The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, September 14, 1865, Image 1

THE NEWS.
r Canl , y has issued an important or
.-'ortiTring the Provost _Marshal General of
ii ,i ; nent to furnish the registers of vet
..p the State of Louisiana, with the names
lii.etters (residents of that State), and
persons also residents of the State, who,
, f " ll ing been duly enrolled, left the juris
on in which they were enrolled, or went
tile limits of the "United States for the
of er. - I.linn• any draft duly ordered,
refused or neglected to comply with
(TAS proclamation. The Provost
twin-rat is also to furnish the reols.
co . ..ers with the names of all persons
'_,,:us of the State) who were exempted
draft on account of alienage, or who
;;;der that plea, at any Vine since the
---,Alen of the district of their residences
!ernited States forces, evaded the duties
c.:,;igations of citizenship.
Taesciay, in the Indian Council in session
ic.l Smith, the Seminoles presented paners,
their desire, to treat with our Govern-
snit also their wishes US to churches,
, ;+l. etc'. A treaty of peace was to have
p:ol , oSed and presented yesterday for
A statement was made by the
t -,,,retstivo to their action in the War,
<Pltet: that the names of the chiefs,
to the treaties with the rebels, were
without their knowledge—the same
1: -je with retard to the Indians
The rebel chief of the Choctaws,
~..r,ehteyit, arrived on Tuesday. He
that the other delegates will surely be
by ruurSday.
C:ili3B in ;he amended Constitution of
prohibited all from Toting or holding
ho bad in any manner helped on the
7Ell'sm. The first disability has already
by the State Legislature. The
7 .: ; ,1110.1 ion of the Governor now submits to
the question - whether the nest A.
,
,',7c1.1 have the rower of altering the
clJ,Nfaue l y, as to holding office.
r ,,,,,t,Etti• General Dennison has ordered
,c owing= Establish Vicksburg, Union
Pa.. and appoint JOseph S. Emden
ater; between Lewisburg and MU-
Establish 'a new office at Kriek's
celloty, Pa., and appoint Abraham
r.c,,toin.s ter ; between the post offices of
h
McCulloch has now under conside
y., a plan for a thorough reform of the
fenry Department. It contemplates the
of useless officials, the enforce
:l; 01 - 177:incs; qualifications asp, condition
t ;Qa,:k and the placing the eustolll
- in line with the commercial wants of
1:1!tt- :Inv° been received from the corn
appchiteil to negotiate with the
Indians, of which Major General
head. The party had arrived at
Bluffs, lowa, and was on its way
•:c..y. City, where the conference is to be
were in excellent health.
rzc. reiVr Hamill, a clergyman of New
. attempted to commirsuicide on Tues.
laiiroacl train which was leaving
.-107.. Its- out his throat, and after wards
._:pca from the train. It is supposed he was
Imicr a temporary aberration of the
a:toTeation occurred at Selma, Alabama,
,With ult., between Mr. J. r. Nimmo,
-_:er agent of the Treasury Department,
" Ilestaer, a late army officer. The
at each other. Ilosmer was unhurt,
N!lnnto was killed. The former was ar-
National Telegraphic Union, which was
at Chicago, adjourned yesterday to
second Wednesday in September
F.lin "Baltimore. The list of officers elected
found elsewhere. At the close, the
,',tes were entertained by the local Union
Frailo renititi DiNnie. and flag presentation
place yesterday at Analostan
::7 (;ecrgetown, D. C. In the District of
:71obia the lonians have four organiza
.i averaging shout two hundred mernbers,
a alsternood with throe hundred 31161.11,
sneral F!locum's letter to one of the leaders
lie Democratic party is published. The
:Ifni is in favor of a return to civil law,
a mere general observEnee of the come
ional rights of States. Re is with President
Len on the negro-suffrage question.
said that General Steedman, command-
Georgia, has been threatened with as
:nation by anonymous correspondents if
:glen the young amen of Augusta who mur-
Captain Healey, of one of the colored
:fnents. •
Wrz was too unwell yesterday to be tried.
'5;O suffering from nervous prostration.
:qli. , ...oner's counsel said he could not give
Lames of those witnesses who said they
i:ttarspered with by theproseoution. This
Inas placed on the record. 4.
J. : fir e number of additional aids, recently
nd from the staffs of commanding gene
and ordered to return to their homes
'lleport by letter tone Adjutant General,
to lie mustered out.
, Jsiers similar to those given the commander
:te hcpartment of North Carolina, relative
zlinaustering out of colored troops, have
issued to the commanders of the Depart
at; of Virginia, Florida, and Arkansas.
Trembly, special agent of the Treasury
I Partment, has arrived in Washington, from
zguAft, with the hundred thousand dollars
pecie, captured from wagons of Davis
Wie it was passing out of eeorgia.
ittretary Stanton has been living for several
011 a vessel in the river near West Foipt,
secxch of quiet and rest. He went on Mon
-10 Newport, and Will visit Boston and
York before his return to Washington.
ilionainess of tbeFreodmen , s raireaU,Wa9ll
- is increasing. Ninety freed people ap
::t.d for w. ork during the past ten days, fifty
' of w Loin were furnished with employ-
Oar Government is in receipt of two decrees
' l-4 e l i bY the Government of Peru in refer
:e tO the war in that Republic. One of the
-sees Ltockades certain ports of the Repub.
Both deerr,es are printed in this issue.
, €rerst arrests have been made of counter
-
, gel,. of the. Gove",rnment notes. So says the
' . .l(etive Bureau of the Treasury Depart-
A Washington despatch says that the mill
commission trying Mira will summon a
4 1. if not all, of the witnesses named by the
zleer , 's counsel.
Cronlar No. IS of the Freedmen's - Bureau,
:toted some days, bas been rescinded, and
' Iher one iSStied in its stead. It will be
,1 1/(1 in our Washington aspatehes.
adviees say that the Spanish troops
'ye all evacuated San Domingo. The recent
, benign there bas been gnelled. liirby. Smith
is at Matanzas, broken down in health.
Postmaster General Dennison left Washing
on Monday to attend the State Fair at
, lea, New York. lie will be away for some
:roe.
In the temporary absence of Pottme.ster
Dennison from Washington, his du.
clevolve upon Don. Alexander W.ltandall,
:Nt Assistant Postmaster General.
special despatch, published elsewhere,
lwaded financial F peen/at/MS, is of bite_
Among the first troops to leave Washington
' , lir the recent order, exclusively published
-Mo Pros, be the 3d Massachusetts.
•dgeraon Sidney Cad walacler has been al)
*toil Collector of Internal Revenue for the
.fhli district, in this State. •
411 The forts around Washington will be
during the present autumn.
Ohio State Fair opened at Columbus yes
'''ll.:l3virilay, the delegation of English capital.
left Cineinnati for St. LouiS, •
ll ' IV), there were five establishments for
lig of sugar in the Western States.
.'PPlieations for pardon by penitent rebels
,E
on the incr.ase.
4r ttkinridge is in Canada, it is said, merely
)114 invpose of meeting hls family.
"he repo rted arrival of the frigate Niagara
!ti•
e Metropolis' , is an error. •
Grant is at St. Louis.
4 , e vernment loans wore in better demand
and prices were better, especially
1, ••=1 loan. Other loans were quiet. The rail
''l list was very dull, and the tendency of
ziccs was for a lower range.
~floor was dull yesterday but prices are
~holit change. Wheat, corn, and - oats are
r•Loal change. Cotton is in fair demand at
5 4 ;4! rates. Petroleum is in gooddemand
'lerment at the advance. In provisions
'fe Ii little or nothing tieing whisky is
•
-..ttire ; prime Pennsylvania and Western
,"'rein are selling at t4:1'28@.?„30 per gallon.
1111-. ; REIM!, WAR BERT.
11 A; Americans are supposed to be in
9ligent, and arc apt to grow wise from
/ lmience ; and the Southern people are no
xtqco ns to this rule, even if they have
Inere than a century allowed themselves
r 'tlierish a relic of barbaric ages, and to
'NI blood and treasure in its defence.
be desolation the war has made ; the loss
f6 tir millions of slaves, - whom they
' I I always looked upon as chattels,
4 : valued annually as a portion of their
` l, preciable and • available wealth; the
%sands of their sons and brothers
LD have filled dishonored graves, even
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and . complete defeat; all contain lessons
so pregnant with importance, that it is
impossible that such an insurrection as
that initiated in 1861 will ever again be at -
tempted. But to all these fast thronging
punishments, there is to be added another—L.'
" Cssa piled on Pelion "—equally .instruc
tive and forcible as any inflicted in the
shock of battle or in the hours of inevitable
and bitter defeat. This punishment is con
tained in a report from the prosy, financial
pen of the North Carolina State Treasurer.
We sum it all up in: these five lines. He
says in substance :
“Your legitimate debt, citizens of North Ca
rolina, iS $13,619,500, and your war debt is
$20,5aF,N35. But I think I may fairly aubtraet
from that total the sum of $4,062,500, leaving
your actual war debt 916,596,45 !”
This is the Slate war debt only. The
debt of the Confederate Government is not
included in this total. And each State, if
the Confederacy had succeeded, would
have had to assume and raise its-share. As
it was, North Carolina, with the others,-
paid immense sums of money m taxes,
tithes, and expenses of conscription. She
may have returned some of her taxes
in the shape of Confederate eurrencyin the
later years of the war, but in the earlier it
came from the pockets of her citizens ; and
even in the later was made up in part by
contributions of breadstuff's, etc., either
levied upon by the Richmond despotism or
given willingly by the "patrotic" people.
In a word, the report of the State Trea
surer, brief and formal as it is, includes a
compressed history of suffering and poverty
such as North .Carolina will never again
yoluntarily endure. This history means
immense losses from the hostile ar
mies which swept like- a pestilential tor
nado over her territory, obliterating rail
roads, towns, landmarks—everything. It
means a loss of all the fixed capital invested
in black labor ; it means the total loss of
all the precious blood, and youth; and every
thing consumed in the rebellion it means
poverty, obloquy, remorse, repentance,
And the case of-North. Carolina is but a
dreary counterpart of thatofevery Southern
State engaged in this great war for slavery.
Of course, such a succession of such blows
as these are accepted always with more or
less bitterness.
The last and unkindest one of all falls
upon the heads of the very men who, by
their position and its influence, were instru
mental in fostering and precipitating the re.
bellion. This blow does not reach the Caro
lina mud-eater or the Georgia-'cracker, ex
cept in a more indirect way. They gave
up their life blood before the Union bullets,
and surrendered their little lands-to the lo
cust-like tread of the Union armies, Their
Punishment is already great enough, for it is
written upon two hundred thousand tomb
stones, and traced in the ashes of myri
ads of humble cabins. They hold no. bonds ;
eloquent in promises to ply thousands,
done up in antiquated, battered type, and
ornamented with a dingy cut of JEFF Davis;
a flourish of C. S. A.'s, and a perspective
view of the capitol of the empire of the
Confederacy. The Senator, the aristocrat,
the merchant, the planter—the men who
duped- the cracker and the mud-sill, and
sent them forth to the war enthusiastic with
ignorance and patriotism—are the vic
tims now doomed to torture and embar
rassment in the cruel sentences of a me
thodic State treasurer. " Sixteen millions
dollars to lose, and already ruined," ex
claims the North Carolina gentleman, as he
fumbles in an empty ragged pocket, and
looks abroad over ruined acres, only to smile
again by paid labor, which he cannot pay
until crops are gathered and garnered. " Six.
teen millions to lose," he repeats; "have-I
not lost enoligh ?" "-Thirteen millions to
pay, besides Yankee fines and taxes t and
nothing, nothing to pay with." There is
an added poignancy in this thought, when
he reflects that every dollar that he pays
goes either to liquidate a debt contracted
within the Union for lawful purposes, or to
liquidate the United States debt contracted
for the very purpose (so it seems to his
mind) of ruining him in slaves, and houses
and lands, and taking additional thousands
away; on account of Confederate and North
Carolina war expenses. Neither he nor the
State Treasurer for a moment consider
debts owing in England on the cotton-loan
account.
The hopelessness of another effort to as
sail the national authority, the utter ruin
wrought by the rebellion, and the mission
of the AmeriCan Government as it is admi
nistered by ANDREW ,TouNsorT, may be
gathered almost at a glance from these start
ling facts, and candid yet sorrowful confes
sions,
LETTER FROM" 6 ' OCCASIONAL.'"
11 7- AsnixGTorr, September 13, 1805
The great change in public feeling, within
a short time, is proved by the remarkably
favorable reception in the most " Radical"
circles, of the, sentiments announced by
President Johnson in his late interview
with the Southerners. The same sen
timents, spoken at an earlier period, would
have been angrily questioned and contro
verted. The secret is to be found in the
operation of those generous and humane
elements which enter so largely into the
composition of the American character. It
is hard to maintain antagonistic and much
less virulent feelings against the South,
in the face of the overthrow of slavery and
the submission of the people to a fact re
sisted by them for a long time with bloody
obstinacy, and at last wrought out by the
combined forces of moral and military logic.
I have always contended that the most for
giving and least cruel people on this conti
nent are the Abolitionists—the old anti
slavery leaders. Till the reliellion forced
the war, they were the pioneers and
the apostles of every movement of
peace. It was, in fact, horror of inhu
manity which created that combination
.against slavery which, when slavery flew
to arms, was so overwhelming. It is,
therefore, only resuming a natural state of
mind when they proclaim their anxiety for
reconciliation with the Southern people.
One thing remains to make the anti-slavery
people ready for the completest restoration,
VIZ : The asn'ranee that the freedmen WA
not he left to the tender mercies of the brutal
and setae men who were found,among their
former masters. It was well said by , a great.
thinker, a few days ago, that unless this
assurance was given and clinched by
ample legislation and by practical efforts
on the part of the late masters, the
black population would be simply enjoy
ing a brief interregnum between two
degress of human 'slavery; one made
cruel under what was called law, and
the other rendered intolerable because
inflicted without law and in the absence
of the natural protectors of the freedmen.
But these people will be under the constant
gUardianShiP of the Executive and of Con
gress. On that head there must always be
solicitude; but there need be no well found
ed doubt among philanthropic men. Apart
from . , the act of Congress organizing the
bureau of which General Howard is the
chief, and upon which he is building
a system that will be equally practical and
permanent, there are numerous vigilant
agencies in the States of the North and
West that will maintain , a jealous as well as
a zealous organization for the protection
and subsistence of those who not having
begun the war,. were made freemen by its
developmenr; and must never again be op
pressed or enslaved. OCCASIONAL.
Return of Massachusetts Troops.
BOSTON, Sept. 12.--The steamer Karnak, from
charleston, arrived at this port to•aay, with
six companies of the 55th Massachusetts Regi
ment, comprising 407 men, The remainder Of
the regiment was an tranSportation.
811/1" NEW!
BOSTON, Sept. 13.—Arrived, Ifrigs Pr/noose
Louise, Gutteuiliurg A. LEart, New Orleaue.
WASHINGTON.
OEFKIL REPORTS FROM PERU MUM
TO THE - tymt THERE,
TKEAlritttiONED AND COMIOICATED
OP THE SOUTH
Importeit Circular of the Freed
men's Bureau.
ALL THE NORTHERN COLORED TRODYS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES TO BE MUSTERED OUT.
[Special Despatches to ThoPress.i
WAMIIMITON, September 13, 1365
The Abandoned Lands.
I referred a few days ago to the efforts to
Modify, if not to nullify, the several acts of
Congress providing for the disposition of pro
perty abandoned by the voluntary ab
sence of the owners, or when they were
engaged in the rebellion. The last act
of Congress, March Id, 1851, expressly de
clarei that the Bureau of Freedmen, Re
fugees, and Abandoned Lamle shall "have
authority to set apart, for the use of loyal
refugees and freedmen, such tracts of land
Within the insurrectionary States as shall have.
been abandoned, or to which the United States
shall have acquired title by confiscation or
sale, or otherwise ; and to every male citizen,
- whether refugee or freedman, as aforesaid"
shall be assigned not more than forty acres of .
such land, and the persons to whom it was as
signed shall be protected in the use and enjoy
ment of the land, for the term of three years,
at an annual rent not exceeding six per centum
upon the value of such laud as it was-appraised
by the State authOritice in the year eighteen,
hundred ejid sixty, for the purposes or taxa
tion;
and in case no such appraisement can be
found, then the rental shall be based upon the
estimated value of the land in said year, to be
ascertained in such manner as the commis
sioner may prescribe. At the end of the said
term, or any time during said term, the
pants of any parcels so assigned may purchase
time land and receive such title thereto as the
United States can convey, upon paying there
for the value of . the land as ascertained and
fixed for the purpose of determining the actual
rent aforesaid?,
Four orders have been issued by direction of
the President in execution of this law. One
from the War; one from the Treasury Depart
meat, and the last as late as July 25, 1565, from
General 0. 0. HOWARD, which expressly states :
" The pardon of the President will not be
understood to extend to the surrender of aban
doned or confiscated property, which has been
• set apart for refugees and freedmen,' or in use
for the employment and general welfare of all
persons within the lines of national military
occupation "within said insurrectionary States
formerly held as slaves, or who are or shall
become free.s,
The late insurgents feel this law and its exe
cution most ke,enly, and a desperate effort is
made to destroy its operation. You will note
that it reaches more than those who have
borne arms i and that some of the easy gentle
men who left early in the war for foreign coun
tries are reached by it. Ido not think that the
President, is disposed to go very far to oblige
these claimants, but they are not the less
backward. Especially as they object .to the
order that the pardon of the Executive does
not restore to them their abandoned lands,
some interest may be expected from their
efforts.
financial Speculations.
One class - insists that Congress should make
all the National Bank notes legal tenders, and
repeal the law to pay duties in gold ; another
argues for the early resumption of specie pay
ments on the ground that if gold continues to
accumulate as now, we shall have nearly
eighty millions on hand by the new year ; and,
instead of selling gold, as it is now said (though
I doubt it) is being done, this mass of specie
might be held as a sort of protection for the
banks, The croakers contend that our income.
tax next year will fall far short of this year,
because the next incomes will be very greatly
reduced. Another and a growing party is con
fident that the best way to pay the national
debt is to lay an export tax on cotton, to
bacco, 84e.; and to make this acceptable to
the South, a bonus might be offered to her
in the shape of paying off her old and legal
State debts. This idea was mooted to a
leading Englishman a few days ago, and he
seemed to be greatly alarmed, but soon grew
tranquil, as he reflected that this tax could
not be had without emending the national
Constitution, which prohibits auy such mea
sure. But if everybody were agreed to it in
this country, it would not take long to alter
the Constitution in that particular. And espe
cially if we could do so at the expense.of our
British and French relations.
Movemenio of Brockinridfre.
The appearance Of BRECEIBRIDGE in Canada
induces the surmise that he has some hopes
of Executive clemency. His uncle, Dr. ROBERT
J. linßoxmainex, is said to be extremely anx
ious on the subject Those who know the
late Vice President, however, think if he is in
Canada it is rather to meet his family, whom
he has not seen for some months. As there
is no restriction upon persons visiting Canada,
and none upon unsuspected persons visiting
the United States from that province, he can
also confer with his friends as to his fature
state on this mundane sphere.
Flag Presentation.
This afternoon a grand pie-nie and presenta
tion of a flag to the Fenian Brotherhood took
place at AnalOstan Island, near Georgetown.
The Fenians have four organizations in this
distriC,t, Averaging two hundred members,
and a sisterhood with three hundred mem
ber& The flag was presented on behalf of the
sisters by Mayor WALLACH, and received by
Major Dzwzy, president of•the Washington
Circle. Speeches were made by thiS m a yo r ,
Major DEWEY, Gen, STrantnx MAGROADY, and
B. FLORMCB. The flag waspainted.
in Baltimore, and cost two hundred and fifty
dollars. It is beautifuliy designed, and con
tains the emblems of ancient Ireisnd. The
dancing was kept up until a late hour. A
large crowd was in attendanc& The best of
.order was observed.
Freedmen's Affairs.
The business of the intelligence °lnce of the
Freedmen's Bureau is on the increase. During
the past ten days ninety freed people applied
for work, and t fifty-six were furnished with
employment in the same length of time. Fifty
applications for servants were received, of
which twenty-five were for maleS, and twenty-
Bye for females. The average number of ra
tions issued from the Governtnent Soup House,
on New Jersey avenue, payday, is one hundred
and thirty. For the past six days, seven hun
dred and eighty.one one rations of soap were
furnished to colored people.
Stolen Vatted States Property He-
1=2221
C. E. TarOI4BLY, special agent of the Treasu
ry Department, has just arrived from Aurrusta,
Georgia, with the hundred thousand dollars
in coin which was captured from JEPPERSON
DAVIS , wagon train as it was passing out of
Georgia. Captain J. D, JONES, and twelve
picked men of the 19th United states Infan
try, guarded the treasure to this city. This
treasure was probably given up to our pur
suing cavalry to prevent the entire amount,
variously estimated from five hundred thou
sand to two millions, from falling into our
hands.
Department of Washington.
The War Department has directed General
commanding the Department of Wash
ington, to reduce the volunteer force in his
command to six thousand commissioned of
ficers and enlisted men of all arms. Under this
order (lotto a number of regiments, hereafter
to he designated, will be mustered out of the
service.
Applications for Pardon
The applications of Southerners for pardon
continue to he received at the Attorney gene
rars office at the rate of between two and
three hundred per day,requiring the constant
attention of the efficient clerical force of the
office to classify and arrange them for investi
gation by the Attorney General.
Additional Aids.
Quite a number of the additional aids re
cently relieved from the sfaffs of command.
in g generals, and ordered to their homes to re
port to the Adjutant General by, letter, have
been mustered out:of the service.
Postmaster General Dennison.
The Postmaster` General left Washington
'yesterday morning for Utica, N. Y., to attend
the State fair there. He will be absent about
ten days. His family haslfeensojourningnear
Utica for some time past. -
The Indian Bureau.
The Acting COM2mistioitel! of the Indian Bu•
reau is in receipt of advie,es from th% Commis
don, of which Major General Corms is at the
bead, appointed to negotiate with the North
western Indians. The Commission had arrived
at Council Bluffs, lowa, and was en route to
sioux City, where the conference is to be held.
The health of the party was excellent.
The Muster Out of Colored Troops.
Similar instructions, to those given by, the
Seeretary of War to the counnander of the De
partment of North Carolina, in regard to the
discharge of certain colored organizations,
have been gives the commanders of the De
partments of Virginia, Florida, Texas, Louisi
aaa, and Arkansas,
' The Post Office.
The Postinastbr General being absent for a
few days, his powers and duties devolve, for
the time being, on the Hon. ALEXANDER W.
RANDALL, Met Assistant Postmaster General.
Western Manufactories.
Irk the Western States, in MO, there were five
establishmente for the refinery of sugar. Capt.
r, 4 , 6.4 4 , S TEMBER 14, 1865.
tat invested, $1,175,600; cost of raw material
used, t. 2,510,600 ; 'male hands employed, 374; cost
of labor, 1132,060; annual value of products,
$3,080,390. •
[By Associated Press.]
Official Decree from the Peruvian 6o-
The Government has received from the le
e/lion of the United States in Peru, copies of
two decrees issued by the President of that
wnblie. The first closes the ports of Islay,
Aric.l, and the bay of Quilea to all merelifunt
vesse:e r national as well as foreign. In order
to =No effectual the responsibility which
any shiPirmay incur from an infraction of this
articie, tike period of time fixed, taking the
i date of:l,llVdc:crew? Jane 13th, is, for all vesVila
proceeding from ports in -Europe or Miff., or
from the Unlted States, Mexico, Colombia, and
Venezuela, inthe Atlantic ocean, five months.
The second detroe le r in part, that eyeryper
itos who, withont thb authority and order of
the legitimate and 'competent authority, simll
export 'guano frlYni" the Ohioan Islands, or.
froth any other tii..pb§its of that manure, w 2. 1,
be considered as a Wilber of the public wealth; •
and an offender agatiSt the rights of the con- -
signees and all the c:reflitors, who have on the
guano a positive guctantee for the fulfilment
of their contraets, rind Will be prosecuted and
punished with severitYi agreeably to the law
of the republic, and inttrriational right.
A Massnenuseiti Reg-fluent.
Among the regiments fh , St to go home 'ander
the recent order issued bY the War Depart
ment, mustering out alYbut eix thousand
troops in the Departmentbf Washington, is
the Z;(1 Massachusetts HeavY Artillery, which
hag been in garrison at FortS•Slocum, Stevens,
Sumner, Lincoln, Bono, and:librter. They now
number about twelve hundred men. Two
thirds of the officers of this- reement have
risen from the ranks.
An Important Clause of the Virginia
Constitution Itentaved.
A clause in the Virginia amended constitu
tion prohibited all who had aided,imrtieipated
in, or sympathized with the rebellion, from
Dither voting or holding office. The first disa
bility has already been removed by legislative
action. The prOelamatiOn of Governor Purn
rowr now submits to the people the question,
shall the next General Assembly be clothed
with ower to alter or amend the third p.rticle
oft constitution—namely, as to holding
office') There seems no doubt that tills disa
bility will also be removed.
The Wirt Trial.
The Military Commission will summon a
part, if not all, of the wit.esses named yester
day by Captain Winz, through his counsel, and
by whom he expects to prove thatmany of the
acts ascribed to him were committed by others
higher in authority. The prisoner has been
sick ever since the trial commenced, and is
now nervously prostrated.
Pardon Seekers.
The anteroom of the I;,!:.:seutive mansion was
again crowded to-day with pardon seekers
from all parts of the South, including a num
ber who formerly held clerkships under the
Goyernment at Washington.
Forts DiSMßUtled
All these forts will be dismantled during the
Present autumn.
A Commissary Sale.
At a COMMisSary sale at Alexandria, yester
day, oue lot of pork was sold as 1411 as $14.15;
barn at $l2, and salt beef from $2.30 to $2.85 each
per barrel.
Arrest of Counterfeiters.
The Secret-service division of . the Solicitor's
office has been informed of the arrest of seve
ral persons engaged in counterfeiting. One,
named JA - Kus, jumped from a railroad car
while in motion, and was rearrested ten days
afterwards by Detective :KETTLE:SMITH, and
another, named Tomas C. ECRIMT, was ar
rested in 'New York yesterday by Detective
LOWELL. ECKERT had on his person five hum'
dred one-dollar United States notes. Arrests
are continually being made all_ over the
country.
Presidentinl:Appointments.
ALGEENON SIDNEY CADIVAL &DEE has been ap
pointed Collector of Internal Revenue for tha
Fifth district of Pennsylvania.
J. C. DATP-g has been appointed direct tae
commissioner for the district of the State of
Georgia. This is believed to be the same gen
tleman who testified- in the Wism trial, and is
known to have been exceedingly kind to the
prisoners at .Amdetsonville--always having
been a Union man, but who sought empio ; ,--
ment there as a volunteer surgeon in order to
avoid being forced into the Georgia militia.
The . Freedman's Bureau.
The Circular No. 15, dated September 4th,
having been by accident prematurely promul.
gated, it is recalled, and the following circu
lar, revising in some particulars, substituted
therefor by the War Department
BUNBAIT or ltErtrantig, FnEßDMElliri AND ABAN
DONED LANDS, WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, M.--
Circular No. 15, of July 28th, 1585, from this
bureau, and all portions of circulars from this
_bureau conflicting with the provisions of this
'circular, are hereby rescinded.
This bureau has charge of such tracts of
land within the insurrectionary States as
shall have been abandoned, or to which the
United States shall have acquired,,by contlsea.
tion or sale, or otherwise, and no such lands
now in its possession shall be surrendered to
any claimant except as hereinafter provided.
fl'ittrd. Abandoned lands arc defined in Aec-
Lion second of the act of Congress approved
July 2d,1881, as lands the lawful owners whereof
shall be voluntarily absent therefrom and en
gaged, either in arms or otherwise, in aiding
or encouraging" the rebellion.
Fourth, Lund will not be regarded as con
fiscated until it has been condemned and sold
by decree of the United States court for the
district in which the property may be found,
and the title thereto thus vesipd in the United
States.
Upon its appearing satisfactorily, to
any assistant commissioner that any property
under his control is not abandoned as above
defined, and that the United States has ac
quired no title to it by confiscation, sale, or
otherwise, he will formally surrender it to the
authorised claimant or claimants promptly,
reporting his act to the commissioner.
Sixth. Assistant commissioners will prepare
accurate descriptions of all confiscated and
abandoned lands under their control, keeping
a record thereof themselves, and forwarding
monthly to the commissioner copies of these
descriptions; in the manner lireseribed in Cir
cular No.lo, of July 11, 1985, from this. bureau.
They will set apart so much of- saidlauds as is
necessary for the immediate use of loyal refu
gees and freedmen, being careful to select
for thispurpose those lands whichmost clearly
fall under the control of this bureau, which se
lection must busubruittedto the commissioner
for his approval. The specific , livision of
lands so Net apart into lots, and the rental or
sale thereof, according to section fourth.of the
law establishing the bureau., willbe completed
as soon as practicable and reported to the
' commissioner. "
AS'eventh.. Abandonedlands held by tliis bureau
may be restored to owners pardoned by the
President, by the assistant commissioners, to
whom application for such restoration should
l•pe forwarded, so far as practicable, through the
superintendent of the district ill whigh the
lands are situated, and each application must
be accompanied by :—First, evidence of special
pardon by the President, or a copy of the oath
of amnesty prescribed in the President's pro
clamation of May 25th, ISO, when the appli
cant is not included in any of the classes herein
excepted from the benefits of said oath. Se
cond, proof of title.
Officers of the bureau through whom the ap
plicationpases will endorse thereon such facts
as may assist the assistant commissioner in
his decision, stating especially the use made
by the bureau of the land.
Eighth. No lands under cultivation by loyal
refugees or freedmen will be restored under
this circulay, until the crops now growing
shall be received for the benefit of the cults-
Nairn's, unless full and just compensation be
muds, for their labor and its products, and fur
their expenditures. 0. 0..11,,wAn0,.
• Major General ! and Commissioner.
APprOved.
• ANDREW Joirsson,
President of the United States.
ST, Louis, Sept. 13.—General Grant and party
arrived here at 3 o'clock, and were quietly
taken to the Lindell House, under the direc
tion of Major Thornai and a few citizens. He
will receive the public this evening. The
English party of capitalists will arrive about
midnight, and will occupy apartments at the
Lindell House e •
Tobacco firmer. Hemp $1.70@1.75 for prime
undressed. Cotton active at an advance ;
sales at 39.1/.0130.. Flour lower; single extra
$7.5E 1 4 ; low double extra $8.12 1 And.75 ; extra
$10.50@12.1234. Wheat unchanged. Corn dull
and lower ; sales at 66@)700. Oats 'declined ;
Billeb at 43530. Whisky lower at 12.27@2,28.
HALIFAX.
ITAttrAx, N. S., Sept. 13-11 P. M.—The Ng
ther is clear and calm. There were no sl '
Of the Asia, now Atte from Liverpool.
The Indian Connell.
FORT SMITE(' Aux., Sept. 12.—1 n the Council
to-day the Seminoles presented papers SliONV
ing their desire to treat with the United
States, and their Wishes in relation to churches,
schools, and internal improvements. The
Commissioner stated a treaty .of peace would
be prepared and presented for signature to
morrow. The Creeks made a lengthy state
ment in regard to their action in the war, say
ing the names of their chiefs alllzed to their
treaties with the rebels were used without
their knowledge ;and the same was true with
regard to the Indians of the Plains.
Governor PitChleynn, rebel chief of/the
Choctaws, arrived to-day, and says the other
set of delegations will be here on Wednesday
or Thursday.
The Ocean Yacht name Won by the
rleetwing.
SANDY Hone', Sept. 13.—The yacht Yleetwing
has returned, winning the race in one hour
and eighteen minutes ahead of the Henrietta,
Departure of the Afrien,
Itosmos, Sept. 13.—The royal mail steamship
Africa sailed at 10 o'clock this morning, with
twenty-two passengers for Halifax, and fifty
one for Liverpool. Her specie list amounted
t 0 1113,255,
From Pit•hole.
PIT-HOLE, PA., Sept. 13.—The exaggerated re
ports of an epidemic prevailing in the oil re•
giOnB are without foundation, and those hav
ing friends in this section of the country need
feel no anxiety in this respect, as the general
health is good.
vernment.
ST. LOUIS.
THE REBELLION.
WHAT THE NORTH DID TO
SUPPRESS IT.
An Hist Weal and Scientific Review of
what it Accomplished.
ELOQUENT SPEECH OF MAJ. GEN.
DANIEL E. SICKELB
itere New Fuels brought to Light Regarding
Secretary Stanton's Thwarting of
the Traitors in MI.
AtioTherl Tribute to that Eminent Statesman's EE' If
to Crush the Rebellion.
Tale atm ual fair of the American Institute
cenimeaceol in New York on Tuesday evening.
Tile opening• oration was delivered by Miler
General Sie-kles. It gives such a seientifie-re
view-of the ovork performed by the North, in
the great national conflict, and is such an elo
que.nin tribute to our people, that we gladly
transfer it to our columns, feeling sure that
all who read it will do so with profit, and be
all the more proud of their country. General
Sickles said: •
GENT :rim - 7x - ere THE TwOTITUrr, : This national
exhibition of the useful arts is: a gratifying il
lustration of tats; happy peace. which blesses
our country. IN also suggests- one of the
greatest elements of Our strengthin, war—that
industrial power which multiplies ream:tree%
equips - armies. and fleets, ancPsitoplies the ma
terial for great eampaigns, I am happy to
meet the society ender circumstimees so favor- •
able to the development of national prospe
rity.-The brilliant display of products which
distiguishes this exhibition, and the numer
ous attendance on this occasion, equally mani
fest the habitual appreciation- of our
_popula
tion for industrial pursuits. This epoch of our
history, so novel and impressive, presents no
feature more remarkable 't than the facility
With which a nation that has shown itself mag..
ritheent hi war resumes its peacefal avoca
tions, disbands its armies, sells its fleets at
auction, and only disturbs the equanimity of
its rivals by the commanding influence of a
noble example. I regret that my pursuits
have not been such as to tit me to address you
upon the practical themes most appropriate to
this occasion. It is only in the most general
way that I have been able to appreciate what
is new and interesting in the progress of the
arts. Of course I have not failed to observe
during the period of my military service how
much the industry, ingenuity, and enterprise
of our people have contributed to augment
our resources in war. When the Merrimac at
tacked the wooden fleet in Hampton Roads,
and ship after ship of ours reeled and sunk
under the staggering blows of the rebel mon
ster, and' the heroic Morris had fired his last
broadside from the Clitaberland as he went
down with her beneath the waters, you re
member how the little monitor, ridiculed as a
new invention, sneeringly called a " pepper
box,e took up the unequal combat, and, under
the gallant Worden, drove the rebel ship to her
hiding place in the barber of Norfolk, where
she was soon afterwards given to the flames.
lOU have not forgotten the magnificent com
bat between Admiral t'arragut's fleet and the
Tennessee—one of the most extraordinary
tights that ever occurred on the waters ,• a sin
gle ship repelling the crushing blows of a fleet,
driven upon her with a force that would have
made a breach in the walls of SobaStopol ; a
single ship receiving unharmed broadside af
ter broadside, for more than an hour, making
no more impression upon her armor than the
Indian arrows made upon the cuirass of Cor
tez, until the Chickasaw, under Lieutenant
Commander Perkins, herself invulnerable,
struck the Tennessee a mortal blow with a
shot from an eleven-inch gun that disabled
her rudder and left her, helpless and paralyzed,
at the mercy of her conquerors. The Tennessee
was armed with the heaviest British cannon.
The more powerful grins of the ChielateeW were,.
American, and one of the improvements deve
loped during the war. Nor have you forgotten
the time When the splendid fleet of Admiral
Porter was at the point of being abandoned on
the Red river, owing to the sudden fall of its
waters, Then it was that the genius of Gene
ral - Bailey, after all other expeclients • failed,
devised a dant, which so deepened the channel
by turning all the water of the river into a
narrow course that the fleet was saved, and
the army of General Banks Preserved its sup
plies, and was enabled to retire in good order
to a tenable position near his base of opera
tions. Need I remind you of the reamerable
exploit of young Cushing, who, under the or
ders of Admiral Porter, destroyed the iron
clad Albemarle, one of the most formidable
ships ever launched, by means of a small - tor
pedo-boat, eonstreeted under the superinten
dence of Rear Admiral Gregory, by Chief Ea
gineer Wood, of the navy This little craft,
manned by a boat's crew, and, filled with pow
der, boldly approached, at midnight, her great
adversary at her moorings within the rebel
lines, capturingOn her way their picket-boats.
Steering straight for her victim, her comman
der and crew leaped into the water and es
caped in a small boat, while the torpedo made
all headway against the Albemarle, and, at
the moment of contact with a fearful explo
sion, burie I h beneath the waters on which, a
moment before, she had floated in disdainful
defiance. I endeavored, without success, to
obtain for this occasion an official statement
of the number of mechanics employed by the
Government in the shops, depots, and dock
yards of the Way and Navy Departments, at
some given period during the recent war. I
have no doubt, taking into amount the Oder
termasteris and Ordinance] Departments of
the army, and all the navy yards, that the num
ber was greater than any one of our armies—
greater than the victorious army at Waterloo.
Probably in all the history of war there can
be foundno parallel to tawOperations of the
American Quartermaster General's Depart
ment from 1861 to 1665. Nevertheless, there are
some striking European examples. In pre
paring for the siege of Lille the allies were
.compelled, owing to. the interruption of the
water communications of the army to trans.
port from Holland by land all their cannon,
ammunition, and materiel. Sixteen thousand
horses were required ,for the wagons in the
train, which was escorted by Prince Eugene
With fifty-three battalions of infantry and
ninety squadrons of horse, the main body of
the allies being within supporting distance;
and although the French array, a hundred
thousand strong, under Marshal Vendome,
lay on theflank of the line of march, which ex
tended over seventy miles, it was reported that
not a gun Or carriage was lost. If the trains of
the army of the Potomac had been pat in mo.
tion on a single road toward Richmond,-the
' head of the column would have entered Rich
mond before the rear was out of sight of the
. Capitol at Washington. In the quartermas
ter's and ordnance dePartments at Nashville,
in - the summer of 18ea, more than fourteen
thousand mechanics and laborers were em
ployed in providing material for the armies
operating in General Slierman , s department.
The storehouses of the commissary of Subsis
tence, at the same post, contained provisions
for One hundred thousand Men for eight
months, or twenty-four Of rations,
besides forage for fifty thousand horses for an
equal period—that is to, say, one hundred and
sixty-eight millions of-pounds of oats, corn,
and hay. These stores, besides / vast numbers
Of troops, and all the sick and wounded,'were
transported over a sihgle track railroad, Cross
ing many rivers and- trestle-work structures,
for more than three hundred miles through
Tennessee and Georgia, a hostile country in the
face of constant attack from an enterprising
and daring eneniy„ In tb ese days of railway die
. asters show me aboard of directors that could
keep a road in running order, withguerillas me
nacing every mile of the track, scarcely a day
Passing without a bridge destroyed, trestle
work burned, trainsthrown from the track and
smashed: by means of obstacles placed upon
it, engiheers and brakemen shot, every train
carrying its own guard, every depot for wood
and water a ;Linear/1 . post; and for all the vast
labor on that and many other military rail
roads between Little Rock, west of the Nis
' sissippi, to the Potomac, the Quartermaster
General's Department was responsible. This
army of workmen, of which I have only men
tioned one otetwo outposts,
.operating over
an area of thousands of miles, was under
the sleepless and thoughtful eye of Major
'-General Montgomery -C. Metes, the accom
plished chief of the Quartermaster's Depart
'nent Oftheariny. Thechielquarterfnastera Of
"the two principal armies were Major General
Rufus Ingalls, of the Army of the East, and
General Allen, of the Army of the Southwest.
I have not alluded to the other duties of the
Quartermaster General, such as clothing a
million of soldiers, transporting their subsist.
enee, arms, and ammunition to every camp,
from the Rio Grande to the Susquehanna ; eon
' structing telegraphs over the whole theatre of
war, 'and keeping them in order ; supplying
horses and forage far the most numerous ca
valry' and artillery ever kept on feet in one
army, and providin. wagon trains al Ways for
one side, and sometimes for both sides,in a
cohtest that numbered more eombatants'and
extended over a broader theatre of operations
than has ever been maintained by a single
nation.
The Subsistence Department of the array,
under the able direction of its accomplished
chief, General Eaton, is not the least remarka
ble for itsturfnirable administration, Unseen,
like the atmosphere, nevertheless it was
everywhere presentwith all heedful supplies];
contributing to every success, it is responsi
ble for no failure in any campaign. If my
time permitted, you might be interested in
some details of the new ordnance and small
arms, originated by Colt, Dahlgren,
Parrott,
Wiard, Spencer, Remington, antiothers—all
effectively employed in our military and na
val operations. I have also to regret that my
application for official information on these
subjects has not been successful, and conse
quently. my impressions laele the precision
which gives value to facts. In the beginning
Of the war we had very few private armories;
the Government relied for small arms on
purchases it was_permitted to make in fo
reign countries. More than a million of mus
kets Were so Obtained. Of these it is said by
the commissioners appointed to investigate
and report upon their value and quality that
"hundreds of thousands have been purchased
and delivered, and thousands more . are
to arrive, not, one .of which will last a
single campaign, and not one of which is
fit to be
_placed in the hands ofeivilixed
-
troops." For 'such muskets the Government
paid from eighteen to twenty-two. dollars
each. None of them being interchangeable in
any of their parts—not even in bayonets or
cones—it followed that when any part , was lost
or broken the gun was returned to the arsenal
for repairs or thrown away. Contracts were
soon made by Secretary Cameron and by his
successor, Secretary Stanton, with private
Springfield for the manufacture of muskets of the
Springfield and other patterns, for carbines,
pistols, swords, Sm., at liberal prices, averaging
about twenty-two dollars for muskets of the
Springfield pattern. The result of these
stimulating influences to private enterprise
was that about thirty complete armories were
established, vith the mostingenious and effi
cient machinery—employing twenty million
dollars Capital and twenty thousand
chanics, capable of producing five hundred
rifled muskets a day, at a cost to the manufac
tnrer not exceeding eight dollars (gold) a
piece, complete. So great have been the advan
tages Obtained by the use of machinery and
the division of labor in this branch of manu
factures that the armories of this country can
110 W compete stmessfully cheap 191bor
of Europe, - while we pay to our mechanics
those higher rates of wages to which they are
entitled by their superior skill and their ro;
spectable rank in the community. No other
nation hag ever equipped armies, as wo . have
done, with repeating rifles, beeech-loadin
carbines, revolvers, and rifled artillery;
when it becomes known how superior are the
arms we make, and the low price for which
they can be supplied, we will beentaki the
manufacturers of arms for the world. I can do
no more than glaiicw at the iniprovements in
troduced into the Medical Department of the
army; indeed, I.:ean only speak of any of the
great staff departments's() far as tiipix opera
tions passed under my own observation. The
construction and organization of general hos
pitals, the ample arrangement for field hos
pitals, the liberal and various supplies for hos
pitals, the unstinted and judicious expendi
tures for scientific appliances, improved am
bulances, hoeffital wagons—whieh are portable
apothecary shops-ehospital ears, adapted ex
pressly with spring beds to carry the sick and
wounded of the army over railroads ; the hu
mane use of chloroform r the liberal supply of
stimulants; the extensive issue of quinine,
One Of the most expensive medicines, as a pre
ventive—these are ameba , the noticeable fee.
tures of our improved administration of the
Medical service in the army.
To all this must be added the noble service
,of the Sanitary Commission, that good an el
of the army. Always cooperating with the
Government. an bringing to every battle-fleld
and to every hospitalthe innumerable gifts of
American women, inspired by patriotism and
'affection; the religious offices of our chap
lains and of the Christian Commission; the
tender nursing and pionseninietrations of Sis
ters of Charity ; the organized ageneies of ail'
the State governments for the relief of that
sick and wounded; the admirable service
performed by Adams' Express Company, in
'delivering parcels from home to soldiers in all
the armies • and when all irconsidereti,..when
PUT record ' is compared With that o other
wars—l venture to antieipatie that it will be
established that no army has' ever received, to
an equal extent with ours, the benefits of en
lightened and beneficent administration.
Here let me pause to pay wtribute to one
Upon whom, more than upon any other public
servant, has rested the vastendararied respon
sibilities which the conduct of our great war
imposed. When the rebellion declared itself,
towards the close of the administration of Pre-
Sident Buchanan. an eminent lawyer, who' adh
neither held °Mee nor been conspicuous as a
partisan in
polities, was called into - the-Cabi
net as Attorney General. Iris presence Miele.-
stantly felt in the vigorous measures taken to
enforce the authority of the Government. At
the criticel moment which followed= the occu
pation of Fort Sumpter, when-it seemed as- if
the Government would yield to theatidaeity
and vigor of revolutionary pressure,- his- fear
less counsels, his indomitable will, his-sturdy,
loyal nature, contributed mainly to that modi
fication of the pacific policy of President Be.- •
ehanan which was followed by measures-tore
slat the further aggressions of the insurgents:
Towards evening, on one of the gloomy days
of the winter at 1861, the Attorney General
sent for one of the Representatives in Congress
from New York, and informed him that unless.
ii t a h ea e nni p at
t e ne b as i t i ti e t :p ot
h o r n cr
ea o sr f r t a h nn e at N ,,av o t
to r du t h loar n dy r e a ir s em lnstantly
derson hack from Sumpter to Moultrie, It was
decided at once that an envoy should go to
the principal Northern cities and announce•
that the President had decided to maintain
Anderson in Sumpter at all hazards. " Fire
some powder" said Stanton : "all we can, do
yet is to lire blank cartridges; a thousand - but.
lets or a bale of hem would save us frame.
bloody rebellion 3 the President will not strike
a blow, but lie will resist if he sees the temper
of the people demands resistance ; go and:fire
some cannon, and let the echoes come to the
White Meuse." The next day salutes were
fired in New York, Philadelphia, Albany, and
other cities in honor of President Buchanan , s
determination to sustain the gallant Ander
son; congratulatorytelegrams were sent from
prominent men in all these cities to the Presi
dent; the corporate authorities of New York
passed earnest resolutions of support ; the
.Elera/d, and perhaps other journals, in leading
articles of remarkable power, endorsed and
commended the decision of the President. The
next daythe decision was made. The demand
of South Carolina for the evacuation of Fort
Sumpter was refused; it remained only the
South to reeedeor make war. President Lincoln.
was inaugurated; war followed, The Attorney
General of President Buchanan became after
a brief interval the war minister of President
Lincoln. His electric influence 'was instantly
felt throughout the army, and all over the
country, Commanding generals were ordered
to put their columns in motion, and attack the
enemy. The irresolution and lethargy which
are inseparable from a defensive policy van
ished before the universal initiative, inspired
by a positive and earn est character, who would
neither rest himself nor allow the enemies of
his country to rest bile the means of attack
were in his hands. Alternating successes and
defeats—colossal yet indebisive combats—'
enormous consumption of treasure—the proba
bility of foreign recognition and aid to the
Confederation—increasing hostility to the
measures of the Administration, finally culmi
nating in sedition, riots and revolts—the defi
ant overtures of aid and comfort to the ene
my, from public journals and public men—,
these were some of the accumulating embar
rassments that brought the Union cause to the
crisis of overthrow. The dauntless heart of the
iron Seeraary, himself the object 9f mea
sureless obloquy and bate, never- quailed.
To despair he.opposed revolution ; to
a defeated army he sent a more sue
eessful general; to the mob he spoke from
the mouths of cannons 3 insolent traitors and
spies within our lines were silenced and se
cured in the dungeons of the old Capitol, or
within the ponderous walls of Lafayette and
Warren. The President was of all men, gentle
and conciliatory. The Secretary of State was
absorbedthe unparalleled dr y c o ul sof our
foregtiog.Thesecretalfewec.
sltyvaslaborlous ydirecting e currentsexche
quer.ofnationalwealthiutohsexuesg
The Secretary of the Navy was building
and manning his fleets The Attorney General
never emerged from the mazes of his briefs.
It was necessary, nay, it was vital, that the un
defined and illimitable powers of Government,
a f or
bo i l t d s o h w n o n
e p s r t e , s a e n r d v a s
k t
l shouldh and; b b e y ii t e h e a l t d s e p d o b n y :
taneous concession of authority accorded to a
self-reliant and commanding character in all
great emergencies, it devolved upon Edwin
M. Stanton, in the darkest hours of danger, to
see that the Republic suffered no detriment.
In times when the idea was tolerated that
any citizen during war might assail the Go
vernment as he pleased, and with impunity;
it became necessary to silence sedition and
baffle treason by terror. It was fortunate that
the Government possessed a man, armed with
power to enforce his will, who inspired fear
enough to reinforce doubtful authority. Not
Richelieu himself, when France had no hiding
place that could conceal or power that could
Save, ens of his victims, was more dreaded
than au order of arrest signed by the Secretary.
of War, after the writ of habeas corpus was
suspended. Whatever may be the final judg
ment of jurists upon the legal questions in
volvedin these arrests, their effect was salu
tary. Traitors. fraudulent Centractors, spies,
dishpnest officials in the service, at length
felt there was somebody_ in authority to be
afraid of. Success was inexorably exacted
from commanders of armies; neither winter
nor summer, neither heat nor cold, neither
storm nor drought, neither distance nor de
fences, not' boasted superiority of =OM,
spared the enemy from attack.
At length the events of the war developed a
general whose genius, educated byexperience,
as was .said of Marlborough by Bolingbroke,
indicated all the attainments for supreme
command. This great and fortunate leader
was no sooner recognized than called to the
head of all the armies of the Union ; . and. from
that hour General Grant directed, without in
terference, but with invaluable energy of co
operation from the War Department, all the
succeeding campaigns to a triumphant con-.
elusion. Look hack to the period of despair,
during the first year of President LincolnPs
Administration, when leading journals de
manded a dictator ; recall the despondency
which followed the disastrous termination of
the peninsular campaign, in the summer of
i 5621 remember the general diScOntent and
weariness of the struggle which preCeded
the repulse of the enemy at Gettysburg;
the profound disappointment and Just in
dignation felt by the country at the fail
ure tq pursue and de.stroy th.e.army of Lee;
the sullen MenaCeS and the odtbreaka which
hindered the enforcement of the eanserip ,
tion law ; the blood , riot in this city;
the 'undisguised hostility of half of Europe t
the discouraging doubts and predictions of
nearly all the, world; and, finally, the in
creasing power and boldness of the for
midable numbers at home who pronounced
the war a failure, demanded an armistice, and
advised the acceptance of the best terms of
peace that could be obtained: It was at this
moment that Grant's decisive triumph at
Vicksburg wM announced. Soon afterwards
he was summoned by the Secretors , ' of War in
person to Chattanooga to retrieve the disaster
of Chickamauga. Gaming the great victory of
Missionary Ridge and opening a pathway to
the sea for Sherman, he came to the Rap
pahannock and brought fortune and final
triumph to theglorloits standards. of the
Army_ of the Potomac. What Godolphin
and Marlborouh were to the war of the sue.
cession ; what Lourols and Turenne were to
the struggle of Louis XIV. for European em
pire' what Carnet and Bonaparte were to the
wars of the French Republic ; what Pitt and
Wellington were to the European alliance
against Napoleon, Stanton and Grant have
been to the grandeSt struggle of ancient or
modern times for the maintenance of autho
rity, order, and justice in the government of
nations. The great war from which the nation
is now reposing has made the institutions of
all the States homogeneous. It has removed
from our plan of government the element that
most impaired its vigor—insufficient power to
suppress an insurrection sanctioned by the
government of a State. It has banished from
our civilization the reproach of servile labor,
thus elevating to the rank of freemen all
whose honorable toil supports in peace
the commonwealth Whose - honor and rights
they uphold in war. Besides the rank won by
the renown of our arms, the amplitude of the
resources we have displayed, and the con
stancy shown in the conflict, we shall emerge
from one of the most exhausting wars record
ed in history a stronger nation than we have
ever been, - Let us try to avoid the obvious
perils which now engage the attention of our
statesmen and people. Who will not welcome
and hasten the time when the asperity and
alienation between the old antagonists in the
Union shall yield to the kindlier sentiments of
eOlnlllo7l nationality, common intera i ste, and
common destiny% The South is now repre
sented in the councils of the nation by tile
President.. Thoroughly loyal, honest, able,
and fearless, he of all men knows the South,
and can be trusted by the whole country. In
hie vast and laborious undertaking to restore
tranquillity and bring order OutiOf the !Witt.
cal and industrial chaos which pervades the
South, let us give to the President the same
generous and confiding support accorded by
all parties to the statesmen of the period
when our Government was established.
When the war of Independence terminated,
the colonies were in a more favorable condi
tion' for the development of their resources,
and for the settlement of their institutions of
government on sure foundations than we And
the insurgent states to b President sent time.
Let us be guided by then the line
of conduct we shall adopt in our relations
with the conquered States and people. Let
us ratify the amnesty he has granted. Let us
help him to maintain regular civil authority
in the subjugated States by the action of their
Own loyal citizens. Let us do
all in our power
to egnsolidate our people ones more in their
ancient attachment to the Constitution and.
the Union. It has been almost the uniform
error of the successful party in civil wars to
perpetuate the passions of the conflict by pu
nitory and proscriptive measures against the
vanquished. Let us avoid this error, If the
victors are magnanimous the vanquished will
be Royal. The proscription of the Huguenots
cost France a million of her moat industrious
and loyal citizens, arrayed the Protes
tant Powers or Europe against her in
long and. exhausting wars, and more than
A century elapsed lore tUol 41100144V§
THREE CENTS.
of Louis Z1.. 4 e. regained the . position ald
power lost by persecution, The expulsion vir,
the Moors and , - Jews from Spain, the rigor of ,
the inquisition, and the sanguinary policy of
' Philip IL in the Spanish .Netherlands, were
followed by the declining prosperityand rank
of Spain among Mith)l3l3. The cruel legislation
of the British Parliament have drivai two mil
lions of the population of Ireland to this coun
try. Austria requireathree hundred thousand
scildiers to counteract the effect of severe ad
ministration in her Lialian and Hungarian
possessions. So long as armed resistance to
the authority of the Union continued rather
than suffer the humiliation of submission and
failure, I would have seen the continent laid
waste and given back again to the Senecas and
Cherokees for bunting grounds. New all, is
changed. The flag floats unchallenged,
uAsul
lied and imperial, over all the domain of the
republic. Every man who salutes it, hails the
ensign of freedom and justice. When the few
whose awful guilt is beyond the pale of human
charity shall have Suffered the -,7,llnalty of their
crimes, may we not say to those who are no
longer our adversaries, " that we hold them as
we hold the rest of mankind—enemies in war,
in peace friend 9.,t
THE SOUTO.
some Facts as Gathered from Use News•
Cl;l=i2l
GOvermrPerrY, of Soirth Carolina, hileilSued
a proclamation notifying the citizens , or the
arrangements lie made with the military au
thorities to establish civil law in the State.
The report of this conference appeared in The
Press bf yesterday.
The Richmond money reports give the fol
lowing quotations of Southern bank notes
" In 'Virginia, the Bank of Berkely bay ad
vanced from fifty to sixty cents on the dollar i•
Bank of lioekbridge, from twonty-three to
thirty Fairmount hank, from sixty to seven.
ty-nve cents. In North Carolina, there fa. a
slight decline in the notes of the banks of
Lexington and Wilmington. In Georgia,_ the
notes of the Central Railroad Banking Com
pany and Georgia Railroad Banking Company
have each advanced Ave cents on the
In Tennessee, the banks of Ifnoxville and Teti
nessee have made a similar advance. There
is no change in the notes of the banks of Ala
bama and Louisiana."
"The committee appointed„by the stoekhold
ers of the Virginia Central Railroad Company
to examine tile condition of that road, publish
a report of their observations. AIL the bridges
have been fully repaired or entirely rebuilt,
and are now in good condition. The tunnels
arc also in splendid order, and the general
condition of the bed and tmck is inch better
than it has been fora loug.time. The track on
the worn-out sections is being relaid with new
iron, and altogether the committee regard that
road as, for some time tb come, in good run
ning order:,
The Charleston News, of the 4th instant, has
a long and carefully-eonsinered leader, urging
a prompt and thorough aequiescenee by the
newly-Chosen South CarolinaGonventioninthe
pant of emancipation. It chasesthus :
"Under the eireutlastances, therefore, we
think there can be no greelitt 19 question the
propriety of immediate emancipation by the
convention. We end the controversy—
terminate suspense—enter at once upon
the measures necessary to our further
action—avoid the peril of intervention by
the Government, or the still greater pe
ril of domestic insurrection; inspire the
confidence that will trust to-ltd the further
fortunes of the race ameng us; and, pos
sessed of this subject, thorn-is-much ground
for the assurance that we can act upon it. Our
people are well. inclined to the negro. They
realize his condition better. than he does—
know that much he does offensive la the result
of facts he could not, if he , would, control.
The negroes arc themselves most estimable.
They present a record which, for service
and order, is without a parallel,. and now,
turned headlong into freedom. without
Prenaration, without Prerhonition—by men
at war with their masters- , end told that
they have been wronged and have a heritage
of vengeance, they exhibit in their. incliistry_, order,
patience, and propriety, an example which is not
within he experience or conceptions, even, of
man. IVO people have ever been so 'tried; none have
so stood trial; the like eatiNe-Would incite to
outrage the laboring population, of any State
in Europe; and if there have been disorders,
misconceptions, wrongs, the wonder is, not
that they should have occurred., but that there
should have been the limit to their occurrence.
With such a people, if not maddened by inju
dicious treatment, there is yet a future for ust
and it is now Par us in manhood and perfect
faith, to enter on. it.”
The Richmond Esguirer- has-- reason to- be
lieve that when Gen. Lee sent his application
for pardon to Washington, 04 it through
Gen. Grant. Gen. Lee was in—doubt about
sending it, as at the thrLa-Judge Underwood
had ordered the Grand 'jury of Norfolk to in_
diet him for treason. Tho. Enquirer is under
the impression that GM, Grant, after present
ing the petition to the President, wrote to , Lee
that he thought the proceedings at Norfolk
were wholly inadmissible -under the terms of
the surrender.
We see it stated, says the Richmond Repub..
tic, that an agent of a Peliah colony is lucking
for a location in Virginia.. A large Poliish4emi
gration to the United States is soon expected.
We shall be glad to see Virginia secure her
due share of this valmithie accession 'to. the
American population.. "dieep it bcflote- the
people' , of the world that there is no land on
the face of the globe which offers such induce
ments to immigration as Virginia.
The last Dion day in August was court day at
Warsaw, the county seat of Richmond county,
in the First congressional district of - Virginia.
The editor of the Fredericksburg Ledger; who
was present, says :
ig After dinner, Robert Mayo, Jr., of West
moreland, candidates for Cotigreso, addressed
the people most aceeptably for nearly= hour.
Mr. Mayo took bold and unequivocalw,round.
Said Mr. M., I am a, candidate for Congress be
cause I believe I am, the only man lathe field
not obnoxious to. the Federal Government.
IBC declared "UMW/ unequivocally - in favor
of: the constitutional amendment abolighing
slavery throughput the 'United States as the
only way to insure the peace and prosperity
of the Government,'
The State Treasurer of North Carolina has
made public 4, statement of the debt of that
State. It is as follows
Amount of debt before the war—A/3,610,300 00
Amount contracted since the war. 16,5943,483 61
Tata indelekedncps (excluding En-
Rgnat debtl Mclls,ogs 61
esources of State are:
Stocks in railroads ...,46,516,500. 00
Bonds on railroads and
other corporations... 3,117,75 G 88
$20,681.,695 73
Balance...
The amount of the blockade , debt in England
Li about £60,000.
W.e learn, says a Washington correspondent
of the 211//uno . , from a Private letter to a hen
tieviait in this City Dirt Dr. 3. P. Cowan, 4
thorough Union man, and persistentlyloyaa
throughout the rebellion, has been. elected
delegate to the StatoConvention from lame
,
stone county, Ala., ovcx ueo.s. Houston, rebel
loyalist and amnesty-Urtionist, by a very large
majority. MeClepleve, like Wise a rebel-loy
alist, has been selected a delegate because he,
bad no opposition. Judge Peck, of Tusca
loose, and Wm. IL Smith, of Randolph, both
presistent, 'Unita mien, we hope, have been
elected in their respective counties. If so,
they will constitute about all the Union men
in the convention.
OHIO.
CINOINNATI, Sept. 13.—The delegation of Eng-,
lish capitalists left for St. Louis this morning.
The Ohio. State Fair opened at Columbus
yesterday, he number of entries was larger
than at any previous fair.
Governor Anderson yesterday tendered the
office of State treasurer to M. Finn, of Elyria,
formerly president of the State Bank.
TUN ENGLISH CAPITALISTS IN CINO/NN,IiTI.—
we have heretofore mentioned the arrival in
this country of a delegation of capitalists,
railroad men, and financiers, from Europe.
The object of their visit is to make certain-in
vestigations in regard to American improve
ments and their investments in the same. The
party consists of the following-named gontio
men :
Sir S. Morton Pete, Baronet, M, P., tfre great
est railroad man in inland.
Hon. A.ginnaird, lit. E P., and a member of the
great banhink house of Renown, Bouveric, &Co.;London.
Seller Leon Salo, the Parisian banker of the
Spanish Government.
Mr. Goddard, manager of the Rook Island
Insurance Company, London, said to be one of
the wealthiest men of that city.
Mr. Satterthwaite, the well-known greet
London broker whose circular is so familiar
in mercantile circles. His operations are prin.
cthally in American securities.
Mr. korbes, general manager of the London,
Chatham, and Doverßailroad. This is one of
the heaviest lines in England.
Mr. Rensall, a manufacturer of Rochdale.
lie turns out from hip factories one-eighth of
all the flannel manufactured in England.
Dr. Slack, physician to Sir S. Morton Peto,'
and, it may be said, of the entire party.
Mr. Morton Peto, a son.of Sir S. Morton Pete.
Mr. Morton Betts, a nephew of Sir S. Morton
Pete.
Mr. Bevan is a banker of the great firm of
BarelaYs Bevan, Lombard street, Lon
don.
Mr. T. W. Rinnaird is a son of the Hon. A.
Rinnaird, M. P.
Mr. Cossbam is a great coal mine proprietOr.
He has five thousand hands in his emproy.
The rest of the party consist of Messrs.
Belcher, raerelnint of Liverpool; Rixon,
banker, Liverpool ; lull, solicitor, Liverpool ;
Grain, notary, London ;_ Spitler, solicitor;
Woodman, secretary to Sir S. Morton Peto
-
Woods, of the London Times; McDermott, Of
the Morning Post; and Hewitt, of the Morning
Stan
Mr. James tfollentV,Adto le the life and soul
of the whole party—in fact, the originator Of
the trip—is a native of Philadelphia, and son
of Dr. McHenry, of literary fame. Mr. Me-
Henry enjoys tbe reputation of being one of
the merchant princes of 'England.
These gentlemen all _reached the Burnet
House, in this city, last evening, where rooms
had been previously engaged for them. We
trust the civilities of our citizens will be most
cordially extended to them.--Cinchutatt Ga
zette,l2o6
THE Kit* Yonn DEmooniTle CONTI/N.llON.
The character and work of the "Democratic:"
Convention remind us of
wolfttl illustration
in the form of a fable. A caught a skunk,
and Wftg :about to slay h
p m , a
the' skunk
w
said 'Don't kill me; in a f,
wolf? Let me hear you barb." "I caul bark
right, because pre got a bad cold." "Butyour
cloth t look-like a wolfs." "Oh mine
were stolen; these are my little cousin's."
"But you laavn 7 t a wolf's ears." "Because my
eats were trimmed." The wolf, half eon.
vinced, was about to leave, when he suddenly
stopped, snuffed tile atmosphere a moment,
and exclaimed : "You may bark like a woltp.
and wear the clothes of a wolf, and show the
ears of a wolf, but no wolf ever had such a bad
smell about him asyou." And so the
skunk died.—../1/bany Evening ,Toirnai.
•
rierniam. Glativr'S WearlfOßSEo—Tnet WS,
horse "Jack," who was used by General Grant
durin g his carripaigns, waspnrobased,onBatur
day atternoouLP7 Li°n• Jigin Wentworthq for
1410.—QMONIO 2101,8,
TIE WAR PRESS.
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".
n (per annutc. In advance,) at dA 04
Plve copies 10 OM
Ten coptes ~ 90
Larger dub; than Toil will be charged at the same
rate, $2.00 per copy.
The money must always accomlianti o'B order, ema
in +to instance can these terms. be db 146 1 .14 fr" l ' "
they ctirOrct very tittle more than the wet or wow.
gip
Postmasters are requested to act as watt(
THS WAR PaBEIS.
*. To the getter-up of alp Clot) or tei or Mai
an . ex :ra cony of the Dauer *lll..b.ugiveg.
FOUTRESS MONBOE.
z ponranfle ilfoifiton, Sept, 12,—The United
States Steamer Pt Soto came : hto Norfolk lan
night for coal, and went to sea tO•clay,
The oteara lire-engine stable, en Cove street,
Nerfork, was consumed by fire last night,
Cainefol Peltriypaglrely who wasVounded at
the ftptu.rs of Fort Fislier e has solarVecoveren
as to leave' the hospital for his horns, in West
Chester; Pa, accompanied by hie aid; Captain.
Barnum:
Tut' Telisgraphte rota&
Cnictieu,Sept.lB.—.The National TelegraPhie
Union, which has - been in session in this City
since Monday, adjuurriod this evening to meet
in Baltinactre,' on the second Wednesday in.
September. The folletiving etkere were elect.
ed for the er.Nning year
President, U. - W. Utptintend, or St. Louilt
vice president, W; IL "rating, of Washington;
treasurer, L. • editor or 2blegraph;r•
recording- secretary, J. 0, Upham, of Bost=
dorresponding aseretaryrM l'eabody, stt
Joseph.
The delegates VCre entertained to-night by
a banquet at taus - Briggs ROttee, tendered by
the local Union.
The Prospects oVthe Mex.-tem Bepliblie
becoming more Gibtmty.
The following apeotityWasninkton despatelk
appears In the New YOrif: COPtlticrOfig Adver.
fiser, of last evening:
"WASHINOToN, Sept. Itt—The accounts from
Mexico respecting the isredg i eeta a the Repub.
lie are becoming more groo
"
The Ptiv.ticano wla.4 - 5
.q.illlter.e to the P-04
poblie, became dlscouraced. Ooi hearing of the
reduction of Sheriaaws army in Tow and
are making the best terms they can with Karl.
millan.
. .
,4 Without an immediate snuply of men and
money from the United EtiEfds the Liberala
must abandon the contest. .
ig Thn Administration, hoy,r6ver ) noither
suffer the neutrality laws to` be violated nor
will it go to war for an idea.
"In view of the prospects of establish..
ment of the empire the ent7of frontier
defenses is now receiving the attention of the
Government," , •
The Turned Tabree:
A NEWSPAPER EDITED. JOINTLY ITY - A WtIITE Anv
COLORED MAN SOON TO BE STARTLIDIN (MARLS**
TON.
[Correspondence N. T. Heraido
The Charleston ;Termini is to bsrahurtly re.
established under the auspices cf - its•fortner
proprietor, B. B. Ithett r Jr:' It is reported thiii
the editor has already 'Laken grounds against
k, -
the adoption by the State CortvencAM of tlitt
constitutional athendMent abollaillarelareryi.
An opposition paper, called the lialependeng
African, tube published by T, Hurley and Job
honum, the former a 'white man and the latter
colored, is announced to. appear almost at the
same time as the Zieveary, The proprietore
ti
have issued their circular an CMlThent cousido
.rable of a sensation, some of our more dory
tempered youths having resolved that it shalt
never have any other than a feeble and short
lived existence.
raTITIOBS FOR rAitnorr. or THE ARCH-HESSE°
Petitions of the most appealing character
arc coming to the President on behalf of Jeff
Davis. The last is from the ladies of Abbe
ville, and runs thus :
CFront the Charleston Courter•l
To his ExcelTotemll'etV MORN!, 4 3 1'WPIC91
flee United States: -
We, the undersigned, ladies of Abbeville dig.
trict, South Carolina, respectfully exhibit to
your Excellency our desire to intercede in be.
half of Ni'. Jefferson Davis, the President Of
the late Confederate States, We have heard
With much . eatiefactiest that petitions of a like
nature have been addressed teyotte Excel letter
from other portions of the country, and we
entertain the hope that these united appeals
for mercy will not fan unheeded upon the ears
of your Excellency: In any event, it will be
grateful to us to have thus testified our feel
ings for one whose fanlta, in oar judgment, at least, least, have not been past forgiveness. Called.
from the retirement of his home to a position.
which he did not solicit, but which his man..
hood forbade him to decline' illustrating by
his conduct the highest devotion to principles
which were maintained With }Marked unani.
Indy by his people ; temperate in the hours of
triumph, dignified and calm in the days of de.
feat, always just, always generous, always
brave, we see in his conduct everything to
evoke sympathy, and nothing. to merit the ex.
tremc ptinjahment 104} which he is threaten.
ed. The anise firmness end calm views of
policy which,. on repeated occasions, he die.
played in resisting the cries which, in his re
gion, were raised for sanguinary retaliation
t
we hope will now be exhibited, in disregard of.
the unfeeling agitation which seeks his life.
Wo holm theta will be a merciful reMembratme
of his poor wife, plundered Mid ingelted after
being torn away from his prison and of hie
young children, whose prospects in life hare
been so terribly blighted. Impelled by the
feelings of our nature—which are ever excited.
by the misfortunes of the brave and the good.
which have in ell flees clutreeterieed our sex
which moved the Marys tabe the last at the
cross and the first at the grave—we earnestly_
beseech your Excellency to exercise, in behalf.
of Mr. Davie, all Exceptive clemency.
Grant our petition, and, besides finding is.
your own breast the reward wllielr, attendit
every virtuous deed, we sincerely believe that
you may expect increase of your own renown,.
and of the honorable character which forme
the strength of your country. For ourselves
We Will say, we will bold in grateful remem
brance this net of generosity to the unfortu.
nate, and will teach our children «to rise up
and call you blessed."
CHIEF JEST= CHABilin JOHN
Chief Justice Chase, in transmitting to Gover
nor Anderson the resolutione Ocpted by the
Ohioans in Washington relative to the death
of Governor Brorigh, expressed) his own feel. ,
ings in the following beautiful language :
WAsHINIFECti, Sept. 8, 1865.
My DaAa Sm.: It has been made my duty to
transmit to you a copy of the preeeedings of a
recent meeting of citizens of Ohio, con.veraid
in this city to express idle mingled sentiments
of grief and gratitude with which the
intelli
genee of the death of our late Governor filled
their hearts; grief , . because of the great loss
and sore bereaveinont 7 gratitwds, tilAt 49 was
spared until lie bad seen the auspicious iBßile
of his labors, watelaings, and anxieties blithe
assured salvation of the landlie loved from the
rebellion he abhorred. '
It is a gatl duty which I perform, In John
Brun& we have loot a easeful 4ii12.111, ft Mamma
patriot, a faithful 'friend, a great state'sman,,
our honored and beloved Chief Magistrate.
Our only consolation, little felt in the first ma
meats of anguish, bat sure to coxne,tthough.
8/014, to in the mummy of his honorabke War
in the observatien of ita benefieent results
and influences, and in the hopes Of the herak
after.
9,634,299 ES
I have the honor to be, sir, with very, great
respect and esteem, yours meet truly,
S. I'. CITABL
n His
the State ENOolleney, CH
Ohio,AIILS ANDELL6ON, GOYIM.
or of of
A Maniac on n i l i rain of Cars.
A BOHAN CATHOLIC PRIEST CUTTING HIFI THROAT!,
TWICE-A. CHOSE-DREADFLIL 130ENIC3 IN A RAIZ&
WAY 9A4
A Boman Catholic priest, fauna. Peter Rao
mill, of NeWburyport, Mass, made two at
tempts on' the Boston mail train, this morn.
ing, to commit suicide by cutting his throat.
First Ilamill Used' a razor, with which he
made a great gash; and when the razor was
taken from him he took from his pocket a
knife, with which he repeated his attempts to
kill himself. The frightened the passengenl
from the car, and with Isis knife drove out thO
conductor, and afterwards jumped Out .of the
car window, and fought and vanquished
several brakemen and other:pent:inn' WII9
endeavored to, secure him. Escaping into
the streets of Norwalk,. ConnectieUt, ha
defied his pursuers for a ; considerable
time ; but was afterwards. Caught and
carried to the depot. It was thought best to
bring him tO this atitl'll9 Wits tied and
held by four 'men, until the arrival of the
train here. The man is how at Bellevue Hoe.
pitalrwhere he lies almost insensible from the
loss of blood. Ms Windpipe is severed, and
the cuts in his throat are so deep and se num°.
roue that his recovery is considered' very
doubtful. Alter hits arrival at Bellevue, ha
took a pencil and wrote that he had endea•
vored to kill himself in pursuance of his
"philosophy" and for the purpose of avoiding
a more horrible death. lie also gave his at..
tendants to understand that he had been.
maligned and slandered to such Mt extent that
life was nisi rabic. He is quiet at present,
and it is impossible for the physicians to do.
aide whether he is now insane.-11r. Y. Zing lalt
evening.
NEW witrilt CITY.
The gagle has arrived with Ravens dates or
Sept. 9th. Spain ints evatatated San. DOininge„ , ,
The revolution which broke out last month, in
which Cabral was named protector, is alioveri
and the Dominicans hope soon to reconstruct
their country.
Kirby Smith is still at Matadi/ash rather bly►
ken in health.
Judge Nelson has refused an inittnetion
the New York internal re7OIIIIP , ease of Cat
ting vs. Gilbert Shook, and the parties aro.
left to their remedy at law.
NOR-dRaIIVAL OP THE PIACIAP.A.
The reported arritta 8f the 'United State&
frigate. Niagara was an error.
BALES AT THE STOOK EXO/fd.NOR.
SECONE BOARD.
1515,000 VB Os 5-50 gg P ee Mali
5,000 1J Os 5 , 20 c goo N y Beni Tel Blo. NV
new islade ls"'" 200 mrie Railway 87
4,000 U S 58 10-40 0., o
430 (1° Reallto R. Pr , e . r. 4. 841 07ic
28,00rrreas N 7 2-10 ow
2d serics ''' ''' 30 100 lds egg
44" Tenn St '''' 3011 Coo 11 121
Olio es QS 200 C l lev &
6.000 Nortim c o , 2834 400 do 2ig
10,060 olig ) Sm 4 250 eli &N W li sla 28
1 % Fourth N Bank.. 05 200 do pref.
st,
IA Quick 5l Co 49 150 dci
lop W
do b 30.40 500 do 930.01
61
100 CA On CO '''''' . • 39X 200 do
100 Comb Cl prof.— 431 f 300 Clov,4,Tel R 101
a
.100 Marinom :4 co,. 12,1 i .knx n.„,ess.lia
500 do JO ICe M ? du Ob 46
moo do 1115 200R1 4 1W &0R.... 91
97
200
550 Ce nt r alolo 01
SHIP
The Frori9l l transpo
for Toulon, put in It
Markets by Telegraph.
BALTIMORE, Sept. I.3.—Flour is dull and the
market DOPY. Wheat is firm at $1,7562 for
white. Corn Is steady and in feadound
88690 c for white. Oats are steady at 4.4004
Flaxseed firm at 040.80 1 P bu. Groceries may
tive at full prices. Whisky higher at $2.203.
CHICAGO, scot. 18.—Flour steady. Wheat
firm and le higher at their:waning, pa Meanie
weak at $1..47% for No. 2, and e 1,2 1.28 fos 1 , ;6;
2. Corn firm, and 1 higher ; sales at 8134
OW for No. 1, and 57e for No. 2. Oats quiet e t a
31x@31i,0. Provisions firm
mess Pork, "ALM
Elighwines steady at $2.22,032.203. Frolglite
arm at Ho tor corn t 9 B ll2lll °'
Geseitits. ablaut
Flour bbls 6 , 500
Wheat, basil 89 , 000 1,
con, 102,000 178,0011
000
GaAs, II 17 0 9
•
NBW Yomc, Sept, W.
FROM HAVANA.
3CrDICIAL DECISION.
Tarn, from Vora Oran
to4day, short of bra a,