DAILY POST.. The Dalian as It was t 'Mk• eammtitutisea as It Ist THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19. Itoremitegg matter on every page: DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CON- VENTION The proceedings of the Convention, held yesterday, in the Court House, will be found in the local department of our paper. The attendance, simply to elect delegates to a State Convention, (consider ing the awful condition of the roads, and the torrents of rain commencing the even ing before and continuing all of yester day) was nnprecedentedly large. From all parts of the county the intelligence is cheering. The people are deliberately considering the condition of the country, and are rapidly coming to the conclusion that the party in power are unfit and un able, with their narrow prejudices, to govern a country of the magnitude of the United States. AN INSIDE VIEW The late Col. Benton, in receiving, in the name of Congress, the sword worn by Gen. Jackson in the battle of New Or leans, gave what he called an inside view of the manner in which the General re ceived his commission from the, govern ment.• This address of Benton's is very interesting, showing, as it does, that great things are sometimes the result of unknown agencies. The country is aware of the great-achievements of Oen. Jackson, but very few are aware of the contingency, which so unexpectedly arose, giving him an opportunity to achieve them. In the present conflict of our govern ment with rebellion, the eyes of our people are upon the President, the War Depart ment and onr leading Generals : we have indeed, no idea of the thousands of com prehensive suggestions given to those dis tinguished persons by men of modesty, who would shrink even from receiving their country's gratitude. Men who do not occupy exalted positions in the coun try are not expected to be able to direct its destinies. What a lamentable blunder? With these few observations we direct the renders attention to the following extract of a speech delivered by Hon. Thomas Williams, in the House of Representatives, at Harrisburg, last winter, and see how much the country is indebted to that gen tleman from his opportune suggestions to the War Department. The speech is pub lished in yesterday's Gazette. After a proper compliment to Mr. Stanton, Mr. Williams proceeded and said : I hurried to Washington for the purpose of seeing him. I portrayed in language as strong as I could utter the calamitous condition of the country. I insisted that we were losing caste amongst the nations —that the very unmolested presence of a rebel army beyond the Potomac and in view of our very capital, was a standing menace which was worse than a dozen de feats—that no government could safely stop to .inquire whether it was strong enough to put down a rebellion—that it were better for us to lose a battle, or even an army, than to endure this reproach and humiliation—that we could not afford to stand thus throughout the winter, and that our armies crust move, and the Re public at once fight its_way hack to the high position which it had lost, without regard either to rough weather or hesita ting Generals.. His answer was : I real ize fully the force of all you say. I agree with you that the army must move. If my coons* can avail, it must and shall move —and it did -move—and now behold ! The telegraphic wires flash upon us from dhy to day almost with the rapidity of minute guns the announcement of victo ries on victories, so multiplied and mul tiplYing, that even memory fails to re hearse the catalogue. It is but proper to remark that this speech of Mr. Williams has, until within a -few days, been entirely overlooked, and, even now, it is published not with the con sent or knowledge of its talented author, but simply to oblige an admiring corres pondent who introduces it with some high ly complimentary observations. Doesn't this speech strongly prove the force of our previous observations? Here we have it demonstrated as clearly as proofs of holy writ, tbat our fellow citizen's hurried visit to Washington; his portrayal of the calam itous condition of our country, and his em phatic they "must move" and they did, absolutely saved us from impending ruin. Like a thousand matters of mighty import, this important incident would have been lost in oblivion had not the Gazette fur nished it for publication. All the success es of the war would have been divided be tween the Administration and our Gen erals, while the name of the saviour of our government would never have descended - - - • • to a gratefulposterity. But happily, how ever, this is not the case, and no one re joices in it more than we do ourselves The, question here naturally suggests it self, why is this intelligent giant ; this sa gacions genius, and profound jurist, per mitted to - waste his precious time among the thick-headed bush-whackers of the Pennsylvania Legislature ? Why is this eagle, whose pinions at a single flap, cleaves the fiercest storm, suffered to match upon dunghills with barn-yard fowls! Why is he not kept in Washington, constantly, where the President and Gen eral Stanton could avail themselves of his quick conceptions, combinations and con clusions? We have in Congress from this State, men who do not claim to do any thing beyond boring for contracts, while Mr. Williams itpermitted to fritter away his precious winless" : in Harrisburg, in un- availing eontroversies about the monopo lising investments of the Supreme Judges. What are the Judge - s, the tonnage tax, and the exactions of bond holders, compared to the life of our nation ? It the Repub licans of this district have any apprecia tion of Mr. Williams, they should not pause in sending him to Congress. ILTIIID IN a PRIZE Pionr.—Andy Love and Nike Fasin quarrelled at St. Louis on S un d a y jog, and agreed to fight it out se cordingtethe rules of the prize ring. They fought thirty-five rounds, when Love fell exhanetid and died in a few hours. ofrForney, who up nnt<l 't. 111 :1 . day ~gtgommli - joined the cc:R . o4ly 4r91• was that most abjectitady and 9rafferife4lhifles to him now as follows: "atolls have sadly proved4oo(fl3reel inridge had been elected, foitritimitleOxid have found thefree States without a coun try save that which was controlled by the institution of slavery. The rebellion of 1861-'6 .is the voice of the devil proclaim. ing that, in the event of the election of Breckinridge in 1860, TOUR YEARS MORE WOIILD HAVE POUND US A SLAVE MONARCHY! All the: italics, small caps and exclal mations in this paragraph, are Forney's own. Emphatic, however, as they arc, they do not inform us bow that "slave monarchy" was to have been established. Was the constitutton to be destroyed, the rights of the States crushed out, and an empire proclaimed? and, if so, how was it all be done? Was New Englatutto be compelled to establish slavery, or be treated as rebels if they did not ? If For ney was in the seerefs of the conspirators, he ought to give ns the modus operanda of their intended "monarchy." What a wretch this fellow Forney is ? From the loudest and most blatent pro slavery tool in the entire North, Ile - has, in two or three years, become the most in famous and reckless of Abolitionists, tor turing his inflamed brain to produce such nonsense as the above paragraph. The Gazette, after swallowing this dose of arsenic, produces the following : " And yet such traitors as Vallanding ham, and such Democratic paper as the Pittsburgh Pott, are laboring to bring about the resurrection of a party to restore the rule of men and principles in sym pathy and harmony with the Brecliinridyc rebels. The Post is laboring to bring about the triumph of principles which will restore the 'Union, punish Breckinridge, and ex pel such lying scoundrels as Forney from the public service; and the Gazette stating the contrary, simply tells a most infittnons and unmitigated falsehood. Democratic Resolutions The following sensible and patriotic resolutions were unanimously adopted I.y the Democracy or Ohio towusb;p National Democracy will endors,• them: Resolved. That the Denton-rati.• party has always recognized the Supreme Au thority of the Government, and has always performed the co-relative duty of obeying it. In times of foreign war and doinestic violence, it regards this duty as most sa cred and, therefore, has during our politi • cal existence always been on Nee side the country. Resolved, That the otter, twelve mouths ago, to forego party nominations. while it met: the approval of a large number of Re publicans, only developed the partizan and extreme views of the ultra leaders of that political organization, and has demonstra ted the necessity of the Democratic party of Allegheny county erecting a platform out of the timbers of the Constitutmmupo n which all patriotic and good men San stand. Resolved, That we yield a willing obe dience and support to the Government in its efforts to bring thls monstrous rebellion to a close by prosecuting the war with vigor to that end. To preserve the life of the nation is the ardent wish of every democrat, and while that life is threatened, all other objects are forgotten. Restora• tion Is our watchword ! Restore the Con stitution, restore the laws, re , 4 ore p,ave • and then will prosperity and happines, he ,restored throughout the laud. Resolved, That this Government now only be re-established in its rightful authority, by banishing from the Councils of the Nation all bigots, propogandists and reformers, whose mission it is to destroy good governments and establish bad ones. Resolved, That a period of civil war is not a time to remodel a form of govern ment. Restoration first, and if desirable, modification afterwards. Rego/red, That the leaders of the rebel lion in the South and the leaven of the Re publican party of the North are alike op posed to the Constitution of 1:87, and that the Democratic party is the only great po litical organization which recognizes the full obligations to the government ender which we live and the Constitution which we are endeavoring to extend over the rebellious States. Resolved, That mabadruinistration of the finances of the nation, and the wicked plundering of the Treasury, is fast bring ing the people to poverty, and will, if not checked, ruin the people of the present generation. Resolved, That we coudeuin the paper scheme of the Secretary of the Treasury as opposed to the teachings of the founders and the pillars of the Democratic party, and of the experience of all commercial nations. An irredeemable currency of solecism in commerce. It is a mere expe dient of insolvency submitted to in certain cases rather than justified. Resolved, That the self-sacrificing to their country, and the noble heroism of our volunteer soldiers, is the pride, as it is the sure guarantee, of the ultimate safe ty of the nation. A BRIEF DEFINITION. Hon. Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee, in a speech at Columbia, in that State, on the 2d inst., gave his audi ence the following brief definition of a dig unionist : "An Abolitionist is a Disunionist. A Disunionist is a Secessionist. A Seces sionist is a Disunionist. A Disunionist is an Abolitionist. Therefore a Secessionist is an Abolitionist. There is not a particle of difference between them. Here is the nation tossed and rent almost in twain by these unprincipled and ambitious office hunters. Now there is a great middle class who lie between these extremes, who must come up and save the Union. The mass of the Southern people are for the Union. The great mass of the Republicans are op posed to the Abolitionists. The body of the people everywhere will prove true to the Union. All this slavery talk is a mere pretext, whose flimsiness is transparent.'' Black vs. White Labor. The Dayton Empire says that many of the Republican nabobs of. that place are discharging white men and women from their employ, and hiring in their , places the recently arrived "contrabands,' whose services they get at very low prices—as low as eight cents per day in some instances. We learn that in the lower part of Bucks county, in our own State, the Abolition ists are doing the same thing. We could name a dozen leading Abolition families in that county, who have disbharged their white "help," and employed runaway slaves, because they can get them much cheaper than white laborers. We have already published the fact that, in Frank lin and West Chester counties,. white people are thus being crowded from their places by the freed negroes from the Dis trict of Columbia and•the runaway slaves now swarming into Pennsylvania from the South, and we doubt not there are many other counties in this State in which these crearitrabands" are crowding white men and wo out of places and out of work. A little &will reveal to the laboring white men of Zemin and other free States that thi s • of black laborers threatens to deprive th of their breed and butter. If the eettemege in Congress succeed in z th 1 , 7 sir peostleeme, white men 11ixiiissed to ooligrato sad such Stems as pro to Illinois luibit mimes from coming within their borders. —Philadel phia Awning Mama. The Thirty-Piret Pei, tia at Pair Oaks,. ~, 4:,-, We have always believed in rer4ernigi . _.. "honor to whom honor is due"And.lhero: fore cheerftilly-give place.to the followi ng card from Colonel D. H. Williams, ofthe Thirty-firstPennaylvania, to)pluce his regi ment "right on the record:" • Its A laott.t RTERS 31ST PENN'A VOLUNTEERS t CAMP FAIR OAKS. VA, June 11. ) EEITOR POST : The Freiheit's Freund, a German paper published in Pittsburgh, contains a statement in its issue of the 7th of.fune, purporting to come from Lieu tenant Gould of the 61st (Col. Rippey's) regiment, in which this regiment (the 31st) is one of some regiments on their left "which ran" leaving them in tke fight. - This regiment was as long under fire in the battle of May 31st as any regiment in the army of the Potomac; it was not at any time on the left of Col. Rippey's regiment daring the engagement. This regiment was one of those regiments that did not run at any period of the engagement.— Side by side with Col. John Cochrane's Ist United States Chasseurs, we withstood the most fierce assaults of the enemy's choicest troops for two hours—for four hours afterward we were engaged in taking care of the enemy's wounded. We have it from prisoners, that Magru der commanded the troops opposed to us in person, who made a most desperate at tempt to capture what is said to have been formerly Magruder's, now Itickett's bat tery. but, after two hours of fierce attack, withdrew his men, with the remark that. "all hell could not stand that fire.'' mean ing ours. It was this battery we defended, and ourme.n slept on the field where they fought, and were ready to tight again in the morning. Newspapers may be justifiable in picking up news from all quarters, but they should be careful about publishing any thing which might injure others, unless first sure that it is correct and deserved. Your paper of Saturday, June 7th, is in camp, and contains no notice whatever of , the action of our regiment. Enclosed you will find an extract from the New York Herald of.fune sth, which contains a tolerably fair notice of our posi• tion and share in the fight. it was not the first "17.11ey that settled that .fight,r . but the first, almig with the thirty-nine which fol lowed, no doubt had its desired effect. We can afford to wait for justice from the offi cial reports. when they shall be made pub lic: meanwhile a due regard to the merits of brave men, and the fair fame of our Pennsylvania troops demand that the im ymtation upon the lllst, by Lieut. (lould, should not go uncontradieted. • I). If. %% I I.I.IAMS, Col, ::I,t jst2d t PenMa Volunteers. The following extracts from the Her ald's correspondence show the position of the regiment during the battle and the part it. took in the engagement: When the enemy finally forced our posi tion on the Nine Mile road, the greater part of Casey's division fell back in the direction of the Williamsburg road : but the General himself, with a smaller body, being near to Fair Oak station, fell back across the railroad, and was thus cut off front the army. As soon as this was ascer tained he prepared to make the best of it. He examined his position carefully, sent Men to beat tip all the roads, and espec ially along the New Bridge road, to see if Sumner might not lie near. The force with con 't was tbut.il to consist of fitit regiim•nts.--the First New York Chasseurs. Col. Cochrane:The 62,1 New York i Ander son imiare:), Colonel Riker; the 7th Nfas suchusetts, Colonel Russell, and the llst Pennsylvania, Col. Williams, and Brady's battery of four pieces. His position was in a large open tieid, in an angle between the railroad and a road that runs from the Fair Oak station Northward towards New Bridge. tto the West was a dense wood, front which the enemy might emerge at. any moment, and on the South was the railroad and A fringe of wood through which they could Cross fl.r a flank attack. Whether he had any road for retreat the I /eneral did not yet know, so he formed two lines of battle—one toward the rail road, with a section of lirady's battery. supported by the Massachusetts Seventh another towards the wood to the West, with the other section of the battery sup ported by the Anderson Zouaves. with the 71st Pennsylvania and the First Chas scum formed close in the edge of the wood, under cover of a rail fence. Lieut. Edwards, who had ridden down the New Bridge road, came back with word that Sedgwick's division was only two miles away. Couch knew that he could hold his ground till they came, so he was saved the misfortune of defeat. They hurried off' and eame up at half-past five o'clock, General Sumner with them. No change was made in Couch's dispositions, save in the comparative strength with which either line was held. The First Minnesota ' Colom:1 Sally, was fi m n led o the right of the Chassenrs, and Itickett's battery of Napoleon's to the left of the Thirty-first. All the rest of the division was formed on the line towards the rail road. As soon as the line of the envy's ad vance was known, Rickett's opened and threw grape and cani to the wood with great effect. It' as not idle either. One wounded N • arolina regiment, taken from the fild the next day, says that his regiment Piraly; went a 5 dozen yards beyond the spot where he fell until it broke. It could not Ike rallied. But the line kept on till it was in\ the edge , of the wood and within ten paces of where the Thirty-first Pennsylvania, the First Chasseurs and the First Minnesota lay on their faces, between the rebels and the battery. The rebels could not iee them, and as they came to the edge of the wood they delivered one volley at the Anderson Zouavea in the field farther out. That volley killed Col. Riker, and the Zouaves broke and ran. Yet they only ran twenty yards, when they were rallied. No sooner had the rebels, by that vol ley, emptied their guns, than the three regiments that had been lying down arose to their feet and poured a volley in at al most no distance at all. That volley set tled that fight. Through the wood in front of that line the rebels lay dead and wounded in heaps. Brigadier General A. C. Davis was found dead there, and Brig adier General Pettigrew, wounded and his horse killed, was there taken prisoner. When the rebel line advanced in the wood, Gorman's brigade, from the line of battle on the railroad, was thrown forward on the right flank of the rebel line to turn it ; but when the musketry broke that line, and the rebels fell into confusion, the bri gade pressed forward, and so cut off and drove in a large number of prisoners. _ _ Who is Colonel Cluseret ? Col. Cluseret, of the conduct. of whose brigade, in the battle of Cross Keys, Gen eral Fremont speyks in complimentary terms, is a French officer of eighteen years service. He was with Garibaldi in two separate campaigns, and bore a letter from him to General McClellan. He was com mended to Senator Sumner by the French historian Henri Marpin, and has proved himself a gallant soldier. Dictator Roses Sentenced A letter from Buenos Ayers says : After a tedious trial, which has progress. ed for ten years. General Don Juan Man uel Routs, once the dictator in the Argen. tine Confederation, has been condemned to death, and his property to confiscation. He was not present in any of his trial, nor will in reali h at all. No one is willing to purchase • lett:, property, as all believe that in time his heirs will be re possessed °fall that he now claims. Re it in sedation ' and it is said that he is closing an arbitrary and bloody eareerwith devotion to literature. PROM • / - Pr" •the a... 4 Ad.:XS- t w lintWhetraviaEr Fi 4P Cam*P - uaan_d " was the fall of the great Crescent City, the effect' of the event hereabouts has been most sal utary. It has taught our people not to re pose too blind a confidence in the defenses which our military :men style impregnable; and it has spurred up our entire porittla. tion, Civilians and soldiery, to redoubled and untiring efforts in order to place be yond hazard the security of this noble city, which, in addition to its intrinsic impor tance. possesses a political and revolution ary prestige, all its own, which has won for it the title of "The Cradle of the Re bellion.- The city is stripping for the terrible wrestle in which, sooner or later, if the war lasts, it must (wage. Gradu ally, but steadily, the non-combatant por tion of the population is seeking refuge in the back country of this Stateand Georgia, Every train that leaves our depot fur the interior is gorged with refbgee familicsand their furniture and effects. The up-coun try towns are already filled with women and children from Charleston and the sea board generally; and, if the exodus con tinues at the present rate for a few weeks longer, the city will be literally reduced to its fighting population. Already one cannot walk in the streets without noticing the change that the last month has wrought. King street, thegreut retail thoroughfare, erst the scene of multitudinous crinoline, busy shopping and continuous promenade, is now dull and comparatively deserted. The Battery trottoir, the pride of Charles ten, and usually the favorite resort of those who care to enjoy a walk, with the fresh sea breeze blowing in their faces, is now paced only by the sentinels in home spun; White Garden, the Paradise of nur ses and romping children, on baby airing days, has become a regimental camp ground; and, in common with our Champ de Mars, the "Citadel Green," is now whitened by day with the tents, and light ed up by night with the camp tires of our troops. So frequent, of late, have been the dc• sertions of knowing "contrabauds" to the enemy, that I run no risk of revealing to the Yankees what they do not know, when I say that Charleston is belted round on every side with powerful fortifications, covering its land approaches. The har bor entrance is guarded on either side by the tremeudons batteries of Fort Sumpter and Moultrie, about a mile apart; and there is good reason to doubt whether even a fleet of Monitors could ever run the gauntlet ago terrible a cross fire with out being disabled. But even supposing that seviral iron-clads should succeed in gaining the interior of our harbor, there would still be no necessity for the surren der either of the forts or of the city. The cornier tire well garrisoned, well provis ioned, and will, I think, in any event, make a defence that will do credit to the cause. As for - the city, the Governor and Supreme Executive Council of SouthCe.rolina have, on behalf of the State, notified the Confederate command ers that they would prefer to see Charles ton razed to the ground and its assailants beaten oft' than to see it, as it stands, sur rendered or evacuated on any terms what ever. Thus the Confederate government has the solemn sanction of the State to defend her commercial metropolis "at all hazards and to the last extremity," and great indeed will he the public chagrin and disappointment if, for any reason what ever, the government should fail to avail itself of this sanction. We all f•el that nest to the i•apital Charleston is by far the most important position now held by the Confederacy, and, regardless of all con siderations o f money, pains, blood and the ' strategy ,if the back track, we want a deperate, st arid successful defence. There is no lack of devotion on th e p av t of the great mass of the people; but there is, 1 fear, a lack of a muster mind to or y,anize and dispose to the best advantage the men and material we have a waila- He for the purposes of defence--one to Whom all could look with that confidence and reliance which, as between soldiers and their commander, is the frerunner of victory. Yet, when the day of battle approaches, it may happen that those wh o se military merits are now least recog nized among the people will prove them selves the worthiest to command. I trust that it may be so. " Georgetown was some months ago defended by batter ies; but these have since been removed by order of Gen. Pemberton, who, since Gen. Lee left, holds the supreme com mand over the Georgia and South ('aro• lina coast. Gen. R. S. Ripley, who has hitherto held the immediate command over Charleston anti the military district of which the city is the centre, has been transferred to Virginia, where he will he assigned to an active command in the field. His successor here will be Gen. Hugh W. 'Mercer. This officer was educated at West Point, but left the - United States Army in 1835, his rank at that tine• being First Lieutenant of artillery. Boston Boot and Shoe Market. The Shoe and Leather Reporter says "There is no change to report in the boot and shoe market. Our manufacturers are turning their attention to the approaching fall, sale and speculating upon the pros pects of a more extended trade than they have enjoyed for the past year. Letters from Southern dealers are generally rather circumspect, and it is clear thai a majority of them are, waiting for a full settlement of difficulties before committing them selves. In the meantime, some goods have been sent on speculation to different points, but the total amount of these is a mere trifle. There is a fair demand from the home trade, and also from-New York and the West, and the shipments are rea sonably large for the season." Saratoga Empire Spring Water. THIROUGIKOUT ALL SECTIONS OF the country the valuable properties of this water are well known, Indigestion or Dyspep sia, Constipation, Nervous Debility, Loas of Ag• petite, and Common Colds disappear before its renovating power. Unlike most mineral waters, it has a pleasant taste, with a pungency and live liness, which makes it as agreeable as soda water. Sold wholesale and retail by jolt SIMON JOHNSTON. Corner Smithfield k Fourth eta. IL„ - -IATE LA W J LANDRITCHIE, at present one of the Associate Law Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Allegheny county, will be a candidate before the Republican County Convention, for nomination for the place ho now occupies. my2V-tf STATE SENATE—E. D. GAZZARL the.) , is a candidate for the nomination for STATE SENATOR. grIOCNTY CONTR OL L E R — ILENRY NI LA WBERT will na t ionndidate for this of fice, aublect to nomibY the Republican County Convention, jell-d&wt23d JOHN M. KIIIMPATXIIIII will be a candi date for nomination to the above office, before the next nominating Republican County Conven don. apledevrte R. R. BULGER , ouxarLertrus or EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FURNITURE. No. 43 Smithfield Street, PITTXRIIIRGII • A FULL AINOOMIIIMPIP OP Pittsburgh Nanuhettued Furniture, Coostaatly at boa& ht wo will NU at the lowest Defer be CARL IMMO* R. SERV! b= REAL MAU • 141 /I na M Waite agitating ABEIREINERAL AUNT. DLLS= nr Mat BONDBOKORTGAGZEI and °that fren- Men L2MI NIIITS: BY TILEGIAMI. FROM NEW ORLEANS ARRIVAL OF PIERRE SOULE IN NEW YORK. HEAVY STORM AT OiNOINNAT Fortress Monroe Items NEW Imo:, June 18.--The steamer Ocean Queen, from New Orleans, with dates to the 11th inst., has arrived. Paymaster A. D. Weld, of Boston, died on hoard on the 11th, and was buried on West Bank, three miles above the head of the. Passes. Among the passengers are Mrs. Gen. Butler, and a number of discharged sol diers and refugees. Pierre Smile is also on board a prisoner. The Picayune of the 11th denies the report telegraphed to a Boston paper from Washington that the yellow fever had made its appearance in New Orleans. Such was not the fact up to the 11th inst. Eighteen hundred families were supplied with provisions on the 10th. Oen. Shipley had vetoed the resolution of the Assistant Board of Alderman, an nulling the contracts for cleaning the streets, also a resolution annulling the lease ofcertain markets. The story in the Journal of Commerce that Col. Moody was hung in front of his store, is denied, he being unmolested and alive. The Bank of America has resumed spe cie payment. The city. was pretty - quiet. The ships Wild Cat from Matanzas, South from Calcutta, knobs from Liver pool, Nitengale from Key West, and Hav elock from Boston, were below New Or leans on the 10th. The gunboat Calhoun, has also arrived. The schooner J. J. Pasland, had cleared for Boston with a cargo of sugar and molasses. The ship South has 1.100 tons of gunny cloth and 200 bales of gunny bags. CINCINNATI, June 18.—About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, during a heavy storm here, the lightning struck the manufactory connected with the extensive liquor ware house of Fletcher, Hobart k Co. Pas sing through the roof it struck one of the stills, causing its instantaneous explosion —the burning fluid spread in every direc tion, and the workmen barelyeseaped with their lives. The building was speedily consumed, the walls falling and crushing several frame houses beneath, killing a woman. By this time the warehouse of the same firm on Front street was completely enveloped in flames and was. entirely de stroyed, consuming one thousand barrels of whisky, two hundred barrels linseed oil, t wo hundred barrels lard oil, twenty barrels coal oil, besides alcohol and other stock. Fletcher, Hobart & Co's. loss is about $60,000. Insurance about $38,000. Loss on frame buildings crushed and partially burned. $1.500; large store front occupied by George N. Hard & Co., adjoining burnt warehouse, damaged to the amount of several thousand dollars. LAT/Al.—Three o'clock this morning the walls of Hard & Co's. store were so dam aged by the tire of yesterday that they fell in—tho contents of the store taking fire. among which was eight hundred barrels of whisky and a large amount of baled hemp were all destroyed by fire and water. This loss reaches perhaps $40,000. Insurance not ascertained. FORTRESS MONROE, June 17.—The gov ernment steam derrick Dingo arrived here this morning, and will proceed shortly to raise the vessels recently sunk here. The Fernandina arrived yesterday from Wilmington, N. C.. and reports all quiet on that coast. The John Adams arrived from Newport this morning with the senior class of the Naval Academy on hoard. The. middies are to see a little actual warfare, it is said, before returning. Th. , steamer Metamora arrived from l'ity Point last night. She brought no pas sengers, papers 'or news. The telegraph line from Suffolk to Ports mouth has just been completed, and is now in good working order. The weather is cool and unseasonable. WAstitsuroN, June 18.—The large num ber of officers absent from their regiments, without sutlicipnt cause, is regarded as so serious an evil as to demand immediate correction, and accordingly orders have been issued for that purpose. PHILADELPHIA, June 18.—The City Councils yesterday held a special meeting for the purpose of considering the expedi ency of purchasing League Island for pre sentation to the Federal Government as the site for a Navy Yard. In the Select Councils a message on the subject was re ceived from Mayor Henry. A resolution was passed accepting the offer of the pro- prietors of League Island for the con veyance of the same to the United States for the location of a Navy Yard. The price is $310,000. An ordinance was passed providing for the donation by the Mayor on behalf of the city of League Island to the Government, providing it shall be accepted by the Uni ted States as a Navy Yard, and appointing a joint committee to act with the Mayor in carrying out the ordinance. - ----- STRICTLY PURE ARTICLES. .11...a550 PITTSBURGH DRUG HOUSE, TORRENCE & DfcGARR, coRNER FOURTR & MARKET STREETS, Drum, Lead, Cream Tartar lladielaes Paints. Bak las Sada. Peeramer; Dye Stuns. Eas.nastard, Chemicals. lipiees, Ares &,e” &e. Sar Physicians Prescriptions accurately com pounded at all hours. Pure Wines and Liq u ors, for medic inal use only.Jon-tc EL - DEMOCIIIATIC STATE COSTES TION—In accordance with a resolution of the Democratic State Executive COMOnetie, THIC DIMOCIMIT OP PINNSTLYANIA will meet in STATE CONVENTION. at HARRISBURG. on FRIDAY, the eth day of July. 11M4 pt 10 &. it. to nominate candidates AUDITOR GEN ERAL AND SURVEYOR GENERAL. and to adopt such measures as may be deemed neeemary for the welfare of the Democratic party and the country. WILLIAM H. WELSH. Chairman of the Democratic State Ni. Com. To Destroy—Rats. Roaches. am To lkstroy—....ilioe. Moles and Ants. To Destroy—Bed Bum To Destroy—Moths in Fun. Clothes, de, To Destroy---Mosquitoes and Fleas. To Destroy--Inseets on Plants and Fowls. Tb Destroy—lnsects on Animals. &c. To Deetroy--Every form and species of Vermin The 'Only Intsilltikesk ntenseldies known., "Free from Poisons." "Not dangerous to the Human Family." "Rats do not disco the premise," "They come o ff out their'' to die." g o ld Everywhere—by All WHOLESALE DRUMS= in the large nth.. a n d by Dninisty, Gramm Storekeepers ant RlD tailers generally, in all Country Towns and Vil lages in the United States. B. A. FARM:STOCK k CO, R. E. SELLERS & Co., and others Wholesale Agents st Minima Country drains can order as stocky.. °cadres direct—for for Moen; Tenon de ty cams. plialsba amikist IkeedwaY. Na Yak icidissinwie- • , 76 •Bl ic" enilator ' br 3.I7HAY MOLLINaI Seen MI WY Li JACKSON REINFORCED• yammosT IN AN EXPOS ' ED CONDITION. The Corin.thArmy tome sent to the Shenandoah.' MOUNT JACKSON, June 16.—Reliable in formation has been received at headquar ters that Jackson has been reinforced a sec ond time by 12,000 men. Gen. Fremont is in a very exposed condition and in, danger of being overwhelmed by a vastly superior force. No reinforcements are on the way to him. It is believed that much of the Corinth army is about to be sent to hold the Shenandoah Valley with its immense supplies of wheat until after harvest time. NEW YORK, June 18.—The steamer China arrived at this port to-day at noon. A summary of her advices have already been published, having been received via Cape Race. BALTIMORE, June 18.—The statement that the government hospitals at Hampton and Mill Creek are to be abandoned is in correct. Death of Gen. Win. It. Palmer. WASHINGTON, June 18.—Gen. Wm. lt. Palmer, of the Topographical Engineers, who was brought hither yesterday, sick with typhoid fecec, died to-day. The Senate in Executive Session confirmed the following appointments : A. Cameron Hunt, of Colorado, Marshal for that Ter ritory ; Alvin Flanders, of California, Register of Land Office at Humboldt ; It. C. Morgan of N. Y., and R. L. Gard ner, of Ohio, Assistant Quarter Masters of Volunteers. From Washington. WASHINGTON, June 18.—All property captured by the army or seized by any Provost Marshal, or taken up astray. or taken from soldiers marching in an enemy's country, is required to be turned over to the chief of the - staff of the De partment to which such property would appertain on duty with the troops to he accounted for by.them as captured proper ty and used for the public service, unless claimed by the owners or ordered by the Commanding officers to be returned. - Released Union Prisoners Paid off and Discharged. NEW YORE, June 18.—The released Union prisoners, who have been for a fort night past on Governor's Island, were paid off and mustered out of service to-day.— Many of them have gone to their homes, while some have remained in town, the prey of the villainous sharpers who are so plenty in this city. Quite a number are at the New England rooms who will leave foi home to-morrow. They are from all sections of the North, West and East. The Pennsylvania committee have ar ranged with Col. Howe to have all the sick and wounded soldiers of that State, arriv ing here, taken to the New England rooms which has always heretofore been done, the New Englanders never yet refusing their hospitality or attentive care to any loyal sick or wounded soldiers. Arrival orMore Prisoners. NEW Youg., June M.—Among the pris oners by the Ocean Queen, is Sheriff Ma zoni, of New Orleans. Gen. Williams' Brigade is up the Missis sissippi river. The 31st Massachusetts, 10th Connecti cut and 12th Maine are now at New Or= leans. The health of the soldiers is good Thirty-Seventb Congress. WASHINGTON CITY, Juno 18.—HORSE. The House passed the Senate joint reso• lution fore the encouragement of enlist ments in the regular army and volunteer forces. It repeals so much of the filth section of August last as abolishes premi ums for bringing recruits to the rendez• vous, and, provides that hereafter a pre mium of two dollars shall be paid any citizen, non-commissioned officer or sol dier for every recruit to the regular army, and every soldier enlisting in the regular army or the volunteer force for three' years or during the war may receive the first months pay in advance. The House resumed the consideration of the bill to free from servitude the slaves of certain rebels engaged in or abetting the existing rebellion against the government of the United States. - Some time was spent in the discussion of points of order. A vote was nearly reached on the pas sage of the bill, when the time arrived for taking up the special order, namely, authorizing the issue of additional Treasury Notes. Mr. Stevens, of Pa., with the view of at .once disposing of the confiscation measure moved that the special order be postponed one hour. Agreed to. Yeas 78; nays 60. The way was now apparently clear for the confiscation bill, but Mr. Richardson, af ter remarking that the morning hour had transpired, moved to proceed to the busi ness on the Speaker's table. Mr. Phelp's of Missouri, demand ed the yeas and nays, which being taken, resulted, 43 against 88. The ques tion having been decided in the negative. The Confiscation bill was read. The bill was then passed; yeas 82, nays 44. The House resumed the consideration of the bill authorizing additional Treasury notes. Messrs. Wickliffe, Pomeroy and Pike opposed it. House adjourned. • P SOT/alt.—air. Sherman, of Ohio. pre sented the p ttition of the citizees of Ohio, for the ' o can large al enlargement of the Erielnd Osweg Mr. Grimes of lowa, offered a resolu tion declarin,g4hat in the opinion of the Senate it is the right and duty of the gov ernment to call all the loyal persons within the rebellious States to its armed defense against the traitors who are seeking its overthrow. Laid over. Mr. Saulsbury, of Del., offered , a joint resolution adjourning Congress on the 30th day of June. - Laid over. Mr. Hale, of N. H., introduced a bill relative to further enlistments in the army. The bill provides that when it is necessary to make further enlistments the President is authorized, by proclamation, to call on all persons without distinction ofrace, color or condition. It further provides that ev ery slave enlisted under such proclamation shall be ever thereafter fiee, and entitle bbn to all the privileges, bounty, &c., like other soldiers. Referred to the Military Committee. Mr. Powell, of Ky., introduced a bill to prohibit members of Congress and offi cers of the Government of the U. S. ta king a consideration for procuring co il . tracts from the Government. Referred. Mr. Chandler, of Mich. called ) up th e resolution to prevent the ' further issue ef legal tender treasury notes and anthori- ' zing the issue of a hundred million of ten day certificates, bearing five per.eent in terest. He spoke at some length e d vece . ting the passage of the resolution and showing the daeger of issuing an overplus of Treasury Notes. • ' Mr. Fast,.. of Ketithoosht it was not well to ajili Atips . tatit k meas. 'Mc indent, daillitkii - " Orthilhai ti fy t i o coesidsieurehk erem proposition as& by his. Re isotedthat the resolution be misereitoSb•Comaktee on Elosno,— so referred. " - of N. IL, introduced s bill far tho Court of the District of leferred to the Committee on Railroad bill was taken sendments were corgid and several ineffectual at. tempts to amend it the Senate adjourned. Successful Recanattil . M r .isinsavox, June 18.—A eeived at the IVar I)(4wirent` emtg ternoon, from Geriera — Neff that Colonel Averilliisdi . ssf.. a scout to the Mattabony lief WA , band of guerrillas, but they were MI(0 have left the previous day. He de stroyed the bridge, took a number of pnsonsra, besides' a_number of wagons. pad) loaded with supplies for - Hichincind. — lle destroyed a large amount of rebel grain and captured =several impsvtent Colonel Gregg had made& recoil to Charles City Court House, and remit-se ed some , mules, which , were, driven Colonel Stewart in the'. Pantakey *WS Genera: McClellan compliments Colonels Averill and Gregg !Or the handsome manner in which the expedition was eon - dnet4-41. .From. Winchester. WiNcncsTra"lnne 15.--Adirces Front Doyal this evening, report every thing quiet there and no signs of the ene my in that neighborhood. Nearly all of Gcn. Shields' men had found their way there. A few stragglers of the brigade : , which was forced back from Port Repib lie, had found their way into Gen. Fre mont's lines at Mount Jackson. The temporary excitement among the citizens caused by the appearance of a few rebel guerrillas near Castleman's or Snicker's Ferry, has subsided. The only effect it produced at our head quarteril *mi t * strengthen our pickets along the line of the Shenandoah. Officers from Gen. Fremont's camp this wonting,. repack some heavy firing in the Linty opposite Mt. Jackson last night. They express the opinion dug Jackson's meow, noisance has overtaken the rear guard of Gen. Shields' command. Gen:" "Ike mom's front rested at Mt. Jabitscia, his line extending from the Massanmen to foot of North Mountain, south of Mill Creek. Irrival of the Columbia. NEW Vous., June 18.—The steamer Columbia has arrived from Havana with dates to the 14th inst., and .Vera 01111 Z dOes to the 11. Accounts from Vera erns ...state . Gen. D'Onay, with 800 men, had- }hat with provisions for the French encamp meat. Caraccas dates to the 22d ult.. state that the rebels attacked the town of Petare, but were finally beaten off by the garrison after committing horrible atrocieties. Considerable sickness prevailed among the shipping in the harbor of Havana. The rains continue there. . . Tiu rebel steamer Gen. Rusk, had ar rived from Galveston with 500 bales of cotton. Order of Provost Maireiluill. , Sr: Loris ' June 18,—The Provost Ma rshal General of Missouri issued an Oder, instructing the Provost Marshal of *city to cause all persons in the city suspected of disloyalty or sympathy tO take AO Oath ofallegiencg to the United State and Pro visional Government, and all per - known to be disloyal shall be requiretto' give bonds for their observance of the Oath: : : The Marshal also directs the arrest of idts persons guilty of disloyal conduct,'-wheth er such consists of acts or knowledge:, Emancipation Convent**. ErE ERSI IS CITY, June 16.--,The cipation Convention met to-day. > One hundred and ninety-four delegates rep, resented twenty five counties. Oar pres, ent Judge Reowells of Cole County, waa reported permanent President ,by the Convention, on organization. Nine Vice Presidents and three Secretaries werstap pointed. A committee on platform was appointed, with B. Gratz Brown buShair man. The Convention adjourned tomcat to-morrow. LOVIAVii.t.u. June 18.--James B. Alai ander, of Kentucky, a Lieutenant in the regular army. fell -this morning from hi. room in the third story of the Lonitrilla- Hotel and was killed almoit inataatlY. Alexander had been a post commissary at Bardstown, and was here en route to Washington. The Armies all Quiet. WAstuswrox, June 18.----No disiOatehea from Corinth have been received atthe War Department to-day. All is quiet in the Valley of the Shenan doah as tar as heard from, and also in the army of the Potomac. Election for a New Constitution CHICAGO, June IR.—The majority for the new Constitution in this city is 908. The returns from the State are very mea gre and is not enough to indicate the re sult. From Nebraska. OMAHA, N. T., June 16.—The overhuid emigrant escort sent out by the . Goirotep meat left this morning for the 'West. Enii; gFation is larger than ever before. Some six, thousand teams crossed the river at this point alobe. • Market Retail* . Nair Iroar4Asse IL ; ' Cotton firm,l4oo bales Wh e atol 5111 k. Plow firm. 14.500 barrels sold. etlit, e bushels sold: _Chicago spring $1 CO. Club, $1 00@1 01, Red Western, $1 ' Hr. Corn firm. 41.000 bushels sold at 51 ... Beef steads at B@loe. Pork firm. / Alins sold at 540 ell 00. Lard st . - I Weak, steady. sugar firm. Muscavado 6 lava hie° 7€.80. Coffee firm, Rio 1934® e. quiet. PITTSBURGH THEATRE. LIME AND MA1UG1C1L........WM. 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