queen's speech was delivered by com
mission. It rejoices at the termination of the
civil war in America, and trusts that the evil
caused by the long conflict may be repaired,
and prosperity restored in the States which
have suffered from the contest.
. _ .
She regrets that the Conrederatien scheme
in British America was not carried out—be
lieving that it would give the Provinces addi
tional strength, and fend to many improve
ments. She expresses gratification at the as
surances of devoted loyalty of the Provinces.
LIVERPOOL, Julys—Evening.—The steamship
Lafayette arrived early this morning at Brest,
from New York, having picked up from three
boats, forty-five passengers from the American.
ship William Nelson, from Antwerp to New
York, which sailed with . four hundred and
eighty passengers. The fate of the remainder
was not known.
Commercial Intelligence.
LIVENPOOL t July 6, VIA QUEENSTOWN.—COT.
TON.—The sates to-day amount to 3,000 bales,
The market is very dull and the quotations
barely maintained.
BREADSTUFFS.—The market is quiet but
steady.
Pnovzsions.—The market is inactive. Lard
firm.
LONDON, July 6.—Consols closed at 803w0 3 ,4
for money.
slxEnicax SECURITLEB.-1111.11.0i8 Central Rail
road, 8.54; Erie Railway 69G53A ; United
States Five-twenties 713 @7%.
STILL LATER.
A HMV LORD CHANCELLOR APPOINTED
THE CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF
JULY IN PARIS.
FAIN TO RECOGNISE THE KING
DON OF ITALY.
FATHER POINT, ,Julyl7.—The steamship North
o erican, from LivOrpool on the 6th, via Lon
i onderry ,on the 7th, passed this point this
, vening, for Quebec.
The steamer City of London, from New
orki reached Liverpool on the evening of the
r6Ol, and the Glasgow, from New York*, arrived
on the same night.
The steamer Scotia, from New-York, arrived
at Queenstown on the 6th,
In the House of Lords, on the sth, the Lord
Chaneellor , gnnoimeed' his resignation hi an
appropriate valedictory address. He stated
that he had repeatedly expressed a desire to
resign, in consequence of the- unjust charges
brought againsthim but Lord Palmerston and
his colleagues had dissuaded him from doing
so. 11. e would say nothing in regard to the
vote m the House of Commons further than
that he bowed to it and hoped, in time, that a
more favorable feeling would be entertained
toward him.
. . _
New elections Parliament would probably
take place on the 11th or 12th instant.
Satterthvratte's Circular, on the evening of
the sth, says Business in American securities
has been active, though in amount scarcely up
to the average of the past few weeks. Five
twenties ranged at between 71 to 7214, a further
advance being checked by the fact that they
were relatively about 1 per cent. higher than
in New York. In Illinois and Erie Railroad
stock the transactions have been numerous,
and there has been good buying of the former
to secure the stock and cash dividend payable
on Angnet 16th.
PRANCE.
At the Jae given on the Fourth of July by
Mr.. Bigelow, the American minister at Paris,
with the exception of Drouyn De LI Huys„and
the diplomatic_ corps, and Messieurs Chasse-
Joup, Lanbat, and Dalavallette, who are mar
ried to American ladies, none but Americans
Were admitted. Mr. Bigelow delivered a
speech, in which he stated the conciliatory
purposes ,of the American Government. Dan.
eing then took place in a tent decoratca. with
French and American flags.
M. "
'The Madrid journals.assert that the Govern
ment of Spain will shortly recognize the King
dom of Italy without prejudicing the interests
of the Catholies.l
In the Loudon Money Market on the sth, the
demand for discount was moderate, and on.
the Stock Exchange there was an increased
Supply Of money at VA. and per cent. The
tendency of the discount market was toward
increased ease.
ME LATEST-THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR.
LONDON, July 7.—The political news is unim
portant.
Lord Cramworth is the new Lord Chancellor.
Commercial Intelligence.
LONDON ... RODUCE MARKET, July 7.—Sugar is
in fair demand; the reflnd qualities are quiet
but firm. Coffee—The business is limited, but
prices are firm. Tea quiet but unchanged.
Rice—Further sales of white Bengal at full
rates. , Wheat quiet at Monday's rates.
LIVERPOOL, July 7.—Cotton—The Brokers'
circular reports the sales of the week at 31,500
I bales, including 6,500 bales to speculators, and
7,000 bales to exporters. The market has been
irregular and closed dull, with a still down
ward tendency at a decline of 1 /Ald. '
The following are the authorized quota
, tiOns :
Middlings.
Uplands 18M.
Orleans 191/2d.
Texas 19 , '41.
' The sales of to-day are estimated 10,0191),
hales, the market being firmer, under the
steamer Scotia's news, and prices WO,f,d
higher, mainly on fine qualities.
The stock in port is estimated at 368,000 bales,
1 of which 29000 bales are American.
The Breadstuffs market is dull, and prices
have a declining tendency.
Provisions are quiet, with a downward
tendency, except for Lard, which is firm.
are
firm
MONEY MAaasv. July 7.—Consols are
ilrm at 9194@90% for money. United States
5-2.9 s are quoted at 72.
THE PACIFIC STATES.
General McDowell Orders All Rebelis to
' Take the Oath of Allegiance.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM MEXICO,
AN A.lt3tl OF THE LIBERALS ROOTED
BY THE FRENCH.
Sea Fukscdseof June 24.—General McDowell,
in accordance with iustructions from the War
Department, hlal WSW san order requiring all
m en arriving at Salarautisco, know to have
been in the rebel array, to take the oath of al
legiance.
Bounties for recruiting here will cease after
July Ist.
The week closes on an easy money market.
Capital IS plenty at '%@ sp cent, There is
much fluctuation in mining stooks. ,
A. company has been organized to navigate
Colorado river to its upper waters.
There has been a fair busidess in dry
goods this week. Staple cottons of domes
tic . manufacture are in favor, and the bet
ter standard prints, heavp brown sheet
ings, and fair-class bleached cottons are
very scarce, and are in consequence about
paying COst and charges ; but the great bulk
of cotton fabrics are selling below their
Eastern cost, not including incidental ex
penses. Owing to the condition of exchanges
and the high rates at the sources of supply'
very few goods are cominu out, and the stocks
for the fall trade will be generally light.
Trade in domestic woollen goods is almost a
blank. Eastern domestic woollens are pretty
nearly supplanted by goods of local manufac
ture.' _
The steamer John Stephens has arrived. She
brings nearly 050,000 in treasure, but no news.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—The Guaymas cor
cepondence et June 13th contains an account
.1-the route of Pesdnera's arnly of LiberalS,
onsisting of 3,000 men, on the Vd of April, by
force of 3,000 French, mostly cavalry, at FA
'aso, midway between Guaymas and Hereto
'Me. The Liberals were surprised and panic
trieken, allowing an advance of sixty men to
ide several times through their camp. The
Mexicans lost 250 killed and wounded, and
ere scattered hi all directions, losing large
nantities of arms and ammunition.
The French had hut three killed and one
14110311'g. Rewriter& Collected about one then
- end of his troops, and retired to Hermeville.
It is supposed' that his men refused to fight
tibeause of their dissatisfaction with their
Moen.
'Affairs in the Northwestern States 0t14014.
co appear in ,a' chaotic and uncertain state.
At the seaports quiet prevails, but the into-,
vier is ruled alternately by both parties, and
there is no security for life or property. The
Liberals hope for aid from the United States.
Alvarez is said to have remitted $20,000 to
Gen.. Ile agora, who is in San Francisco trying
to encourage emigration, but the p lan is meet
lug with no practical success.
A despatch from New Westminster says the
steamer Silloct sailed for Gall yesterday, car
rying two hundred miles of wire and insula
tors for the Russian telegraph line above
Westminster, the building of which is pro.
gressing at the rate of six miles per day. The
submarine cable will be laid across Frazer
River to-day.
Sax FRANCISCO, June 28.—The greater por
tion of ' Forest City, Sierra county, was de -
Stroyed by fire to-day. One woman was burned.
to aeatll, and another badly injured. The loss
amounted to $60,000.
The fires this summer have been unusually
numerous and destructive.
The prices of breadstuffs have greatly de
clined with the approach of abundant har
vests. Flour, the prices of which ruled so
long at from $1405, now ranges at from VW
ifi barrel.
Retrospect.
The Charlottesville (Va.) semi-weekly Chro
nicle, a paper Which made its first appearance
onlVednesday, the 12th, is the continuation of
the late Charlottesville Chronicle and Char.
lottesville Review Combined. The Review news
paper. suspended publication in July, 1861,
some three months after the commencement
of the second year of its existence.
The Chronicle republishes an article which
appeared in the Review, October 26th, 1860 ; and
as we think it of sufficient interest, we lay it
before our readers :
There was peace when Mr. Fillmore was
President. Under Mr. Fillmore we got the
compromise measures, and from him we ob
tained the fugitive slave law. But Mr. Fill
more, say the Democrats, was an Abolitionist.
Nevertheless, Mr. Fillmore gave us peace. The
country was happy and prospered. There was
'elevation and dignity about his Administra
tion. Mr. Fillmore, like all other Northern
conscientious men, was not a pro-slavery
man. But he was true to the Constitution,
and true to the South. He. made no hypo
critical professions, like Mr. Cushing, or
Benj. F. Mallet but he executed the laws.
How long before the South will ascertain
that men who express their.opinions guarded
ly are men of character, and are men to be
trusted ? Undoubtedly if violence is any evi
dence of fealty to the South, the Jefferson
Davis's, the Toombs's, the Yancey's, are sound
on the slavery question: That is, ' they make
broad avowals. They take rank ground. They
are exceedingly loud. But what have these
men done for the South i Have they built up
Southern ideas I Have they expanded slavery?
Have they overcome the Abolitionists
Recklessly agitating the slavery question,
they have played into the hands of the fanatics.
,Eternally harping on the slavery question,
they have made it an issue in every' local,
every State, and every Presidential election.
They began by refusing the plain right of peti
tion, and have wound up with the repeal of
the Missouri line, the Lecompton Consti
tution, and the dogma of intervention. ' The
weaker :party, they= are always provoking
issues.. They have persistently and. mi. ,
formly denounced all the Whig ''candidates
from General Harrison to John Bell. as.
unsound. Our Gubernatorial candidatesha,ve•
been , assailed in the same manner: They
drove us to the wall in the. South, because•
we were less violent, and with the South
ern States thus enlisted, and a few Northern
States, they have held the government. Now,
and for some years past, the Northern people
have met them on their own ground. If you
will have the slavery question—then, said the
North, we accept the issue. Let it be the sla
very question. You appeal to the prejudices
of your section, and beat us in the elections ;
we will appeal to the prejudices of our people
—and see who will win the race. In its mad
and blind career, wanting a new issue, the
Democratic party started the Kansas bill.
They reined the South up to a repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. - Then the Northern
men turned upon them with their own weap
ons. Then, as if by a touch of a wand, the Re
publican party sprung from the earth. They
sent Senators and Representatives to Congress.
They nominated'Fremont for the Presidency,
and barely failed in electing him. But the
Democracy were not yet satisfied. They com
menced that Iniquitous system of measures
for the Afrieanization of Kansas. Monstrous,
outrageous frauds were perpetrated. The
bowie-knife decided on the right of suffrage.
They passed the indefensible Lecompton Con
stitution, attempting to force slavery on the
Territory, when they. knew the people were
five to one against it. The Republicans ac
cepted the issue. Their speakers travelled to
and fro, and the passions of the 'North were
stirred to their inmost depths. They acquired
a preponderance in 'the House of Representa
tives ; they carried nearly every national
Senatorial election.
In the meantime, as if they would not be
outdone in fanaticism, the Southern fire-eaters
started the idea of repealing the laws against
the African slave trade; and, finally, their
career culminated in the demand at Charles•
ton for Congressional protection.
Allthis was the wind ; we hare in store the
whirlwind.
Let us trace the history of the Anti-Slavery
party. It appears first in Pm, when its ticket,
with James G. Birney, of Michigan, as its can
didate for the Presidency, and Frailties a.
Lemoyne, of Pennsylvania, as ' its Vice Presi
dential candidate, polled 7,000 votes. In 1844,
after Mr. Tyler's administration, with Mr.
Birney again as its candidate, it polls(' 62,140
votes. In 1818, after Mr. Polk's. administra
tion, with Martin, Van, Buren on its ticket, it
polled 296,232 votes. In 1852, after Mr. Fillmore':
administration, with John P. Hale as its candi
date, it polled. 197 296 votes. In 1852, under the
lead of John C. Fremont, after Gen. Pierce's
administration, it polled 1411,812 votes. Now,
in 1860, after Buchanan's administration, it
may get the government. • •
The vote grows steadily after each adminis
tration excepting one. Suddenly then ii jails
off. Wily is this 7 They had ,, no fuel. Fanati
cism lives on agitation. That administration
gave them no issue—passed no Kansas bills,
repealed no compromises, caned no Senators,
perpetrated no fraudulent Constitutions.
Now we say very , coolly to the South—keep
forward your agitatOra—baek up your firs
eaters—cherish your demagogues—and the end
is, not yet. You will have civil war you will
have revolution ; Virginia, as far as she is
concerned, will lose all her slaves, her land
and stocks will be sold for a song—and there
will be a good deal of blood-letting besides. -
The Southern Press.
[From tile Nation, Ju1y13.3
When n, steamboat beeomeg old, rotten, nil•
seaworthy, and, losing the confidence of the
public, is in danger of losing their patronage,
t is hauled off for repairs, the painter and
upholsterer are summoned, it is baptized
with a new name, and in six months the pub
lic are invited to try the qualities of "the new
and splendid steamer —, etc." . The thief,
known to the police, adopts a disguise and an
alias, and both thief and steamboat proprie
tor find, Shakspeare to the contrary notwith
standing, that there is a great deal in a name.
This stale trick the press of the South are re
peating upon the people, with better success
than it deserves. The old papershave dropped
their names, and because we do not see the
title, we delude ourselves - with the idea that
their existence is ended. Because we no longer
remd envenomed extracts from the Sentinel,
ant)..Ezenniner, and Dispatch, we imagine they
are dead ; but the truth is the newspapers of
the South are unchanged—in character, in
animus, in all but name. The same capitalists
own them ;the sameproprietors manage them;
the same editors write for them. It is true
the published names of editor and proprietor
are often new. It is true also that their
columns are not filled with the same noisy
but vapid denunciation of everything North
ern ; but this is the effect of fear.
Throughout the rebellion Richmond has
been regarded as a representative of rebel
clom, and the Richmond press as representa
tive of the press of the entire Confederacy.
We have made some &acidity into the present
condition of that press, andd we venture the
assertion that there is not a "sound " news
paper among them all. There is -not one of
them genuinely new. Their editors may have
taken the oath of allegiance. They may ae
cquiesce in a state of things which they consider
inevitable, and abstain from fighting anew the
useless battle over the dead bodies of slavery
and secession. But there is not a paper in
Richmond which is thoroughly in favor of the
new order of liberty, union, and equality of
rights. There Is not one which heartily sup
ports a restored nationality and free institu
tions. '
We do not propose to leave this a geneval
assertion. We will make it good by specnlca,
tions. The principal papers in Richmond are
the Whig, the Republic, the Commercial Bulletin,
and the Times.
_ •
The Richmond Whig has neither changed its
name nor its editor—Mr. William Ira Smith,
the present proprietor, bought a half interest
in it, during the war, it is hinted to save him
self from conscription. Two others of the firm
who owned it were colonels in the rebel army.
Their names no longer appear in connection
with the paper, but it is more than suspected
that they still possess an interest in it. Of all
Papers in the rebel capital, it was, perhaps, (if
there were any diirerence,)the least obnoxious.
It was inclined to be conservative, and secured
some respect from the North by its persistent
opposition to the Davis administration. But
it was never suspected of real Unionism, or it
never 'Could have lived in Richmond. And,
though it aeqUidSeeS in the restoration of the
national authority" and submits to the Pier
pont Government, it cannot be said to give a
cordial support tb • either. It is not regarded
as their organ bythe loyal men of Virginia,
nor does it enjoy their confidence.
The Richmond Republic is ostensibly a new
paper. It was started very soon after the
evacuation of Richmond. In its prospectus it
promised great things. Securing the editorial
services of the former correspondent of a
Northern newspaper the loyalists hoped to
find in it the expression of their views. But
its proprietors control its columns and give
character to its utterances. These are the pro
prietors respectively of the Richmond Exami
ner and the Richmond Dispatch. It is in reality
a resuscitated form of those defunct, newspa
pers.
The Cbmmercial Bulletin is simply Davis' old
organ the Richmond sentinel, in a new name,
ut without a changed spirit.
The Times is the newspaper of Richmond. It
has much the largest circulation. It is,
per
haps, not much to say that it equals that of all
the other papers combined; this it has ac
quired by its audacious secessionism. Its
editor is Mr. H. R. Pollard, formerly of the
Examiner, author of a Southern "History of
the War,” and for a time a resident of Port
Warren. So outspoken is its secessionism that
it has lately bean warned by the military that
its course must change or its publication stop.
And such, with some exceptions, is the press,
not only of Richmond, but of the 'whole South.
We are felting great pains to put loyal men in
the gubernatorial chairs. But here is a power
greater than that of the Government wielded
almost wholly in the interestof an aristocracy
as yet far from dead.
There is nothing which is so much needed in
the Southern States es a loyal, liberty-loving
press; yet the South cannot, will notsustain
In a State where the Governor declares that
nineteenth-twentieths of the people would be
disfranchised h being required to take an oath
before voting that they have not voluntarily
aided the rebellion, there is no constituency
strong enough now to sustain the right kind
of a newspaper. In some form or other assist
ance must be obtained from abroad. We com
mend this to whom it may concern. in
New York. In no way Could they render a more I
substantial service to the country, than in
dabbing together to furnish Northern daily
THREE CENTS.
papers to the city of Richmond, through some
authorized agent, at the simple cost of paper,
Printing, and transportation, where now they
can only be perchased for ten cents per copy,
and are rare at that. dean 7 deanWhilo, we warn the
public to remember that the extracts which
they constantly read from the Southern press,
Concerning the condition of society, and espe
cially the conduct of the negro, are prepared
for out information by the same men whose
atrocious calumnies or the North did more to
produce the war—whose unblushing false..
hoods, during its progress, did more to pro
long and embitter it, than all other influences
combined."
The Expeditions Against the Indians.
FORT LARAMIE, July M.—General Connor will
start from here with the left column of the
Powder River Indian Expedition within the
next ten days. The right column, nearly 2,000
strong, is now well up to Davis' Park. The
centre eoiumn will leave from camp, near this
place, and strike through the Bieck Ifilicouu
try. Supply depots have been established
on Powder river. This expedition against the
hostile Indians does not withdraw a soldier
from the Overland Mail and Telegraph routes.
On the contrary, they will have additional
troops stationed along them as rapidly as the
troops arrive within the district. The travel..
ling public and emigrants and ()then need not
have any apprehensions for the safety of those
routes.
The Great Boat Race at Poughkeepsie
POUGHKEEPSIE, W. Y., July 17.-I-The excito
ment iu regard to the great four-oared boat
race to-morrow runs high, andtho cityisiiiied
with strangers. It is estimated that 450 . 0,000
have already been staked on the result.
The London Herald in a Bad Humor.
[From the London Herald.]
The relations between our Government and
that of the United States of America do not
seem to be of the most amiable description.
We are given to understand that the Cabinet
of Mr. Johnson is still pressing onthat of Lord
Palmerston its unreasonable claim of compen
sation for the losses caused bithe Alabama
We and other Southern cruisers. are the less
surprised at these arrogant demands, and at
the meekness which, submitting to them with
out protest, encourages those transatlantic di
plomatists to press them on our attention
more exactingly from month to month, when
we learn that our Government has already sub
mitted patiently to rebuffs that one would
have supposed must have sorely tried its tem
per. The correspondence on the subject of
Mr. Gray,
the late mate of the Saxon, shot by
the lieutenant of the American steamer Van
derbilt, has just been laid before Parliament.
It was closed by Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of
'State for Foreign Affairs. In this letter Mr.
Seward refused, in a very insolent manner, to
accede to the mild suggestion put forward by
Lord Russell, that the American- Government
might make some compensation to the widow.
* * * * * *
Her Majesty's Government has submitted to
this quietly, as usual. It has failed toprocure
justice against the murderer of Gray; it has
failed to obtain any sort of compensation for
his widow. Let any nation be strong enough
and bold enough, its officers by land and sea
may shoot Englishmen with impunity wher
ever they find them, and cap the outrage by
turning round to their relatives and insulting
their memory.
A WIPE DIES ON Han HUSBAND'S GRAVS.—A
singular event occurred in the Herman lie
formed Cemetery in Ifiddletowil,Frederielr.
county, about sunset on the 4th of July. Airs.
Hannah •Reller, a widow lady, well advanced
in years, residing in Middletown, in company
with her daughter, visited the grave of her
deceased husband,' on the evening above
stated, and whilst trimming the flowers upon
his tomb, was 'suddenly stricken by apoplexy
and died in a few moments. On the following
afternoon leer remains were deposited in the
very spot where she died, by the side of those
of her husband.
MUTE ITEMS.
The Lancaster Express says: "We are not the
organ of the Republican Union party, or the
organ of any party. During the terrible con
test through which we have just passed we
have stood, by the Government and flag, and
shall do so at all times when either are assailed
by foes, from within or without. The princi.
Pies which the Express advocated have tri
umphed, but it advocated these principles not
from the behests of party but from a convic
tion of right. That was• the platform of the
Express then, now, and will continue to be
while it remains under the control of its pro.
sent editors."
The Harrisburg Telegraph, which was re•
cently enlarged and greatly improved in ap
pearance, thus thanks its cotemporaries for
the kind manner in which they spoke of it :
"We are under obligations to our cotempora
ries for their complimentary notices of our
enlargement. Some of these days we will tell
our readers what our brethren of the press
say of us. In the' mean time our thanks are
tendered the fraternity for their favors."
On Saturday last au Irishman and English
man got into a dispute at Palo Alto, Schuylkill
county, about the productiveness of their re
spective countries, when they concluded to ad
journ to , the tow-path, near the "Round
Rouse," and settle the matter by a - Agllt,
Eighteen rounds were fought, occupying half
an hour. The Irishman was victorious, the
Englishman having been so effectually "sent
to' grass" gs to be unable to fight any longer.
In Greeniburg, Allegheny county, a short
time since,. some boys favored a newly-mar
ried couple with a serenade, ala timpani. A
guest at the house became annoyed, and after*
ward catching one of the boys, beat him
soundly. On Wednesday, the sth, the boy hit
him with a stone. On Saturday, the Bth, the
gentleman tried to shoot the boy. Music bath
charms, &c.
In Lancaster on Tuesday a burglar entered
the bedroom of a Mr. Erben, who woke and
saw the fellow looking him square in the face,
having first lighted the gas. Erben yelled
"murder," and the burglar fled. Nothing of
value was taken.
The Odd-rellows' picnic, held at Williams
port on Thursday, was attended by about
three hundred and fifty members of the Order.
A number of addresses were delivered, good
music was in attendance, and all present had a
good time.
The citizens of Pittsburg at , o making pre
parations for a grand regatta there, to take
place in September, on the same day of the
firemen's annual. parade. Substantial prizes
are to be offered for rowing.
Four new hotels are in process of erection
in Franklin, Venango county. Three of them
are to be known as the "Grant House," the
"Sherman House," and the " Galbraith House:,
The Pittsburg Post says there is a well
known resident of that city who is seventy
two years of age, and has a physician's certiff
cate that he has not been libber for forty years.
The movement to erect a monument in
Greensburg, to the memory of the soldiers of
that county;who died in the service of their
country, is progreSsing rapidly.
-- The Wilkesbarre Times says that orders
for coal begin to come in, and it is 'very proba
ble there will be an active trade in Luzerne
county during the fall.
Gen. Kane, of the town of that name in
Cameron county, has donated a beautiful
church-site to the Catholics of that place, and
also a large amount of building material.
The Harrisburg 2tlegraph calls watermel
one, whicA were exposed for sale in the mar
kets of that city the other day, cholera bomb
abells.
The twenty-ninth annual commencement
Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancas
ter, will take place on Wednesday, July 26th.
On Wednesday last Mrs. M. Sillyman was
reappointed postmistress at Pottsville for the
ensuing four years.
A stock company is being raised to build
a market-house and town-hall in Mechanics.
burg.
A prize fight was recently fought in the
neighborhood of Brie on Monday.
The Lochiel and Buehler hotels, in Harris
burg, are being enlarged.
The farmers throughout the State are call
ing for help to harvest their ems.
There are about three hundred guests at
Bedford Springs.
A large hotel, to be called the "Plicenix,'
s in course of erection at Wilkesbarre.
-- Gov. Ctirtin and Judge Holt are expected
to visit Oil City the present week.
The Schuylkill Valley Railroad, between
Pottsville and Tamaqua, has been completed.
The Hanover Spectator calls upon its
friends to furnish it with locals.
Fine peaches in Reading.
No bricks in Erie.
There is said to be oil in Montour county
The 107th Regiment is in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg wants a street-springier.
HOME ITEMS.
An exchange thus describes the appear
ance in court of Miss Harris, now on trial in
Washington for the shooting of Mr. Burroughs,
a clerk in the Treasury Department: "Miss
Harris appears in court neatly attired in a
black silk dress Over which. she wears a black
silk cloak, trimmed with black lace Crape,
Her bonnet is of black erape, trimmed with
straw, and a black crape veil. In her hand,
which is neatly gloved, she carries a brown
silk parasol. Her abundant black hair hangs
in ringlets about her neck, causing her to pre
sent quite an attractive appearance, The long
and close contnement Which she has under
gone, and the exercise of her mind over the
sad affair with which she 'is charged, have ab
stracted from her face the color which it natu
rally possessed. During her presence in the
court she remained closely veiled, through
which, however, could be observed a firm and
steady eye, Her position
the chair is erect,
and her bearing throughout lirm."
The Boston Post thus describes the late
tornado in Minnesota : " The late tor
nado in Minnesota kicked up - some . queer
pranks. It blew eight oxen over a river
eight hundred yards wide. /t took all the
water out of a pond, carried it a mile, and
then set it down on Mayor Doran's farm in the
shape of a swan lake. It blew a man's boots
off. Another manes coat was not only blown
short, but actually buttoned from top to bot
tom. One old lady went up like a balioon,vras
carried two and a half miles, and was finally
landed astride a telegraph wire, where she was
found by her grandson, and relieved by a lad-
THE WAR , FIECIIIISS.
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ratt 7 $2.00 per copy.
money must always accompany the order, and
fwatance can thole terms be deviated ffery tI
asoree very tittie more than the cost of payer.
Mir
Postmasters are requested to act as menhir
for ptli WAR PREAS•
sr To the getter-Up of the 'vial. or ten or tRAIIIW g
an xtra copy 9f the paper will be given.
. . • . .
der. Judge Morgan says the wind not only
carried (Wilds dwelling-bouse, but his sub-cel
lar and two wells. Some tornado, that."
The Macon Thlegropfe says all the feweAry
belonging to the citizens, which was sent aff
on the approach of the Fedorala, and was after
wards captured near Athens, has been turned.
over, and will be in Macon 'in a few days, and
the gold captured from the Central Railroad.
Company last April, has been returned by tha
military authorities.
The Provost Marshal of Lynchburg, 'Vir
ginia, compels butchers to bring the hides and
horns of the animals they kill for market, and
expose them at their stalls along with the
meat. This is done in order that cattle or
sheep which have been stolen from the right
ful owners, and sold to them, may be identi
fied, and the thief traced.
The Atlanta Inteltigeneer says that a friend
relates to the editor this incident: c coeii n v•
he says, "to Atlanta, on Monday last, I saw an.
old freedwoman lying on the side of the road,
dead, and two younger ones standing by her
remains, I asked what had been the matter
with her. The reply from one of the girls was'
"eke perish to def, sir; but she free, dough. ,
Some negro soldiers recently found seven
ty-five thousand dohars in gold in a cellar at
Union City, Ay, The boys returned to Colimm.
bus and anticipated a line Fourth, but were
too lavish with their gold and were arrested
by their commander, who demanded an explse
nation of the sudden fall in gold.
—Four newspapers are now published in
blireveport, La. A. correspondent from that
city says the stories told that guerillas and
other lawless men have become a terror it
Northern Texas and the neighborhood of
Shreveport and the Ouachita country, are not
all worthy of credit.
The Second Unitarian Church, of Move,
111., gave their pastor, Rev. Robert Collyer,
purse of $1,500 in gold to defray his expense'
to his native land. Ile left Yorkshire, Eng
land, sixteen years since, a raw lad, and now
returns an eminent and eloquent preacher.
—Says Josh Billings : There IS 1 kind Of
kissin that has aiwas bin deemed extry has
zardus [on akount of fire], and that is lambs
yure naber's wife. Gitting the wife's consent
don't seem to make the matter enny the less
risky.”
Tho New York Metropolitan police depart
ment statiatics allow that over ten thoti4ant
lout children were found in the streets of that
city and taken charge of by the police the past
year.
-- A military order has been issued at Savan
nah forbidding any civilian to wear or purchase
a soldier's uniform.
Some New York free academy students
are going to take a yacht excursion from New
York to Niagara Palls.
d young lady in Albany died from grief
at being accused of 'perpetrating a marriage
hoax.
A cooking match is arranging out• West
among some young ladies, and silver nied9l3
are to be given as prizes.
—The official announcement of the receipts
of the lust sanitary Pair at Chicago puts the
amount at 5900,000.
—A correspondent of the Cincinnati Goat
wants a vigilance committee appointed to sup.
press rowdyism in New York.
A relic hunter has offered 8.50 for less thaa
an inch of the rope by which Hrs. Suratt was
hung.
A weekly paper called Priendshipts Offer.
ing has been started in Augusta, Go..
Yale is to have its. Commencement Dar
after the fashion of Harvard.
Great fires and great crimes seem to dis
tinguish this summer.
One hundred cases of sun-stroke in Cincin
nati July 4th.
Paul Morphy, the redoubtable ehess-play
er, IS in New York.
General Dixie soon to retittli to civil life.
The New Era is a now paper in Atlanta, Ga.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Home, the "spiritual medium," was re
quested by the Emperor Napoleon to put hint
in communication with the spirit of Louis
Phillippe. To accomplish this, Home took
the'Emperor into a dark' room, which he had
110 sooner entered than he reeeiVed a smart
slap on the cheek. The reception of the slap
was certain, but the question of "who gave
the slap" is one to which it is difficult to give
a certain answer. The Emperor, greatly dis.
pleased, and not quite eo flrmly convinced of
thoreality of "spirit hands" as he had been
accused 6f being, felt sure that the MOW had
been administered by the "medium." Mr.
Rome, of course, asserted that he had done
nothing in the matter, and that the slap had
been given by the late head of the House of
Orleans. But, despite all that Ur. Home could
say, the Emperor, persisted, it is said, in re.
getting the outrage as the act of that gentle
man, and caused it to he intimated to hint
that the French Empire could very well di*
pease with his presence. •
Italy now poseeeeeti a fleet of ninety-eight
vessels, seeenty-four of which are ships-of-the
line, and frenty-four. are transports. The
ships-of-war consist of eighteen iron-clade,
twenty-one screw steamers, twenty-five ped
dle-wheel steamers, and ten sailing yowls.
The nominal power of the engines in the Per
steamers is 23,140 horses; they reckon 1,900
cannon and 20,383 men. In the transport ser.
vice the engines are 4,350 horse-power, and the
ships are provided with forty-three cannon
and manned by 1,881 seamen.
—Our favorite artists abroad appear to suer
ceed as well as when they were at home. Thr
London Times recently devoted over a column
to Mr. Churelee paintings, speaking of thew
in terms of high praise, while the enterprise
and energy shown by the artist in undertak.
ing his expensive and dangerous voyage
among the icebergs is mentioned as something
marvellous. Another artist, Mignot, is also
meeting with much success in England.
Alfred Tennyson T the poet laureate of
tngland, is failing very fast. He was just rat
covering from a severe attack of throat die.
ease, when, walking late one evening in his
Isle of Wight garden, lie took cold, and now,
it is stated, symptoms of consumption are
evident. His friends are going to remove hint
to the South of France at once, as the only
chance of saving his life.
Telegraphing is by no means neglected in
the East. Roumania, or the Bnited Prindipelf.,
ties, received 174,101 telegraphic despatches to
1863. These despatches, comprising 3,663,029
words, represented a sum of 1,547,831 piastres
Paid into the public exchequer by private
persons; (the piastre is about 2341). The (310-
vernment sent 62,929 telegrams, anti Turkey .
6,683.
About two weeks ago a sacrilegious wretch
stole from the city clerk's office at London,
C. W., a package of money, being one Sunday's
collection taken at 'the Wesleyan Methodist
Church. Nothing was heard of the stolen ape.
cie until a few days since, when the, package
was brought back and left in the same spot
from whence it was taken.
The following singular theatrical notice
was posted lately in the town of Cassel: "In
consequence of the SUMO, estinction of the
voice of Mdile. Grun, the continued indisposi
tion of EL Gerso, the cold of AL Rees, and the
impossibility to tind Mdlle. Hoeff, the opera,
will be closed until further notice."
Thirteen porpoises were taken at one tide
art' week at Murray Bay, Canada, but one
escaped. The largest was fourteen feet long s
and weighed about two thousand pounds, The
average produce was between two and three
barrels of oil worth about twenty-four dollars
per barrel.
There was lately a great dinner andiete at
Count Lagrange's establishment, near Paris.
After (Bun er, Grimshaw, the jockey who drove
the Count's successful horse Gladiateur at the
late race, was carried around tin Path on the
shoulders of his hackers.
—lt is said that a large freseo . ;has been die
covered at Ostia, in Italy, representing a ship
taking a cargo on board. The various persona
engaged in that operation are designated by
written scrolls, indicating the particular funs
tion of each performer in the task.
The missionaries in Canton, China, have
established a weekly paper, for the people, in
Chinese, at the trilling cost of two cash per
copy. It is called the Chinese and Fbreign
Newspaper.
The news so emphatically telegratned by
Mr. Reuter, of a great Russian defeat In Kok*
ban, turns out to be a were Kok-and-a-bun
story.-2 3 :4701,
At the last " Oxford Commemoration." the
students applauded the name of General Lee,
but hiesed President Johnson, and Butler, and
the British Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- - . -
Prince Demidoff, a Russian nobleman in
Paris, wore a plain buff coat at a fancy-dram{
ball, 1)0, the button on his black velvet cap
was a diamond worth half a million.
The open-air theatre near the Porta Nuova
day perfOrmancen took pine%
l a i t aa V b e a r e o i i i in d ,
destroyed by fire. Five circus horses
s lately thrown into
w_cr l bt u v ri e ie n d ic to et
a de b a o t m h. b
wa
the gondola of IL Bembo, the Podesta or May
or, and exploded. The gondola was Injured,
but no; clie was,wounded.
—An opposition candidate for the ptematt
Chambers has been chosen in the Duke
Yorny's place.
An English mathematician has discovered,
the proof of Sir Isaac Newton's ride for the
discovery of the imaginary roots of equations
six persons were recently killed by the
bursting of a pipe tilled with gl.lllDOWder, in a
circus in Agram, Hungary.
A teetotal firm launched a vessel in Yar
mouth last week, and christened it with a
bottle of ginger-beer.
A monument to Homer is to be erected at
Athens.
—Garibaldi has fallen ill from haying noA
thing to do.
The Atlantic cable will charge about 416►,pp
a column.
The King of Greece has ordered a :monu
ment to be erected to Byron, at hfiaeolonghi.
They are dancing the cancan at primate'
parttet in Par Le.