C pailpeicrap I+ Forever float that standard sheet I Where breathes the foe but falls beforeus, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us. OUR PLATFORM. 711 E UNION-THE CONSTITUTION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW. THE PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION. THE PEOPLEUF PENNSYLVANIA, who desire cordially to unite in sustaining the NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION in its patriotic efforts to suppress a sectional and unholy re bellion against the UNITY OF THE REPUI3- L/C, and who desire to support, by every power of the Government, one hundred thou nand heroic brethren in arms, braving disease and the perils of the held to preserve the Union of our Fathers, are requested to select i he num ber of Delegates equal to the Legislative Re presentation of the State, at such times and in ouch manner as will best respond to the spirit of this call, to meet in STATE CONVENTION at HARRISBITRE, uu THURSDAY, the SEVEN 'I"EENAI DAY OF JULY next, at eleven o'clock, on said day to nominate Candidates for tho offices of AUDITOR GENERAL and SUR VEYOR GENERAL, and to take such measures he may be deemed necessary td strengthen the tovernment in this season of common peril to a common country. A. S. McCLURE, Chairman People's State Committee GB°. W. }Secretaries 1114 AL SULLIVAN, HARRISBURG, PA Tuesday Morning, June 10, 1862 Tam CLINTON DBILOOBAT has earned its own measure of infamy, not alone in the brutality with which it has assailed the President, but by the insidious manner in which it has opposed the war. Yet the Clinton Democrat essays to justify itself with the fact that Republicans and Abolitionists both have attacked President Lincoln. With Abolitionats, we have no influ ence, nor have we any better opinion of such of those who attempt to traduce the national administration, than we have of the Democrat. With Republicans who indulge in such attacks we have no fellowship, and hence the denunci ation which the Democrat merits and has receiv ed at our hands, we are as willing to pour out on the men professing Republicanism and yet assailing an administration devoted in all ita objects and policy to the preservation of the forms of. Republican government. No loyal man, perfectly disinterested, and acting on a full faith in the purity of the government, can object to the adminis tration of Abraham Lincoln, we care not whether ho preheat to be Republican or Democrat. Repub licanism may do so, but for one individual be longing to th e Republican party who thus permits his indiscretion to mislead him, there are thou panda of Democrats bitterly assailing the ad ministration, and claiming that the treedom of speech justifies them in such a course, and that they have the right to approve or disapprove the action of any administration. The object of the Democratic party, at the inception of rebellion, was to give it any aid necessary to its success; its purpose now, is to afford the leaders in that rebellion every influence to secure their escape. This is what we complain of, and with such action we now charge that Democracy who are led and controlled by the Gusto% Democrat. They do not only attempt this action by abusing President Lincoln, but they persist In its course by insisting that the law shall not be enfoaced against traitors. Let the Clinton Democrat make precedents of those . Republicans who support the government, in stead of others whom it alleges are opposing that government, and we will have faith in the reality of its patriotism. But until it is prompted to do so, we must continue to regard it as among those who desire the success of re bellion'as the essential initiative to the success of Democracy. Joan Bsai A PILIONAIAIDER.—Capt. Boyce, of the Tenth Ohio Regiment, who has arrived at Evansville, Ind., from Huntsville, Ala., states that Gen. Mitchell has granted passes to John Bell and Jere Clemens to visit Washington, for the purpose of re-establishing peace in the Bouth-west.—Chicago Journal. Poor Bell ! We fear the ring has been taken out of his metal, and that his peace clatter will have but little Union music in it. John Bell alone could have saved Tennessee from the ravages of this war, and seriously impair ed the rebellion in its infancy, had he possessed the nerve and honor of a patriot devoted to his country. He a peacemaker! Who can respect the suggestion of one who not only betrayed his country, but those who, ignorant of his true character, supported him as a Union candidate for the Presidency? John Bell a National peacemaker I He should be ashamed to appear at Washington, and ought to blush when in the presence of any one of the honat 'Union men who voted for Bell and Everett. He has ding-donged too much in the wrong quarter, John Bell has. Doxasno Diann is looking up. Some of us can remember the time when people only killed themselves for heavy grief, disappointment, ruin, unendurable shame, or something of that charaster, But we notice that the other day Miss Esther Randall, a domestic living at Sara toga, committed suicide because her mistress would not permit her to wash on Monday, and set her washing day on. Tuesday. We regard this as a hopeful sign that the importance of small things is beginning to be appreciated, and that domestics are no longer to, be tyrannized over with , impunity, iu the matter of using clothes pins of inferior manufacture, and being obifoxlto put on tea kettles with the spout in the wrong direction• FIVE FOR ONE. Gov. Johnson, of Tennessee, does not propose to handle rebels with mittens, for fear of hurt ing them. He has issued a proclamation against the guerilla plunderers and murderers of Union men, in which he says : I do hereby proclaim that in every instance in which a Union man is arrested and maltreat ed by the marauding bands aforesaid, five or more rebels from the most prominent in the im mediate neighborhood shall be arrested, im prisoned, and otherwise dealt with as the nature of the case may require ; and further, in all cases In which the property of citizens loyal to the government of the United States is taken or destroyed, full and ample remuneration shall be made to them out of the propertyof such rebeb3 in the vicinity as have sympathized with, and given aid, comfort, information or encourage ment to the parties committing such depreda- tions. Gov. Johnson also ‘forbids all citizens, under heavy penalties, from entertaining, receiving or encouraging such persons so banded together or in anywitie connected thireviittr.'! While Gov. Johnson is thus treating rebel-„ lion, and attempting to meet the case by a wen timed blow at rebel freebooters, the northern sympathizers with southern traitors are sharp ening their wits to dis Cover how traitors Can be rescued from the doom in which they were in volved by their own treason. To do this, it is urged that the door rarest be. left . open that traitors may return. What door ? we ask. No door has been * shut. to the south, except that which its people themselves have closed, and no obstructions placed in the way of their alle giance, except those which their own intolo rable tyrannies have created. But, in the esti mation of the northern dough faces, the rebels must not be made amenable to the law, nor must they be held responeible for the outrage ous usurpation of all public and private righte. The door must be thrown wide open. The Senators who perjured their souls before they avowed their treason, must be re-admitted to the Senate—the officers of the- army and navy who deserted their posts and their ships when the country needed their services, must be wel emu d back, each to his position—and when this is done, the door can again be closed, the honor of the nation again be placed in the keeping of the men now in arms for its destruc tion, and the guilt of treason left to wash itself clear in the power with which it is proposed to invest it by those who sympathized with rebel lion from its inception. Thus, while the northern dough-face is quot ing Vatted, to prove that it is the policy of all governments to conciliate instead of oon quer treason, and that in lieu of visiting the sternest punishments on traitors, we must "let the door open," or in other words, smother justice that high criminals might escape—while the Democracy are thus engaged, Gov. John son makes the gold declaration that he will 141 five traitors responsible for the right of .every Union man, ruthlessly violated under rebel di rection. This is a frank declaration in the face of men whos crimes so richly merit death, and of echaracter too, at once to amuse for the man thus assayiog.to vindicate the law tend enforce the punishment.ofitsvicdators, the hearty mi plause and confidence- of the country. But what mustbe the reflection of Gov. Johnson, if he ever learns the dough-face sentin3wit which sought to counteract his labons to sup presa rebellion ? What will be hie feeling when he hears that as he is struggling to overtake and crush out rebellion, a set of men in_ the, north are laboring with equal zeal, to open the doors of the Union, that those who are reeking with the crime of treason against -its existence, mightoncemore become the recognised favorites for its bounties and protection? He, will surely regard all his own labors to secure• the protec tion of that Union as abortive, and regret that the blood of loyal men should have been shed in its defence, if by its re-invested pOwer and re-established peace, are meant the recognition and reception into fellowship- of its bitter and sworn enemies. -Nor will Gcsv. Johnson only so regard such action, but it will be 'estimated in a like manner by the civilized World. NO peace will be considered secure that tenet based on the entire overthrow of the rebellion, and no settlement will be considered.valid thSt doe 4 not secure the immediate and dire puniahment of all the guilty. In this way the door of the Unidn will be opened. It will be opened freelY to the oppressed masses of the south, that they{ when untrammelled, may re-assert their alle-1 glance to the government. It will be opened, too, to the guilty leaders of the' rebellion that they may be brought within the reach of the civil authority, and visited with the sternest penalties of their crimes. But the door of this Union will never be opened to an unconditional fellowship with the men who are now in rebel-' lion. It is this certainty which now most dia. , tures the dough-face Democracy of the north, ' and hence their solicitude and efforts to secure . such a recognition. Upon that recognition de pends the success. of Democracy. Upon the success of Democracy depends the future opera tions of the rebel leaders. Let the freemen of the Union ponder these facts. Cirrus() AT rr BY Diroluiss.—.ll correspondent from HaHeck's army, writing to the Cincinnati Tunes,says be picked up, in an old rebel camp, a New Orleans Delta, of the 29th nit , with the following in its editorial columns: "Yams Bstow.—Our citizens need not be alarmed. The Yankee fleet cannot reduce nor pass .our forts, and if they were to do so, our soldiers here would rejoice at the opportunity of demolishing their craft, and slaughtering the isailore. "Lars.—The enemy's fleet has passed the forts, but will be beaten back before they reach quarantine_ "Lana &MU —The enemy's fleethas reached quarantine unharmed. Rally, Citizens. "LATIST.—Just as we go to-press, we have to announce that the Yankee fleet is just below : that our troops have abandoned the town ; that citizens are flying in every direction, and that the city is in the power of Porter's fleet.,' This is like the cry in France when Napoleon left Elba: "The fiend has broken loose ;" "The monster is at Frejos;" "Napoleon approaches;" "Viva l'Emperor I" Tne Second and Fourth Maine regiments have lost one half of their nuMber in killed and wounded in the Narious i engesemen,tasm the .Pe ninsula since their landing at gintretie Monroe. EWE - e _ --- : -.:,,,,,..,. :e _. . t ...,----,*„,„,„„ ,------,„- =:P AVA* \ 1.: 111 -, . .0 v' Vi. _Eri,a it ~.... ~.._ .:„., <,....,,,,..„ „....,. „... .... 117 //. , / ',/,),r,,,.. ~/ -"'-'''.4.7:!:. From our livening Edition of Yesterday FROM THE SOUTHERN COAST THE ATTACK ON MOBILE. =I NSW YORK, June 9. .. The following dispatch has been received from City Point, Va.: "I have seen a copy of the Petersburg /a . - press of the 4th inst., which states that a dis patch from Mobile informs them that the Union fleet had attacked Fort Morgan, having passed the lower batteria. FROM LOUISVILLE I=l ,4 Lakerm.ll, Aim 9 eJ,oitrnallost rectited,the fgllowing: the Editors of th.s Louisville Tournat : Boosolvms, June 8. In Gen. Buell's report as published in the Journal of the 29th ult., General, Boyle's name does not appear. This: is a mistae; it .should be mentioned ;with the mune& of the other generals for gallantry on the field (BignO) J. B. FRY, Colonel and Chief off Staff. Gen. Buell also telegraphs to General Sofia to the same effect. FROM NEWBERN ARRIVAL OF RELEASED PRISONERS The steamer Guide hut arrived - from Newbern with 450 released prisoners and a number of sick soldiers. She palmed. the "steamer Eastern State, for New York, off Cape Hatteras, with 150 more. FROM OLD POINT COMFORT, Va. .1..am404§.,... The Old Point boat arrived at Seven o'clock this morning. The English steamer Jason ar rived there yesterday. Lieut. W. E. Black, of the 80th N. Y. Volunteer, bas been appointed Aid-de-camp to Gen. Dix. From the Mississippi THE CAPTURE OF MEMPHIS •-•-••=, FORTS WRIGHT, PILL6W PHD RAN LP EVACUATED, DM:is1:A~i:l;,1~:~A:~:~ii~a:~:yy:~ly~c~~a Official Report of Commodore Davis. _.:.._._ WAISIIINCITON, June 8. The following dispatch was received at the Navy Deptuttnerit: Unarm Sams Bowan :Bum, oar !drains, .Tune 6. 7b Ron. Gideon Welles, Seietetry of the Navy: Ste: I arrived here last evening at 9 o'clock, accompanied by•the mortar fleet, under Capk •• • ynadier, the ordnance steam storeehips, Bto4 and anchored a Mlle and a . half above the city, This morning I discovered the rebel fleet, which had been reinforced, and now oonsisted of eight rains and gunboats, lying at the levee. The engag'ement which oommenoed at 5 80 A. M., and ended at 7 o'clock, terminated in a running fight. •3 was ably supported by the 'ram fleet, under command of Colonel Ellet, who was conspicu ous for Edsgallantry,luitd:is inishiutly but not dangerously wounded. The result of the ac tion was the capture or destruction of seven vesseles of the rebeitieet, as follons: Tne Gen. Beauregard was blown up and burnt ; the Gen. Sterling Price bad one wheel carried away; the Jeff Thompson was set on fire by a shell and burned, and her magazine was blown up ; the Sumpter was badly cut up by shot, bit will be repaired ; a little rebel steamer had her boiler exploded by 'shot, and was 'otherwise injured, but she will bo repaired. Besides this, one of the rebel boats was sneak in the beginning of the action ; her name is not known. A boat, supposed to be the - Van Dorn, esospel freak the flotilla by her superior speed. Twis rams are in pursuit of her. The _officers and crews of the rebel boats endeavored to take to. the shore. Many of their wounded and prisoners are now in our hands. The Mayor surrendered the city , to me after the engagement. Col. Fitch came down at eleven o'clock, and has taken military possession of the town. • • C. H. DAVIS, Flag Officer. Wasuncarox, June B.—The follawing mes sage, in relation to the action of the rams in the naval engagement off Memphis , was re-' peivecl at the War Department this evening : OPPOSITI Maxims, June 6, via Cameo, June 8. To'the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War: The rebel gunboats made a 'stand early this morning oPpositeldertiphis, and opened a vig orous fire upon our gunboats, which , they re turned with equal spirit. I ordered the Queen, my flag ship, to pap between the gunboats and run clown abed of them, upon the two rams of the enemy, which at first boldly stood their ground. Lieut. Col. Ellet, in the Monarch, of which Capt. Dryden is first master, followed gallantly. The rebel rams endeavored to back down stream, and then to turn and run, bat the movement was fatal to them. The Queen 'stellar one of them fairly, and for a few minutes was fast to the wreck. After separating, the rebel steamer My steamer, the Queen,. was then herself struck by another rebel steamer, and , disabled, but, though damaged, can be saved. A. pistol shot wound in the leg deprived me of the pow er to witness the remainder of the fight. The Monarch also passed ahead of our gun boats, and went most gallantly into action.-- She first struck the rebel boat that etre& my trtrship, and sunk the rebel. She was tben uck by OHO of the rebel rams, but not injur ed. She then pushed on and struck the Bean regard, and burst open her side. Simultane -onety the Bentiregs.rd was struck in the boiler "by a shot from one of our gunboats. The Monarch then pushed 'at the gunboat Little Rebel, the rebel flag ship, and, having little headway, pushed her beforeher, the rebel 'commodore and crew escaping. The Monarch then finding the Beauregard sinking, took her in tow until she sunk in shoal water. Then, in compliance with the request of Col. Davis, Lieut. Col. Eliot despatched the Monarch and the Switzerland in pursuit of one of the remaining rams and some transports which had escaped. The - gunboats and two of my rains have gone below. 1 I cannot too much praiee the conduct' of the tailots.and engineers, and Milittay Giiird of the No l ia r chian& Queen, the 'bra - ye ctinduat of Lain Dryden, or the her Ole bearing of ant Colonel Ellet. I will name all the parties to yon in a special report. I am, myself, the only person in my fleet who was disabled. CHARLES ELLETT, ht., Colonel Commanding Ram Fleet. The following second despatch from Colonel Ellet was also received this morning: OPPOSITE MEXPEUS, June 6, yr*. Canto, June 8, 1862: 21) the Hon. E. M. Scanlon, Secretary of War: It is proper and due to the brwee men on the Queen and Monarch to say to you, briefly, that two of the rebel steamers were sunk outright and immediately by the shock of my two rams. One, with a large arnottitt of cotton, &c., on board, was disabled by an accidental collision iaith.the Queen, and secured by her crew. After I was personally disabled, another boat, which was also hit bye. shut from the gunboats, was sunk by the Monarch, and towed to shoal water by that boat. Still another, also injured by the fire of out gunboats, was pushed on the shore and secured lby the Monarch. , Of the gunboats, I can only say that they bore themselves, as our navy always does, bravely and well. CHABLIS ELLETT, Jar, Colonel Commanding Ram lkei. The following despatch was also receive& this evening, though written the day before the naval battle on the tdississidpi : OPPOSITE RANDOLPH, Twelve miles below Fort Pillow, June 6, via Cairo, June 8. .5 Hon. E. If. Stanton, Secretary of War: To my mortification the enemy evacuated Fort Pillow last night. They carried away or destroyed every thing of value. Early this morning, Lieut. Col. Etlett and a few men in a yawl went ashore, followed by Col Fitch and a part of his command. The gunboats then came down and anchored across the chsnnel. I proceeded with three rams,l2 miles below the fort, to a point opposite Radolph, and sent Lient. Col. Ellett ashore with a flag of truce to demand the surrender of the place. Their forces had all left, two of their gunboats only an bow or two before we approached. The people appeared to respect the flag which Lient. Col Ellett planted. The guns had been dismantled, and some piles of cotton were burning. . I shall leave Lieut. Col. Ellett here in the advance and return immediately to Fort Pillow to bring on my entire force. • The people attribute the sudden evacuation to the attempt made the night before last to sink one of their gunboats at Fort Pillow. Randolph, like Fort Pillow, is weak, and could not have held out long against a vigor ous attack. The people express a desire for the restoration of the old order of things, though still professing,to be secessionists. CHARLES ELLET, ,jr., Colonel commanding Ram Flotilla. Nsw Yosa , Juno 9 BALTIMORII, June 9 Rebel Account of the Naval Battle. CHICAGO, June B.—The Memphis Argus of the 6th, in an account of the naval engagement, says: Three shots were fired from the Confede rate fleet before any reply was made by the Federals. `After the firing commenced, the shots from the Federate fell wide of the mark. On the arrival of several more of the enemy's gunboats, Commodore Montgomery ordered the fleet to fall back, which was done, the firing; however, being kept up vigorously. The rebel fleet retired to opposite Bear street, no longer in line of battle, when one of the Federal boats shot ahead. The Beanregard prepared to receive her, and the contest was of short duration, as the eauregard avoided the blow intended for her, and struck her adver eery forward the wheel house, which placed the Federal boat hors du combed. She hauled off and made for the Arkansas shore, and re mained there during the engagement. In the meantime another Federal ram, the monarch, came to the assistance of thefleet The Beauregard itttempt4xl to run her down, but missed her and struck the Gen. Price in the wheel-house, making her a complete wreck.— This boat made for the Arkansas shop and sunk. A number of persons on board - of bey were killed and wounded by the enemy's sharp shooters. At this period four federal iron-clad boats, which had taken no part except firing at long range, came up. Upon their arrival the cannonading was fiercely renewed. In a abort time the Monarch was struck by a large shot and, sunk. The Little Rebel was soon afterwards struck by a federal shot, and at once started for the Arkaruntit shore. The Beauregard, nothing daunted by the disasters which had befallen the others, continued vigorously firing as she re tired towards the Point. Two or three of the enemy's large buts closed upon her, pouring in broadside after broadside. She wet struck several times and raked fore and aft. A federal ram coming up, also dealt her a blow, when she sunk rapidly in deep water. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE NAVAL BATTLE, Canto, June Se—The regular packet Platte Valley, the first boat through from Memphis, arrived this morning. Our forces are In pos session of Memphis. • The flotilla, consisting of five gunboats and eight rams, left Fort Wright on Thursday morn- ing. Finding no obstructions at Fort RanH dolph, the flotilla passed on, and at eight o'clock on Thursday evening, the gunboats an. °bored two miles above Memphis, the rams remaining a short distance above. A, reconnoissance was then made. The Rebel fleet consisting of the following vessels, the General Van Dorn, the flag-ship ; Goa. Bragg, Gen. LoVell, Jeff Thompson, Beauregatd,Little Rebel and Sumter, were discovered lying near Memphis. During the night the Rebelfleet moved down the river, and at daylight were seen coming up in line of battle. Our gunboats had in the meantime weighed anchor, and, followed by several rams, moved slowly toward the rebel fleet, when a shot from the Little Rebel, from a rifled gun, at long range, fell within a short distance of the Cairo, which was in advance. The Cairo replied with a broadside and soon the engagement became general at long range. The rams had in the meantime advanced, and the rebel ram Beanregard being in the advance she was singled out by the Union rams Mon arch and Ocean of the West, each striving to be the first to strike the rebel craft. The llonarchtucceeded in striking her amid ships, almost cutting her in two, causing her to fill and sink immediately in the channel, directly opposite the city. At this junctare the Littleltebel made a dash at the Monarch, which, by this time, was in the midst'of the rebel fleet, but by a skillful moVement of the pilot of the latter, she drop ped out of the way, and the blow in tended for her struck the rebel boat Gen. Price, taking away the wheel-house, and making It neeessary for her to run ashore, when she sent a shot which, unfortunately for the rebels, struck their boat, the Lovell,rendering her unmanage able. Immediately afterwards she was run down by the Queen of the West. A broadside from the .Benton took effect in the sides of the Jeff. Thompson, when she ran ashore, and soon after was in flames and burned to the water's edge. Tour of the rebel boats having now been dis abled, the remainder of their' fleet retreated down the river, pursued by our boats, firing as they advanced, resulting in the capture of the Sumter, Bragg and Little Rebel, which had peen abandoned by most of the crews. • Captain Montgomery, the flit officer, with most of the officers and men, succeeded in.mak ing their escape in the woods on the Arkansas shore. The Federal ram 'Lancaster was struck Iby the Beauregard early in the engagement , and slightly disabled. - . CoL Rile% in cornmakid of the Federal rani; was struck in the breast by a splinter and stunned temporarily, but soon recovered and continued on deck throughout the engage ment. This is the only casualty on our side. Our rams were manned by sharp-shooters, mostly from Illinois, who did good execution in picking off the Rebel gunners at every oppor tunity. The enemy's lose in killed, wounded and prisaers is heavy, but not yet fully saner taintd. Our boys are busily engaged in pick ing up the crews of the disabled • .ts. TEN BIIIIBILVDIOI OF MEWL., CAIRO, Jane B.—Alter the return of our gun boats from the pursuit of the Rebel fleet, Com modore Davis sent the following note to the Mayor of Memphis: FLAG STUMM Barrow, on Mmterus, Jane 6. I have respectfully to request that you will surrender the city of Memphis to the authority of the United nates, which I have the honor to represent. I am Mayor, withirigh respect, Your obedient servant, gned„) C. F. pews, Flag Officer. reply, the Mayor says; " Your note is received, and in reply I have only to say, as the civil .atitharidee have no marina; f defence by the, ti;ixtri of: sircianstances;the city is in your hands." Immediately after our boat. crews landed, and the National flag was hoisted over the Post Office. The party was followed by an ex cited crowd, but were not interfered with. The Forty-third and FOrty - sixth Indiana regiments now occupy the place. Col. Fitch is in command.• The city is quiet. No demonstration whatever has been made, and it is even asserted that it will not be ne cessary to declare martial law. Five of our gunboats now are abreast of the city. We captured five large steamers which were moored to the levee. The rebels burned a new gunboat which was nearly ready to launch. The Vicksburg Which of the 4th says that 6000 Federal troops have lauded at Baton Rouge. The Memphis Avakosehs of the 6th says, that the locomotive recently run off by the railroad employees, have been recovered. The same paper says that all the bridges be tween Memphis and Humboldt have been de stroyed. From M'Clellan's Army Occasional Artillery Skirmishes Yea terday. GEN. MK ON A VISIT TO OEN • Ira.lll,lAN. TRZ KUM, WONNIRCII AND MISSING AT TES BATTLE Or BAIR OAKS. OFFICIAL ISTATENLENT WAIMENOTON, Jane 8. Dispatches received it the War Department op to noon to-day state that all is quiet in front of Richmond, accept occasional cannonading at our forces employed in %midge opperatlons, but which does not retard, MI progress. lisanquzarzsz ARKS or me %Tosco; t toms , : Jane, 8. The rebels opened with artillery yesterday afternoon, on the pickets of Gen. Banner, they having advanced to a new position. No harm was done and the firing soon Ceased. A Richmond paper of Friday has been receiv ed, and it gives no details of the late battle. They claim, as usual, a brilliant victor*. It states that the Peden& were driven into the Chickahorniny and Whifeoalc swamp, and that Geu: hi'Cleilan had sent flags of truce asking permission to bury hie dead —all of which is false. It gives the toss in one regiment at. 140 killed and wounded, evidently showing that they considered it their interest to disclose the news of the defeat to the public by degree% thereby preventing a panic. Gen. Prim and staff, of Spain ' arrived to-day and paid their respects to Gen. McClellan. Three deserters who arrived from Richmond today, state that there was great excitement in that city, for fear that the James river would rise sufficiently to allow our gunboats to peek over the obstruetions. The excitement was so Intense that many citizens, were leaving. The deserters confirm the wounding of Gen. Joe Johnson. This being Sunday, everything is quiet. The following statement of the las In the battle of Fair Oaks bag been received at the War Department: To the Hon. Eduiri M. &won, Seardary of War Statement of the killed, wounded and miss ing on the Slat of May and let of June, 1882 in front bf Richmond: Killed. Woun'd Meg Snmner's 2d corps 183 894 148 Gen. Heintzehnan's 8d corps. 269 980 166 (leo. Keyes' 4th corps ..448 1 , 768 921 Total 890 ~8,627 1,222 Grand total killed, wounded and missing, 6,789 A nominal Het will be furniehal as soon - as the data can be received. G. B. WC/MILAN, Mq. Gen. Commanding. UM* Oongress—First Bowdon SENATE. Mr. Swots offered a resolution that the Conl mittee on Poet Offices and Roads be directed to inquire into the expediency of providing for an air line railroad between Washington and New York. Laid over. Mr. Wunou, (Mass.,) introduced a bill to provide for an increase of medical officers in the volunteer service. On motion of Mr. Gams, (lowa,) the joint resolution relating to the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, was taken up. Mr. Wrraos, ( Ma ss.,) moved to amend by providing that the volunteer soldiers confined in the penitentiary of the District of Columbia,' under sentence imposed by court martial, be forthwith discharged, and such imprisonment shall not be allowed hereafter. Mr. Germs said be had a list of soldiers sent to the Penitentiary. There were ninety-six cases, of which forty-eight were for insubordi nation or some other trivial offence, nineteen for desertion t .three for neglect of duty, seven for violating the fifty-fourth article of war, which punishes soldiers for treading the grass, U., six for mutiny, consisting of a refusal to go forward in the face of the enemy without weapons, two for assault and battery, one for forgery, three for larceny, and the others for most trivial offences. Only four out of the whole were confined there for offenses which were considered criminal by the civil code, yet these men were sent there for from six months to five years. Mr. Hamm, (N. Y.,) hoped the resolution would pass. He had just returned from the penitentiary where he found respectable citi zens from his own State , confined fcr the merest offence. It was time this thing ehoald be stopped. Hr. WITAON, (111a5.,) spoke further In favor of the resolution. He said there were men confined there as felons for scarcely no offence at all, and thus disgraced for no cause. The amendment was adopted and the resoln ilon adopted. At one o'clock, the Senate resolved itself into si high court of impeschmeut, on the trial of Wmuniainn, June 9. WANTE D. A T Harrisburg Car Man Li fa, 1 =--. Jam, eight rod Carvaters INDEPENDENC E PBS undersigued form the pubile that u ' n.e.ort in the best po.sib e , repo ferry across the river, ie.: Sale and punt pagsa4e. if• bY Von to the wants of tee L r amount of getrotiege. Drunken and disdrderiy island, and improder iedeeei . r V si. the plate. eo th It the ovet E: tate to etet dee r,sort. i E --- -_ _ --- , , i , i, BEALITfFUL I'ISSUE L'APJroc OR covering Looking GI v s , -• , trainee, grottMetiting C,.thugs, • and cut go ag to Haug over t3Vgro i ~ ara, Oath drags or FogrOog. For s,a b. ,. , ._, . , my6l. •eCHER ift'S ,'..' St ''' West H Unronlir un the ri eye. The Senators tok. ght latform sod Lft atid the Vine Pi a raistd p'- rests jil, at 011 • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATiIIs Mr. StastlEISEL, Delegate from ak seated the Constitution of Utah, to I.; i 6 a- memorial, asking tor adraiw..,c; e . Union, on an equal footing with tr i , l States njzy - Referred to the Committee on T,Tot The tax bill with eundry aniendz``r'`l , returned from the Senate. It was be Ways and ted Means. tA and referred to the nnit'6,71,14, Mr. WYCLIFIR offered a resolution earl in. on the Secretary of War to inform. th: I T' whether Gen. Hunter has ()ream-, ies ped a regiment of blacks in Souto c at , o„„ 4: Adopted. Mr. Vax.LANDIGHAY, (0.,) offered a setting forth that this House sincere satisfaction, of the eVacuyt,ti inch, and the occupation of it 11 ) „ without the loes of life, and t e „ d .,;, ,r f , z; thanks of this House to Major G ewrai'a: : It ' and the other brave men under signal achievement; aud, inoreoerr, common with the whole CollUiry. would rejoice to see the Constituti,o and the Union as it was, maintaaust stored everywhere without any turth,: ,. '- of fraternal blood. Mx. VALLANDIGUAII demanded the question on the adoption of th's Mr. Biotite moved to refer th- L the committee on the military ,Cter," Mr. Samar, P 4., made a suoh ir Tho Speaker d, tided that th ,- vottottectofjooraduearta—oiuntlhyethpriretlyisotiu‘s•eqrs,f:t:: • :, Upoh the adoption of the VAI,LANDIGHAX said, as the adopt the resolution without h e ,. would withdraw the demand f , ,r IL. question and leave the reioLt,, debate. Whereupon, under the rule, over. Mr. HUTCHiNs, (Ohio,) ourr , ,i , which was agreed to by a veto ut v nays, repealing the rta3olut.lis, LeL - t red proposing to purchase from ton of the Nations/ inkllifiewer the annals of Congress awl a r0,, , ,,,, [tr . a t a coat of over $35,000. MAIMETS BY TELEGRAPH PintADELvH, t . • The foreign news has C0111tw," I ward tendency in breadt , tuiln sales of winter wheat at . - 875. Wheat quiet at $1 IS,a • 1.26eg1 30 for white. 3,01 , 11,- • • afloat sold at oacts. Whisky ?Acts. NEw Flour five to ten wilt.; hid r State $4 2&®4 35 , ern $6(15 10. Wheat adv.in . . cents unsettled and ecoitr I, Chicago Spting 91c.k_41 G!; iAJ.A 980,31 06. Curs adV ;Irl , 4)T, t cents better, 60,000 bu;. wld uuc-L , 58. Pork dull. Ltrd and unchanged. Wheat 70,000 bus, Corti t 1 01. , 1. I:.:.:. Flour quiet ; 10,0.0 bill-soli , :•:„: t6a6 60; Ohio $.") 4 Wilex bus. sold ; Sou: hero , ri buoyant ; 19,1100 Utl6. e,d I ; yellow unchanged. ()it, Uriu -Io , U ou, Penna. 404,11. Pruvi , d , $1.2012 50; ; Wv•ueru THE IiOS El 31 AIiKET. NE w - foRK, Juno ',I. OOttOU 4 trotter. Cu'Lic, and Rock . naul ratlrviet.'dsi ; Michigan. Zieuttleitt, tki; ittw York Central, 824.; Pennsylvania CU , Missouri, 64. otii, geld 4 ; per Lduts premium; Tennessee, 6s. too" ; ; [lmo, 103 ; Lou pool), 1862, 1001; U. rt. Leupoui,6, Nrw lbnertismeats WE STUDY TO PLEASE. HENRY C. SCLIr.FFER, b. 4 Jog op irele hr e. w . •••,. • - -twk. of Wel .r 5,4 W Li. • :: ; store No. rs Market atrto . , ; ;. s grocery Dear the sir Palau. hanging por-oLa y s,t warranted. FROM REAIDINO NEW YORK AND 8.A.cl- ONLY S 1 :0 ). VIA East Pennsylvania it ring the whole nauuti. Excursion tickets at th• , bad at the office of the G lug, good for all pasieriger t . • EDWARD 31 , 1 je9.dtje2B FOR SALE.-1 VAN ' 20 leek 10 inches r‘y gh or Faurth etroeu 114johalog property of DAVId , h I Je7-d3t* 100,000 SEGARS TO EUD IHAVE on hand 100,1100 _ (alze+,) of ow oen 11:11v.ti , In large or email lota. Ord rr promptly attended to. Althr , - jei•da L STRAWBERR IE Strawberries by the Quart, t - hol ORDERS sent through ti, = . or left at the lower - away thcotunge, will 1.0 promp,,v L Also they eau 4 , e b.tl ploC day, fresh pimod from the voii. Re) step , F.,rLL 1 62 POMADE tiON6l,li:- FOR FIXING THE MOUSTACH E ' Jea NE 1., rE general variety ..f 4 • • ialug the TOILET , be roma at Kellar's, je6
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