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Fsh-Dry cod and mackerel have become scarce and
though the demand is cypher prices tend upward
sales of 100 otis of the former from store at 81
4oo4 for st Georges Bank No Mass mackerel com
and SIG 80; No do $3.50, and No. 1925. Herring,
S " smoked and picked, and salmond du-a cargo
VI ooo bbls Eastport round herring sold at 49, cash
f &c-The inquiry for western canal -four is fair
e uay the demand is particularly confined to fresh
81 % tns Is well sustained but doubtful lois low
ct an, ana difficult of sale.
, ne sales bbls at &c 1S6 80 for extra State
6 az @ ior choice do $570d6 for superfne do. SO 20
oyJ; or low grades Of Western extra So 50G6S5 for
bnd 70 good Ohio extra fround hoop) S78 for trade
extra So.sod1o for st. Louis brands and s7Gl9
cline % nour Is easier, the demand is fair at the de-
tin,oa Us u =. zoo bbs at So. S07 40 for superfne Bal
ia in ia % .4od9 90 for the better grades Rye -four
$4 10 for Jersey S'9'' |orh meal Is quiet at
demsnd wheat market is without much change; the
&C. ~ rs 70 aiouerate sales of 500 bushels al Il 40
oi " Ioulhern red and $1SO for good old white Ken
luchy, nye Is quiet at 90G95 cts Oats are in limited
active and nominal "A' Darcy Is In
Corh Is heid with more rmness and is in fair demand
Tor tne fas-saies Of rs 900 bushels so cts for
slaez Tor new mixed Western "a cts for yellow do
Haesare nrm and in fair request sales of 600 Bue
nos Ayres ~ IDS average supposed at 600 Rio
Grand az zo1c mos 500 Texas at 2lxc less 3K per
The stock computed at lo27oo, against 700 same
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Tlonttarp anb Commercial Rebitm.
BALTIMoRE. June 25. 1855

BALTIMORE, June 20, lS59.
Stocks are very quiet, and for Railroad shares and
other fances the market decidedly heavy. There
nothing whatever done at the Board to-day in Railroad
shares Northern Central closed yesterday at $l9
bid 19h asked regular way but Baltimore and Ohio was
weaker the marke for it closing $50 bid regular
and 52k bid buyer 60 days. these figures being decline
prices bid for it yesterday There is occasion
ally an inquiry for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad extra
dividend orders, but nothing has been done in them
Gently They closed to-day at IA bid, IS asked There
two three lots of City 6 sold at the Board but
nothing done in Railroad bonds Baltimore and Ohio
1s75s closed at s64 bid s6H asked do 1855 SIX
bid and Northern Central 1855 left off at 20 bid 7Ob
asked The sales of City 6s included $500 S75s at 1OO
Ss65 lS90s at 100 cash. and 81 600 1890 the opening
at 99S City 6s left off at 100 bid lOO4 asked for 1855
dividend and 99A bid 100 asked 1905 exdivi-
dend Bank stocks are quiet but firm. The only sale
ported to-day is of "a shares Bank of Commerce
$254. There some inquiry for Mining stocks at the
Board and sales made of 450 shares Gardner Hill
at 50 seller 60 and s22 O64 buyer 60 days 1t closed
at sl1s bid, 81 asked regular way.
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
SATURDAY, June %, 1889
1865 Bait 6s, new, 30 q shs Bank of Com 25l6
opg. 100 500 shs G. H Mg Co 500.
2eOo 80, exp. .999l $50 q q b6O..
aV " '75.. 100 100 g &c boo. 2 06
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kNEELING IN CHURCH.-An effort is made at
present by the clergy of the PRESBYTERIAN Church of
ocotlanu TO TO revive the habit of kneeling in public
prayer. 1here seems no reason why so eminently
popular usage should not become universal in this
country as well elsewhere There is however
one reason that will, to great extent account for
is dlsuse here and that is the lack of proper knel
ing accommodations in churches Even the
Episcopal churches, where the custom is enioined
by the prayer book, are wofully deficient in these
convenlences. The pews are too narrow and the
only rest Tor the knees Is narrow slOpng ledge of
WOOD wholly unfit for the purpose the use of which
makes prayer torture. Some pews are furnished
by the occupants with low stools covered with car
pet These do very well, but probably not more
tan one out OF every ten pews is thus provided In
Continental Europe, where the churches and catbe-
dras are without pews, there is plentiful proyis-
ION OF kneeling chairs. These are made of plain
WOOD, the seat. or kneeling place rather, being
about eight or ten inches from the floor gently
sopng towards the front and formed of soft Pushes
or straw. The high back of the chair which is
really in front Of the kneeling occupant affords
support for the kneeler to rest against while on the
top of this back is usually little ledge, on which
the prayer book can be laid These chairs are
carried about from altar to altar by the worship-
pers as they perform their devotions before differ
ent shrines
The peculiar forms of the Protestant service rem
der tins method unsuitable, and the old-iashoned
pews will probably retain their Places IT, how
ever. the kneeling system should be extensively
adopted, 1T will be necessary to enlarge the pews
to provide kneeling accommodations. This would,
of course, lessen the number of the seats and dimn
ish the revenue OF the church-an objection which
will with many be of itself sufficient to kill the
movement. Another difficulty is in the present STYLE
of female dressing. For woman envcoped in the
mass of steel hoops, patent adjustable matinee
skirts, and all the paraphernaa of the feminine at
tire OF the present day kneeling is almost imposs
BILE and may be fairly considered one of the lost
arts. 1t is to be feared that crinolinc and pew
rents will form insuperable barriers to the modif-
cation of our churches to facilitate kneeling:
Whlle under the present arrangement it requires,
during church service, an unusual amount of devo-
votion and physical endurance to 'kneeI before the
Lord our Maker. " y Ere POST
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AN ENGLISH OPINION ON AN AMERICAN BOoK.-The
London Saturday ReUie,1 in article the art of
light writing by way of illustration volunteers the
following on Willis Conralescem:
'But no one should write book which is all in
PRODUCTION, and all about nothing. We have, how
ever, lately come across such book. 1t is called
the Conudiescent, and is by Mr.. N. P. Willis of
American notoriety. You open the book and find
that 1t begins with a letter to certain General
Morris. The letter says that it is freezing; that
Willis has got cold; that Willis pig is i'll; that
Willis chickens afraid of Willis cat. The let
ter ends by saying that Willis must send it to the
post You pass on to the next letter. Willis cold
is no better the frost continues the pig is much the
same; the chickens are still restless; Willis must
take this letter to the post. A third letter, con-
tanning equally important information follows.
There is no stopping and no change. Willis goes
on through the whole book recording all that
has happened to him has not happened to
him in an American country house distance
up the Hudson. 1t is in vain that we expect
that Smiths drag must be going to stop. 1t rolls
on and on until the book is finished We never get
beyond Willis cold, and pig, and chickens As a
light conversational way of introducing a subject
we can fancy author publishing these domestic
details, but that they should be put all by them
selves, without any visible purpose, is curious
And what makes it still more odd is that these let
tiers were sent separately to a New York paper as
soon as they were written. There is reason to
suppose that Morris the letters addressed to
him until they were placed before him printed. The
readers of the New York papers must have singu.
lar taste. What should we think if Mr.. Dick ems
wrote to the Times to state simply that he was out
of Goals and intended to order some? 1t is most
useful that writer should learn the art of writing
about the little things that personally interest him
and OF weaving such descriptions into the exposition
of important subjects; but light beginnings withou
any sense, or purpose, or sequel whatever, are pos
itively foolish.'
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LORD JoHN RUSSELL UPON CHURCH ARCHITECTURE.
Lord John Russell presided on the 4th inst. at
the anniversary meeting of the Auxiliary to the
City of London Mission, and took advantage of the
opportunity to refer to the sumptuOus character of
some of the places of worship in the present day
But said his lordship, unfortunately, the poor arc
not found in very great numbers in those places of
worship; and have often discussed with ministers
of the Established Church and Dissenting bodies to
the reasons why that should be so. 1t is. think,
unfortunate-although in many respects it seems
improvident-that we cannot in these days of lux
ury and civilization resort to the simplicity of the
early Christians We told by Roman writer
"A Pagan writer-that when Christians were
brought up to be examined to the crime they
supposed to have committed they answered
that they held meetings amongst one another in
which they sang hymns to Christ and encoura ged
temperance and moral virtue, and read their sacred
books to one another. Nothing could be more sim
Pile than this-nothing more likely to induce one
another to imbibe the consultations of the Gospel
But nowadays our places of worship become places
where people resort in the best dress they can af
ford; and in some measure they shame those whose
rags do not hit them to mingle with persons thus
sumptuously dressed A Dissenting minister at
Brighton told me that the only way he could reach
the hearts and minds of the poorer persons living
in the alleys and lanes of Brighton was to 90 int
the middle OF the streets, and thus the poorer per
sons VINO dld not like to appear at any place of
snip IN their shabby clothes put their heads out
the window to listen to his exhortations This i
one OF the illustrations amongst many that ou
places of worship do not reach the whole masses O
the community.
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Murder at Pittsburc

PITTsBURG, June 25.-Night policeman Richard
Jones, killed his wife in this city last night by stab
bing, shooting and mutilating her in shocking
committed the deed whilst his wife was in the act of
holding improper intercourse with butcher, named
Mentzer, whom it is reported was also shot.
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For Europe,

New York, June 25.-The steamer Fulton, for
Havre with $50 passengers, and 81 900 specie,
and the steamer city OF Manchester for Cork, with
to-day noon
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The Expected Steamer.
QUEBEC, June 26.-There were no signs of the
expected steamer Nova Scotian, at Farther Point,
at lock this evening.
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"a GENTLEMAN OF THE 0LD SCHooL."-A New
York correspondent of the Charleston HercUrysays
of well-known physician who walks Broadway in
knee-breeches
1.-The only surviving eccentric worth mentioning
is DR.. BOYLE, who dresses in the knee-breeches
buckled shoes, shad-bellied coat huge lappetted
vest, cooked hat, rutfies, and flowing wig of last
century. 1t is mere whim of the NJ. D., who is a
very sensible person otherwise. When he was a
boy he had strange hankerng for that costume
and determined to indulge in it when he was rich
enough, for the suit is about ten times as exnensvp
as an ordinary civilians An increasing medical
practice enabled him to CRAFTY his cherished wish
eight or ten years ago, and since then he has play
ed the antique very creditably He is about fifty
hve and Joval by nature; but as he stalks through
broadway, his cast-iron face never reveals the
slightest consciousness that he is stared pointed
and laughed at by all the passers by Unruffied eX-
cept IN his shirt bosom and wristets he strides
with majesty worthy of General Washington"
The st. Louis papers contain the "Confession' OF
George II. Lamb, hung there on Friday for the mur %
der of his wife, He first gave her strychnlhe; ouI
it was Intellectual He then induced her TO emoalh .
in boat on the river. When at suitable ulstance nee
from shore, he says 81 then laid my oars IN m Tue
boat seized hold of nv wife by the pack OF the
neck with my right hand, and puSneu nel neau !
down pnder the water; held it there about min
ute or longer; then lifted her partly out OF the wa
ter and found that she was dead took OH her TWO
sbawIs and bonnet and tied some twine two or three
times around stone, and attached the other end to
her neck: then lifted the rock over the skif and let
II down into the water, slipping the cord through
nv hands till it was all out; then threw the body
into the river and the weight of the rock carried it
down instantly; the rock was little larger than
this book (Revsed Statutes); it would weigh ten or
twelve pounds" The only reason he gives was that
he could not live happily with her. He married
| again.
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DOMESTIC MARKETS

NEW YORK MARKETS, June 25-Ashes Tho ,o
ket is rather firm for pots sales of so bbIs a, asn
Pearls steady at S5.S1s. " eo''o4
Coee-Ro has been quite active at full prices: sales of
2 1872 bags per Whelmina and 500 ex Hebe hotb
Ike. Other kinds are in moderate request at steady
rates. sales of $50 bags Bolivia 200 do sained
ST. Domingo at 9Hc., 800 do Java at l46c and 100 do
Laguayra on private terms.
Cotton.-The market is still very dull Small sales are
making at quoted rates. We quote:
CLASSIFICATION.
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1t is reported that the London Times proprietary
have settled upon Mr. William Russell, their spe-
cial correspondent in the Crimea and India an an
nuity of f200 for life this being entirely for past
services and independent of any work-to be done
by him in future,
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time last yearncuding $4,000 Buenos Ayres and Monte
vdeo. ..
Leather-Hemlock sole continues in good request at
25d264c for Buenos Ayres light and middle and 24d)
2oc for Orinoco do Oak is also in good request at 34
Soc for light and middle weights. The for the
week as follows
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
We lind in a late st. Louis paper the following
letter from Mr.. j. Edgar Thompson, President Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company:
OFFICE PENNSyTvANr, r p 10

OfflCE i ENNSf LN ANA IL. Ii. Co.,
PHILADELPHIA, June l3 1859
Dear Sir-Referring to our conversation at the
st. Nicholas Hotel, New York, can state that
Will accept-on the conditions then named-the
Presidency of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, upon the tulflment of the following cond-
tiOns:
First.That the Company shall be freed from all
its existing debts.
Second-That all questions between the authori-
ties OF Texas and the Company, involving its Ie-
gal or corporate rights, shall be satisfactorily set
tied. '''
Third-That additional share capital. amountinc
to at least two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
in addition to the sum required to meet all of the
liabilities of the Company, should be obtained in
cash.
Yours, very truly, j. EDGAR THOMPSON.
j. FnwLKEs, NJ. D., President
The Southern Pacific Railroad is Texas con-
Germ, and the Company is organized in that State
legally, and has built portion of the line running
through Texas. The St. Louis Nc,rs, from which
we copy Mr.. Thompson's letter, SAYS:
"Two of the conditions required by him are al
ready in the main complied with. Ample provis-
ION already made to free the road from all debts
by the assessment made on stockholders, and in
great part paid up.''
This refers to the first condition, and as regards
the second the Supreme Court of Texas has af-
ilrmed the decision of the Court below in favor of
the legal and corporate rights of the Company 1t
only remains, therefore, to comply with the third
condition by raising an additional subscription of
S250,000 to the stock of the corporation 1t will
not be difficult to do this, in view of the import
ance of the land and money pledged to the road by
the State of Texas, amounting in value to not less
than fifty millions of dollars. The St Louis Ne,us
also says that Mr.. Samuel Tate, President of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad will take an ac-
tive part with Mr.. Thompson in the prosecution of
the Southern Pacific Railroad. All this looks very
much as though we were about to lose our able
President of the Pennsylvania Central, whom the
Necs styles the Railroad King, but whether he
really will forsake his present position remains to
be Philadelphia North American.
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THE CAss DocTRINE ApPIIED.-The beauties of the
administration, regarding the rights and liberties
of our naturalized citizens who NAV visit their ma
tive countries, as laid down in the letters of the
Secretary of State to lie Cerc, of Memphis, and
Mr. Hoter of this city illustrated in the of
Col. Chas. Ernst of this city, who recently propos
ed to visit Europe, with the design of making OBJ
servations at the seat ofwar. Mr.. Ernst has been
citizen of the United States for thirty years. He
has served in volunteer military forces and has
on several occasions active service in quellng
riots. He now holds commission Lieut.. Colo
mel in the Ohio Volunteer Militia, and is excel
lent officer and honorable citizen, widely known
and respected.
He proceeded to Washington to have his pass
ports made out, taking letters to the State Depart
ment, stating his character and position, from the
Hon. W. ). Groesbeck, and other distinguished
gentlemen. He obtained interviews with General
Cass, and coolly told that it would be prudent
for him to stay at home, as government would not
undertake to guaranty the protection of a citizen of
the United States, and that he might be impressed
into the French army.
He has in consequence, given up his design of
visiting Europe, and returned 10 this city, very
turaly impressed that he had been mistaken in be-
liey -ng that he would be entitled to respect any
where on the globe a citizen of the American
Republic. He proposes to enter formal protest
as citizen against the ruling OF the Secretary
of State in his 1t is question that he feels
interested in having settled, whether he is cit
izen of the United States or citizen of France,
and whether, a naturalized citizen OF this coun
try, he has any rights that Napoleon is bound to
reSDect.
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EXPORTS FROM BAITIMORE

LONDoN-B1rk F. Z. AIthausse
229 hhds tobacco; IL do. STEMS 500 bb nseed cake
900 bags do 13S pkgs butter 400 bbls rosn 7S bales
hair; 4430 slaves; 13, 200 trenails.
BREMEN-Bremen Ship Schiller.
o33 hhds tobacco.
RIO DE JANEIKo-Bork Nay Queen.
lo5O bbls tour 250 do NEAL 1866 bushels corn $50 do
bran; 200 pkgs. lard
HAvANA-Sedmer Baltimore
20 boxes pork AZ hams II bbls do ~ tres lard:
40 pRgs lard l5o do butter l3 tres codfsh casks do
cases gs so cider 80 casks rice trails dates: IS
crates onons boxes fruit $50 bbls potatoes baskets
onions pkgs mdse 125 casks nails 300 cross ties;
2,S43 do. splice blocks
49, HAvANA-Brig King Bird
pa tons coal; 60 cords p wood
AsPINwALL, N. G.-Brig Ocean Belle
$40 tons coal.
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CROSSING NIAGARA ON A TIGHr-RoPE.-Mons. Blon-
din has perfected his arrangements for alking
across the Niagara river tight-rope, that g
is able to designate Thursday, the Both nst between
four and five O'Clock in the afternoon, the time
for attempting the feat The cable is already stretch
ed across the river and now being secured in posi-
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A CoLLIsIoN.-On Saturday morning a collision
took place on Pratt street, at Calvert street. be-
by negro man. The dray was broken to pieces.
The horse was not much injured.
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BALTIMORE MARKETS.

-.r,,, SATURDAY, June %.
COFFEE.-There has been inquiry today for Cof
fee and we note sales of 500 bags fair Rio cts 400
bags good do at IL cts, and 100 bags at II cts
Prime Rio and firm but the low grades the
market is heavy We refer readers quotations to
Aessrs White Elders weekly report which publish
below
WEEKLY COFFEE REPORT.
Stock of Rio Coffee June IS 1859. 900 bags
Taken for consumption. Observation-Disclosures. 1000
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-09-04
DKoPoSaLs ron ARMY TRANSPOTA-

QuARuRAAsTTR GENERALS OFFIrE,
Washington June y. 1850.
fee until p the st day Of October next for the tanspor
aton Of military supplies during the s6OSnd 1861 the
following routes
Leayenworth and PiIey in the Territory Of Kan.
from Fort Laramie Territory of Nebraska,
point thu ank the Missouri north Of Fort
Leayenwort and south latitude ~ ceg mort at which depot
may be estahhe to the which or may te cstsb
hPc the Territory Nebraska south Ct latitude a
nor Oregon south of latitude a deg Of Ongi.
tude IA deg. and the Territory Utah north of latitude
40 degrees north ami east Of longitude ia deg, west
. From Forts LeayenwOh and Riley in the Territory OF Kan
and from the town Of Kansas the State Of Missouri to Fort
Union the Territory New Mexico, any GtEer depot that
may he DESIGNATED In that Territory.
Union such other depot msy he designated
in the Territory Of New Mexico to posts or epots
nay established in the Military Department Ct New Mexico
except Forts Bliss and Fillmore.
The weight to be transported each Will not he less on either
the than hundred thousands poundes more on
route than millions Of pounds and and than
millions five hundred thousand pounds each.
Proposals will state the rate hundred pounds hundred
miles which the will be performed each route
the year, may be made for all the routes
collectively Of them, for each route separately
Bidders will give their full we'll their places OF
residence and prepared execute bonds With good security In
such the Qusrermaser General determine
CoGcters be readiness service by tie lst day OF
Janur e6O and transportation he demanded at any
lime Tor ts whole weight 10 be transported during the year on
they Will places
oi business the vicinity OF Fort LeayeDWorh
Fort Laramie and Fort UnOn other depot in New Mexico at
when hey may be ncted with prompflysand readily
three or more ersoos known satisfactorily certified to the Quar-
termassr ueHe setting forth that if party prop sing shall
be SsaTded me couact they will enter obligation for is
faithful performance.
Proposals will be endorsed as follows: Proposals. for Army
I1R0ftdftoR and will entertained they fully
comply wA all the Spuao this advertisement.
The right reserved Of reeengsny all the bdsihat
July 6-3tawtlstOet.
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The Louisville Democrat says that the Rev j. \.
McCLUEG (whose bcdy was found in the Niagara
river some time sgo) came to his dsath by suicide
That he Wandere away from his hotel at Niagara,
and absent several days. is sufficient proof that
he was comps menHs. "He was, at different
times, first, prominent Presbyterian clergyman /;
second, an aVeWed Dfdsl, aud The author of a work
Of romance of exceeding genius, but disfgured by
the utmost profanity; third, lawyer of fine at
tsinments and large practice fourth, an advocate
of emancipation, then delegate from the State at
large to nominate Gen. TAYLOR at Philadelphia, and
subsequently preacher. He inherited from his
Marshall ancestry an antipsthy to Mr.. CLAY, and
most efectualy used it 10 lS48 In 1850 he reuni-
ted with the Presbyterian church. His manners
were always eccentric, aud he was characterized by
the peculiar idiOsyncraeies of his family A broth
er-the late Col MCCLUsG, of Mississippi-cOm-
mitted suicide, and talented sister was insane
Still his genius was of the finest order. Had his
miud been we'll balanced he wodld have been ene OF
the foremost men Of the nation"