The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1861, Page 4

& 1081 SL JISTA .YAC@nUNT “tana AIOY WAN <P. € v. om BONS ORM ’ » > 2 KW. YORK MEKALV, THURSDAY, APRIL 19,” 1861. the Free Academy, again came up, but wasonge | force of » hundred thousand of their splendid |‘blisbed. This Mr. Seward denies, and says hé more laid over till the second meetiig in May. A | volunteer soldiers; and frou the ‘prospect of a does not see in the evente which have taken | number of smaller matters came up and. were. geadiy collision between these terrible warlike | place in the South “s rightful and so- acted apee before the Roeusadieuaneds elements this coming Congress may recoil with | complished revolution, and an independ- The anniversary of the New York Liying-in-Asy- | sorror, provided that. the-border slave States | ent nation with an established government; 1 held yesterday, at No. treat The poten tint a aie caeeen are present to speak for themselves and the | and moreover that he cannot officially recog- NEW YORK HURALD. ES GUKVUN BENNETT, dhe EPtUs ane Put OOR, OFFICE N. ¥- CORNER OF FULTON AND NAS8AU 6TS. yume XXVM..ccserseseerssesesere ss21 Qe 107 | character, and witnessed by a e number of | South. nize them in the capacity they claim, and he ds, and that the & tigate ————— patrons of the ipatitation. marten eat of In behalf of their institution of slavery, their | must decline official correspondence with them. pay ths fulenset an the ecbeaes ont of bet” AMUGEMENTS THIS EVENING. presented to be in a flourishing condition. political and social safety; in behalf of the se- | The Commissioners interpret this as tanta- own resources. Secession would, in like manner, The market for beef cattle yesterday was dull | ceded States; in behalf of the Union and ia be- | mount to a declaration of war, and accept the and heavy, and prices were about half a cent | half of peace, we appeal to Virginia and to all | gage of battle, They also accuse some mom- aeeee, The receipts were heavy. Sheep and | the intermediate slave States batween the bel- | bers of the government of bad faith in deceiv- hee pAb icyieesh oe per head higher, and | ji -orents in this fearful crisis, to. stand fast in| ing them as regards the evacuation of Fort total receipts were 4518 core na = the Unica, ad to come up to Oohgrens in July | Fumtor and. the siahis quo: of Fort Pickens, veals, 8,176 sheep and lambs, and 6,062 swine. | *# & councll of peacemakers, loyal ‘to the | There has been # great deal said on this point ‘The cotton market was firmer yesterday, with sales of North, to the South and to the Union, and | in the newspapers for some time, much of it 6,000 @ 7,000 bales, including 4,600 in transit, closing firm } zealous to save their own section, and to save | without authenticity or foundation. It is plain on the basis of 18%c. @ 12%c. Flour was lowor for su- | ug all from the enduring calamities of an ex- | that both governments bad made up their minds Perfine and medium grades of State and Western, while hausting civil war. To save the seceded States, | for war, and they will now fight it out. sales were active. Wheat was lower, especially the Jowor grades, while sales wore fair, Corn was rc and to save themselves from these calamities, NIBLO’S GABDEN, Broadway.—Mixon's Rovat (1n0vs WINTER GASDEN, Brosdway, opposite Bond street. Hexnietre—A THEATRE, Broadway.— waar” LAURA KBENE’S THEATRE, No, 64 Broadway. Buven Sistens. RY THEATRE, Bowery.~Laseaty Bors or Parone LuoKe ‘Homsxsuox. o MER! USE! Broadway.—Day BARNCM'S AMERICAN pe Bucak—Rovn Oscun Sat un daa Liow ap Orunm Comiosiriaa, peaceful fal there. All the various stocks and bonds held by the State, and from which she now derives-an income to meet her semi-annual interest, would ' in this case be unproductive. Whether, in this con- tingency, the Executive of Virginia could procure money elsewhere in order to protect the State Court Cale: Pe. Scvrrems Court—Omovrr.—Part 1.—Nos. 11063, 1065, 1067, 1060, 1071, 1073, 1075, 1077, 1081,’ 1083, 1085, 1087, 1@91,’ 1008,’ 1096,’ 1007,’ 1090; 1101) 1108. Part 2—Nos. 808,'355, 182, 694,'116, 802, 386 $10, g18, 404, 166, 822, 620,” €28, 802, 834, 838, 840, BRYANTS) MINSTRELS, vigenentee BDGwe ueOc> | in fair domand at unchanged prices. Pork was firmer, | the only course now for Virginia and the other | Preranarions ar Wasutnoton vor Dx- eenceyy ea oa a a TT “ie, 1685, | credit, seems a disputed question. No one believes * War" attire with sales of incas at $17 75a$18, and of prime at | tobacco States is to stand fast by the Union. | ¥#NcE.—Great preparations are being made to | 1715’ jmui, ‘tras, pert 2 Won, B44, 148, 1208, 1270, | ‘28t Virginia would wantonly repudiate. But with 1719, 1721, 2725. Part 2—Nos. 844, 748, 1278, 1282, 1800, 1302, 1148, 1223, 502, CovRr oF Ar#ALs,—3ame ‘as before, all the desire in the world to act honorably, where is she to. get-money to-pay her. interest, if she —Bvery dollar that cin be: raised will be /PSketece = 1 = 90 25. : peiaaicettsiacenamete hs = NIBLO'S SALOO! Luorn’s Munerneis in | $12 00.0 $23 Beet was steady and in fair-demand, wise Wak cma tha Weiiiaaay Bpeeit oe the defend Washington against the anticipated at Brosdway.—1 Bowie uiooe, Se 4c Buty Parrenapx. ney Se eae sales, pn alent obnioae tack of a Confederate army. Among these pREAPEON, Souasaven, Aor” il ape Di ‘The proclamation of the Président, caliing poring “ig Stipe tee ain CANTERBURY, MUSTO HALE,’ 086 Sroptwray —toxas, other wiane, _ Department .of this, ity; ~ Darcey, BuBLEsQuEs, ) Colonel Ellaworth, of the Chicago: Zousvei, disparagement to the militia, it is feltthatmen nent the way 4 ‘Gil parts of dred and fifty thousand men.offering thelr ser- | “Coustomed to: ‘rough Ufe.-and: exposed to. a) i iver te aa nea a er viogs to the Governors of ‘the different States; | hardship are best calculated: for: hurd Aghttng’y-.° |, 1, iy Goarere tg dee a5.8, Giobt, Se Segui pet re ‘é band in'e week from now we should.not:be sur- | in the-streeia, sleeping-out inthe open-air) and, “isan or tad Octane rai: thigaitade om theew ‘ae prised if the number was swelled to half a rnil- | *ll those prlvatkdhs which aré inseparable from lion, 80 great is the military ardor evoked. | 4 soldier’s life. Colonel Ellsworth, with ten of Nor is this warlike spirit confined to the | bis Chicago corps, is about to organize a regi- territory, Virginia will be able to financier suc- cessfully enough to raise money to pay her inte- rest? Our stock operators answer this query } parts of the country, we shall issue, In addition to our roguiar odit‘on, one at half past four o'clock. seven seceded cotton States of the South, with ‘an aggregate population of less than five mil- treo of charge by sending wo ra beens lions, with an army wholly improvised for the | Northern and Western States. In the South, | ment of this kind in New York; and no doubt Covington, Ky: Bt Louk oO Ue o"pe,, | in the negative. ‘They think that the credit of the occasion, and without even the nucleus of a | according to the telegraph, volunteers aré ulso | it Will be a highly efficient one, and do good | , Novmx.—all eke Heetdeantaey er the, a ‘ait | Old Dominion, which for many years stood second President Davia, of the Confederate States, has issued a proclamation inviting privateers to take service with the revolutionists. The docu- ment is given in another column. It is reported that several vessels are now fitting out at New Orleans for privateers. There is a report from Texas that ll the Ameri- can vessels at Galveston have been embargoed. One of our correspondents at Washington states that Mr. Seward yesterday received information from Richmond to the effect that the secession Lottery, at Covington, tonone in the whole country, has been broken down in a few weeks by the treasonable agitations of such men as Wise, Mason and Hunter; that, if the State secedes, that credit will be gone alto- gether, and that the Jaly coupon will not be paid; and that the Hon. John Letcher will go down to posterity as the Governor in whose term the honored name of Old Virginia was first disgraced by a protest. The actual loss will fall,in large part, on Virginians; nearly one-half the whole State debt is held in the State. The balance ia divided between foreign investors and Western and Nerthern banks. navy or the shipyards necessary for the crea- | pouring in to support the flag of the Con- | service in protecting the government at Wash- tion of one. If Napoleon was right in his de- | federate States, and there is now said to be an | ington against its enemies. : claration that Providence is always on the side | army of a hundred thousand mer enrolled by . of the heaviest artillery, the fearful odds thus | the Montgomery government. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. combined against the seceded States would The entire enrolled militia of the States and seem to leave them no possible chance of es- | Territories amounts to about three and a half cide saeeee. peices ssh atl pai (Al cape from submission, subjugation or destruc- | millions of men. According to latest returns, | ’™na®- Messrs “eee fe? tion. the Army Register for 1861 makes an abstract | “1Y *PPinted AMorney Goneralfor the DOME One But there are the border or intermediate | of the militia force of the country, whichwe| J. w. Fleming, Attorney for the Eastern district of Tou- aleve States, with their additional Southern } have subdivided into different sections, in | nessce. population of some eight millions. Upon them | order to show how this force is distributed be- | Joseph Gilman, Marebal for New Hampshire. the seceded States have confidently relied as | tween the North and South and the border | ™: Hays, Marshal for Rhode Isiand, “w,, B. & 00;, Managers, OfMfctal Drawt of R. France & Co.'s eat tinged et le act of Assembly passed January, 1869. Grants to run twenty years. ivesex County—O1ass 92, Drawn April 17, 1861. 54, 53, 15, 13, 39, 52, 60, 59, 62, 49, 44, 4. Cor ‘TED--CLass 63, Drawn TY, 1861, 16, 62, 8, aa, 4, 26, i 6, Ba, 40, 64, 1A. Circulars sent free 0! idressin; & 00., Rg Ons OO., Managers, Heyal Havana Lottery.—Prizes Cashed by 0 & CO., 23 William street, New York. a Strangers who Desire a fine, tasty and el it Hat should call at BSPENSCHEID’S, manufacturer, 118 Nassau street. : i i 3 . George Leonard Davis, Paymaster of the Navy. ish Flanwel Shirts for military | A despatch from Montgomery to-day states that ordinance had been coneney in the big-eoxe Con- | confederates, and still count upon their adhe- | States:— Sieger ional Se Colonel Charles Lee ‘Seiin to-day: rentgnAa ey commie’ jemi SACKBON & PURDY'S, 647 Broadway. the Confederate go t has received $125,000, vention in secret session by seven majority. Other | sion as in the common cause of the South. “a7 sion ag Adjutant General of the District of Columbia] ws Trays, Door Mats and every De- | allin gold. Bank notes of the Confederate States States. Date of Return. No. of Men. reports corroborate this news. Apprehensions ‘These intermediate States, however, have thus | Maine we neers militia, can be bought here at fifty’ cents on the dollar. tion of He ba Goods, at an immense reduce Haein pees at D. BausvORDs: ‘Cooper insutute, N. were entertained yesterday that the Virginia revo- | far resisted all efforts to precipitate them into 1854 38,588 | Judge Green, American Member of the fast Congress entalogues free. The following was the business of the Sub- Jutionisie would seize upon the arsenal at Harper’s | this Southern revolution. Virginia especially, bit avai ser Rey Nair Treat Bixth Auditor of the} i wce Salamander Sate-With Pa- Ferry, and troops were to leave Washington last night to garrison that important post. ‘A despatch from our correspondent at New Or- , dated yesterday, states that the military > at Pensacola remained unchanged, and n. Clark, who had just arrived from there, said.no attack would be made upon Fort Pickens for ten days. fhe head and front of the border State column, | Rhode Island. has been subjected to a most trying and menac- Se gd Pg : ing secession pressure fer many weeks. But | New Jersey. her State Convention, largely composed of her i ialoeas most substantial, reflecting and responsible | Michigan men, has thus far resisted all the efforts of the } Indiana yet postage + the rate of one cent an ounce, or 1861 revolutionists to drag her from her moorings; ~LeeHS a shit fraction’ of an ounce, to any pleco in the ssid cahe te ae Cae a ee corner of College place. BO! M. PATRIO) Wheeler & Wilson's a Sewing Machines at reduced prices. Office 505 Broadway, Barry’s Tricopherous is the Best and cheapest article for dressing, beautifying, curl broerring ana reiorng tu bale “Laios, try tt” Sola by af $318,245 20 a1vatt ts 10,662,617 09 ‘The exchanges at the Bank Clearing House this morning were $18,960,633 99, and the balances $1,816,809 72. The Fulton Bank has declared a semi-annual dividend of five per cent, payable May 1. 1860 51'630 | The Post Ofico Department has prepared.ciroular in- 1859 418,846 | Structions in relation to the recent passage of posta 1852 81,984 | laws, &c. It is therein explained shat cards, either blank 1858 350,000 Por printed, and blanks in ,ackages, woighing not less bed ayes than eight ounces, and psbkages of seeds or cuttings, not 1833 exceeding eight vuuces in weight, eball be charged in the ‘Wigs and Tou- Yesterday was the day fixed for the reception of | and, according to our latest advices, that Con- | Iowa... pa — | Phited States under fifteen hundred miles; and at tho pistes i ih ent tenn Se retail, and the subscriptions to the five milfion loan of the re- Minnesota 1860 24,990 | rate of two cents an ounce, or fraction of mm ‘privately applied, at No. 6 Astor House. vention will weather the appalling secessi ppalling on | oO; ounce, over @ thousand miles, to be prepaid by Laas | volutionists. Of this sum $2,008,000 were sub- | excitement which, in the streets of Richmond, 207,730 qatonelor's Newly Invented Wigs and | ¢1009 pret. 34% 3 Packages seeds ypees are truly wonderful specimens of art. Call and see scribed in Charleston yesterday, and $3,000,000 in | since the affair of Fort Sumter, seems to have oo saan ie ad ae Pais Ary ie hace hem at 16 Bond sirect, or send for a measure card. = Fd Rew Orleans. silenced all opposing voices. may be scon, Mape, engravings, lithographs or photo. | Moldavia Cream Forces the Hair and | 1 34 The number of ras. laps that ae The Convention still adheres to the United graphic printe on rollers or in peper covers, books, bound pi Fs a eS ) aes Pid forming in this city, ie purpose of supporting | states: but if it should be borne down by the or unbound, photographic paper and letter envelopes, are mg 5000 the government, seems to be legion, and the men | a, 4 re rt se ‘ee to pean s le os the to bo deemed mailable matter and charged in the pastage By gl) Bann 9 Pret aie aac Mr ny Byes 1000 bi are rapidly being enrolled. There are in the city P P p> Peop’ by the weight of the package—not in any case to exceed | all druggists. 111000 rt State is still reserved the final issue of secession orihe Union. That they are strongly attached to the Union who can doubt? Known as the “ Mother of States and of Statesmen,” the Old Dominion may not unfairly be called the found- er of the Union. It was her Jefferson who framed our Declaration of Independence; it four pounds—at the rate of one cent an ounce, or frac- tion of an ounce, to any place in the United States within one thousand miles, and at the rate of twocents an ounce, or fraction of an ounce, over fifteen hundred miles, to be prepaid by stamps. at present, among others, the Scott Life Guard, First regiment; National Guard, Seventh regiment; Union Volunteers, Tenth Ward Volunteers, Fifth Ward Volunteers, Union Volunteer Bat- talion. They all Id—seottags yesterday y —-.7mtr and reception of members, 0’ reports of which will be found elsewhere. Our Batchelor’s Dye.—Reliable and In- stant Black or Brown, Factory Sl, Barclay street, Sold and applied at W. A. BATCHELOB’S, 16 Bond street, nny ng Marsh & C Radical Cure ‘Truss, a Wepre, Ar vue opponte ech FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, Reports from Charieston. . Cnartrsron, April 17, 1961. regular militia are also preparing for fight, and was her Washington who achieved our liber- Mr. Rustell, Correspondent London Times; Gov. Man- Wepnespar, April 17—6 P. M. show a strong Union sentiment. The Seventh, ties; it was her Madison who was the principal ning, Col. Chesnut, Col. W. P. Miles, Ool. Lucas, Col, The war excitement and the movement of troops Beventy-nin'h, Fifty-fifth and other regiments met | “° thal: OF Wigtall, Maj. Whiting, Col. Rhett, of tie AMerurv; | continue to be the solo topic of conversation in the last evening at their respective armories for drill, architect of our federal constitution, and it was R, Bargwoll, “and your correspondent, to day street, and business is unusually dull. The pros- pect of new war loans coming on the market tends to impart rather more activity to money, and rates are a shade higher. Capitalists are exercising more discrimination in their choice of paper, espe- cially single names; everything Southern is avoid- ed. Wholesale repudiation of Southern debts due to the North appears to be generally antici- pated. p visited the fortifications on Morris Island and Fort Sumter’ The scene at the latter place is impossible of ion. The outside walls look as if they had had an attack of smallpox. They are pitted in all directions, There are no breaches, but an attempt at one which military men say would have been succcesful in two days. In several places balls have gone completely through the walls. One of the red hot balls from Moul- rie went half through the walls of the magazine, Inside her Marshall who was our first great authorita- tive expounder thereof. Thus gloriously identi- fied with the liberation, organization and full establishment of the United States, it is impos- aptiahe sible that Virginia can lightly wane the Utah work of her own hands and the glory of her | New Mexico own children. Her people have always been | istrict of Columbia, ...1852 8,201 leyal and conservative to the Union; but dur- TOR iercesiesscoesescos eaavane eer ts 11022 ‘and after the exercise meetings were held. A meet- fing of the Division Board was also held, but the Dusiness transacted was strictly private. —— We have received intelligence from all parts of the North, East and West of the alacrity with which the call for troops to support the govern- ment has been responded to, and of the unbound- ed enthusiasm which pervades all classes in coming BB F ® 800 350 50 800 60 le BOARD. forward to tender their services, but the crowded | n> the last ion or two of small, in- RECAPITULATION. the Fort is amass of blackened ruins. The fire has touched We had another panic in State stocks to-day. eevee igo M r generati 2 . Reading au state of our columns this morning compels us to ae fish, reckless and diso anising po- , | everything. The roofs have fallen in, the windows are | North Garolinas fell about 10 per cent, Virginias | 10000 do. 200 do. ue omit the details. iguing, selfish, e ad Northern free States.......... 2,336,816 | burned out, the floors aro covered with fragments of | 19 Missonris 1, Tennessees 7, and even at this | 10000US6's,’Bl,reg 90 50MichOon - #@ \ Three officers in advance of the Massachusetts | liticians, North and South, Virgiaia—in such | Confederate States of the South + 378,682 | proken slate, and balls and shells are lying around in | on semous decline there were fow buyers, ‘The fall — = = =. ; is ‘ i men as Gov. Wise and S¢nator Mason and | Border slave State profusion, “ 500 Trea 440 Mich 8 & 32 ia troops arrived in this city at about a quarter past Territories........- is, of course, the fruit of the news that the border Tiiinol 3. eleven o'clock last evening by the New Haven | Pryor—has been used for the purposes of dis- Fae, eeae “pre tarneg in all Airections; The gun car. slave States decline to fulfil their constitutional 14000 N era ‘a 10 hee os Railroad, They consisted of Colonel Davis, Majora | unton, revolution and aSouthernindependence, | Total militia of the country 8 riages are shattered into fragments, while debris of the obligation by supplying the government with | 11000 Virginia @s.. 471 300 do. 66% until this morning. The officers proceeded to the | vis, Rhett, Yancey, the Browne, and the Spratts enrolled ot service at the <— ii - fort is good as ever; but it will require two or three hun. | fails to perform one obligation cannot be relied on Pe do, “0 Give hag : BK Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they were very enthu- } and ‘Memmingers of this desperate | «8 many of these returns ack several | groq thousand dollars to put the place in proper order. | to perform another. United States securities also | dogo dten 4 300 do... bo 38 u Biastically received by the crowd assembled in the raf of a Southern confederacy, have | years ago—in some cases a8 remote as 1838 Workmen are busy clearing away the ruins, who, with | fell off, on the prospect of more government loans. | 100 shs NYorkORR.£30 100 d0......... 21% vestibule. Further. particulars will be found in | teen taught that in “precipitating the cotton | and 1827—and as no returnsat all have been | thesoldiers,are under the command of Lieut, Alfred new sixes declined 134, the 12 per cent Trea- | 10° oe oe “avalon States into a revolution” Virginia would soon | made from several of the new States and Torri- | Bate notes 2. ‘These latter are the cheapest tem- | 100 es &. ‘The meeting of merchants at the Chamber of bring over the border slave States to the tories—such as Iowa, Kansas, Washington Ter- Pa oh pio ialen shape hana i peel scion investment on the market at the present | j¢9 Commerce yesterday was very enthusiastic; and The a square on A full re- time. Speculative stocks fluctuated freely during the day. In the morning they were generally bet- ter; in the afternoon they fell off, closing heavy. Tllinois Central rose to 67, but sold in the after- rescue. This project of disunion, we have | ritory, Nebraska and New Mexico—a large per reason to believe, contributed South its fall | centage must be added to this aggregate, which share to the repeal of the Missouri Compro- | would probably bring the whole number of formed by @ maval officer that it would have been impossible for the vessels to dome up, both on account of the “dangerous character of the Strong Union feelings were demonsi mass mecting will be held in Baturday next, at three i Ht] a H hi iF channel, and the fire from the batteries, which port of the meeting ygsAérday will be found else- | mise, while our foolish and spoils and power | enrolled militia in the country up to over | ve ts mown them out of tho water, oe noon at 664—an advance, howevor, of % over yes- somata re ae the ‘range of the fel- whete. The deménstration on Saturday next | seeking Northern democracy accepted it as a | three millions and a half CA men at the present | yu) ye the excuse made to the government on thear- | terday’s price. New York Central was. protty a +9506 @ 515 Phould, and dovbtless will be, the most imposing | bribe for the Presidency. Sinking all these | time, of whom nearly two millions and a half be- | rivat of the’ vessels at New York. Still, indignation j¢ | steady throughout the day at 73%, being an ad. 53 38 ever wilpeéssed in this city. things in the great cause of the Union, the long to the free States of the North. felt here that they did not, under the circumstances, | vance of *4 since last evening. Erie rose 134; 52% 0 720 mship Glasgow, from Liverpool on the olicy of this journal has been to save the i " even make a demonstration. Hudson, '4; Reading, %; Michigan Central, 144; 5 2 ‘3 ‘inst. and Queenstown on the afternoon of the 8 ar é id ‘asd We vapibes kanmeen Graxp Uston Demonstration—New York Your regular correspondent desires to correct anum. | cuaranteed, 24; Toledo, 34. Galena declined 1, ° rH 4 , reached this port yesterday. She brings rai tisk ‘ ‘i a> cum y Ratiyine To THE Surrort oF THE ApwrNisTRa- | der of errors of fact which were publishet among | and Rock Island %{. Harlem was steady. The 320 s 406 » 259 in specie, consigned to Guion & Co., through sectional concessions + a bore pee vion.— Yesterday morning a preliminary meet- en cream sta inet. ae he business in bonds is moderate. Speculators are $ RE ‘Adams Express and Wilson G. Hunt. The mails | Mises. To this end we Prt bap yd the | ing of the merchants of our city, and of the pracg vec eee eet was chee dares | divided about the effect of war on Western secu- 400 Dbl. at 8 ie atige igure for serrate metres petra te ae Se ars tak sande members of the Stock Exchange was held at | out at Fort Sumter, loaded with mon, ant aad | Tities. The bulls say that the war will not affect the the at ove quotations. ‘Conn ineal was irra, with salea of Tuerday, from Liverpool on the 4th and Queens- e very y of peace, P' the Chamber of Commerce, for the purpose of | havoe orented among the poor follows; third, no | business of the roads connecting New York with the } 280 bbls. at the above sigures. transactions in wheat | BE i re a t-} ie 5 .3 e j Hf townon the 5th instant, also reached New York yesterday. The advices by these arrivals have been anticipated. ‘The steamship Glasgow, from Liverpool, brings home for trial—sent by the United States Consul— four seamen, late of the ship General Parkhill, for killing Captain Price, of that vessel. They were taken charge of at Quarantine by officers of the Harbor police. The names of the prisoners are Jokn Kelly, John Riley, Frank Collins and F. L, Featherstone. We learn that the government has contracted that, in avoiding war, the seceded States might still be reclaimed, although in the act of seces- sion those States destroyed that conservative majority which they had in both houses of the last Congress, and which they would have had in both houses of this approaching Congress. The inauguration of war has cut short the argument. We must meet this new condition of things as it stands before us. Our allegiance and our duty are attached to the flag of the United States, its cause and its authorities. So great West, and that the accumulation of capital here must lead to a stock speculation. The bears say that nothing prospers darivg civil war, and that confidence, which is the essential part of spe- culation, will be destroyed by the first clash of arms. Neither party are operating very vigorous- ly. The following were the last quotations of the day:—United States 5’s, '74, 80.885; Tennessee 6's, 54.65; Virginia 6's, 45 a 4644; Miscouri 6's, 49 a 494%; Canton, 10 a 12; Cumberland Coal pre- ferred, 5 a 8; Delaware and Hudson Canal, 85 a 88; Pennsylvania Coal, 77 a 78; eleven shots ponctrated the floating battery below the water line; fourth, there was no unconditional surrender, merely an evacuation, according to the terms of the 11th inst,; fifth, Major Anderson did not surreater hys sword to General Beauregard, he simply said if ho had he would not haye received it from so brave a man ‘sixth, Major Anderson did not come to the city, and was not the guest of General Beauregard; seventh, Major An- derson and his men were not conveyed under guard to Morris Island. Your special despatches are verified by the higheat authority, and may be relied upon. making srrangements for a grand mass meet- ing of our citizens in support of the war policy of the administration. The greatest unanimity prevailed, and it was agreed on all hands that now that hostilities had been commenced by the South. the people of New York, as of the North generally, were bound to sink all their Political differences, and to unite as one man in defence of the national flag. After some discussion as to the manner in which the views Z i 3 i 3 1! z & i it re ‘ F 3 a at? Pacific Mail, 7444 be Markets. - a - * at 3a. 4! we with the Hamburg Steamship Company for the | it is, too, with that great conservative body of 4 _ raed ag PUILADRLPHIA €70CK voARD. | New York Central, 1224 a 7254; Brie, 29 a 29) ean na is There wap nothing new . was PInLADRLPHIA, April 17, 5 ver, 37% Ys . ’ 9%: do. PROVISIONS —Pork—' market, firmer, with @ transportation of the United States mails from this | our Northern people who, to the last day of held at three o’clock on Saturday afternoon | , Stocks heavy and unsettled Pennsyivania State tives, Hudson River, § 1% a Bi oh bs ay we pes a eee oamattiiae Mie trade, wh p+ of 1,406 bbe, at city to Hamburg. The steamships of this line peace, were prepared to win back the seceded 4%; Morris Canal, 48; Long Island ee, 0% Sight preferred, 33 a 33; eding, 537% 5 $17 760 $18 for mess, and at $12 90 » $13 for comprise the Saxonia, Borussia, Hammonia, Tea- States by liberal concessions for their security next, under the Washington Monument, in | exchange on New York at eer beet Central, 46 a 4634; Michigan Southern and North- ys , # Lead Amante Ve ait oe a tonia and Bavaria, and their days of departure a y ity in the Union, That book is Union square, and that business people be re- | pigup—oward Stroot and Ohio at $6 35 a $5 3;. Wheat | ern Indiana, 1954 a 14; do. ruaramteed, 30% 931%; | tra banda nm | tu fair requegnend firm, with * will beon cach alternate Saturday, commencing | *4 Prosperity quested to close their stores an hour or two | dull and heavy: ted, $130 0$135; white, $1409$100. | Panama, 106 a 108%; Illinois Central, 044 a 6 cales of 360 lids. and tieroes at 63g@ a 63<c. for shoul- Corn steady: mixed, 570. a 58c.; yellow, 60c. a Gle.; white, con 8 5c. Pork advanced 66c.: moss, $19; prime, $14 60; rump, $13 60, Coffee firm at 180. a 14c, Whiskey 60 % Tie. all ab ATAGS. #326 Prnwanenenta, Aprit 17, 1861, Flour firm but dull. Wheat firm: sales 5,000 ' bushels at $1-82.0126, Corn firm at 60c. a 620. 'Coffee—Rio, 12\ye. a 1463¢0. Mess pork improved by 50c,, at $18. Lard, 10346. @ Lic. Galena and Chicago, 64% a 68; Cleveland and To- ledo, 26% a 27; Chicago and Rock Island, 43 a 344; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 65 a 66%; Milwaukee and Mississippi, 8 0 9; La Crosse and Milwaukee land grant bonds, 5 a 10; [ilinois Cen- tral bonds, 91 a 924. ef the 4th of May next, This line is considered of the most safe and reliable that plies be- the two hemispheres. submitted to the Emigration at their meeting yesterday in- that the emigrants landed here closed. We are suddenly involved in war, | a .ious , a8 well to allow their employees to and all parties in the North are now por = to mark the critical character of merged under the flag opposed to that of | 1. events that call our citizens together. the revolted States. The bombardment | m,. jimits of the locality fixed upon will of Fort Sumter, which was doubtless resolved hardly afford space enough for the crowds that upon to unite the South, has united the North— | in tye prosent. ‘The demonstration promises ders, and 856. a Oe, hams. was steady and in fair demand, with sal Re. a10%0, Butter ‘were firm and in fair a, en potane oem Cuban, at 440. a'So, acd 1/440. bomen, Obletly for (o.« i week nambe: 5 resul from SE Virginia State sixes sold t:-day at forty-seven oo. ome for the aed he re Cero aaa +e to be the grandest and most imposing that has laovn’s Muvarams.——This most excellent company of | and t half cents on the dollar. m4 few sents ago 7; and that the balance of the commutation be was of the South ever taken place in this country. And there { minstrels nave within the past couple of wooks given ex- | they were in demand, at a premium, for banking ney at prosent amounts to $4,562 65. The tractable Hotspurs uth May | is good reason that it should be 80; for our ex- | nibitions ab the old home of minetrelsy in Broadway, | purposes; till within » few months they never fell be disappointed at this startling faot; but t0 | istonce as a nation, Ina greatmeasure, depends Virginia and the other border slave States it | “tne manner in which New York chat presenta considerations of vital importance. speak out on this occastan. They must see now that their safety lies only ——$——$———_——_ in the Union. In joining the Montgomery go- Tar Crvm. War—Ironrant Diriomartc Con- vernment they must bring upon themselves the | RESPoNDENcE.—Among our Washington tele- whole weight of this dreadful war and its de- | graphic despatches will be found a correspond- structive consequences. Standing in the posi- | ence of great importance between Mr. Seward, tion of mediators, they may, in this coming | our Secretary of State, and the Vommissioners Congress, exert 4 powerful influence for pence, | of the government at Montgomery. Now that By the Fourth of Jaly we may have two hundred | war bas begun, the interest attached to these and fifty thousand revolute Northern men in | letters is necessarily great, It will be seen arms, and a home squadron along the Southern | that the Commissioners proposed to negotiate Atlantic and Gulf coast of several hundred | « separation on peaceable terms, on the ground ships and transports of war. The seceded | that a revolution had been completed and the States may present, by that day, a hostile land | independence of the Confederate States esta- Niblo’s saloon. Their performances since then have nightly drawo crowded audiences and won most en- thusiastic applause. Wambold, White and Birch, those popu'ar favorites, appear nightly in their inimitable de- negro life and eccentricity. Their succes: nat ne Oe furnish rich treats for the lovers of the below 90 895; only a week ago they sold at 70. ‘The decline from 95 in October last to 47% to-day has been caused by the apprehension that Virginia will secede from the Union, under the leadership of broken down demagogues like Henry A. Wise, Senators Mason and Hunter, Messrs. Pryor, Daniel, Garnett, kc. In this event our financial commu- nity reckon that she would not be able to pay the interest on her bonds, or to keop up the sinking fund provided for their extinction at maturity. Virginia owes, in round numbers, $34,000,000. Not quite half of this debt, say $16,000,000, was in- curred in aiding the railroads of the State. Since their completion several of these roads have done so well as to relieve the State from all concern with regard to the interest on the advance made to them, The Virginia and Tennessee, and the Rich. . disposed of at the meeting was wholly o routine nature and void of public interest. he Board of Education met last evening. Ap- tions from the school officers of the Seventh, veuth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth wards, for "* S08, were received and referred. The Sixth 2M school officers asked authority to advertise {proposals to alter Ward School No. 2, and the »,. Meation was referred to the Committee on Re- { “a ‘The local board of the Twenty-second s 1 asked the Board to confirm theirbontract of 4 for tarnishing Ward Scbool No, 26, This © Wad also referred. The schoo! officers of (wentieth ward asked for $5,990 to purchase. « tilating apparatus for Ward School No. 3. application was referred. The subject of «dag @ Greproof library, in goungetion with