rrIM FICE,SS, t ownie]) DAILY {aDNDAYS EXCEPTED) BY NORN W. VoisNEN. o nwic,No. 111801 TM FOURTH - STIIEET. TIFIE DAILY PRESS, I v 'City thiesserthere, ElopT DOLLARS PIER run vi rm advance; or FrPTICEN CENT* psyable to the carrier. Moiled In Soh. ooribers ont of the OltY, RAVEN DOLLARS run ko rn; TOW= DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS NOR z rx jEconSiß ORR DOLLAR AND SEVENTY - TV& bow Fon TM= MONT/LS. invariably in advance gor tho 00 Ordered. Adoleftllgnnento Inserted at the anal raise. lax TEI.WSZECLY PREMS, MAW to enbearibers, FOUR DOLLARS ?RR RN. rex, SR advance. novelerftw Cljt Vrtss. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1865.- THE NEWS. 3ii „ f „ippi is the first of the States under r narge of a provisional Governor to hold ;state Convention. It is now in session at ziaeinion,_ and a synopsis of iM proceedings l op be found in our telegraphic columns. !I vo ordinances—one ratifying all judicial pro rerdlegs made under the State law during the vf ,t, and one prohibiting the Legislature from v anishing any citizen, or forfeiting his pro- Verty,ltho had been engaged in the rebellion— first reading. A memorial praying for the removal of the negro troops from the f4taie, and also one for intercession in behalf of Jeir Davis were presented. An ordinance sliolithing slavery was reported. A letter has been written to a gentleman of New York, by General Kilpatrick, endorsing 11:e course of the Raleigh Progress, and also lac representatives of the loyal Northern I,rt , ss, for exposing the evil intentions of the rebel leaders of North Carolina. The General states that these facts should not be kept from . the peo ple, but that all should hear thom,po that a correct statement of ttflairs at the South 'may be known. The General is now travelling through tile State. information has been officially received by the Government that the cholera, on the 21st ultimo, had made its appearance on the coast of spain. Directions have been given by the civil Governor of the Island that proper care he taken to prevent the spreading of the infec tion, should vessels arrive at the port having it on board. Five thousand troops are to be mustered out of service from the Department of Eastern Virginia, The 101 th ronnsylvania Regiment will, therefore, soon Mart for home. General Torbert is expected at Norfolk next week, to take command of the sub-district at present commanded by General Mann. Front Cincinnati we hear that the Demo onitie State Sovereignty Convention of Ohio asseinbled at Columbus on the 17th instant. Alexander Long was nominated for GOvernorl Dud Charlton A. White for Lieutenant Go vernor. • Resolutions of strong State sove reignty were adopted. At the Democratic State Central Committee of new York, which met yesterday in Albany, i i was resolved to call the State Convention" for the nomination of State officers, on the 6th cif September. A despatch from Boston, dated yesterday, Ftaley that the whaling bark Pearl, of New air fen, while onlier way from Honolulu, to the Anti° Ocean, was destroyed by the pirate rllen the application of the creditors of Be,,srs. Ketchum & Co, the Superior Court of New York yesterday granted attachments, cruising of real estate valued at $500,000, s :4 sin:4 their fine property. An earthquake vas felt in Jackson (Alissis qlpq, Memphis, -St.. Louis, Cairo, and other towns in that section of the country, on Thurs day morning. It- created a great deal of alarm, bin (lid not do much damage. A full special report of the Teachers' Na tional Convention, which has been in session at Harrisburg, will be found in another co lumn. The Convention yesterday adjourned site A despatch was read from Governor Andrew, of Iliasarbusetts, regretting his inability to rrei•em, but expressing his warm wishes for the success of the objects Of the Associa z:on. A letter from Professor Brooks was also tend, express.ing similar regrets at not being t.ble to attend, but reiterating his entire sym midc with the labors of the Convention. A,ivices from California state that it is con ift‘Tlategl there to send a war vessel to hunt IT the pirate Shenandoah. The merchants 1::oe petitioned to that effect. everal defeats of the Federals, near San LCuis and Puebla, are noticed in the Iliatarno i,;, IN,Wor of the sth. James Buchanan Cross, who has served out tis term of tire years in the Eastern Peniten. t]try, Lai been released. -He is probably the siost expert forger in the United States. Hannibal Hamlin was yesterday appointed y the PreAtlent. Collector of the Port of Boa lou, awl A, Ir. Underwocclirtgaval Officer at the SUM port. At last accounts the pirate Shenandoah was ye:tr Beluing , s Straits. .This was on June 3d, he had destroyed several whaling vessels, I,llin,z in quest of others. General Grant has arrived at Galena, his 11 , 1,1 e, where his reception was very entliusi 2.qie. ,general J. A. Smith, of Teromessee, of the lAe rebel army, was among the applicants for !p;aqoa yesterday at Washington. al-Edulah dates of August 14th have been re c,ivol. The nth COUrieCtiOut Reg ment started tam Savannah for home on . the Mb. Nearly eighty buildings were destroyed by on Wednesday in St. - iloch, one of the su- Aalys of Quebec. 2.. mud boat captain was murdered near Ce r Point,. Va., on Saturday. A lnnglar, While attempting to break into a unze in Richmond, on Wednesday, was shot. Meounts of the Virginia crops are encour overnment loans were in le,ss demand yes day. though the stock market had con eiahly improved. The oil stocks, however, ',till very dull and - prices very low. Speen. to:: for the time islat a-stand-still. ,:ring the past week trade has been dull. aqstnifs were firmer yesterday. Corn was hanged. Oats were lower. Cotton declined. ar was in steady demand. Whisky was closed in New York last night at ETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL." WASITINGTON 7 August 18, 186 casting the horoscope of Washington_ e may also calculate the future con ion of the country itself. That which is - es and builds up the seat of the ierican Government, must come chiefly n the replenished coffers and reinvigo ed forces of the American people. The eition broke up the most stupendous 1 wicked contrivance in the world for I": dcprestion of a large mass of human (ll] and the enriching of a small otity of desperate men; but, by the wreck ibis vast system; other interests were se di.,_docated, and some of them entire- OM of their orbits. To get rid'of Ifty( - I . y was like cutting out from the living t a fearful tumor—it saved the 'Repub lic', tat at the dire risk of its precious ' l :t. We know that the patient will be in her strength, now that the 40A that was so rapidly pulling her 11, has been removed ; but there is still 6gree of weakness in some of her ex - - Here, as to the seat of healing 0.0.---the headquarters of the good physi- 'Qi—rw-1 1 .1 tome tho myriad petitioners for and for aid. They wi]] gather from y State and section. It is almost as if !:t nation had been born anew, and as if •••• • (--ryboily - were struggling to be in harmony di :h the 'wonderful events that have ' ,, !lnd our entire social and politial or 1 1:•:oion. From the North and the (-t and the Middle, we shall have the , i ,, ettia!s of theories born of rival and re-1 Ilive expectations and interests, each '1:!.ly to be ready for the new evangelism, Lfi ;i:1 panting not to be left behind in the ram for political and geographical The Territories, rescued from 4 ‘ 1(1, 3", saved from the ruffians that 1 to despoil and dominate in I vi; , and then rushed to seize the keys thatopened into the mighty •uq or 1 . 1, p a elf i the splendid mineral 01 . Colorado, New Xexico, - Arizona, 1.1 Li:4l , —havc risen into suddenly majes- 1 4 . 7 )1)0 irtd will demand the, most 7 111 0 1 :11em,:ive legislation for the hives and Di( of pol;ulation already, collecting and , r)Thing, into their auriferous and arable val- . - - told plains. human imagination pauses , Welt r the thoughts that accumulate in the `ur sight of such a spectacle. Then; from Lc South we shall behold large and sueces !ve delegations -of appellants—a few of the l.imen, the E;ray relies of the banished and !ftta aristocracy of slavery, and the hosts iliesh and hearty intellects, who, haying en up the wicked past, hail with a noble Ltalieuce and an athletic hope the duties ' 4 'l the promises of the future. Theidental these, and a Part of the whole, will be warms of applicants for place ; claimants I , oe the Treasury and upon the Court of kkinv..; inventors, explorers, artists, ideal philanthropists, and adventurers of ' Y 'IT kind. The Congress which will "Tla on the first of December will be the "1 important in our history. To attempt tea sketch, ft skeleton, of the immense 'I `f work before the Senators and Repre 1:/oi Would be a ridieulonsland hop? xvtrinient. occAsioNAL. • . ,• - . . ---, -- • ....-- - ~. •. _. -,. • • . . • t .....„-. „,,, II”, „.• - et' 1,.. - . . . . ...., .. • -•\ $,,,, ~,,,..---- , ~-.,-, ~, ' • ~.-.- --'". --- trktt: ,. . ' Jo" , . , 4,„,. ._. •,.. "•:.% 1 . .....---a ..-_,--- •..„,"-- ~.Y.14, 7, •.. ' Lit - 4 . ' -V4 .f . , 11 ' :•': ..,....:„..,... . ... i t h _....A,..7. 4 ,,,..... , ....i1 e pig!...i.... _-,:':•:••, - . . r . -,. - xi - . • pi t - , - , - - . 'l.O Ilim■-'7,-'..aliiili '1"-i , ---, :..„9 , - ------:- :.' , . _ •- . ' riii........1._ . i "1 °41 . 1 &)•,,. ,.... ,. 4, ‘..,,..:d...„, _ ... .... ifr: .- -- ,... : ": 1111 ' '' - -.'==.--- - • -'-' - 'l,---, • , -4- -- F - - , -.44. -- z , . - . [..... ill -..., ....._ _ ~-..1.--..... ~, . • ~, •-•-••••••••• ---•,,........_ _ 4 ,1417 . I . . , , . VOL. 9.-NO. 17. WASHINGTON. OFFICIAL REPORTS ABOUT THE CHOLERA IN SPAIN. WASHINGTON, August 18 The Cholera In Spain. The Government has been officially informed by a letter dated Port Mahon Menorea, July 27th, that the cholera has made its appear ance on the coast of Spain. The civil Governor of the island had given directions that proper care he taken to prevent the spreading of the disease, should vessels arrive having it on board. The Executive Appointments at Boston. The President to-day appointed HANNIBAL HAMLIN Collector, D. W. Gooca Surveyor, and A. B, HNDEAR•OOD Naval Officer at the port of Boston. Application's for Pardons. The rebel General J. A. SMITH, of Tennessee, is among the applicants for pardon. Several speeial pardons were granted to-day. Counterfeit Treasury Notes. §everal counterfeit one-dollar United. States notes were recently presented at the Treasu rer'S office for redemption, but were readily detected by the experts in that Bureau. There are numerous counterfeit fifties, but none, so far as is known, of the denominations of one thousand, five hundred, and two dollars. All the others are counterfeited. Presidential Appointments. The President has appointed the following named assistant assessors for Massachusetts : Third District—Hiram C. Young, Thomas Adams, Charles H. Brown, Elbridge G. Wallis; Charles Smith, Charles W. Clapp, Amos Baker; Edmund D. Dearborn, Benjamin Meriam, Tho, mas Prime, Asa Wynn, J. W. Monroe, Wm. C. Culver, Win. H. Mason, George Briggs, Alden Graham, and Jesse Plympton. Seventh District—Joseph H. Judkins and Samuel G. Cressy. Charles H. liosevelt has also been appointed assistant assessor of Sixth division, Tenth Dis trict, New York. Ford's Theatre. The contract for converting Fonn , s theatre Into a fire-proof building, as a depository for the rebel archives, has been awarded to Rumen') DITNIIAIt, of Brooklyn, at twenty eight thousand dollars. The Trial of Wire. The Wraz trial will not take place until next week. The number of members of the Military commission is to be increased, and a larger room than that now occupied procured. Personal. Mrs. MARIA THOIINTOIT, who has just died du this city, at the advanced age of one hundred years, was the widow of Dr. Trionwroza, the original architect of the capitol, and the first Commissioner of l'ateht.g. Chief Justice CHASE has returned to Wash• ington. FORTRESS MONROE. Troops Mustered Out—Military Change. FOUTSEBB MOBUor, August 1.4.--Five thou sand troops are to be mustered out of service, from this department; and, in compliance with this order, the 104th Pennsylvania. regi ment will soon start for home. ' General Tobart (7) is expected at . Norfolk next week, to take command of this sulAis tigot, now commanded by Genera/ Diana, This' change is not made on account of any dissatiS.: faction whatever, but out of regard to rank. The steamer Charles C. Leary, from New Or leans on the Bth, has pnt into Hampton Roads for coal, and reports, August 13, off Key West, passed steamer Thetis bound to Now Orleans. The health of New Orleans was never better. The sale of Government horses and mules, yesterday, at Eastville and Drummondton, Eastern Shore of Virginia, resulted in the sell ing of twenty-four horses, at an average of fifty-three dollars, and twenty mules at fifty four dollars each. The animals evidently are not appreciated on the Eastern Shore, and the agents brought the balance of them back to Old Point. NORTH CAROLINA. Gen. Kilpatrick's Opinion of the Present Condition of the State RALEIGH, N. C., August 16.—Major General Kilpatrick has written a letter to a gentleman in New York, endorsing the course of the. Raleigh Progress, and the course of the "loyal" representatives of the Northern mesa, for ex posing the evil intentions of the disloyal leaders in this State, which, the General says, represents the true condition of affairs, not only in North Carolina, but in all the other in surrectionary States; and that these „facts should not be smothered up by the friends of the Government, ]ant should be generAlly known, that the potpie may learn the correct state of things as they now exist in the South, which will enable them to act understand ingly, and with justice to all concerned. The General is now taking a trip through the State. RICHMOND. The Murder of a Canal-boat Captain— Shooting a Burglar—Preparations to Receive the President—The Crops. [Special Despatch to The Press.] --- , - WasfirtieTON, August 15.—Titiehmond pa pers of today contain accounts of the murder of a canal-boat captain near City Point on Saturday. The mutilated body was dis covered in the canal. An attempt at house breaking in Richmond on Wednesday night resulted in the shooting of one of the burglars. Great preparation is being made in Richmond. to properly receive 1 - resident Johnson_ Ae. counts of the crops are encouraging. SAVANNAH. NEW 1 onw, August 18.—The steamer - Empire City has arrived, with Savannith dates of slur gust 14th. - The Herald contains but little news. The 12th Connecticut Regiment left Savannah on the 18th inst. for home. A severe thunder storm had occurred at Savannah, during which Captains Bonner and Keyser, of the 24th Mas sachusetts, had a narrow eseape from death, the lightning striking their &words and clothing. NEWFOUNDLAND. Sr. Jonas (N. F.), August is, via Arix , r DAV (C. B.), August 18.—The Tarifa, outward bound, passed Cape Race at nine o'clock yesterday morning (Aug.ls), and the Britannia, inward bound, about an hour earlier. The City of Cork passed at six o'clock this morning for New York. Her iulviees are the same as those of the China. KEY WEST. BOSTON, Allgt/St 17.—The United States steam er Trefoil, from Key West, arrived here to• day. CAIRO. CAM), August 18.--The steamers. City of Al ton has passel) rip with two hundred and eigh ty-nine bales of cotton, from Memphis. The Silver Spray has three hundred and fifty bales for Cincinnati. MEXICO. The Liberal Army Meets Several De. NEW ORLEANS, August 17.--The liatamoras Monitor, of the sth, contains news of several rlefeats of the Liberals near San Luis and Puebla. The forces engaged were small, and the remits unimportant, AT Any rebel refugees in Mexico are becoming naturalized eitiZe,lls of the empire. CALIFORNIA, A War Steniner Probably to be Sent after the Sheuangleatt. SAIT'FIIANWSCO, July 21.—The steamer Moses Taylor arrived today from Nicaragua. Sailed, yesterday, steamer America, for Nicaragua. There being no efficient government and war Vessels nearer this port than Acapulco, the merchants are circulating a petition to the navy yard c,ornmunder acking him to tele graph to Washington for permission to char ter and arm the steamer Colorado, and des patch her immediately in pursuit of the She nandoah: Arrive 4 to-lay slip Syren from New York. A bank (limited) With,a Capital of $5,000,500 15 'announced, under -the management of e:t- Senator Latham: Collision of Steamers Opposite New Orleans. Nmw ORLEANS, August 17.—The steamer Ma tanzas collided with the steamer Carlotta, when oppogito the city. The latter vessel was sunk, and, it is supposed, will prove a total loss. TIIO steamer Matanzas was uninjured. • No lives were lost. Arrival or the Steamer Scotland. NEW - YORE, Angust 17.—Ths steamer Scot land, from Liverpool on the 2d, arrived at this portthis morning. Itcr advices have been anticipated. Great Fire at Quebec. MONTT:IIAI, August 1.9.—A great fire oc curred last night in St. noch, one of the su• bulbs of Quebec. Nearly eighty buildings were destroyed. Fire vvaterimry, Coml. Comx., August Co.'s butter Factory was destroyed I .)Y live at two sealoch this morning. The loss amonntoll to Siiio,ooo, on which there W 45 all ttt. tmranee for $lO,OOO, MISSISSIPPI. PROCEEDINGS OF THE STITE CONVENTION. AN ORDINANCE ABOLISHING SLAVERY INTRODUCED. Also, one Prohibiting the Legislature Punishing Rebels. NEW Ouracens, Aug. 17.—A special despatch to the Times .from Jackson, Miss., to-day, says that in the State Convention an ordinance was reported ratifying all judicial decisions, judg. ments, decrees, contracts, sales, deeds, and in dictments, and also all marriages made under the State law during the war. An ordinance was adopted prohibiting the Legislature from passing any law imposing any civil disability ) or punishment, or forfei ture of estate of any citizen engaged in the late war with the United States for his political opinions occasioned thereby. liothordinances passed first reading. A memorial, requesting the President not to garrisbn the State with negro troops, Was re ferred to General ,OSterhauS, the general in command. A memorial was preaented praying that steps be taken in behalf of Jeff Davis and Go vernor Clark. The committee on constitution made a re_ port, recommending that such changebe made in the constitution as to hereafter prevent slavery or involuntary servitude, except upon legal authority for crime, and striking out!all portions of the old constitution relating to slavery. • An ordinance was also presented providing for the election of Congressmen, Governor, and legislative and other State officers, on the first Monday in October, to serve two years, the ju dicial and ministerial officers to hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term of their predecessors. This will cause all the elections to be held on the same day as before the pas sage of the act of secession. A second committee was appointed, with]tu structions to present an ordinance ratifying all the acts of the officers of the State, not made In aid of the recent war, and not incon sistent with the courts of the United States Or Mississippi. Both reports will be adopted. THE PIRATE MUMMA, AT LAST ACCOUNTS SHE WAS NEAR BEHRING'S STRAITS. HER DEPREDATIONS AMONG TIIE 11.1113 - ALIN4 FLEET. A NUMBER OF VESSELS DESTROYED ~BV HER SAn Fru:velar°, July 21.—The latest Recounts from the pirate Shenandoah are to the after• noon of June 23t1, when she was near Cape St. Thaddeus, on the coast of Labrador, near Behr ing's Straits, steering northwest, towards where a fleet of Bihtty whalers was known to be. Yreciousiy-captain Nye had left the bark Milo, during. a fog, in a small boat, for the purpose of warning the fleet of their danger. The Nilo also spoke a French whaler, which immediately put away towards the fleet, hay ing considerable start of the Shenandoah. While the Shenandoah was at Ascension Is land, in April, she burned the .New London bark Pearl, the New Bedford ship Hector, a San Francisco and Hawaiian whaler. She next burned the New Bedford bark Abigail in the Ochotsk Sea r - then the Thompson in the Kamschatka Sea, and then several New Red. ford whalers, as already reported, in the Gulf of Anadir, where she arrived on the 20th of June. It was feared that, unless the French ship's open whale boat could succeed in warn in", the fleet, all would be captured, as the Shenandoah knows exactly where to find them. They were hovering along the southern edge of the ice fieldst drawing closer together, as the ice drifted - towards Behring's Straits, through which they were seeking passage to the Arctic Zone, as the ice permits. BOSTON, Aug. I.9.—The whaling bark Pearl, of New Lendon, while on her passage from Ilona- Mitt to the Arctic Cleean, was destroyed by the pirate Shenandoah. The loss of this vessel is additional to the number of the fleet before reported as destroyed. EFrom the New Bedford Mercury, 17th.] Mr. - James 0. Avol.ine, late chief mate of bark Jireh Swift, before reported burped by the rebel steamer Shenandoah, arrived in this city . yesterday morning, front San Francisco, having left the latter port on the 20th of July, the same Clay he arrived down in the Milo, which brought the officers and crews of the captured whalers. From him we gather the following: The Jireh Swift was destroyed on the 22d of June, off Cape Thaddeus, and had taken four hundred barrels whale oil in that vicinity. The Sophia Thornton, which was ineemwtny, was destroyed the same day. The Jireh Swift was the last ship destroyed, and while the So phia Thornton was being fired, made sail, and attempted to escape, beading in shore, but the wind lading, she was overtaken. At the time the Jireh _Swift was destroyed, Mr. Avelino states that there were within a circuit of twenty-five nines of them at least fifty whalers. The Harvest, of Honolulu, on her passage up north had also been destroyed by the Shenan doah,> the commander pretending that her papers were not satisfactory, and believing her to be an American ship. The commander of the Shenandoah is Stated by Dlr. Avcline, to be a Cape. Cod man, named Wordell, who was a graduate of the Annapolis Naval School, and was lately an officer on hoard the pirate Alabama. He married a Southern woman. Wordell is not a Cape-Cod man, and we do not believe the pirate Captain came from there: Thomas Manning, a Balti morian, and who line been several voyages whaling from this port,is now a pilot on board the Shenandoah. John Dowden, of this city, who sailed from this port, a boat steerer in boat Martha 2d, has also joined the Shenan doah. Manning informed Mr. Avelinethat it was the intention of the commandant of the She nandoah to arm One Of the Whalers Which he might capture, and send her on a voyage of destruction so that the work might be com plete with the fleet in the Ochotsk as well as the Arctic. At the time of the capture of the Jireh Swift, the Mt. Wollaston, of this port was in sight, some fifteen miles distant, and Mr. Avelino thinks she may have escaped, as the Milo spoke a French whaler, and requested him to warn Capt. Willis of his danger. An Earthquake in the South and West. JACRSON, MISS., August 17.—'ihe effects of an earthquake were seriously felt about nine o'clock this morning, at Memphis, Lagrange, Holly Springs, Oxford, and Grenada. At • Memphis the shock was severe 'enough to cause the people to run out of their houses. Mgnpnts, August 17.—A shock of earthquake was felt here this morning, shaking the build ings, tumbling down chimneys, and upsetting loose articles. An iron safe establishment was thrown over. The shock was even more plainly felt at Holly Springs; Miss., and La grange, Tenn. It lasted about ten seconds. No particular damage was done as far as is hnown. ST. Lotus, August 17.—A slight slloek of earth, quake was felt here this morning, and alto at Cairo. No damage resulted. General Grant's Movements in. the Northwest. CawAao, August 18. --Monte/IEOA General Grant and party left for Galena by. a special train this morning. He was enthusiastically received all along the route, and arrived at Galena at three o'clock, where preparations for a grand reception had been going on An immense concourse of people were waiting to greet him, and the demonstrations of.gratifi cation were of, the most overwhelming char acter. The General was led to a platform prepared for the purpose mild was weloomea by the Ilon. E. B. Washburric in an elociuent speech. Ohio Democratic State: Convention, CINCINNATI, August 18.—The Democratic State Sovereignty Convention assembled at Columbus yesterday. M. IL Mitchel, of Knox county, was appointed chairman, and. W. U. Manuel, of Highland counts., ceeretarsr. Alexander Long was nominated for Go vernor, and Chilton A. White for Lieutenant Governor. Strong State sovereignty resolutions were adopted. NEW YORK CITY. NNW YORK, August 18, 1865. ARRIVAL ON A REGIMENT. The 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, qo men, under Colonel Cheswell, arrived this morning, and are being attended to by Colonel llowe. They will leave for mad - vide, al:les:, to-morrow. THE - KETCHUM PORGEMES Upon the application of the creditors• of Morris Ketchum & Co., the Superior Court to-day grunted attachments against the firm's property, consisting of real estate valued at more than 6500,000. . THE STOCK EXCHANGE—SECOND BOARD. 2,000 S6s 'Bl r 106'4; 200 Erie Ridlway.... 81 1 4 6.000 do 106 M, 100 do 2d call 81A 'lO,OOO U S Os 5-20.... c 106341 100 Hod Elver R.»30.107; 4,00 U 5 6s 'Bl C 10632 200 do 2d eall.tlo 1079.4 7.,(E0 Me State 65.... 70 100 do ' 107: 1 4 3,000 Abler Gold. 143 400 ek & It 98' ZOO Cum Ci Pt 2611. 200 Beading It 102 Y, 50 Al Mall SSCo .. 185 I 100 00 Zd 01111402 X N Central H.. 90', 1 41 200 do 102 X THE EVENING STOCK BOAII I / 4 Gold, 145 1 A • NeW York Central, 91; Erie,B2%; Reading,jo2h'; Michigan Southern, 62%; Pitts - burg, 604;flock Island, 105%.; Northwestern prefevred, 61; Cutuperitylft, to, &AA. Aril, I 4 ; 4 " AUGUSTS 19, 1865. CHARLESTON. Morris Island nod Vicinity—The rre resit Appeorromee of Fort Sumpter— The View from the Fort—Magnolia Cemetery—The Surrounding Fortifi cations. [Correspondence of The Frees.] U. S. Gtm HOAT CONIMAtrOII, CHARLESTON, 8. C., August 14, 1865 I recently went down to Morris Island, and walked through and over the rebel forts. The upper part' of that tract is a strip of sand, ter minating in Cumming , s Point, which shoots out towards Sumpter. On one side of this strip is the sea, on the other are impassable Marshes, through which a stream meanders ; and beyond, nearest of all to the city, is James Island. This latter abounded with batteries, chief of which was Fort Johnson. Now, to de bar oar troorn, from the important extremity of Morris Island, as well as to command the channel, three forts were built in a chain along the above-mentioned strip of beach. The ulterior is Wagner, behind which is Chat field; in turn supported by Gregg, right on the Point. Sumpter, planted in the middle of the liarbor narrows, was next in continuation of the lino; then Moultrie, across on SulliVan'S Island, with all South Carolina Is its backer. The rebels understood concentration as much as any people who ever made war. Most of the garrison in and 'around Charleston could be conveniently pushed en masse to any given spot aria With rapid facility to this outpost, this once defiant bully—Wagner. Its .negro-built ram: parts, bastions, and traverses are all solid and lofty. Beneath them the impenetrable bornb: proofs run in various directions like the vaults of a castle. The fort blocks a passway be tween the surf and morass of about one hun dred and thirty yards in width. Stockades, eheraur-de.frise, and ditches made scaling all the more of attempt. A bastion, protru: ding close to the bog, and moated bye creek let, enfiladed the rest of the front and opened with havoc among the famous storming party of Colonel Shaw, as, after running along the strand raked by guns bearing thereon, they , reached the protected feet of the ramparts. All obstructions were torn through, and a part of the fort taken. The negro troops fought worthy of the freedom they were trying to bring to brother millions ; but their'supports not coming promptly, they were crowded back to death or flight by the heavy rebel reinforce mguts hurried up through the series of forts beyond. Below, on .the outside*of the works areshowrithe localities of the trenches where the slain.*ere buried—promiscuously thrown in like so much clay, to which, alas ! all brave men must return. Two companies of the 3d Rhode Island Regi ment now ocenpyWagner,Gbattleld, and Gregg. The former will probably be maintained by the Government, the otherl dismantled. FORT BUMPIER Sumpter from a distance resembles a huge pile Of rubbish. Its southerly faces were alto gether crushed in by the incessant pounding of our rifled guns. The mass of debris has now been smoothly inclined on the exterior, and looks like the side of a railroad embankment. Tons of missiles and barbette guns, knocked from the ramparts, lie all around in the steal: low edges of the water. The retads, - who held out with an obstinacy scarcely ever equalled, kept nightly repairing damages, as far as pos sible, with rivetments of gabions and sand bags. Their derider resorts were some of the casemates closed up with those articles—a thread-like passage only excepted. Wire of telegraphs was plentifully used in peculiar an rangement along the parapets, to-impede and frustrate escalading. The insubordinate Zou ave regiment(l(isth New York,) after being dis armed, is now caged up in this stronghold: MAGNOLIA OEMICTICICS Visible through a strong glass froIaSUMP• ter, up Cooper River, is Magnolia Cemetery. It was founded in 1850, and is Charleston's, Greenvciod, or Baurel Hill. But its inferiority to either of those is striking. Its site is a sandy upland, and from beneath the tree's of its borders the eye ranges over a vast, nearly surroundin'g, marsh, whose miry runs inter sect the grounds. •Grand monuments are in• frequent, and bear upon their bases names of • northern makers. Walks and drives are few. The gate lodge and fences are common frame: There is a small, bare chapel of some plaster ed material, - with sashes riddled in most places and gone altogether in others, after the pre sent approved fashion of Charleston Churches. The whole tract comprises thirty or forty', acres, only half of which is reclaimed from wilderness. Such of our garrison. as. die are interred here, and it la a melancholy spectacle to see graves ready dug in rows foe the reeep. tion of the bodies of men who, at the time of such preparation, so far from being dead, may not be even ill. Er= Just beyond the eemeterya laboriously-piled line of fortifications, with natural and artill. vial fosses, zig--zags across the country. The design was to close hereby the' neck, three or four miles wide, between the two rivers, and thus secure Charleston from an inland quer ter. At intervals Within the works are maga graeS-grOwn, earthen mounds, re. minding one of Indian cumuli. By one of these an elderly negro Was busy.cutting,up a Pine he had felled. He begged me to read to him some writing Which he produced. It proved to be an agreement by the soiPs owner to allow the man to clear and tin the ground, year by year, for a rental of two-fifths the pro. ceeds. The poor negro seemed pleased With his bargain; and resumed work with an alac rity which he confessed was the result of knowing it was on his own account, he being a freedman. Should this system become gene ral—if persons who have more land than they can hope to improve themselves; ean'flad in dustrious freedmen to lease the surplus, and do so for them on shares, the benefit to both Parties and to the country is evident. In this vicinage• are some magnificent live oak groves, sombre from their festoons of crapedike moss. The plank road leading into town is in a condition to wrench into Pieces any carriage, however slowly driven. No equipage of any beauty is to be seen, the vehi cles being all old and worn, of little value and le,ss varnish. . • . Acting Rear Admiral Wm. Radford, now commanding the cOnSOlidated Atiantie Squad, ron, bas just looked in here in his flag-Ship, the steamer Malvern, receiving his salute of thirteen guns. R. The Accident at Camp Barry, Washing. ton, D. C.—Death of Miss Good. The readers of The Press wore yeSterday morning informed of the sad accident which occurred on Wednesday evening at Camp Barry, Washington, D., C. From our Wash. ington exchanges of yesterday we glean fur er particulars On Wednesday evening Miss Eliza Ward, who resides at the corner of I street north and Second street east; Miss Mary A. Good, a rela tive, who was on it visit from Baltimore, and Mr. - Joseph Chatham started to walk to H street east, near the. Eastern Branch, to visit a Mrs. Coleman an aunt of the young ladies. About half•plef seven o'clock they were pass ing Camp Barry, and had reached a point about fifty yards below the Bladensburg road, on the side-road leading to Benning , a Bridge, when one of the ladies exclaimed, "I am shot !" and fell. When the shot was fired Miss Ward was in advance, and Miss Good, who was leaning upon the arm of Mr. Chatham, was following. Miss Ward had just • stepped off a bridge spanning a small stream, and Miss Good was about to step off when the shot was fired. The ball, which was apparently from a carbine, struck Miss Good in the back, half all inch from the backbone, and two and one-half inches below the lower extremity of the shoulder blade, and passed entirely through the body, coming out about three inches below the centre of the right breast, Ana afterwards striking Miss Ward npontheenoulder,causing a very slight wound. After the shooting Miss Good was conveyed to Miss Ward's residence. At the Coroner's Inquest Miss Ward was sworn, but she knew nothing of the shooting, and could testify to no particulars, being very much frightened: Ms„ Joseph Chatham, who was with the young ladies, testified to the facts as above mentiodhd, and also stated that when the shot was fired be heard the report, and after Miss Good exclaimed she was shot, he caught her in his arms, and looked around, and saw no one standing -between them and the sentinel on duty near a building about one hundred and fifty yards off. Witness believed the shot was almccl at one of the party who were walk ing along. What is above stated was elicited at the Coroner's inquest,. but the jury declined to make up a verdict, and adjourned - until to-day, when witnesses will be summoned, aud. a further investigation will be had. The reason of this was, that it had been stated (not under oath , however,) that the party who fired the fatal, bullet was Henry Raymond, a private of Company B, lath New York heavy Artillery. It was said that a man had escaped from the guard-house„ and that the soldier was ordered to shoot at him by his ecru-mantling, omcer. The soldier declined, but, as is stated, the Weer threatened - to shoot the soldier if his command wait not complied with. The soldier then fired, and the ball, it is alleg ed took effect upon the person of Miss Goo. These matters will be fully investi gated to-day. Miss Good, who was about twenty-three years of age, and the only support of her mother, who is without means, (Bea at twenty minutes 01 four o'clock yesterday. Her mother was telegraphed for as soon as her daughter was known to have been shot, but did not arrive until a few moments after her death. ,Alarkets by Telegraph. CINCD.INATF, August 18.—Flour firmer, and slightly in favor of buyers; sales at $50525. $2,19 ; boldem demand $2.20. Provi sions better 5 , 050,000 its shoulders sold at 15e, loose, and 200 bbls mess Pork at $3O. NEW ORLY:ANS, August 11.—Cotton is deelin ; sales of 1,700 bales at 42e 'for middling. The sales of the week amount to 12,000 bales; receipts, 23,000; stock in port, 88,000 bales. Freights are unchanged. Ice is scarce at 15c Ift it : the stock is almost exhausted. Aug - ust 18.—Plour aetive. Wheat 2e higher; sales at *1.28 1 ,40)1.20. Corn quiet. Oats steady. Freights firm. Receipts—FlOur, 1,000 barrels; Wheat, 35,000 bushels. Shipuaents— Flour, 1,800 barrels ; Wheat; 7,000 bushels. CHICAGO, August M.—Flour firm Wheat quiet ; sales No. 1, 41.29; No. 2, 411.17a1.18. Corn quiet at 60@69 1 ,4e for No. 1, and 084§0,5% for No. 2.Ots d ull, and aterl 36 d Telie. lower; sales at 43%4171) 44c, k.. FreightB advanced Xorn lie to Buffalo. Provisions very dull. Receipts. Shinments. Flour, barrels 2,4002,900 Wheat,bnshels. .... 78,000 1,700 Corn, bushels .... . ... .......145,000 100,000 Outs, bushels I . a. 6 1 000 Am NATIONAL TEACHERS' CONVENTION A FELL REPORT OF YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS THE OFFICERS ELECTED FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. [Special to the Press.] RARRISITIZO, August 18, 1806. The National Teachers , Association reassem bled this morning, at half-pabt nine O'clock, in tile courthouse. The exercises were opened with the singing of an anthem, after which the minutes of the previous meeting were read. The report on the visit off the Association to Gettysburg was read. It says that over four hundred members of the Assoottutioa and their friends participated. A meeting was called on the battle-field, at which the following resolutions were presented by Professor Rankle, of Ohio, and adopted : Reaolved, That we shall ever cherish with grateful remembrance the opportunity offered us this day of seeing the great battle-Held on which was decided, in July, 1863, the fate of this nation. Resolved, That we consider this naturally beautiful place, on the soil of a free State, as made infinitely more glorious by being the spot where the nation was born anew. The third and fourth resolutions tender thanks to the railway Companies for the ac commodations extended, and to the citizens of Gettysburg for the hospitality with which they entertained the Association. ' The report of the Committee was adopted. A long list of candidates for honorary mem bership was read, and they were admitted to membership by acclamation. Among them Were the following Philadelphians : Dr. Alfred L. Kennedy ; Messrs. E. A. Apgar, Wm. Henry Parker, Joseph Gile, George W. Fetter, John G. Moore, James IL Eldridge, Rev. Narcisse Cyr, Captain D. Y. Killgore, and Mr. Pierce. 'On Motion, a Committee was appointed to estimate the cost per capita of instruction of youth in each State and throughout this coun try, to report at the next annual meeting of the Association ; and the committee was named to consist of Messrs. Buckley, of New York; Ifickoff, of Ohio, and Northrop, of Mas. sachusette. RESOLIITIONS Or RESPECT Rev. Leighton Coleman of Wilmington; Del., offered the following resolutions in reference to the death of the late Rev. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania. Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to re move by death from his large sphere of use. fulness, the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D. LL. D., late Bishop of Pennsylvania; there fore, be it Resolved, By the National Teachers' Associa tion, at their meeting in Harrisburg, that in the decease of Bishop Potter we are deeply sensible of the severe loss which, in common with other objects to which he so zealously de voted his varied talents and accomplishments, the great cause of American Education has sus tained. Resolved, That his early and constant• ad vocacy of this cause ; hie rare Judgment and earnest efforts in prompting its welfare, and his large-hearted Sympathy with the new and vast field just now opening before it, added to the many other virtues which grated his oiflcial and private character, will ever entitle him to the gratitude and veneration of all lovers of our enlightened and active Chris tianity. Resoired, That a copy of the foregoing reso lutions be respectfully forwarded to the fami ly of the late Bishop, with the assurance of our hearty sympathy - with thct in their 011ie. tion. The resolutions were adopted unanimously, ?file. President appointed the following gen tlemen to draft appropriate resolutions, ex pressing the sense of the Convention with re gard to the eminent services of the late Bishop : Messrs. White, of Ohio; Hale, of Ken tucky; Allen, of Connecticut ; Coburn, of Penn sylvania, and Valentine, of New York. T. W. Lambert offered a resolution that a COmmittee be appointed, to report upon the feasibility of calling a W0r1d 4 ..9 Poachers' Con._ vention to meet two years hence in the city of New York, to consider and illustrate the methods of teaching in all departments and grades of knowledge. The Association then proceeded to the dis- CusSion of the best method of teaching the classics. The following gentlemen took part in the discussion : Rev. Naralase Cyr, Philadelphia ; T. P. Allen, Massachusetts; Rev. Dr. Johnson, Pennsylva nia; Mr. Thompson, Pennsylvania; S. S. Maids man, Pennsylvania, and J. B. Thomson, New York. On motion r the Association proceeded to bal lot for officers for the ensuing year, with the following result For President.—J. P. Wickersham, Lancaster, Penna. For nce-.Presidenis.—Richard Edwards, .Nor mal Ill.; T. W. Valentine, BrOOklyn, N. Y.; W. F. Phelps, Winona Minn. ; John S. Hart, Tren ton, N. J. ; D. Franklin Wells, lowa City, Iowa; A. J. Rickoff, Cincinnati, Ohio ; C. S. Penne', St. Louis, Mo. ; G. W. Ross, Indianapolis, Ind.; J. W. Bulking, Brooklyn, , N. Y. ; D. B. Hagar, Salem, Mass. ; M. Gregory, Kalamazoo, 311 ob. ,- S. S. Greene, Providence, R. I. For Secretary..-.S. 13. White, Chicago, For Treasurer.—S. P. Bates, Harrishurg, Pa. For Counsellors—Z. Richards, Washington D. C. ; T. D. Adams, Newton Mass.; Merrick Ly on, Providence, R. I. ; D. 'N. Camp, New Brit ain,Conn. ; James Cruikshank , Albany, N. Y. ; L. 'Van Bokkelen, Baltimore, Nd; ; E. E. White, Columbus, ObioL.J. L. Pickard Chicago, Dl. ; C. Harrison, NCIYArk, N. J.; J. G. McMinn, Madison, Wis. T. F. n i t{Thickstu astings, Minn. ; C. F. Childs, St. Louis, . N. Hall man, Louisville, Ky. ; J. C. Shortrulge, Indian apolis, Ind. ; F. A. Allen, Mansfield, Pa.; L. Coleman, Wfirain,gton, Del.; J. S. Fowler, Michigan; T. S. Parvin, Iowa; Henry Cum mings, Oregon. The report of the Committee on Object Teaching was then read by Prefeseor S. S. Green. The committee consisted of the fol lowing. distinguished gentlemen; Barnas Sears, D. D., Providence ; S. S. Greene, Provi dence ; J. Th . Philbrick, Boston ; J. L. Pickard, Chicago; D. N. Camp, Connecticut; R. Ed waras,,it/inos, and. C. S. Pennel, of Missouri. The report was a lengthy and Ateresting paper, and gave many pleasing and instructive incidents of the result of object teaching and its value in instructing young children. Early instruction was first needed. The ma ture mind can study a foreign or dead lan guage, and make an eavelioit lingulet,but not theeasy and fluent speaker that the child be.. comes in the same time. Children should not be supposed to know too much, and the fa miliar objects of life should be rendered per fectly familiar to them. A Conception or oleitridea should be instilled into their mines, and this is too often no glected. The abstract definitions given at the commencement of the reading lessons merely exchange one unknown line for another equally unknown. To this object teaching raised an Calmest protest. But what then is object teaching 7 It was not a mere exhibition of cards from the teacher's desk, with an un varying succession of lines and angles and curves, nor a foolish adherence to the use of actual objects ; not an excessive talking about objects which leaves all to the teacher and no thing to the pupil; but that which compre_ bends the whole realm of nature and art, so -far as the child has examined it, only what the child knows, not what the teacher knows, and soon, gradually rising from the well known to the obscurely known, and so onward and up_ ward untifilthe learner can enter tile Reid of abstract thought. It follows leature's law, first the thought, then the conception, then the word—so that - when the order is reversed the connection of ideas shall not be broken. The young child in its first school-days can not understand why it should be cooped up in. the echool-room, but by this Metiled the Vs" tem of object teaching will render the Change from play to school-house less irksome. He now learns and tests his various conceptions, and now the study of the language can be commenced, and the ordinary errors of com mon language corrected, Then he can imi tate the forms of object On,...the slate. The chief importance of object teaching is not so much in this as the great aid it renders to the teacher. He who can teach - object lessons Well can teach anything well. But he must know the pre6ellt, condition and at tainments of the children under his charge, and what is most suited to them, before he can properly impart instruction. To teach reality is the teacher's motto. If a candidate for the teacher's office presents himself, do not weary him with hard questions in aritliMetiC and algebra ; not to examine him before a board of directors, but to put him into the school room, take away every printed aid, and with the few objects within his reach, to teach the children reading, spelling, and arithmetic. If he is a good teacher he will interest and in struet the children witllo44 books, and it is safe to employ him. The committee recommend the system of object teaching, as pursued at Oswego, as more nearly fulfilling all the requirements than any of the other schools which profess to use that eth oft After the singing of "The Flag of the Free," by Dir. Saxton, of New York, the Convention adjourned until afternoon. AFTERNOON BSSION The subject of the-World's Convention was discussed a short time, but was postponed for the consideration of the report of the Commit tee on Object Teaching. Miss Cooper, of Oswego, who has had under her charge a class •of small children in object teaching, was present with her little charge, and gave a pleasant and instructive exhibition of the results of the system. With such a small and simple thing as an apple, the chil dren were taught to name its various parts— the names of which were written on the black board before them—as apple peel, stems, dim ple, seeds, core, pulp. The pleasure of the audience was manifest• ed by most hearty applause. Mr. Northrop, of Massachusetts, addressed the association on the subject of abject teach ing, and expressed his. gratification at the re• port of the committee. TIo never saw 'children who are more interesting and interested than ti eee who Colo' OCuOilt et olsi eat V4s4e4iioist He spoke of a Visit to the schools at Oswego; and though he - could enlarge some points there, he wished . to give bis strong commen dation to the system, an to the zeal of the tanagers of the ingtitutiOnotricre. M. Haldeman whaled to sap - Mot the city. of Ilari:laburg was entitled to haxiirg -been the first tn. introduce object teaching:. A Mr. John M. Hay, one of her eitimena, relinquished the practice of, Medicine, and set up w school in Harrisburg. He was an ardent admirer of Pestalozal, and, in 11328, published a primer, which he called the reetwozzian primer. Ha was an adrairablklinguist, and afterwards was appointed Professor of Languages in Dickin• riOWCollege r hut died before he could ho take the chair. - Professor 11.:-E. §heldou, of Oswego, made a long address upon the gradatioue of object teaching, as pursued in the schools at that place, and by which the observation. and lan guage of the child are formed. He also • made a searching review of an attack made •by Dr• Wilbur upon, the eyetem,whieh had been made at the last meeting. A number of erroneous statements made by Dr. Wilbur were eor• rected. Dr. Lowell Mason said that facts were to•be learned by the ear and eye; by the ear was the way to learn facts. He spoke of. the object lessons of N. Seward Bates, given thirty years ago, and of lessons of the same nature given• by Horace. Mann. He also illustrated in a pleasing manner the teaching of sounds and• the elements of music. Mr. G. G. Haldeman produced the Pestaloz zian primer, published in. 1827, and read some of the lessons in it. Dr. Mason said if that system had prevailed, there would be no objectiorrto object teaching. Hon. James Miller, of Philadelphia, was elected an honorary member. Mr. Packet% of Cincinnati; Ohio, spoke upon the subject of National Education. He said that as long as the' military power lasted in the South, the National Government w the only one which could be properly approached in the matter. While the Southern people have power they will resist the general spread of education in those States. The fate recently met by the missionaries in New Zealand wag scarcely more than what would. have been Slif. fered five years ago by Northern men who would teach slaves to read. The arrogance of the slave power must be entirely broken before we can have a national system of edu. cation. The black man of the South, who. has been the best friend to the nation, must be strength ened and fortified a-ainst those who once called themselves 11 - 1 master, that they may be properly prepared for those great rights which are sooner or later to be his. Unwit tingly we have fought for the freedom of the slave, and now we must educate him. The only way to do this was to petition. Congress to form an Educational Department, with a Commissioner of Education, who should ex ercise a general supervision over the en tire matter of national schools. The sta bility of a nation depends more upon an adherence to the pthicipleg of free government, and upon the intelligence and morality of the people, - than upon a com pliance with assumed constitutional forms, based upon injustice and oppression. HO re, commended that a committee be appointed, whose chairman should spend such time in Washington as lie might deem necessary in furthering the objects of his mission before the National Legislature. The following gentlemen were thereupon appointed as the committee on the World's Convention: Dr. Lambert, of New York; T. IL Burrowed, of Pennsylvania; E. E. White, of Ohio; P. B. Hagan, of Massachusetts; Hallman, of Kentucky. Dr. John G. Moore exhibited his G-eosele neon, designed to illustrate the principal phe nomena of the solar system. The earth's mo tion upon its axes, its motion around the sun, the seasons, and the movements of the :noon around the earth, are well represented. Eclipses and phases of the moon, and, in tine all the phenomena which we see from the earth, are strikingly set forth. Some discussion took place as to the city in which the neat Convention should he held and it was at last left to the decision of the Board of Directors. The next thing in order was the reading of a Paper on "Education as an Element in the Re construction Of the Union," by Professor Wickersham, Principal of the State Normal School at Millersville, Pennsylvania. The address commences with a review of re sults to be aimed at, which follow the.plose of the war. Not the lean tiPtheSe - tereke-Trne tho e(lucation of the freedmen of the . South. On this point he said : Among the emancipated SlaVes there are bright minds, possessing already some knoW ledge and eager for more. National leaders, God-appointed, like Moses, to introduce this Oppressed people to the promised land of knowledge and liberty. These I would seek out, put them into the Normal schools, and tram them for teachers and missionaries 'among their own people, and when prepared send them forth to (10 their allotted work. They would be willing to live among their pu pils ; they could understand their wants and enjoy their sympathy, and they could do vastly more for them than white teachers, even though better qualified. For years there will be no school-house except in towns and villages, and these colored teachers Should teach the people, wherever they could dud them, adults as well as children, on the plan tations, in camps, or cabins, or meeting houses. -This work of teaching one another began as soon as they were free. A cor respondent of the New York Herald, writing from the far South, says : "I have frequently seen the colored people teaching each other as they sat by the road-side.. Other observers tell us that they have seen colored soldiers studying and reciting their lessons in the trenches while shot and shell whistled over them ; that they have heard them naming over their letters to one another at midnight in their eaMpS ; and thatthe most prized treasure in their knapsacks .was a spell ing-book. people so eager te , learn must be taught, and it will be found best policy ' teach them by employing mainly teachers of their own race. The inauguration of a system of instruction for the freedmen is a noble work, and no man in America at this time has the same oppor tunity of doing . good as Major General 0. 0. HOWard Cetentissioner of the Freedmen. Let us rejoice that the work he is appointed to do is in good hands, for General Howard is a Christian. He should receive encouragement and strength from the educational men of the country ; and it seems to me proper that this body should proffer it by the appointment of a committee to wait upon him. The colored. people deserve something at the hands of this nation. They were brought here without their consent. For two hun dred years they have labored among us, in creasing the wealth of the nationi and when a gigantic rebellion threatened to over throw the Government they remained loyal, furnishing, wherever they could, valuable information to our commanding officers, aid ing many Of our prjeeners in making their escape from rebel prisons, proving themselves our friends in a thousand ways, and at last taking up arms and fighting nobly in defence of the Union. That they fought well is suffi ciently attested, and justice demands that they should have at least a chance to prove whether they may not be entitled: to the ina lienable rights of freemen—life., liberty, and ellie pursuit of happiness. Besides, sooner or later, either by the National or by the State authorities, this people will be allowed the right of suffrage, and all wise men readily see that their education should be made a neces- Sa lLrg n o d l i g:r n of qu Z e e ii ; g enf ta n kils:lroli:tregu lates, and the educator builds. ihe soldier le the hardy pioneer who cuts clown the forests, the legislatorlays out the farm, and the edu cator makes the harvest yield its fruitage. In a republic, if all men vote, all men must be educated. A. loaded musket in the hands of a crazy man in a crowd is not nearly so dangerous! as a ballot in the - hands of an igno rant man at an eleetiOn. The thing of highest interest in a republic is its schools. What this nation most needs to-day is the extension of a well-arranrd system of free schools to all its parts. the late rebellion the line of free schools marked the line of loy alty to the Government. We must push that line to the Gulf. Free schools are needed not only as en element in the reconstruc tion of the Union, but as a means of pre serving it when reconstructed. We must per fect our school Systems at the North, and the teacher and his spelling-book must be made to follow the soldier and his musket at the South. Intelligence must be recognized as the basis of republicanism:. Statesmen must come to give the Metter of pub lic instruction dipore attentive coneide ration. Departments organized to render efficient the work -of education must be made to occupy a more prominent position at our State capitals and at Washington. The great duty that presses upon 'a patriot and the philanthropist of this country to-day is. the education of the whole people of the eation, without regard to race, or rank, or color, or position. When our youth all learn to read similar books, study similar lessons, submit to similar regulations in the schools, we will be come one people possessing an organic na tionality, and the 'Republic will be safe for all time. * ls not the condition of things such that we may begin to speak, with some hope of being listened to, of a national system of education? Few men thoroughly imbued with the spirit of our American systems of education will doubt the propriety of regulating by State laws all the educational agencies of the diffe rent States. It is almost agreed that the Com mon Schools' nigh Schools ; , Academies, and Colleges of a State should be ieeeporatedinto a system, be subject in certain particulars to some central authority, and be made to • subserve their several functions in harmony with one another. At a time when ter rific war tested the sinews of this nation, it was found that a Government like ours could not always depend upon the several State Governments for its eoldiers or its money, and it seems to me that wise states manship must before long discover that ne cessity now exists for the establishment of a Department of Public Instruction at Wash ington, the head of which shall encourage the adoption of systems of education in all the States, adapted to our form of Government; and under proper Congressional enactments, and with -dee regard to the rights of the several States, some general control over those systems. A start in this direction has been made by the establishment of the Freedmen's Beauru ; and I think it is gene rally felt that an enlargement of its powers would promote theublic good, and place mit institutions upon a firmer basis. We want all educational power still to emanate from the people, but -what the people do must be rage- Intact in township, county, State, and nation.. We have school authorities now in township, county, and State, but we want a national head, for the great lesson we have learned in the last four years is that the United States of AMerlea is a nation, and not a copartnership of States ; and as a nation, our Government ought not to release itself from. all responsi bility . concerning education. There le ea agency the Government can - use so wall calculated to reconcile the diverse intee eete--44. cyiiutry( tiY tt4 dilrg* THREE CENTS. ent pai , ts, to make us one people, as a well-delised national system of edueatiOn. Without this—either administered by the States or' the nation—all else will prove abortive. Without it, there may be recon struction, hut there can be no true union; there May be a mechanical cohesion of parts, but there mate noconnection anden-working of individualities in a common body with a common life. Indeed, withotit a moulding, Or ganizing,consolidating, Union-formingsystern of schools, extensive enough at least to im part the element's of knowledge to the whole people;tt not distant future will see this na tion standing like an old oak ins the forest, with a number of HS branches dead or dying, significant Of the death that will speedily overtake the whole. A little priming now, an effott to throw the - strong vitality of the healthy parts into these that give* evidence of decay, and the tree will slough off its dead matter, and grow with: all its wonted vigor , and limiridusness. American.cducatorsholditin their handS tho destinies of this nation. Their task is not like that of the dashing soldier or the popular statesman at whom all the world gages; but in the unobtrusive quiet of 'the sehool.room, though to eye save that of' God witness the work, .they may, infuse such a love of our Country and its institutions into the hearts of the coming generations of children that the Republic, on its secure foundations, will stand as firmly as the Irgyptian pyramids. STATE . NORMAL SCHOOL, J uly,. 1865. Professor Crummel, of the University of Liberia, an American by birth, but a resident Of Liberia for many years, wee 'then intro dined, and made a long and interesting ad dress upon the subject of the education of the negro. He thanked the Convention in warm terms for the regard they had Shown* and for the privilege extended him. The sending away of the colored people was wrong.. It was unfair that they should be driven from the country. The United states was their father land ; they had fought and bled for it, and a grateful country ought to educate its children. After the singing of a song the Convention adjourned until evening. E...VExtßia SESSION. The evening pression opened with a diSOUS sion of the resolutions offered by Professor John S. Hart, of New Jersey, relative to the establishment of &National Bureau of Educa tion. They were adopted, with some slight amendments. A number of addresses were then delivered by the delegates on the subject of education in their respective localities. After a few remarks from Governor Curtin, the Convention adjourned sine die. Shortly after the final adjournment, the members of the Association proceeded to the State Capitol Motel, where they were regaled with peaebea and cream, provided by the citi zens of this place: A few songs were sung, and after a pleasant interchange of thought the guests separated. The Jenkins Embezzlement Case Dow TOP. °Pinta:DER PAID OPT HIS MONET TO THE WAFTER-GIRL. The counsel of Charles Brown and Genieve Lyons, who were arrested for receiving some of the money of Jenkins, the Phcenia Bank de faulter,made a motionbefore JudgeLedwitli,of New York, yesterday, that they be discharged. The feeling paper read by the counsel (Judge Stuart) shows. some of ,the ways by which Jenkins managed to rid himself of the bank , s money. It is the statement•of Genitive Lyons, and is as follows: Wben I first came to this city I obtained a situation as sales-girl in a corset and trim ming store, where I remained at low wages until the proprietor stopped bliStnees, I could get no other place had no money and no friends to give me any. Afterwards, I saw an advertisement in a. newspaper for a waiter girl in a refreshment saloon, and went and got the place at a great deal more wages than I ever had before, besides a premium for wino which I sold. I had been there but a few days when Mr. Jenkins came there with three or four others, Ile had agood deal of wine, and called me to wait on hm The proprietor told me he was worth more thaii all the other wine customers in his house; that I must not wait on any other man while he was in the saloon ; that he always wanted a waiter-girl to himself; that if he took a no tion to me, he would give me a great deal of money, and that lie went to a great many sa loons, and spent thousands of - dollars, arid gave money to all the girls that he liked ;that night he gave me ten dollars, and the proprie. tor gave me two dollars for the wine 1 had sold him; after that he came there every week, and sometimes every night almost y ; there would he always different persons in the sa loon, and he treated everybody; he always bad great rolls of bills; he always gave me money—sometimes a ten-dollar bill, and two or three times a fifty-dollar bill ; once he gave me a bundred-dollar bill to buy me a watch; and I sent it to pay mr little brother's school ing ; all the other girls were jealous of me, be cause he liked me more than them; after a little while, he told me be liked me better than any girl he ever saw; that ho would take Me ..out of that saloon, as it was no piece for me ; be said he would send me to school and give me a better education ; he said he was yell rich, and owned oil wells, and had as much money as he could spend ;, that he was a broker, and had a share in a good many rail roads he told all such things as this but he never told me he was in any - mink ; I did not know where he, lived, and never asked hint, and did not think he wanted me to know, and I did not wish to know—he was so good to me ; one night he told me to hunt rooms and he would pay the rent of them ; I found the rooms in Bleecker street where I was ar rested •he gave me eight inmarea doll •s to furnish them ; he supported me, and came to see me every week, and sometimes every night ; I never met him in the street but once, and that was accidental ; I was never in a bad house. Mr. Jenkins did not know Brown ever came to my rooms - ; and in this way I may have been wrong to him (Jenkins 7 I honestly be lieve I have received of den Una only Shoat two thousand five hundred or three thousand dollars ; he gave me also some money to pay two doctors' bills • he was very good to me when I was sick; the doctors' names were Bungstead and Paulus. have not been out of the city but once, and that for about two Weeks, since I knew Mr. Jenkins, and with that exception, which did not cost over two hundred dollars, I never spent a dollar rtbis money, all of it, was spent for his convenience and comfort ; I never gave a dollar to any human being—never ; I have nothing now but my clothing and that hunt ture ,• this is a truthful statement of the facts, - whether they be in my favor or against me. Drown also made a statement tligt lie had received money from Jenkins at various times, THE STORY OF THE DIAMOND RING—A CYPRIAN'S LETTER, OR ONE 'WRITTEN FOR HER BY HER COUNSEL. We have already spoken of the $B4O ring which Jenkins is said to have given to a eyprian, Whieif, Was afterwards captured by detectives. The Cypriot: writes the following indignant letter to the New York Herald; claiming the ring: 2b the Editor of the Herald: So many false and absurd reports have been published from time to time concerning my connection with Henry B, JOMilne, and the taking from me of my•ring, that I am induced to tend you the following statement: Of Mr.' Jenkins, previous to his arrest, I knew nothing, except what he told me. The extent of his information was that he belong ed in the oil regions, where he had made large sums of money and had large in terests. This statement I never doubted, WWI I read the report of Ifis arrest and confession. As he .now confesses hiinstlf to be a thief, and appears to be fully cor roborated, I suppose that (with. the rest of the community, I must believe him. So far I do. But when Mr. Jenkins said (if he ever did say) that mg ring was bought with the money he stole from the Phoenix Bank, he was not Only a thief but a liar. I say this in advance of a legal investigation, which will soon fol. low, but as I have never been proved to be a thief, either on trial or by . confession, I think my statement entitled to a little more credit than that of Henry B. Jenkins. The ring in question I bought myself, at Tiffway St Co.'s, on the 28th day of June last, fronts gentleman whose name I believe is Squires. I paid for it eight hundred and forty dollars, my own money, the savings of a long time, and I continued in peaceable possession of it un til the eleventh day of this month, when Officer McCarthy came to •my boarding house, in company with another man, and, Without any warrant or authority of law, forci bly took it from aie, (snatching it Mit of nq' hand,) on the ground that it was bought with money belonging to the Phcenix Bank. This is the story of the ring. I have never been ar rested. I have never acknowledged that the ring was bought, in whole or In part, with money given me by Jenkins. I never tried to entice ,Tenkin 5 into buying me a house. These Stories, and the thousand_ others ill ~lgculation about me, are pure fictions. lam a poor fal len woman. 1 know my position; but I have as much right to my property as the Phoenix Bank, and as much right to have the truth spoken about me as Officer McCarthy. A few words more sir, and I will tire your patience no longer. The particulars furnished to the prows by this officer of the "recovery. of a valuable jewel," hag given him a great repu tation in this community for tact and shrewd ness. This is well. Now, I have both read and heard that Jenkins has acknowledged that he lost much of the money stolen from the Plum nix Bank by gambling operations in Wall street ; that he has also ittrnished the names of the parties to whom it was so lea; but I have looked in vain for any report that Officer McCarthy, or any other officer, has entered either bank or broker's office, and seized stocks, bonds, money, or other valuables un der plea that they were indirectly obtained with the money stolen by this unfortunate man. Why is this, Mr. Editor! I will tell you. It is because it was thought safer to commit an illegal act on a poor, friendless, and out cast woman, than upon a rich and powerful money operator. So do not I think_ _; so does not my attorney ; so will not Officer McCarthy . when I have done with him. Yours, Sce., ItOSA ALLEN. Row Yorm, August 17, 1865. . Our Candidates. General Ilartranft is a gentleman only thirty-five years old, of fine education, wbo began life as a civil engineer but afterwards studied law, and was practicing in NOlTi9^ town when the rebellion broke out. Ho at once raised a regiment for the three months , service, whose tarsi expired just as the 'first battle of Bull Run began, lie refused to go home with it, and offering himself as a volunteer aid to 'General Franklin, Ws ren. detect efficient service throughout the battle. lie then raised another regiment—the 51st Pennsylvania which he led - through various campaigns 'with ent valor. When its term of three years nad expired the regitue.t re-*Misted, with COMMA itartrallft at, Its head. Ile %Mg 90011 after placed dt the head of a brigade, and for hi , : great services in IV, arduous CarnPaigli of bellerra Grant, In 1 (It, he wee appoiotea brigadier general. For especially brilliant conduct in last spring's campaign before Petersburg, he was breveted no ler general of volunteers. The loyal people Of ermaKlvania will repice at the opportu nity of offering one of tlreir highest oftleeS tO a man who has so well maintained the honor of their State in scores of battles for the safety of the Union. The candidate for Surveyor General, Colonel Jacob X. Campbell, is host known in the west ern part of the State, where ho is extremely popular. For a number of years he was super intendent et JSiorreirs Iron Works, at Jowls town, where be was much respected by the whole Community for his worth, ability anA Westin', ITiwtt tlo wax lavicel OtlUlc ROW TI-13E1 WAR ritainiss, (ICBI,TsI-1 &is WVEKI.V.) Tns vrAl ear An wtil be pent to. OUblertbeti by (Perot ve ? e IG ()41 copies WO Ott locper (Au I,N Moon 7C71 1711117 C 011717110 it el" lainlik 'rate, 442.00 per copy . The taunts, town attoove accompanll Out order,'"i In no . Instance can these term* be deviated row, t tu g grora very tittle more than the cog of Parr. JEPTOlitTaaatere are requested to act is Wine for TfZ WAR Pitts& AI? - To the getter-up of the Club of tea or twenty, an extra copy of the paper Will be given. up lils private affairs, invested his emiaings in Government securities, and ofreved his-sef.- vieoa to the country. Ile was commissioned. July - 30th, 1861, as Colonel of the Sith Pennsyl• vania Volunteers. This regiment he led most gallantly through variouscampaigas. lie will! receive the unreserved import of all tree , Union men, es a gallant solluer in time of war, mid a valuable citizen In time of peace,7-Eve ning Bulletin. United States Soldiers' and lswilOrsi, Home. , „,„„„ PHILADELPHIA, A.H11181,. LIAM M. EDITOn :An article in the Wenger/der of Mat week, over the names of two ladies as. soeiated With the "Soldiers' ;loins in the city of Philadelphia," contains statements whien can hardly tend to benefit the cause we all profess to have at heart—the good of our brave and suffering soldiers. The undersigned will sot trouble your readers with any explanation of the causes that led to the existence of the association at wherlii head, as prosid anti Is ex bieverner Pollock, and la whine nlarieSewit't are associated other names honored through out our Commonwealth, The Home this ass.. elation aims at establishing is not designed to be a "Soldiers' Dome In the City of Ph-Hader . 'Thin," but a country home, somewhat remote from the loafing and drinking haunts of the city, and, therefore, not prOperly to be viewed by the ladles as a rival institution, %lie un dersigned begs to append therewith the circu lar recently issued by authority of the eased ation% Board of Managers. It is signed by ex- Governor Pollock, Judge Strong, Rev. Dr. Newton, and Dr. Bourns. It may be well to correct here a mistake the ladies make 111 asserting that we allow as pay .to our collectors " lens es' p ant. on all amounts which they collect." Weeks ago, the managers resolved to allow Jive per cent., and no more, and this percentage is to be allowed only until the collector shall have realized for himself for the month a certain sum, which-the Board deem a sufficiency, though a moderate com pensation for Ills expenses and entire time. Mier DaliDg realized bia MlStitWa wages, the Collector gets no percentage whatever on fur ther sums he may collect during the month, While the ladies now assail our effort, we might object to their using—even with his formergenerous consent—the name of our worthy President to give weight to their ap peals to the public ilnat their partiality, we dollbt not, toay benefit the soldiers, and We shall not find fault. Very respectfully,A, IdAnT)x, Superintendent. From the Bucks County Intelllgeneer.] STATE ITEMS. A list of premiums to be awarded by tics Pennsylvania State Agricultural gociety, at its thirtieth annual exhibition, to be hold at Williamsport, on the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th of September next, are announced. For best trotting horses, s3oo.and *2OO are offered ; and for stallions, mares, colts, bulls, cows, working, oxen, sheep, swine, etc., the premiums range from 575 down to et, , The remnant of the 10th Veteran Reserve Regiment, yet on duty in garrisburg,is shortly to be discharged. The necessary preparations, are being made for the muster;out and pay. ment of the men. The Oil City News gives number of on companies at fourteen hundred and litty•SOTell i with a total capital of eight hundred and sixty. nine millions five hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars, All the hotels and private boarding hone in liarriSinirg are crowded, and many privat• houses have been thrown opOn ter the aeconiA modation of strangers. The ,city is thronged with visitors. The Perseverance Engine and Hose Com pany, of Harrisburg, will attend the great Ilre, men's parade to come off in this city in Octo There is to be a general 'Lill fOid parade of returned soldiers in Jackson, Huntingdon county, on Friday. Pittsburg, is revelling in criminal offences of kraal' calibre. The buckwheat yield of Indiana county promises well. expects to kayo a rOglidar po lice force. HONE ITEMS. IlleArone says that there Is at least one instrument which battles you, in ease you happen to be proud of having the bed of °yell , ' thing. You might, for instance, if you had money enough, become the owner of the best piano, the most superior guitar, or the finest fiddle in the world; but, cost whatever it ma y, nitrhocly ever owned a drum that coul4nii be beat, (Still, in ease this idea IMAMS itself favorably to you, I have a very good second• hand drum that I would be willing to sell you at a considerable reduction.) You must re• menthe; in choosing this instrument, that two heads are bettor than one. It is also Well to bear in mind that the drum has led a great many people into trouble (luring the past four years. -- The battle of Bennington, which marred. August 16th, 1777, was celebrated with great eclat Mit Tuesday. Bev. E. IL Chapin de. livered the Oration after a great procession of military—great for the.little town in which ib occurred. Governors Smith and Dillingham. and Dillingham, together with General 'look; Cr, General Seymour of the 6th Corps and one of the defenders of Sumpter, and Staunard, who lost his right arm. in front of "Richmond. On Wednesday thete were horse racing, field sports, and a visit to the battle-field. It is proposed, in view.of the fact that In diana has but about ten miles. of lake shore, to make a suitable harbor at Michigan City, which is the only town in the State bordering on Lake Michigan, and a Convention occurs at that place this week to devise means for ex cavating, building piers, ac., to make the liar. bor what it should be. The sum of 68,000,000 will be needed to carry through the enter prise. clergyman of Saratoga Springs, a few Sundays since, was preaching a Sermon upon death, in the course of which he asked the question, Is it not a solemn thoughts" Ilis little boy, four years old, who bad been listen ing with wrapt attention to his father, Immo. diately answered in a shrill, piping voice, 00 as to? be heard throughout the house, € 6 Yes, sir, It is,” greatly to the amusement of tlia congregation. —The log hut in which, thirty odd years ago, the first white child was born who ever inhabited Chicago, was recently pulled down upon the very day on which that child was married—Chicago not "possessing romance or taste enough to preserVe Se interesting a Ines mento of its marvellous growth, but consent.. ing to sacrifice its birth-place because a marble-front would pay better than a log-hut t Some person has stolen from the Capitol. in Richmond the third, fourth, and fifth vo lumes of the bacbratal it McDatlaitl ritporgy , a series of seven manuscript volumes, Oentalrd ing the records and archives of the colony Of Virginia from the meeting of its first General Assembly to 1692. Albino, the celebrated racing mare, re cently died at Laclede, Mo., through ruptur ing a blobil-VeSSel while training. 1119 mare was formerly owned by Sohn Carey, of South Carolina, but was confiscated during Sher man's march, by an officer, and brought to St. Louis. A Long Braman correspondent writes en thusiastically of the lading' bathing (Meet@ there, and the "bifurcated attaclunentg.” A young woman in the water he styles a willowy blonde, "with eyes of heaven's own azure, floating like a water•lily upon the wave." As a Stonlngton, Gann., servant girl was stirring up a coat. fire redelitly, with an iron which she found conveniently near, the iron burst and scattered things generally. On ex amination, it was ascertained that the girl had used a bomb-lance for a poker. The Providence Aurae/ speaks of a squash vine in that city which ff row* eighteen inches daily, anti at last accounts was sixty feet long- It will soon get beyond the limits of the State.. Good native wine sells in California at one dollar to one dollar and fifty Cents per gallon, and brandy sells at two dollars and fifty canto to three dollars. Rev. Dr, Roberts, pastor or a negro church in Indianapolis, is to be tried by a jury of peers for embezzling the bounties of tiegreP soldiers. six thousand five hundred dollars have been subscribed by Washington secessionists tU the Mrs. aeir DRVIIS te4thnonial. General Hooker is going to St. Louis to marry a pretty and wealthy widow,--84% Dlr. and Aire. Wigan—London theatrical ghts—are coining to this country. There are 314,022 Indians in this cowl try. roßzwit 111010. The last number of Pencil contains a pic ture of the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, with a group of mermaids swinging on the cable and gamboling around IL At one side ap pears old Neptune, who calls OM "Alt.o.o.y t there! Lot that 'cm cable alone, can't you? That's the way >wilier one was wrecked.“ . Abd el Kader , s visit to Europe recalls the fact that at the time of the massacre of Da,- masons he saved the lives of several hundred. • Christians. Each of the continental Govern. ' petits gave hint the pighest honorary aecora -1101/ it had to bestow, anti prosentett him with a double-barrelled rine. A man having been found murdered near Boston, England, and suspicion of guilt rest ing on a party of Irish harvesters, the police intve warned all iri.nmen not to enter the pap rich at present, for fear Of popular violence. The Boy at Tlllll/3 has beta invested with the order of the Bath. Thirty English officer's were oont to perform the ceremony, anti the D ar entertained them ill the csßardo,” or palace, with great splendor. Why is Wachtel the proper person to plgy VIABCO di (Mutat Because of his astound. ing feats on the high.(;.—Pansit. The Duke of Devonshire has three 40118 and a brother in the new Parliament. . . . Burglars robbed Lord Palmorsion's houses in London of *t,ooo worth of jewelry. A club to do away with aWanOWdaiied wags is forming in Dublin. The duty on mud' in England With year i 8,115,097 Ws, 10. Tennant, the English tenor, is dead, lie was first crazy. General Ban-Jo-kin tins been killed lit China. Riceotil Gf4llibe lo bus arrived in London.. TiGt9t Atig o VMY M 104 sv4w Ronk
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