yerensing. Consols were quoted at Sil7,MO. tiv,twenties, 72@7•23,4, we print this morning an important special cwzpiach front Wand - fington, giving reliable I„ferinntion of the action taken by our Consul B : Liverpool, in relation to the rebel pirates ~,,,,gregated there.- Consul Dudley has filed a pill claiming the ship Aline, which arrived at .iverpool with 14,000 bales of cotton belonging rebel ' government. He has also in nled legal iolfeedings to recover the pirate , ppabannoch , nnw t here. Our correspondent t oilets that 31aximillan will have to leave lexieo 'before u great while. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided nialcc no farther appointments except when vacancy must be filled. Over sixteen him- ITO arra:Wens of unsuccessful aspirants re en file in his office, There are, it is eSti over sixteen hundred, and fourteen 1,. fl employed in the Treasury Department. A _Fortress Monroe despatch says that the fr i :qj te Congress does not yet float, but it is eN pected she will in a few days. The Courts oi Elizabeth city county have been organized ry the selection of Union men as officers , ;I:here will be a lithe sate of captured cannon :0 the Fortress on August 2d. Elsewhere will be ,found extracts from let 'ars, received by a North Carolinian while a prisoner of war in Fort Delaware. They will he found of interest as Showing the feeling jn North Carolina. vubv President has re-appointed the present collector, Naval Officer, and Surveyor of Cos_ toms in this city. The Postmaster:ship iS not vet settled. The rebel ram Stonewall is in the service of the Government, but she will not, for some 'ltac, be brought to the United States for fear the yellow fever, Which is prevailing, at jinvana, where she now Iles, may - be earrieti ibis country. ihnulretts of former residents of Washing" who participated in the rebellion are re r:raing to the Federal capital. General Au 51r has issued an order requiring all such to 1-,:fisler their names. The President and family, accompanied by in Preston King, left Washington, on Satur j„y.en a trip down the Potomac. They will ::rant to-day. - 6en Grant is in Boston. He has received v. ;v attention at the hands of the civic didierities and the citizeus. Paymaster Itaii,hieton has been appointed Yaral Agent of Washington, in place of L. r. grown whose term of °Mee has expired. Two hundred pardons have been granted du ring the week. The petitions are coming in at the rate of two hundred a day, rrof. D. C. Gilman, librarian, and Prof. T. B. Osborne, law proNssor, in Yale College, Dave resigned. Our Minister to china, Mr. Burlingame, is in New York en ronte for Washington. The stock market was firm on Saturday. Government bonds were rather quiet and lower. Coal oil shares were the most active on the list, and prices better. Breadstuffs continue very firm, and Wheat, Corn, and Oats have again advanced. Cotton i more active, and prices rather better, Sugar and Coffee are firmly held. Whisky is in better demand at the advance. bold closed in New York on Saturday at 14.1 THE NEW SAINT. Faction is so rapidly going out of fitshion that it will require a strong sensation to give it even the briefest re-existence. The sue. cessive defeats of the various expedients to roive it have made those who profited von it unusually cautious. At last, how ever, they seem to be concentratingupon the case of Mrs. SURATT. She is to be martyr .zed and canonized among the chosen saints of the Secession Calendar. The humane cud pioUS people who had no sighs or tears Dr the murdered LiNcotrt, are about to create a party over the memory of the apotheosized Mrs. SURATT. Hearts that )ever palpitated with sorrow or indigna -ion when the Republic was assailed ; when 'he gallant sons of the North were killed battle, starved in prison, or mutilated by he savages of slavery ; when the poisoner, he incendiary, and the assassin, made a `ery carnival of blood and of death ; were instantly touched, as with a holy fire, then Mrs. FIIIATT was sentenced and lung as a party to the foulest murder of nodern times. For this cruel deed, the ?resident, Mr. STANTON, Judge HOLT, and he Military Commission, are all to be ar- Ligued, There is a vulgar idea that JEF- F:3130N DAVIS iS soon to be formally loin& to trial and to punishment. But lit :apital culprits and criminals are those jtst named. Whether a great party can be c.utructed by this new outcry remains to Lt sten. Faction having thiled in its other ( , nleprises, it will, doubtless, be clespeinte itt pashing this one to completion. Not mad can be said for the dignity of the en perinent. It lacks the essentials of high princples. It does not appeal to the Ilacr humanities. But it can boast the aroma of revenge Over a defeated conspiracy, and the passion that outlives the death of slavery—hatred of triumphant libe•ty. With these agencies it may pro tahly rally a party. A very able cotempo : rury, a fresh champion of the good cause, that we heartily welcome, the New Era, I.o,lhed at Blairsville, Indiana county, in State, writes on this very subject, as "lie sex of one of the culprits excited, ' , Muttily enough, an interest in the public I "ilainot felt for any of the others. The pre ',l-reef a female in this great State conspire leee a sort of poetic glow to the coloring picture and Served to heighten the eriesieee effect.' A woman figures in the con *rule of Cataline. Charlotte Corday stalks aie the bloody stage of the French revolt: ' 4ll.te island home of Blannerhassett was a little paradise Until ilie wife met with Aaron I: iar• It iS not to be wondered at if rebel l isi»iiie and Southern passions—fed into a Ill011f; by bad company, and attuned to daring ithance by the plaintive air anti stirring words ci exit songs as Maryland, my Maryland'— lipieluced evil effects in the bosom of Mrs. Su al I. We say it would not be strange; for if all accounts be true, some other Southern women, Inure cultivated and refined, exhibited during '::)) war, instances of merciless acrimony and eiee ge hate beyond the remotest conception el l the modern Christian imagination. When the social fabric gets unhinged ; when oaths are viewed as bubbles; when human bondage considered divine; when labor is looked on e degrading, and when the pulpit itself takes, lolly and unblushingly, its stand against ha and order, and in Myer of rebellion and Weed, what else can possibly 13e expeetedt Sat a Condition of society t The flood-gates el the passions broken , loose, the emelt of [deed in the air, ornaments carved out of the I,, ines of enemies, starvation of prisonee3 ex tolled the arson of cities considered heroic, llifection and poison -justified, assassination illlvertised for, and all this crime seek 1 "I to pillow itself .upon the gospels, and . U) screen itself behind the meretricious ill% of a war for liberty and independ este! With a bishop for a“general, no l leeluter that .a widow beetene a conspire, With Stonewall .Jackson and Robert E. killing and praying, and praying and kill, both with easyconscienee and pious is it at all surprising that Payne should i w-lueipt to cnt Mr. Seward's throats Like the nienatry in the thermometer, the sensitive :eel] of woman rises or sinks according to the temperature of the moral atmosphere around Ilur. It was thus with Eve, and so it was with Woman was last at the cross and first at the tomb. But when the moral of hus bands, sons, brothers, and lovers become rancid and loathsome, what is more likely than that the pestilence should taint the female heart) In the; liege carnival of blood which disgraced France and humanity ins the latter I of the last cem my, many of the proms- neat actors en the hellish °reef; were WOMen. C Icero once :impudently said. hat 'no animal more revengeful than a woman.' After his assaesination, when hiehettil was hung up in llai Roman Forum, Fulvia,the wife of Antony, threw the tongue out of the mouth and bored it through repeatedly with a gold bodkin; thus Verifying, in this act of inhumanity,- the amying of the great orator. Mrs. Sarah was, it appears, respectably reared, tolerably- eoucuted, and Nya. • one time the belle of tier county. At middle g she was still passing fair, and s f o o mreat a t ee. e tractive. It was an unlucky She first met Booth. Ile had abKut when which, hacked I l i t t a si t . ) ) l ie c l 6 - f style and fashion, ished.address and fascinating la dcred him the central object of an ' y .'- s o r u 'l l c r,. - -ele into which .he ,gained admittance. Ills t(Mutation 88 a theatrical performer gained iin eclat with a certain set of people. lie fre quently visited her house, which should have been sacredagainseall such characters. Her on became his daily companion, and corm:- hart: a habitue at the theatre. She ShOUld "Vt% known better, for such was not the train jug bile hot from her parents and the iustrue ,leis of her youth, It is the old story of had ninpany and -wicked associations. Crime foe r l , iLatid disgrace and death—rain to all her !se old. Medina Roland, dazzled With the wft as and poetical temperament of ~ !,,11 1 . z et, ended her career at the guillotine. by lending a willing eer to the , -"el 'eon the ating tongue of the serpent, Booth, per sealitlohL” • -- • 1111 . , 0 . teir tt t, y , • rot AA...„::/ •' - - los*• -3),- _ Ili*"1"" ./•• - - - ..Le= PP • VOL. 8.-NO. 230. LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL•" I r ASUINGTON, July 29, 1.865 A people accustomed to as many tribula tions as have afflicted the Americans, and living through a period in which some of the most momentous evils have been success fully and permanently disposed of, should not be daunted at the questions that have succeeded the overthrow of the Rebellion. Let us adniit that these questions are dangerously delicate and novel—it is much to feel that we have been dis cirlined in the diSposition of questions equally delicate and novel. It should be a source of added consolation, that we may extract from the discussions of these new complications certain elements with which to construct the substantial foundations of a lasting free Government. One of the most conscientious thinkers of Our times, a man who has been so rooted in his convictions as to be exceptionally exacting and intole rant as to others ; who has doubted Presi dent Johnson's restoration policy, and has alone been saved from denouncing hint by the confidence he felt in the character and had gathered from the unequalled sacrifices of our Chief Magistrate, said, a few days ago : "I confess that how exactly to proceed in view of the present and the future of my country, I cannot decide ; and thits power less to advise or to act, I can only invoke Providence to prepare for us the way to de liverance and to safety." But there is not only no cause for despair ; there is much cause for hope. The very magnitude of the questions before us counsels and compels careful and well-considered action. I have recently conferred freely with men of adverse opinions, and have read without passion the various news papers of the sections North and South; and while there is much to prove the ex istence of great diversity of sentiment, there is nothing to excite despondency. - From all the maze and Mixture, I, gather the assurance that slavery is really and practically abolished, and that the colored man in the Southern States will be better cared for hereafter than ever before. He may not secure the right of suffrage as rapidly as some of his zealous friends in sist ; (even as they know that they de mand what cannot be at once secured, and to that extent increase a most fetal preju dice against him,) but he will be pro tected in the enlightenment of hiM self and his children, and in the enjoyment of the fruits of his well-paid labor. The system of General Howard, the chief of the Freedmen's Bureau, is winning its way through practical chaos and over Copperhead calumny. I may be pointed to the malignity of the rebels, as shoWn in the late elections in Virginia and Tennessee. Ilow can you restore the Union Akvhile such passions are permitted fo run riot in the very face of : your President's forgiving policy ? One good answer might be, that these passions would not have been stifled had the President not sustained Governor Peirepont in the one, or not tolerated the candidacy of Etheridge and Campbell in the other. They would have burst forth the more fiercely because "the mili tary power" had been employed against them. But the true and the honest answer and remedy is in the diet, that President Johnson's policy is already established in the South, in spite of these treacheries. He is the master of the situation. It is perhaps better that he should have encountered a fresh instance of rebel ingratitude in Ten nessee, for that may prove to him "how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless" professing friend. And this very ingratitude prompted his formal endorse ment of Brownlow's course against it. That action of the President, and the sure pun ishment of the attempt to repeat rebel ras cality and perfidy in Virginia, will have the best effect upon the other Southern States. Provisional Governor Brown, of Georgia, anticipated and asserted the duty of the Southern States, when he told the Georgians that he intended to obey the laws of Con gress, take all the oaths, and act on the line marked out by the President. He . said : "Looking down the vista of time t I see Georgia tenfold more prosperous, and when all our sectional prejudices shall have died away, we shall meet together, North' and South, as brethren, rejoicing under one Go vernment, and marching On to the glorious destiny which is before us. Not only will Georgia increase in wealth and population, but the whole Southern country will be more prosperous in arts, manufactures, wealth, and civilization. I see them marching on -in this new order of things. The whole country, united in the bonds of charity and love, must go on prospering until *his great nation shall be unequalled by any Power on the earth." Other States will avoid the folly, and so avoid the fate of the Virginia and Tennes see plotters. It is therefore only waste of time to elect doubtful or treasonable men to the next Congress. Even if Mr. Mc- Pherson, the Clerk of the House, could stoop to the infamy of putting the names of such applicants upon the initial roll, (which I need not say he never dreamed of for a moment, ) the sterling ma jority of the House would at once and indignantly rebuke and repel the at tempt. Etheridge contemplated an act to which this would be a fraud ten thou sand times more appalling, before he called the roll of the last House but one, but be quailed before the thunders of the people. Let the patriot rejoice. We are safe all round. There is no cause for quarrel among ourselves, or with the President That there will be differences is natural. Better, for the cause, that they are made known. They need not run into dissension*, how ever, and I predict they will not.> The President may not consent to take the question of suffrage from the States, but he Will, not, as you see, agree that those who enjoy suffrage shall abuse it to hamper him, to persecute the freedmen, or to bring rebel chiefs back into civil office. He is anxious to have the Union restored, but he is not ready, as you see, to bring back the traitors to Congress. If the peo ple of the South cannot read in these signs a solemn and fixed resolve, and if the Union party of the North cannot find in them the inspiration for harmony and for confidence among themselves and faith in the Presi dent, both sides are as deaf to reason as "statues that look life, yet neither breathe nor stir." OCCASIONAL. General Grant at Boston. BOSTON, July 20.—Lieutenant General Grant, accompanied by his wife and four children, and his stair, consisting of Colonel - Babcock, Horace Porter, and Adam Dadeau, and E. L. Parker, Chief of the. Six Nations of Indians, arrived in this city this evening by a special train from Albany. `An immense crowd greeted the arrival of the General at the Worcester depot with , :the most frantic enthusiasm, =v..' king the air ring with, their cheers.L The General will remain here until Tnesdaymorm lag. Be was serenaded to-night. BOSTON, Jay SO.—General Grant attended di vine service this morning at the Old South Church, where a sermon was delivered by the Rev. lir. Manning, and at three o'clock this af ternoon, he dined at the Revere House, in company with Governor Andrew. Late in the afternoon, the General and party rode in the suburbs. To-morrow he will visit Harvard College, the navy yard, and other points of in terest, and at noon will hold a public reeep. Lion in ranueil Hall. Wherever the General appeared in public, he met with the most heartfelt and unbounded enthusiasm among all classes. A Steamer In mail...esti- BALTimons, July 30.—A despatch, dated at Fortress Monroe, July 29, SP. M., says : " formation has just reached here that the steamship Blackstone is ten miles southeast IT east from Cape Benry, in a disabled condi- I ion. She has a pilot on board from pilot boat Pride, No. :3. Captain Ai i nSwOrth has gone to her assistance on the steamer Eliza ganeox.” Fire at Batavia, N. Y. BITATALO., July 29.—The Central Brti}road freight.lionse at Batavia was burned at ono o'clock this morning. The loss arammtea to ;;20 3 Non-Arrival of the lithernten. FATHER POINT L. c July P. 3L —Thero are no signs of the Itiberxlien; ;lOW tlll6' ft m. Liverpool, ENGLAND AND THE REBEL PIRATES. Liverpool the Harbor of the Corsairs. Manly Conduct of HMI. Thomas 11, Dudley, United states Consul. THE MEXICAN IMBROGLIO. (Special neap:ltch to the Press.) ARIiINGTON, July 30, 1805 From unoilicial, yet unquestionable sources, I gather the following interesting facts worthy to be known in commercial and political circles: The course :of the Eng lish Government, alike Conservative and Tory, since the overthrow of the rebellion, has been unaccountably malignant, and is, only to be explained by the fact that all-sides, except the liberals alone, are disappointed that the fates had not otherwise decreed. I need not quote the scandalous speech of Roe buck on the Tory side, nor the shameless, dis reputable, and dangerous doctrines of Lord John Russell for the Ministry. The fact is suf ficient. 011 y information is simply, yet pow erfully confirmatory of these manifestations of extreme rancor on the part of the leaders; and, taken in connection with the Met that it is given almost simultaneouSly with the intcl• litrence of the atrocities of the rebel pirate lira:l/am - Mali, is something of an admonition. On the 13th of July Liverpool elected two ( Ten foes of the United States (Tories), to rep resent the town in Parliament. On the 11th the ship Aline reached Liver pool; from Irrivann, with 14,000 bales of cotton, valued at present prices, at sloo,ooo—belonging to the late rebel Government. Mr. Dudley, our Consul at Liverpool; tiled a bill in Chancery, claiming it as the property of the United States. On the oth, the pirate steamer Rappahannock (under the alias of Beatrice) entered Liverpool from Calais. The plea is put forth that she has been sold to a Liverpool merchant—of course a silent Of the basest coin. Mr. Consul DUDLEY at once obtained eminent legal advice, and on the 11th instructed his Counsel to insti. lute suit in the Briti.th Admiralty Courts, to re cover her for the United States as property of the defunct and surrendered Confederacy. This is giving Lord RussELL a (lose of his own me dicine ; for it is his advice that the complain ants of his policy should go to law, though he does not point out what courts they should re sort to. lam not clear as to the exact grounds upon which this suit is brought; hut Mr. Dun- LEY being a line lawyer himself, has doubtless Miceli care not to compromise his Govern ment. There are now at Liverpool the pirates Sumpter, Tallabasse, Rappahannock, and Ajax—the, latter having never obtained her armament. There is nearly as much hollow parade about the trouble with Mexico as there was about the immense resources of the rebellion just before it broke down. You know how the rebels lied, from the head to the tail, immedi ately in advance of the explosion. Well, ex actly as much truth may be extracted from the lohd reports from the Rio Grande. That Maxlmillian will leave, is as sure to my mind, as that Jeff Davis left Richmond; but it will not be immediately. The pear is not yet ripe. It will fall when it is, without much shaking. Our ever-watchful sentinel, Mr. Seward, now at Cape May with his family, does not seem to be disturbed about these rumors of war. He feels fortified as to England, by the fact, the law, the history, and the record of England herself. rot the sevenfold shield of Ajax was stronger than we are here. As to Mexico, the book of diplomacy contains nomore luminous example than that he has written for his coun try in her relations with our sister Republic, soon, 1 hope, to be so in fact as well as in name. *s* WASHINGTON. SEVERAL PHILADELPHIA FEDERAL OFFICIALS REAPPOINTED. THE REBEL RAM STONEWALL AT THE SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT. No More Appointments Except to Fill Tacan , des to be Made in the Treasury. THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION DAMAGED' BY THE STORM WASHINOTOX, July 1985. The Philadelphia and Other Appoint- ments. The President has reappolnted WM - I,IAX B. Tnmstes,?Colleetor of Customs: at Philadelphia; also BnwArmWALLAIME, Naval Officer; and E. BRED Misran, Surveyorof Customs at the same port. J. C. TAILOR, has been appointed agent for the Indians at the Upper Platte agency; SAMUEL S. DAY, Reeeiver, and M. A. WittramS, Register of the land Office at Tallahassee; EDWARD BART, Receiver, and M. P. DO3TY, Register of the Land Oftiee at New OrleanS. The Rebel Stun Stonewall. It is understood that the rebel ram Stone wall is now at the service of our Government, but she will not at present be brought to the United States, for fear - that the yellow fever, BOW prevalent at Havana, where sherlies, may thus be introduced intcyour country, The Rush for Ofitee. The Secretary of the Preasury has• decided to make no more clerical - appointments, ex cepting in cases of vacancies, which must be supplied. Over fifteen thousand applications of unsuccessful aspirants are on hie' in this Department, having accumulated during; and Once the rebelliOn. It is estimated that there arc nearly sixteen hundred , clerks and four teen hundred copyists employed in the:Prem. stirs. building. , - The Presidential 11 . Tansion Damagetlby the Storm. Tile storm yesterday afternoon, though, of brief continuance, did much damage all: over the city. A spout leading from the roof of tile. White House and extending through thcrwest wing of the building became clogged by refuse - material of workmen who had been makinc , repairS. Some of the chambers were over flowed to the depth of several, feet, and. the ceiling of one of them fell. IVinch alarm, was, occasioned to the inmates. The utmost aetivi ty was required to prevent the East ilommand other apartments from being similarly in - un dated. Rebels Returning to their-Former Re- 11 - unOredo of cowrie, residenta Of Washington who left for the South on the breaking.out of the rebellion, continue to return hero,. but very few of them have succeeded.in obtaining employment General AUGUR has just issued an order re quiring all persons hereteforebelonging to-the rebel armies arriving in this, city, to. report immediately On their arrival to the headquar ters of the Department of Washington, and furnish a copy of their authority for being. bere. Those now in the city who have-not al ready done so, will at once comply.with the requirements of this order. Pardons Granted. About two hundred pardons nave been granted during the past week. There remain on isle over two thousand applications, and Petitions are still coming. in at, the. rate of 'Trom one to two hundred per day.. The President today pardoned Z.K. MIL LEN, sentenced to be hanged for murder ; C. C. Love, a deserter to Canada ; Purr..Ganes, of Georgia, a rebel, and who is well known as having formerly, for years, Wen an editor in Washington; CHARLES GREEN, rebel, and R. L. J. BLAIR. AnTnur. CAvvrov was permitted to leave the country, never to return. The Cholera In Etwope. The State Department has received advices fro& the United States Consul et Palermo, dated July 9th, relative to the .spread of the Asiatic cholera in the locality; liAe represents that, owing to a prevalence of Asiatic cholers 4 in Alexandria, Egypt, and. some cases having happened at Malta, the Director General of the Health Office of the island, has ordered the expulsion of all vessels arriving from the above points, and a quarantine of several days for all arrivals from the ports of the Levant. There is a considerable panic in Pa lermo and Messina,_ but as yet there have been no cases of cholera, except in Messina, of a person landed from a steamer of the " Messageries Ireperiale,? , from Alexandria, who died at the Lazaretto. The NAVA} AffeneV- The term of °Mee of S. P.Baowzr, Navy Age at this point, having terminated by Matta lion, Paymaster DATA - sixTozi has been tem porarily assigned to the post thus made va cant. This i$ in accordance with the sot of Congress placing the business of navy agents in the hands Of paymasters, and wee the last ruse requiring Such a ebange—the trt;lnsfer of all the other stations having been made some time ago. rension Decision. The Copunissioner of Pension% has decided that rebel deserters, who have subsequently enlisted in the 'United Stato military ao rv iee (lo not thereby become entitled to the heneilta of the pension laws. It la expressly provided 07 Congressional enaetlilont that 4o pension.' PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY. JULY 31, 1865. shall be paid to any person who has borne arms against the Government or in any man ner given aid or comfort to the rebellion. An executive pardon has no effect to set aside or Modify this law. A Presidential Enr.enrslon. The President, accompanied by his family and 800. PRESTON KING, left Washington yes terday, on a trip down the Potomac, expecting to return to•morrow morning. • The'Creation of National Banks. For the week ending July 29, 1,9115, fifteen National banks have been chartered, with an' aggegatc capital of 35,458,75. The Weather. This vicinity was visited with a heavy hail and rain storm this afternoon, commencing at four o'clock. NORTH CAROLINA. WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK AND WHAT THEY WRITE. LETTERS TO A. PRISONER OF WAR. The following extracts are taken from let tars received iby a North Carolinian while a prisoner of war in Fort Delaware. They are written by friends, and come from various cities and towns of North Carolina; - - , June :1,180. * * * "I agree with you that immediate emancipation will be better for the whole country than gradual emancipation. The pub lic mind here is quiet, but terribly depressed. lam glad you are cheerful. While my convic tions have not, changed, 1 still hope all things for the best. We have fit - Bed in a noble cause, and we ought now to accept the consequences without fear and with a manly heart. As far as the loss of property in slaves is concerned, immense though it he, it is borne by the slave holders with surprising equanimity, and almost without a murmur. It is the poor whites who begin to complain of the measure; end between them and the free blacks, I fore see there will spring up a fierce animosi ty." * * * 2 June 8, 1858. * I agree 'with you quite about ne gro suffrage. if there be any considerable portion of the Northern people who desire that change (as I think there Is,) it will be better for all parties to yield the point with out a contest or an azitation. I long to see the time when the negro, and all that relates to him, may be removed from our polities, and we may return in earnest to such qt/eatiOnS as tract our real happiness. This can he done more effectually, now that he is free, by eiti zenizing him at * * * ca ,