THE PRESS. ~:`TOPSD DAILY MIIINDILYB EXOEFTED) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. ai rjejc, NO. 11111. 4 .0TJTE "FOURTH STREZTs THE DAILY PRESS, City Subscribers, is EIGHT DOLLIES PAR in advance ; or FiFTSEN CENTS PAR 1:; r s . payable to the Carrier. Mailed to sub %Dos out or the city, SuMic DOLLARS PER 1: , 0 0-; TRIM DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR ; ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE o t . „-Ts FOR TEEMS MONTS'S, invariably in advance cow tune ordered. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. IRE TAI-WEEHEY PRESS, vued to Subscribers, IrOirs DOLLARS PEE AN pdvance. • fly 'll rtss. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1665 THE Mews. Hortin, of Texas,,is dead. De war in San Domingo is about over. Georgia State Convagtion has uncut repealed the ordinance of secession. 111 , r uagton county, New - •Jersey, holds her .11%11 n:ricn 1 rural lair to-a4Vatid to-morrow. „n in has again been Squelched by Maximi• VI election for the Florida State Convention held on October Ist. PELT.9OII9, ILll ex-rebel general, and • friends., were murdered recently near 1:11noras. 11:!:w:3es for the defence were called in the yesterday, who testified to his guilt. on particular occasions where cruelty 0 been charged upon him by the proseou- A lase-ball match, played yesterday in Wash :on, between the Olympians of this City the Washingtons of that city, was decided one inning. The Olympians were the 705Mia ,-, ter General Dennison, during the ~_,!h of September, put into operation fifty most important routes, and reopened hundred and fifty post- offices in the ihern States. I.e important order of the Secretary of the ,isurY, providing for the funding of certifi. of indebtedness, will be found in our Aington despatches. xajor General Palmer is not to be removed the Department of Kentucky, Hon, G. ,v has, however, been endeavoring to croplieh this end, because General Palmer directed that passes be given to all negroes „cannot obtain employment at home, and • compelled to go elsewhere to obtain it. ,e matter has been laid before the President. t Polish Jew from Mobile wont to Louis s few days ago, and represented that he just purchased a steamship called the „lea Rod, which plied between Louisville i New Orleans, and desired freight for her. .20i it, together with clothes, from several but was caught eventually, and will r.ished. further instalment of diplomatic corres. ^.,ience will be found in another column. It tr..; to the time when Maximilian assumed Imperial crown of Mexico. e steamer Belgian, with European adviees :he 22d. has arrived. The news is not very Ico new developments have been in the matter of the Fenians, although ,tral soldiers, belonging to the British army, d belonged to this secret organization, had -M arrested. A. Connecticut election was held yesterday. -result is not known yet; it is believed the Ann - ilea giving suffrage to colored persons defeated. :ixise-ball match, between the Athletic, of city, and the Pastimes, of Baltimore, came 'yesterday, at Fifteenth street and dolum- Avenue. The former club was victorious. Si, Pastimes 10. • Le Free Masons of South Carolina having minted Henry Huist, of Newberryeas State -;ate to the National Masonic Convention Kentucky, he accepts, and tail& letter says an a Free Mason i t .e would endeavor to do I Is, could to aid 4 the restoration of frater ke::ng between the North and South. 4rPral G..H. Thomas has issued an order, that Richard Wilmer, Bishop of the ;!,,taut Episcopal Church of the diocese of ' , one., and the clergy of said diocese be .F . rended from their functions, and forbidden ] , Erform divine service until they-shall take osth prescribed in the amnesty proelama n, sad resume the use of the prayer for the •iiident of the United States, as it is, per ,o cell known that, during the war, the . 2:e of the President of the Confederate of America " was substituted for that the President of the United States, and :;i:uce the close of the war the prayer has Nnirely omitted. 711111* was thin yesterday, but prices are ful per bbl higher. Wheat is "firmly held, ' :he sales are limited. Corn is rather bet. Cotton is more active and prices have ad. atil le per pound. In Provisions there is :y little doing for the want of stock. Whisky Without change. The speculative spirit of the stock market z:!ghtlybrohen yesterday. Beading, which teen so desperately hulled , ' until it shed 59, showed nnmistakable symptoms 'weakness, and at the close the stock was of -71,d freely at 58%. Coal stocks are still in fa- So material change in oils. Banks and lenger railroads command fair prices. Co mment bonds were selling at a slight de- ETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL), WASEITNGTON, Oct. 2 , 1861 RA': rough lessons of the war have Made :havoc with the plans and hopes of the letulers. Especially have th‘ so d Democratic politicians been baffled di..tappointed. Never having corn ilindecl the true philosophy of patriotic :!yduring the nation's tribulation—never flig honestly sympathized with the to defeat the insurrection—in fact, eu wishing God-speed to the rebels— find themselves utterly incompetent !ea! with the men who freely mingled :11 the dangers and innovations of 1!. mighty struggle. When they offer the Aeries and nostrums of past cam .'_n, to alleviate the gigantic perils of the Dublie, they are, therefore, laughed at, when they attempt to frighten the - .Tt spirits who stood unaimalled in the •Itl and death of desperate battle-fields, the ghosts of dead issues, they are set nt or pushed aside as madmen or fools. as they ventured in succession to re the wit; the debt to carry it on, the '"ition of slavery, the draft, the punish of traitors, and the execution of assas- with their Bourbon scare-crows and worn-out stage-tricks, they encoun ',l contempt after contempt, and defeat defeat. My belief is, that their expedient--that of trying to make a ::3" by opposing negro. suffrage—will ~111 adding another to their list of over --.ming misfortunes. I do not think it `fading the events of the hour wildly, to •.ripate that the Southern people may tP this problem to their own substantial At, and to the confusion of the Copper " 4 politicians. It is by no means impro s• that they may secure a modified suf t to the freedmen for the protection of :te and black. We have only to recount -4 their late conventions have done, how much will be gained to the Al i in political strength,, to progrios "l' that such a concession would be a 'dal as well as a sagacious precaution. - have the overruling fact, first, that rAckl labor, well treated and paid, is a Le necessity, never to be entirely ex zged for any white substitute, to the ''-trs of the vast cotton, rice, tobacco, sugar plantations. We then real bat not nearly so keenly and so •lautly as the Southern people them that if three-fifths of the slaves were .'k clited by the whites in the old times, 'out any civil rights whatever, all of "Lltteics all of the freedmen in the new (the present), .cannot be safely lesmted by the whites, without being -!1(1.1, at least, with the franchises enjoy the colored free men in the North West. Now these rights are being -I, Atarily accorded by the Southern peo iu the, conventions ; all, except the to rote. Front that alone there is a ; but was there not as much fear ''aft of the other privileges referred to, cordially accorded to the Southern When, only a few months ago, then recommended to the leaders of South : rJelety and opinion ? Colored people North Carolina and Tennessee on. a ''`r l Y qualification, cataon, thirty years ago, and disfranchized when the anti excitement began to agitate the findl to alarm the South. The sUg '''''n of suffrage to these numerous classes is stripped of much of its terror, if we 4 ider it in the light of increasing the nu -4Q representation of the Southern in Congress, or if we take the view held by those who say that the freed :4 'Win 'Vote with the masters who treated 111 kindly. That many of the ablest 4 t 'flien of that section have weighed , * "inughts, and have not rejected them, I',`'led by their public expressions.. I t' name several who are willing to modified or qualified suffrage. As philosophical truths are duly aUd e • . 1 • i t . .., .. • " 1` •. , 4-2 . • li a r ".. te k ` ) .•_ . ~.„ • . •‘• • - -3117 " „„ v - 7 m um IMO 111111 „ j _ ' 7711071' •ME • -•- _ _ -- ' - - . .. VOL. 9.-NO. 55. dispassionately considered, we mark the wide chasm between' the past, with its fatal prejudices and blind hatreds, and the present, with its stern necessities ; and we are humbled before the impressive spec tacle. The experiment of the Democratic politicians to fabricate a panic out of a contingent suffrage to the few negroes in the free States, contrasted with the large proportions of the question in the South, looks like the attempted mutiny of the crew of a ferry-boat for a grievance that did not disturb the stronger susceptibilities of the multitudes that manned a mighty ship-of-war. OCCASIONAL. WASHINGTON. Important Order Regarding the Funding of Treasury Obligations. THE EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF ALABAMA. Ile is Forbidden to Preach by the Military Authorities. ARREST OF A PROMINENT PENN 'SYLVANIA OFFICER. • ROBBERY AND ARSON CHARGED AGAINST 11131. WASHINGTON", Oct. 2, WA The Arrest of Brigadier General Bris coe for the Robbery of Government Funds—Further Particulars. Since the arrest of Brevet Brigadier General llatscOe, Colonel 199th Pennsylvania, for the robbery of Government funds amounting to forty thousand dollars, in the possession of the_ quartermaster at LynellbUrg, Virginia, some developments have been made which show the systematic planning of the robbery. It appears from recent evidence adduced that the Colonel took LACKEY into his confidence, and confided his plans and instructed I,Acucv to invite the quartermaster having the funds in his charge to enter into the scheme. The Captain, in order to deceive the pair, heartily acquieseed, but at the same time in. formed the authorities of the contemplated robbery. General BAKER, chief of the detec tive force, immediately adopted measures to entrap the thieves, and accordingly had his efficient force so arranged.that at the moment the funds were out of the quartermaster's safe the burglar should be surprised and ar. rested. The Colonel, after haying sent LACEEI7 to Philadelphia on some slight pretext, eon_ ceived the plan of appropriating all the money, and leaving hissonfederate with only his pains for his trouble. Accordingly, during his ab sence, he took an impression of the key:hole in wax, manufactured a key, opened the safe, and appropriated the money. After having obtained the plunder he entered his office and commenced the task of counting the money, when the door of his room was forced open, and, with the evidences Of his guilt before him, was arrested,. Upon a search of the room it was discovered that he bad a large lot of combustible material, which he had in. tended to use in firing the quartermaster's olliee in endeavoring to hide the evidence of his guilt. The prisoners are now incarcerated in the Old Capitol prison, and in a few days will be arraigned before a military tribunal. The Episcopal Church of Alabama and • the Prayer for the President of the 'United States. General llownlin, of the Freedmen's Bureau, has received an order issued by - Etajorteneral Thomas, in Alabama, - which is likely to cre ate a sensation among the members of the Protestant Episcopal elan:oho* of that state. This Church, as is well known, has an esta blished form of prayer to be used for the Pre sident of the United States, and all in civil au thority. During the rebellion the prayer was changed to one for the President of the Con federate States, and so altered was used la the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Ala.bama. Since the overthrow of the rebellion the prayer has been omitted altogether in the Episcopal churches of-Alabama. This omission was re commended by Right Rev. R. Wimsca, Bishop of Alabama. These facts having been brought to the knowledge of General Taomws, au order has been issued directing that the said RICH ARD WILIIER, Bishop of the Protestant EDISON pal Church of the Diocese of Alabama, and the clergy of said diocese be suspended from their functions and forbidden to preach or perform divine serviee ; and that their places of wor ship be closed until said bishop and clergy re turn to their allegiance to the United States Government, and give evidence of their loy alty by offering to resume the, age Of prayer for the President, and taking the oath pre. scribed in the amnesty proclamation. General Palmer and the Department of Kentucky. The report that RENO"' General PALMIUI is to be removed from command of the Department of Kentucky, is incorrect. Itis tree, however, that 110 n. G. CLAY Sutra has been making an effort to accomplish this end, because General PALMEII will not assist in sustaining and re viving the institution of slavery. General PALMEn, acting upon the belief that slavery is dead in. Kentucky, as elsewhere, has directed passes to be given to all people of color who could not obtain employment at home, and who were compelled to go elsewhere to get it. SMITH finds fault with this pass system ' and desires that somebody shall command in Ken tucky who will recognize and sustain slavery. The whole matter is before the President, who no doubt will finally settle it. Accounts of Late Southern Postmas. Non. I. N. ARNOLD, Sixth Auditor of the Trea sury, in conjunction with the Postmaster Gen eral, is engaged in overhauling the accounts of late southern postmasters, and instituting suits for the recovery of such balances as may have been due the department at the breaking out of the rebellion. The correspondence upon this and similar subjects with the Southern postmasters, is becoming extensive. Some postmasters come forward and offer to pay the balance which they owed; others send - olaims for pay due them for services up to the time their respective States seceded. Some ques tions connected with these money relations of amnestied rebels to the General Government will probably require the action of Congress before they are finally adjusted. The Interest on the 5-20 Bonds. In paying the interest on 5.205, dne Novem ber Ist, now in progress at the Treasury De partment, the bondholder is required to re ceipt for the interest and 101111 up a statement specifying the numbers of the bonds on which the interest is paid and the acts of Congress under which they are issued. Di honorably Discharged. Capl, JAMES /1100N.EY, 19th United states In fantry, having-been found guilty of making false musters, was sentenced to be dishonor ably dismissed the service and to pay a fine to the Government of three thousand dollars. Postal Affairs In the South. DUring,t , he month of September Postmaster General DBICIPISON, in addition to other efp. cial business; - put into operation fifty of the most Important routes and reopened four hundred and fifty poet-oftiees in the Southern States. Subsistence Depots Vacated. To-day most of the subsistence depots in this city, coltprising some thirty buildings, WCTC vacated, and the business of each merged into one. These buildings will soon be offered at public sale BRSC Batt. The Olympian Base-ball Club of Philadel phia played the Washington BaSe•bull Club of this city to-day. The game was won by the Philadelphians, who beat their opponents in one inning. Report of the Commissioner of Agri• culture. The September report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, lias just been issued. It con tains the usual amount of information re specting.the condition of the crops. Personal. Major. General WooL, Major General How- AitD, of the Freedmen's Bureau, and Major General PALMBR, this morning had an inter view with the President. The Connnissary Department The work of reducing the expenses of the Government in the Commissary Department is being vigorously carried out. Internal Revenue Receipts. The receipts from Internal revenue today exceeded three millions of <101191'9. [By. Associated Press.] - f un ding Certificates of Indebtedness. The Secretary of the Treasury hati ISSned proposals for funding certificates Of indebted ness, compound-interest notes and Treasury notes, and gives notice to the holders of certi ficates of indebtedness which mature before the Ist day of Janusll7 next, of compound.in• terest notes and of one and two-year Trea sury notes, of the readiness of the Department to give in exebange for then). to the extent of fifty millions of dollars ex per cent. live twenty year bonds at three per cent. premiuna, that is to say one hundred dollars of bonds for each one hundred and three dollars in certift eates and notes, provided the conversion is made prior to the first day of November next. The bonds issued in exchange for such certificates and notes will bear an in terest 94' #ix Per cent. per annum, pay- able semi-annually in coin upon the first days of May and November, and will be redeemable at the pleasure of the Go vernment after five years, and payable in twenty years from the Hrst day of No vember, 1805. The coupon and registered bonds issued under this proposal will be of the denominations of one hundred, five hun dred and one thousand dollars. Registered bonds of five thousand and ten thousand dol lars will be issued if desired. Holders of cer tificates, compound-interest or treasury notes, who desire to make such conversions, will de liver them to the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurers, or the designated depositaries of thetuited States, or to any national deposi tory bank which may consent to transact the business without charge. Interest will be al lowed on certificates of indebtedness and one and two year treasury notes matured or ma turing prior to the Ist of November, 1865, up to the date of maturity, and when maturing after the Ist of November, interest will be al. lowed to that day. • Upon the compound-inter est notes the interest will be computed to November 1, 1805, upon the amount of principal, ,and interest compounded on the back Of the said notes from the pe riod next prior to that date. The principal and interest of such treasury notes and obligations will be considered together as an offer for conversion; but, when after de. ducting the principal of the bonds and three per cent, premium, there -remains a fractional of one hundred dollars, this fractional part will be paid tp the depositor. The Secretary reserves to himself the right of withdrawing this-proposal at any time prior to the said first day of November, provided that fifty millions of dollars shall, prior to that date, be offered for conversion as aforesaid. Statement of the Public Debt. The following is ft recapitulation of the pub lic debt as appears from the books, Treasurer's returns, and requisitions in the Department on the 006. of .;eistehiber, NZ! Debt bearing interest in coin $1,116,658.181 80 Interest • ~9,991,Y10 50 Debt bearinginterestinlawfulmoney 1,260,00,120 44 interest 72,527,615 75 Debt on which interest has ceased—. 1.389,5Z0 OS Debt bearing no interest 866,891,093 84 Total amount outstanding $2,744,54:,726 17 Total interest $127,529,216 25 Legal-tender notes in circulation: Five per cent. notes • .W 051,230 of U. S. notes (old issue) 392.070 00 ObS. notes (new4ssue) 427,768,495 00 mpound lute:test notes (act of March S, 1863) - , 15,000,000 00 CORIIIOIIIId Interest noteJ- (ac,t. of June 30.1864) 202,012,141 00 Total $679.126,910 00 As compared with the statement for August there is a reduction of the public debt of nearly $15.742,000.00, and of interest over $500,000, and also a reduction of $0,012,000.00 of the legal-tender notes in circulation. Amount in the treasury (coin) V 2,740,788 73 Do. do. do. (currency) 56,_36,44113 Total $00,571.= 86 Showing a decrease of nearly .$12,700,000 of coin as compared with the August statement, ana an increase of $13,451,15i in currency. The amount of fractional currency is t1G,187,761 -- or an increase of ill-13,000. There has 'been an in - Crease of the June 30th, 10131, 9-20 bonds of *5,211,000, and of bonds of July 11th, 1802; six per cent, temporary loan of nearly $8,000,000, and of March Ist, 1862, certificates of Indebted ness, a reduction of over $22,000,000. Internal Revenue Decision. Tile Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that in determining the amount of taxable gross receipts for premium and as sessments under section 105 of the act of June 30th, 1841, insurance companies are not allowed to deduct any amount paid by them for rein surance. Reopening- of Southern Post-Offices Postmaster DENNISON, during September, re established service on 'fifty of the most im. portant routes, and reopened four hundred and fifty post-Mikes in the Southern States. Stationery for,Congress. PHILP & SoLomorrs, of Washington, have been awarded a contract for supplying sta tionery to the House of Representatives-for the ensuing year. DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE Our Relations with the Mexican itepubuc• and the Mexican Empire. The Government's Position when Maim"llan Assumed the Imperial Crown. DESPATCHES BETWEEN'SECRETARY SEWARD AND. MINISTER DAYTON. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—The third volume Of the diplomatic correspondence contains the following despatches on the subject of Mexico DEPARTMENT OHSTATE, WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 1895. Sin Your despatch of February 9, No. 149, has been received In this communication you mention , that the Archduke Maximilian, of Austria, is expected in Paris, and that circum stances may arise in which it may be necessary for you either to attend or to decline to attend ceremonies which may be observed in. his honor as a sovereign of Mexico, and yomask instructions. I have taken the President's-di rections upon the question. If the Archduke Maximilian appears in Paris only in his.oha meter as an imperial prince of the House of Hapsburg you will be expected to be neither demonstrative nor reserved in your deport ment towards him. If he appears there with any assumption of political authority or title in Mexico you will entirely refrain-from inter course with him. Should your proceedings become a subject of inquiry or remark you will be at liberty, in the exercise of your own discretion, to say that this Government, in view of its rights and duties in the- present conjuncture of its affairs, has prescribed fixed rules to be observed, not only by this depart ment, but by its representatives in foreign countries. We acknowledge revolutions only by direction of the President, upon full and mature consideration. Until such regular au thority for recognition, we do not hold formal or informal communications with political agents or representatives of revolutionary movements in countries with wine% we main tain diplomatic intercourse. WILLIAM Trl, SEWARD. WM. L. DAYTON, Esq., &c., &c., &c. DurAILTMENT OF STAT,E WASHINGTON, Sept. PS, ISM Sin.:Unofficial newspaper statements con cerning the alleged entrance of the Mexican General Cortinas with an armed force into the Territory of Texas, within the United States, with an assumption of military authority, have attracted the attention of this Depart ment as well as that of the Minister of France at this capital. The reports are contradictory and apparently unreliable. The dignity of this Government and its honor, as a neutral Power in the contict Which is raging in Mexieo, render it necessary that the President should be fully informed as early as possible of the prciceedings to which I have thus refer red. I have therefore to request that you will ascertain the facts, and make a report thereon to the Secretary of War. In the meantime, I have the pleasure to inform you that the pro ceeding is approved by which, orithe occasion referred to, you gave notice to the said Cor tines that you presence in arms within the United States, in an attitude of war against a friendly Power, with which the United States are at peace„would not be tolerated. Although that proceeding indicates that you have faith fully adhered to the instructions given to your predecessors, yet, I think it proper to renew the Injunetion that On no Recount, and in no way, must the neutrality of the United States in the war between France and Mexico be compromised by our military forces, or he suffered to be compromised within your com mand by either of the belligerents: 1 have the honor to be r General, your obe dient servant, WILLIAM 1/. SWARD. Major General E. 11. S. CAWBY, Commanding DepartMent of the Gulf, ileadquarten, New Orleans. PARIS, March Si, 1864. Sin: I herewith enclose you a slip cut from t r iationarri (the original being from the London Globe), stating that I had intimated a readi ness on the part of/the United States to re ceive a minister from Maximilian, as Emperor of Mexico, &c. These statements will, doubt less, be republished in our country. I need SOltroely say that, t3O far as I am concerned, there is not a word of truth in them. I have never given, nor thought of giving any such intimation as therein stated, either officially or unofficially, publicly or privately. Whether there is any truth in the statement as respects Mr. Slidell, his application for a conference and its refusal, I know not. I am, sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM L. DAYTON. lion. WM. 11. SICWAnbi Secretary Of State, itdC, DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASin - crow, April 30,13 /l 64. Sin: Your despatch of April 11, No. 449 has been received. I thank you for the infOrmation it brings concerning the acceptance of the tendered crown by the Archduke Maximilian, and his intended departure for Mexico. Events which have recently occurred in the eastern section of that cosatry, if they are cor rectly reported, show that the MeXiean na tional authorities are not likely to be immedi ately suppressed. It is of course not impossi ble that new embarrassments for this Govern ment may grow out of the Archduke's as sumption of authority in Mexico. But we shall do all that prudence, Justice and honor require to avert them ; at the same time we shall not forego the assertion of any of our nation al rights. If such precautions fail to secure us against aggression, we shall then, I trust, be able to rhic, without great eftart, to the new duties which in that ease will have devolved upon us. 1 remain now firm, as heretofore, in the opinion that the destinies of the American continent are not to be permanentlycontrolled any political arrangements that can be made in the capitals of Europe. I am, sir, your obedient servant, W/LLIAM 11. SWARD. WILLIAM L. DAYTON, EBq.,,&C. Mr. Seward, in the course of his letter to Mr. Geogrey (representing the French Govern• ment), dated Washington, April 6, 1861,.says : You also inform me in your last-mentioned note that French forces have been directed toward Sonora, and you bring to my knowledge rtaaors that a very considerable number of emigrants from California have lately disem. barked at Guaymas, and have established themselves in the country in virtue of grants which were made to them by rreeident Juarez, whom you describe as ea-president; you fur ther state that, the mission of the French forces is to prevent, in Sonora, the takinifrpossession of estates under such grants, the lawfulness of which', you say, will noyqg Admitted and PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1865. you suggest to me the expedience of malting this information known to American citiyens, who might be destined to allow themselves to be drawn into such speculations. While I appreciate the frankness and the good will which the Emperor's government manifests in thus communicating its views and purposes on the subject mentioned, it nevertheless remains my duty to say that this Government has long recognized, and still does continue to recognize the constitutional. government of the United States of MeXiee as the sovereign authority in that country, and the President, Benito Juarez, as its chief. This Government, at the same tine, equally recog nizes the condition of war existing in Mexico between that country and France. We main tain absolute neutrality between the bellige. rents, and we do not assume to judge, much less to judge in advance, of the effect of the war upon titles or estates. We have no know ledge of such an emigration from California to Senora as you have described in veer note ; but if such an emigration has taten place, those persons who thus emigrate will of course be regarded as subjecting themselves to the authority and laws by which the rights of citi zens of Mexico are governed ; and while it seems unnecessary for the President to assume that such emigrants will claim the protection of this Government for any estates of what ever kind they may attain or attempt to at tain in Mexico, it would certainly be presump tuous to attempt nowto decide upon the vali dity of such claim. Peaceful emigration from the United States is entirely free from restraint or influence of the Government. Emigrants themselves are generally well informed concerning their rights. Under these circumstances, any inter ference of the. Government concerning such emigration would be as Inexpedient as it would be without precedent. The case would be different if the act of emigration was at tended with preparations and purposes hos tile to Mexico, or to either belligerent party, or to any other nation, and therefore incom patible with the laws of the United States or with the law of nations. It is believed that the Government of the United States has al ready sufficiently indicated the views it must take in such a ease if it should occur, which, however, there seems no immediate reason to apprehend. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF BATON ROUSE AND roam HUDSON, BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Sept. 24, 18640- , GotofilM ; The letter of Hon. W. 11. Seward, Secretaryof State, to son. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War under date of Aug. 29,1864, covering tianslation of a communica tion received at Washington by the repre sentative of the Emperor of the French, in re gard to certain occurrences said to have taken place on the Rio Grande, and which has been referred to me for report, has been received. There is nothing specific in the charges or statements made upon which to. Make a de tailed report. With reference to the great number of Feile rals said to have crossed to Matamoras after the evacuation of Brownsville, I would state that there were not six citizens of the United States left in Brownsville when I withdrew the troops from that place. I had sent all persons, men, women and children, to New h Orleans. Some few Mexicans ; who had been living on the east side of the Rio Grande ) may probably have crossed into Mexico, but I know the number must have been small, for I had previously shipped a great majority of even the Mexicans to New Orleans ;J. mean such as resided on our side of the river. I "have been constantly in receipt of advices from Matamoras since the evacuation of Brownsville, and had such occurrences as the above taken place, I would certainly have heard something of it. With reference to t/49 arms and ammunition said to have gone into Mexico from litneigOßN territory, I would undertake to say, in the most positive manner, that nothing of the kind took place from January 1, 1864, till Au gust 1864, the period of my administration on the Rio Grande, not did anything wear that would warrant even a rumor of such a thing. It seems to me that when such charges are made, involving, as they do, the reputation of 'Officers of the United States army, some kind of proof should accompanS , the charges ; but . these statements being so general I can do nothing more than make a mere denial of the whole. There is neither truth in the report nor ground for it. .I am, with great respect, your ob , t servant, F. A. HERRON, Major General. Lieut. Col. C. S. CitnispEDNEN. A. A. G., New Orleans. THE TRIAL OF WIRZ. Continuation of the Prisoner's Tie fence—General itraux Relieved from Duty on the Commission—Mr. Ba ker Rudely Treated by the Court. WasnmoTow, Oct. :I.—The Wirz trial was re sumed today. W. D. Hammock, connected with the late rebel service, testified that Con federates could buy overcoats and other a/ti t-4.s then risoners ha& clad he believed on one occasion the paroled prisoners of clothes apiece from the supply of United States Sanitary goods received at Anderson • On cross-examination by Colonel Chipman, the witness said he never saw Wirz beat a prisoner of war, but he had seen hint take hold of men and throw them into their places, speaking to them in a profane manner, Wirz being of violent temper ,• witness had smug gled onions, etc., into the stockade, selling them at a profit to the prisoners. After the examination of this witness, General Bragg retired from the court-room. Judge Advocate Chipman then' read an order from the War Department relieving General Bragg, from duty on the Military Commission. Mr. Baker wanted to know the reason. The court. You can't ascertain ; none of your business. Mr. Baker. Can't I address a few words to the court? The ecurt. No ; nor make a motion ; it is none of your business ; . you have nothing to do with the orders to this court. Mr. Baker. Then I must object. The court. There is no objection about it ; go on with your examination. Vincent, Bardo, an Italian, testified that he was the man who blacked his face in order to make his escape by mixing in with an outgoing , gang of negroes, and for which he was pun ished by twenty-five lashes, and by being put in the ehalwang. • Mr. Baker to Yt irz—Captain, stand up. The captain did so. Mr. Baker to the witness—ls this the man who ordered you to be whipped and put in the stocks? The witness—No, that's not the man; I know that old Dutch captain ; I do not know who is sued the order for my punishment. Other witnesses were- examined for the de fence, and the Commission adjourned. FORTRESS MONROE. Jeff Davis Transferred to Carroll Hall. FORTRESS MONROE, Oct. 2.—Jefferson Davis was moved this morning, under a strong guard, from his casemate prison to the quarters as signed him in Carroll Hall. - FORTRESS MONROE, Sept. 30.—Mr. C. E. Sta ples, Of Norfolk, has placed the steamers Fa vorite and Feminine on the route between Norfolk, Roanoke, and Newbern, N. C.,making three trips per week. This is called the Inde. pendent Line, and connects at Wewbern with the railroads for the interior of North Caro line. The hull of the old frigate Congress was taken to the dry-dock at the Portsmouth navy yard yesterday. The steamers Albemarle and Yazoo sailed fOr New Yak to-day. VIRGINIA. The Congressional Eleetion in. Rich. locimoso, October 2.--Oeneral Terry has, by general order, designated nine members of the City Connell and nine aldermen, being a majority of each body elected in July, who shall be permitted to qualify and orminizefor the sole purpose of appointing officers to con duet the Congressional elections on the 12th instant. • Christian Douglass, in the First district, awl Eppes, in the fourth, have withdrawn from the contest for Congress. THE SUPPRESSION. OF A NEWSPAPER BALTIXORB, Oct. 2.—The Richmond. papeka Of to-day contain particulars of the suppression of the Commercial Bulletin by General Terry. The following order explains the matter : HEADQIIJARTF.B.B Oa THE DEFT.. OF V/8042H.A., itzeßXo/0), Sept. 90,186. GE/IF.HAL GROWLS O. 110.— Whereas, The allinterCiat Bulletin, a newspaper of this city, in,its issue of to-day, has pulthshed_ait firtiele which contains an indecent insult to the me• mory of the late President of the United States, and to those who surrounded him during the administration of his office, and an almost equally offensive reflection upon his Excellency, President Johnson, Therefore, if is ordered, That the general or- der of this department for the publication of said paper, be and it is hereby revoked, and that the office of the paper be closed. The provost marshal of the department will commit to prison Charles Dimitry, the writer of the said article. By order of Major General A.ll. Terry,' Em W. SMITH, A. A. G. GEORGIA. Ma Act of secession Declared Nall and NEW Youx, Oct. 2—The steamer Idaho, from Savannah September 26, has arrived here. A despatch to the Sava •••1 Herald, says the Georgia State Conventihas unanimously adopted the ordinapce aedarlng the net of se. cession null and uoid. The Herald of September 26th says that General Brannan has been ordered to the Tennessee Department, and will be succeeded by General Wilson. General Brannan left Savannah on the 26th for Nashviße via Augusta, accompanied by his staff, Major Coulter and Lieut. Davidson. LOUISIANA. Freedmen's Superintendent Suspended —A State Election un theist—lmport ant Delegates to Washington—Cotton NIVW ORLBANB, Sept. 28.—Getteitt1 Canby has suspended Assistant Superintendent Callahan, of the freedmen's bureau at Shreveport, from his duties, pending the investigation of serious .charges against him. Callahan is the indi vidual who placed the whole court under arrest a few days since. Governor Marvin, of Florida, has issued a proelamationi ordering - an eleotlOn for the State convention to be held on the Ist of October. Ex-Governor Horton, of Texas, died at hiata gorda on'the Authorized delegates of the Democratic party will leave to-morrow for Washington, on an Important mission. Cotton is firm receipts of 3,500 bales to-day sales of the day 4,600, receipts of thi week 16,000, port sales of the week 9,000. Freights and sight bills uneltstiged, EUROPE. PROGRESS OF THE DISARMING OF THE FENIANS. NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS MADE. A NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE AMONG BRITISH SOLDIERS. FATHER POINT, Oct. 2.—The steamship Bel gian, from Livepool September 21st, via Lon donderry September 22d, passed this point this afternoon, en route to Quebec. The steamship North American, from Que bec, arrived at Londonderry on the 10th, and at Liverpool on the afternoon Of the pth. The steamship Hansa, from New York, ar riVed at Southampton on the afternoon of the 20th. The steamship Pennsylvania, from New York, arrived at Queenstown on the elat, at 8 A. The steamer Caledonia arrived out on the 22d ult. The Belgian has forty-sixeabin and two hun dred and forty steerage passengers. THE FENIANS 'There were no new developments in the crusade against the Fenians. The examina tion of the prisoners stood fixed for the 1:3(1." James Murphy, one of the men arrested at Dublin, who described himself as a citizen of Boston, and protested against his arrest, had been set at liberty "after (says the /Memnon) an interview between the American Consul and the authorities." It is stated that Mur phy is connected with the War Department at Washington, but no explanation is given of connection with the suppressed Irish people. As the . BBth regiment was on parade in Cork barracks, the sergeant-major was called into the autird•room and shown a roll-book of mem ber's names taken from an arrested Fenian.. The sergeant major admitted that one of the signatures was his, and was at once taken into custody. A private soldier, belonging to the same regiment, was also arrested. This caused great excitement in Cork, even leading, it is reported, to a run on a Cork banker. A Fenian demonstration was rather ex pected at-the Limerick races, and the military were kept in readiness, but all passed off quietly. James Stevens, for whom a reward of &IV is offered, was aid•de-camp to Smith O'Brien at Ballingary. The American officer arrested at Queens town on the arrival of the City of Limerick, turns out to-be a Federal and not a Confede rate captain, named McCafferty. A number of Fenian documents of an incendiary character were found' in his possession,with evidence that he is connected with the nevoment. The arms of Brigadier General Gleason, of the United States army, who was also a pas senger on the City of Limerick, were taken from him. The Morning Pose editorially asserts that the American Government is strongly Opposed to the Fenlens, and will do all in its power to de feat them. It says President Johnson and Mr. Seward are animated by tbe most friendly sen timents towards England, and the latter has communicated Fenian movements to the Bri tish Cabinet, and neither the British public nor the Government will readily forget Mr. Se ward's honorable and amicable conduct. The Daily , News thinks the Fenian collapse is likely to settle, in a beneficial way, the re- Miens between the - United States and Lreland, and that the political relations between England and Ireland are likely to be far better - understood than they have ever vet been. Lieutenant Colonel Voboreke, late adjutant general of cavalry, writes to the Times a state ment that the documents found on the person of Colonel Dahlgren, after he was killed, were forgeries. Satterthwaite's circular, dated on the eve ning of ,the 20th, says the market for the American securities.has been very active, and up to the IClth with steadily advancin ,, rates. The 5-90 Is were at one time alone. as high as egg, but gave way and closed heavy at GS@ a had an b i e m en pro la v rge em ly en b t o o u n gh th t e up w t e o e sB: o 4 f , but on renewed buy- Itri4detiEtWrnieis6feirl2lPl47e''d to 5734"457%. Illinois about three quarterg,ol -and Great Westemn bonds in: Atlantic ., be sold even # - V an advance oftWo to three The London .rines says that Frankfort ad vices mentiowthat a- meeting of American bondholders was recently called there bar Lanier, a New York banker, which-was largely attended. Mr. Lanier stated-that he had not come to borrow, as his- countrymen were com petent to provide for the wants of the Govern ment, but to make some communications about, present facts and the future prospects, the Secretary of the Treasury having desired him to do so during his stay in Europe. Mr. Lanier stated that as large importations were required for the South; a large revenue from customs was probable. He also stated that Congress, at its next session, will probably sanction export duties on cotton, tobacco, &c., by which an additional revenue of sixty mil lions would be raised. Lt was the intention of the Secretary of the Treasury to take up spe cie as soon as- possible, with a reduction of paper currency next spring. The meeting expressedgreat doubts whether export or large import duties would answer the purpose, the 118196 on these subjects being entirely of an qppositie character in Europe, where export duties are abolished and import duties reduced to the lowest point. Above all, the advantage was urged of setting aside certain revenues forthe gradual extinotion of paper currency. FRANCE. There are rumors of probable ministerial changes shortly, and also of some Government reforms, including more liberty to the press. ITALY. The Minister of the Interior has issued a cir cular to Prefects, relative to the approaching. election. He also announces sundry measures to be presented. in the new Parliament in cluding one for the suppression of religious. bildies staid readjustment of ecclesiastical pro perty. TIIIIKEY. A Vienna paper learns that the war-like preparations which are again making in 'non enevo have induced the Porte to ittioptipre• cautionary measures, and send reinforce ments to the frontier. Omar Pasha's pres ence in Vienna was believed to be in connec tion with these movements. • LONDON MONEY MAIIKET.—The funds are steady and Consols unchanged. Discounts ace in fair demand, and the supply of money is-not over abundant at 3ya4 per cent. Latest by Telegraph to Londonderry. lAvmtroot, Sept. 22.—The Fenian arrests con tinue. Another noncommissioned officer was arrested in the Corkgarrison. Two ar rests also occurred in Manchester, and one in Sheffield. It is stated that the evidence was too voluminous to admit of the examination taking place on the 23d. Comanereial—per Belgiam. (By Telegiaph to LondonderrY.3 LIVF-111.00L, Friday, Sept. 22.-Carron: The Bro kers, Circular reports the sales of Cotton for the Week at 198,000 bales, including 64,000 to speculators and 30,000 to exporters. The market has how ex cited, and for. advanced 30:*94c. for American. and M®lll ror other descriptions. The authorized quotations are; Fair Orleans, 22d; middling Orleans, 19 3 10; middlhig Mobiles and Uplands,l9o. The sales to.day (Friday) were 20,(N)0 bales, the market closing with a Still upward tendency. The stock In port is estimated at 350,000 bales, of which 23,500 are Ame rican. STATE OF TRADE.—TIie Manchester market is buoyant, and prices still advancing. BintannuFFs are firm, and Wheat is 10 higher. PROVISIONS are steady. LONDON", Sept, 22, r, AL—Consols close at 8934110) , 89Y, for money. Illinois Central shares BnBOM. Erie Shares 57g. B. S. live-twenties 68@883¢. The bullion In the Bank of England has. increased 564,000. LONDON..Shpt. 21.—Breadstuffs dull but steady. Bngar still advancing. Coffee Alm. Tea steady. Rice Amiet and steady. Tallow . Inactive. -• Ship News. Arrived from Philadelphia Sept. 17, the Ddielidel Angelo, at Antwerp Arrived from lartim.ore August 16, Chanticleer, at Rio de Jmaleiro. Salted for Philadelppli Sept. 15, Village Belle, from Londonderry. MEXICO. Murder of a Late Rebel General—llen of the same stripe in Maximilian's Service— Gwin again Dleappoluted and Squelched—Military ; Movements. NEW ORLEAIis, Sept. 29.-Gen. John B. Clarke, an ex-rebel Congressman from Missouri, was arrested at Antonia and sent here. He con. firms' the report of the murder of the rebel General Parsons and three of his friends, while travelling to Matamoros, and reports the condition of affairs in Mexico as most un satWactory. The monarchy was exercising its powers with the greatest severity. Some Confederate generals had accepted service un cial. Maximilian, As canes, they Were ordered to report at a certain town, but many had pre viously gone to the'racifie coast, on their way to Brazil or,some other country. Ex-fienator Gwin had an understanding with Napoleon relative to the colonization of So nora, but Maximilian failed to countenance the scheme, consequently it Was abandoned. Hwin then returned to the United States. The Matamoras Moniteur, of the 15th, says: resquiera, the Liberal Governor of Sonora, has been deserted by in except two hundred men, and has written to the French com mander stating that as soon as the French forces should arrive at HernleSisto he would leave, deeming the Juarez cause hopeless. In the neighborhood of Tampico the Impe rialists claimed to be successful, again totally defeating Mondros and occupying Tuba and ciudad. • The Victoria Monitor HMIS to apprehend that Cortinas and Corruilo and others medi tate an attack on Matamoras, but Mejia is pre pared. Captain Ney Is forming a contra•gue rilla force. se was lately at Monterey. SAN DOMINGO. Fruits of the End of the War. New Yona, October 2.—Advices from San Da mingo to the sth ult. Dave been received. The death penalty for political offences .has been abolished. The United States Steamer Mereedita ar. rived and saluted the Dominican flag. Her commander had vistted the head of the Go vernment. The families who left the island during the war are returning, and buain.eue 14 reirlying. THE INDIAN EXPEDITION. Return of General Conner's Farces. WHAT WAS , ACCOMPLISHED. FORT LARAMIE, Oct. I.—General Conner re turned on Saturday from the .1" owdOr-river In dian expedition. His columns will be here in six days. The results of the campaign were four pitched battles with the Cheyennes, .1 3 o i s i s ch o i n gu m n u; side o b f i on e x a ,. p u t n a d irt Ar e / O '4lA , 11 09 re s t , h w e i t 6 l t ) twenty-four men killed and two wounded, and an Indian loss of four hundred to five hundred killed, and a large number wounded ; the en tire destreetion of the village of the Arrapa. hoes, and the capture of five hundred head of horses and mules. The Arrapahoes acknowledge the foss of sixty-eight of their braves in one battle, and are now coming in to make peace, It is thought, however, that the Sioux and Chey. ennes are not half whipped. 'Not less than fifteen hundred men should be stationed at Fort Conner, and the campaign continued du ring the winter. The citizens fear that the Sioux and Cheyennes will come back on the road and interfere with the mails and tele graph. The expedition was carried out under the most embarrassing circumstances. Not a pound of the stores intended for the expedition arrived in time for use. The troops wore mutinous, and claimed their discharge because the rebellion has ceased, and regi ments were mustered out almost as soon as they arrived' on the plains. NEW YORK CITY. Di - $w TORN, Oct. `OM IfAYAL. The United States steamer biereedita and the sloop•ofwar Sabine have arrived here. 2 , IARTSE. The steamer Tyne. from Malaga, arrived here at noon to-day. Arrived, ship Bombay; from Bombay bark Tollens, from Rotterdam. Arrived steamers Liberty, from Havana, and Empire City, from Port Royal. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. SECOND BOARD, 200 Read vg .....sIO.IE 1000 13 S es 5-20 c ex Nov c0.1.113?4, 6000 IT S 5s 10-40 e 09 50000 Treas Nts 7 3-10 third series.. 9894 2000 U 5 6s 1 year cer -new issue.... 027 .200000 & Cer... 28X 200 Canton C 0..- 403 e, 50 Com Coal prf.... 96 50 (4'110112 Co 4034 300 do. ...... . 99 500 do 500 do 530.116 , :i 200 Well Cent It 115 300 Cld &R I ex-d:—.105 100 do .10.107 , sooms&Nrlß R_, 721 200 do s 3 72 1700 do 300 do .. 72 100 do s3O 7114 100 e3O 7134 1 800 CI knits R o 500 do 7514 200 do. ..... .....s3O 75 200 C & NW 0f...530 62% 400 Clev & Tol R 109.4 300M&PduCIt,i1 404 400 rFt W C et div 07,16 . . 100 _NY Cen R. . 36% RO Erie R.. ...... b3O 8834 100 d0..... 5 . s3O 900 do ncl Hudson Riv R.... 11114 400 liettaing f 1171.4 1000 do 117',4 2000 de 3.1735 BOSTON. Bowrolc, Oct. 2.—The Transcript states that Governor Andrews declines the presidency of Antioch College. Col6nel Roland, commissioner of the North ern Pacific Railroad, addressed the Boston Board of Trade to-day upon the interest of New England in the construction of that road. A committee of nine was appointed to con sider the subject and report thereon. Attempted Swindling Operation. Lorievriax, Sept. 30.—A Polish Jc,w, from Mobile, calling himself A. M. Auerbach, and representing that he had bought the steamer Golden Rod, bound hence from New Orleans with a valuable cargo, purchase/ some $30,000 worth of various kinds of mere Landis° from several of our large houses. BO ,re the goods were delivered, it was found that no such boat was in existence, and Auerbach yeas arrested. He had obtained from various 11 ouses several articles of wearing apparel for his personal use, The American Board of foreign MU sions—Movementa of Gea - L. Sherman. CmcAao,.Oct. _- Mg of the American Board eiity to-morrow, and continue till Fridai. expected that over one thousand delegates t An be in attend ance. General Sherman /MVP Jere to-morrow for Western Missouri and h f .1 - tap, on officialbusiness. Connecticut Zl4 etion. HARTFORD, Oct. 2.—This Q ity has - given 654 majority against the amens invent giving the right of suffrage to negroesi , Greenwich gives a like majority of 285 and i Democratic ma jority for the town ticket. iorwalk also gives 125 majority against the a endment. . HARTFORD, Oct. 2.—Sufli tient returns have been received to show . 41 to majority against, the Constitutional amend - .tient to be several thousand. [SECOND DES; :ATCH.] Returns from thirty-1 ree towns give 2,800 Majority against the., I.nendment, which is probably defeated by 1 min 3,000 to 6,000 ma. jority. The Overland nor .te to California. ATcnisoN, lia,nsas, Cftet 2.—liolladars over land mail route is ritay( entirely free of Ind!• ans, and stages are araving on fast time, viz.: six days from Coloritdo, eleven days from irtsb, thirteen days frem Nevada, fifteen days Idaho and Montana, And eighteen days from California. 7 Burlington County fair. Btriatzterroxr, N. J.; Oct. 2.-The Agricultural Fair of this county Atte hold at Aft, golly, to-morrow and Wednesday. Every effort is being made to insure success. Access by rail road from Philadelphia is easy, by five daily trains from Walnut-street 'wharf. Markets by Telegraph CINCINNATI, Oct. 2.—High grades of flour are in demand. Holders ask higher prices. Super fine is offered at $7,5 0 (§1.7 5 ; extra, *9; family, *9.504310.0 0 ,. without buyers. Whisky is steady at $2.26. Mess Pork is held at $35 ; 300bbls were sold at $84.50. Bulk Meats and Bacon are held firmly, above the views of buyers. Bacon sides; clear, sold at 24;1005e, and bone in, they are held at 22. Bacon shoulders were held at WA •; bulk shoulders at 17%, and sides at 18X . Lard dull at 29. Prime Mess Pork was in am nand at *29, but was held at 830 at the close. Prime oldred Wheat is held at $2.10, but there are few buyers at this rate. New is still neg lected ; $l@l.lE; is the range asked. Corn steady at 65 for ear and 68 for shelled. Oats quiet at 43045 ; the latter is the rate asked for strictly prime. Rye is quiet at 75078 for prime new, and 85 for old. Barley unchanged and neglected ; prices are merely nominal. YANCEY. A STRANGE STATEMENT-1101 , 71VILLIAM L. YANCEY MET HIS DEATH.--A PERSONAL RENCONTRE IN TEE CONFEDERATE BBNATE-YANCET MORTALLY WOUVDIM-A. VOTE OF SECEESY PASSED, AIPD THE AFTArn UUSKED Ur. [Prow the Nashville Republican maser, Sept. 28.3 As you enter the cemetery at liloqgomery, and turn to the right, you will perceive a co lonnade of maple trees leading off to a quiet glen. Beyond is S. grassy knoll, and leaving this to the left you will approach a pleasant level of greensward. Here you will be tempt ed to pause before a plain slab of white marble `of the most humble description. It bears a simple intoiptivii: "William L. Yancey." His last words were: "Put mo out of Sight al and it is said that he was constantly muttering, toward his latter end, those lines of Pope : . 6 Let me live unseen, unknown, And unlamented let me die. Nor mound, nor monument, nor stone, Tell where I lie" His death was quiet and painless, after a year of acute physical and mental stilferingi Ile was a strict churchman a man of quiet man ners • a handsome declaimer, and a fair scho lar. lie was never wealthy, and it is under stood that he left his family without an inde pendence. The time has 00=0 when the circumstances of his last illness and death, with the occasion which suddenly convulsed a frame from per feet health into a wreck and mere shadow, may be mentioned as a historical fact. William L. Yancey came to his end by violence. It was toward the close of the second session of the first Confederate Congress that he broke froth the counsels and influence of Mr. Davis, and became, with Mr. Henry S. Forte, a leader of the opposition: Mr. Ben Hill, a Senator from Georgia, had likewise changed his front, and was remarkable for the earnestness, personal interest and persistency with which he sus tained the measures of an administration to which his allegiance had been given but date in the day. Mr. Yancey, it. will be remembered, had returned from an unsuccessful mission, to Europe, and was representing Alabama in the Confederate Senate. The question of a navy was unaer discussion in secret session. The debate ranged beyond the parliamentary limits, and Messrs; Yancey and Hill became animated over the abstract doctrines of State rights and the divinity of slavery. High words passed, and finally the lie was given by Mr. MIL Mr. Yanc© leaped forward, and, as he aimed a blow at h S adVer sax 7, was Caught in the arms of the latter, and violently throwitback over a desk. Mr. Hill is a man of wonderful muscular development. Mr. Yancey was never very heavy, though lithe and active. In the fall his spine was se riously injured, and, when the bystander!' rushed upon the two, and dragged the one from the other, the great fire-eater lay uncon scious upon the floor, with a little trickle of blood oozing from his lips. He was carried to his hotel; a vote of secrecy was passed, and the encounter hushed up. No one in Rich. mond, except that body of men, knew of the circumstance for six months after. Mean while, the victim did not recover. He droop ed from day to day. He became listless, hope less and vacant. He was transferred to his own home, where his convulsions ceased a few weeks before his death, which was tranquil and calm. lie died without one hope of the success of the Southern Republic he had as to found and govern; for which he had labored day and night for twenty-five years to which he had sacrificed .his people the Union of the States, and the choseninstitutions of the South—a broken-hearted man—" unwept, un honored and unsung." Tn BaLmnsouE CUTTER, which llaa always been a sterling Union journal, has Ceased to exist. Its proprietor intends starting in its lilaee today a journal 041104 %Ito Valuators Daily Conumial, CLOSE OF THE STATE FAIRE Seenes7 and Incident [Special Corre3polidenee of The Pres.] WILLI/0101'011T, bept. 1.10, IB' The thousands of stranger's 'Who filled the highways and byways of Williamsport during the past four days have departed, and with them, as if by xnagie f have'disappeared the nu merous mechanical iriventiOnSi the different breeds of cattle, horses, and hogs; the fifty or sixty varieties of frnit;. and the hundred or two specimens of handiwork.which have at filleted hither alike the farm er mitt the firt4?-ml and indeed the representatives of every trade and profession, with their wives, aMers, daughters;and sweethearth. No agricultural exhibition'probably ever in. vited public patronage more successfully than that which has just terminated, and' probably' no single one ever offered less- inducements. to its visitors, or less return , Par twenty-dice cents invested. The officers of the society acknowledge that such was the fact, and' many of them are loud in their denunciations of certain railroad companies whose delay and procrastination are said to be the cause of the many vacant stalls and stands which• were painfully apparent to the wail-wiallers of the organization. A strange innovation was introduced at this exhibition, which it is to be presumed and hoped will never be witnessed again at a sifiU lar entertainment. I refer to the ilitrodtio , tion within the enclosure of innumerableside shows and drinking-bars, which were of no pe cuniary benefit tothe society, whatever mone tary advantage they might have been to the owner of the ground. The superintendent, General Williams, opposed the allotment of space to these tents and booths without avail, and every moral visitor was consequently dis gusted and annoyed. Hundreds of the %leiter§ daily thronged the interior of the shows, while ' the number of .young men who reeled to .and fro, a disgrace to themselves, and objects of fear toctlie lady sight-seers, bore evidence- to the profits the rum-sellers were deriving from. the privileges granted. It only needed the removal of the Weill -818th and Other gambling: tables from the outside to conspicuous points . within the gates to make the degradation and insult more complete. Notwithstanding the railroad delaya, and the consequent diminution in the number of articles exhibited, there were certainly many contributions which were de serving of especial notice, and worthy the at tention of the visitors. Some of these were to. be seen in the mechanical department, other*. . in the floral, a few in the horse and cattle. stalls, and many in the building devoted to perishable articles. To the ladies the latter were probably more attractive, from the fact that a majority of the contributions were pro ducts of the skill and taste of members oi, o tlieir own sex; but under the same roof were` of nillner9TlS patterns, stoves an(' heaters of many sizes and shapes, iron rail ings of curious designs, and what was of mor interest to engineers,' founders and macht ists than all else, the recently invent "Ross Oil Cup," the simplicity of oonstruett, of which, with its low price, have made a manufacturer, Mr. B. E. Lehman, of Detc h hem, so well known to the owners of marls, stationary and loooPlotlYe engines. In concluding the description of the S'se, Fair, it will not be amiss to, say sornetl-,, about the town in which it was held. Wil liamsport contains a population of some te, or twelve thousand, and, with a continuant, of the enterprise which now marks it, but fet years can elapse before it will be closet among the largest cities in the State. An, , a tempt was made last winter to procure a et's, ter incorporating it into a city ; but althcs res the bill passed both Houses, it was nonain turned with the Governor's signature, an p l r % friends of the project will doubtless be This polled to lessen their aspirations, and 3 farm, at one tent with boundaries which do not exte known or three miles through the country/PM, the built-up portions of the burg, erst"tr'x' de _ _ 510 71 have an opportunity to elect a Majj)- 42 e amnia, ' vident The marcher 111?_iirpN .---- e Rouse', 9 - 'tending l‘ has been said, and whose di !nue- - e of your Girard Rouse, hasag ei l / 4 101tVeleast-n --mna rrom the centre of the town; but as the Union depot of the different lines of railway, a building some three hundred feet in length, Is to be erected near by, and a passenger railway connects with the eonitakOuSe and hotels At 190014' note, it is to be presumed that before long another settlement will be commenced and completed in this locality. It is understood that a greater number of the railroad trains will stop at this point, and afford the passengers an op portunity to select from Mr. Roppesf bill of fare ; and from visible Signs and semi-official rumors, it is apparent that the energies of at least a few men in the Ceiramunity will be di, rested towards the improvement of this pro perty, which, without such improvement, would be valuable only as farming land to the owner or lessee. J. R. D. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following 18 a statement of (AO condition of the Philadelphia banks yesterday, as compared with the previous week Sept. 25. Oct. 2. Capital stock $14,442,250 $14,442,350 L0R1Lg....4 49m7,24 49,024,281 Sipeele 1,089,860 1,002,755 B. S. legal-tender 16,981,920 17.267,021 Deposits - 37,405,333 38,817.= Circulation 7,038,403 7,030,9111 WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT. • The following statement shows the average con dition of the banks in Philadelphia for the week preceding Monday, October 2, 1865: gw v i, J l . l MP -. 3 5 Rn4::gti51.4, 7 FFe.: 1 -ID xx! rti. g cs:fir m SE; : • iw A , • M I" qqtnirt§gggriit 1,;,&650.frr rr N. . r rFppp«ArAlinlx,rrrrr...9.t §§§§iiim wsze, E 44oll4. t.a6§o2-EMAI sirt gNPOONEgNEMINIMSTO §§§§rafifigiasgaungu P.5.04455RY 0 00414PARP §§§ol§§ißEillffilolafin NvPrPaP4VtgAPYPrNa g rd -§§§§gbingghing4dl§ang .rr r --11-144 JAPPOYM5POmilaagf gahignnthignOtgafttg IMOMPOPAOAMEI4 '§§minguannsnibiha seßt. 4:075:660 01 295:91 6,131,382 17 620,41 59 - 6,275,102 94 373,011 II 30", 5,808,0 w % 629 I 51 ERIE There was lestiactivity at the Stock.Roard yester day, though the market on the whole was still Arm Governint nt loans were somewhat weaker; a few lots of 'Bls sold at 101 IS, which is it destine of g. The June 7 , 358 were drooping at 9875, and the July notes at 983'. State is were steady, with further sales at 003, City ea wore rather Miller at 9 1 for both mu nicipal and new, with free sales at that figure. The share list was quite active, but the upward move ment in Reading was checked; the stock opened lively at 59, sold Up to 5934, but afterwards fell back to 58%, at which It closed, Pennsylvania Railroad was steady at 61; Northern Central at 4.534, and Lit tle Schuylkill at 833; Camden and Amboy declined 34; Philadelphia and Elie was 14 higher; Catawissa common sold at 1876, an advance of 35, and the pre ferred at 3235, an advance of 39; at was bid for North - Penna.; 5E for Lehigh Valley; 90 for Elmtta prefer red. There continues an active movement in the Coal stocks, though at a decline in thh prices of one or two. A large quantity of one particular stock is held by some of the Philadelphia banks as collateral, who, in their anxiety to realize, press forWar4 their sales, even at a sacrifice. Big Mountain closed at 834, New Creek at Clititon at 75, Swatara Falls at 4, New York and Middle at kr, St Nicholas at 4, and Feeder Dam at 116. The Oil stocks were Mode rately active, and prices were a Shode off. The recent advance of 4{l per barrel for crude oil at the wells must soon tell upon the market value of such companies as are known to be producing. City Passenger 'Railroads are held firmly. Second and Third sold at PM Chest/Mt and Wallin at 54, and liestonville at 2334; 9234 was bld for Fifth and Sixth; 55 for Tenth and Eleventh; 23 for Gi rard College, and 22 for Union. Bank shares attract a moderate share of attention. Common wealth sank Drought 5316, and North Amoriet, last 135 was bid for Philadelphia; iio for Farmers' and m ec hapies•; 48 for Penn Township; 53 for Cilrard; 29 for Manufacturers' and Mechanics'; 58 for City; et for Corn Exchange; and 6314 for Union. In canal Shares there was no change to notice; Schuylkill Navigation common sold at 2914, and the preferred do. at 51; Lehigh 'Navigation at GOWN; 80 was bid for Morris Canal common; 120 for preferred do: ; and 10 for MCOlOlBlll= Canal. Tile Dtretatit of the Dairen refrOlelliti THREE CENTS. Ari! EIVIIPA2E§ Cloarlnga. Salami .$5,877,90.1,97 $37 8 . 0 ` . 5,032,7 9 7 83 491,7 433,799,494 97 THE WAR PRESS. truniatita) WEEKLY. THE WAR 'MESE 'Oil he gent to elbieettietil mitt (per annum In advance,) it 0 SO Five enplea ILO 4Ro Ten coot, Ots Larger clubs than Ten will be charged at the amnia ri $2.00 per copy The money must always accompany Me order, andr to no itutonce can these tehna be deviated from, aa they afford WIT Wile more than the coat or paper. Xi- Postmasters are requested to act as uireutti for THE WAR PRIE3EI. sir To the getter•up of the Club of tea er tweutri an extra 4ov Of the raiket will be WM. yegterda3rdeclaCed a (llvhicad of one per cent. ale the capital 3 stock", clear of :Male tax, payable of tied Arar no mot,. The Franklin Tire hisitrance Company yesterday declared a semi%anntlal dividend - of six per cent., and an extra dirMend of t • ete per sent.was declare.l on the capital stock, payable to the stockholders on_ and after the ilth hiittaitt. , The St.iNicholas Coal:Company yestbrday declare a quarterly dividend Of MITT per rent. on'thC Capital "stock. free of State tas,•payable on alltraftkr MOn day, the - Mll instant. The folleeteingt Is a atatedtaitt of deposittlind cOlii age at the Mint of the linithdt states, PitlitotWiphis, during the month of September:OM t *alue. s44ainil 7-. pt BF: Tota I dePmfts $558.01 eOINAGY.txPICIt'ACV. GOLD. • Gold depoans - • Sltvor depO6ira4 and purchansi . . 41 ~,,,, NTUUlill or Plr,:rs. Vidar. Bsahla vggies,,il.4lll , ~,,,,,, 11041.511 003100 1 , 1 91 , Phis Bars li /0.147 )Pii • • 40,163 $313,447 611.17,R. OEM Dollars Half Dona Five Bgrs„ „... Total 09,510 $49,001 52: COPI4.R. Cente • 1 925,000 1119,250 0111 Two Cent nieces— ..... ••.• • • 900,000 18.= 01 Three Vent piece* AMMO 32,750 al, Total 3917,000 Ifo,oll. 06 RECAriTuntersots, Pieces. "ratite. Gold Coinage-- ..... 41168 31813047 os Silver.. ..... . .... 60,610 49,609 52 Copper • 3 917,000 70.010 09 czalailUsgsmos Total .....4,026,675 V 83,053 47 Gold fluctuated slightly yesttrday., the ruling figure still being 144. As confirmatory of our remarts•to reference to. the new coal route to New York from, tittleitoct kill regions, we have the following fro/vale/ 31 Journesl: • "We learn that engineers have snnvl route for the proposed railroad leant &MIPS'S coal regions to New York. route Is to lead from Lehighton, With r: ley Railroad, through the Malioning Nlibistwm maqua, from Tamaqua through the seivt - to St. Clair. from St. Clair to the Mr where it will cross the Broad • • and extend to the New Yon] , Mr.§ lands at Mount (Mt I show that this roil 9 / 9r •• C s P lendia O s f the coal _3oglott., oollo with that of the requiring but f' to connect" ACE'S LARGE AND COMPRE. The PIti.ENSWE MENAGERIE ection of the finest Specimens of the with its e closing ei na l Kingdom ever exiablted. to the Fl. C. QUICK'S COLOSSAL Dlyr OTAISINS " 1 " 1 " im at a cost or Fort); Dollars, The Segue Beast-" Behemoth.' of Holy Writ sislant trod on the White Nile, 2,000 miles from. positorAir°, by Ali, the Egyptian, his present - 0 accompanies him, and is tile only ant.. . In the odmeica which ever has or ever will be ex. sue of the Ainerittan Continent. tween ho saw this anomolotis animal, when ex. this city three years sine wOl be aston. ti ‘ . ed;to llis ENORMOUS INCREASE of size and 01 isid(TONISHING DEVELOPMENT of his in. Mott it 'acuities. sponsbe exhibited in tlic Arena at each perform. ills caktor and lteeur, / 1 "" LI, THE E YPTIAN. IV. SANDS. NATHANS & 00. 1 0 PERFORMING ELEPHANTS, (Alltffiry 9119 Cleopatra. Victoria and Albert.) The most intelligent DigiliB , FAUCaloo Nee seen. BULK Is ENOTIIOI - S. 71111111 DOCILITY Is lielleitlSlNG. THEM ACCO:srLisitsts.NTS city. VAltlEn. l'AiiitrONA,swEs AnE AMUSING. dtilitlA3ol23 V. MELVILLE'S GREAT AUSTRALIAN CIRCUS: In addition to the magnifieent Stud of Performing Ham% and 7riek Ponies, are the following arrays Of Talented rertOrinerAt JAMES MELVILLE, the Unparalleled Austra..' ,, Ilan Equestrian. MADAME MELVILLE, tile great Australian. Equestriene. TDB AUSTRALIAN FAMILY, FRANK, SAM. Stid GEORGE 1111 0 ,14YillT4 1 • PHILO NATHANS, the oiler two, three lint Four-Horse Rider. KINKAID, tile Man of a Hundred Somer saults. SHAPPE and WHITNEY, the renowned AM. J. ' W. WARD, the Modest and Wittiest Clowix extant. .1 AS. /WAMBOLT, the IrreStatible Joker and Clown. BEN WILBANKS, the celebrated Equestrian. and Posturist. PROP. LA_NGWORTHY, Mauve du Cirque, &c. And THE CELEBRATED NICOLA. FAMILY& Whose wonderful and interesting performances have challenged the admiration of the largest attn. 'Most fashionable audiences ill EUROPE AND AMERICA. Together with a host of TUMBLERS, ACRO. ;•1 BA!1 , VAULTERS, DOI . CEItb4 Ee. UllllO5 These various [attraction will be exhibited one canvas for the SAME PRICE OF ADMISSION' 'which has heretofore been charged to each one se parately, making it the cheapest exhibition extant. TIIE FIRST PERFORMANCE Will tate_ place on MONDAY AriTSNOON, AT TWO 0•OLOOK, -hg.no continued every afterllooll and evening dims Chweek. 135 N I, ,E,NOWNED HERR DRIESBACH Bk • GOO Read It •,./'.o.,'h -4 " VIPRMING ANIMALS, 20 0 do .I.6swaili sflh, 100 do tru Tv., MO do b3O 59 200 lienstat 7 , -- 400 tiO 1t5.030 5674 100 Maple Shade.,. 100 do 519060 583 t 100 do 100 do b3O 587 t 500 St Nicholas lion. 100 do, ..... ...slO 581 300 Mizell 011 bia ]OO Cntnw 32 1 .4 MO do L's NS do lts.bls 32/i 200 do b 5 2tO BETWEEN BOARDS. 5000 Cites & Del 135.... 09 100 Reading 11....b30 50t4 Moo City ss new 91 100 Catawissaprf.l.2s 32 Li 1000 1100,, ... ~eash 01 .UlO do his,lots 3214 260000..............91 - 206 do-• . dote il3O 324 2000 do. anunle.lots 91 100 Nay... 1130 28' 1000 Feeder Dam.lots 1.44 100 do b3029°14 1000 do ..cash 110 200 do ...... -..,... 291• 2000 Statess OIN 100 do 100 McClintock On, 176 200 do ti .500 dOot .1 lOtti.l6M 10 do b3O 100 Reading It sou 5856 200 'Excelsior.44 100 do .... 5891 26 Cheat & Walnut, 54 100 do 58 500 Hestonville R.bs 23 400 do 59 100 do b3O IIIIO 300 do-- .lots.b3o 59%1 100 Northern Cent , l. 43 100 de, ....x3O 59 150- do 55 451 BM do 20 500 Dalnelloll, ,sBO 2it 600 do b 3 50 46 Cam Ant.2dys .4204 100 do' 59 I 50 Northern Ccn.as 4s , 100 do b 305910 PP P9ND 0000 U 6 7.101 ~”June 58, , a; 6000 do July 9894 1 800 City Bs municipal 91 35 Rea dlt lots trausf 100 do s6O 59 200 (10 jj ~, Lt - ”••s5 5 9 0 2d & aust is ' 60 18N Central 4514 200 Scli Nay lots 29 AFTBR, 2 000 Anton Canal Bs .. 22 100 Avadlag R 59)g 100 do 2,lya 69 1700 Feeder Din its LBO 114 900 do 1,44 SALES AT 500 McCrea mi 3 4 3 2 '12 ktf g loe eregi.. l l?go 20 Norristown R 65 500 Feeder Pain...." 1 44; 100 Hestowrille 22 7 4 500 'Wilkins Farm I 500 Maple Shade 734 MO do difig s 5 5590 68%1 509 1 58h 20000 d do o 510 58.44, 100 do b 5 58,4 , 100 do bsB,lnt 58,4 500 U . ti fis 'Bl 1074 500 do OUg 100 New Creek....... 1 1.44 500 Reading R 58.44, 100 do 58.44; Philadelphia Markets. There is very little doing In Flour, but prices have advanced fully Me bbl. The only sales We hear of are In lots, to the retailers and bakers, at from $7.5007.76 for superfine, 81$,M0 for extra, +9.50 Q 11.25 fitr extra family, and $11.50012.50111 MA for fancy brands, as to (outing. Rye Flour Is selling in a small way at 0.26 bbl. Corn Meal continue* dull. GRAIN ,—WP.eat is firmly held at full prices. 7,6oP bus spring sold on j?rivat6 tk itd. finnan saloe of reds are making at 52.12152.15f0rg00d new, and j 2.26 02.3013 bu for old — the latter rate for prime. Mtn is very scarce, and quoted at et i 02.80 Du, as to quality. Rye is selling at 98egi911. bu. Corn is heti c r ; about 2,630 bus yellow sold at No, afloat, and 1,000 biis at Ode. Oatg are more Retire{ 8 4 000 bU South. ern sold at 63g3 , 34c, afloat and in the cars. e,ODo bus Barley Malt sold at $1.60 bu. BARK.-Ist No. 1 Quercitron is quoted at $32,60 ton, but we hear of no sales'. COT3.oll.—There more doing and prices are b re etter; ill bales (wn:minas Sold in lots at from 43 catec CRRIREa —There is lest doiag,but prices are email maintained; sall sales of OAR Sugar art klng. at 131;101414e 11 lb. HAT.—Baled - is selling at XllB@2oi ton. 1 rittrVlSlONS.—There Is very little doing 'for tine want of stock, but /Aces arc , Wen Maintalneft mall tales of Mass . - Pork are making - at 4.186,98 bin, Shoulders in salt at tfle, tteree Lard at Dome Hamslb. Bacon Hams continueve% scarce; plat; and fancy canvassed are quoted at 27 31013 lb., WRISKY.—There is less doing; small sales or prime Ws are snakily at Mc VA gallon: The following are t le receipts of Flour and erals at this port to-day : Flour - 2 100 Wheat,,,,,,,,,,,,,. mot bus. Coin A MO MM. Oats Is.i ,8,15 a) DUG ti blo p— g'? • o Philadelphia Cattle Market. OCTOllltlt 2—Evening. The arrival's and tales of Beef Cattle at the Are— nue Drove Yard continue large, reaching shout 2,200 head this week: the market lu consequence ist dull and prices rather lower. Extra Pennsylvania. and Western Steers are selling at. 16017 e, the latter a price for bide: fair to Hoed at 1401001 ad Coln- mon at le.gl3e VI lb as to quality. The market closed dull, within the above range of prices. Cows are rather lower 150 bead sold at from.* up tope per head, as to quality. Slt MEP are without Change; p,asa head arrived and sold at front 63¢®7!5e 2111 th for good fat SUM and. iglu .—Prices a n d e v e s p eedi 2,00. hand sold St the different yards at from a170)10.60 the 100 , lbs net, as to qualitY. The Cattle on sale to-day are from the tottowhig States: 67head from Pennsylvania. 6 head from Ohio. 650 head from linnets. 40 head from \ION A. The c o n o wing nre tue1)01101115n or Hit' lee! 107, lifartlii, & Co., Pennsylvania and West , .111. 14017. ore J. a Kira, Chester county, 15@)10 1 {. 00, I'. HaLliowa,V, Chester county. l 4 lo' 7s, Kennedy & steClese, Pennervatna, 20, 1 , , West, Cheater County, 15010. EJ.V. PalintlyiVallt.ll,2slolokil Bee. 0 3 32 5 8 13 19 11 83 249, laiiitaiTkiiiiiiiiVariltildid" Weal— me, 15es 1634. 160, Mooney & Smith, Ohio. 110110. f. 100, L. Frank., Western, 130t5, /36, rhamberg & Co., western, isadsm. 100, P, McFilieu, Wiletern and Chester county, 10, 451614. Is, Christy & Bro., Ohio, 7r, gross. 71. A. Christy, Western, 1 11134. 47, Frank & Co., Western, bgt2. ea, Dryfoos & Bro., Western, t9gel6. • 70, Hope & Co., Pennsylvania and Western, 14 la. 66, J. & J, Chain, Pennsylvania, 12@i44. 76, H. Chain, Pennsylvania, 7a), groat'. COWR.—The arrivals and sales of Cosh at thee Avenue Drove Yard reach about 150 head this week; the demand Isgood, but _otiose are rather lower. gorlegers are selling at gaoo , 70, and Pow and Calf at from 6,40 Ois to %head, as to totality, Old left Cows are selling at from i120@25 Vi head, us to coral, (ion. Sinsatr. —The arrivals and sales of Sheep at the Avenue Drove Yard are large this week, reaching about 9,000 head; the demand is p ood and prizes re. main about the same as last quoted good fat Sheep are selling af from dketti ft., grow stock Sheep at ogr, 'a bead, and Lambs at from 443.6 Vs h e ad, sus to quality. Ho66.—The arrivals and sales of Hogs at the_untoa and Avenue Drove 'lards reach about 2,100 head, this week. The demand is good, and prices have advanced dig the 100 Thal with Balsa at from $17,34/11 . 141 the 100 Ms net. I,7oohead sold at Henry GlasstUnion Drove Tare. at from gri@te.se the WO lbs net. 410 head sold at the Avenue prove Taril, eV Croce Want ;P3 .28.700 , 40,700 00 40,800 40.0,400 00 • 10 - NH §t ~.....1 ea.•••••,,,. BOARD. 100 Seti Nay 140 IA 100 Phila & Erie E b3O 2734' 100 N Middle 9 100 do Eti. 100 Swatara 100115,,,. 4 600KeystotieZlne 016 100 dd b3O tlat I 600 Sugar Valley , ,b 6 200 MeCtlintock 011 IV E 2 Commonwitlt 13k 534 100 Clinton 11111111111 l 100 Sell Nay pref .... . HE CLOSE 100 N Y @ 511ddle.b30 8 , 200 New Creek 600 dO JJJJJ 1111/1//// IODNYfi3IIIdQIe,AOQ f4N 100 do 1120 8! 000 MeElh e tic 011.... 2 100 Hestoncille b3O 2:1 1 i 503 New ()Tech.,. 14, 200 CiltnWlB coin, aao latA 100 MvElheny 21-18 . 50 do 100 Reading R 68.66 2500 Lg Isld lltis 2dys 86 100 13 ostonvIlle...b50 281 ..... 5 1 0- 00 do 5)4 ssa. 14 500 Dalcell 011.... 630 214 200 1318 Mount.l.6lollat OCTOBVIt 2—Evening.