The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1863, Page 4

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An official despatch from General Tyler, at Har- per's Ferry, received in Washington last night, represents that the enemy have a force of infantry and artillery from seven to eight thousand strong at Williamsport, and that their cavalry are making dashes into Pennsylvania. The rebel General Imboden is reported to be in frent of Cumberland with two regiments of cavalry and a battery. Our troops evacuated Harper's Ferry yesterday, and hold Maryland Heights, strongly fortified, to resist any attack. It is reported that about five hundred of our cav- alry Were flanked at Greencastle by the rebels in force, and but twenty escaped. The rebels have burned the bridge at Chambersburg. They avoid the turnpike in their raids, From all the information we have as to the position and movements of General Hooker's army it would appear that {t is again near the cetebrated Bull ran scene of action. The Third Army corps arrived at Manassas Junction on Monday morning. The First and Eleventh corps are at Centreville. The balance of the army—the Second, Fifth, Sixth and Twelfth corps—were ex- pected at Bull run next night. General Gregg’s division are operating in the neighborhood of War- renton and White Sulphur Springs. General Du- fie’s division (late General Averill’s) are at the base of the Blue Ridge, near Ashby’s Gap. General Buford, with the regulars, has complete- ly blocked up Thoroughfare Gap, thereby pre- venting the approach of the rebels to this neighborhood through that channel. Colonel Taylor, of the First Pennsylvania cavalry, now temporarily in command of General Wyndham’s brigade, has had the Orange and Alexandria Rail- road under his special care. General Pleasanton, now in command of the cavalry, corps, has his headquarters in the neighborhood of Warrenton Junction, Sach was the position of things on Tues- day. ‘The latest news from Vicksburg—to the 12th— reports everything progressing favorably. Gene- ral Ellett, with the ram Switzerland, had gone up the Atchafalaya to Simsport, and reports the river clear between Port Hudson and Vicksburg. We give some highly interesting news ftom the military department of South Carolina, brought by the Arago from Hilton Head yesterday, rela- tive to the departure of General Hunter, and the | instalment of General Gilmore, the hero of Fort Pulaski, as commandant, in General Hunter's place. The British brig Mary Garland, from Pernam- buco May 21, which arrived at this port yesterday, reports that the privateer Florida left Pernambuco two or three days previous to the sailing of the Mary Garland, and the United States gunboat Mohican arrived the day before, coaled and sailed the same day as the Florida on a cruise after her. The privateers Alabama and Virginia were at Bahia, and the Lapwing was cruising off the coast. ‘The Mary Garland brings home as passengers the crews and parts of crews of eight vessels which wore destroyed by the Virginia, Florida and Ala- bama. Ata meeting in Sheffield, England, on the 3d of June a resolution iamenting the decease of Gene- ral “Stonewall” Jackson was adopted and directed to be sent as an expression of condolence to his widow. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Norwegian, Captain McMaster, which left Liverpool on the 4th and Londonderry ou the 6th of June, for Montreal, was wrecked on the 14th instant on St. ‘s Island, Cape Bre- ton, She struck abont seven o'clock in the morn- ing, during a dense fog. about a mile and a quarter east of the Northeast Light. She had three han- dred and twenty-nine passengers on board. They were all saved, with the greater portion of their baggage. The Governor of St. Paul's Island ‘lent all the assistance in his power. The Norwegian belonged to the Montreal Steamship Company, and her wreck makes the seventh vessel which they have lost. A description of the Nor- wegian, with all the particulars concerning the Gisaster, 's published in the Henan this morning. ‘The Queen of Spain has determined to grant a general amnesty to the persons implicated in the recent disorders at St. Domingo. The two causes involving the validity of legal ul. 514 Broadwav.—Ermoriuas | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1863. tender Treasury notes pending in the Court of Ap- peals of this State have been ordered* by the Court to be argued together on Friday’ morning, the 26th inst.—Messrs, Noyes, Tréemain, Porter and Roelker in favor of their constitutionality; Messrs. Dickinson, Curtis, Roosevelt and Doty in opposition to their validity. : City Judge MeCunn appeared in person yeater- day before the Supreme Court, general term, to answer a writ of certiorari issued by Judge Bar- nard for the production of the papers in the case of Kirtland. The case involves vital and import- ant questions as to the rights of the people, and the City Judge therefore deemed it his duty to appear personally; but in consequence of the limited time ke was enabled to give the matter he desired an adjournment, and the case was &c- cordingly postponed for two weeks. The argu- ment on the Corporation advertising was also ad- journed to the same time. At the meeting of the Board of Education last evening quite an interesting debate took place in reference to the dismissal of Miss Catharine McGean, a young lady of sixteen, and the daugh- ter of a highly respectable Catholic merchant, from Grammar School No. 16, inthe Ninth ward, where she was @ pupil, for alleged inaubordina- tion, At the last meeting of the Board, on the 34 instant, a special committee, consisting of Messrs John Hayes, J. M. McClean, F. Smyth, Vance and Benedict, were appointed to investigate the rea- sons which induced the local board to dismiss the young lady in question, and they submitted their report last night, condemning in strong terms the course pursued by the local board of the school, inasmuch as Miss McGean was not proven to be guilty of any act of insubordination beyond a laudable conscientious scruple to sing the chorus of a song called ‘‘The Battle Hyma of the Repub- lic,” with the refrain of ‘God is marching off.” The young lady had borne an excellent eharacter, and had, up to within a few days of her dismissal, received several certificates to that effect from Miss Kavanagh, the principal of the school. The committee condemned the singing of such songs as the one alluded to in public echools, and after a spicy debate the report and condemnatory resolu- tions were adopted, and the character of the young lady was thus fully vindicated. In the speech which ex-Secretary of War Came- ron made at Harrisburg on Monday, denouncing the administration and asking the Governor to call General McClellan to lead the Pennsylvania troops, he offered to pay in full the One Hundred and ‘Iwenty-seventh regiment during the whole time their services were needed in defence of the State. The first government sale of confiscated cotton took place at Cincinnati on the 15th inst. Five hundred and fifty-six bales were sold, which were mostly of an inferior quality, at prices ranging between 30!4c. and 5024c. a pound. The city of Parkersburg, on the Ohio river, in West Virginia, is being fortified. Guns have been placed on the south and north sides of the town. Three contrabands who escaped fromthe South came yesterday to the United’ States Marshal's office and claimed protection. ‘The markets were all dull yesterday, and no one seemed to know how to operate. Gold felt to 14534; exchange to 157. Stocks were generally dul but steady; Harlem foll off 33¢ per cent, while Reading was better. Money ‘was quite easy ; call loans 5 a 6 per cent. Cotton was active yesterday ,and middling closed firmly at 58c. Breadstufls were generally lower, with less do- ing. Pork, tard and cut meats were in fair request, while beef, butter and cheese were quiet. Pork closed higher. Groceries were in very moderate demand, with. out change in value, Whiskey was rather firmer and pretty actively sought after. Hay, hides, leather and tallow were selling to a fair extout at rising prices. Uther articles were quiet. Freights were less active. The Campaign Around Washington— Movements of the Rebel Army. According to our latest advices from Wash- ington, the maia body of the rebel army is moving down “the Shenandoah valley towards Maryland, while the army of General Hooker is gathered around the old battle field of Bull run. It is conjectured that Lee’s programme is substantially that of last September, and that it will probably culminate in another great battle on the field of: Antietam. Such a contin- gency may possibly occur; but we can hardly imagine that it enters into the plans or calcula- tions of General Lee, or General Hooker, or the War Office. It is evident that the whole rebel army is in motion towards Maryland and Pennsylvania; but it remains to be seen whether, on crossing the borders, it will move southward for the rear of Washington or Baltimore, north- ward for Harrisburg and Philadelphia or west- ward for Pittsburg, and a grand raid into Ohio. We cannot imagine that Lee will hazard the experiment of moving down.upon Baltimore or Washington while Gen. Hooker is in a position either to confront him or get in his rear and cut him off from his lines of retreat; nor do we suppose that if Lee had designed to march upon Harrisburg and Philadelphia be would have sent forward a detachment of his forces in | advance sufficiently strong only to give the: alarm to Pennsylvania, and sufficient time to Gen. Couch to muster a force on the banks of the Susquehanna competent to protect the whole line of the river against even a hundred thon- ; sand men; nor can we believe that he has any design of leading his army on a wild goose chase over the Alleghany Mountains for Pitts- | burg. What then is the grand object of this North- ern movement of the rebel army of Virginia’ We answer, Washington. There is a prize worth all the costs and hazards of the adven- ture. Lee’s army, from North and South Caro- lina and from Tennessee, has been heavily rein- forced. Hooker’s force has been considerably diminished, though still a powerful army. Lee | may exaggerate the depletions of his enemy, and be too confident of his own strength. At all events, we suspect that he is manauvreing to draw out from Washington and to divide the forces of Hooker in movements for the defence of the border States, and that then, watching its opportunity, the main body of the rebel army will descend upon the rear of the na- | tional capital. In this view of the matter we | think the War Office will act wisely in holding | the Army of the Potomac together, and between Washington and the main rebel army, however alarming may appear the menaces of this or that rebel oolumn against Harrisbarg or Pittsburg. The Northern States will soon have an aux- iliary force in the field competent to meet all marauding detachments of the enemy, and competent besides to garrison the de- fences of Washington, and thus enable the government to add twenty-five or thirty thousand veteran troops to the army of the Potomac, or to the army of the James river peningula, for a practical diversion against Richmond. In fact, this Northern advance of the rebel army of Virginia, in reviving the mar- tial spirit of the loyal States, and in promptly bringing out their reserved militia and volun- teers, affords the War Office a most favorable opportunity, not only for demolishing the rebel army of Virginia, but for stealing a march into Richmond while the enemy is attempting to draw away the army of the Potomac in order to steal a march upon Washington. | Washington for its conduct of the war, and its | called upon Governor Curtin to appoint Gene- -Cameron demand that this be done, instead of Justice to McClellan and the Republic— The Duty ef the President ama His . In this moment of painful anxiety, when the | nation has loat confidence in the general at the head of the Army of the Potomac, and the army iteelf, if it ever believed in him, has faith in him no more, and when the army and the people look to the restoration of General McClellan to the command as the main hope of safety, it is the duty of the military authorities at Washing- ton to publish McClellan’s final report of his operations, in which he disposes of the slanders of Wade, Chandler and the other radical mem- bers of the Committee on the Conduct of the War. This is a necessary act of justice, and it will be at the same time sound policy, in view ef recent and coming events, which may com- pel the government in a few days, if not ina few honrs, to fall back upon the general whom, in its profound wisdom, it so unceremoniously rejected in the height of his success. Like a soldier and a hero, he has heretofore borne his wrongs in silence rather than injure the cause of the Union by discussing them in public, and the last we hear of him is that he is quietly assisting Governer Seymour to organize the militia whom the emergency demands from this State. But the proper time has come for Mr. Lincoln to vindicate his character and his mili- tary reputation, and to expose the frauds and machinations by which the President was misled into the false step of removing him from his com- mand. If Halleck and Stanton will not make the amende honorable, the legal and constitu- tional commander-in-chief of the army and navy has the power to compel them, under pain of re- moving them from office. Indeed, their removal would be the very best thing Mr. Lincoln could do under the circumstances; for experience has already shown that they would not only not work in harmony with McClellan, but that they would be likely to obstruct him as far as they could, and mar all his prospects of success. His report of his campaigns would prove this if permitted to see the light. The popular heart beats high in General Mc- Clellan’s favor, and the popular voice, which has already spoken for him all over the country, will soon give louder utterances. The Common Council of Philadelphia, whose proceedings we publish elsewhere, has but a faint glimmering of the truth, and by no means comprehends the magnitude of the occasion, when one of its’ members proposes a resolution that the Gov- ernor be requested to send for McClellan and put him at the head of the Pennsylvania militia; and a postponement of the question is carried, instead of an amendment asking the President to give him command of the Army of the Poto- mac. But the discussion, as far as it goes, is strong testimony in his favor, and the only weak point in it is a mistaken notion about embarrass- ing Messrs. Stanton & Co. at @ moment when the life of the republic is at stake. By a telegraphic despatch which we pub- lished yesterday it appears that General Cameron, at a meeting held at Harris- burg, not only denounced the government at , neglect of the defence of Pennsylvania, but ral McClellan to take command of the forces of that State in order to repel the Southern inva- ders. Mr. Cameron, no doubt, was well aware that McClellan, while a major general in the United States Army, could not perform that role unless ordered to assume it by the Presi- dent or the Secretary of Wat. But he is an old political stager, and he thought he would throw atubto the popular whale. He knows how the people in Harrisburg, Philadelphia and in every city and town of Pennsylvania feel to- wards their distinguished fellow citizen, the hero of Antietam, who saved them from inva- sion before. He knows that they are satisfied, if McClellan were even now, at the eleventh hour, placed at the head of the Army of the Potomac, all would be well. But why does not suggesting that McClellan’s talents should be misused by putting him over raw levies of State militia, which could be as well commanded by other men, and placing him in a humiliating position, in which he must play second fiddle to General Couch, formerly one of his own division commanders? It appears from another despatch from Washington in yesterday @Heratp that even Forney has ad- vised the speedy removal of Hooker and the substitution of McClellan. Forney is well aware that this is almost the unanimous senti- ment of the people.of Pennsylvania; and this, together with the imminent peril which threat- éus his own State, induces him to give way to the popular will. It is remarkable, too, that the radical journals, in the presence of invasion, no longer assail MoClellan, as was their cus- tom, nor make any objection to the propo- sition to give him command of the Army of the Potomac. On the contrary, they indirectly prepare the way for such a step on the -part of the government by slighting the capacity of Hooker in this trying emergency. The Trilune of yesterday, for instance, says:—“ Lee's present advance has been marked with great skill and is initiated with decided vigor. It was well known on our side that he was up to some spirited dash; but that either General Halleck or General Hooker knew precisely what, we do not believe. If they had, would Generale Milroy and Reynolds have been left to struggle against overwhelm- ing odds, and to be hurled from thgir strong, | important positions with less? ‘ould the | rebel advance have been suffered to reach Chambersburg u 2? We cannot be- fleve it.” The New York Times, the special champion of “ Fighting Joe,” also admits that | “the rebels have got beyond the grasp or pur- | suit of Hooker;” in other words, that Lee has outgeneralled him. These journalists and poli- ticians are now thoroughly frightened by the movements of the rebel general, and they wor, | gladly see McClellan again at the head of 4 army, as the only man competent to save the North from further invasion; but they are ashamed or afraid to say so after the calumnies they have heaped upon him. Probably some of the Cabinet and military authorities at Washington, knowing that the capital is in danger, have the same fecling on | the subject, and would rejoice to see such a popular pressure as would afford them a decent | excuse to reinstate General McClellan in his old command. Let them, therefore, publish his report, which is in their possession, or, if they will not do it, let Mr. Lincoln do it him- self.» It will fully justify him before the coun- try in removing Hooker and placing McClellan | at the head of the army; and at the same time it will afford « besatiful illustration of the doc- triage imoulcated in bis recent letter to the ‘exists now, and the propriety of the President | in greenbacke. democrats of Albany, that this is a time to which,an American patriot ought to rise shove’ the level of party. Hooker is now,:to all intents and purposes, in the same position ia which Pope found himself when be was defeat- ed by Lee and thrown back for refuge on the fortifications of Washington. McCleflan was then oalled upon to take the command and save the republic- and he did save it, when degpair paralyzed the Cabinet and the military authori- ties at the federal capital. The same necessity adopting the same course is obvious. The safety of the country demands it, and not a moment ought to be lost ia complying with that demand, and thus restoring the public con- fidence, which has received 9 succession of euch violent ahocks that another disaster may prove too muoh for it. A Cuanon or Ganerats my Sours Canouma,— Major General Hunter arrived in this city yes- terday, having been relieved of his command of the Department of the South. General Gill- more, the conqueror of Fort Pulaski, takes General Hunter's place, and we are sure that no appointment could be more popular with the officera and soldiers of that department, among whom General Gillmore is universal favorite. It is now very likely that wo shail hear of warm work in South Carolina before very long. General Gillmore is not the man to waste time in experiments with negroes or in writing silly and bloodthirsty letters to Jeff. Davis, threatening to hang, draw and quarter everybody within reach if aome proclamation or other be not withdrawn. Charleston ought to have been taken long ago, and, now that Gen- eral Gillmore leads the troops, we shall proba- bly soon hear that the cradle of the rebellion is as closely invested as Vicksburg and Port Hud- son by land, while our iron-clads bombard it from the harbor. What disposition isto be made of General Hunter we are not informed. [f poor Greeley would only trot out his negro brigade “Black Dave” Hunter might take command of that and lead it on to glory. Such a position would be just suited to Hunter’s capacity. He has repeatediy demonstrated that he is unfit to govern a departnfent or to hold any very high command. He went to South Carolina with a good reputation as a soldier, but lost it on the passage, and became somehow transformed into one of the craziest of fanatics—worse than Greeley, Garrison, Wendell Phillips or Cheever, and about equal to old John Brown, whose soul is popularly supposed to be marching on with the negro regiments. Poor Hunter was a fight- ing man before he became a negromaniac; but since then he has done absolutely nothing in the military line. On the contrary, he: has stayed away from the battle flelé with extraor- dinary persistency; and all accounts agree that Charleston might have been taken at the time of our attack upon and repulse at James Island had General Hunter led and directed our army, instead of remaining at headquarters and allowing other generals to take the troops into action. A’ general who sacrifices his reputation, his soldiers and his position to his love for the negro deserves some consideration from poor Greeley. Therefore by all means: hurry up the negro brigade. New Move or Parowna Prisovers.—Our correspondent at Frederick, Md., mentions an amiwing incident in his letter which we publish this morning. On the arrival of the rebels at Hagerstown, a lieutenant and five men, wearing the federal uniform, crept out. of the house where they had been hiding, and gave them- selves up to be paroled. They told General Jenkins that they did not wish to fight any longer against their Southern brethren. The reply of the General must have greatly aston- ished the cowardly traitors. He indignantly re- jected their claim of brotherhood; told them that if he had a twenty-fifth cousin as white livered as they were he would kill him and set him up In his barnyard to make sheep own their lambs, and concluded by detailing six “ good lusty fel- lows, with thick boots,” to “parole” the re- creant federals by vigorously kicking them out of the camp to the west border of the town. It is said that the rebel soldiers were highly tickled with the scene, and loudly expressed their approval of Jenkins’ mode of puroling cowards.” The six miserable poltroons who were so energetically booted must have felt very differently. What an encouraging pros- pect for federal deserters. Tue Livery or Tum Press IN Prvssta.—The King of Prussia has, we see, issued still an- other unconstitutional decree interlering with the liberty of the preas. These errors, so obstinate- ly persisted in by the King, will cause the great- est irritation to the people, already inflamed to anger by former barsh and unwise measures en- acted by their sovereign. The Prussians are in a revolutionary state, which should be soothed instead of increased by unwise and rigorous steps on the part of the government. The Prussian monarch will find to his cost that peo- ple who have once enjoyed the benefits of a free press rarely give up the privilege without struggle. Loss or tas Norwxotan.—We publish to- day intelligence of the loss of the steamship Norwegian, of the Liverpool, Quebec and Moa- treal line. Fortunately all the mails, the crew and passengers were saved. The Norwegian was a fine new vessel, but belonged to a very unfortunate line. This is the seventh vessel that has been lost since the formation of the company, and the second that has been wrecked this year. Reser, Apereciation or Greensacks.—During the occupation of Hagerstown, where they were joyfully received, the rebeis paid for everything In Pennsylvania they pay in Confederate currency. The difference is greatly in favor of their friends; but at the same time it indicates that the invaders coant on being soon compelled to skedaddie. A Quieres ror tue Peace Parry.—The | [ie The | peace party is squelched for the present. patriots are buckling on their armor to drive the rebels from the sacred soil of Peunaylva- nia. In the Keystone State the people are buzzing about like disturved hornets, and the rebels will soon feel their stings. the streets are again full of citizen soldiers pre- paring for a thirty days’ excursion to the wars. Nobody stops to talk of peace now. The first thing to be done is to drive back Lee's legions, and the peace agitation may be renewed after- wards if necessary. The most strict non-com- batant will take down @ blunderbuss and blaze away at the burglar who tries to invade his dwelling. The most violent peace man will not parley about his favorite dootrine as long sa the rebels are in the free States. Let every one | dominant race to the mixing of ble | war closing on the magumiasion of tou Ia this city | amalg ; Indians, The repugnance of beat his ploughshare into a myord and his pruning hook into a spear, and tafe « hand in at the pleasant little game now in papgress on the Pennsylvania border. It will be time enough to reverse the operation when the rebels are defeated or captured. . Tua Sraeer. Crxaniva.—In our advertising ‘columns will be found the programme ‘of City ‘Inspector Delavan for the cleaning of the filthy streets of this metropolis. The document is ‘brief but comprehensive, and we have no doubt that Colonel Delavan will soon restore the city to something like a decent condition if-be is only properly supported. A good deal depends upon the people themselves,. who can greatly lighten the City Inspector’s labors by refraining from throwing’ ashes, garbage and filth upon the streets, and by reporting acts of neglect com- mitted by the mon employed to remove the dirt. THE REBEL PRIVATEERS. Sailing of the Florida from Pernambuco om @ Crufsce=The United States Gun- boat Mohican in Chase—Arrival at This Port of the Crews of Captured Vesscis— The Latest Accounts of the Alabama, Virginia and Lapwing: The British brig Mary Garland, Captain James, from Pernambuco May 21, with one hundred passengora, ar- rived at this port yesterday. * Tho privateer Florida left Pernambuco two or three days previous to the satling of tho Mary Garland, and the United, States gunboat Mohican arrived the day before, coaled and sailed the game day as the. Florida ov a cruise after her. ‘Tho privateers Alabama and Virginia wore at Babia, and the Lapwing was cruiaing off the const. ‘The Mary Garland brings home as passengers the crows ‘and parts of crews of eight vesaels which were destroyed by the Virginia, Florida and Alabama. Among them are Captain Phinney, late of brig Clarence, of Baltimore; Captain Lewis, of bark Lafayette, of Now Bedford; Cap tain Flanders, of the Kate Cory, of Westport; also one hundred seamen belonging to the following vessels:—ships Commonwealth, Louisa Hatch, Oneida; barks Lafayette, Lapwing, Henrietta, Star of Peace; brigs Kate Cory and Clarence. The Pursuit of the Privateers. ‘Affairs at the Navy Yard yesterday wore quite brisk ‘but asthe demand for cruisers has nearly abated so in Proportion has the work slackened. ‘The Cumbria, late prize steamer, was armed, equipped and gent to sea, Lieut. Commander Breese in charge. ‘This vessel is a fant sailer and will materially aid in the search for the rebel privateers on our coast. She carries se crew of picked meg, who are very anrious to fall in with a corsair. : ‘The steam frigate San Jacinto was ordered to ees, and bauled out last evening to depart. It is doubtful now whether the department, will send Out any more temporary cruisers at present. There are nearly thirty vessols in search of the vessel which on Saturday was witbin sixty miles of our coast,and the grec beliet is that she will be captured ero this week ont . ‘The United States gunboat Montgomery, six guas, sailed from Boston yesterday morning on. a cruse. ‘The following is a list of her ofieors:— , Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Commanding 2. i Acting Master and Executive Officer—G. H. Pondieton. Acting’ Pnsigns—W. U. Putnam, Robert Witey and W. . Burke. Assista a omarion joseph Wilson. ‘Assustant ‘David F. Lincoln. Ft Assistant, G. H Wade: Third Assist: ants, James Ballard, John McKeown, T. B. Whittaker and 3 Master's Malet—Honry Hamro id Wen, Gossick. yy and Wm. Gossick. Poymatter’s Clerk—Lucien KE. Kent, Surg’on's Steward—Paul W. Swain. ‘The barks Young Turk and Amy sailed the evening pre- vious, cach armed with ritied howitaers. It is possible other vessels may be chartered; but at presont it seems useless to sond out any more veasels on temporary service. ‘The question comes to ua from hag 4 quarter, “Why don’t they ft out the Atlantic, Haltic, Hligots and other steamers as permanent cruisers?’ The following is a list of steamers in port which would make excellent cruisers, and they should be sent out after the rebel steam Selection: 9 fitted out at a trifling expense. ‘The Fort Jackson is rapidly being put in @ condition for sea service. She was built for Mr. Vandorbilt’s line, and was called the Union. She is a fine vessel, of about 2,000 tons, looks fast aid is bran new. She will carr; bers al fgiraed aye ee) See. fevre ia super! work on under his will be well. done. , hr mes UNION CONVENTION AT CONCORD, N.H. Spcreches of Postmaster General Blair, Gen. Butler and Others—Letter of Gen. Fremont, &c. Coxcorn, N. H., June 17, 1863, ‘The day assigned for this public gathering boing a most pleasant one, tho assemblage was a large one, including delegations from all the surrounding towns, who were formed in a procession of two or three miles in length, ‘accompanied by several bands of music, and bearing a variety of devices and mottoes, and proceeding through the principal streets of the city, and afterwards forming in convention on the ground in front of the State House, where they were addrossed by Montgomery Blair, Major General Butler, Mr. Turner, ot Texas, and several others. After choosing several officers ef the meocting, the President, Hoo. Cia Perly, of Concord, introduced Hop, Mr. Blair, SPRECH OF POSTMASTER GENERAL BLAIR. Mr. Stam said that the real object of the parties coa- trolling the slave power was to make use of it asan gullifiers failed to master or break up the government with the tariff question, President Jeakson foresaw that they would resort to the slavery questioa, on which to consolidate the South, and by ite use they had perpetuated eon men, and at the same time following the oullifiers, who thought that the people of the North should not Rave rallied even in 1860 to assert their equal right’ in the government, loav’ that Jackson, Benton and democratic {a the South Saree ape teeter dominion. North of making the controv: Missouri g g to be changed by the present strngg! note of conspiring politicians at opposite ends of the | Union playing soe-saw with the government on the ful- | crum of slavery, and would willingly break it to oxpeci- | ment on reconstruction. The Calhoun and Wendell Phil lips jnntas sought the accomplishment of advoree by a common means—the overthrow of the constitution— the former sacrificing (ree government because repugnant | to the perpetuity of slavery, and the latter sulyecting all our «ystems of government to revolutionary tridulations, | becaiise recognizing different races among us, Aud endea voriug not only to alter the jaws aod onfranchise the races held under it, but abelish constitutions recognizing that law as ostablisned, and admit to equal participation races hitherto excluded as inferior. Those who hoid the sovereiguty of the Vnited States abjured voth doctrines equxlly The amalgamation of races demanded by the Wendell Phillips schoo! was an impossibility, Despite attempts to make a fundamental change in the jaws of nat Dlending different raves, the hybrid bas giadnaily worn out in overy instence, old stock preserved its original type, as fasts of frewh aod Indian ako with the the attempts and bw the country showed that nothing © the management of a common govern to take equal tank with six milfiom of ens be but the prelude to a sorvtie war and rmination. ‘The speaker favored the iiborty, eqaality and fraternity | of the African race, but not ta the region devoted to the fraternity of the pale faces.” It could he done only by a | gradual sogrmion of the two raees, each to regions con. genial to their natures, The Weudell Phillips school aid | het oxpect the amalagamation and equality theory | to be acceptable to the prokenut ruliog olass, but intended, | that the Northern white man, while rejecting it-himset:, should enforce it on the Southern white man. Untor | tunately for this sobemo, the Northern soldier intends | to make the Bod ve he Lay re Bullitication aa | inheritance is own postority. All the propositions of faction which is hans f the President conclusiona—deatracti 298 ee races, but looked to different races % sive them po ‘and the success of either would ipa?°e the same result, being ‘governed by Joft. Davis, en le of the slave power, or we Phil leader of the sot blacks. But thet Canoes schome was & failure, as a oud poly wy RT : and the real issue was in rote Lincoln, ly. eral Butler was received with great applause ved with great ap) | ‘and spoke to the same effect as cisewhore on differentoo- —— ‘onsions io New England, making frequent remarks for the ial benefit of his democratic friends in the State of low Hamyshire, and ignoring all thi fp the earnest. ness of effort for the immediate and suppression of i LETTBR FROM — YREMONT. A letter was read from Major General Fremont tho roaaons of his boing obliged to relinquish bis hope of attending the Convention, abd stating that be should have addressed the Convention mainly to the point which re- ceat events in the West had made the tion of the day, abd urged the republ! New Hampshire to reassert those principles upon the President went into thereby tour speech” for Wendell Phillipe as ‘woll as igham. i After the reading and adoption of a series tions of loyalty and su Convention was add: i State of Texas, and the law of Gen. ‘who spoke with much zeal with reference to the of that State. ing for a guide In this the people ; jaioniate and also by Mr. peech by representative elect to Cong! Rees Dartenoath ooliens from @ delegation of students the Convention broke up. THE NORWEGIAN WRECKED. SHE GOES ASHORE AT ST. PAUL'S ISLAND The Passengers, Crew, Mails and Baggage All Saved. DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL. Steamships Lost on the Atlantic and Its Ceast, &e., &e. Aser Bay, Cape Breton, June 14, 1863. ‘Tho steamship Norwegian, of tho Canadian Steamship tino, which loft Liverpool at half-past twelve o'clock noon of the 4th, and Londonderry on the 5th instant, for Quebec, waa wrecked on St, Paul's Island this (Sunday) morning, 14th instant, during a thick fog. All her passengers and crew, together with her maits and baggago, were sav@l. ‘The newspaper despatches were saved by Purser Wallace. Despatch to the Agents in Montreal. Mowrasat, June 17, 1668. ‘The following despatch bas been received by the agente of tho steamer Norwegian:— Aser Bar, 0. B., June 14, 1863. ‘Autan Rag & Co., Quebec:— The Norwegian was wrecked this morning, at seven o'clock, in a thick fog. on St, Paul’s Inland, © mile anda quarter east of the Northeast Light. She had on board Aity-cight cabin and two hundred and soventy-one steerage passongers—all, together with the crew and mails, saved. A iarge portion of the gage bas also been landed. * ‘The steamor, when I left at one o'clock, was all but om her beam ends, well om the rocks, Her forepeak an@ forward compartment have several fect of water ta thom, ‘tho main-and after ones are quite dry. Captain McMaster was not certain whether she could be got off. He requests that a steamer be sent down iaa- mediately to the wreck. ‘The passengers bave been conveyed to the goveramens = Hamaue Society’s house. , ‘Mr. Campbell, Governor of the Island, is lending all bie aagistance. JOHN WALLACE, Purser. Description of the Steamship Norwegian. was an iron screw propeller, belonging to tho Montreal Steamship Company, of two thousand five hundred tons burthen. She was Sant by Messrs. Dinnie Brothers, 8 Dumbarton, on the Clyde, in the year 1860, and was cen- aoquently only three years old. The Norwegian was three hundred and twelve feet in length, thirty-soves: feet in breadth and twenty-four feet in depth of hold. Sho was registered Al at Lioyds, and as belonging to the port of Montreal, Canada. She had three decks, seven water-tight bulkheads, and was rigged as a bark, and dtew twenty fect of water. @he was furnished with two direct engines, the cylinder of each being sixty-cight inches in djameter, with a forty-five inoh stroke of piston. The security against fire was good. The Norwogias was commanded by Captain McMasters. Like the steamship Anglo-Saxon, belonging to the same company, which was lost in April last, the Norwegian rea: aiternately with six fine consort steamers in their service from Liverpool and Londonderry to Portland, Maine, and Quebec, the ships making harbor at Portiand during the winter, and at Montreal, after touching near Quebec, in the summer months, These steamers sailed very regular- ly from Londonderry, Ireland, after taking in mails an@ passengers on the day next after that on which they took their departure from Liverpool. Each vessel of the line carried the Canadian and United States mails, and all had the reputation of being ably commanded and well found and disciplined. Messrs. Sabol & Searle, of No. 23 Broad- way, are the agents for the line in New York. ‘The Norwegian makes the seventh vessel which the Montroal Steamship Company have lost since the year 1867. &., ’ | TBS WREOKS ‘ occurred in the following order of years, viti— a r THR MONTSEAL STRAMSHIPS Norwegian, orn ae jw,” ~ Nowa Scotian." ' Atlantic Steamships Leet. ‘The Norwegian makes the twenty-first steamer which has beon lost at sea since the commencement of steam lows, vis:— No. Name. No. Mame. 1—Preatdeat. 12—anadiea (Wo, 1). S—Hambotat Te—arage, Soon ot Phiimaclphie, sought. 6—franklia. 1t—Unlted States. T—aretic. 18—Canadian (No. 9). 8—Pactfic. 19—North Britea. 9—Lyonnais 5 at 10—Tempent. 21—Norwogian. 1—Austria. ‘ Dineen avp Pametation 70 Gan. T. F. Mesonme — ‘The friends of Gen. Meagher and the brigade which he ee gallantly commanded will entertain him this evening ot ‘a dinner in the Astor House, Upon this occasion a mag- Biflcent medal of solid gold and of elegant design, maau- ta: tured by Tiffany & Co., will be presented to the General ‘as a recogaition of his services in the field. Ove hendred goatiomen will sit downto dinner, the number, we be- lieve, being Huited to that figure. A fow tickets, bew- ever, bave been received for auch of the Genoral’s friends ‘as the comm|ttee could not call upon, and can be had at the Astor House durmg the day, The city gave hima admiration for bis Character as a soldier, a patriotande yeutieman will manifest themselves ina cordial and em cere fashion Jowss’ Woon.—The school of St. Gabriel's church will hold their festival today. The picnic of the German American Institute will take place to-morrow. Hoth are r expected to be very pleasant affaire. adverttermeat. Personal Intelligence. Colonel Halpine, A. A. G.; Major Wright, vee Kea- ste, Brockton, Teompeen ond arrived ca Arago yesterday Port and are: oe ‘the Astor Ltt td ‘Buater be immediately ordered to