The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. , yn AMD NASSAU STS. hit Bee RIB | Volume XXVII. ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 8 GARDEN, Broadway.—Caup of tue Reat- ag oF THE Dance. ‘ALLAOCK’S THEATRE, 844 Broad Vounnuss Miscuivous Axxus—My Two way.—RETURNED ATURES, LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Faxcuom, ow tux Cricket. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Wizanp’s Tem- rast. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—No! on ow THe Buack Mantis. ‘mux GLonious Mixogiry—Sriurt BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Two Gacy Siaves— Wart or Wisu-ron-wise—Inwicxgrer's Davoutex. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway —Com. Norr—Living Ware, &c., at all hours.—MoxcugkixD— Afternoon and Evening. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- ‘way.—On to Ricumonp. CHRISTY’S OPERA HO! EI HOUSE, 58 Broadway.—Ermiortan Boxes, Dances, entawoy Ginsose “2 WenIO Act, No, 444 Broadway.—Soas, Bunemsquns, street. —songs, GATEaTES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway. Drawing Boow MENTS, PEOPLE'S MUSIC HALL, 45 Bowery.=Soncs, Dances, Bomiasquxs, £0. MATIONAL THEATRE AND MUSIC: HALL, Canal ‘Dancws, Burixsaurs, 40. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 863 Broadway.— Open daily from 10 A. M. ull 10 P. M. New York, Wednesday, June 25, 1862, THE SITUATION. The despatches received at the War Department up toalate hour yesterday from all the different points of the war indicate that no battles are pro- gressing anywhere. All was quiet in front of Richmond. From General Halleck’s command there is nothing to report. General Banks’ army has not made any fresh move, so far as heard from. News from Fortress Monroe reports that the gunboat Jacob Bell, while reconnoitering on the James river on Saturday, got aground on a sand- bar in front of City Point, and the rebels, imme- diately on seeing her position, brought a battery of field pieces to the Point and fired upon her with shot and shell, doing her considerable injury before she got off the bar. We have intelligence from Arkansas that a pret- ty brisk and bloody skirmish took place on the 13th instant near Jacksonport, between a portion of our troops from Col. Brackett’s command, and a body of the rebels 300 strong, known as Hooker's Company—a band of guerillas. Major Humphrey, of the Ninth Illinois cavalry, commanded the Union troops, and by a brilliant charge he succeeded in completely routing the enemy, with considerable loss. Information has reached General Halleck’s headquarters that Governor Rector and the whole rebel government of Arkansas have fied from Little Rock down the river on a flatboat. Our intelligence from Washington, N.C., is of much interest. Governor Stanly arrived in that city on the 15th instant, and was received in a most flattering manner by the citizens and milita- ty. On Tuesday, the 17th instant, a large Union meeting was held in the city Court House, at which Governor Stanly delivered @ patriotic address. The audience was large—people coming @ distance of forty or fifty miles to hear the Governor speak. We regret that the pressure upon our columns will not permit us to publish his speech to-day. The arguments it con- tains in favor of the Union end of the upright policy of the federal government are strong and forcible. He called upon the people to remember that the North has over 500,000 men in the field, “and that while a piece of iron can be found in the earth—while a grain of gunpowder can be manufactured—each one of them is ready to Pour out his last drop of blood for the Union.” He concluded his address by calling upon the people of the South to come back to the blessings offered them under their old flag, and to enjoy once more happiness, peace and plenty. The Buropesn news brought by the Arabia to Balifax, dated on the 15th of June, is of a very im- portant character so far an it relates to the appa- rent disposition of the rulers and Cabinets of France, England and Spain to interfere in the governmental affairs of the American continent, both in the United States and Mexico. The ad- vices are fully treated of in our editorial columns to-day. ” CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a resolution directing inquiry as to what legislation is necessary to pun- ish Congressmen, who lend their official influence to procure government contracts, was adopted. A bill was reported making appropriations for the bounties of volunteers. The bill accepting League Island for a naval depot, and the Confiscation bill, were discussed. A message was received from the President vetoing the bill repealing the act prohibiting the issue of small bank notes in the District of Columbia. An executive session was held, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, the bills author. izing an additional issue of $150,000,000 of ‘Trca- sury notes, and sppropriating $5,000,000 for the payment of volunteers’ bounties, were passed. The Senate's amendinents to the Pacific Railroad bill, and also the House bill prohibiting polygamy in the Territories, were concurred in. After the transaction of considerable business of a miscel- laneous character, the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamships Bremen and Etna, which left Southampton and Queenstown on the 11th and 12th of June respectively, reached this port during yesterday, and the Arabia, from Liverpool on the 14th and Queenstown the 15th of June, arrived at Halifax, on her voyuge to Boston, yesterday moin- ing. From these sources we have Enropean files four days, and telegraphic reports of news seven days, later than our advices hy the China. Consols closed in London on the 14th of June at 1% a91% for money. American securities were slightly depressed. The bullion in the Bank of England had decreased by $2,250,000 in the week. The Paris Bourse had improved from s decline, The Liverpool cotton market, during the seven days, had been buoyant at an advauce ot from one- fourth to three-eighths of a penny. The market closed firm on the 13th of June. Flour was quiet and steady. Provisions were looking downward after a fall in some articles. ‘The political news from Europe~ outside of the points which relate to the aspect of the American and Mexican questions—is not important. The martyrs of Japan wero canonized.in Rome with great pomp End coremony. The disposition of the sssoniblod prelates was to sustain the Pope in up. holding the temporal power of the Catholic Church. The.French bishops appeared very prominently at the meetings. Russia wil). it ix said acknowledge the sew kingdom vf Italy if NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1862. of shelter for Polish refugees. The King of Bel- gium was again very ill, Considerable agitation still existed in Germany. We have news from Belize, Honduras, to the. 5th of June inst. The crop of sugar is reported abundant, and it is expected that exports will be large. The Confederate schooner Elena, of Frank- lin, Texas, arrived at Belize with a load of cotton on the 3d inst., the first Confederate vessel that has visited Honduras. She is supposed to have come from Matagorda, Texas. The feature of the movements in Wall streot yester- day was a sudden advance in gold from 107 to 108, 109 and 109%; it closed at about 1(8\%. Exchange rose to 119 a 11944. Stocks were generally 3 & 34 per cent bet- ter. Money is worth about 5 percent on call. The de- posits at the Sub-Treasury for conversion into 5-20 bonds amounted to $1,126,000—rather more than the aggregate expenses of government. ‘The cotton market was active yesterday, and advanc- ed from le. to 1ic. per Ib. The sales embraced about 2,000 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 3éc. for middling uplands. The stock in this market has now become so much reduced as to approximate a point of exhaustion, The question may possibly arise with spinners more or !ess bare of supplies, not whether they will stop running on account of high prices, but whether they can get cottonat all in quantities to keep them at work. The foreign news, with the sudden and large advance in the rates of sterling exchange, w! freights were less buoyant, had a favorable influence on bread- stuffs. Flour was active and higher, espocially for com- men grades of State and Western. Wheat, from the same cause, was active, and advanced from lc. a 2c., ani on some grades 3c. per bushel. Corn was also active and rai higher. Pork was active, while prices were unchanged. were quite steady, with Bales of 600 hhds. and 100 boxes. Whiskey, in conse- quence of the passage of the Tax bill, took a iump, and closed at 28c. a 283gc., with @ small lot of Western at 29c. Coffee was quiet; 200 bags St. Domingo sold in bond, for export, at p.t. Freights wore steady and un- changed, though some leas active. European Intervention in the United States. The intelligence from Europe by the Arabia, published, by telegraph from Halifax, in our columns to-day, is of the highest importance. It foreshadows the intention of the Emperor of the French, in co-operation with England, to inter- pose by an armed intervention in the American war, in order to put a stop to it and to enforce peace on the basis of a separation between the North and the South. Taken in connection with the visit of Count Persigny to London, with an article in the Paris Constitutionnel, with the tone of the English press and Parliament, and with the fact of the invasion of Mexico, for the avowed purpose of changing its in- stitutions and subverting its present go- vernment, the news is of a most startling character. The same pretence set forth in the Spanish Cortes by Calderon Collantes for intervention in Mexico—namely, to “prevent a fratricidal war’—is held out to the ear of humanity and civilization for inter- vention in the United States. But cotton and tobacco and hostility to free institutions are at the bottom of British and French philanthropy, Thé London Times of the 11th instant raves abont promised cotton, and takes no comfort in our capture of New Orleans. Their ruined commerce and manufactures, and the revolu- tionary tendency of theirsown population in consequence of prolonged distress, are the real incentives to the action of the Powers of West- ern Europe, and not any sympathy for the suf. ferings of humanity in the New World. The English journals and the English nobility in both houses of Parliament affect to be great- ly shocked at the course of General Butler in New Orleans. Lord Palmerston, in the House of Commons, stigmatizes it as “ infamous,” and such that an Englishman should blush for the Anglo-Saxon race. Earl Russell on the same night denounces it in the House of Lords, while Earl Carnarvon says “it is with- out @ precedent in the annals of war.” Have they forgotten Packenham’s watchword of “Beauty and booty” before New Orleans at the close of the war of 1812-15, or the toma- hawk and ecalping knife of the savage in the war of American Independence, when tbe Bri- tish government paid a certain price for every scalp produced by the Indian as the re- sult of his slaughter of the whiteskins, whether men, women orchildren? Have they forgotten the massacre of Wyoming, and the fiendish deeds of their hireling Hessians? Could they not call to mind the bloody scene of Glencoe, in Scotland, or the atrocious butchery of Crom- well, at Drogheda, in Ireland, where, by his own confession, he treacherously put man, woman and child to the sword after the sur- render of the town? What of the war against the Chinese, to compel them to eat opium, to their certain destruction, but fer the advantage of British commerce? And, finally, is their memory 80 treacherous that they do not remem- ber the atrocities of Hastings and Clive in India, and of the more modern proceedings of the Bri- tish army compelling the Sepoys to bitethe dust because they would not bite greased cartridges, contrary to the precepts of their religion, and of the blowing of their miserable victims from the mouths of cannon. Let us hear no more, therefore, about precedents for cruelty in war. The real meaning of the mock humanity of Palmerston, Russell and the other British statesmen is, that they desire to inflame the public mind of England and all Europe against the United States, and to prepare the way for that intervention which Earl Russell intimates is only a question of time on the part of the British government. The London Post, its organ, says “the difficulties in the way of the reconstruction of the American Union are in- surmountable.” The London Herald, organ of the opposition, asks “How long is America to be indulged and Europe to endure?” The Paris correspondence of some of the English papers asserts that “Napoleon is assured of the co-operation of England in his schemes of inter- vention in the United States; that mediation has been resolved upon; that simultaneous pro- positions will be made by England and France at Richmond and Washington, and that in the case of refusal, either by the North or the South, the two Powers will impose peace on the belli- gerents by force of arms.” But we rather think, as intimated by Earl Russell and by the Manchester Guardian, that the programme is to let France, for the present, go forward alone, as in the case of Mexico, and that, if ne- cessary, England and Spain will come te her rescue. But the United States will know how to deal with these Powers should they attempt to in- terfere in her domestic concerns. We will soon havean army of three-quarters of a mil- lion of men disengaged after the suppression of the rebellion, and @ fleet of iron-clad ves- sels which will sweep the combsned navies of France, England and Spain from the face of the ocean; nor will we ever lay down our arms till we wipe out every vestige of foreign sway in the New World. Meantime we call upon Congressto pronounce against the infamous scheme of the European Powers to break up the republics of America and erect out of their debris monarchical systems extending from Hiudson’s Bay to Cape Lorn. President Lincoln at West Point—Some- thing in the Wind. Our readers will remember the sensation created last February a year ago by the news of President Lincoln’s mysterious journey, by the light of the moon, in his “Seotch cap and long military cloak,” from Harrisburg, Pa., via Baltimore, to Washington. Yesterday, however, the unlocked for intelligence that the President, in the best time ever made, had pass- ed from Washington, through New York in the night, to West Point, gave rise to as many conjectures and speculations as his successful and wisely executed strategical journey to our national capital. But what means this Northern journey at this crisis? What can it be that has brought the President, travelling all night, on this post haste visit to West Point? We have no official or semi-official information on the subject; but by putting this and.that together we* think a plausible and somewhat satisfactory conclusion may be reached. First, then, General Scott is at West Point. Secondly, General Pope has arrived at Wash- ington—that splendid young officer, whose great achievements in Northern Missouri and at Now Madrid, at Island No, 10 and at Corinth, have made his name among our loyal people as “familiar in their mouths as household words.” He has been called from the West; and what for? After the return of the President to Washing- ton we expect to learn. Meantime, we con- jecture that this visit of President Lincoln to West Point is for the purpose of a military consultation with General Scott, and that the special object in view is the appointment of General Pope to some important command in Virginia. Since the derangement in that quarter of the original plans of General Scott and Gene- ral McClellan, our “Onward to Richmond” movement has been embarrassed in every pos- sible way. We have suffered the costly hu- miliation of the expulsion of General Banks from the Shenandoah valley, and the War Office, in repairing this disaster, has not suc- ceeded as well as could be desired. The rebel General Jackson has slipped through the snares that were contrived to catch him, and among our numerous generals now in the Shenandoah valley service some unpleasant disagreements have taken place. Thus we hear that General Blenker is to’ be superseded by General Carl Schurz, and that General Shields has fallen from grace, while General McDowell, from an unfortunate accident, is on the list of the sick or disabled. At the same time it is given out that the rebel General Jackson has been heavily reinforced, and that, to be on the safe side, General Fremont is falling back down the valley fora junction with General Banks and General Sigel. All these things, and many more that we have not touched upon, indicate some confusion in our military operations and among our many generals of the Shenandoah valley. We all know, too, that the repulse of Genetal Banks has operated very much to delay the decisive conflict with the main rebel army at Richmond, in delaying the reinforcements which were required by General McClellan. In a word, we apprehend that the present posture of the campaign in Virginia has carried the President to West Point, and that with his return to Washington, or shortly thereafter, we shall hear of some comprehensive modifications on the military chessboard in Virginia, including an important command to General Pope. In this connection we understand that it is not alone by his late brilliant achievements in the West that General Pope has attracted pasa eg en R dent and the General are from the same State, and it*appears that the personal friendship which had previously been culti- vated between them was strengthened by cer- tain rebuffs and rebukes administered to Gene- ral Pope by the late administration, in conse- quence of some friendly act or acts of his toward Mr. Lincoln as our President elect. However this may be, our readers may rest assured that it is no holiday amusement that has carried Presi- dent Lincoin between a late dinner and a very early breakfast from Washington to West Point. This mission, we believe, can only relate to the campaign in Virginia; and while, in regard there- to, General Scott is sought for counsel, General Pope has been summoned for active service. We hear some whispers of a possible breeze in the Cabinet; but, independently of anything of that sort, the subject is sufficiently interest- ing for the present. Strange and extraordinary as this West Point journey may be regarded, we only see, in view of the exigencies of this crisis, that it brings out into full and bold re- lief the careful, vigilant, active and decisive business habits of President Linceln. He has gone upon this mission himself, because he alone is equal to its delicate requirements. He goes rapidly, because his time is precious; and we are sure that this journey will soon become as remarkable for its decisive results as it is now for the wonder and the mystery in which it is enveloped. Tar Tax But—Tue Maoutvery ror Cot- LECTING THE Taxs.—We yesterday published the rates of duty imposed by the Tax bill as it finally passed Congress. This morning we give the sections of the bill relating to the machinery for collecting the taxes imposed, those defining the duties of the officers to be appointed, and those stating the obligations of persons on whom a tax is laid. The great im- portance of this bill has induced us to yielda very large portion of our space for its publica- tion. Every one will be interested in it insome way, either as a taxpayer, an office seeker, or a political economist. To oarry the act into effect a small army of officers will be appointed, over whom a Com- missioner of Internal Revenue is to be placed. The salary of this official is fixed at $4,000 per an- num. The officers under his direction, and their duties, will be, in brief, as follows, namely:— First—A collector for each collection district, to be appointed by the President, with the con- sent of the Senate, whose duties will be to col- lect for the government the taxes to be paid in said district. The compensation for his ser- vices is in the form of commissions on the amounts collected. Second—An assessor for each assessment dis- trict, to be also appointed by the President, whose duty it will be to furnish the collector with a list of the persons to be taxed and the ar- ticles on which the taxes are levied. His salary is to be three dollars per diom when engaged in preparation, and five dollars when in the actual performance of his duties as assessor. He is also to receive a commission of one dollar for each hundred names on the tax list. Third—Deputy collectors, to be appointed and paid by collectors. Their duties are to be to act as assistants. Fourth—Assistant assessors, to be appointed by assessors. Their salary is fixed at three dollars per day, in addition to which they will receive the same commission as assessors. Fifth—Inspectors of liquors, &c., to be ap- pointed by collectors, whose duties will be to measure and examine the proof of liquors re- moved fer sale, for which they are to receive fees from the owner thereof, the extent of which is to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The officers above classified are to carry into effect the provisions of the bill, and are to be held strictly accountable for their actions. Collectors, through whose hands must pass very large sums of money, will be required to give heavy bonds for an honest performance of their duties. In some districts it is probable that bonds to the extent of $200,000 or $300,000 will be required. Our readers will find all the information in respect to the Tax bill that they may desire by consulting our issues of yester- day and to-day. . The Mexican Question in England and France. Among the news from Europe by Etna, which arrived here yesterday, there ,, some highly interesting points about Mexico, out our suggestion in last Monday’s paper, that the breaking up of the treaty of London and of the convention of Soledad is but a part of the programme secretly agreed on from the first by the conspirators of France, England and Spain, who meditate the overthrow of re- publican institutions in Mexico, and the erection of @ monarchy on their ruins, that step by Na- poleon being only preliminary to the joint action of the three Powers in destroying the republic of the United States, if we only give them a fair chance. If they had openly entered into a treaty at first to subvert the independence of Mexico and to establish the monarchical idea on this continent, Mexico would have too soon taken the alarm, the United States would have been prematurely roused, and even the democratic element in Europe would become troublesome and dangerous. But they pretended that their sole object was to collect just debts, which they could not recover in any other way, and that they had no intentien whatever of meddling with the right of the Mexicans to choose their own form of government and their own rulers. But no sooner does the French army, by treachery and bad faith, get beyond the fortified pass of Chiquihuite, than the Lon- dorreaty is cast to the winds, and the agree- ment of Soledad, by which the French troops were permitted to occupy Orizaba, is perfidious- ly broken by the French general, with the con- nivance of the other two Powers, who permit- ted their authority to be used to entrap an inde- pendent nation into such a position that its con- quest was expel to be the sure result, and its autonomy forever destroyed. Accordingly we find the Paris correspondent of the London Times, a journal in the interest of the English oligarchy, under date of June 9, applauding Napoleon for what he is doing. The writer says:—Credit should be given to the Emperor for the best intentions in carrying out, on his own account, the present operatidns in Mexico. Undeterred by the departure of the allies, and unwilling to be bound by the restrictive conditions of the London treaty, he persists in the praise- worthy effort to compel the Mexicans to accept the benefits of civilization, if not the very principles of ’89.” Thus is the cloven foot disclosed, and the governments of England and France acquiesce in the overt act. It may be a very “praiseworthy effort” on the Dart of Napoleon te coinpel free aad indepen- dent nations to accept his ideas of civilization; but the wrifer for the Times ought to know that this is not “liberty, fraternity and equali_ ty,” and is at antipodes’ with the principles of 1789, or, in other words, the principles of the French Revolution. Well does the Revue des Deux Mondes, the leading political periodical of France, exclaim:—Can the France of 1789 contemplate for an instant imposing a mo- narchical government on a republican nation, whatever cause of complaint be given to it by the anarchy which prevails in it? Can France, whieh has so cruelly suffered from foreign pressure, cherish the impious design of plant- ing a foreign government among any people?” But when intelligence reaches the Emperor of France that his army has been not only de- feated, but cut off from reinforcements and supplies, his eyes will have been opened to the difficulty of the enterprise he has undertaken. The news of the disaster to his troops had reached England by the Niagara; but there was no time to ascertain its effects when the steamer sailed for New York. The effect upon the Emperor's mind cannot fail to be heightened by the fact admitted by the Paris correspondent of the London Times, already quoted, that “you will hardly fall in with a single person (in France) who speaks encouragingly and hopefully of the enterprise,” and “the regeneration of Mexi- co by France, which was never regarded with much favor here (Paris), is now decidedly dis- approved by men of all parties.” What will they say when they hear the news of the re- pulse and disastrous rout of the French troops? It is evident that the Spanish people are of the same opinion asthe French, and that the Spanish government is compelled to act the hypocrite and conceal the secret part it is play- ing into the hands of Napoleon. Some of its or- gans advocate the inviolability of the independ- ence of Mexico and of all free nations, while the despatch of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Hpoca of Madrid, the organ of the government, express 4 censure explicit and conclusive of the liberal and mag- nanimous conduct of General Prim, and at the same time denounce the de facto and de jure government of Mexico as “the iniqui- tous Power of Juarez.” Indeed, the despatch of Calderon Collantes to the Spanish Ambas- sador at Paris shows that Spain was, from the outset, favorable to @ monarchy for Mexico, but preferred a prince of the Bourbon family for the throne. In the Cortes the Minister for Foreign Affairs also declared that it was a part of the policy of Spain to “prevent a fratricidal war.” In other words, its policy was interven- tion to Impose a king upon the Mexican people, The Paris Patrie agserts that it was Spain first proposed a monarchy for Mexico, and that both Spainand England agreed to the whole pro. gramme of Napoleon. In England the sympa- thies of the people are entirely with Mexico, while the wishes of their government are for the conquest of that country, the destruction of its independence, and the establishment of a monarchical form of government instead of the republic. Where is this conspiracy to end? NEWS WASHINGTON. Passage of thé $150,000,000 Note Bil! in the House, &e., ae. Wasarnaton, June 24,1862. , PASSAGE OF THE TREASURY NOTE BILL. ‘The Treasury Note bill has pasced the House by yeas 70, nays 46. ARRIVAL OF GENERAL POPE AND GENSRAL ROSSEAU. Major General Pope arrived here to-day, and is en- thusiastioally welcomed. He appears in deep black citi- gen’s dress, and is not generally recognized while moving about his hotel this evening. Ho was requested to visis Washington to consult with the military autho- rities, if consistent with his duties in tho West. General Rosseau, of Kentucky, is among the distin- guished visitors in Washington. He met with a warm reception at the Capitol. BANKRUPT BILL. A. T. Stewart, of New York, has been here lobbying against the passage of a bankrupt law. It is alleged that hecame prepared to engage # lobby for that purpose, and believes he bas succeeded. What may be beneficial in this respect to Mr. Stewart, will bring ruin to thou- sands of other enterprising merchants. ¢ DIPLOMATIC DINNER. A diplomatic dinner was givon vhis evening tothe Mexican Minister. A number of Senators and other dis- tinguished gentlemen wero present. The gathering is supposed to have a significant bearing just now. THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. FILS? SESSION. &., Senate. Wasuinaton, June 24, 1862. ‘FHE BANKRUPT BILL. 2 Mr. Harrx, (rep.) of N. Y., presented several petitions from citizens of New York, asking for the immediate passage of a bankrupt act. PUNISHMENT OF CONGRESEMEN FOR MEDDLING WITH CONTRACTS Mr. Wuiaut, (Union) of Ind., offered a resolution that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to juire into the statements, evidence, &c.,in the report Joseph Holt and Robert Dale Owen in regard to certain contracts tofurnish arms to the government, and juquire what legislation is necessary to punish Senators and Repre- sentatives who shall lend their official influenoo to pro- cure contracts, aud who shall accept, directly or indi- rectly, any money or other reward or compensation, either certain or contingent, therefor. Adopted. BOUNTAS POR VOLUNTRERS. Mr. SusrMan, (rep.) of Obio,from the Finance Com- mittee, reported a bill rab ng Sanco ee for the payment of the volunteer force bounties. After discussion it was postponed until to-morrow. ‘THR ACCEPTANCE OF LEAGUE ISLAND. Mr. Gruugs, (rep.) of Iowa, moved to take up the bill authorizing the government to accopt League Island, in the Delaware river, for naval purposes, und exporienced the advantages to be derived from the acquisition of the Property. ‘THR CONFISCATION BILL. The Confiscation bill wes thon taken up and discussed at considerable length. VETO MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT. ‘The following message was received from the Presl- dont:— Wasmincton, June 23, 1862. To tne Sex Ate OF tue Uniren States:— = ‘The bill, which has passed the Houso of Representatives and Senate, entitled “An act to repeal that part of an act of Congress which prohibits the circulation of bank notes of Jess denomination than five dollars in tue District of Colum- bia,” bas received wy attentive consideration, and I now return it to the Senate, in which it originated, The bill proposes to repeal the existing legislation prohi- biting the circulation of bank notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia without permitting the tssuing of such bills by banks not now ‘autho: to issue them. In my judgm. it will be found impracticable, in the present condition of tho currency, to make such a dis- Erimination. The banks have generally suspended specie payment and a legal sanction given to the clrvulation o: the redeem: able notes of one class of them will almost cer- tainly be so extended in practical operation as to include those of all classes, whether authorized or unathorized. If tis view be correct the eurrouey ov the District, should this act become a law, would certainly and greatiy' deteriorate, to the serious injury of honest trade and honest labor. ‘Sccond—This bill seems ty contemplate no end which can- not otherwise be more certainly and benoicially attained. During the existing war it is peculiarly tue duty of the na- Honal government to secure ta the people ® sound clroula- ing medium, This duty has been, under elreum- stances, satisfactorily performed, ih part at least, by autho- Tizing the issue of United States hotes receivable for ali gov. ernment dues, exoept customs, and made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, except interest on the public debt, Th- object o! tuis bill submitted to me—pamely, that of providing « avail note curreucy during the present’ suspen- Son—can bs Yully accomplished by authorizing the issue, as Part of the emission of United States notes ne-essary by ihe Giroumstances of the country, of notes of a similir character but of a less denomination ian tive Such an issue would answer all the beneficial pu: Of the bill, would save aconsicerable amount to the Treasury, woul facilitate payment to soldiers and other creditors of s: sums, and would furnish to the people a currency as safe ax their own government. ‘Entertaining these objections to the bill, I feel myself coustrained to withhold from it my j, end to return ft for the further consideration and action of Cor ABRAHAM® LINCOLN. BIRCUTIVE SESION. After an exocutive session the Senate adjourned. House of Represe=iatives. ‘Wasuinatoy , June 24, 1862. PASSAGE OF THE VOLUNTEERS’ BOUNTIRA MILL. Mr. Stmvuns, (rep.) of Pa., from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported a bill appropriating five mil- lions of doliars for the payment of the bounties of yolun- teers, under the act of July last. Passed. SHIP CANAL ARS" sucana PALS, Mr. Vas HORR, Crep.) of Jntrotzce4 @ resolution, which was passed, referring to a select committee ot geven all the papers apd memorials on file relating toa ship canal around Niagara Falls on the American side, PASSAGE OF THR TREASURY NOTE PILL. The bill authorizing an additioval issue of one hundred ‘and fifty millions of United States Treasury notes, was then considered. Mr. Monaits, (rop.) of Vt., ineffectually sought to ada @ proviso that no new notes shall be iseued under this act when the bonds of the United States can be sold or negotiated at not less than par. ‘The bill was then passed, by yeas 76, nays 46. ‘The following was the n gative vote:— Nays—Messrs, Allen of Ill, Baker, Biddle, Brown of R. 1, Bufinton, Calvert, Clements, Cobb, Roscoe Conkling, Corning, Cravens, Cristield, Dawes, Delano, Dunlap, Eliot, English, Foulkr, Good et, Ha , My nzies, Morrill oF ¥ der, Harding, Jobnson, Law, orton, ‘Pendleton, Perry, Phelps of Mo., Porter, Rice of Mass., Richardson, Sheffield, Shiel, Stiles, "Thomas of Tuomas of Md. Vibbard, Wads worth, Walton of V:., Ward, Webster, White of Ohio, Wick. lute, Wood, Woodruil. |. The bill’ is exactly the game as introduced by Mr. ste- vens, and publishod im the latter part of last week, w.th the excoption of the amendment made yesterday. PRINTING THE TAX BILL. A resolution was passed to print seventy-five thousand copies of the Income and Internal Tax bill, passed yester- day, with an index and margival references. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD BILL. The Senate’s amendmenis to the Pacific Railroad bill were concurred in, 104 against 31. CONNECTION OF LAKE MICHIGAN WITH THE Miesiseurrt. The consideration of the bill for the construction of a ro a me the ; of armed ae naval vessels rom ississip)i river to Lake Michigan was post- poned till Monday. PROMIBITION OF POLYGAMY. The House concurred in the Senate's amendments to the House bill prohibiting polygamy in the Tprritories of the United States, and disapproving and ulling the laws of Utah on that subject. The offence is pun! [howe not exceeding $500 and for ive ). Adjourned, NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA AND OREGON. Result of the State Election in Oregon— $1,015,000 im Treasure En Route for New York. ‘San Francisco, June 7, 1862. Sailed steamship Golden Gate, for Panama, with one hundred and seventy-five ane and treasure for ‘New Yor , and 000 for Eng! San Francisco, June 9, 1962. f argue Foon pont Sonora, — Storm King, Giaagow. Sallod ship Romance of the Sea, gan, Steamers bring to oy ee run—namely, the fi of Doug! licans, calied the Union ticket, and the, called the regular democratic ticlet. ticket was elected by near! making the relative rai —_ aoe a pa . Rag boon! elect, is a Dou- rat. He emi Oregon from Cen! . John McBride, the member of a elocted, isa republican, and was a from Missouri. , Francto, June 10, 1862. Arttved ship Competitor , Hong Kong. . A letter received in this city from Governor Alvares? of Yuerrera, Mexico, states that on tho 26th of May he received ows from the City of Mexico, that the French army had capitulated. [This report is premature. The The entire Union three thousand ity, it two to one for the Union latest advi received from the City of Mexico, via Vora Cruz and Havana, were to the 28th of May, up to —— the Frenoh forces had not surrendered.—Ep. Arr i. park, oranget “Hing 1 tated stesso ivi irl q a Sonora, for Panama, with ninet peed $640,000 in treagure for New York and 000 ‘England. Payment of the New York State Comp. troller’s Loan in Currency. Axaamt, June 94, 1862, Several bankers holding New York State seven per cont Comptrolier’s loan of $,160,000, maturing on the Ist of July, having addressed a letter to Comptroller Robin. son asking that the said loan may be paid in spesie, not currency, the Comptroller replies, showing the justice and propriety of paying sald loan in currency. He says since the suspension of specie payments, andfrem the 1st day of January last to the Ist of July next, both in- ‘elusive, the State will have paid the principal and inte- of [ts fanded debts, $4,000,000, in coin or ite equiva- ‘This is sufficient evidence of the dedire and ' mination of those charged with the managoment of its financial affairs to ite high credit aud bonor wn+ tarnished. But the; of optuion that they exercise a Jarge liborality when they make nearly two-thirds in amount of these pay: is to bauks which rouse to re Joon ti.eit own notes in specie, ALL QUIET IN THE UNION Wasuixto, Juve 24, 1862, Despatches received to-day at the War Departmeng indicate quiet in all directions. ‘The telegraph lines are in geod working order to ald important points. INTERESTING FROM MEMPHIS. Memmi, June 22, 1862. Over two hundred merchants have taken the oath of allegiance. Preaching the gospel of treason has been stopped by General Wallace. ‘The rector of the Episcopal church, who offered pray- ers for the Southern confederacy last Sunday, has beom ‘effectually admonished. Samuel Sawyer, chaplain of the Forty-seventh Indiana, preached this morning in the Methodist church of the runaway rebel Harris, nephew of the Governor, This evening he preached in the Second Presbyterian church | which dismissed the Key. Dr. Grundy, on suspicion of hie loyalty to the Union. Sawyer is the same clergyman who, in East Tennessee, several years ago, was persecuted for writing an account of Deacon Netherland’s cruel whipping of his slave behind his church. citizens of Brownsville, Hayward county, raisod the Stars and Stripes yesterday. The rebel militia General Coles, an original seceasionis= of Hayward county, sends word toGen, Wallace that, ince his cotton was burned, he wants to take tho oath of allegiance, and also the oath never to vole the demo- Graticticketagain, = IMPORTANT FROM ARKANSAS, Opening of White River—Flight of the Governor and Legislature of Arkansas on a Filathoat, dic. ‘Wastnatow, June 24, 1862. ‘The following was received to-day from General Hal- leck:— Contra, Miss., June 23—8 P. M. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:— Unofficial information has been received that White river bas been opened for one hundred and seventy miles, and Governor Rector and the rebel government have fled from Little Rock on # flatboat towards Fort Smith, i. W. HALLECK, Major General. President Lincoln's Visit to West Point. President Lincoln left Washington at five o'clock on the ‘evening of Monday last by a special train for this city em route to West Point, He arrived at Jersey City at about one o’olock yesterday morning, and immediately crossing by the ferry, stepped into a carriage which was in wait- ing for him at the foot of Cortlandt street, and which conveyed him and his party to the Chambers stroet depot of the Hudson River Railroad. A special train was in readiness, with the horses buckled too, and in a short time the midnight travellers were on their way along ‘Hudson, Canal and West streets, to the Thirty-first streot station, Here tne horses were removed and steam | tached, ana the party were quickly speeding along the track. Arriving at Garrison’s they crossed the ferry y and were soon comfortably lodged at Cozzens’ Hotel, West Point, were they arrived at four o’clock in the morning. A despatch was received in the city yesterday from Mr. Cozzens, stating that tho President had arrived there at the hour namod. Thus, im eleven hours the Chief Magistrate had travelled from Washington to West Point—a distauoe of nearly three hundrod miles. As every movement had been arranged beforehand by telograph, thore was ne waiting for connections, an@ the President went straight through the whole distance, General Scott, who has beon for some time at West Point, was telegraphed to for the purpose of mooting and receiving the President; and, notwithstanding his disabilities, he, in accordance with his characteristic military punctuality, was on the spotand met the Commander-in-Chief immediately om his arrival. Brooxiaw Acapgxr or Music.—In consequence of the rain storm of the last two evenings, though the houses have been vory good, and such as few could draw under influences to which Brooklyn is especially sensitive, yos they have not been such overflowing tributes as Mr. Hackett’s reputation as an artist, scholar and gentleman sbould entitle him to receive on his first appearance ina city in which ho numbers such # host of admirers and friends. This evening is positively his last appearaace for the present; and, appearirg, as he does, in bis un* equalled representation of Falstaff, in Shakspere's charm- ing comedy of the “Merry Wives of Windsor,” we expect, should the weather be favorable, to see one of the largest audiences which has yet been gathored within the Aca- demy walls. - Mout Prmasawr Cavets.—The,annual examination of the classes at Mount Pleasant Military Academy, Slug Sing, closes to-morrow afternoon with a review and ex- hibitiog drill, The cadets have been performing duty during the rest Week, and, jidging from their performance last year, when they were roviowed by the Mayor in front of the City Hall, they will be prepared to give an interesting exhibition. This is one of our oldest and most popular military schools, and many of its graduates now hold commissions in the regular and volunteer service. The corps will bo reviewed by Gea. Anderson. Sxconp Recent New Yorx Starz Mitrria—The re- turned prisoners of the Second regiment New York ‘State Militia, are requested to meet at the armory,om Thursday, 26th inst., at three P. M. Business of im- portance requires the prompt attendance of every mem- ber. By order of Sergeant Frank 3 Tus Ove Hoxprep Dour . volunteers who have been honorably discharged from the service was held last eveuing at the Harmonic Gardens, in Essex street, for the purpose of signing a petition to prooure the one hundred doilars bounty promised them by Congress. Mr. Seagrist, a lawyer of this city, bas promised to takechargo of the matter without asking any com: ion for his services. Three meet have been held (including the one last evezing), and the com- mittce of management have procured about four hundred ee petition, which will be forwarded to fash! we hag laid before Congress Ci F ee ee The Races at Philadelphia. . Owing to heavy reins to-day, ibe recto were hecsaon- rily ‘until to-morrow. 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