The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDTIOR AND PROPRI<108. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Ne. 191 i. = = AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVBNING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broudway.—Tecan Warn You Cax—How to Par tak Rent TURLLO—D. WERTIO: EMBDT. WALLACK'S THEATRE. No. 864 Broudway.—Oraxcx Bio.soas—Lesson FuK Huse Ds—TO Pans axp Baca. LAURA KEENE’S TO EATRE, Broadway.—Litrim TRea- ava! LT OF THX PETTICO\ NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Tax Froutina Brorases oF Rome—.p or oF Tux MOUBTALNS. NIXON'S CREMORNE G \RDEN. Fourteenth street and Sixty avence.—Orgm@s, BaLcer, 'ROMAMADE CUBCERT 4nD Earastauast aw. BARNUM'S AMERICAN SEUM. Broadway.—Com, urr—le RvYED mE L 4c. al all boura Yuune Actama— Fusommiuio, site. usou aut evening, CHRISTY'S OPERA HT Broatway.—Ermiortax NUS, Dances, Ac.— Fra OLE DAM. WOOD'S MINSTREL H\' 1. 514 By alway.—Ermorus Gs, ances, AC —DoWN IN OLv K-v-ar. ND MUSIC HALL, Canal BIyUKS, AO. HITCHCOCK'S THEA? Street. —sovas, Dances, But GAIFRTIES CONCERT HALL, 686 Broadway.—Daawine Boo» Exteatainuants, PEOPLE 8 MUSIC HALL, 6 Bowery.—Soxas, Dancus, Buns se wuxs, 20 PARISIAN CABINET OF W Opeu dauy trom ly ALM. Uli 0 a DERS, 563 Brondway.— New York, Sunday, July 13, 1862. DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Wednesday, July 9... Thursday, July 10. Friday, July 11. Saturday, July 12. é Average Daily Circulation.......123,485 + +120,480 124,560 THE SITUATION. We received no official advices from General McClellan's army yesterday, but our eorrespon- dence from Harrison’s Landing, the James river and Fortress Monroe, which is given in another part of to-day’s paper, furnishes interesting intel- ligence from the peninsula down to Friday last. No important event had occurred. The rebels are reported to have suddenly disappeared from in front of the lines of General McClellan. This was expected, as it is easier for the enemy to march his forces to the vicinity ef Richmond than to transport his supplies to the neighborhood of Harrison's Landing. The rebel batteries along the James river continue to fire upon our vessels passing to and fro, but as yet no serious result has happened fromit. It has been secertained that the rebels have at Richmoad, nearly completed, a floating battery of light draught, constructed on the plan of the Merrimac. She is expected down the tiverin a few days. Commodore Wilkes, we are easured, will be prepared for this new customer. By the arrival of the steamers McClellan and Trade Wind at this port yesterday, we have ad- vices from New Orleans to the 4th instant. Co- pious details of the news, including an address of the rebel Governor Mvore to the people of Louisi- ana, may be found elsewhere in our columns. Accounts from Louisville report that Morgan's rebel cavalry had been within seven miles of Cave City, and had left that point for Lexington, Ken- tacky. Morgan had announced his intention of visiting Louisville. From Arkansas we learn that General Curtis has divided his army, a portion being between the Cass ani White rivers, and the remainder east of Cass river, seventy-five miles from Memphis. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the report of the Con- ference Committee on the Confiscation bill was agreed to by a vote of twenty-seven against thirteen. The bill has now passed both houses of Congress. The resolution requesting the Presi- dent to have a statement of the trade and com, me-ve of the Pacific States prepared was adopted. The bill providing for the better security of pas- Sengers was passed. Several unimportant bills were aiso passed. A resolution reported by the Finance Committee, fixing the time for final ad- fjourn:geat of Congress ou Wednesday next, was sdupted. An executive session was held, and the Bennte adjourned. In the House of Representatives the Committee of Ways and Means reported their last appropria- tion, being for miscellaneous objects, but it was laid on the table by a majority of ten. Several other subjects were acted on, none of them, how- ever, of gceveral importance, and the House ad- journed. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamers Tentonia and City of Baltimore, which sailed yesterday, respectively for Hamburg an | Liverpool, took oat $2,424,916 in specie. We have files from Bermuda to the 2d of July last. The papers do not contain any news of im- m. diate interest. ; The transfer of so large a portion of Beaure. army to Richmond as it is evident was there to participate in the late battles is account- ¢u forby the supposition that, while holding Co- rinthne detailed thonsands of meu to extend the Jackson and Vicksburg Railroad from Lowashoe to omery, Aisboma, thus forming a connection With the Kast, 2, under the President's last call for going on with exceeding briskness in Philadelphia wd throughout the whole State of Peoneylve ia. Daring whe late yattles McClellan lost twenty- five guns and captured twenty-six, showing that wo have one Mure cannon than before the batties comiuunord. “ The expenses of the ation of the forty Japanese murtyrs at Rone amounted to nearly two million dolara, seventy thousand of which were faruished by the Franciscans, and thirty thousand by the Jewaits aod Carmelites. The ta- Pers usel at the church were thirty-five th ousand fn nanber, of the purest white wax, each weigh- beg three pounds. and alone cost $25,000. The Aonteville (Alabama) Reveille says that the Tumor that the Kentucky and Tennessee regiments the Coavederato army have to be constantly fuarded to prevent them from deserting in a body fe daily corroborated by prisonets and deserters. ‘The Commis. ioners of Excise examined and ap- Provod # large wu aber of applications for licenses lay. Their next season wil, be held on the B2d inst. Greater: itement now prevails among un- Biconsed liquor dealers, io consequence of the mum- ber of arrusta recently made, with and without war- feats, A large numver have left the societies and Bprlied for Moenses, as the safer aud cheaper Bourse, Ali the Police Justices have decided to Peeve wortants after the 17t inst. against all un- Hiconsed coalers, ae their blank forms wilt then be Ready. (he Board passed a resolution that ail Sant heretofore granted must be paid for with- ten days or they will be rescinded. , Tho Graad Jury of the General Sessions brough P; oan NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1862. | ina batch of indictments yesterday, and among them was a true bill aga’nst Mary Leal, for mur- der in the first degree, for shooting Peter C. Real, in Broudway, a few weeks ago, At the written request of her counsel, Mr, Edwin James, the Dis- trict Attorney stated that he would not require the defendant to plead until her counsel returned to the city, when it is probable that the case will be moved to the Oyer and. Terminer for trial. There has been very little .o do tor the Petit Jury this week, the majority of the prisoners saving the Court the troubie of a trial by pleading guilty. The jury were discharged for the term. Y esterday was the last day of the July term of the General Sessions, when Judge McCunn dispos- ed of a large number of prisoners who were con- victed during the week, Thomas Williams, guilty of forgery in the fourth degree, was sent to the penitentiary tor two years, Charles E. Bruce, convicted on Friday of attempting to steal a valu- able horse and wagon in the Central Park, was sent to blackwell’s Island torone year. Mary Marshall pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the State prison for two years. Thomas Savage, & youth, who stole a quantity of Treasury note, from a returned soldier, wax sent to the peniten- tiary for two years, Matthew Larkin aud Patrick Tiernay pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree, and were sent to the peniten- tiary for two years. Herman Boerngen, a gradu- ate of a German university, who pleaded guilty to forging a pote for $30, was sent to the city prison for sixty days. James Francis Norman, indicted for a felonious assault upon one of the pretty waiter girls of a Proadway concert saloon, plead- ed guilty to assault and battery. The District At- torney stated that the defendant was the victim of the ‘‘ pretty waiter” girl, and under the circum- stances of the case he did not press for severe punishment. As he had been in prison for three months, the Judge only imposed a fine of six cents, Robert J. Hall, who obtained money from members of Dr. Cheever’s church, under the pre- tence that he was a Union refugee from the South, was discharged on motion of the District Attor- ney, the proof of his guilt being insufficient to warrant a conviction. The Grand Jury having indicted Mary Real for the murder of Jacob Real, in Broadway, she was brought up yesterday morning, and throvgh her counsel, Mr. Edwin James, pleaded not guilty. The case was sent to the Oyer and Terminer for trial. St cka were generally lower at the board yesterday, bat rallied afterward to abvut the last prices of Friday. Gold sold down to 113%, but rallied to 116. Exchange, 1268127. Money on call, 606 per cent. The exports of the day were $2,597 000. The cotton market war again firmer and higher yos- terday, with sales of 700 bales, closing on the basis of 43c. @ 43346, for middling uplands. The flour market was heavy, and about & cents per barrel lower, while ea @s were made to a fair extent. The movements in grain were seriously checked by the prevailing labor strike. The men continued to stand out agairst the use of the elevators, which they alleged tended to threw large numbers cf employment. The friends of the ele- ‘vators contended that they had a perfect righs to insist upon their use, and should continne to employ them in spite of all opposition, The result was that much in- convenience was felt, causing wheat engaged to go cn board ships to remain undelivered; thus proving vera- tious to reesivers, operators aad shipowners. How long this state of things Is to last we cannct say. It into be heped, however, some satis‘actory adjustment may be arrived at, and things go on es they did.before. Wheat, trom the cause above stated, was dull, and from ic.a 2c. lower, while sales wore quite limited. Corn was algo heavy and cheaper, with sales of old mixed at bic. 262%c., with some lots of prime quality at G3e.,and round yellow at 68. Pork was better and more active, with sales of mess at $10 62}, a $10 75, and of prime at $8 50 a $875. Sugars were firm, with sales of 350 hhds. at full prices. Coffee was steady and in fair de- mand, with rales of two or three cargoes, aggregating about 8,557 bags of Rio, at steady prices. Freights were without change of moment, while engagements were made to a fair extent. The New Campaign in Virginia—The Militia Bill Before Congress—The Negro Question. The visit of President Lincoln to our noble Army of the Potomac, or, as it may now be appropriately called, the Army of the James river, and the encouraging reports connected with this visit, assure us not only of the in- tegrity of that army, and its ability to hold its new position against a rebel force of even two hundred thousand men, but that with all dama- ges repaired, and abundantly protected in flank and rear, General McClellan will soon be in motion again towards the rebel capital. We are assured, too, that this time, with the army and the powerful gunboat fleet of Captain Wilkes moving up the river together, our ad- vance will be irresistible over all obstructions. From his late position in the deadly swamps of the Chickahominy, with his base of supplies twenty miles in his rear,General McClellan has made a masterly and lucky escape. In his new position he is in reality nearer the rebel capital than he was in the pesti- lential and dangerous line which he aban- doved. He is on the navigable waterway which leads right into Richmond, and our gun- boats hold possession of the stream to a point within seven miles of the city. Thus in chang- ing his position, so as to reach the James river and the pewerful assistance of our gunboats, General McClellan has already been largely reinforced. With fifty thousand more to his jand forces, and with liberal additious to the several corps of the army of General Pope, the fall of the rebel capital will be inevitable; for, thus strengthened in front and rear, there wilt be no door left open for another repetition against us of the Bull run movement of General Jo. Johnston, and the equally successful dash of Stonewall Jackson to Richmond from the Shenandoah valley, and just in the nick of time to cut off our own rein- forcements. But we bave learned from the developments, discoveries an¢ results of those late seven days’ sanguinary fighting near Richmond that Gene- ral McClellan was right in his estimates of the strength of the enemy, and that under the rebel conscription law, which declares every able bodied white man between the aes of eighteen and forty-five in the so-called “Confederate States” a soldier of the rebel army, 1% Da vishas a larger army in the field to-day than the government of te Union, and bas not one- tenth of the importent places to hold and oo- cupy which our advances into the rebellious States on ail sides compel us to hold and guard witb a military force. Hence, apart from these late events near Richmond, the intelligent reader wiil appreciate the necessity of the President's call at this crisis for a new levy of three hundred thousand men. Can they be raised in season to secure the expulsion of the rebels from Virginia heiure tie expiration of the present summer season! That is the question. Time is money, power, every- thing at this crisis, The authorities and the people of our loyal States are responding with their usual patriotism to the President's cull in the work of voinoteering; but the gallant army of half « million of men drawn from the North already by the volunteer syetem has sensibly reduced tho materials upon which that system depends; and, besides, the processes of recruiting, or- ganizing, drilling and mustering voluntevrs into service are too slow when men are de- manded for immediate action im the fietd. These considerations will aecount for the bill now before Congress authorizing the I’resi- dent to call out the militia of the United States, en masse, if deemed necessary, for the defence of the Union. The militia force of the whole Union is about four millions of men, of which considerably mre than three-fourths belong to the loyal Stotes, including the loyal slave States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky an‘ Missouri, leaving Tennessee out of the ques- tion. According to the Army Register, the militia force of the State of New York in 1860 of able bodied white men, between eighteen and forty-five yeers of » was 409,189. The State has sent somethi over 100,000 volunteers to the field—a large force, but, as it appears from the official returns, not one- fourth part of the troops which she ean muster for the defence of the country. And so of Mas- sachusetts, l’ennsylvania, Obio and other loyal States. In call upon the militia of these States half a million of men may be raised in a month; and this object of prompt and ‘heavy -reinforce ments to.our armies in the field will fully jus- tify this call; for the great end in view—the suppression of tis rebellion, while it may be done in a single crushing blow—will compen- sate us for ail the inconveniences of this militia system. Let the President, then, have the power to resort to this system at his discretion, for we are coufident that if adopted it will be followed by the best results. Meantime, as the Confiscation bill agreed upon between the two houses may now be considered as a law of the land, good, bad or indifferent, it establishes a de- finite plan of action on the negro question in the further prosecution of the war. Much is left in the bill to tiie President's discretion, and this, to a great extent, is the redeeming feature of the measure. We think that euch a measure was wholly unnecessary, and is calculated to do much more mischief than good if rigidly followed up; but we rely on the President's discretion. Our first and paramount <!uty is to put down the great rebel army of Virginia, for in putting down that army we put down the rebellion. Whatever, therefore, may be done under the late acts of Congress with and for Southern negroes, our first necessity is the re- iuforcement of our armies by white volunteers or militia to the extent of three hundred thou- sand men. This whole force is wanted, and without delay. We are therefore in favor of investing the President with the power to call out the whole or a part of the miiitia of the loyal States, in- cluding the loyal siaye States, and such por- tions of the rebellious slave States as have been recovered by the goverument, as the President in his jndgment may deem essential or expedient for the suppression of this rebel- lion. : The Confiscation Bill. The rebel Wonfiscation bill agreed upon by the joint committee of Congress, and which was adopted by the House of Representatives on Friday by a vote of 82 to 44, was agreed to yesterday, 27 to 13, by the Senate. The bill, therefore, only requires the signature of the President to be a law of the land, and from the heavy vote cast in its favor in each house we presume it will be approved, whatever may be the President’s objections to this or that par- ticular feature of the measure. The bill pro- vides:— ‘ First (or what should be first)—That the President, by proclamation, shall give sixty days’ grace to the rebels to return to theiralle- giance, and that the property of every rebel failing to doso within this interval of sixty days shall be forfeited. Second.—Death is declared the penalty of treason, and the liberation of the traitor’s slaves, if possessed of any; or he shall be fined $10,000, imprisoned five years, and his estate, except his slaves, shall be seized, the slaves to go free, The pains and penalties of the bill apply with particular force to the office holders, civil and military, attached to the rebellion; and rebels are disqualified from holding office under the government of the United States. Thivd.—The President is authorized to seize the property of traitors of every kind whatso- ever, slaves excepted, and turn over the pro- ceeds thereof to the government. Fourth.—Slaves of rebels and of those giving aid and comfort to the rebellion, when such slaves shall seek the refuge of our lines, are to be forever free; as also slaves abandoned by their owners aad coming under the coutrol of the government; as also the slaves found at places falling under our military occupation. Fijth—Fugitive siaves, escaping from one State into another, exeept in cases of crime against the United States, &c., slfall not be de- livered up until the claimant shall have sworn that he is and has been loyal to the Union. Sirth.—No person employed in the army or navy shall decide on the vatidity of any claim to a slave, or surrender him back to his owner, on pain of dismissal from the public service. Seventh.—The President is authorized to em. ploy as many persons of African descent for the supprexsion of the rebellion as ho may think proper, and may use them in such man- ner as he may deem best for the public welfare. Eiighth.—He is also empowered to make pro- visions for the colonization of our negro popu- lation beyond the limits of the United States. Ninth —The President is invested with full discretion in the matter of pardon and amnesty to rebels held os prisoners. ‘This Dill, literatly enforced in ite aweepiny ope ation, ranks with the “ Domesday Boke” of Wiiliam the Conqueror, the Ep;lish cenfiscation acts from time *o time in Ireland, and the con- ficcations of the first French revolution against t-e nobles, aad of Russia against the revolu tionary Poies. There is something, however of chavity in the sixty days grace granted by this bill to our Soutbera reels, aad some ibing of conciliation in the lurge discretion given to the Providen’ io regard to amnesties and par- dors. What will be the eflect of the LM in regard to t @ war will depend upon various contingencies. If within the sixty days’ grave allowed we guin @ great viriory over the rebels in the Held, there may be a poweiful Suuthera popular resction tur the Thion; otherwise we are very likely in for s longer war, which wil completely «Lange the whole existing fuce of in the Soush as our arinies advance—in- stitutions, poitical and social, and population, whiie and black. If im the judgment of the President ¢ wt is seasonable and expe dient, aad ve shail sign “t, we must bow tw it ar toa lew of the iand, and rely upow tre sagacity avd bamanity o Ne. Lincoin to mab it as envy #* possible against the innocent wry ‘be! plers, white pursuing the guilty covuevtsi this reveilion. The Rebel Accounts of the Richmond Battles, Sir John Falstaff’s report of the famous bat- tle of Gadshi!!, when “we four set upon some dozens,” has hitherto served the rebel chroni- cers us a model for their accounts of the con- flicts of this war. Our troops have often beaten the rebels on the field, hut never in the reports of rebel generals or rebel correspond- ents, Beauregard, unable to annihiiate us with the sword, took especial pains that we should not escape the pen. By the time that one of our glorious successes bad filtered through the rebel censorships and reached the rebel press it was transformed into an over- whelming defeat. A favorite mode of report- ing battics on the part of the rebel editors has been to take the account of one of the HeEratp correspondents, and, by simp'y trans- posing the names of the victors and vanquished throughout, change the whole article into a glowing record of rebel bravery and rebel victory. The pen has been much more power- ful than the eword in achieving rebel triumphs. In yesterday's issue we reproduced, from recent Richmond papers, the rebel reports of the great batfies on the Chickahominy. We]. recur to these reports because they contain more truth than we have been accustomed to find in rebel productions. They admit the frightful slaughter of the rebet troops. They acknowledge the failure of their plans for the destruction of our gallant army. They do not very greatly exaggerate the number of Union prisoners captured. They oaly claim, with extraordinary modesty, that the rebels have “raised the siege” of Richmond. They confess iheir superiority in numbers. They concede that our generals outrival their own in military science. In a word, while occasionally erring— as in confounding our Seventh (Steuben) Vol- unteers with our Seventh (New York) Militia regiment—and while repeatedly asserting de- liberate falsehoods, in order to sustain the spirits of their readers, they have yet managed to state more facts and leas fiction than we have ever found in any other rebel reports. Tre Richmond Dispatch says that the North Carolina and Georgia regiments, under General Ripley “ suffered severely,” and “did not suc- ceed in taking” the batteries attacked. In regard to another position it states :—“The at- tack of our men was impetuous and daring; but the loss was great; forthe foe were so screened hy their position it was impossible to get at them properly.” At the battle of Gaines’ Milla, the Dispatch says that “tho federals swept the whole face of the country with their numerous artillery, which would have anni- hilated our whole force if not screened in the dips of the land and in gullies to our left.” “ The infantry and artillery fire that assailed: the three (rebel) brigades was the most terri- ble omgecord.” Aguin, at Garnett‘s farm, the Dispatch says:—"The Kighth, in slvence, charged across a ravine and up a Wil}, beyond which the Yankee intrenchments lay. They gained the first line of works and took posses- sion of them; but, it is proper to state, this was unoccupied at the time by the Yankees. The fire of the enemy was murderous, and as svon 2s our men reached the brow of the hill rapid volleys of grape, canister and musketry were poured into them. It was found almost impos- sible to proceed farther; but the attempt would have been made had not orders been received to fall back, which was done in good order, still under fire.” Is it wonderful that, after telling so much truth as this, the rebel re- porters should relieve themselves by a little romancing about “the panic of the federals,” the wounding of General McClellan, the “ fe- deral loss of twenty thousand,” and the cap- ture of General Sumner? Nor is the Richmond Examiner less honest in its account of the battle ot Malvern Hills. Of the charge made by Magruder’s troops upon our intrenchments the Examiner says — “Gallantly they sprang to the encounter, rush- ing into the field at a full run. Instantly from the line of the enemy’s breastworks a murder- ous storm of grape and canister was hurled into their ranks with the wost terribie eifect. Officers and men went down by hundreds; bul yet, undaunted and unwavering, our line dash- ed on until two-thirds of the distance across the field was accomplished. Here the carnage from the withering fire of the enemy's coin- bined artillery and musketry was dreadful. Our line wavered a moment, and fell back to the cover of the woods. Twice again the etfort to carry the position was renewed, but each time with the same resuits. Night at length rendered a furtter attempt injudicious.” We consider that plain talk for a rebel paper. But the Examiner confesses a more general defeat. Referring toa previous article, it says:—‘“it will be recollected that it was stated, with ex- act precisiun of detail, that on Saturday even- ing last we had brought the enemy to bay on the south side of the Chickahominy, and that it only remained to finish him in a single battle. Such, in fact, appears to have been the situa- tionthen. The next morning, however, it was perceived that our supposed resources of gene- ralship bad given us too inuch confidence; that the enemy had managed to extricate himself from the critical position, and, having massed his forces, had succeeded, under the cover of the night, in opening a way to the James river. Since this untoward event the operations of our army on the Richmond side of the Chicka- hominy have been to follow the fugitive engmy through a country where he has had admirable opportunities of concealment, and through the ~warnps and forests of which ho bas retreated wits a judgment, a deeterity and a spirit of for- titude which, however unavailing they maybe to save his entire cominand, must challenge our tration for his generalship.”” Tuls tribute to NcClellan’s generalship is as weleome at itis unexpected. It ought to put to tho blush thore of Lis enemies, here at the North, who hare taken advantage of the re- pulse from before Richmond to renew their clamors and sneers against the greatest general waich th's war hes prodaced. We claim that by the admisrions of the rebels themselves Generel McClellan is proven & consummate strategist aud a master of the art of war. He designed to change his base of operations from the Powuuley to the James river, in order to relieve himeelf from the overwhelming forces of the enemy and to receive the co-operation of the gunboats. We claim that be has accomplished this; end that he has Inficted most terrific punishment upon the enemy, who aitompled to interfore with bis plans, the rebein admit; and General McClellan claims no move. He promises that he will secon condnet bis army ta Richmond, od We bolieve him; and, while we sincerely oon- fratulate the rebel prose apou ine eyivit which prompted them to do generalship, we assure them that they do not yet fully appreciate bis merit, and that in “rais ing the siege” they have but hastened the cap- ture of Richmond. Sreocm axyv Suipiasters.—The excitement in regard to the scarcity of specie, and esape- cinlly of silver, still continues. A resolution of inquiry as to the expediency of issuing Cor- poration shinplasters bas been introduced into the Common Council. Several restaurants and saloons have already transformed their pay counters into banks of issue. Even nickel and copper cents are at a premium. The six- penny brokers have succeeded in seriously in- juring the trade and inconveniencing the peo- ple of this city. For this scarcity of change there’ seems no immediate remedy. The issue of shinplasters is illegal, and punishab‘e by @ penalty of one thousand dollars. Except the alloying of the silver, which can be done only by act of Con. gress, we have seen no remedies proposed to relieve the specie market besides shin- plasters and postage stamps; and the former are impossible. Now, we regard this scarcity of silver as merely temporary. If it will probably oon- tinue any length of time, we belicve that an embargo should be laid, aa in Jefferson’s time, upon the export of silver coin. No one cares about the premium upon gold; for ‘our legal tender notes take the place of gold in most business transactions. Every one, high or low, rich or poor, is injured and inconven‘enced by the premium upon silver. It is every one’s duty, therefore, to keep the premium down. No storekeeper who regards his own or his neighbor’s interests will parley for a moment with the brokers who now infest every place of business with offers to purchase silver change. Car and stage proprietors should be public spirited enough to give out as much silver as they receive, selling noue to brokers. Very few passeagers in cars and stages now offer bills, and the proprietors of our city lines undoubtedly receive a large surplus of silver coin daily; for they pay out only copper or nickel cente. A little management upon the part of storckeepers will do all, the rest, We have before us specimens of shinplasters issued by the Corporation and by our city banks in 1814. They resemble small bank bills, are very neatly engraved and are printed upon excellent paper. One of the Corporation shinplasters reads:--“‘ The Corporation of the city of New York promises to pay the bearer on demand seventy-five cents. By order of the Corporation. (Sigved) John Pintard, New York, 26th December, 1814.” This is the highest order’ of shinplasters, and those of 1837 were much in- ferior. No person -wishes to revive that era. The rebels should be permitted to evjoy tho exelusive oontrol of such kinds of carreucy. With a proper degree of public spirit among our citizens, this specie matter can be easily ar- ranged. The present scarcity of silver is simply: panic, and cannot last. The premium upon gold rand silver fell yeaterday. Let every man fally understand that he injures himself to an ex- tent for which no premium can recompense him by in any way interfering with the silver currency of the country. Some merchants may consider it'a very smart trick to make a few cents on « dollar by selling silver to brokers; but they do not consider that the loss of interest upon money hoarded and goods un- sold, the general derangement and incor- venience of trade, and the deficiency in cus- tomers and purchases, wiil more than over- balance the premium in their profit and loss accounts, Reflect a little. Do not foolishly give way to a causeless panic. Help yourself and your neighbor by keeping the silver in circulation and out of the broker's clutches. In a few days more the evil will remedy itself. Last oF Tug Fivanciat, Meascres or THR GOVERNMEST—ADJOURNMENT OF CoxoRrEss.—We perceive that the Appropriat'on bill was yester- day introduced by Mr. Stevens—the well known sigual for the adjournment of Congress. The Tax Dill and the Tariff bill have already been passed, and a measure has been bronght in by Mr. Hooper for the regulation of the national currency, Inching a burean to take charge of tt; in fact a national bank of issue without the power of taking deposits. Its operations will of course be limited to Treasury notes now out and the one hundred and fifty 1illtons acditional of cireulatioa demanded by Mr. Chase. All these financial measures, 80 essen- tially necessary to the sustainment of the gov- ernment and the carrying on of the war, are naturally followed by an appropriation bill, which completes the series and enubles the ad- ministration to prosecute the campaign with vigor. In the meantime Congress, having at last discharged the duties which it ought to have performed at first, ought to go home as soon as possible. All that it can do now 13 to taik, and such talk as it has indulged in during the session has done enough of mischief already. By ali means let Congress adjourn at once; the country is sick of its cternal sing song about the nigger, which has engrossed so much of the thoughts and speevhos of the representa- tives of the people that one would suppose the blacks were the chief race upon thts continent, and that the intercsis of the Caucasian race were subordinate to those ef Sambo, who laughs in his sleeve at all the fuss “de white folks” are making about him. Srratecic Lyiwe.—Pefore we received the details of the six battles which resulted in McClellan's change of position from the Chicke- Lominy to the James river, an announcement came from rebel suurces, by way of Memphis, that Richmond bad been captured. The simi- lar siatement whica turned back Burrside’ fores, we now learn, also eame from the rebeis by way of Roanoke Islaud. The object ef these lies w23 to prerent reinforcements reagh- ing Me Clellan frown any quarter. Post Orvicx Revovars—A short time: since we announced that Postmaster Wakeman was removing off.cis feom the Post Office sulely for political reasans™»,We were immediately semi-vfficial) y lufurmed that no person was dis- missed except for failure to attend to bis duties and incomupetemy. We at oace corrected cur former state rent. But no soover had we made this ocrreetion than o line of discharged clerks raade their appearance at ont olfee to prove to es that we were right in oar first statement, aud wrong im our correction. We humodiately cor- rected our correction, and there matters rested for asbort time. But we rooa commenced re- ceiving communications that new removals on | political grounds were being made. These letters have now become quite numerous; but, ; since Postmaster Wakeman assorta to the con list of the removals, and let the public see whether there has been an extensive decapita tion going on in the Post Office or not. The public ure laboring under the impression that @ universal change of emp'oyes is taking place and nothisg but the official list will satisfy them. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON, — Proceedings of the Secret Caucus of Republican Congressmen. The Prepared Address Thrown Out and a Patriotic Resolution Adopted Instead. Conference of the President and Bor- der State Congressmen. Passage of the Confiscation Bill by the Senate, &e., &ec., &c. -Wasuswaton , July 12, 1862. CONFERENOR BRTWEBN THR PRUSIDINT AND THB BORDER STATR CONGRESSMEN. ‘This morning the President had a con erence with the tence from the Border States, Senators Bayard, a iab ry, Kennedy and Powell excepted. Tho mveting was ontirely courteous and kind on li sites. The dele. gations asked that the Exeou' pproval might be withheld from th» abolitivn mexsures that had passed, ‘or might be expected to poss, and the President, tm view of existing complications, made an” urgent ap- peal in behalf of the policy of gradual emancipation in the Border States as calculited in an eminent manner to destroy all hopes of success by the robols. The matter is under oorsideration by the Border State represontatives, but after the bad faith of the radicals, the former went reliable assur- ances that the policy of the President on this head will be carried out by them. THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS AT THB CAPITOL. The adjourned meeting of the republican caucus was hold at the Capitol to-night. A brief discussion arose om a motivn to exclude the spectators on the floor and in the galleries, during which Representative Roscoe Conklin, of New York, arid thas be was willing to leave party tactics for the democratic. party, who, when they met to discuss questions involv- ing duferences of opinion, do not throw open their doors to the public. He did not care who came to their ald, the republican being im the majority willbe held re- sponetiile by the country. Ropcesentative Ulin, of New York, sald if everything done here was to be spread befvre the public be It se. Let alf the world know it, and also who they are whe serve both God and mammoa, Mr. Colfax, Of Indiana, gave # sudden turn to the dis- cussion by submittsing @ resolution taviting all loyal men, in this hour of the country’s peril, t» put down those ip arme against the government and to punish tresses with severity, &c. a ‘The resolution was received with applause, ‘Mr. Stevens, of lennsylvanie, it before they acted on this resolution they should bear the address which the committee were prepared to report. This ‘might supersede the necessity for the passige of sush © resolution, 4 Mr. Colfaz withdrew the resolution for the present, ' After farther proceedings the chairman, Dr. Sherman, of New York, put the question, which was carried, ‘Ze respectfully request all those mot members of the csu- ens to retire.” The spectators then withdrew, Mosars. Howard, of Michigan; Wilson, of Massaoha- setts; Wilkinson, of Minnesota; Lane, of Kansas, an@ Morrill, of Maine, on the part uf the Senate; and Messrs. Bingham, of Ohio; Stevens, of Peonsyivania; Sedgwick, of New York; Potter, of Wisconsin, and Sargent, of Calt- fornia, of the House, had been appointed « con.mitees te draft an address to the people. Tho address, which was prepared by Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, was then read. Jt was dn elaborate argument, referring among other things to several of the acts of the Mr. Colfax effered the following resolution as s substi. tute for the addross:— Resolved, That we hold it to be the duty of all loyal men to stand by the Union in hour of tts trial. te unite their hearts and hands tn earnent, patriotic efforte for its maintenance against thore who are in arms against it; to sustain with determined resolution our pairiotie President and bis administration in their energetic etlurts for tion of the war and the the Union azainst enemies as ish traiturs and treasom with fitting severity,and to crush the present wicked and causelcss rebellion, so that no Hag of disunion shalt ever again be raised over any portion of tho republis; that to this end we invite the c»-operation of ait men who love their country, in the endesvor to re-enkindle throughout all the States such « patri tic fire as shall utterly consumo all who strike #t tho Union of our fa- thors, and all who sympsthizo with their treason or pailiate their guilt. After an animated debate this resolution wax adopted as a substitute for the address with but few dissenting votes. Tho caucus then adjourned sine die. The caucus was not much attended. and it was nog until a lute hour that the proceedings wore initiated. The caucus did not break vp until nearly midnight. As stated above no address wax ad pted, but simply = reso” lation calling upon all Joyal mon to rally tw the suport of the government “in puting dowu the rebellion” ‘The points of the republican policy, as developed during tho gesst a, are not particularizod tp any way. While the radicals are shrieking agsinst the Presi ent, wid demanding some more specific aununcintion of policy, it Seems that they are unable to agroe among thomseives upon a policy. There is evidently much trouble in their camp in reference to the confiscation Measure and the employment of negroes tn A ial tary capacity. It is known that irreconcileabie divisions e:cist among them on these subjects. They begin to find chat it is much easier to demand a policy than to adopt one. PASSAGE OF THE CONFISCATION BILL BY THK SENATH. In the Senate to-day the report of the Conference Com- mittee cn the Confiscation bill was adopted vy a vote of about two to one, Senators Cowan and Browning ad- hered to their formor positions, and voted im tho nege tive, Messrs. Collamer, Howe and Rice dit not rerord their votes. Mr. Dixon is absent im Connecticut raising troops. Mr, Latham has returned to California, Suna tors Nosmith, Pearce and Thomsun are abser ‘The report of the Committee on the Confiscation bill te singular and excoptional, in that. it brings matters inte the bill not germaine to what was subject of seference Vetween the two houses. This will be seo by the re- ports; but the measure was carried nevertheless, ‘The bill is accepted by the radicais as @ better bill than the one adopted in tl @ Senate, and by the conserva. tives as better than tho House bin. SENATOR SIMNER'S RECHNT LETTE, ‘The recent lotter of Me. Sumaor, dofiniag oaition, and denying any hostility to the adininist ation. is @ subject of much josting, among thos) why koow that 16 was weitten tow gention in who was at the tins mitting fy thy samo table noon wh oh it was written it is re xurded of a diplomatic ateomyt to badge on the charge ofantagonism to the Presid int. QT ATED ANPROPRIATION BIT, The Howe t wid upon the tuble a mis Appropriation. bill, which, among otaer thin priates moncy for various improvements in this city, and for componsating owners of slaves for those that are emuncated by provision of law. Thore je little 1a) @ that those who Are solicitous abous emancipation are willing to vote monoy to carry it ontyas suggested by the Presitent aud endorsed by Congresn. THR PINAL ADOURNMENT OF COXORESS. ‘Me. Senure bas at last definitely fixed on Wednesday net for ibe adjournment of Congress, It isnct trae ALat tho Prosident desires & protongation of the Bossi n. » Le On'# too glad to be relieved of the prosenes of Senote, and allowed to proseoute the war cigur ously, witho w being embarrassed and retarded con- tnually by radical Senators, who steay only contri vances to sency the Prosident, hinder tho administra. fiom, end protract the war indefiaitely, ‘Thore are ho regrets tat the time of adjouroynent ts noar at land All the Importans measures requived by the governmint eve been acted upou, and them is now moe danger tho benedt to be apprehoaded, from any furthor togisia- gion; and Senators inatend Lf being the coustitutiomal ad visors, have mide thems‘sives constitutional tormentors oo Executive. honor to McVleitna’s | trary, would it not be wise for nim to publish a | ibe Senaie Fr -e'uflon to adjourn on Wodmastay nag