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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1865
FORNEY'S! WAR PRESS.
70It TES WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUGPST 5.
The WAR PRUE, for the week ending,..Aogast 5,
contains the following, together with ....fly . other
matters of interestnot readily brought into . the list
on account of their number..
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CONTENTS:
I.
P°2411.2-A ,Hymn to relloe — silence Keep—
Troddim Flowers, by Tennyson—The Willow.
11, Continuation of the interesting . Story, Mam
Ouriork: or, the Light-itoo,e of the Skevc Mhoil.
EDITORIALS.—The American Continent
No Whitebait—Will Jefferson Davis be Executed —
What will Maximilian Do ?—Our Present Status,-
The Income Tax l.h.ts—Thilosophy of Emigration—
Editorial Correspondence, etc., etc.
IV. LETTEES FROM " OCCASIONAL."
Y . TEXAS PAPERS.—Two of a Series
of Letter,:, whieil Will be Written by a gentleman
who bas an intimate hnonleoso of tho State; of
value to all. especially to the emigrant.
VI. Important News from all Quarters—from
Mexico. from Europe, from every . State in Our
Country.
VII. - Jeff Davis and his Condition; from our Spe
cial. Correspondent.
VIII. More about " Countu Rambles."
IX. A Trip through. Eastern Pennsylvania—A
Will= at the Wealth aril the Glory of our State.
X. PASSENGER RAILWAY SKETCHES.
. XI. GENERAL CITY INTELLIGENCE.
XII. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS—
A careful Collation of every Fact null every Event
that transpires ill these two Great WorMs.
XIII. Intelligence for the Fanner, the Meehanle,
EVerybetly.
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SION: 9
A pamphlet with the above title has recent
ly been prepared by Mr. G. R STEBBINS, of
Detroit, and circulated extensively, in tile
Western States, which forcibly illustrates
the ruinous tendencies of a free-tnide po
licy, and the necessity of liberal Govern
mental protection to the great manufhetu
ring interests of our country. We con
dense, in the following article,, some of its
striking points. The American Consul at
Liverpool wrote in May last to a friend nil
Washinemn, that "great efforts are about
to be made by English capitalists and
manulheturers to reduce our tariff and per
mit them to do all our manufitcturing ;"
and already a new Free-Trade League
has been established in New York, and
a free-trade . agitation commenced by
journals devoted to the interests of
importing =Milan - IS. .ks England IS ant__
ious to claim the applause of the world
for her professed championship of free trade,
it is well to understand her true position.
Lord GODERICIT, in a speech in the House
of Lords, stated that what the English
meant by free trade, "was nothing more
or less than, by means of the great advan
tages they enjoyed, to get the monopoly of
foreign markets for English manufactures,
and to prevent them from ever becoming
manufacturing nations:" It was only in
1842 that England repealed her prohibitory
tariff duties. She also, at that time, re
duced her protective duties generally to an
average of twentyper cent. ad valorem, and
fixed the rate of raw materials and partially
manufactured articles fit from five to_ ten per
cent. ad valorem. In 1849 the Corn laws
were virtually destroyed, by a reduction of
the duties on grain to three cents a bushel.
But no other important alteration has been
Made in her tariff, and she still , carefully
protects all manufacturing interests that are
endangered by foreign competition. Free
trade in corn was only secured after a terrific
struggle, as an act of humanity to the poorer
classes, and more particularly because the
manufacturing interest demanded it, to Se
cure cheap food for operatives.
The limited market which England af
fords for our grain is shown by the fact
that " the grain export of Chicago alone,
in a single day, often exceeds what England
has bought of us for a whOle yeah , ' And
in 1860 the home consumption of agricul
tural products (exclusive of cotton,) was
" twenty times as great as our exports to all
foreign lands."
The course pursued by England towards
her colonies presents a striking contrast to
her professions of devotion to a phi
lanthropic free-trade policy. She de
stroyed the manufactures of Hindookan
by forbidding the importation of ma
chinery into that country, and forcing
the natives to purchase the mukins
woven on her own looms. She destroyed
the Irish woollen manufactures and ship
ping interests by unjust and prejudicial le
gislation. While we were held in subjec
tion, great pains were taken to crush all our
attempts to diversify our industry. The
exportation from England of artisans or
machinery for making iron, wool, silk, or
cotton goods was for a long time strictly for
bidden. Not only have colonies thus been
oppressed, but even independent nations
that, unfortunately, were entrapped into en
tangling alliances have been impoverished
by her grasping policy. The following in
stances of Portugal and Turkey are given,
as well as the reverse of the pictUre in the
German States and in Russia
Portugal, in 1703, signed the " - Methuen
Treaty" with England, by Ishich, in return
for favors given her wines, she cut off almost
all protection from her wool, food, etc. tier
manufactures were ruined ; British goods
poured into her ports; she became a purely
agricultural country, poor with population
decreasing, bad roads, and mails carried on
horseback'. Such is the condition or a country
naturally rich, but made poor by her miserable
policy.
Turkey has produced wool, silk, corn, and
cotton, in large quantities; coal, iron, and
copper abound. Two hundred years ago her
trade with Europe was large, and her mer
chants rien. But, in an evil hour, the Govern
ment made a treaty with England and Frame,
agreeing to charge no more than three per cent.
duty on their imports, and to exempt their
vessels from port charges. Great Britain for
bade the exportation of her machinery to Tur
key, as well as of her mechanics who might
have gone there to make it.
Of course, Turkey manufaetures were ruined.
In Scutari, there were six hundred looma in
18121 but forty remained In 1821; and of two
thousand weaving shops in TOLIMOVIL_III 1812,
but twolundred were left in 1830. As in most
purely agricultural countries, the cultivators
are in debt. Recently the total exports of
Turkey were but $33,000,000, while those of
Englund to that country were but 011,000,000
yearly.
Thus grasping- selfishness defeats itself, and
. Turkey, unjustly treated, is too poor to be a
good customer.
Lot us look at the condition of countries that
have protected their industry, deaf to the
siren voice of "British free trade." At the
;:close of Napoleon's wars, great quantities
industry. of
British goods were sent in Germany, to the in
jury of their domestic In ISIS Prus
sia enacted a tariff in self-defence, on which
occasion Lord Brougham, in the HOLM of Com
mons, at London, made the benevolent state-
went that "England could afford to bear some
loss on the export of her goods,jor the purpose
of destroying foreign manufactures in their
cradle."
The German States soon united to form their
Zoll-Verein, a Customs-Union, for duties
abroad awl free intercourse among them
selves, and since then have gained in wealth
and independence.
In 1835, Germany exported to England, 28,-
000,000 pounds of wool; in 1851 the imports
were 25,000,000 pounds, adding some 50,000,000
to the quantity made into cloth at home.
So in other departments, and we see proof of
German Wealth in the fact that some $200,-
000,000 or more of our National Bonds ate held
there.
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In 1825, Russia, before almost wholly agricul
tural, encouraged manufactures by a more
protective policy, and has gained largely in
wealth. The abolition of serfdom has come,
too, helped largely by the moral effect of that
growth of personal power and characterothicb
Comes with - varied industry.
The IRternal Revenue taxes have in some
cases counterbalanced the protective duties
on imports. Mr. STEBBISIS says :
Our country has a great national debt.
Tariff and taxes we must have. IT is iN.
OILTANT SO TO SHAPE THE POLICY OP GOVERN
-3112.1!PP, AN TO PROTNCT /CONE INDUSTRY, WHILE
nmeme TER REVENUE.
There has been a grave mistake in the action
of Congress in this matter. Important domes
tic manufactures are less protected than for
merly.
Take for instance, railroad bar iron, and pig
iron, woollens, etc. • all can be shown to suffer
more or less in tee same way. The tariff on
foreign railroad bars is fourteen dollars per
ton, and there is no other special addition to
the cost of its manufacture.
The revenue tax upon the domestic article
is $3.60 per ton, BUT THIS IS BUT A SMALL PART
OF THE ADDED COST TO THE MAHER.
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Pig iron is taxed $2.40 per ton, and coal, mat
ehinery, freight, salaries, etc., etc., all pay
taxes, waicn GO TO INCREASE THE COST OP THE
PINIAIIILD ARTICLE. Thus a ton of American
railroad bars really pays a tax of at least $lO.
The tariff is paid in gold, the tax in currency
this, AT PRESENT RATES, makes the tariff equal
in currency to $19.60 per ton. But, before any
revenue tax was imposed, the tariff on foreign
bars was axed at *l2 per ton, so that with the
OOLD PRInfITIN, the realrnorscriou is BUT COO.
Reduce gold to par and it would be but *4, or
suoirr DOLLARS TEE TON LESS THAN IN 181 n.
So long as a great war-demand for manufac ,
tares existed, this was not felt, but, as that
ceases, it is beginning to tell with great se
verity. Unless this mistake be soon cor
rected, manufactures are crippled; inventive
skill discouraged, the icorthwest made tribu
tarytol:Ogland,and flut•.tuations of foreign
trade severely felt
There is danger, too, ro„oid in its approach,
swift and terrible. Continue our present large
importations, and we inerease our great fo•
reign debt ; our specie and bonds now to En;
rooe, (some *400,000,000 of national bertilS and
4560,000,000 of State and railroad securities are
there now—ill av 1 1.900. 001 .``!:.;),,:lail twoyears
Or 1088 we shall have to pay W,090,000 in specie
yearly for our foreign interest latency, and for
goods we can far better make at borne. This
will be paralysis of business, failure of capi.
talists, want to the poor, such as we have
never had in the 00 panics" of the past.
Som.E of the rebel planter's are preparing
to emigrate to Brazil. It is certainly more
honorable for them to abandon their coun
try, than to remain in it with the intention
of defying its laws and conspiring against
its peace and welfare. It is reported that
monarchical institutions are peculiarly at
tractive to our slaveholding emigrants, and
we can readily believe this. Between Sla
very and Republicanism (whether we use the
word in its general or partisan sense,) there
must necessarily be an "irrepressible con
flict." Every Republican nation in the
Western Hemisphere has prohibited Sla
very, and it finds its last refuge in Cuba, a
dependency of Spain, and in the only mo
narchical government of South America.
O ne o f th e projects of MAxnan,TAN, tne
Imperial usurper of Mexico, is said to be
the establishment of a modified form of
Slavery in that country. A bond of sym
pathy is readily established between the
despot of a cotton, rice, sum or coffee
plantation and the King or Emperor who
exercises absolute control over millions of
subject&
IF THERE was any part of the South
that, more than another, should haN-e been
animated by a feeling of gratitude to the
Government, after the suppression of the
rebellion, it was the city of Richmond. Its
stern and protraCted resistance to our
troops, must have inspired its inhabitants
with a natural fear that our army of occu
pation would destroy the citadel they had
so long besieged. But our soldiers chival
rously and ma,gnanimonsly saved it from
the devouring flames that had been kindled
by the retreating Confederate army. Our
quartermasters furnished food to thousands
of its famishing families. Many of its
prominent citizens, of the excepted classes
of the Amnesty Proclamation, have been
pardoned. The people have been treated
in the most generouPand lenient planner.
The result of their recent election indicates
that they deem new insults and provoca
tions the only return they arc capable of
making for the kindness of their con
querors.
DESERVED COMPLIMENT TO A FA - I=I , EL Or-
PICEIL—We are glad to learn that C;tirgeon.
George E. Cooper, formerly Medical Purveyor
of this city, and now Medical Director of the
Army of the Cumberland, bas been breveted a
full colonel in the regular army, his commis
sion to date from June, 1865. By a similar
compliment he was augointed a lieutenant
colonel in March, 1864, both awards having
been Made to this efficient and esteemed
officer "for faithful and meritorious sera ices."
The West India Emancipation.
CELEBEATION OF THEWNNIVERSAILY ON TUESDAY
The colored people of New York and Brook_
. lyn celebrated their thirty-first anniversary
of emancipation in the West Indies, at Hauft , s
Alyrtle-avenue Park, NeW York, on Tuesday
morning. The exercises commenced at an
early hour in the morning, and lasted till sum
clown, amusements of various kinds, enlivened
by dancing and music, being theorder of the
day. Addi•esses were delivered in the after
noon by Professor William - Howard. Day and
Frederick Douglass, which were listened to
with great interest by a large audience. At
least ten thousand colored people must have
participated in the enjoyments of the day, and
the best of order prevailed through Out.
Professor Day said, among other things :
Freedom in the West Indies was at first
only partial—it is now complete. The ap
prenticeship system, which was to prepare
the slave for freedom, was rejected at once
by . Antigua, and in four years by all, on the
principle that the way to prepare them for
freedom is to give them freedom. We re•
publicans will learn that the way to prepare
men to exercise the elective franchise is to
give them the elective franchise. At least
certain results can be pointed to here as in
the West Indies. I. Industry of the freed
men. 2. Disposition of the children to learn.
3. Willingness to forget the past, and to
work for trusty man and reasonable wages.
4. Order and general obedience to law-LlMt
5. A greater knowledge at rights than was
supposed, and a disposition not to be tram
pled upon. Thus much secured, all is safe.
To-day,. therefore, I am full of hope. Our
future is in our own keeping. I do not
look for full justice to-day nor to-morrow ; but
the next day, as surely as that four years of
War have passed, the national life, and that
two hundred thousand black Minervas, fully
armed, have sprung from the brain of the
white Jupiter of this land'. lily motto is, ask
for justice—ask respectfully=of those. who
have withheld it; but ask earnestly, and sleep
on your arms. Trust in the people; but trust
far more in yourselves. This spirit, unitedly
exhibited, will win the day. [Aimlause.] Even
Governor Perry, (the loyal disloyal Provi
sional Governor of South Carolina,) is bat
thesharf before the wind in the conflict Of
principles. Let him rave. Let him deprecate.
Let him warn. The majority of the people of
South Carolina are colored people—always
loyal, of course—and Provisional Perry
- does not represent them. I look to the
Americans, who profess to believe in the
majority ruling, to see that such an incubus
shall be removed. Such an " experiment" as
Governor Perry should not be continued long
enough to make Democratic institutions a
mockery. The " experiment" will pass away,
and the freedom not merely, but the enfran
chisement of the colored people be secured.
It must come. No man or men can revoke the
decrees of God. We read it on the blood-red
waves. We read it on battlefields four years
back. Weread it on half a million lives giyen,
cheerfully given, that liberty in this rand
might be more than a name. We read it in
the history of the good man gone—Abraham
Lincoln—who, in 1559, did not think it necessa
ry to give the ballot to any . colored man, but
who, in 1895, was willing to give it to the color
ed soldier and the intelligent colored citizen.
.1 wear my Lincoln badge yet. I feel dike
wearing it until the nation shall return to
Mr. Lincobils latest and safest
I see, therefore, the States reorganized merely
sufficiently to include every native male twen
ty-one years of age of some kind, whether he
be black as night or white as the icicle that's
dwindled by the frost from purest snow, and
hangs on Diana's temple. I see this Govern
ment made one by black and white hands,
yielding up to the black- men thus effort after
effort, portion of Government control. I See
the schools thrown open for the black Child as
well as for the white. I see black and white
priests ministering together at the altars of
religion. I see black men elected to petty and
then to higher °dices in the State. I see prefer
ment open to the black man, even to the Presi
dential chair. I see everywhere' respect for
brains and worth, moral and material.
1 see everywhere the recognition of the
Norman principle," Man is man, and no
man is more." I see, therefore, internal
peace, unbroken fpr ages. I see a pure
Government strivirfg for the interest of the
weakest member of it. I see power every
where stooping to protect the poor. I see a
nation clinging to justice, the admiration of
the world. I sec civilization not of head
- merely, but of heart—a civilization Unlike
any except one • which this—tyrant-ridden
world has ever seen—a civilization manufac
tured out of world thoughts, world sympa
thies:, world loves. It shall go forth on the
wing of the morning, a bright angel visiting
the homesteads of an, and leaving over every
relationship of life a blessed influence, bor
rowed as it were from that law expounded.
by the good Bishop Hooker—the very least
as feeling its care—the very greatest as not
exempt from its power. Tyrannies shall
stand abashed in its presence and acknow
ledge its supremacy. Liberty, a wanderer
over our world for six thousand years, shall
here fold up her wings and rest forever.
Denee,if in a word, the nation decrees that loyal
majorities in States shall not rule, but obey en
oligarchy, then take notice the national battle
is only half fought, and must be waged until
the true democratic principle shall triumph.
To that, declaration we give our voices and
votes, "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honor." [Applause.]
The speaker,. having closed his address, an
nouncea that .1 red. - Inn - 10.40s was present upon
the platform, and in response to the hearty
applause given on the announcement, kir,
Douglass came forward, and said:
I consider it utterly impossible upon this oc
casion, even if it were desirable for me, to be
beard, as we are here to rejoice over West In
dia emancipation mid over ths progress of
freedom in the United States, not to be in
structed. No Mali wants to know whether
liberty is a good thing, or whether slavery is a
bad thing. We all know it; we- do not need
any instruction upon that subject. The only
thing that the Abolitionists ever taught the
American people was this : Every Ulan "Shim
self; that is all. Every loan belongs to him
self—can belong to nobody else. We are not
here for instruction. We are here to enjoy
MirSe/VeS, tO play ball to dance, to make mer
ry, to make love (laughter and applausej and
to do everything that is pleasant. I am not
going to take up your time. Go on and enjoy
yourselves.
Three cheers were called for " Douglass,"
anti given with a right hearty good will.
BAL 31A5ens AT C Arn MAT.--An we men
tioned in yesterday's issue, a grand Rallitaseue
and Carnival will be given at Congress Hall,
at Cape May, on the evening of Tuesday, the
Bth instant, by Messrs. Abel & Risley; the on
projectors of La Coterie Blanche, in this
city. A promenade upon the fine lawn in
front of Congress Hall, which will be made
brilliant by the ftereoptican light, and other. ,
wise handsoniely illuminated, will be a feature
of the entertainment. The music, we are given
to understand, will be of the best character,
Hassler's, Birglield's, Beck's, and the Germania
Bands havingbeen engaged. The distinguish
ed persons sojourning on the Island have re
ceived invitations, and will grime the occasion
by their presence. The subscription list hav
ing been limited, is already nearly filled; and,
judging from present appearances, it may
safely be said, that such an affair as Cape May
has never before witnessed will be placed on
record, The facilities for reaching the Island,
will be excellent. The
both by land and water,
steamer Manhattan will carry excursionists at
reduced rates, while the numerous trains on
the West Jersey Railroad will also afford am
ple accommodation. The 4.30 P. M. train will
place passengers at the Island in time, and
they can return in the early morning trains.
Full particulars may be obtained of Mr. 11. C.
- Risley, at the Continental Hotel, or of Mr. p.
E. Abel, at Petersonss, 306 Chestnut street.
CIiEBTIVI7TrSTnERT THEATRE.-- We scarcely
know what now to Bay in regard to 4, Arrali-na
Pogue" at the Chestnut. The liousekstill cork
tinue good, the acting excellent, and the
scenery beautiful. "Arrall.-na Pogue" is a Play
which should be seen by all ; ana therefore all
should see it. . .
ixociAs PAl.Eit4;-bto. 3. 1
TAIL GREAT SECTIONS
Ily my last paper, it *lll be seen that the sm
gar (and cotton) section lies along the coast,
following the bottom lands, a little up the
rivers, and keeping mostly to the line of the
canebrake landS. These lands are rich, profit
able, and unhealthy. But no agriculturalist,
unless possessed of great means, and a sugar
or cotton experience, would settle upon them.
The cotton (and corn) lies behind the coast
flats, and higher up the river bottoms, em
bracing what are called the central counties.
Though there are many small farms scattered
through these counties, still they are pre-emi
nently the home of great plantations of ne
groes and of mules, and a small farmer from
the North would hardly be at home among
them. All the bottom lauds of this section
arc deep, rich, cotton soils, naturally covered
with an enormous growth of cotton wood,
sycamore, elm, and other trees Of like genus,
crowded with underbrush, twined with vines,
and overhung with moss. They are well in,
huhitcd by alligators, snakes, turtles, lizards,
mosquitos, and flies. When cleared they ,ttre
among the best cotton lands in the word ; and,
though unhealthy, are largely and profitably
worked. Up to IIUQ seek lands sold uncleared
at about ten dollars per acre.' The balance of
these lands arc prairie, varying from a light
sandy loam to the deepest, blackest hogwal
low—all good cotton and corn lands; and the
timbered lands, which are either oak open
ings, blackjacks, or, here and there*piueries.
Going northwesterly from the central Coun
ties, you pass into the grain region. Bat all
these sections begin to lose themselves at the
Colorado river, (where the droughts begin,)
and rapidly slide into the great grass section,
as you go on towards the southwest.
COTTON AND CORN
are raised, and to advantage, nearly all over
the MilliTate(' portions of the State. And
when I speak of -the grain sections, I do not
mean that cotton is not raised there, but that
grain is; while cotton is more profitably
grown in another section, and grain, there, not
at all. There is also good cattle range (or
grass lauds) almost everywhere along the
northeastern coast, through portions of the
middle counties, and almost all over the groat
grain section. But as the Ivintere are more
revere and the grass coarser and shorter lived
than in the great cattle range proper, and as
what there is is slowly giving way to settle
ments and the old herds yearly being removed.
farther west, it is not advisable for one emi
grating with the - purpose of making stock
growing a speciality to stop short of the great
stock country itself—the location and peculi
arities of which will be' given further on.
Still, one desiring to farm, and at the same
time to growilive stock, even though pretty
largely, can do so to great advantage almost
anywhere in the grain region.
THE GEATE LANDS
embrace all northern and northwestern Tex - as
to the Indian country. Commencing, on the
Gruadaloupe, southwest of Austin, they extend
in a very wide belt to Red River. It is a beau
tiful rolling country of prairie and timber,
Crossed by most of the important rivers of the
State, with their hundreds of tributaries,
great and small. All along the green banks
of these clear, rapid rivers, are nestling thou
sands of new, but happy homes, surrounded
by fields of corn and grain, and herds of cattle.
And yet, as one rides from cabin to cabin, and
county to county, he feels that the whole
country is still alMost a wilderness.
I=l
or great natural pastures of the State, com
mencing upon the coast, and sweeping up to
New Mexico on the west, and thence around to
lied River on the north, for a thousand miles
in length, and hundreds in width, though sur
rounding, and to some extent embracing the
waste lands, or desert, arc not themselves left
untilled because lacking in wealth of soil, con
venience of location, beauty of scenery, or
Purity of atmosphere, for, of all the world,
We tern Texas abounds in all of these. But,
whdie the rain refuses to fall, the plough seen
turns up its nose in disgust, and moves away;
and so it has beenhere. Between the Colorado
and San Antonio is a sort of neutral territory,
common to both the plough and the cattle.
Nature tantalizes the farmer With good sea
sons and showers, jUSt enough to keep him
planting and working for his crops;'some
•times harvesting bountifully, and then again
nothing at all, and then entices the herds by a
season of drought and failing crops, to hope
that another year will see the fences tumbling
down, die farmers moving, off, and their grassy
dominions left to themselves again,
Beyond the San Antonio, the Arkansas, the
Nueees, the lib o Pecos, and the Rio Grande
country is all either occupied by stock raisers
or still vacant, the few plantations and farms
once opened being abandoned after a disas
trous experience in waiting for rains that Na
ture bus doggedly refused to give.
This great stock country has its hundreds of
thousands of cattle, horses, and sheep scat
tered over it, and summer and winter living
upon its grasses, without ever tasting hay or
grain; and is annually sending to market lin
manse herds, rolling in fat, and as valuable to
their owners as though they had been fed
through long winters and stalled in costly
barns on turnips and corn. And Where there
is one animal to-day there may be ten, or per:
Imps a hundred, just as well and to equal ad
vantage, in proportion.
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is a sandy, unwatered, but coarse, thin, grass
emend region, lying in the vicinity of New
Mexico, embracing the staked plains; and also
a long strip of nearly the same kind of coun
try lying between the Nueces and Rio Grande
and separating, by a hundred miles of desert,
Brownsvinc and the Mexican frontier from
Corpus Christi and the settlements of Texas.
The borders of all this sandy country are valu
able for pasture, but the interior is at present
worthless for leek of water. It will, sometime,
however, be made valuable by the digging of
wells. In time of the Mexican war, General
Taylor marched his troops across the desert
from Corpus Christi to Matamoras, and his
camping grounds are now marked by the
great wells he cligged to supply his army with
fresh water. They are usually not more than
twelve or fifteen feet deep, nearly as large in
diameter, and holding two or three feet of
good water. Some, however, were failures,
and only held salt or bitter waters. These
wells are great camping places for Mexicans,
teamsters, and travellers, each having its
name, and being as well boaown as the great
hotels of the city.
I=l
of Texas are generally clear, rapid, and turbu
lent streams ; usually shallow, and with unre
liable navigation ;but subject to sudden and
heavy overflows; when the bottom lands are
flooded, and everything movable swept away.
The great rivers, like the Brazos, oftentimes
rise from low-water to full banks in twenty
four hours, doing all the damage of a great
storm; when, for hundreds of miles away,
there is not 'it drop of rain falling nor a cloud
in sight. It is the effect of a great rain. in the
region of its head waters.
I have often crossed the dry bed of a stream
at night and been compelled to swim it the
next morning.
In such a country, though rivers are plenty,
bridges and mills arc few. And a Yankee pop
ulation will IM , ve to own the banks of its water
courses before either will be largely increased,
Along every stream streteheS its bottom (like
the New England ihtervale or meadow lands)
sometimes miles wide, sometimes only rods ;
rich as the Nile, but timbered and tangled,
and mossed as are the valleys of the Lower
Mississippi and Red niV4l!.
In the western part of the State this feature
is changed, and the Rio Pecos creeps so qui
etly through an open unmarked Country that
for vast distances a traveller might ride within
five hundred yards of, its .flowing writers, and
yet perish with thirst, never knowing it was
there. . •
In riding the country no account is made of
the streams. Every horse can swim, and,
when left to himself, is most always sure to
cuiTy his rider over all right but the ducking,
and Texas having more sunshine than streams,
he is sure to be dry half the time. •
The river beds, being usually of `limestone,
are in some places so:furrowed and cut out as
to make fording dangerous or impossible. So,
when a rider finds himself upon the banks of
an unknown stream—and be it remembered
that Texas is full of rivers, with no -fer
ry and nobody in sight I suppose he does what,
under like circumstances, the writer always
had to do—get down, undress, cut a stay-pole,
ford on foot, and hunt out the Cracks and ere
viers before venturing the legs of his horse
among them. Not pretty to think of,butprac
tical, safe, and common sense. Far better on
the whole, than doing as he did in the early
history of his Texas travels—crack np a high
tempered animal, harnessed to a fine buggy
loaded with himself, two trunks, and a valise,
upon the full banks of a stream of whose depth'
he know nothing, and, at a single bound, find
horse, carriage, himself and all, out of sight
beneath the•water. That was a hard,tassel, but
a fortunate escape altogether! Brave old Pox
Robin!—Ghee you proved your mettle as well
as your temper, and saved your master and
yourself together by a piece of noble swim
ming, such as no other horse could ever do.
Peace to your dear old ashes My eyes would
run over when I was told you were dead. And
now (perhaps all the more readily because of
a natural sympathY,)'l forgive you your ugly
temper for your courageous, honest, faithful
service. Poor old brute! But there are hu
man brutes I wish were half as good and true.
vote grads non est sic. it. Sr. J.kmes.
The Cutler Current.
A Northern newspaper can scarcely he taken
up, no matter where it is published, without
finding two or three articles in it, speaking of
slavery as being forever dead, and its troubles
over. Nearly every orator speaks in the same
strain, and politicians are acting upon the
same impression.
NOthing further from the truth. It has
simply received its death-blow, and will
perish, root and branch, from the kind, pro
vided it is not given time to recover, and
none are allowed to . nurse •it. A recent re
Mark in The Po'ess Was full' of truth—that
though the serpent itself might be dead, its
eggs were still in existence, and must be
gathered and trampled before they could
crawl. It would - be well if the few notes of
warning that are here and there coming
up from the men. who know what
they are uttering when they counsel
ceasiess caution, and vigorous action,
could reach the nation's ears and C brace
its arms. -. A word from one who was with
them and listened to their treasons. The
E Of PE EP
• 11,•
Soutkinttuginat ed the rebellion—first, because
her leaders hated the North and were deter
mined to cut loose from it i and seeend, be
cause they wished to nationalize, to deify, to
worship, and to hug closer to their hearts
their darling institution than it waspossible
to do while bound to the free North. When,
four or five years ago, Southern leaders de
clared that they would never Surrenderothat
.if overpowered in the field, they would break
into guerilla bands, flee to the mountains, and
light to the last, they did not mean to be
braggarts; but were speaking exactly what
they meant. And the mistake they made was,
in having misread all history, and so mMeal-
Quieted their own powers of endurance. They
were sure to do exactly What they have—what
nations and rebellions always do, and indi
viduals almost always—give up and surrender
when thoroughly whipped and exhausted.
But this, with them, as with all the world, has
been a giving up of arms, not of opinions, nor
wishes, hopes, or hatreds.
The rebel leaders, with few exceptions,
though they may respect the North more, love
it less than before the war. They arc still as
little inclined to work themselvesi and as
ready to be served by others. Nor are they
more willing now than before to contractwith
and pay the menj who make their rrealth by
toiling while they sleep. What then 1! Sidllily
this: They have tried war, and miserably
failed. They miscalculated Norther': princi
-1
pies, Northern courage, and the nation's
strength, and, as a• conseqUence, are on their
backs, not their knees. Their swords are
broken, but their brains are left. T4ir hopes,
perished in war, are revived in 'intrigue.
*What they Cannot maintain bybruteforee and
free fight, they have determined to Wealre by
knavery and cunning. 'Old notions of State
sovereignty are still cherished, andlthey are
but biding their time. Their editors are ex
cusing the mildness of their editorials by say
' ling, "Cribbed and guarded, we cannot sneak
as we would." Their orators are pronouncing
eulogies upon the characters of their fallen
officers, styling them "patriOt heroes and
martyrs to liberty: ,
Their ministers are exhorting atoll' congre
gations to " continued trust," and prophesying
that their " four long years of ardent prayer
shell yet be answered; so patiently wait," and
their women are still training their little ones
to " bate their fathers' foes," and schooling
them to revenge.
Is this an ugly picture to hold before the
nation's hopes just now ? It is, indeed I But
all who know these men, or even take the
pains to read their editorials, speeches, and
sermons ; or have thought upon the lessons of
the Virginia elections, Cannot fail to see that
it is neither overdrawn nor deeply shaded-
But why expose it now ? Because, like an
ugly sore, this thing must be probed and cau
terized before it can be healed.
These old leaders do not dream of fighting
more, at least at present 3 but they as little
dream of giving up their hopes. They expect
the mercy of the Government will endure
forever. They expect to elect. old traitors to
old offices, and send - them again into Congress,
as though they had never been out. They ex
pect no conditions to be imposed upon their
return, and are all converts to the doctrine
that they have never been away. Never away
is, of course, still at home. If that is so—then
not only at home, but at home as of old—with
old State Eights and State Sovereignty. It is
no part of their intention, before returning to
their seats, to sanction the Constitutional
amendment; nor to amend the Constitutions
or change the laws of their own States. And if
not done - first, thennever For once back with
recognized State Governments and officers of
their own, their domestic institutions are sub
ject to their own control; and then; what hope
for freedom and the nation.. The negro, if not
enslaved in Milne, is thenceforth enslaved in
fact; for, at once, serfdom or peonage rises
upon slavery's old foundation, and freedom is
gone forever.
It is for this the South is now in labor, and
her pains are hard upon her. But, not a word
of it is uttered aloud, because utterance would
blast the hope.. The seheme must he covered
to succeed. It is easy to talk submission; but
to act uprightly is another thing.
This rotten sentiment—this treasonable con
trivance of the Southern leaders, is the now
great sore of the nation. But the cautery with
Which to burn it out and purify its blood is in
the nation's hands. The common people of
the South, though sympathizing largely with
their leaders, are not prepared for absolute
ruin in their cause. They are anxione for
peace, and a peace that will bring its fruits of
plenty and prosperity in its train. Let the na
tion refuse to recognize a single act or receive
a single omeer a theirs until they themselves
have trampled to death the last element of
disci - 3rd between the North and South till they
have done full justice to the race they have so
long oppressed, and disfranchised the traitors
who have led them into treason. And until they
do eo, let it hold them in the grasp of its Pro
visional Governments, and mamas their at.
fairs so as to preserve its own safety; and
when this is -known and felt to be its policy,
the South will surrender her opinions (practi
cally) as well as her arms. But till then—never !
Groyne.
The Incarcerated Conspirators. -
THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE DRY TORTUGAS-CHA•
RACTER OP THE PRISON-PLACE-WHAT THE
PRISONERS WILL DO THROUGHOUT THEIR LONG
PRISON-LIFE.
On the 25th nit. Arnold, Mudd . ; Spangler, and
O'Laughlin arrived at the Dry Tortugas to
spend their long term Otimpriconniut—a term
ending only with thimr lives, The Tortugas is
an island of some thirteen acres in extent, and
has no particular claims to present as a de
lightful place of protracted residence, being
dry, barren, and sand-covered, _with but few
trees and less green grass and vegetation;
but it is not Hades exactly, nor is it Pande
monium; and the conspirators may congratu
late themselves that they have the free
dom of its. barren heaths and arid sand.
banks rather than the close, dreary cells of
the Albany Penitentiary, where the pure
sunlight seldom penetrates, and where their
fettered limbs 'would chafe and their hearts
beat against only four bard, naked, and cheer
less stone walls. Fort-Jefferson , , an enclosure
of about seven acres of the island, will be their
place of confinement during the greater part
of the time • but at intervals the inmates,
mostly political prisoners, have the freedom
of the entire surface of the island. There are
at present five hundred and fifty of these cri
minals confined at the Tortugas, who are well
treated, and who, other stories to the contra
ry notwithstanding, do not wear the ball ang
chain, excepting as a punishment for extreme
infraction of the military law governing the
fort and the neighborhood. There were but
nine ifersons inmates of the hospital when the
Florida left, which is pretty convincing evi
dence that the prisoners are properly fed and
have the necessary medical and surgical at
tendance. This is as much as any of the men
there confined could expect at the hands of
government, and some would say far more than
they actually deserve.
HOW THR PRISONERS WILL EXPLOT THEIR TINE
The 110th Regiment New York Volunteers is
doing guard duty at Fort ,Telferson, Col. Ham
ilton, of that command, being the command
ant in charge of the island. The Colonel his
received the political prisoners, and will, of
course ; »e held responsible for their proper
detention.
Dr. Aludd, who is said to have many qualifi
cations, natural and acquired, for the position
and its labors, has been placed in the hospital,
where he will hold the post of an assistantsur
geOn, giving his mind/and body something to
do, 'n Well will aid in passing . the tedious hours
of his imprisonment, rendering life something
more than mere existence_ He will he making
himself useful to a class with whom his sym
pathies, which first led him into difficulty,
have much in common, and can read, practice
his profession, and perhaps make himself be
lieve, in time, that he is serving out a deserved
probation of punishment for a - heinous offence
against the laws ofGod and man, but not living
the life he formerly lived in Virginia, before
he ever heard of J. Wilkes Booth or the South
ern Confederacy. '
Arnold; who has probably had some expe
rience in the line, is to be made a clerk among
the prisoners, and will also derive profit from
employment, and relief from the pang of out
raged conscience.
Spangler is to return to trade as a Car
penter, there being plenty of labor of that
character to be performed on the island, in the
way of repairs, and erecting new additions to
the buildings connected with the fort. lie is
reported as feeling more cheerful since learn
ing that he is to have pure air to breathe and
Plenty to eat, with accompanying manual em
ployment.
O'Laughlin will also Lind some 'business on
the island suited to hie mental and physical
status, though it may not be as Congenial as
that usually pursued by the members of the
corps dramatique, when at liberty, enjoyin.• the
favor of a discriminating or non-discriminat
ing public, and playing their part before the
footiights of a popular theatre. lie is also re
ported to bear his imprisonment very well,
and is thankful that he was not sent to Albany.
The Virginia State Banks.
BOW THEY INVESTED DIJItING THE WAR
The Richmond Republic of the Ist inst. pre
sents some statistics relative to the Virginia
State banks and their stocks. The information
is °Metal, being obtained from the office of the
Store Treasurer. The Bank of the Common
wealth, at 'Richmond, during the war, sold her
State bonds at rates below par,. and bought.
Confederate bonds above par. The Bank. of
Commerce, at Fredericksburg, invested $35,0001
the Farrners)Bauk, of Fliicastle, $20,000; am?
the Bank of Richmond, $28,000, in Confederate
bonds. Following is a correct list:
...
Bank of Berkley. Harthislairg $.30,0e0 CO
Central Bank 01 'Virginia, blan»ton 33,000 00
Bank ot Con,mercc., Frodoelekshiirg (Hon_
federate bonds, W. 15000,) 147,800 00
Bank of the Commonwealth, Richmond
(all Confederate bonds,) 162,000 00
Fairmont Bank, Fairmont 8,000 00
Fainters' Rank of Fiticastle, Fhteastle
(Confederate bonds, 020,(00,) 180,000 00
'flank of Howardsville, Howar&ville 159.509 35
Bank of Manassas, Front Royal 2,655 00
lilanufacturers' and Farniors' Bank of -
Wheeling. Wheeling n 4:40000
'Mont keit° Bank,. Chariot teSrlile ... . ..... 29,380 al
Merchants' Bank of Virginia, Lyncliburg 428,002 80
Bank of the Old Domlllloo, Alexandria... 374,00301
Ilank of rhillippi, Phllliiipl 37,000 00
Bank of Richmond, Richmond (Confede- •
rate bonds. *23,0(0,) 00,000 CO
Bank of Rock bridge, Lexington 1.23,00000
Bank of Rockingham. Harrisonburg ..... . 217,770 00
Bank of beott seine, Scott:wine as ,03000
gnuthwestern Bunk 01 Virginia, Wynn:-
v Env moon ob
Trans•Allegbany Bank, Pea risburg 2,70000
Bank of WC,ton, Weston 4,003 00
Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling 1,000 00
Bank of Winchester, Winchester 100,800 . 00 .
A w UNFORTtINATR ACVIDP:NT.-4 mass of rock,
perhaps a thOusand tons, became detached
yesterday evening, at half past seven o'clock
i
overhanging the Connellsville Railroad, and
Everson. and Preston's mills. The steam
Hammer and stock of that portion of the mill
were destroyed and the building crushed.
Fortunately the men were not at work, and
the last passenger train for the evening bad
passed. It will require sometime to clear the
track. This portion of the road, from the end
of the Birmingham bridge to Soho, is, without
doubt, the most frightfully dangerous of any
we know of ; a soft, overhanging rock, nearly
the - whole distance, ready to fan, and as end+
den as an avalanche, requiring but a small
portion to crush it train to pieces. We do not
like to borrow trouble ; but we submit whether
it in not due to the travelling public to remove
this crumbling, overhanging rock, and avoid
the chances of a frightful aceident,—Pittsbarg
Dispatch, Avg. L
lIMSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1.865:
TIJ CITY.
MOVPMENTS OF TUE HON. MECRETARY
OF STA TN, Wn. IL SuwAark—The United States
cutter Northerner arrived at the Navy Yard
lastevening, from Cape May, for the purpose
of "coaling." The Hon. Wm. H. Seward,
Judge Holt, Hon. Anson Burlingame, Minister
to China, A. G. Outten, Esq., and several other
distinguished gentlemen, were on board. It
was currently rumored last evening that the
Hon. Secretary had arrived in this city.
Quite a number of citizens called at the
prominent hotels to pay their respects to
him, but )hey were disappointed. The
Northerner received all the coal that
was needed, and, before midnight, was
ready to start on the return trip. The diStin
guisbed party remained on board, Secretary
Seward desiring to enjoy a bay and river trip,
without undergoing the excitement, incident
even to an informal reception. We learned
last evening, that his health has improved
inc his short sojourn at Cape May. The trip
up the bay and river, yesterday, was most de
lightful ; a fine clear atmosphere and cool
breeze prevailing.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The stated
meeting, of the Philadelphia Society for the
promotion of Agriculture was held yesterday
morning, at their rooms in Walnut street,
above Seventh; Craig Biddle, Esq., President,
in the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved. The President presented
a number of copies of the report of the Agri
cultural Bureau for Juno and July. Also, a
communication from the Entomological So
ciety of this city, giving a history of the Asso
ciation, and a statement of the condition of
its finances. The Society was organized in
March, 1859, and incorporated in April, 1882.
It has' a valuable collection of 50,000 entomolo
gical specimens, and a library of 1,500 volumes.
On motion of Dr. Kennedy, the communica
tion -was referred to the Executive Committee,
with instructions to make inquiries in ref&
rence to obtainipg a collection of insects; aria
the librarian was instructed to subscribe to
the proceedings of the Society.
A communication was received from the
Pennsylvania State Agricultural , Society cart
ing attention to the election of trustees of the
Agricultural' College of PennSylvania, r at the
annual meeting to be held at the College, on
the first Wednesday of September next.
The several county agricultural societies are
requested to send three delegates to the meet
.
ing.
On motion, the president was authorized to,
appoint delegates.
A discussion in regard to the crops followed.
Of wheat it wu.s represented that but a half
a crop bad b&n. obtained. Oats were good,
but about one-third had been injured by the
storm. Corn is excellent. Potatoes are good.
Grass is better than last year. Clover was
stated to hnve failed in some sections.
Adjourned.
FIRES AND NARROW ESCAPE.—Shortly
after 12 o'clock, yesterday morning, - a fire
- broke out in the drug store of Mr. Augustus
Aaron, at the northwest corner of Eighth and
Poplar streets. The tlames originated in the
store and communicated to the stairway, cut
ting off all means of escape of Mr. Aaron, whO
was sleeping in the second story, and of hiS
servant girl, who was in the third story. The
rest of the family were absent from the city.
Mr. Aaron, upon being aroused and seeing the
stairway enveloped in flames, jumped on a
back shed, but remembering his servant in the
third story, he ran up stairs for - the pUrpose of
rescuing bor. The flames were fast spreading,
and to escape he had to jump from the third
story window to the shed. The girl jumped
after him, and escaped unhurt. Mr. Aaron
sprained his allele. The damage done to the
Premises and stock is covered by insurance.
The alarm of fire between 2 and 3 o'clock,
yesterday morning, was catised by the burn
ing of a few loose hotirds in a shed, at Bor.
nerd's brickyard, liestonville, Twenty-fourth
ward. An officer pulled the boards off, and
extinguished - the flames without Vac use of
water.
EXCITEMENT AT FRANKFORD—A. GRAND
RACE OF FEMALES.—Scene First—The human
family is divided and subdived into a number
of races ; Properly Speaking there are only five
distinct races of people, but the race of wldch
we are about to speak essentially differs from
them all.. it is a race full of rich and racy
scenes ; escapes over fences, through woOds,
up hills, down vales, across streams; in fact,
an . exercise of pedal extremities, highly
amusing, exciting, and interesting. All
these things occurred yesterday noon,
in the usually quiet, ancient, and his.
torical village of Frankford. The graphic
picture Was made the more complete because
of the introduction of apair of prancing steeds,
harnessed to a splendid open barouehe, in
which were seated few females whose dresses
indicated it lavish expenditure of greenbacks.
Such an equipage Made its appearance on the
main thoroughfare of Frankford, at about the
time the sun of yesterday had attained the
zenith of its splendor, and the heighth of its
power. That great orb showered down its
rays with wheat that would have done no dis.
credit to the tropic zone. A dined of dust
heralded the approach of the bavonehe, which
halted in front of the office of Alderman
Holmes.
The quiet villagers were soon astir ; they
were regardless of the heat, nor bad the blind_
ing dust any terror for them. To use a com
mon, though current phrase, the populace
were on the tip-toe of excitement.
""What can if all mean 7" said one to another
of Frankford dames.
I guess it's a runaway marriage,” was the
prompt reply.
" Yes, yes; but they're all females," respond.
ed a philosophical old lady, the happy ma
ternal of thirteen children, " how & upon airth,
woman (eontinued she,) can fffiYbOaY get
married unless there's a man hi the affair' 1"
" Well, I don't think things are as they were
when we were gals," ejaculated one of a
group of nine old women, several of them
standing with arms akimbo; "I guess the men
are dressed in frocks and bonnets, just for de
ception and such like."
" Well, now, that is an idea I never should
have thought on ; but here comes John ; he'll
tell ns all about it."
John, to whom the allusion was made, is one
of the half-witted; dad plodders incident to
every village. Ile related - all that he knew,
and the group around him were filled with
wonderment. The more he talked the more
they were astonished; and finally, these old
sturdy residents of the village went to their
respective domiciles and spring -houses with
no very exalted opinion of the affair after all.
"Ive heerd it said time feathers make fine
birds; but I guess them critters aint much,
after all," said the last of the old ladies upon
retiring. -
Scene Second.—The following facts were de
veloped at the magistrate's office as the. pre_
luminaries to the issuing of a warrant for the
arrest of a young female named Eliza It
seems that she and the fear complainants
boarded at one house on Wood street, and that
on Tuesday night the aforesaid Eliza disap
peared suddenly, and it was speedily ascer
tabled that simdry silk dresses, lace caps,
loves of bonnets, some jewelry, a few side
rjegletz and waterfalls several sets of false
teeth, and other articles necessary to
make a fashionable lady's toilet Core-
Plete, had also "turned up among the
missing." Eliza lived at Frankford, but
she had forsaken the home of her pa
rents. The four females, who had also for
saken their paternal homes, thought that She
might be found somewhere about the old
homestead. This was the reason'fwhy they
made their appearance at Frankford. A war
rant was issued and placed in the hands of an
officer, who promised to keep on the dui rive,
and arrest the supposed guilty party. The four
complaining females, however, were impit
tient, and proceeded to make an arrest them
selves. They were apprehensive of losing their
respective wardrobes irEliza was not Speedily --
in the strong arm of the law, although up to
this time there was no positive evidence that
she had purloined a single article belonging to
any of them.
&eve Mird.—The four females entered the
barouche,and gave orders to the driver to
drive all around the village and its
g- pageantry
supposing that, by this moving- ot
the hour, the sought-for Eliza might be dis
covered. The driver put whip to his horses,
mid off they dashed at a trotting speed, suffi
ciently fast to wreath the wheels in dust, and
cause more excitement. The most distant
parts of the romantic scenery in that section
of our city were searched, and finally, ulna
rnalinus - a short turn with the vehicle, and
driving over the same roadway, it female wes
,:een hurriedly turning the corner of Scllatc
and Main streets. She was habited in a bright
red dress and wore not a "wreath of roses,"
but a Shaker bonnet. In size and walk, she
answered very well for Eliza.
" That must be her," said the most anxious
of the searchers, and it was not long before
the liarouche reached the intersection of the
two thoroughfares as named, and turned into
Sellars street. Put Ellie, had disappeared ;no
sign of anything red, excepting an old Prank
ford turkey gobbler could be seen. It was very
evident, however, that she could not be far
away; so orders were giventhe driver to walk
his horses. lie did so, and it may be
that the residents on that handsome street,
thought the party were attending a fami
ly funeral only. The sun was pouring
down his beams, and a sort of mist,
operating upon the principle of a gigantic
tens, focalize(' them, and thus the party were
subjected to an intense heat. Perspiration
Poured from every pore, and three rice fans
wilted Miller its effects. Pearl powder and
?Wie gave evidence of streaks, not of the
111011411, ,, light, but of beauty tinting from tat
tooed ebeeks. It Was a sorry plight—enough
to unsettle philosophical contemplation. Pre
sently I be horses, lull of foam, reached a point
:not far distant from the extended line of Sel
lars street, where a full halt was ordered. In
making a general survey a female ; attired in a
• red dress, was seen retreating across the lied
-I.arn llteadow. The topography of the coun
try would not readily admit of Mst travelling
fur horses and barouche, and coneequently the
four females alighted, and, now an exciting
foot-race oceurral. Eliza was ahead full three
hundred yards. Three fences, 'post and rail,
intervened. She had a most decided advan
tage, both in point of distance and knowledge
of the country. She knew where to cross a
stream or go like a fairy traveller through the
blind pathways of adjacent woodlands,
Der red dress waved in the hot artificial
rceze caused by her own momott um ; and the
Kane may be said of her pursuers. The first
rail-fence was bounded over by the chasing
Party without 'much trouble, but the,next re
,inired a greater display of their agility; owing
to the presence of a swampy stretch of ground
that formed its base-line.
gaining a clear field, the race be
t-wee hideeeribably exciting. The spectators
—men, women, children, boys, and girls—
availed themselves of every point where they
could get a sight of the moving scene. Dark
Run was ahead, and doubtless, the pursuers,
slit, stretchin out like the skirmisherS on the
rear guard
of g
an enemy, thought they would
capture her oft the banks of that romantic
stream. ' It was CV1(10/t the party knew loss of
flanking movements than dulthe fugitive, for
$2,050 23121
when the Eun was reached the mysterious
Eliza was nowhere to be seen.
The ftmr females, out of breath, and panting.,
Were -about to give up the chase, and sank
almost exhausted on the greenSiard. In a
short time they re-entered their barouche aDd
drove hack again. While going down - Me
main street, near Tacony road, they observed
On the edge of Wall's woods, southeast from
Frankford proper, the heroine of the red
dress. The part* were determined to effect
her capture, and drove as near the woods
as they could get, and then alighting, went
on a scouting expedition. The chase was
speedily resumed; and after Such a get
ting over fences; such entangling alliances
with briar bushes; such a tearing of skirts
and ribbons, as the people had never seen be
fore, the chase was given up as a hopeless task.
Eliza, when last seen, was a considerable dis
tance away. The four females, completely
fagged out, regained _ h
aronelle, and pro-
cc:offing to apu lie house on Orthodox street,
indulged in refreshments, which they con
sidered decidedly orthodox. A proper ablu
tion divested their facial developments of all
that remained of art, and so far, Nature pro
sented itself unadorned. The discomfited fe
males camp to the conclusion that a "stern
chase is a long chase," as every sailor well
knows ; and quietly resuming their positions
in - the barouche, drove moderately away, leav
ing the law to take its own course.
WEATHER RECORD.—A comparison of
some of the meteorological phenomena, of
July, 105, with those of July, 1844 and of the
same month for liftecu years, at Philadel
phia, Pa. Barometer 60 feet above mean tide
hi the Delaware river, Latitude 50 degrees,
5734 minutes N.; Longitude 75 degrees, IVA
minutes W. from Greenwich. By JAMES A.
KIRKPATRICK, A. II
,Thermoineter.
Highest degree
Do. date
WRl'llleSt day -- mean• , •
Do. date
Lowest degree
Do. date
97.00
,7 h.
167.33
2,th.
(i 3.00
I.4th.
70.00
14th.
12.13
4.41
74.76
83.99
76.63
18.29
Coldest day—mean....
Do. date...
➢lvan daily oscillation
Do. range..
Mean at 7 A. M ......
Do. 2 P. M
Do. ar.M
Do. forthe month.
Barometer. -
Highest, Inches
Do. date
Greatest daily pressure
—mean.
Do. do. date
Lowest, inches
Do. date
Lowest daily pressure—
mean.
Do. do. date....
Mean daily range
Mean at 7 A. Id
Do. 2 P. 11
Do. 11 P. 111
Do. for the month...
29.598
17th.
0.089
29.786
29.752
29.771
2.9.71.1
Force of Vapor.
Greatest, ineheg
1)o. dote
Least, Incite , :
Do. date
Mean at 7 A. M
Do. 2 P. M
Do. 9 P. Di
Do. for the month
OJII7
25r11.
oth.
.614
.661
.6:15
.618
Relative Humidtty.
Greatest, per cent:..,
Do. date.
Least, per rout
Do. date
Mean at 7- A. M
60 11 ct
2.5111.
81.0
Oth.
70.2
0'3.3
65.2
03.8
Do. 2 P. M.
. ...
Do. 9 P. M
Do. for the month
Clouds.
10 days.
21
57.4 411 et
62.6
40.6
53.5
Number of clear flays*. •
Do cloudy thccs.
Mean of sky cov'd 7 A.M
Do. do. 2P.M
Do. do. 9 P.M
Do. for the month
Amount. Inches
No. or (lit)s on which
rain fell
Winds.
Mean direction
Times 111 1,000..
SBB W
2.73
nliky one-third or less covered at the hours of ob
servation.
CLOSING- OP GOVEIiNHENT HOSPITALS.—
Nicetown Hospital has been closed. The last of
its inmates were removed to the Chestnut MU
Hospital; Dr. Taylor, late Surgeon in Charge
at the former, has been transferred to the lair
tee Dr. Ash and Chaplain Shrigley have also
been transferred to Chestnut Hill. There are
iiow about twelve hundred invalids in this hos
pital, and it is expected_ that it will be closed
before next winter.
SUDDEN PEATIIS.—A colored man, name
unknown, while engaged in removing rubbish
from 244 Dock street; yesterday afternoon, fell
A child, seven months old, was smothered to
death in a feather-bed at the house of Mr
Weise, on Emerald street, above hart's lane.
THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT AT ATLANTIC
CI rt.—The name of the woman who was run
Over at Atlantic City, on Tuesday last, as nen
timed in Vie Press of yesterday, wasfillrs.
PASSING Thoors.—The 3d New Jersey.
Infantry 'Regiment passed through this city
ye'sterday, and were entertained at the Union
and Coop er•shol) Refreshment 54140114.
TRE REMAINS OF BISHOP POTTER are
expected to arrive in this city on to-morrow
or the day following.
THE POLICE.
[Before Mr. Alderman I'd'Mid.]
THE OLD STORY.
Two men and three women were arraigned
yesterday, on the char of robbing a soldier
of the sum of $l5O, in a house in Front street,
above Noble, on Tuesday night. There was no
evidence elicited to implicate the accused.
They were held for a further hearing.
[Before Alderman Warren,]
ALLEORD PICKPOMET.
Charles Walker isthe name given by a young
man, who was arraigned yesterday, on the
charge of picking the pocket of a soldier of
the sum of fifty dollars. The alleged larceny
is said to have taken place in a tavern on
Market street, near Thirteenth. The accused
was held to hail.
[Before Mr, Alderman Fitch.]
ALLEGED LARCENY.
Julia Hall, Mary Donnelly, and Elizabeth
Hamilton, were arraigned yesterday, on the
charge of stealing a gold watch from as unso
phisticated individual named Everett, at a
house near Girard avenue and Seventh street,
The accused were committed.
[Before Mr. Alderman Beßier.]
CRUELTY TO A liORSE.
Henry Steinhauer . , employed to clrive a horSO
and cart, was arra4,omed ; on Tuesday, on the
charge of beating the animal in a cruel man
ner. The spectators wore . shocked at such
brutality. The prisoner was bound over to
- answer at Court.
CMEI32
A colored man, giving the name of Henry
Thompson, was committed, on Tuesday even
ing, to answer the charge of violent assault
and battery upon a little girl. The offence is
said to have ban perpetrated in the vicinity
Of Lombard and Sixth streets. The accused
was committed:
(Before Mr. Alderman TOEIDd.]
NORSE AND WAGON STOLEN.
John Butler was arraigned yesterday morn
ing on the elnuFge Of the larceny of a horse
and - wagon. It is alleged that on the night of
July 3, the horse and wagon were standing in
the front of the house on Third street, near
tiirnrit avenue, at the time Joseph Sides was
murdered. It is averred that Butler suddenly
jumped into the wagon and drove away at a
furious rate. The vehicle was dashed to pieces,
and the horse injured. - The prisoner was held
in the sum of $l,OOO to answer.
[Before Mr. Alderman Warren.]
COUNTNIUMT NOTSP,
Charles Douglass and Isaac Corson were ar
raigned, yesterday morning, on the charge of
passing a counterfeit twenty-dollar United
States Treasury note, in a lager-beer saloon,
on Ridge avenue, near Sixteenth street, on
Tuesday evening. Six counterfeit twenties
and one hundred-dollar note were found upon
them when they were taken into custody.
The prisoners were committed to answer.
OWNER }PANTED
A boat twenty feet 1011 g and painted black,
is in the possession of the harbor police. it
was taken from a supposed thief who is held
in custody. The boat awaits an owner.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL,
The Stock market was active yesterday, but
prices were unsettled, especially the coal oil
shares. Maple Shade was in demand; about
4,500 shares sold, at from 8@g)..1; Dairen at 44/
@4/,-the latter rate an advance of; Wenn.
tock, 2%; Junction, 2%; Caldwell, 2%.92;,f.; 1. 1 4-
bert, 1%; Mineral, % Royal, I—an adVariee of
; Big Tank, 1 1 / 4 @li/f ; McElheny, 1%; and St.
ficholas at I—a decline of %. Government
bonds continue very quiet, at about former
rates, with sales of 7-30 s at 993, ; ; 103%; was bid
for 5405; 100% for sixes of issi; and odA for
10-10 s. City Loans are UnChauged ; sales
of the new issue are making at 92. Railway
shares are in better demand, with sales
of Beading at 52%@52%, the latter rate an
advance of 14, closing at 52;4; Norristown Rail
road at 55; Pennsylvania at STX, no :Change;
and Camden and Amboy at 123; 23 was bid for
Little Schuylkill; 60 for Lehigh Valley ; 40 for
Elmira preferred ; 12 for Catawissa common
25 for preferred do., and 44% for Northern Cen.!
tral. In city passenger railroad shares there,
- Is little or nothing doing; Seventeenth and
Nineteenth sold at 9; 75 was bid for
Second and Third-street, and 77 asked.
Bank shares are firmly held, with sales of
Mechanics , at 281 1 4 ; 180 was bid for North Ame
rica ;j3O for Philadelphia; 118 for Farmers' and
Mechanics'; 51% for Girard; and 57 for City.
Canal shares are more active at the advance,
with sales of Schuylkill Navigation common
at 23; and preferred ditto at 30X99,31!4;;e4i was
bid for Susquehanna Canal, and 53 for W .
yoming
Valley Canal.
The following were the quotations of gold
yesterday, at the hours named:
The shipping interests of New York were
never more alive with huSiness than now.
American bottoms are in demand, and eagerly
taken for a far larger trade than they can pos-
Sibly execute, while the foreign - bottoms in
Port, of which there ere a groat many, are
passed over where it is possible to employ
American ships. The line ships which were
sold to foreign owners after the commence
ment of the war, and taken Out from under the
American flan, are now precluded by an act of
Congress from again changing their nationali
ty. Meantime, `chile they are lying idle at the
it is a virtual impossibility for ship
builders to build up again the commercial
marine quickly enough to satisfy the demands
of our great trade. The vessels sold by the
United States Gayer/latent go a very small
Why - toward making up the dollciciiOn aMt
they have been quickly taken up almost be
fore the mercantile community were aware of
it. Projected lines of steamers from Baltimore
to Europe, from Boston to New Orleans, and
vastly enlarged facilities from New York to
Europe and the Southern ports, call for an ad
dition to our tonnage almost impossible to
Provide for, unless Congress shall afford some
means by which we can again possess our
selves of some of those fine ships which were
the pride of the American merchant marine.
The St. Louis Republican says:
President Taylor, of the Pacitle Railroad, and
Mr. Moll issock, superintendent, have returned
from a visit to Kansas City and the western
end of the road, which they have been visit
ing in order to examine the progress made to
wards the completion of the work now rapidly
hastening to its termination. At this time
there remains unfinished a gap of twenty-two
Miles between Pleasant hail and Independ
ence. The road between Kansas City and tile
last-named place has been completed for sonic
time, and is now in operation. For the last
eight or ten clays continued heavy rains have
in terfered with work on the unfinished portion
of it. But of that work there remains onlythe
laying of the rails, which, with the force at
hand, can be put down at the rate of half a
mile a day in favorable weather. In a month
and a half from this time it is probable that
the last rail will be laid and the road will be in
full operation through from St. Louis to Kan
sas City the latter part of September. The di
rectors of the road have finally made a long
desired and advantageous arrangement with
the corporate authorities of Kansas City rela
tive to the .passage of the road through that
city. Kansas City is but two miles from the
eastern terminus of the Union Pacitlc road,
and will soon be connected by rail with it. In
no long time a road will come down to the
same place from Leavenworth, in Kansas.
When, as must shortly he the case, Missouri
shall recover the measure of her old prosperi
ty, and have entered on the new career that is
opening before it, our Pacific road, aided by
its western connections, will command a busi
ness that will realize all the anticipations of
its promoters.
duly,
for lay -s
100.00
21st DM
91.39
21st. 16)4
53.00
2,3, 1832,
3,.1867,
ag.
31,1837.
94.00
314.
80.17
Slut.
00.00
22(1.
The Treasurer of Connecticut will receive
proposals until the 10th instant for two mil
lions of dollars of State bonds. The stock will
bear seven per cent. interest, and be exempt
from local taxation. Ten per cent. of the
amount bid for will be required to be paid
down, forty per cent. on the 21st day of Au
gust, and the balance‘of fifty per cent. on the
30th. This new loan will make the State in.
debteilness about ten millions.
63.48
25tii.
1n..3
8.81
72.89
83.18
70.97
77.01
15.62
3.8 t.
77.70
8..43
78.27
77.82
Judge Edmunds, in preparing the census
volume on manufactures, which is rapidly
progressing, ascertained dint in 1860 the wool,
raw Material, was valued at thirty-six millions
five hundred and eighty-six thousand eight
hundred and eighty-seven dollars. The cost
of labor,nine millions eight hundred and eight
thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars,
and the value of the manufactured product
was sixty-one million eight hundred and
sixty•threc thousand and ninety-seven dol.-
dollars. The value of raw material cotton
was fifty-seven millions two hundred and
eighty-five thousand five hundred and thirty
four dollars. The cost of labor, twenty-three
millions nine hundred and forty thousand one
hundred and eight dollars, and the value of
the manufactured product was one hundred
and fifteen millions six hundred and eighty
one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four
dollars,
30.197
sth. 19.59
M. 143
8511, 1331.
29.585
2d.
0.114
29.784
29.747
”9.783
29.771
29.462
'3otli, 185 e
0.094
24831
29.898
:0.822
29.820
I 0.983
I 26tt., ms
224, 1801
.609
.604
.61.1
.616
22d.
.540
.537
.552
.55'6
97 f et
24 It.
27.0
23d
67.2
40.0
63.2
29.0
20.0
Md. MG
72.3
59.9
50.9
65.0
The piers of the Suspension Bridge across
the Ohio river ut, Cincinnati are nearly com
pleted, and the wires will be suspended in a
short time. The span of the bridge is one
thousand and fifty-doyen feet, the longest span
in this country.
7 daps.
24
.3.313 et
49.4
1.7
3.4
8 days.
62.9 Set
58.7
35.8
Trains have commenced running on the Al
bany and Susquehanna road to Worcester, Ot
sego county, sixty miles. It is expected that
the road will be opened to Oneonta by Sep_
Umber, and perhapt to rhadilla before winter.
Meetings ate being held in the Counties along
the route of the proposed lowa Central Rail
road to complete that important link in the
direct communietion between St. Louis and
St. Paul, via Oscaloosa and Cedar Falls. The
North Missouri Railroad has made provision
to extend its track from Macon City (junction
with the Hannibal and St. Joseph) to the state
line, a distance of sixty miles, and the condi
tion of the whole route may be shown by the
following table of distances :
10.9 days
IS 0.3 1 f W
101.
From St. Louis to lowa State line 211
From State line to Cedar Falls 113
From Cedar Falls to Minnesota State line.
From Minnesota State lille to a. rtmiT • —126
Total number of miles —MO
ROAD ALREADY DUILT,
From St. Louis to Macon City....
From Cedar Falls to Waverly....
From St. Paul South
Total miles completed
Number of miles yet to build,
The receipts of cotton at New York begin to
increase. The imports last week amounted to
nearly 20,000 bales, and for the month of July
were nearly 00,000 bales. The following state
ment shows the monthly receipts since Sep
tember 1, 1861:
Bales, Bales.
September, 1801...11,031 April, 186 i 95,957
October, 1861 20,002 May, 1805 20,851
November, 1804-16,018 June,lBos 23,162
December, IEO4 .16,939 July (to 29tb,) 1805.58,218
January, 1805 31,443
February, 1865. .29,720 Total
March, 1805 41,829
The 6570 ping List makes the total receipts to
July 29, 310,015 bales.
The following is Gov. Fletcher's official an
nouncement of the adoption of the ordinance
for the payment of the railroad and State in
debtedness of Missouri, by which bondholders
will see that the ordinance has become a part
of the organic law of the State:
"1, Thomas C. Fletcher; Governor of Ole
State of Missouri, in pursuance of the autho
rity in me vested illy said ordinance, do, by
this my proclamation, make known, that upon
an accurate casting up of saidiabove-mention
ea returns, there appeared thirty-nine thou
sand and silty-seven votes for: Shall the rail
roads pay their bondsl Yes j! and twenty thou
sand nine hundred for : Shall the railroads
pay their bonds I No!.
The following is a statement of coal trans
ported on the Delaware and Hudson @anal :
For week ending For the
July 20. Season.
Delaware and Hudson Canal C0..14,070 332,52•2.
Pennsylvania Coal Company...—. 357 10,664
Total tons
For the same period last year
For the week. For the Season.
Delaware and treason Canal 00.-.28,132 419,014
Pennsylvania Coal Company 19,2;xi . 233,005
Tidal tons
Drexel 4 Co. quote
U. S. Bonds 1881, new 10614(a107
V. S. Certif. of indebtedness, new .. Ifigto 97X
U. S. Certif. of Indebtedness, 01d.... nn @i
U. S. 7 0-10 NoteS, new 99 993
Quartermasters , Vouchers 99 (iii 97
Orders for Certif. of indebtedness.. 98 t 99
Gold 113 1 /Al4l
Sterling Exchange 1.5514@157
5-20 Bonds, old 105Nit41.03h .
5-20 Bonds, new e 9,113114
1940 Bonds 99%0 97 -
Sales of Stoc
SALES AT THE
FIRST
HO Clinton
300111 y Tank 1.31
Dunka ..... . ... .69
100 St N icholas ...1)30 1%
1000 110 1.1,
400 do 0301.31
100 Wm Penn 1,"4
SECON
ICORoval .81
100 'do 1)30 • 56'
1(0 111 n ple Slot(1 .21ys 8
106 W a lord Islarol..o
Dmikard ..... . b3O 4 4
3611 do 1)30 .0111
200 (10 .601
AT TIIE e
Reported by hexes,
BEFOTtIi:
200 Adams Oil
FIRST
1000 U S 7-30 Trs Notes
F & A lots 00%
SCO City Os new lots 0 - 2
rko ilo.. intentetual 02
- -10 Pennsylvania 11. 11 , 4
100 Rending 11.....05 52%
1(.0 do cash 52%
100 (10 1710 52%
100 do \int
100 do 0.1611
100 d 0.... ........ &PS
100 do cash 52 . 1¢
500 004 , 4,41.1 11,46,1 riP;
1(0 110
4 Hazleton Coal -- 53
3lolldzell slo 4 , 4
200 b3O
300 Alan Shade Its b3O
1(0 du dh , ..
100 do 8,4
BETWEE
MliDalzell 011 .4!4
100 do blO
KO Royal OD 1
MO do
1000 do hi 7t
500 Caldwell 011 2 4 ,,
200 Win Penn 1 56
100 Sell NAV pret'.bQO 3i
2100 City Os Municipal 1)2
4 - do New. 02
2 C &Am It ..?:5w11.123
15 do 9. da.y0.123
50 Maple Shade SY;
SECOND
20'1s:orris t own .... 55
500 Egbert 011....10ta 134
.100 11419p1e Shade 84
100 do b 5 834
2.00 do b 5 84
100 do' 11)0 8>
10017th & 10th-st, It.. 9
AFTER
600 Dig Took Its
110 Fulton C001...b60 0')
I Alt.ehlinieW 8k... 28 , i,
Schuyi Nov pref. aoy„
SALES AT. I
2CO Maple Shade 841 Cam C Amb0y...123
Yo di.... . . BAi 11000 Feeder Dum xa
tco.Sell Nay pretd 140 31;fi (10 bu t ),
The New York Past of yesterday says
Gold is more active. The opening price was
1 , 14%, and the highest 1.45 A - At the close 1.45 3 8
was bid.
The stock market opened with a better feel
ing. Governments are dull, but there is less
pressure to sell. Seven-thirties of the first
series are quoted et 981e,@98%;:rad the second
ekieg OgKR9O. Railroad shares are more
firm. Erie and Michigan Southern being esp.:-
eially in demand.
Before the board New York central was
quoted at 01, Erie at 87%, Reacting at 104%, Mi
chigan Southern at 01% :
The following quotations were made at the
board, as compared with yesterday:
- Wed. Tn. Adv. Dec.
IT. 0_ es munona., ~ t 1 .10611 106L4 31
U. 5.5-20 coupons' laTil 1.111.1 d ;',4
U. S. 0.20 coupons, new 104'1 tot 34
U. S. 10-41iiinpons 90% 54Th
U. S. Cetintrates 07!‘ 0761 if
Tewnessee es ' 70 70!‘
~. !4
Missouri Gs 70 70"
Atlantic Mall 150 15/1
NpNV York Central 9i-1 0034 7 4
Erie 88‘e.' SP: 1
Erie PreferredB7 86 I
Hudson River - iii, , ,l lit iq it,
Reading le.;" 10.1 1 ,i A
Michigan Central 107 107 . -——
Michigan Southern 65X 6l1( 16;
After the hoard Erie closed at 88%, New York
Central at 0134, Hudson at 11114, Reading at
104%, Michigan Southern at 65. Later, Erie
- sold at Bs%.
Avenel. 2—Evening.'
There is very little demand for Flour, °Muir
for export or home use, butprices remain
about, the same as last, quoted. bales comprise
1,100 bbls, mostly to the retailers and bakers,
at from $707..:15 for superfine ; $7.50M for extra;
V.50©9.50 for old stock and fresh ground extra
fimdiy; *MOW bbl tor fancy brands as to
quality, R ye Flour and Corn Meal are dull at
former rates.
GnAuc—Wheat Is very dull and prices droop
ing ; small sales of prime red are reported at
200@210c, closing at the former rate;
white
ranges et from t..25(02300 ft be, but we hear of
no sales. Thyo is scarce and held above the
views of UN WI& Corn is rather dull; 7,000 bus
Western mfamil sold at 936, fell6W 1000
km, August 2.
ÜBLIC BOARD
CALL.
500 Walnut Island ..e.94
1W St Xiehelas
200 Maple Shade 8
101.1 3 titka
100 KCVSt I/11e ....Jai) 115
500 15101h1.;i10
1000 Big Tniik b3O
200 Win Penn 1;4
100 \l - aple Shatie...l)3
200 (10 1)5 B'4
iN) St ,N hot a 6 , 14
700 Dunicatrit slO .09
:OARD OF BROKERS.
& Co., 50 S. Third street
BOARD.
100 Maple Shade 8
2110 do 030 lots 8
100 do
100 tit/ rto"" . .••••
100 00 .40 04
200 do 010
300 do blO
200 do lots.. 05 811
300 Oil Cltv l' &It Co 3
200 Dalzell Olt Its 580 4%
200 do lots .1%
100-Junction 011 2
1
500 M 0i1.. , 1%
rot (I:ado-ell lots 242
100 ltovol Petroleum. 1
100SeliuylkIll Nay ign 23
200 Sell Naviga'n pet' 31%
100 130 31'4
200 do:_. 31.!4
BOARDS
100 'Maple Shade-1)30 Bt.l
!lig/ 00 1,80 8!4
1200 110 8
100 Meelilitoek 011... 2 41
'3O 31421111011m.y ....lot 106
'lOO Read' II 1)10 52. 3 1,
100 do sl
200 do sOO
100 410 1)5 5'24
800 Dllilkard 011.30t6
-100 Pittsb 5s Scrip.... 70
'2OO M.lmeral 011 ~,,,
BOARD.
400 Dalzell Oil 43¢
100 Caldwell 2
looMtnertil. 0i1.:. . , . •
.✓4.
300 Fulton Coal .. :lots OM
200ScliNov pre l .
'2OO do 1353 31.'4
9 do $ 0 ),4.
OARDS.
201) St Nicholas OIL
100 Reading 11...
200 Maple Shade
400 d 0....
CLOSE.
Philadelphia lllarhete.
bu. Oats are also Ball; small
ingat 5.5 e for new, and 7 . 0 e ift bn for bl ‘ 4 '
nAmr,—Quercitron ism demami ;
of first No. 1 was made at 0:12.00
COTTON.—There is more doing i n
sales, and prices are rather bet t,•,. 4..
bales of Middlings 50111 at foss
cash.
GROCEITINS.—There is very it ti ,
at
eit fully fo her Sug rmer ratear or Coffe s e,butprico., 0:,
0111 1 tit.
PETROLEIIIL—Prices are unsettli.i
market is rather quiet. Abdul
in lots at 32@33e for crude,
quality.
In bond, and 70073 e gallon pijp
StitbS.—Flaxseed is Selling in
$2.451{1 bushel. ClOverSeed is ve rr
in demand at sls@la bushel:
quoted at $5@3.25 la bushel, Ill.. ;
Pnovismss.—There is very litl lr ,
the way of sales, but nrices are firm
vaneoi small sales of mess Pork 1, : I I %.
at $13(035 Dbl. Bacon tiara ar c ' l y :P 1 ,
with small sales of fancy bagg,,.l,
n
none '4l It. Lard is selling 111 tt
~.
ta, 9 se it for bbls and tierces.
Wilisxy.—There is little or 11011 1 . t"
in the way of sales ; bbls are i z
„ t
gallon. •
Ga l in
at this port to-day : are the receipts of p;,..
Flour
Wheat
Corn....
Boston Markets, Augn s ,
FLOUR.—The receipts since
been 11,44 bbls. The market is MI» '',
active demand. Sales of - Western
ilitoces.7s,, common extra , B;__;r,; -._; I.
do., $7.750f1; good and (Ic.,
bbl.
GRAN.—The receipts %filet! Sallllll,
been 13,265 bus Corn and ;Ma
is in moderate demand. Sonth,.r i , ‘`' ..
scarce, and prices are nominal.
is held at WO it be. Western m
''
at tiSeCold. Mi. Oats are stea,l ; . ; '
Northern and Canada at Merki c; m, 4 1 07
Prince Edward Island, 5060 e 11
quiet at 95cesi. ShortB art.
@2sj Pine Feed, $21(326
ton. _ _
Pitovisiows.—Pork is 111111,11,1)11 in
mand. Sales of Prime at CISA27;
Clear, ۥ4O bbl, cash. Beef is ginn,'!
Eastern and Western Mess and
R t OM cah. La rd is fi rm
aO 9:5e qa it, cash. s
Hams are selling
cash.
New York Markets, Aug ft
TALLOW is firm ;,sales 175,000 13 ai
WHISKY is firmer; sales 600 blilii
$2.196,2.2.0.
MARINE IN'X'F.LIAGEINc
rowr OF PUILADELFHIA, Atp,
507 SUN SETS
SUN RIBES.-
HIGH WATER
Arrived.
Bark Eva H Fislr Dill, a days from t i
with sugar to S W Welsh.
Brig Matapony, Wynittn, 9days from
with sugar aml molasses to Ft& 11" WWI
B r i g Patterson. 11 M 0.., from :
with sugar and. tholassoS to 5 Niorr6 11'
Co, _
Brig Carolina (Ital), Trapani, Rl ilary
Palermo, with fruit to Isaae Jeane 3
Brig Joseph Baker, Nickerson, 5
Boston, in ballast to J F Baker.
Brig Ocean Wave, Barter, a gars f ro!
Fork, With salt to A Cowl or t Uo.
b'ehr Caroline Rail, DoUght 4 days rroil.
"fork, with salt to A.KerrAllre.
Schr Helen Augusta, McClure, 4 da*,•;
New York, with mdse to 1) Cooper
Schr P L IMI, Strout, 4 days frou,
York, in ballast to C A lieckseher & Co,
Schr H E Gibson, Crocker, 4 days h
a al
yo, with mdse to - D Cooper &
Schr It B Townsend, Townsend, ftoinbr,
in-ballast to captain.
Schr Progress, Foxwell, from Hooper'.
land, in ballast to J T Justus.
Bohr lledabeflor, Kennedy, from Itoel
in ballast to Curtis & Knight.
Sehr R W Tull, Haley, from Hatterai I.
with MOO to Nayy Yard.
Sell!' Laura 3! Watson, Walls, frela
'yen, in ballast to Sinnickson & Glover,
Schr Clayton & Lowbei,' Jaclnie, I
from Smyrna, Del, with wheat to dal, L
ley & Co.
Solir G C Morris, Artist, from Boston, i 4
last to captain.
Schr Geo Fales, Nickerson, S days free:
videnee t witn mdse to Crowell &
Sobs Clara, Crowell, 5 days from Boston
incise to Crowell &
Sehr Mary A. Loogbery,loughery, front
walk, in ballast to IV Hunter, ./r, 4; Co.
Sour R Peterson, Enlist, from !luso.
ballast to L Audenried A 5 Co.
- - - -
Sean• L Audenried, Compton, from salru.
intlinst to J 12. Tomhnson.
.
Schr John Randolph, Martin, from
in ballast to MakiSion, Graff, & Cu.
Sehr D B Steelman, Smith, from Stveiz.i3
last to Blakiston, Graff, & Co.
Sehr II W Benedict, Case, from Newltoi
in ballast to Blakiston, Graff, & Co.
Sebr Nate V Edwards, Allen, fro), P::
dunce, in ballast to Blakiston, 1,4
Seln. Rollins, Parsons, 6 days from PI y:in:
in ballast to Tyler & CO,
Seth' Jas Neilson, Burt, 3 days from
in ballast to W Hunter, Jr, & Co.
Schr Mary Louisa, Hammond, S days
Calais, with lumber to Warren & Dreg;;,
Schr Hammond, Paine,s days from
with salt to A Kerr & Bro.
Sehr Express, Wallace, 3 days from Pots'
ter, in ballast to J T Justus.
Sehr Shooting Star, Marshall, 9 flay
Calais, with lumber to Gaskill t Galvin,
Schr Abraham Lincoln, Beatty, 3 day, f:
New York, with cement to Smith & Co.
Sehr John Stockham, Babcock, from lb,
in ballast to J G ‘tit, G S Repplier.
Sclir Effort, Barrett, from Newport Sev
ballast to John R White.
Sehr Jos Holmes, Asa from Yew rod.
bn
aast to W Iluntoi , Jr, A Co.
Sehr J Simpson,'Sinintons, from 'Mot
ballast to Caldwell, Sawyer, & Co.
Sehr W Loper, Al yin, from Roxbury, In
last to L Audenreld & Co.
Schr D G Floyd, Kelly, from Providence
ballast to Andonned .1; Co.
- -
Sehr E Williams, Steelman, from Bostor.
ballast to L Ant/curled. & Co.
sehs J Barley, Shatr 3 from lloilolll in WI
to Castner, Wellington
Stickney, Lt;
Schr W H Bowe, Harris, from New Bedi
in ballast to captain.
Sehr Elizabeth, Brown, from Providence.
ballast to captain.
Sehr Aid, Ireland, 6 days from Boston
ballast to captain.
Schr Restless, Vanzant, from Boston, in! ,
last to captain.
Selo Reading RNo 444 Smith, frtnu
Haven in ballast to captain.
Bohr l G Porter, Crowell , from Providex
in ballast to captain.
Steamer Sarah, Jones, 43 hours frent IL::
ford, with mdse to W .1)E DOA & Co.
Cleared.
Ship PerhiX, Massey, Quebec.
Bark Gen Geo G Meade, Holmes, Salem.
Brig Ida McLeod, Cook, Pert itOytil.
Sehr LN May, Baker, Boston,
Bohr Laura S N‘ r atsOn, Wells, Boston.
Schr 1' L Smith, Stout, Portsmouth, N
Bohr Leonesa, Gilman, Salisbury, Mani.
Schr Pervade, Phillips, Alexandria.
Behr Al Brooks, Hand, Cohasset Narrov.
-6ehr M-Reinbart, Dand,Boston.
Sehr N B T ThOMVSOn, Nndieett. ll ogon.
Schr N A Longhorn Longhorn '44 1, 0V
Schr Jos Holmes, Ass, Norfolk.
SehrJas Neilson, Burt, Taunton.
Sehr B Peterson, English, Roxbury.
Schr, W Loper All?in, Lynn.
Schr D G loy ' d, holly, Providence.
Sehr Abraham Lincoln, Beatty, PrOdler 2
Sehr B floston.
Sehr J E Simmons, Simpson, Boston.
Schr V Sharp, Sharp, Boston.
Schr Restless, Vanzant, Boston.
Schr R G Porter Crowell, Providence.
&lir John Stockliam, Babcock, Boston.
Schr L Audenried, Compton, Salem.
Sehr .fohn Martin, Randolph, Providence
Sehr. Hate V Edwards, Allen, Proyklencv.
Sehr H W Benedict, Case y New Bedfooi.
Sehr W II Rowe, Harris, /N ow. Bedford•
Schr Elizabeth, Brown, Providence.
Schr J Burley, Shaw, Medford.
Schr Preston, Welden, Fall River.
&dn .- Magellan, Cranmor, Bridgeport, Ct.
Sehr Reading RR, No. 44, Smith, NOV Mara
Schr Effort, Barrett, Providence.
Wt. II L Haw, Iler, Baltimore.
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Exchawte.
LEWES, Del., Aug. i—t; I'. 1,4
The brigs Caprera, trout Sawa; laroa: 1
JULIO and Ocean Wave, with a bark 21.10
unknown, passed in to-day. Brigs'
film'"
Walter, for Falmouth, Jo., Dudley, for ,
Luayra, Petrel, - for St John, N B, and
omond, for Portland, all from Pldladellill'
went to Red 'LOAMY, The fells-mow vessrr:--
notin in the harbor: Brigs tiokival.e.l.
less, and Hanilning Bird, all from
phia; New York pilot-boat David BitS.'
3; schrs Addy Ulrich, from Philadelphia ,
St Kitts ; Eva, Bell, do for Marblehead
Simmons, for New London
~ •t 1 ,
Elizabeth ,
- wards, for Davenport ; tA Taylor, air
ham; iT B Austin, for sivtop ; Northern ugh':
A M Lee, White Squall, - Nary It Mal ~ an
Boston, all for Boston; Golden Eagle, for :Cl2'
Bedford ; Dayton, for Dighton ;
Greenport ; Expedite, for Baker's Folly;
Bayles, for Orion, Mass ; S T Chartre
Moore, for Lyons ; Sarah - Elizabeth, far SO
-wieh I Wm M Carlton, for Cohassett Sanaa!
Isabella Thompson, for Providence: t,httY
Ella, for Belfast; E L Moon and C T 11;butt;. 1 .
from Chincoteague, for New York;
Harriet Cemantha, from St Domingo ,
reports having been chased four hour- On -;
Nth last, lat 31 37, long 71 3: 4 , n}'Privo l h
schooner, carrying but One topinoßt.
SSE. Yours, &c Bit tv.taulit'lNON,
Memoranda.
AfAna (121.,) e l e, lll - .*
Boston on 'ruesday, for Liverpool vie
Bark Hellespont, Brifigeg, cleared Ituitcut
on Tuesday for New Orlon - us.
Sehr Hattie Koss, at Mayaguez, l' W u "'
for this port next Clay.
Sehrs I) E Kelley, Keller . , and John I'v'S!'!
Nieherson, cleared at Boston 31st ul 1,. tor la: ,
port.
THE PATHEU ON THE ASSASSIN,
Florida Union says that the afflicted failtot',!
Payne, the would-be murderer Cl Sver 6l '
Seward, has been making a visit to Javli, , olv
vine in that State. The Urtion adds:
The father of Payne called on us one day 1 1 ;7
week. - Ile realties on a plant :it hill three 1 6 'i
from Live Oak Station, on tee re"'"" la
Georgia Railroad. no lost one son at flu'
tie of Murfreesborough, another riaan,lt,':
home maimed for life - "Lewis" was
hope in his old age. The afflicted fans
• %)
a Baptist minister,: as has been stateo.
•,„
must necessarily pronounce Just the toll '1
Punisment to tile son, but We cannot wilffinj
our deepest sympathy for the lleart.s;r l o .i : ,
Parent, Or esteem him leis as a worthy nio
citizen.
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A PicTuna orsPEACE.—III the late y01111.0;1,,
ration at Yale College, of the servict.: , •
sons in the war, a beautiful tableau n'av,..11,;,,,
seated on the stage, back of the tabie
the chairman anti some of the distintSlE,„,,;
guests were seated,. There stood lir s ':'j
cannon with a flag thrown over one NOW'
each, and - muskets atticlicti as if the urea
°frailty, and the colors of a regiment tlainnv
in front. During the exercises, sifino
professors, who looked as if they would
been more at home among hooks, ma
ritbms, and retorts, than amid such
ments of war, might have been seen Wally
against one of the guns, while four 11l 110 11•: 11 ,l
SIX or keYen years or age, were hilagllg.,j,,nl
other gun, patting and rubbibg its troll. t ,
surface, thrusting their hands into it@
and holding theirtnees down to breathe
its rifle bore to hear the reverberation. !I ,I
minded one of Landseer's picture of "
with 'its group of children sitting Ill"' 1 01
ground, and near them a dismounted ealao
out of which a goat is feeding. lt must he “ 0 ,
teased that the former 19 much the D o ' t „wei
Pressire and beautiful representation of w.4„,t.
and when the next artist wishes to 1 . 61 10 ', ( e
Such a scene, we commend this to hini..- 3 1 ,
field Republican.
•
COMMITION.—We learn from the Ales
State Jeornai of Monday that we were 1 1 %1 's ,
formed when it was stated to us that , 4
Simpson, of Alexandria, ( 4110 t ,w•
drowned neOnpje of evenings since, by 1 !,, i „.
ing from the Thomas Collyer into (Ito 't t
mae,) bad eloped with im armyollieer,wi t ,,o
her mother's knowledge, It seems tire , ` s `
went to Baltimore with her mother's e0.a5...1,
to seek employment in a store. 'We nukke
correction in justice to the family of the
eeagecL-Q Washington Wir9nfOcof Tuesday