Pak_l , s4S, roßusymy, Two' (SUNDAYS ExcErrEn) RT jouN W. reRNEY. OFFICE No. 111 SOITTEI FOURTH STREET. THE DAILY PRESS, To City Sribscribers, is EIGHT DOLLARS PER XNNIEE, advanee; Or FIFTEEN CENTS PRE WEEK. payable to the Carrier. Matted to Silb• sertur s out Of the city, SEVEN DOLLARS PER iiuji ad: TONNE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR o i x MONTHS: ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTT - Fry s Gras FOR THREE MONTHS, Iniftrtably to advanes or the time ordered. Adrertieements Inserted at the usual rates. THE TRI-li'Eumir.T PRESS. /Oiled to Subscribers, FOUR DOLLARS ran AN , in advance. tr,i jt WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1865 THE NEWS. Adviees from the Southwest represent that 11: „. cotton now in Texas will only amount to ,OT+O hales. The reported exodus of 10,000 pttsourian rebels to Mexico is an oxaggera tfon. The number who took their departure tr ill amount to less than 400. Two companies ef lowa cavalry had defeated 500 Sioux Indians. j:i,hop Andrews has requested the Methodist x r i,:eoptil Churches to hold their annual Con- Ponce in the fall, and elect delegates to the b e nvral Conference, to be held in April next. llcxican news says that by the Liberal I,olVral liegretes countermarching his forces lie completely frustrated the combinations of the French general to capture him. The city Tnla ;Ind the town of Mateliula had been roptured from the French. In the latter - pee no counter was asked or given. Presi dent ,lnarea ii in undisputed possession of Chihuahua. Governor Parsons, of Alabama, has issued a proclamation, ordering an election for dele ,ales t o a State Convention to be held on the jilt of September. He says that of the one j;undred and twenty-two thousand Alabamians cnolied in the war, seventy thousand of them killed or disabled. He also says that they psve every right which they ever possessed txreot slavery; and that the sooner they bow to the decree abolishing that it will be the ',tier for them. pi Awe, LAU, it was found in the Treasury proartweet that 0110 litindrod $l,OOO 'bonds, with coupons attached, were missing. The detectives were notified, and after a thorough ineef,tigation, they arrested in New York. on 'kali/May last a 31r. W. W. Whittlesey, a form 'Er clerk in the Loan Oftlee, who confessed his ~or. No money was found on him, but he :Ai the MUM where some of the coupons ere secreted. He was 10dged in jail at Wash. North Carolina is shipping to the North ,ge amount of copper, iron, lead, ate., mined that State. The negroes are, it is said, az linulating small fortunes working the gold nil ,ilver mines. The aristocracy of the State, is reported, are becoming very bitter in ViewB against all. Union men. nrietary Stanton has, on behalf of the GO yrnancut, leased Ford's Theatre for fifteen in:tired dollars a month, with the privilege o :•l,nying it for one hundred thousand dollars, Congress so provides. A terrible disease has broken out among the c41;lo, horses, and hogs on the Arkansas and bottom lands. The supposed cause 1. 1 ,,,i50n from black gnats. The animals die In from twenty-four to forty-eight hours after laliing the disease. Preliminary measures are in progress at lvArington to try Captain Wirtz, commander of the Andersonville prison. A large number WiilleSSCS have been summoned and a mass trtettmons collected. A large slaughter-house situated in the west end , ' of Jersey City, was destroyed by lire early yesterday morning; loss, $15,000. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Further particulars of the wreck of the Mut:sport Quinnebang, come tons via Fortress - Noun... The number of those lost Will ahlount to about twenty-one. New Orleans despatch of the 2,5 th, says tat -Merritt's Cavalry force were on the move irota Shreveport (La.,) to San Antonio, Texas. A stock broker, named George it. Graham, 1 , :;e:. before Recorder Enne yesterday, charged with receiving from the defaiilting paying :ier of the Commercial National Bank, Mr. :ark, come SSO,OOO in money and other proper ly. maid money and property belonging to the ahk. Mr. Graham was bound over in SIO,OOD to er at court. Another interesting article by " Chips," de -rintive of the scenes along the new addition • the route of the Union (Seventh and Ninth treets) Passenger Railway, will be found in yother column. The ears ran over this new 6rtion of the route for the first time a feW :Ly:, ago; so that what is here described will e new to most of our readers. The liieinuond, Virginia, election yesterday ~ ., J ulted in the choice of Mr. Sturdevant for The New York Express announces that Presi• knt Johnson will soon make a tour through su Eabteru States. A iitintutine of thirty days has been estal> ,Led at Charleston. mere was again a dull stock market Tester alwi. There was, however, some slight inl psi mein •in Government loans, especially thr rive -twenties, based upon favorable fo nign advises. Other bonds are very dull. leathagliailroad and other speculative stocks pre a shade lower than on the previous day. There was very little doing in the flour mar let yesterday, which was steady. Oats were k.wer. Coin sold at 95 cents per bushel. Got .ou was sold at a deeline. Sugar brought 10 .eats per pound, in gold. Whisky was quoted t t 2.17 per gallon. The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan, ..-terday, amounted to 0,750,300. Vold elOsed in Now York last night at 148%. SOUTHERN JOURNALISM A convention of the editors of the South ' la newspapers is proposed, for the purpose hr-irasing, by mutual agreement, their limiption prices to the rates demanded present expenses of conducting and riming their journals, and to form a corn :nation similar to the Associated Press of North, to procure telegraphic intelli_ ee. Many, of our Southern exchanges doing real service to the nation by their qral ethics to the people, and by the per iency with which they counsel frank and :ilia] submission to the Union, and a fair .111 of free labor. The rampant secession g2rs nearly all disappeared with the de fil: of the rebellion ; and the summary ;.1,1 ession of the few attempts that have made to disseminate fire-eating doe broadcast, appears to have had a salu- Olkt. There is at least this great :;ained, that whereas in former years ' of the South was completely de to the service of slavery and seces m• its mighty powers are now wielded 1, 4 by the friends and advocates of i,erty ;did Union. We append a few ex nets, Which indicate the prevailing tone : nu: the Charleston Courier. 3 it must be understood that South , mlina is as ready andas any State the Union to enter into the bonds of a corn ''': tAmiederacy in which all the States shall i 'lm , ented. We will admit such was not / 4 liptage a few months ago, but now we dealing with the past, but with the and the future. It becomes us by Ponsideration to look to the prospective ~inut of not only our State but all the -; and who will venture to assert that the larc of South Carolina is not connected tap prosperity of all the other States of 1 We entreat parties, possibly nbm of the soil, who are making visits tO 6 to be careful as to what opinions , Arer in reference to the sentiments of , PPople of South Carolina. We, as a people, repared to receive the new political status to us, and persons going to the 'i, and representing that the State is ' 4l .S' unfit for the consideration of a be ,. Ihmit Of civil authority, are doing us great Carolinians are not fools. They ad t• 4, do all sensible people both North and ' ll l,lllla the war is ended. They now ask they may be allowed to enjoy the rights ' l,l l government and the privilege of in ghg is their accustomed professions and. xtt'ugedThey desire that facilities ssho uld diem Of repairing and rebuilding, r 'l=ops and warehouses, and that the b irthainieis of trade should be opened. they pledge Their fealty la the United "We have one request to eof our n lends of the North, and that is they win not incite a war of races in the 'lt Present the new system of labor is "n;; harmoniously and satisfactorily, and, " I, e Of time, we doubt not that this state limp s rill be %reatly enhanced in a bene .P"lnt view. We repeat, that South ~i lll / 1 1 313 'will not be backward in looking their own interests,provided the re , proper encouragement. y Mc Norfolk Past.] general policy of mutual concession, and which has apparently been. adopt y common consent, has already been pro ive of the happiest results in allaying un ly Qrlwatile feeline,i , nlll the stranger lt: Mal it a difficult matter to discover any Mein:, of discontent or disaffection, or ifestations of bitterness Or distrust among ore class of our people towards another. itingle together in the daily duties of life, te marts of commerce or the centres of and at the convivial board as freely, as •liaturedly, and as thoughtless of he past :r that past had rawer existed. She 'berate and the Federal meet upon cOm ground, and in a spirit of fairness and ttess, marked by the best feelin gs of mu respect, discuss the recent war --its Na as generals, its victories, its defeats, and N nisequences thereof—just as we used to the results of some great political r"'ion. Indeed, it is very doubtful whether +'rr holt any more wounds to be heated, 11 9 Ride/thing, between She contending parties . h a re frequentty been Opened by some exciting e,,,ttext. a are a people that soon for "'l it is not in Our nature to bear malice, vtte stand with great obstinacy by our n m S,alld are tenacious of carrying out our Su rmounting an obstacles to:l=qm a eh wished purpose, so soon as it has been. quietly subside, content with our l!th. If we fall weacquieeee with becoming 1 111 . 11, and flatter ourselves that it is not in t o command success even though lesi ay have deserved it. Thus it is now.. The 11•154 been decided; slavery has been out, and the doctrine of secession forever ,londt_K•trine that never did have any , ~nfor surely no Government would gh tOprovide for its own death. 'Were right, then Pennsylvania i!vau " A „fin d set up an independent re- ui defy the loom/uncut, _ . . . _. . , .."'s. ~.-strvit‘its‘.. - „ ( , . 7- 4 4111 , ' ~.......1. 'NA % 1 1 i t//: : " • f - et.......„...,,...1, izr * it:„ \` ` lt: i '% i f 111%8 - 0. . . rtti1.....111 _............_ 1.. .. ,• _•,., \.-..,:, I°lll. c..... t „,...,,i.... _: ..„.... ....„. " _ __,.... _ ..,,„,,,,, , n 44 • fil , . A, 'III. ' ..!•:' , 6% a .*-.' -•--- -1 - - .e . : .... :_„.- , -.-...-'--'- 7' 5 , : • i ~ ---,,,,' 1111)imiii,..---.! • ,asilln . " ...A,ar . ,----? —411m1, , ,, : )0,..K ._ _ . , ,, , ;i:47 . 1. ' - 4 ------- ' ---- - - "I'- -, 7 ) 1- 1 11N1 OH ,-/ • . 0...i0 - -,..,: --, --_.-. .- . , -' -- ----. *‘\ -. ''''?-- - . --,-:-.„ ........".. _ _;_,.:,-;'•-•,-=''' : -. ximetk- 4: ,• : ,,,, .._ ec-_ ri —,........=............-..,;.. ......_ ~ .• .--.--- VOL. 8.-NO. 226. Melt would be powerless to cottreA her into the line of duty ; and what kind of a govern ment would tins be then with an finperio in buperintu P But, it is unnecessary to bring up these old arguments, for four years of war and discussion Bare exhausted the subject and forever settled that question. The people here are fast coming to view it in the proper light, HMI DOW port:ewe that they acted hasti ly. They nee, too, the folly of prolonging op position to the full and unconditional re-estab lishment of good feeling between the people of the several States. (From the Nashville Anion,] The South has been twice arrayed agaiust the _North—once politically and once in arms. The result has been defeat in both instances. This defeat must be accepted as a great fact, and the it's - lid - mate business of true Southern. statesmanship is to seek out for the people the readiest and most beneficial mode of ad justment to this inexorable condition. Some questions must be considered as definitely set tled. 'The - war decided something. What was itl The impracticability of secession—the integrity of the Union, and the incompatibility of slavery with freedom. Incidentally to this is the de- SUM:lion of slavery. The fact must be cc cepted that Slavery 110 Where exists in the late rebellious States. In the progress of a great war it became necessary for the Government tousc, fori, purely military purpose, the Afri can race in this country. The condition of that use was a change in the statue of a largo portion of thatrace. That change having been made from necessity by him who was by law the sole judge of that necessity—and there never Since haling occurred a necessity for a reehauge, it must remain fixed. le who does not recognize this is a disorganizer and an impracticable. Statesmanship never whines over results, but deals at once with them in a sensible and straightforward man ner. In connection with the fact of the destruc tion of slavery, must be considered that other great fact, that a majority of the American people have repeatedly declared their will that it should be so. They look upon it as a compensation for the loss of life and treasure which they have sustained. In other words, they regard it as a blessing. This expression of their will and sentiments the South cannot afford to disregard. 'Upon the temper which is displayed in future intercourse with the North depends much of the future happiness and prosperity of the Southern people. If we persist that we have been robbed, that slavery was wrongfully and wantonly destroy ed, and seek further to agitate the subject, we simply cut ourselves off from the sympathy of those with wham we mita live, and volunteer to the world a standing advertisement of our subjugation. Why prate of wrongs if we can suggest no remedies' Why provoke from Victorious enemies (if we will be so feOliall as to call the Northern peo ple such,) increased rigor of rule, and fresh impositions of burdensl It remains entirely with the South itself to determine its future position—whether it shall be one of equality or one of vassalage. Just so surely as it ar rays itself against the fixed will of the great majority, just so surely, as it has already most sadly learned, will it fail to secure any thing but contempt and defeat. Let ns be ware; then, of those who for personal ends Would place us in so false and diSaStrollS an attitude. If we do not want negro suffrage forced upon us, let us not provoke it byfoolish perverseness in our failure to accept accom plished facts. We must keep in sympathy with the Northern people, and remove from our midst ;all offensive relies of a dead insti tution, in order to bring about, at the earliest possible day, a complete obliteration of sectional lines, anti secure that actual union which can spring only /roam harmonious feelings and common inte rests. It is only as we lift Ourselves to the 11.1., tional level that we cease to be a mere de -pendency, a contemptible province to a con queror's dominions. This may be a humilia ting fact, but we must not forget that it Is the result of our voluntary passage at arms with -a superior antagonist. [From the New Orleans Delta.] The people of the South, as a Mass, have honestly made up their minds to uupport the Union, the Constitution, and the laws of our common country, and that they will adhere to this conclusion with scrupulous fidelity there can not be a shadow of a doubt. All they desire is a restoration of civil power—to have their State and municipal governments in regular, unob structed operation, as before the war—and in this regard they are not Only reassured, but delighted with the wise and magnanimous policy announced and energetically pursued by President Johnson. We might fill our columns with extracts of this character, nearly all the editorials of the loyal Southern newspapers breathing, day after day and month after month, a similar spirit. They have doubtless many prejudices to combat, but in the end a large measure of success will reward their efforts. Mlt must be remembered, however, that the South is still in a very unsettled con dition. Many traces of a distrustful feeling between the whites and blacks are per ceptible. A. prospect of the emigration of Irishmen or Germans to perform some of the labor heretofore monopolized by the negroes is commented upon as an import ant and hopeful indication of the future. Complaints of the unreliability of the ne groes appear; and some journals allege that discontent on the part of the latter already wears an ominous aspect, and that if pro per precautions are not taken there may be a repetition of the St. Domingo massa cres in some districts. Other journals, again, accuse their cotemporaries of a ten dency to exaggerate difficulties of this kind. But enough is disclosed to make it clearer than ever that it is the true interest of the dominant classes of white men to treat the freedmen well and fairly, for a double rea son—first, to secure lenient treatment themselves from the Government ; and, second, to re-establish industry and to avoid the deadly animosity of the race which they have .heretofore held in servile subjection. Despite occasional instances in which the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau have come in conflict with the military authorities, it is recognized everywhere as the active and faithful champion of its proteges. It is ani mated by an earnest desire to redress their wrongs, relieve their wants, and to secure them "a fair chance in life." The freed men have a faithful and powerful friend and guardian in Gen. HOWARD. CHAMP FERGUSON. The trial of this notorious rebel chieftain, now proceeding at Nashville, Tennessee, before a military commission, is exciting much interest in the South. He is accused of murdering many Union prisoners in cold blood, and of all the infamies connected with the worst species of guerilla warfare. His defence consists mainly of a plea that he virtually surrendered on the same terms as the armies of LEE and JonwsmoN, and that he should not be held amenable for his violations of the laws of war while he was in the Confederate service. One of the principal witnesses against him is thus de scribed by the Nashville Union : The first witness called for the Government in this case was the celebrated Union scout, " Tinker Dave," who was at the head of a com pany of home guards, and who has fought Champ Ferguson from the beginning to the end of his career. It would almost seem that both of these men bear charmed lives. They have shot at each other innumerable times, and received ugly wounds.. They were deadly enemies, and hunted each other down with savage ferocity. The real name of "Tinker Dave," as be was known in the war r is David Beatty. lie is a man about forty-five years of age, Medium size, but .of iron mould, and great courage. He is covered with scars re ceiverl in battle, and from bushwhackers, and many a rebel has bit the dust from his un erring aim. They feared Dave, on account of his cunning and courage. BEATTv's testimony portrays in homely but emphatic language the brutality of the rebellion ; how FERGUSON roamed through East Tennessee, "killing and conscripting Union men, and shooting at men ;" how they killed prisoners, whom he saw carried off one day, and whose dead bodieshe wit nessed the next; how they came disguised as Union men to his house, to lure him into their toils ; how he was once captured, and in effecting his escape was fired upon, and received three wounds—" one in the back, one in the shoulder, and one in the hip ;" how he was in communication with General 131:11tNf3IDE, "bushwhacking," and going to the Federal lines for ammunition, but for no pay, clothing, or provisions, and marshalling his forces of determined neigh bors to the number of five, ten, twenty, or sixty, as the exigencies of his peculiar ser vice required. CHARLESTON AND NEWBERN. A Quarantine Established—Encourag ing Mining News. Itiaw Yana', July 25.—A quarantine, of thirty days has been established at Charleston, on all vessels having on board cases of yellow fever, cholera, or other Infectious diseases also, on all vessels from the West Indies. Newbern advices state that a superior quality of copper is being received there fox shipment North, having been obtained from the mines near Charlotte by the defunct rebel government. There are also large quantities o f iron, lead, coal, and sulphur to be shipped .North. The negroes are accumulating small fortunes by 'working the gold and silver mines. Large quantities of confiscated cotton is also being forwarded North. The Raleigh Progress says that the native element, including the aristocracy, is grow in g more defiant, and threaten to hang the Unicn men as soon as the troops are withdrawn. Gen. Sherman in Indianapolis. Ismertsroms, Ihd., July 2 5.--Major General "Sherman arrived here this morning, and will be formally welcomed by the civil and Milita ry- authorities this afternoon. WASHINGTON. ARREST OP A THIEVING TREA SURY CLERK. Acknowledges Having Stolen One Hundred Thousand Dollars in Bonds. THE BARGAIN FOR FORD'S THEATRE CLOSED WASHINGTON, July 25,1865 Arrest of a Thieving Clerk. On the 15th of June, 1884, the chief clerk and superintendent, connected with the office of the Secretary Of the Treasury, addressed to the latter a note, stating that one hundred bonds, partially prepared for issue, of $l,OOO each, were missing, and that he had exhausted all the resources at his command in the en deavor to find them. As they had not been signed by the Register, or sealed, they could not be negotiated. The coupons, however, amounting to $1.08,000, were sealed and com plete, and payable to bearer on the first of January and July in each year, and could be sold anywhere. The Solicitor of the Treasury having employed two detectives of this city, it was not long before they fixed upon WAL LAC& W, Wartmussy, a clerk in the loan office office of the Treasury Department, as the guilty party, but it was not deemed .hdri sable to make the arrest until more con clusive evidence could be obtained. Their suspicions were strengthened by the fact that WHITTLESEY resigned his position in Decem ber last, and was living sumptuously, without ostensible means. On Saturday last the de tectives proceeded to New York and captured WHITTLESEY, near the Western Hotel, in Court land street. He confessed his guilt, and stated to them where some of the coupons were con cealed, namely—in the chandelier of his resi dence, where they were subsequently found, but the bonds had been destroyed, On re covering all that was available of the Stolen Property, the detectives took their prisoner rapidly to Jersey City, to catch the train. Wtorrmisay quietly seated himself in the car, but soon after the train had attained its full speed he hastened to the door, doubtless with the intention of jumping off; but was pulled baek. Finding himself foiled, he en deavored to obtain SYMpathy from the passen gers by accusing the officers of kidnapping Ile was safely landed here this morning, and conveyed to the police headquarters. WEIITTLESEY had sold some $5,000 worth of the coupons and had made about $2,200 in premium on the gold, but through his high style of liv ing he had no money when arrested. Ford's Theatre. The Secretary of War having occupied Form's Theatre, has informed the latter , s counsel that be recognizes his right to com pensation, and after a careful investigation of the value of the building, has rented it until the lat of February next for $1,300 per month, with the privilege of purchasing it for 000,000, the price agreed upon with the Christian Com, mission, if Congress see proper to do so; if not to return it in good condition. The build.. big will probably be needed for a depository of the rebel archives. The Government Sole of Vessels. The Navy Department is rapidly disposing of its immense - fleet, at prices about equal to the Government appraisement. The next great sales will take place as follows Boston, August 1; New York, August 15; Philadelphia, August 10; Mound City, Illinois, August 17; and Washington, August 19. These sales will dispose of the larger portion of the fleet which bag. taken so prominent a part in crushing the rebellion. The Forthcoming Trial of the Ander. sonville Prison• Keeper. Preliminary measures are in progress for the trial of Captain Wiara, formerly in charge of the Andersonville military prison. A large number of witnesses have already been sum moned, and letters are constantly received from those who possess knowledge of the cru elties practiced on Union prisoners by this rebel commander. Patents 'gined. One hundred and eighty-four patents were issued to-day. Gov. Perry, of south Carolina. Governor PERRY will leave here to-day for South Carolina to enter upon the duties of his °thee. _ Personal. ISAAC E. Homaze, of the delegation from South Carolina, is ill in Waahington. A number of leading railroad men front the South are here on business connected with their respective companies. FORTRESS MONROE. Further Particulars of the Loss of the quinnebaug. A LIST OF THOSE LOST FORTRESS Mormon, July 24.—Further par ticulars of the loss of the steamer Quinnebang have been received here. ' The steamer Idaho arrived from Morehead City, with 210 officers and men of the 76th Pennsylvania - Volunteers, who were on the Quinnebang when she was wrecked. They left Morehead City on the morning of July 20th, and soon after passing outside the bar the machinery gave out, and ceased to work, and the ship soon drifted ashore, in spite of all efforts to save her. In two hours she was a perfect wreck, there being a heavy sea at the time. The U. S. surveying steamer Cor win sent her small boats to their relief, and the second mate of the brig Adams took three boatloads ashore. Many saved themselves - by means of life-preservers. The following is a complete list of the lost: Sergeant D. Lichtenberg, Corporal J. Camproan, Patrick Cawley, Patrick Plane, John Oertel, John M. Oomphf, W. V. Long, Da vid Welch, John B. Stewart, and some ten or twelve of the 9th Maine Regiment, are said to be lost. The steamer Thetes has arrived from Texas with Battery D,lst Wisconsin Artillery, bound to Alexandria. The captain of the Thetes re• ports all quiet in Texas. Many of the troops were still on transports when he left. - The United States steamer Kennebec has ar• rived from Pensacola, but brings no news. It was very healthy when she left, on the 19th instant. . The Thetis reports passing off Cape Fear bark Juliette S. Clark, and a large fleet of ves sels bound North. The ship Berman, of Bre men, and another ship, name unknown, that loaded with French tobacco at City Point, went to sea yesterday. Surgeon McClellan, for the last three years in charge of Hampton Hospital, left yesterday for Philadelphia, being assigned to duty in that city. Dr. Frantz, Surgeon United States Army, supersedes him in charge of Hampton Hospital, THE SOUTHWEST. Only 50,000 Bales of Cotton in Texas— The Reported Exodus of Rebels Exag. gerated—The Methodist Church South —A Fight with Indians. 1 , :-Ew ORLEANS, July 24.—The steamship Ma, riposa, from New York, arrived here to-day. A. letter from Galveston, dated the 18th says the total amount of cotton in Texas does not exceed 50,000 bales. The Houston Telegraph, of the 20th, says it is reported that 10,000 Missourians are in that vicinity, bound for Mexico. This is undoubt edly a piece of nonsense, the entire party be ing less than four hundred. On the 10th ultimo two companies of the 78th lowa Cavalry fought a party of five hundred Sioux Indians, and captured four of them. The Indian loss in killed and wounded is unknown, but it is supposed to have been heavy. The Times publishes a special despatch from Mobile, dated the Sod instant, which says - Bishop Andrews has issued a notice to the Me thodist Episcopal Church, requesting that the Annual Conference hold its sessions in the coming fall, and elect delegates tethe General Conference, commencing in April next; also, requesting the churches to meet at Columbus, Ga., for reconstruction. The cotton market is dull sales of mid dlings at 41 cents. Total receipts since the oc cupation, 10,000 bales. NEW ORLEANS. CAIIM, July 25.—New Orleans dates of July 19 have been received. Merritt's cavalry force arc on the !move from Shreveport to San An tonio, and it is thought the march would not be attended with more than the ordinary in conveniences that beset cavalry in other sec tions of the Union. A defalcation of ten thousand dollars has oc curred in the commissary department. Com missary Scott lost the money in gambling, and bad fled front Shreveport, - One thousand bales of cotton had arrived at New Orleans from the Ouachita. river. There is a fair supply of common in market, with little inquiry. Good ordinary, 366/380 ; 41(4 , 46c. No sales of Sugar or Molasses. Produce quiet and unchanged. MEMPHIS. A Terrible Disease Among the Cattle.- A Large NuMber Dying. ' Ns rats, July 25.—1 n the Arkansas and Nis ' Sissibi Bottoms a disease has broken out among the cattle, horses, and hogs, and has been raging for some time, the giltattin dying PHILADRP in twenty-four toorty-, ght hours after be ing attacked, Tbluppo ed cause is poison from black gnats, Ilch ire very thick some time since. There has been igrea loss of stock, and men have been attked b the same disease, who have been dodring ie cattle. The Richmond Ammoim, July , the American, from Richmo; evening, says the election i quietly, resulting in the ell vant for Mayor by four hued Taylor. The Richmond papers of t received here to-night, Monitor 4ftun , /..._ PORTLAND, July M.—. 011 • tor Washita was launch O. s IMER The Combinati Forces TWO TOWNS LEBER Now Yous.,july 2-s.—Thesteame\vera Cruz, from Vera Cruz July 14th, and Pawn°, from New Orleans July 17th, have saved. fjThe .Vera Cruz news has been alreadublished, having been received via Havana. The New Orleans Times City. of sico cor respondent says that when Negre ell back from Matamoros he offered COI. J ngros (1) battle at Buena Vista, which wa echned. Finding the Imperialists were pl ning to surround him; Negreti retired to nchora, where he divided his forces, rnarchis them in different directions, and thus M al Bii zaine,s combination, which was to initiate the war. was ffintrated. The war is beCOMing every day mo serioun in the State of Qhichoaeoca, and a fo of one thousand men has been sent from ISico to t protect Morelia, the capital of the St . This has not been done, however, and Cc t Pot tier has been censured and recalled f allow ing Ilegules to defeat him. Col. Pat e has also suffered disasters. The City of Tula . has been , taken b. he Li bends. The town of Idatehtiala hA been stormed, and the Imperialists lost th - A hun dred men. No quarter was asked o iven, The States of Guenero, Chiapas, Tobas , and the greater parts of Vera Cruz and Vai , are in the hands of the Liberals. President arez is in undisputed possession of Chihkhua. The bitterness of the people is daily grtring stronger, and it is impossible to eollei the taxes. ALABAMA. Proclamation of the Provisional v. ern or—Seventy Thousand Alahani Killed or Dtsabbled. in the ifirdi State Convention to be held in tember. MOBILE, July '2l—The Advertiser and Regeer publishes to-day the proclamation of Goverir Parsons. Re reviews the condition of the South bete cue south bef secession, and its now impoverished state.. estimates that one hundred and. twenty 4 thousand Alabamians engaged in the war ' A whom seventy thousand are dead and abled. Hence destitution reigns where one stood comfortable homes. Yet amid this ruin; suffering, sorrow, an death, resulting from secession, every point cal right which the State Possessed under the Federal Constitution, is here to-day, with the exception of slavery, The slave code is a dead, letter, and it is the height of wisdom to pro duce the best possible results from the neN order of things. Justices of the peace, constables, members of the common councils, judges of the courts, except judges of probate; the county treasu rers, tax collectors, assessors, coroners, and municipal officers, who were in office on the 22d of May last, are appointed during the cot tinuance of the Provisional Government. The judges of probate and sheriffs in offin , on the 22d Of May last will take the amnesty. oath, and continue to discharge the duties ff their offices until others are appointed. Eah officer is required to take the amnesty °aft, and give a new bond. The election for dee gates to the convention to assemble on the lilt of September next will be held on the 3lstpf August next. OUR IRON-CLAD NAVY. Description, of Two of its Great Reps. sentences, the Dictator and the Dln- derberg. [From the Boston Journal, Monday. 3 THU DICTATOR The great attraction of the present Niek will be the ocean monitor Dictator, whichar rived here on Sunday forenoon, droppimr chor in the roads at about eleven o'clock. he is last from Newport, IL 1., where she , as visited by about ten thousand persong or about one thousand a day. Leaving Nen ort on Friday afternoon, she steamed out t ea, by Block Island, some thirty or forty es, before proeeeding directly on her tours was a little rough outside that nigh just what was wanted—and She worked to a c rm, steering like a pilot-boat, and seemi as buoyant and lively as a wooden ship i bal last. As to speed, she has made from n e to eleven knots per hour on the passag . and there is no doubt this can, and soon )1 be increased to twelve or thirteen (peril+ s fif teen) knots. She was off Cape Cod on tar dily evening, and made the balance of t • run at a moderate rate. On nearing , Boston ight, however, yesterday morning, her rapid ore meats completely astonished the tat:, and pilot boats which were out on the alert. . . . . The Dictator measures upwards of 3,1 tons, and drawslefeet of water forward, and' 2 aft at present, .With only about 500 tom of , al on board, leaving her deck some four fee hove water forward, and three feet aft. W h her full quantity of coal on board (1,000 to -) she, of course, will be a foot or so deeper. lie is 320 feet long, has 50 feet beam, and 2 depth i of hold. Her turret is 24 feet in diam er on the inside, and 15 inches in thickne . She carries but two 15-inch guns, which thr solid shot of 480 its. each. The walls oft pilot house, at the top of the turret., are 11 i hes in thickness. The quarters of the ofti s and men below are well lighted throng heavy `glasses set into the deck, and th ughly ventilated from two or three steam owers, which are kept constantly in motto 'rasing a breeze, which sometimes compels e off cers to look after their caps, and ,rather singular in July) overcoats also. Shl can be got under way without a man show's , him self on deck, her engines rousing. up e hun dred and twenty fathoms of chain in ost as little time as ittakes to mention it. I age of a leak in her hull, thirty-five hundre tons of water can be thrown out in one hour. She has fifty-six furnaces. One hundred and fty fire men are necessary to attend to the all, but the lower tier, the ones mostly used, onsume about eighty tons of coal per . day. With all her furnaces in operation she burns )out one hundred and fifty tons. She has acry of one hundred and seventy-six seamen, d needs forty.more, which -will -probably .be romptly 'furnished from the Ohio reemvi Ship at Charlestown. The D. proceeds hen to Han fax, and doubtless to Europe, forlher sea worthiness is now settled beyondpiestion. 4 , Should any mishap occur , she is wel rovided with boats, six in number, one of , rich is so arranged that it can accomrnodatetwo hun dred and fifty persons, and is wet supplied with sails, &c. THE DILVDERBIZRO: This vessel, whose launch at fie Saturday last we have already r thus described from data furnishe signer and builder, W. 11. Webb: The Dunderberg is a sea-going it -clad ram of 5,090 tons register, 5,000 horse-p • et, and to carry an armament Rodman and four 15-in ~odplart and loud= 11-inch Dahlgren gun The Dun derberg originally was intended to be Pro vided with two revolving Tunby t etsple.ced upon the top of the casement, bu se coml. sels prevailed, and the casement as length- It al. ened,and the turret plan abandon . . Extreme length of the Dunderberg, 380 fe 4 inches; extreme beam, 72 feet le inches ; d 3th of hold, 22 feet 7 inches; height of ease mt, 7 feet 9 Inches; length of rum bow, 5o cot i draft, when ready for sea, 21 fee ; displace ment, 7,000 tons; tonnage,o9o tons; weight of iron armor, 1,000 ,t s. Dimen-- sions of engines and boilers &c., are as follows : Boilers, six main and wo donkey —total, 8 boilers;'depth of bol rs, 13 feet ; height of boilers, 17 feet 0 inch ; length of „ i boilers, 21 feet 5 inches • weight boilers, 459 tuns; boiler surface, 30,000 feet; ade surface, 1,200 feet; condensing surface,l2,ooo square.. feet; diameter of propeller, 21 het pitch of propeller, 27 to 30 feet ; Weightier propeller, 34,5F0 pounds ; capacity of coal imulters_, 1,000 tons; actual horse power, 5,000; urinal horse power, 1,500. The peculiarity of he model of the Dumlerberg has naturally a meted much attention, and caused much disc ssion among naval architects. The floor is flat, and the shies slope up and outward at an angle which it is believed will make this vesi • el very easy in a sea-way—far more so than the sea-going iron-elads of Eur Ope. ; While great care has been paken by Mr. Webb to make this vessel safe Az deep water, resistless in attack, he has lot lost sight of the necessity of offering tho greatest pos sible resistance to the shot of in antagonist. For this purpose he has coitbined a huge mass of timber, with the piotective pow. ere of the best hammered; iron plates, which are four and a-half inchts in thickness. This eladhing will be secured to the hull and casemate by means of screw-bolts, which will not pass terough the sides, consequently in action there will be no bolts; or bolt heads or nuts dying about the decks killing and maiming the crew. The casemate will contain four 15-inch guns, and from twelve to fourteen /0-inch guns of the Dahlgren pattern. The case mate extends from the outer edge of the hull, which rises up at an angle of 35degrees, upward and inward at an angle of 55 degrees, which is deemed capable of throwing off the shot and. shell of an antagonist with perfect ease. The ram of the Dunderberg is a putt of the vessel itself, and not a detached mass, as is the case of most ram ships. To form this beak the ship is 4rolid for over fifty feet, and sharpened off so as to form - this terrible Instrument of destruc tion. This Is sheathed over with heavyarmor to prevent its being injured while ramming a vessel: The hull of the vessel varies in thick- MOSS from thiee to six feet at the water line; this - is solid wood. The inner hull of the Vessel forms the coal bunkers; both hulls are caulked outside and inside, so that the Dun derberg is actually a double ship. One thousand tons of iron armor will to 0S• lA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1865. pended in elading the Dunderberg ; 500 tons are a 3 l 34 rea t d i y a i i n e :o in si t t i m on c . k T n h o e ss p , tta o ntl a n re th s e c l i l v u , l v l are from is to 15 feet in hingth,.3 feet in width, bolted tO tile WOOd CIISIIIOR by 14-inch The plates arc placed vertically on the sides. The casemate armor is 4 , / 2 inches in thickness, and secured and placed in the same manner as on the hull. These slabs are over 8 feet in length and 28 inches in width. The pilot house is six feet in diameter, seven feet in height, and ten inches in thickness, and is situated in the forward part of the casemate. The Dunderberg will have. two Masts, the forward one being fitted with yards, and she can spread several thousand yards of canvas. The cylinders are each 100 inches in diameter, with 40 inches stroke of piston, and are placed on the starboard side of the vessel side by side. There are 6 main and two donkey boilers. Th e main boilers are 13 feet deep, 17 feet 6 inches high, and 21 feet 5 inches front, with sixty fur naces in two tiers. The smoke pipe is tldr teen feet in diameter, and is shot-proof when it passes through the casemate. The cost of the engines and boilers will lie over a half mil lion dollars. The contract rate of speed will be fifteen knots per hour. al despatch to received this ay passed oil ion of Sthrde majority over morning were raught Mord essfully to-day. A SPEECH BY GENERAL LOGAN. HIS VIEWS ON FREE LABOR AND THE CONSTITII- Major . General Logan delivered a foreiblo and eloquent speech in Louisville, Ky.,' .on Friday last, in which he, gave some sensible advice to the Kentuckians. We subjoin the following extracts : French We look in vain through the Southern States for puplie schools. Ignorance sits enthroned Where the flowers bloom in midwinter, and waste their fragrance upon the desert air. Why is this sot The riddle is easily read. The educated man will think, and, if lus heart is educated, he will feel, and out 'of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Surely, then, that same policy that made it a legal crime to educate a slave, Must, in the inexorable spirit of its theory, oppose the Wu cation of any and everybody who, per possi bility, may become the friend of the slave ; the people of the South have resolved to per petually persist in holding on to this insti tution, pursued a politic plan to prevent the spread of popular education. Can any man fail to see, or fail to feel, that any insti tution, the interest of which must make such exactions, is bound to be a country's .curse. Lyeurgus, who was a great and good Grecian law-giver in his day and generation, insisted that children arc the property of the State. There is but one use to which the State can put children, that is to educate them. In telligence is heaven's rarest gift to earth ; it is the attribute that gives man a claim to an affi nity with angelsi and that state is false to her most sacred trust, as well at to her most vital interest, that fails to develop all Of her moral resources. Had a wise system of popular edu cation been adopted at the South at the same time it was at the North,that section might not be to-day, as it verily is,.without the light of a single great mind to guide it through the dark wilderness of its troubles. Attribute, if Son please, the degradation in which are found buried the Southern mind, either to a jea lousy of education or the selfishness of afflu ence, and still it is the institution of slavery pbat causes it. HISORO BY THE * * * I see it is asserted by those hostile to the proposed amendment, that the second sec tion gives Congress power to legislate on the question of negro suffrage in the States. This Ido most emphatically deny. The second sec tion is simply designed to make the first sec tion elieetive—in other words, to practically exeoUte it. The Constitution of the United States has already distinctly committed to the keeping of each State the regulation of the suffrage question. I have frequently felt emo tions of amazement and amusement at the holy horror with which some stump orators of quondam slave States deprecate what they affect to believe are the intentions of Congress, Sileuld this amendment be adopted, in regard to one question over which, it dues Occur tome, every man with a thimbleful of brains in his bead ought to know Congress never can have jurisdiction. I allude, of course, to the deli cate question of social equality and inter course. Row can Congress pass a laW to make any one white man • say that any other white man or black man shall be his guest and corn- Panion I Social intercourse will regulate it self, and at the same time it will regulate all questions of quality and equality belonging to the private walks of social life. To these gentlemen I will say that I was born and reared on free soil, and that there I never saw a black man with a white wife, or a white man with a black wife. There white people are white people, and black people are black people ; whereas I And throughout the South "kinky-heads" almost as white as anybody. It is an unfortunate thing for the negroes of the south -that they take their Status from heir mothers. If from their fathers, they Would be almost as universally free as under We existing rule, they are slaves. The truth , that the practical amalgauiationists are he Southern people. I ' AN ANECDOTE IN PAST. i was told an amusing story last winter, ITie in Savannah, to this effect; There was I ore the Legislature of Georgia a bill to ex - - riate all the free negroes in the .State. aiost tins barbarous measure the citizens 1,, o 'avannah entered a most pathetic protest. .4 emonstrance went up from that goodlycity t 4 the Legislature, signed by almost every body. The reason for this remonstrance, it I'4said by the friends of the measure, was tkat all the folks in Savannah were " kik." There is another objection urged to the emancipation of slaves in Kentucky. It is said that if the slaves are made free Kentucky will be without labor. This is a great mis take. If made free, the probabilities are that they( will remain, and,. for wages, labor with much more energy than heretofore. If not made free, with no laws to protect the insti tution, surrounded as you are by free States, offering to them an asylum and wages for their labor, they will desert their masters, as li a t t l it ofit m s ps laivrveitr y o i s9 s i f a fr e o dmoem s u a n i f v e e r i e s i 11 7 , driven ?rent the land. It is natural that they should do so, and no man but a crazy. man could calculate other wise. And would it not be better for Ken tucky to show her magnanimity, her patriot ism, her desire for a lasting peace, and the re turn of fraternal feelings, by at once doing that which, if she does not do, will soon do itself. Think of the great desire on the part of the civilized world that the chains of slavery, still clanking in your State, should be stricken from the limbs of the black man by the generosity and Christian spirit of your own people. Let your cloud-kissing hills and smiling valleys once test the energies of free labor, and ere long the number you are behind your sister States in population you will gather, the deficiency in wealth you will ac cumulate. Enterprise, capital,intelligence, and Christianity, will leap for joy over the new and bright prOSpeetsbefore them. Ken tucky will then take the pogition she ought to occupy among her sister States, and claim rank and respectability second to none. WHAT SLAVERY HAS DUNE. * * * Our land is swarming with thou sands of cripples;_ some have lost legs and others arms ; why do not these men go abroad among the people and hold up their shattered limbs and tell the slaveholder, " This is what your institution has cost me. While you were basking in the sunshine of safety at home, I was atthe front. When slavery took the form of armed rebellion, and soldiers were called into the field to put it down, you found irresistible fascinations in the attractions of home. I did my duty. I return now to my home to drag out, through a low lingering years, a misera ble life ; but mock me not. I do, in Heaven's name, implore you to stop this eternal parade before my aching eyes of this most odious in stitution), Oh, that I had the power to night to bring together all the slaveholclers of this land, and have them look on in solemn silence, while the crippled the widows and orphans that have been made 'by this war, could pass before them in grand review and tell their tales of misery and woe that slavery has brought upon them; were their hearts not made of stone, they would melt while gazing On such a scene, and with one voice, let the land be at once rid of the curse that has caused such& dreadful scene. But, suppose we haven° personal grievances over which to mourn, let us cast our eye down along the banks of the mighty father of waters, and then returning, start again atPerryville, and glance along that broad and deep channel over which the red tide of battle rolled through the gorges of the Cumberland and down along the plains of Georgia, on to the sea. Then pursue it around through the Carolinas, to Raleigh, and all over the crimsoned soil of Virginia, and as you count the almost countless graves that lie all along the banks of that river of blood, thick as " autumn leaves in Vallanahrosa, ,, pause for one moment to contemplate the seas of tears, the paroxysms of unutterable p.gony, all these must have cost when "somebody's darling" had to fall at every blow, and then tell me, if 'you can„when you know that slavery caused ft all, can you still cling to it I It has filled the lunatic asylum with maniacs. It has tilled houses of refuge with paupers. It has filled all the land with mourning. It has deluged your land with fraternalblood. It has snapped in twain the tenderest ties of social society. It has caused desolation to reign in princely palaces, where happiness had always held its revels. It has smitten with want and woe mil lions who were born in the lap of luxury. now, under Heaven's name, can any mortal man, not given over to the (lemon of selfish ness, desire to see such a cause of sorrow and suffering, injury and infamy, hypocrisy and hate, perpetuated among the institutions of his country] In Heaven's name I implore you, strike at once and deal it a death-blow. Let it be proclaimed from the ends of the rivers to the ends of the earth, that we live in a land of universal liberty, where the Ores of Patriotism, being. rekindled, will glow on as brightly as ever, in a Union that has battered down the walls of treason. York on orded, is .)y her de. The Steamer Euterpe has arrived from Wil mitlgten,,N. C., with advices of July 22. The steamer Penobscot, from Key West on the 18th ; the steamer. El Cid, from Newborn on the 28d, and the steamship Doris,from New Orleans on the 18th, arrived at this port this Morning. The Express states that President Johnson anticipates a journey eastward, and will be the guest of an eminent citizen of this city. Governor Andrew, of -Massachusetts is in this city, the guest of Colonel How. General liooker addressed. the NM New York Regiment this afternoon. 'CATTLE. MARKBT. Beef steady at 11G17cts, closing heavy; re ceipts 0,900 head. Sheep steady at fes34;.re ceipts lb,000; swine easier, at 11@12; reeemls 10,000. 1000 T X 72.10 SS• OWN 700 Nrle R 88 400 Cum COal prtr.,. it% 109 do ..„ ..... . e 4s. gg 200 - blur Wiping Co—. 13 100 do ' 8 20. gax 50 NY Central 1t... 9N 200 do 20 call. 87% 400 do ' 94 2000 Reading R 103 100 do. . ... 41 van. 944 100 mich Central It _lO7 l ooa r i e a 87,u 100 Itt So &N I 83% 1500 de ' 87% 200 do 2d call. mpg Gold, 149.1,1; New York Central, 94 1 ,6; Erie :• Hudson 173; Roadine 104• Pittebur St Hook 'elan /0I,• No rixwesie prefer red , 61%; Ohio and Mississippi certificates, 2431. ,irket firm, with a largo business 111, Erie. Arrived, bark Bob'lien, from Cronstadt. Below, ship Alex. Marshall, Liverpool. TIONAL AMENDIWENT NDIICATION IN THIC SOUTH THE LABOR QUESTION NEW YORK CITY. Niw YORK, July 23 FROM WILMINGTON, ARRIVAL OV STEAMERS pRIMIDRNTI.LI, TOUR THE STOCE EXCHANGE SECOND BOARD. EVENING STOCK BOARD SHIP NEWS. THE FREEDMEN. SOUTHERN IDEAS CONCERNINS THEM. " A STORK BREWrNia," SO SAY GEORGIA. JOURNALS. The Negroes All Impressed with Totally If- ferent Ideas of Life, Insubordination, Indiscriminate Rob bery, etc., Asserted to be Their Favorite Pastimes. AWFUL FEARS OF THEM, AND APPEALS FOR covERNANT PBOTEOTION. Their Conduct Fast Tending towards Scenes Like the Massacre of St. Domingo. A Wail from Prostrate Slave masters Anxious for Life. (From the:Macon Telegraph, 18th inst.] It is our duty to inform the authorities, those to whose hands have been entrusted the management and control of our affairs, actual events that are now transpiring, which require immediate and prompt action. We warn them that unless attention is directed at once to the conduct of the freedmen, the scenes of blood shed and massacre. of St. Domingo will be re enacted in our nada before the close of the year. We speak advisedly. We have authentic in formation of the speeches and conversation of the blacks, sufficient to convince us of their purpose. They snake no secret of their movement. Tell us not that we are alarmists. After due investigation and reflection upon this matter, we imire aetex , minon to talk plainly, witliOat fear or favor, and if our voice of warning is not heeded, we, at least, will have the consoling reflection that we have performed our duty. One word to the people : Our safety and protection from such occurrences depend at present upon the military power of the United States; and it is competent to defend us. But how can we expect to guard against this state of things in the future I Does any sane man suppose that, by a sullen and obstinate spirit of quiescence, the future well-being of the State and of society can be secured? In a short time we will be called upon to semi delegates to a Convention to form a State Constitution. Is it not important that men of statesmanship and wisdom should represent us I Upon the action of the next Legislature depends, in a great measure, our future tranquility, safety, and prosperity. You, people of Georgia, are to elect them. They are to he chosen by you. Will you not at once qualify yourselves for the exercise of the elective franchise? Argument upon this subject is unneces sary. Every thinking man must admit, there is but one course left us, dictated by reason and common sense. We will not insult the intelligence of the people by an elabora tion of this subject. The remedy for our pre- Sent Altuatiau is self.evident and too apparent for discussion. Let those who have been the leaders of the people come out and address them publicly, as they do iu private, and urge them to action. It is natural that our people should feel dispirited and gloomy. By the re sults of the war, they find the accumulation of years swept away. They find themselves bank, rupt. The capital we 'had in slaves is gone, but at/ is not gone. Our lands remain—our energy remains. We still have strmilk arms and stout hearts to battle with adversity. We are left the privilege of controlling our own local legislation and affairs in our own way. Let us qualify ourselves then, and use the privilege wisely, prudently. THE ABOVE REMARES ENDORSED. The Atlanta bilelligeneer comments on this artible of the Telegraph's, saying: From all we have seen about us, and have heard from different portions of the State, we are satisfied that the apprehensions of the Telegraph are not groundless. A spirit of reck less improvidence and an entire indifference as to the events of the future seem to have taken possession of the minds of a, majority of the negroes of the country. Withoutjudg ment, without foresight—attributes that not many of them have hitherto been called upon to exercise, as their planning and thinking has been done for them by the whites—these deluded creatures have become possessed with the idea that they are free to do just as they please. Every one that has any knowledge of the ne gro character, knows that nine out of ten of them are indolent and entirely disinclined to work, or to make any erfoit whatever, if any labor is required. when left to pursue the bent of their inclinations. They seem to think, if they think at all, that in some Mysterious way 'way shelters will be provided to shield them from the blasts of autumn and the storms of winter, which will soon be upon them, and hencew 'reckless abandon that is perfect.. ly mnrveionnthey leave comfortable homes, where hitherto - they - have lived in the enjoy ment of as much happiness as any laboring People on earth, and where they seemed to be Perfectly satisfied until their weak heads be came crazed with the idea of being free. As to ^e for the future, they must be eaten be fed as were the ancient biting that they wilderness , with children of Israel in the - quails and manna from IleaVen. ; Mr making least provision do they seem to be making for a future supply. The scenes of the farm and the dull routine of; plantation work, are evi dently too tame and sco cammon-place to suit their bewildered inlaginaticms • and in crowds they throng the ways that lean: to the cities, and then they herd as best they can. Some of them get into cellars or under 110 180 B — other° under frail board shelters, and others spread themselves upon the naked ground with no shelter save the broad canopy of Zeaven. What is to become of thebe poor deluded crea tures a few months hence—how they are to be ,. sheltered against the storms of svmter—hon they are to be fed and clothed, and how they are to be prevented from indiscriminate theft and robbery, are questions of fearful import, and calls most loudly upon those whose [lim it now is to take action in the promises, to be mean suresand prompt in the adoption of' ea sures called for in this emergency, if they wish to prevent the enactment of scenes at which humanity shudders, and which, if per mitted to transpire, will' bring a reproach upon the civilization of the nineteenth. centu rY• A heavy obligation rests somewhere to take such action in reference to these matters as will prevent the dire consequences that may be threatened. The former owners of these people, by the force of circumsiances,are ren dered powerless in the premises ; and conse quently are free from all responsibility in re ference thereto ; but theirhuinane feelings and a desire to promote the cause of philanthropy, will induce them to render every assistance in their power in the proper adjustment of these difficult matters. the foregoing remarks have been made under a solemn convicCionge the perils that threaten, and with the hope that the atten tion of those competent to control this mat ter may be attracted to it, and that such mea. sures may be adopted as will preserve the peace and promote the happiness and prospe rity of our entire people. RICHMOND. The Richmond Republic of Monday has the subjoined interesting items CITY POINT will no longer be a military depot, all the stores there having been re moved, and the quartermaster at that point ordered to report to Colonel William James, chief quartermaster in this city. PRESENTATION OF. A SWORD TO GEN. TURNER.— Messrs. John M. Houndtree, , Turner, and Whitney, .of Chicago, arrived in this city last week, bringing_ with them the magnificent sword voted by the electors of the Chicago Sanitary Fair to General John W. Turner, commanding a division in the 24th Army Corps and the District of Henrico, including the cities of Richmond and Manchester. The sword was duly presented to the General the evening after the arrival of the committee and took place at the official residence of General Turner, opposite the late mansion of Mr. Davis. The gathering of officers and ei vilians on the occasion was large and bril liant. Among those present were General Terry and stair General Devens and staff, Major General Foster, Major General Curtis andistaff, Governor Peirpont, Secretary Lewis, and a large number of others. AUCTION SALE OF CAPTURES AND ABANDONED Fliorzwry.—The auction sale of cai?tured and abandoned property took place on Saturday at the Government warehouse, corner of Main and Twenty-seventh streets. The attendance wits large, and thebithling very spirited. Fifty thousand pounds of rags were sold at 7% cents per pound ; 7,000 pounds of old copper at 15 to 20 cents per pound ; 8,000 pounds old brass at 15 to 10 cents; 5000, pounds old lead at t,4 cents; 150 tons new bar anti wrought and cast scrap iron' at $25 to $OO per toll. A. large lot of mis cellaneous articles was also disposed of at satisfactory prices. Another sale will take place in a tew days. DESCENT' ON GAMBLING HOUSES SATURDAY Mawr.— The military authorities at Rich mond, in pursuance of the spirit and letter of General Grant's order which directs the suppression of gambling houses in all places where military law prevails, made a deecent, With an armed guard, on Saturday night, upon the following houses supposed td be used for fa e m ni l i mp a ur i t o o s st a s ra T n ite I c t n ouse ra k i kept over opposite toadstre MainreetThtu ontcoimerli Franklin street' and Exchange alley ; 110 Franklin street, and 112 Franklin street. At neither place did they, however, find any persons engaged at faro or any game of chance,. and at most of the houses there was nothing found which indicated that they were used as gambling establishments. This was particularly the case at 117 Broad street, where not even a table was visible. At 112 there was no white person present, and the negro servants who had charge of it, on being questioned, stated that there had been no faro played there for a- week past, and that the owner of the place was in the country. The corner of Fourteenth street and Exchange alley, on the other hand, was bountifully sup plied with all the mysterious boxes, checks, spreads, & c., used by the craft in their com bats with their patrons of the jungle. At the various houses above named, all of which are in the Fourth Provost District,six persons were arrested upon suspicion. They were before Co]. Warren yesterday morning, who released them upon an order from the Provost Marshal General directing him to do so. This does not indicate by any means that the authorities in- . tend in the future to be lenient towards the class of offenders - alluded to. So far from it, from all we could learn, those hereafter con victed of gaming will receive justice untera pored by mercy. It will be a fruitless expert. n b e s a r t ig o ci o any - gambler, o f r o d r eron teaib j t e o c a t t? c as m a p e t ib t 0 T e v e a l T d ; has a ibroe amply sinificient to, rerret out their most secret haunts. Re' who' would, there fore, under the circumstances, give the gam blers of Richmond any other advice than to burn up their cards and boxes, and seek some certain means of livelihood, is one whose TTIREE CENTS. counsel, if followed, will lead them, just as certain as night follows day, either to Castle Thunder or some worse Owe. THE BAR-ROOMS TO BE ()JAWED TO-MOBALOW.— With a view to prevent any disturbances that Might possibly grow out. of drunkenrmss at the polls to-morrow, General Turner has ii sued an order, closing throughout the day of election all the bar-rooms, saloons, and other places in the city where liquor is sold by the glass. The order is founded on a careful re gard for the peace and quiet of the city, and we hope to see it strictly observed. Tobacco—The Ilistory of ite [From ihe Riolimond Commercial Ba This great staple of Virginia, which has been such a mighty agent for the prosperity and commercial renown of the "Old Dominion," has suffered greatly since the return of amica ble relations throughout our continent, and its atagnatien is greatly owing, among other causes, to the uncertainty or ignorance of its value under the many different IftWB imposing taxation upon it. We propose to inquire into the history of the different rates of titles and taxes, and trace the matter up to the present time.> In doing this we have the assistance of a competent Northern merchant, whose inte rest in the matter has induced him to make it an especial duty. The first tax upon tobacco was levied on the Ist of September, 1862, ; but manufactured to bacco made before this date, and removed from the plane Of manufacture, was not liable to any tax. If Dot so removed, en tobacco valued at not over thirty cents per pound, the tax amounted to ten cents; if valued over thirty cents, the tax was fifteen cents on the pound. The tax made was virtually fifteen cents, the tax entering into the value of the tobacco. On the Ist of July,lB64,the tax was increased to thirty-five cents per pound. The tax was assessed on all tobacco in the hands of the manufacturer, or his agent. Again, on the 18th of April, 1865, the tax was Increased to forty cents on the pound, and as sessed on all tobacco in the hands of the manu facturer, or his agent. These laws were not to apply to stocks of tobacco which had been purchased, and were in" the hands of the pur chaser; but that which was in the possession of the original Manufacturer, or is agent, supposed to be the same person, the Manufac turer owning the stock was only held liable. So, then, to sum up from these taxes, the law, as regards Virginia, and in fact all the States South; stands thus: The manufactured article found in the hands of the purchaser. Provided he can show the papers proving its purchase, and showing that it had passed out of the hands of the manufaeim,,,, before the time for which the latter is properly taxable, are not subject to the tax while in the hands of the purchaser, unless it has been transport, ed beyond the limits of the States lately in armed opposition to the Government. A month or so before the establishment of the assess ment may be considered the time referred to. The tax to whin tobacco is held liable when transported, is therefore that which was in of. feet by the law, as it existed, when it first be came liable to the tax. . • . Tobacco becomes liable to tax when sold by the manufatturer, and only then ,• consequent: ly,.the tax to be levied will be the tax which existed at the time of the original sale by the manufacturer. No tax is impesed, if removed before any tax law existed ; if sold under the fifteen cent. law fifteen cents; and thirty-ilve or forty cents, I/ sold under the law imposing that amount. The date of Original sale by the manufacturer, and not the date. of inatutfae: turn, determines the tax. Tobacco also, in the hands ola purchaser, or purchased tobacco, can, for the present, be sold at the South with: out being subject to tax. The department has yet to determine whether the same privilege will be accorded to the manufacturer with his own tobacco. Another undetermined point is in relation to tobacco in the Southern States being free of tax in those States; possibly the courts may abrogate the ruling of the department, and the final ruling may be that the distinction be tween tobacco shipped North and that remain ing in the South will be wiped out, and all must pay the same tax. It has been thought by some that it will not stand a law test, and that the Southern tobacco will have to pay the same tax here as when alined out of the "'insurrectionary? , States. The tobacco market, as these laws begin to be well understood, has given some little signs of activity. From Lynchburg, one of the largest and most important marts of manufactured tobacco, quite a number of shipments have taken place, especially since the resumption of canal navigation. These shipments have principally been directed to foreign ports. We learn, from correct and reliable Lynchburg authority, the amount of shipments up to this time. They comprise 35 hogsheads directed to Richmond, sto New York, 1151 to Liverpool or London, 94 to Bremen, and 83 hogsheads of stems shipped to the latter port, makingn in all an aggregate of 314 hogsheads. Thus over a quarter of a million of pounds are on their way to market from Lynchburg alone. Let us be hopeful that the trade will no more suffer from its temporary stagnation, and wealth and prosperity speedily now in out dear old mother State through this wide yet lately choked:up channel. An Author in Court DUMAS AND HIS HISTORICAL CHABACTE.II9-A CM= The Paris correspondent of the Anierioan Publishers , Circular says: - • - - "M. Alex. Dumas has appeared before our courts as the defendant in an interesting suit to determine the liberties which writers may take with historical persons. The dramatic episode in the life of Marie Antoinette (which was so full of dramatic episodes,) known as the 'Journey to VanRIMS,' tempted M. Dumas. He made it the theme of a dOoeL It happened that a M. de Prdfontaine, chevalier de St. Louis, and a half-pay major, was drawn into this history. Re lived at Varennes, and, either by accident Or design, he opened his door when the carriage drove up. It was half-past eleven o'clock at night. Count de Moustier (one of the bodyguards who accompanied the Mal barty,) had got out of tile carriage to find some ody - who would point out to him the road from Varennes to Fitenay. Perceiving a light and an open door, M. de Moustier made for them, but the door was instantly closed. M. de Moustier burst it open, Let is quote M. de iti..3l l Stier'S 'narrative Thereupon a man an patted mid flaked what was wanted. The re ply made was, To ask you to show 1110 the road leading out of town towards Stoney ' The man said: would do so willingly, hal should be hanged if it was known. , M. de Moustier observed that he was too well bred not to do everything to serve a lady. He an swered, We know all about it ; it is no lady.' " Thereupon M. de Moustier abruptly broke off conversation to let the king know what bad taken _place. The king ordered him to return and bid theman to conic to his inajesk l y. M. de Moustier went back and said: y mistress has charged me to be.... you come d talk with her.' This man dared not absolute ly disobey ; be went to the carriage barefoot, s 0 :Ls to make less ri r se. ge l got up the car; with - steps, s "24,Te d le a d t lll, t a l e Moustier lnl ro e tt t e com her Rife , the detachment of Lauzun , s hns mandant...Gi living at the Cordellers' UM- Bars, who wls- s, This officer was not at his vent at Varenn, q there but a single hussar, post. No one Wis.. 'IrS to join the command who said he had ore. r.. if he failed to appear ant at one o'clock, A. A. at Varennes. • M. de Moustier's The man who acted as he was a major guide was named PrMontaine; - ^al and mili of cavalry, and a knight of the ro, , rted that tary Order of St. Louis. As it is rep, -de nu he, with so many others, has since nts., and morons commentaries on the kingys arregt,. to has boasted that if the king had listened him and bad followed his advice he would had' escaped, M. de Moustier owes it to the truth to declare that the only service which If. de Pre- fontaine rendered, or was willing to rendeato his unfortunate master, was simply to' Dead him, M, de Moustier, to the residence of: the commandant of Latititn,s hussars. He would add that he never saw so timid or so pugilist* mous a man as this man ; that in the very slight' and perfectly useless good office which he could scarcely refuse to do his sovereign, he pushed precautions to the extronest limits, and that he did not cease to recommend to M. de Mous tier secrecy in regard to his movements say ing they would compromise and ruin him if they were known. Should a decorated soldier reckon any risks or perilsl In these circum stance!, What is fortune compared with honorl What is his life, when the question is to save his King's existence l This man,after this mo ment, did not once again appear before the King until his Majesty's departure from this detestable Varennes. "The family de PrOfontaine protest against the narrative of M. de Moustier, and appeal, to support their protest, to the narrative of M. de vallory, the second body-guard, who ao eompanied their, majesties, and who, in his memoirs, says ; the house of the respectable K. de Prefontaine might have served as tile refuge for the relays which lied been prepared, had he been previously informed and taken into the secret. M. Alexander Dumas prefer red to Valory's narrative that of Moustier, be cause the latter was present and was an actor in the scene, while %alory had been sent for ward to gain what information he could; but the novelist confuses the names, and re presents K. de Valory as giving ids arm to the fugitive Queen, whorl he represents knock ing at the Major's door. M. Dumas drama tizes Moustier , s narrative, by putting it in the form of a dialogue. Valory says : Sir, we are going to Stoney ; w ill you be good enough to indicate the road to us V 'But if Ido that, I shoal be compromised.' Even if you do com promise yourself, you will not hesitate to do this service for a you who is hI dangerous situation. , Sir, the lady behind yell, is not merely a lady—it is the Queen. , "K. de Valory tried to deny it. The Queen drew him back, saying, 'Let us lose no time in discussion ; go tell the King I am recognized. , DL de Valory hastened to the carriage and in a few words told the King what hail taken place, The King said Ask that man to come and speak to me. , The man obeyed, and ad vanced to the carriage-door, not without marks of lively apprehension. ' What is your name 1 , D'Pafontaine, sire.' 'Who are your Cavalry major, knight of the royal and mili tary order of St. Louis.' As major, - and as knight of St. Louis, you twice took an oath to bo faithful to me. It is, consequently, your duty to aid me in the embarrassment in which I am.' Th e m a jo r stammered a few words, the queen staMped her foot impatiently, The King added : . Sir, have you heard whether the hussars and relay-horses expected a treasure which was to pass through Narennes ' I did hear so, sire.' Where are these hussars? Where are these horses?' 'ln the Low-town, sire. The °Mere are lodging at the Hotel du Grand Monarque.' . I thank you. Now you may return home. Nobody has seen you • no• body has heard you; consequently no you; will befall you. The Major profited by the permission, and returned home. The PrAfou , taine family moved the court to order M. Du mas to insert the extract from M. do Vaiory's memoirs in the next edition of this novel. The lower court granted the desired order; but the appellate court reversed this judgment upon the ground that D. Dumas was at liberty to give preference to Moustler's nbrrative, and that he faithfully followed It in substance." - - The estimatedpopulation of the colony of Victoria, on the 31st of December last, num bered 604,858 souls, of whom 347,954 were males, and 256,904 females. The increase of popula. tion by excess of gration overemigration (luring the last quarter of 1864 was 3,61.14 and by excess of births over deaths, 4,M. The in crease f rom an causes during tho year was 30,527 persons, of whom 17,383 . were male and 13,144 females. The nutmages celebrated du ring the year numbered 4,529. The Emperor Napoleon is said to be en gaged on a work entitled, " Politique ka perildo iraprie les messages discours, et pro. elardatione de I , Emperenr." This book will be, as the title indicates a recapitulation of all that has 'emanated from the pen' of the Emperor from his accession down to the Moat recent date. The letter on the subject of the speech at Macao will, it is said, be even in cluded. TAE WAR/ PRIM/I& - ( PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) - . Tula was PERIM *nil be sent to subscribers W mail (per annum In advance,) at OS 00 Five copies 10 00 Ten copies 10 00 Larger Clubs than Ten wilt be charged at the 111 rate. $2.00 per coin. The 7 „,,,iiev mud atteave aecomany the order, NO 'inns , instance cps these terms be stodated Trask de they 4, nd very little more than the cost of paper. Aler Postmasters are requested to set so tweed! for THE WAR PRIEM. Sis To the getter-up of the Club often or twenty, an extra cony of the paper will be given. ftwAirr. ITEMS. The Doylestown inteUtgencer Has the fol. lowing: A survey has been made from PhDs. delphia to Perkiomen Creek, under the . direc tion of the Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia - Water Works, for the purpeSe ofsupplying the city with pure water. The wateras furnished from the Schuylkill above FairilleUntr is iln- pregnatcd with the filth and poisonous waters of the numerous dyeing establishments along• the river, and eminent physicians have in nu merous instances traced the causes of disease* and death from the effects of drinking the seheylkill water. For the purpose Of ii 4 PP I 7 - ing the city with wholesome water, the Chief Engineer was instructed to make surveys from the three different , points, namely the Neshamony, Perktomen, and French creeks. The Perfriomen, we believe, has been selected as the fountain. The route surveyed follows the Germantown and Beading pike. by way of Fairview. The distance is some . twenty-Dix miles. The water will be supplied and the works erected after the manner of the Croton Aqueduct, which supplies New York, forty miles distant. We understand that the data for the supply of the proposed reservoir is to be constructed near Zicglersville r in Mont ger/wry county, —The school for soidiers' orphans at Quaker. town, under the charge of Mr. Core, now num hers about sixty pupils. He has recently en larged the school buildings, which will enable him to accommodate a much larger number. The Normal department is now entirely dis tinct from the orphans , school, and is in a separate building, under the charge of fkr. James B. Brunner. -- Episcopal Clergymen in Redford and the adjoining counties, held a Convention in the village of Bedford last week, in the Lutheran Church, when sermons were preached by the Rev. John F. Esch, of Paradise, Laneaster county Rev. L Newton Spear, of /Winona, and Rev. John Cromlish, of Columbia, Aifterts are being made to erect an Episcopal Church in Bedford. —J. G. Adlum is the Union nominee for the Assembly in Blair county ; Benj. F. Rose and Adam Moses, for Associate Judges; Colonel D. M, Jones, for Register .n .d. Recosder ; John C. Biddle, for Commissioner; James McKim. for Auditor ; H. C. Niccalemus, for Surveyor. Resolutions of confidence in President John- Son and Governor Curtin were adopted by the Convention. Owing to the heavy rains, the Susquehanna rose censidarably within the past few Some of the creeks up the Valley have been wild, washing away hay, fences, &c., and tear ing up things generally. - - The 75th Pennsylvania Regiment and the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry arrived in Harris-. burg on Sunday, and will there receive their money and discharge papers. The Norristown Heraftl, which appears both weekly and mni-weeloy, is a live news paper, and a credit to the town in which it la. published. The Harrisburg Telegraph of Monday eve ning publishes a column and a half of com plimentary notices which it received from its cotemporarice upon its recent enlargement. —A meeting is to be held in Middletown next aturday, to devise ways and means to raise money for the erection of a midterm? monument. The internal revenue tax for this year, in the district composed of Cambria, Blair, Hunt ingdon and Mifflin counties, amounts to $103,- 652.80. The Union Convention of Mercer county will meet on the lth of September next td) nominate a county ticket. Cattell will deliverthe Baccalatt. reate sermon at the ensuing commencement of Lafayette College, at Easton. Efforts are being made to establish a Lodge of Odd Fellows in Titusville. Copper has been discovered in Wolf tOVIII— ship, Lycoming county. HOME ITEMS. One of eight- ,handeuffed criminals, whom two officers were escorting from Hartford Jail to Wethersfield, Friday, slipped his bracelets. suddenly and ran Hke a deer. Re could not lac followed until the pollee were. InfOrmed, but not much time was lost, and after an ex, citing chase and search, be was discovered hid In a hay-inow,, and was captured after a pitch fork fight. -- A shocking act is reported as having oc. cupped on hoard the steamboat Armenia, on Thursday afternoon, oh her trip from Albany to New York. A respectable-looking woman.. who was accompanied by four children, and was on her way to meet her husband, leaped overboard with a babe in her arms, and both were drowned. No cause could be assigned for the act, An expett swimmer is giving CZllibittMf at Fall River, Eastern Massachusetts. Re suf. fern himself to be thrown into the water with his hands and feet tied, when he will release himself and perfOrm other unprecedented feats afloat. A bottle WaS found, Saturday, by Mr. Nye. of North Falmouth, Mom, at Nyets Point, Buzzard's Day, near the monument, contain• an envelope, upon which was written the fol" lowing: "Drowned at sea, Isaac Morton, schooner Dale." Skaters will be glad to learn that by a re. cent invention a skate has been made which will contain a hot brick. By 'GM invention bricks may be more safely carried than in one's bat. —Edward N. Thompson, for many years con neeted with the New York and Boston thea tres, (lied in Baltimore on Thursday.last, after a long and painful illness, aged about forty, eight years, 7 4. brick building, three stories high, 125 feet long and 48 feet wide, is to be erected at. the Tewksbury Almshouse, Massachusetts, to accommodate the harmless insane of that in stitution—the confirmed insane State paupers. A package of three letters recently arrived at the WOotltteek (Vermont) poet-office from Irasburg, having been over twontpone years in travelling the one hundred miles between the two places.. A Crowley boy in Boston, five years old,• died a few, days since from the effects of drink ing brandy, which he had got hold.of in his mother's absence, A servant girl in Connecticut has confessed to eonspiring with /liir lover to murder tuma rob her mistress. A man who bad lost $1,500 at faro was pre ted by the police from hanging himself to en. ; : post in a street in New York. tain & won on in Rochester tied a stone to her chile' neck' threw it into the canal, and watche ,l it struggle and drown, A sailkoat regatta,lll which alnAtt , tWentp , five bo,,lts Will indulge, will come air at NeW. H aven o. u Thursday ; A hi m lard tournament for the champion.- ship of the . State will be held at Portland, during the S. ' st week in September. —On sature.'aY' June 10th, Speaker Colfax' and his party L. ' ad a snow-ball match on the . plains. dressing-ease sold for 05 at Wilkes Booth's auction in Canada. ,9 has been admitted to General N. P. Bank. . ew Orleans. Fallsab o about to t tour. practice as a lawyer N wife are General Grant and Me , Ilf T i ag e aa start on their Canada andll, ;rime died a few A trotting horse valued ' d0.p. , 7 since in St. Louis. •essire A young woman died from er4. ter in New York last week. , ed their The Connecticut Legislature rate pay to $3 per day. There is said to be no hope fortherm tion of the Richmond Whig. There were 40,000 people at the Germath, plc.uio in New York last week. New YOrkers spent two millions last yeas' to go to the theatres and such. Judge Holt is at the White Mountains. Emigrants are pouring into• Missouri. A Loan-ly man—Jay Cooke.—Rodon Post. POREIGN 1TE2116. The sum of £l2O was recently sent to the four French gendarmes at Clyne, Vecchia, who captured the notorious brigand Tamburini. The gendarmes refused to accept the money, but, when told they were bound to do so, they immediately sent it totlie Minister of the terior to be distributed to tilt) Poor Of the this trict. The fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo Was celebrated throughout the Netherlands with• great enthusiasm, The demonstrations, how ever, were made principally by the lower classes, and are said to have been disapproved by the King and the ministers. Mr. COS, Ar, P., has abandoned the action! for libel Witten it w 413 / Ot.ol Attted, to the genes ral aniuseniont,he had commenced against het proprietors of Punch. On the Ist a provision in an act of.Parlia inent took effect to render maker and dealers in chain cables and anchors liable to £l5O pen alty for selling them without being a proved .n In an article published by the Paris Prase, the opinion is expressed that any attempt to increase the sue of the Preneh newspapers to that of the English must assuredly fail. At the Leeds (England) borough sessions, on the 4th, a married woman was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for stealing a. child, which she intended to adopt. Lord Iletby has promised to open the Ex hibition of Works of Arts, Industry, de., at Preston, on the 14th of September next. —Dr. Manning, the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, recently arrived with his suit at Geneva, on his way to Rome. Queen Emma, widow of the late Ring or the Sandwich Islands, is expected to arrive on a Visit to England in a short *lbw The Ring of the Belgians' health, without being positively alarming, .has yet been loss. favorable for some time past. The foundation-stone of the new English Protestant Church of 'St.'Peterls, at Chantilly, was laid a few days agO. -- The AhorystWlth and Welsh C oast Rail way was opened for tramp on the eit, Prince Lucien Murat is, it is said, writing_ a history of his father.
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