Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1866, Page 2

_THE EVENING STAR. The Largest Cirenlation in the District. | W: D. WALLACH, Editor ana Proprietor. WASHINGTON CITY: ++-JULY 15, 1866. WE S/ READING MATTER ON EVERY PAGE. | SEE OUTSIDE FOR INTERESTING TELE- GRAPHIC AND OTHER MATTER. S7 PERSONS LEAVING FOR THE COUNTRY, DURING THE SUMMER, CAN HAVE: THE | “STAR MAILED TO THEM BY LEAVING ‘THEIR ADDRESS AT THIS OFFICE. TERMS FIFTY CENTS PER MONTH. CIRCULATION OF THE CITY PRESS. The following is the official showing of the circulation of the daily papers of this city competing for the Government advertising under the recentact of Congress directing such Advertising to be made in the two daily news- papers of Washington having the largest circulation : Evenine Star. THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. The intemperate speeches delivered irf the | two recent Radical Vongressional caucuses are baying an appropriate effect. They meet uni- ‘versal reprobatien. No papers apologise for them. while a great majority of the press of the country condemn them in unmeasured terms. They prove clearly the revolutionary | tendencies of the Radical leaders, and that | they propose to resort to any possible unlaw- ful means, if necessary, to destroy the lawiul Tights and privileges of the Executive branch of the Government. That is, in their effurt to defeat the resteration of the Southern States to | their position as States, to accomplish which, alone, the loyal North spilled its blood and gave its treasure so lavishly. The tenor of the peeches in question amounts to a general con- dession that they have little hope of being able to beat the President's policy before the peo- ple in the fall elections. Hence their apparent wiolence of despair. So long as there was no concert of action between the various parties sustairing the President, matters looked well enough for radicalism, but the manner in | which the call for the Philadelphia Con. | vention has been responded to comes like | a clap of thunder upon them. That means | that the masses everywhere realize that the war is over. That nothing whatever now imterferes with the re-establishment of con- cord, but the schemes of radicalism to de- feat it for @ party purpose, anda for that of plundering the people right and left. Thou- sands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thou- , sands who agree with us in insisting on the | maintainance of the Congressional test oath— as eMbracibe positive assurance that none but reliable Union men siall ever again sit in Congress, and who also hold with us that one Febel at the South is not to be permitted to have double the power—as 4 voter—in the govern- Ment tbat falls to the lot of a loyal man at the JNorth as the grand result of the war for the preservation of the Union, will surely be rep. sented there. Though this last sentiment uni- ‘versally prevails throughont the North, the radicals are mistaken in imagining that the majority insist in making its consummation the condition precedent for the rehabillitation of the Southern States. They know well that | at must very shortly follow as a consequence | of the result of the war. The end ef American | slavery was & certain result of the effort to desirey the Union. The great change io the | stots of the negro race among us that ha< al- | Teady occurred and still goe= eon—clothing bim with civil rights, urging on his indus. | tial snd mental improvement, &c.. fo! jowed naturally the end of American sla- VWeTy: and the march of events wWiil as surety | provide some safeguard against the possibili- ty that treason may be strengthened as a pow- et im the State by the destruction of slavery, | ‘without carrying out the dangerous experi- | ment to that end, Which radicalism proposes. | Viz —The utter obliteration of nearly every re- matfning distinctive principle of American Tights as they existed before the rebellion. We entertain no fear that the Philadelphia | Convention will fail to maintain to the letter every idea for which the loyal States went into the war, while we feel equally sure that the | South, as represented therein. will subscribe | heartily to their correctness and will make out | fuch & case, then and there,as will disarm ibree-fourths of the existing hostility to the | President's policy of their immediate reead. | mission to all the rights of States of the Ameri- | can Union. | Well may radicalism tremble at the Prospect | before it, in view of the probable results oft this Convention. | PABDON 10 MILITABY PRISONERS. H The President has granted executive clemen- cy to all military prisoners who are undergo- ing sentence by military courts. and have been | ‘mprisoned six months, except those who are under sentence for the crimes of murder, arson or rape, and those who are undergoing sen- tence at the Tortugas, by ordering them to be discharged frow imprisonment, with the resi- due of their sentences remitted.’ Those belong- ing to the milit service whose term of ser- vice is unexpired, will be returned to their command, if it isstill in the service, and their is made conditional upon their serving their full term, and Properly conducting them. selves to the end. } | ‘THE PUBLIC LANDS. } At the land office of St. Peter, Minnesota, 15.599 acres were disposed of last month, th- greater portion for homestead actual settle- ment, the residue under the Agricul = lege grant by bounty land warrants and Sioux ecrip. ‘The cash sales amounted to $3.504. | ConTRacT AWARDED.—Contracts under Bu, | reau of Equipment and Recruiting, (Navy De. | partment) for Tin, Zinc and Pig iron for the | Navy Yard at Washington, Philadelphia and Kittery, have been awarded to John RK. El. vane, of this city. | PERSON AL.—Hon. Ualed Cushing is in town, | ++*-Robert Ould, Esq., of Richmond, formerly | Distriet Attorney here, has been in town for sume days. S7'Sbillington, Odeon Building, and Joho C. Parker, Post Office News Stand, send us the Avgust number of Beadle’s Monthly. op tee mer TELEGRAMS, ~ ant ‘iMards E Tut SEL 3.P ENT DES Bscager. | enthusiasm. | cluded with the Upper Plattes, Sioux, and | one hundred buildings. | contest of five hours the sr | establishing bimself onobserv: | the line being thus broken through they were | Maud, well TELEGRAMS. The duel fought last week, just over the Mississippi line, was between a young Pessoal named Taylor, of Tennessee and Captain ‘Monz0 Greentow, 20n of W. B. Greentow. one ofthe wealthiest and most highly respected citizens of Memphis. Taylor was charged with making offensive remarks about a lad: cousin of Greenlow, and on his denying it Greenlow sipped him in the face and called bim alisr. Taylor forth: challenged bim. Greenlow accepted, and ki! on the first fire. Taylor leaves a wife and two children The courts have adjourned in Pespect te his memory. During the war, General Olory, deputy quer.ermaster general, occupied the house at Memphis, Tenn., of a loyal citizen, Mr. Duval, then residing at Philadelphia. Since then Duval instituted a suit for rent and recovered the amount claimed. On the sheriff attempt- img to carry out the order of the court, Clory brought ina guard and ordered them to pat bim out or sill him. On Saturday as Clory was leaving on furlough the judge ordered the sheriff to arrest him; but he Laborggpeo ars rove by en; ‘ing passage on one and leaving onencihers taking ‘an armed guard with him The American emigrant ship Monarch of the Seas, which left Liverpool for New York on the afternoon of the 19th of March last, with a valuable cargo and six hundred and seven! four psesengers, is now, lacking but two day: four months at sea, and as nothing h been heard ofher. It is feared that some dis- aster must have occurred to the vessel, and that she has gone down with all on board. General Sherman, while in Boston, visited the City Hall, State House, Faneuil Hall, Bun- ker Hill, and the navy-yard, and at each and every place he was ived with unbounded At the Uity Hall and the State House he made brief speeches in response to the calls of the crowds. There was no quorum inthe Tennesse House Monday. Fifty members were present. R. Williams, from Carter county, was arrested by the sergeant-at-arm and held in close cus- tody. Judge Frazier has issued a writ of habeas corpus in favor of Williams. A resolu- tion has passed to arrest seven other refrac- tory members. Judge Bryan, in the United States Court Charleston, S. C.. on Monday decided that the existence of peace, and President Johnson's proclamation of April 2 declaring the sup- ression of the msurrection, revoke President incoin’s proclamation of 1463, and thatevery citizen is entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus. Seven thousand persons witnessed a base ball match betweeen the Athletes and Irving- tons of New Jersey, the recent victors in the match with the Athletes of New York. The seore stoed: Athletes 46, Irvingtons 9. The latter were skunked four times. The Athletes made 23 tn one inning. This victory gives the championship to the Athletes. A prize fight between two men named Rock and Wood was commenced near Belmont College. in the vicinity ot Philadelphia, but police disturbing them they went to Grays Ferry Road and fought seventy rounds, when Rock was declared the victor, having received a foul blow. A motion was made in the Supreme Court, New York, yesterday to remove the assignees of Culver, Penn & Co., and to appoint a re- ceiver. It is statea that nearly $5,000,000 have passed throagh the bands of the firm for which m count has been given. Yesterday was the hottest dav experienced in Baltimore for many years. The thermome- ter reached i63 in the shade in the afternoon. It bas been ascertained that eight deaths from eunstroke occurred. A revolution broke out at Gonayies, Hayti, July 5, and spread through an adjoining ter- ritory. All communication is cut off between ‘be North and the capital. Business is sus- pended The river is falling fast at Fort Benton, but rising from the mouth of the Yellow Stone to Omaha Satisfactory treaties of peace have been con- Cheyennes Indian: Lower Canning, in Canada. was burned on on Saturday night. Over fifty stores and dwellings were destroyed. A large fire in Charlottetown, Prince Ed- ward’s Island, on Sunday morning, destroyed Fort Laramie In Philadelphia, yesterday, at 2 o’clook ther- mometer at 95 and fourteen cases of sunstroke. In New Yor <, yesterday, thermometer 101 in the shade, and thirty cases of sunstroke. ———_+ece- ADDITIONAL FOREIGN NEWS We have the following additional news by the steamer Pereori which arrived yesterday: Vienna dispatches of the 5th say that Gene- ral Gallas, commander of the Ist army corps, field marshal Hennek Steen, and Major (iene- ral Kraismaign will be conrt-martialled. Benedek sent a despatch on the 4th to the Austrian Emperor, stating that after a brilliant succeeded in at Chlum, and compelled to retire. The retreat was effected Rory roses | on Parkubitz. The losses are not yet know, but are sapyets to be considerable. At Berlin a statue of Frederick the Second was covered with laurels in henor of the victory. A ‘Trantenaa despatch states the victory against the Austrians was decided by the army of the Prince Royal succeeding by great efforts and forced marches im reaching the battle. ground in season to direct the attack against the right wing of the Austrians. ‘The King tdecorated the Prince on the field of battle with the order of military merit. The King and the Princein command were enthusiastically saluted by all the troops. The Tyrofese priests are inciting the - santry agaist * bald: by prociaiming nis force as bandits and announcing him as anti- ebrist. has ve thousand men in his com- Garibaldi The battle of the 3d inst. lasted twelve hours, the Austrians maintaining their ground obsti- nately for six hours. About three in tha after- noon the Austrian position at Bistritz was car- ried by assault, after which they were rapidly driven from their other positions, and tho whole Austrian army were in full retreat in the even- | ing. The Austrians have evacuated tMante Guello and Caffaro, and they wtll be occupied by Garibaldi. A Florence despatch of the 4th says the pub- lic journals declare if the Austrian troops evacuate Venetia to march against the Pruss. ians, the Italian army will pursue them closely until a junction is effected between the Italian and Prussian armies. Italy will not leave Prussia either in defeat or victory. The cam: mH will be resumed and con- tinued until the Austrian monarchy is dis- membered. — FRESH SUPPLY OF LPS) A A AND SUN Down BATS. ayess = Just received at DAVIS & GAITHBB’S, y 20 Market Space. W lp} NANSOOK AND HUPFED ILLUSIO: WAND F USION ‘Just received at i DAVIS & GAITHE iy 18-3t bis tith Space. | ADIES PREPABING T0 LEAVE FORTHE | various watering places, will find « complete W'iindsct Motions att? conse: rectumery, and 101 Oui Kinds of Hottons avis & G ITHER'S, iywst 20 ‘dines pace. OTICE TO SHIPPERS.—The Steam AY- N Flow? . iti leave her wharf, ee No. 63 Water street, G.. for ey “ay =, a os 5 or oo ohh ib Bevipson, jy 17-2t* No. 5 ‘eter at.. Georgetown, Ww 4bLacu HOUSE BESTAURANT AND DINING SALOON, Southwest corner of Penna. ave. and Lith street, 53m T.H. BEGAN, Proprietor. (Fr Seebreatece ss FiduabaPtect ct 7 postponed . i 1.0. C. F—-COLUMBIA LODG! meeting wilt be neid' ‘3: Wea- ) ry ee foneral of ~ eso IPPs. eral torment it aa “FE wounpan, ec. ec. Tint utes suneeee lem) ers are earnestly to attend. trom the (of Golutabta seeieriens, Sallors icikie Oe “ores + Bee. Bec. viet TH WHO USE THE AQU: DUCT WATER Warer Brotste. ay TY July 17, This fice te advised & e Eugtncer tn i of the ¥ ashin A that “there is now deBctency fa the sy of wgter.”’ It is absolute- Jo srecounry ¢ efere, that the greatest ecenemy De observed fu tts use. for vocals te cen waste epforce rigidly the . ly ae regards street w and li Bits ead ere ore cecee_OAND Rr ait Sy eect — Seminar. WM: R. McLEan, JA5S. H, BEBD, Bec. Sec. protem Gorves WEDDING, SPARKLING OATAW- | Just ved. “of wae Sele a te clareed in commemoretion o! Goldea Wedding. For sale in quarts . 200 ‘ k es 2 ih 56 Pennsylvania aya Tonk ste. _iy 12-0038 APOLEON’S HISTORY OF JULIUSC. ! N Nolume 2d. Sir Morton Peto on the aan | Prospects of America. i sraderroavius Briton “Graven’e Prise ¥ Carrier Four ve of | vers’ | iow. the Boddies by | ears in Barry Gi ; aye mer FRAWOK TAYLOR. | N OTIC firm of Wessionten city. Dertner. Erwin G ing 20t sal in Fes. ral Ly] Fisk gear PARTLY Connie a ea nuneS Eee Seuss oe a | store on Jéth street between I and K, ; ¢an get a geod article LOST AND FOUND. | eee ee '—This morn'; the 18th instant, between CRickeeet Hoage ceed ist street weet, © LET- , between l0and 118 m red skye TERBIBR: ng weri the ame of “ Dick Whoever brings him. to the police station on street, between ‘Bist streets, wil! a reward of five rose in forchest bipe; lore’ Pa i Riiserals et he: a °° tite, “G. E. BREWE iy 7 3t* No. th street, Is EW ABD—Strayed the nieht of thi ts Bb Bits rons whitoend black wnokied fi white back; marked with two slits in the rij horns; was about 6 years ear; bubbed around her i hed and rope 8 @ reward wit be paid for het roture to JOBLAB ADAMS 0 street, between lst and 2d, near @atholic eres i Ground. W AED—The above i be paid BB ee got hoo WAR AND Watson's Bathin Saloon, under the Beaton on Seturday evening * HO. SHUST . iy 16-3t* of W. M. Shuster & Bro. —On rening. bet Post saetrget, a LETTER sade it . Johu Stokes, West Squars Askeato: gent efi tinal iut te ige porte whe tin “3 x Grees it to MAUBIOR CLEARY corm et anh and G streets jy 16 -8t* 50 aeaA D—Siolen last night, from 7th large BAY MABE. white new igh’ WOM, tod® ¢-ote,"ant'Tod raustie gear; Wastington Uity Sarden patoted ao ike on the yin gilt cere and a new silver-plated har- ness, wi stray eee or eee ABNER, 7th strest Park, _iy 6-tf pear Boundery line. EWARD-Will be id for & Bi $5 ACE VETO, tort da gate srieck; Sauare Bsrec| » between ‘husetts avenue and College Hill, on Tues- day afternoon. Inquire at Btar office. "my 16 BOARDING. FOE BENT, WITH BOARD_On the ist of Au- just, @ second story FRONT BOOM, at 13 West street, Georgetown. Jy 17-3t* }UBNISHED ROOMS with or without BOARD, cheap, at 499 lith street. Apply at once on . the premise: i bite W. 8. SILLIMAN. ASANT KOOMS. WITH BOARD. canbe obtained for the summer, ip a most desirable locatien. on Penns. avenue, No. 150, between Ith and 18th, dy 17-3t* QEVEBAL GENTLEMEN OAN BE acvOM- + modated with first class BOABD. on reason. le terms. Aiso, tw BUOMS. adjctuing. suitable for gentleman and wife Inquireof D. HOWEL| Branch Hotel. Bladepsiurg, Md Jy 16-3t* 64 10th street,a few Tages Bar a ades ays lata. 9 : PERSONAL. PEESONAL_Dr. WORSTER will return trom New York on Wednesday morning, the Istn inst., and will be at gis office, 447 10th’ Bt . for a few days. All delinquents are invited to call” Others can do as they please. jy 17-6t" P42ENT RIGHTS FoR SALE FOR ONE OF the best and cheapest ARTIFICAL LEGS yet patented Will sell the Right for ene or all the Southern States. Cull on or address W. H. eae 565 I street north, Washington, D. 0. i¥ i M R. A. A. GROOKSTON —Ploase take notice The LOG WAGON (carriage, an: of HARNESS left at my shan for sold at the 3 GEO ALL, jy 17-30" 13%¢ street and Penn’a avenue, A NOTICE. LL PERSONS ARE REQi ESTED TO CALL and get their WATCHES and JEWELBY left for repaire, by the let of August. Allindebtea will please call and settle, ISAAO ALEXANDER, J. jy 17-3t™ 240 OTICE—The Co partnership heretoforeexist- ing Retwece WORTH INGTON & MAULL is dissolved. L. Worthiogton, alone, is author- ized to settle the bu t sae July 14, 1866. jsiness of the firm. L. W. WORTHINGTO: B.A. MAULL. a continue to carry on the Grocery, — Pte oor ea Ler ged share 01 i patronage of ie public, corner and M streets. L, W. WORTHINGTON. y csapinpnpeenngusnsasasannemenaperereesese nse ne eT SS____——— ee GEORGETOWN ADVER’MTS Dp seLuTion—the Co ha hire den! existing under the style of TALBOT. is this day dissol Iw til Flour and heretofo LLISON "s by mutual con- . O . EB. TALBOT, Charles M rt ie - eat peg arog Se suthorized to settle all ac. Thereby authoriz, debts of the late hrm. ved E. Talbot to collect all ersons having claims en to bim for settle. CHAS, MEMMEBT. will hereafter be conducted by BR, the old stand. 95 Bridge street, —_—~ will be glad to meet his old friends. ea = HEAP DBY GOODS AT MILLER’S Georgetown 101 Bridge ai rchase for Mens’ and ‘aim Fans at Scts., Bleached Muslin Bo ear. Paraapis, Fans. Gloves and Hosiery. Ski 124.16, 20. 25, 28. 31 cents. Brown Muslin to sell 15, 18, 20, 25 cents, Calicoes 10. 1234. 16, 18%. 20, 22 cts Alpacas trom 25 cents to 1, Mosquito Nets. X. witbetanding domestic goods have advanc ly, @e are seMing them aslow as ever. (a! examine our stock, and we will save your mo je 21-1m* BENJAMIN MILLE: ((L0sING our saLzs OF SUMMEE CLOTHING. Tee TREE ons je % a 4 CLOTH and CASSIMEBE SACKS, Hoss ood me. jam, DARK CASSIMERE SUITS for business or tray- Dg LACK ALPACCA SACKS BI oCK SDRLLLING SAOK COATS BROWN DUCK DRILLING SACK PANTS AND Vpata, © SAK OOaTs, BROWN LINEN DUSTERS OB TRAVELING With's fail tine of Summer UNDER WEAR. 50, WHITE SHIRTS, OOLLABS, TIES, &c., &c., - HOAH WALKER & 00 368 Peunsyivente. even: between 6th —_ itreets, Metropolitan iy W-eo2wif Untel } THE BEST QOOK STOVES. ‘pose wh. yin STOVE that i ae on rier to the ord id he call end sec the gai engrostwTenorte sa . a ito’ ‘over offered, for salen this m: nd PEARL Bahn toe CHA CENS SRE pd. Hactarartety Of other patterns, of the Hotel Buil stoves OBN- Cos: Exe. end Frost & "Call and estanbow-cur stock: E. i. @ H. 1, GREGORY, ie 321 Pennsylvania avenue. 3S near 7t! . LOCK WOOD, Washi: 344 Divs sareoue, : wait an feoth wie st 188) mn Bul Sens: redneed price. Teeth extracted with- out pain, jy 16 Im* LA¥3s: LAWHS!! ived this da auction lot of LAWNS, at 90 and 25 centha, worth $794 cents, Alo fT Weel conte, nt OF BOY'* De ton Satter iy 16-81" 421 Beventh strest. N= CONFECTIONERY STOBE. U, H. BIDENOUR will open this day a branch opposite Frankliv Square, 10K OBEAM, WATER 10ES AND FANOY CAKES in various styles. Allisre invited to call and see my new store, where you reduced prices, jy 166t* {ORTIING RODs. New is Hine to pret your lives and cor. EES nena QLD Stoves TAKEN mm Past Pay FoR gona reer: SUOOND EOIN, 5 @’CLOCK P. Mm. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. jWasuiseton. July 1¢, 1966. Jay Cooke & Qo, fursish the following quotatons of Government securities : ; 109 108, | Five Twenties, 1864. W5y Five Twenties, 1565. 05x | . S. Ten Forties...... « Be ay U.S. Seven Thirties ., +o. 1033, 108), One Year Certifigates, - NEW YORK FIRST BOARD BALES. pera woe 1094; Five Twenties, ise2. 1067: | "103%; Gold. 149. f —_—— +6 AN IMPORTANT mAty OF COUNTERFEIT- THE COUNTERFEIT COMPOUND INTEREST NOTE PLATES. The officers of the Secret Service Division: under the Solicitor of the Treasury, have jas succeeded in arresting the principal party con. | nected with the counterfeit $100 compound. interest note, one of the most dangerous coun- | terfeits ever issued, and concerning which | there was 80 much mystery, it will be remem- | bered. We have ascertained the tollowing in. | i | ‘ teresting particulars : The back of this note was printed from an electropla‘e made from a lead plate, upon | which an impression of the genuine plate was made in the Treasury Department by anem- | ployee named Edwin Langton, of Hartford, | Conn. There were also other impressions stolen by Edwin Langton. to be used by the counterfeiters. One of these was the $20 com- pound interest note, the impression of which Was stolen by Langton, assisted by his father, Eli Langton The yorees) counterfeiter in the case is Hen: jolmes alias Henry Hall, who, as above stated has been nabbed and has been confined in the Elkridge street jail New York. in de- fault of $20,000 security. As an evidence of the formidable nature of this counterfeiting organization it may be stated that $10,000 was promptly lsig down for bailin behalf of the arrested es, but their pile on hand, enor- mous as it was, did not quite reach the amount requisite. Thomas Hall, Richard Weeks, Obarley Sands (arrested a few days since in Baltimore), and Chick Heney alias Chick Treat, are the parties who started out with the first lot of these counterteits. They have now all been arrested, and Gurney, Williams, Weeks and Sands are all commitied to jail in | default of security. The officers of the secret service division have also succeeded in capturing the presses and plates on Staten Island, and the fact was developed thatthe printing was done in the house of an ex-sergeant of police of New York | pal named Abel Ware. Several thousands of dollars of the counterfeits were captured, and all the appurtenances of a first-class counter- feiting establishment. This is one of the most important and successful seizures ot counter- feiters and machinery ever made in this coun. try. ———————EEE FREEDMEN’S CONTRACTS AND A . TIOKSHIP. —_— Major Van Derlip, superintendent of the Freedmen’s Bureau, has transmitted to the Assis!ant commissioner his report of a tour of inspection he has just concluded through Cal- Yert and 4 portion of Anne Arundei counties, Maryland. in reference to the questions of freedmen’s contracts and the apprenticing of colored children, he states that ia Calyert county he heard general complaint among the planters, of the scarcity of labor, and thinks many more freedpeople could obtain employ- ment tbere. Complaints were also numerous of the disposition of the freedman to break his i} 3 | amendment, contract. The contracts are uenally made b; the month, as the freedmen are unwilling to contract for the year. The freedmen, during the oyster season, can make larger wages than the planters can afford to ay, and manyrun away from the planters, aking their con. tracts to engage in this more lucrative busi- ness. At present the freed People seem to be generally at work, and complaints are not as numerous as formerly. The Superintendent gave much of his atten- ton to the subject of apprenticing children without the consent of their parents. This bas been very generally done in both counties and he styles it asa gross wrong and injustice. He states the facts as he found them two be thus: Abont the time the new. or as it is there called. . the Emancipation constitution went into effect, slave owners adopted the following mode of vide Sas Portion of its requirements: a few days after the constitution went into effect, the children on a farm were taken before the Or- han’s Court and bound to the former owner. h some instances these a have: been hired ont to labor by the ownel® who receives the child’s wages, and in other cases infants buta tew months old were so bound. Several of these cases have been before the courts on writs of habeas corpus and others are now in litiga- ‘tion. In one case the matter has been carried to the court of appeals on the question of the right of habeas corpus to issne in such cases, in another case the children after having been brought to court on a writof corpus and delivered to the parents, were hired out by the parents, but were afterwards repley- ined by the master, thus diverting their earn. ings from the parents to him. Since the pass. age of the Civil Rights bill no children been 7, patient There are about six hu dred children apprent:ced in Calvert and al- most as many in Ann Arundel, most of whom are orphans and very poor. —————_____.... CONSCIENCE MONEY. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day re ceived another contribution tothe United States conscience fund from a person who writes from Baltimore enclosing $100, which he stated was money belonging to the United States, and hed been overpaid to him. WHITE HOUSE Very few persons called at the White House to-day. The President is mot receiving or granting interviews to any one for the present, except Senators, Representatives, or the Heads of Departments. INTERNAL REVENUE.—The receipts from this source yesterday were $720,670.71, and the receipts of to-day were $673,738.34. XXXIXTH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION. Wepnespay, July 18. Sxnate.—Mr. Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported, without amendmen bill to reorganize Departme: ad ent ati reggiernt of anda in relation ns Oo! sel eld as prisoners of war. ere» . Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported adversely on the bill to be gem a Commission to consider the subject of trans. portation between the Western and Atlantic ates, Also, adversely on a bill to increase the pay = eran ited & written of presented a report ap! ventilation for the Senate Cham- ber; which was ordered to be printed. Mr Hendricks introduced a resolution au- senpe Gardener and ‘Topographical Posiengy scape er a ineer to aid the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the selection of a park and site for a Presidential Mansion. Adopted. Mr. Grimes called < & joint resolution to amend a resol ution of July 1, 1964, regulating the investment of the Naval Pension Fu requiring it to be made permanent loan to the Government of six. per cent. Postponed till to-morrow. Mr, Sherman called up the funding bill, which was amended by striking ont the first and second sections and the addition of two new sections, and, as amended, was ordered to be printed and made the special order for to- morrow. from the Finance Mr. Fessenden. reported, Committee, the Civil .ppropriation bill, ee spe- ‘was ordered to be printed, and made cial order for to-morrow. The bill to increase the compensation, of clerks, messengers, and other employees of the Senate, was taken up, and, after discussion, was recommitted to the Committee on Contin- t se8. ‘yr, Trumball called up the bill Tecently Bata? Herr Wan he Waa ed in r ing P| at Quincy, Keokuk, Winona, and other poin' The House amendments were agreed to, with an amendment requiring the consent of the States on each side of the river where bridges are sed. Mr, Henderson offered an amendment that if the Board of Engineers recently a; pone’ to inquire into the feasibility of the Mis. reser shall report that ejevated bridges of continuous epaces can be constructed across the river no drawbridges shall be allowed under this act. Haute Besath amendments to the by fae viving the ieee general were taken ap concurred . with an amendment of a verbal nature. Un motion of Mr. Eliet, the Clerk was di- ta the seat without adivision. He appeared aad was sworn in The morning hour was then devoted to re- rts from the Committer on the District of Doramvia. and the following bills were re- ported back and passed without debate Senate Tel: to taxation for public sch in the, Distriet of Columbia: Senate bill with substituteas.an amendment to construct a jail in the District ot Columbia. The substi- tute was toand theDill passed. (1t appro- $200,008 to be di: equally between e Tomest and the city and company of w ton.) bill_to amend an_act to extend the charter ofthe Washington & Alex- andria kK. R. Co. dill (without amend- ment) to amend the Metropolitan Police act. (it proyides for a reorganization of the police torce. Dir, Ingersall of Ill, from the District of Columbia, reported back Senate bill, with an to incorporate the District of Columbia Canal and comprar, Pending 3 vote the morning hour expired aud the bill went over. =. Alley, trom tHe Seleét Committee to in- vestigate the assault on Sedo yy Ea teenie iD tand recommended tha! ; Towers relleved from the custody of the Sergeant-at- arms; which was to. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. LATEST FROM EUROPE. Highly Important. darcmnmebes PLUSSIA AND ITALY ACUEPT THE ARMISTICE —> PEACE FOR SIX WEEKS eed eee tat SEVERE FIGHTING IN THE TYROL gsiy tel y'Euue is Hairax, July 15.—The steamehip Africa, | from Liverpool on the 7th. via (Queenstown on. the 8th, arrived at § a.m. LIvERProoL, July 7.—The latest advices state | that Prussia and Italy bave accepted the pro- posal foran armistice. The Prussians, how- ever, had advanced further into Bohemia. Heavy cannonading had been heard on the 7th instant, in the direction of Konigatz, and it was supposed the Prussians were attacking the fortress. July 7.—Cotton market on Sat- the improvement o! Friday Sales of 7,000 bsles. The decline was lost. cansed by the anticipated failure of ne- gouations. Middling Upland quoted at about lad. Breadstuffs firmer. Provisions inactive Consols J. 5 6 Erie sbares ‘sa3s iy: 1 al 7585 %: The Paris Temps announces th: russia and Italy had aceepted the armistice on the following conditions :—The Prussians are to retain their present positions, the troops to be supported by the countries occupied: the Aus- triius are not to increase their armies in the field, and Italy to occupy one fortress in the Quadrilateral A Vienna dispatch says:—There isa good prospect of an armistice ef six weeks. Hos- ulities have no been resumed. The Austrian army continued their retreat without molestation. The King of Prussian ordered the release of all Austrian prisoners giving their Parole not to serve again during the war Severe fighting has been reported on the frontiers of Venitia and Tyrol. The reports are contradictory as to results. The following news is by the steamer direct from Liverpool. of older date -— Advices of the morning of the 7th state the Prussians were continued victorious, aud had defeated the Baverians at Dirmbarg, and occupied the town. The conclusion of an armistice was then considered improbable. Public opinion in Prussia and Italy was strongly adverse to it. Napoleon tad received no acceptance of the proposition, and it was thought not un- likely that Prussia would dictate terms at Vienna. earthen Virginia and the Philadelphia Conven- thoi RicHMony, July I*—The State Exeentive Committees of the party organization of 1560, held an adjourned meeting in the Capitol to- day. and adopted the following resolutions The first deciaring inthe name, and in be- half of the people of Virginia, that they heartily song permed with the law-abiding citizens of the Northern States in the objects of the pre- Posed Philadelphia Convention, and assuring them of their anxious disposition to co-oj te with them in restoring real peace. in bringing back the Government in praotice to its settled principles and usages under the Constitation. and assuring to all the blessings of equal, free, and republican government. The second resolution recommends the people to hold district conventions to elect , and provides that in the event of a failure in any district ‘@ act, this body will nominate delegates at an adjourned meeting to be held on the ist of August. Twenty Deaths from Heat in Baltimore. BaLtimor®, July, isth, 1866.—There were no less than corny deaths trom heat in this city yesterday and quite a number are ser- iousiy ill from the same cause. ‘There is a fine breeze this morning, but the heat is still excessive. The thermometer Tanging from 45 to & degees. Coal Sales. New YORK, July is —At the coal saie to- day of the Pittston coal company 70,000 tons were sold in eighteen minutes, as follows - showing rather higher prizes : sales of 15,000 tons; steamer $6.50, grate, $6.75, stove $7.00 chestnut, $6.00, lump, 35. Steamer Sa‘ New York, July isth_The steamer Cuba sailed to-day for Liverpool taking 115 n- gers and seventy-five thousand dollars in specie. ————— Phila a Markets. PHILADELPHIA, ly 18.—Breadetnfis exces. sively dull. No shipping demand for flour. No white wheat here. Corn dali and lower. Lard declined. Petroleam unchanged. Whis- key, $2.22. ee New Yerk Markets. New York, July i§.—Cotton firm. Fiour dull, and 10820 cents lower. Southern droop. ing at $9.75a$15.75. Wheat dull and nominally lower. Corn declining. Pork heavy. Lard and Whisky firm. ———_-~+-ee-. LOOAL NEWS. icon Sitka yesterday afternoon in the Capito! building, upon Mr. U. H. iter, correspondent of the Philadelphia Inguirer, and clerk to the House Postal Commi we now give some ad- “ie rr. ‘was standing near the door of his committee. wi -room, ith Mr. W. B. Shaw, of the Ni when Mr. Hemphill, one of coenneaiene ot the House, came up, accompanied by Mr. Ben. F. Bever- idge Edward Towers, of this city, and commenced & conversation with Hemphill In regard to the confirmation of Mr. Sloapaker, of Philadelphia, as collector for the 1et district of Pennsylyania. Mr. Painter joined 1n the conversation, remarking that if r. Sloanaker did not make better progress than he bad with a certain Senator on whom he bad called, he would not soon be confirmed, and stated that Sloanaker had on the previous night intruded himself into the room of a Sen- ator unasked, and had been directed to leave. Beveridge, who with Towers had stood near during the iaieebdperea without a bay oo ting, now ste} forward, “You one br. Painter repueds ‘dont now ‘you; fir; I am not a Ihave any quarrel with you;” to which retorted witb.an ofth, on a and Mr. time air a ice ee ae in substance, “¥on d—d s—of a b—, you have abused friend of mine, re. ferring: to Sloanaker,) and kill you, Ga y i then LS soon strain him Mr. | soon arrived, and took custody, be resisting and any one who shou violent was he, that it required five men cell in the crypt, siderable trouble, £ z 5 z i from the head of the +: » hear the foo ot which the assaul! Occurred, about the time the affair terminated Mr. Painter, we leara, Bad been warned prehend physical danger from that quarter He was seve! * BOl dangerously burt, His bead iy bruised by the kick~ received, and be was left insensible aad beip levs when his areailant Was torn away from him. After being carried into the commitier room and p: rly cared for, he was sent to bis residence in @ carriage The affair was bronght up in the House ye.- terday, and a resolution adopted to bring the offenders to the bar of the House, andappoint ing & committee to in vestigate the affair Beveri: is well known in this community &s a sbonider bitter, and leader of the pestilent gaug of decperadoes styled the “States Hose,” whose exploits such terrorism here . He is a man of great physica! power, and desperate pui , and, but tor the interference of others, Mr. Painter woulda apparently have stood little chance of es. caping alive. ‘he Committee appointed to investigate the case were jn sessio: and took the @v:- dence of all the witnesses except Painter, | who was not able to be sent. The evi- dence failed to show that Towers was direct!) implicated in the assault, and the Committee, thereupon, decided to recommend his dis- charge. In the case of Beveridge they decided to recommend that he be beld in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms until the #th of March next. at which time theanthority of the pres ent House expires Tum AssAULt aT THE Carito.— Writ of He beas Corpus.—This morning, Judge Wyiie. ot | the District Supreme Court, issued a Writ of | habeas corpus di ted to N. D. Ordway, Ser- geant-at-Al s of the House of Representa- lives, commanding him to produce before the Court the bodies of Benjamin F. Beveridge and Edward Towers, who were arrested by the Capitol police for assaultimg Mr Ut H Painter in the Capitol yesterday. The petstien on which the writ was issned was presentea by ex-Governor Ford, of Obio, and William Rankin, Esq., of New York, ana set forth that the petitioners were then in the custody of the Sergeaut-at-Arms, having committed no crim mal offense, and being held without authoriiy ot law. The writ was served on Mr. Ordway at the Capitol about 11 o'clock, and he replied that he would appear in balf an hour, but it was not until past one o'clock that be a) and made © return on the writ by attaching the reselution adopted by the House yester. day, and stating that he held the prisoners by virtue of said resolution. The prisoners were not brought into court. Mr. Rankin. for the petitioners. said that there ‘Was no proper return of the writ, and its pre cepts had not been complied with by Mr Ord Way dy producing the petitioners. He urged that the Sergeant-at-Arms ws guilty of couvempt, and argued that a mere resolution of one house ot Congress conid not authorize an officer of the House to disobey the mandate of the court and in these times ne resolution of Congress could take away the liberty of a dog, mach less the liberty of aman. He had set at nought the authority of the court, probably at the ad Vice of the investigating comraittee, and he sbould be taught to respect the mandates of the court, and receive what punishmen! the court saw proper to inflict on him The military days have passed aud a retarp that « person i+ beld by order o: the Secret of War, President, or other effici is not & sufficient answer to a writ of sal If the Court held that such an endorsement as bad been made was sufficient, and tbat an un- der officer of Congress can stand defiant to the precepts of the court, then there would be an end to the privileges o! the haben. corpw Judge Wylie remarked that when the appli- cation was made he thought it best to allow the writ to issne, because it contained no aver- ment which was Tatal: butif the petition had contained the averment that Ordway held the prisoners by auibority of the House of Repre- sentatives be would not have ordered the writ otissve. The petition merely states that the-e men were impri-oned falsely and illegally, held without stating under what authority, and the rewurn states the fact wanting petition. The resolution was enough, Tefiecbon, he was satisfied that the Conrt should have taken judicial knowledge of the passage of the resolution, as all United States courts are required to take judicial knowledge of acts and resolutions of Congress. He doubted whether he should have issued the writ’ The question involved bad been settled long since in the case of Dunn agt. Anderson, reported in 6th Wheaton, page 24. when it was beld tbat & man arrested by authority of either House of Congress could not maintain an ac- tion for trespass against the Sergeant-at-Arme, and that the production of the resolution was 4 eufficient jnetificatign. It was not for tbe @ourt to know whethe the House was right or wrong in the passage of the resolution, but it was enough to know that the resolution had been passed. The reso- Jution, which is made a part of the return, sets forth that the parties were arrested tora breach of the peace in the Capitol, and it was now within the judicial knowledge of the Court. Ifthe Capitol is to be made the scene for breaches of the — murderous assaults, &c.. and Congress is powerless to preserve the pesce and hold parfies in custody who may be guilty, then the entire country will wake up in astonishment. As to the objection to the return that the pris- obers were not produced that was for the court. Ifthe Court insisted on the ies be- ing brought into Court they wo: no doubt be produced. The writ having been inadver- ie return is nm . He did bot thipk that the Court was bound to require the production of the bodies in Court, and whether they were in Court or not the case might be decided. He directed the petition to be quashed. The object of the writ was to get the prison- ers before Court that they might be itted to bail. Mr. Ordway stated, after the conciusion of the case, that the committe of the House were then examining witnesses in the case. —_——o——__ ARREST ON A CHARGE or McrpER.—Last night Officer G. O. Miller arrested a negro named Elijah Cyrus, on a charge of shooting and killing George Simons, colored, on the night of the 24th of November, 1865. The case was laid before Justice Thompson this morn- ing, and Barbara Burley testified that last Sunday the prisoner told ber that he had not been to the city since he killed that boy last winter, except at times on the sly. itness: did not know nim, and asked him if he was the man that shot the boy Simons. Prisoner said he was, and told her that Simons had two women, one of them whice, which he liked the best, and suspected prisoner of being too inti- mate with her. On the night of the 25th No- vember Simons met him and said to htm “you black son ofa b—h I've great mind to kill you.” Prisoner told him to keep back. Si. mons advanced witha knife and pistol, oner fired two shots, but of the Star as one of the murders in Murder Bay, The evidence before moje was subtantantially that on night of 2th of November, the girl, Virginia Sharp, going to her home in Murder Bay, was met at the of ber ises by a short, thick-ser dark man, called Davis, who obstrncted the alley. She asked him to move. and he re- fused. The boy Simons was standing by, aud told Lucas to let the girl in. He again refused: and Simons Temarked 1'iL make you, and went to take hold of Lucas. A scuffle ensned, and Lucas fired two shots, one of which et. fect in Simons” abdomen, and caused hi~ death aday or two afterwards. This prisoner says