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stInnstarg anh Commercial Rsbisn.

BALTIMORE, May q, 1861.
Ihere was something done in Stocks today at the
and Tor the leading the market was quite
strong lot OF so shares Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
was SOFA at $40 cash, and it closed firm $40 bid SAL
asked regular way, The above is the first sale of Rail
roau stock OF any moment that has been made at the
board Tor several weeks past For Northern Central
hailWay Sl2H was bid regular way, an advance of a
doiiar, but none was offered under SIS City 6's i'm.
proved to-day per cent, sales OF $4,000 1905 being
made at 81 lS75's left of so bid SOY asked and 1865
at soH bid Nothing done in Railroad bonds but
Tor Northern Central 1855 394 bid an advance of
and Baltimore and Ohio ls62's left as on yesterday
at 80 bid ex dividend For Canton SO bid to-day an
advance of 81, and the Mining were also rmer
Springfield closing at 81 10 bid As asked Gardner Hill
at 80 cts bid 81 asked and Guilford 25 cts bid 35
cts. asked.
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
A, ooo TUESDAY, May u, 1861.
$1,000 Baltimore Us 1890. 90.............. .,s2
600 isao $1,000 co
7uo - 1880. ..........................S2
90 shs. B. and o. R. Observation-Disclosures 40
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Railroad Accident.

ST. GATHERINGS, G. W., May 20, lS6l.-0n the
Welland Railroad, on Saturday night, a heavy
freight train, drawn by two engines, in COLI
sion with an up-train at Allanburgh, killing three
men and badly smashing three engines. The en-
gineer has been arrested
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IMPORTS INTO BALTIMORE.

CUASTW ISE-
PHIL tDELPHIA-Schr. Sarah Bibby-2S bis herring
10 half bbs do 200 bushels potatoes R. r. Griffith; 25
bundles wagon bows order.
NEW YoRK-Bdrk Huntington.-10O boxes olive oils
90 bbls mackere 234 hides bales corks cases mdse
James Corner Sons: % packages drugs order
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INTERESTING STATIsrICs.-The Memphis Tenn.
Aoo'Gnche publishes letter compiled from Execu-
I i've Document No. 62 of the first session of the
eth Inirueth Congress, which shows the number of
r",th.eers from each State engaged in the war
with Mexico in 1851 and also the list of wound.
ed, died and killed in battle. The patriotism of the
south has been much impugned by many Northern
men, who have, on the other hand, been bolster
Gus Gus 10 tcelr praises of the loyalty and devotion to
the Union ever exhibited by the North. The fol
lowing table will show the distinction between
one men OF the two great divisions, when love of
country and loyalty to the Government meant
sInetnlng more than vaporing, empty words
when it meant the risk and sacrifice of life and far
tune. - 'O N-N Aoi-
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PRICE TWO CENTS.
THE BLOCKADE FLEET

mere Is not, as yet, any definite organiz.t;or or
tne p'ocAane M neet. Annexed, however. are the
names OF the vessels, with armaments on hoord d0
wn'cn M nave Geen commissioned to guard the diff,
ent ports None OF the regular vessels ordered aro
instructed except those active duty, or aImos,
ready for their crews VI a'nios'
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ST. LOUIS, May 2l.-Generals Price and Harvey
nave agreed upon plan for the maintenance of
peace and the avoidance of future conflicts between
tne feoeral and State Government. Gen. Price
pledges the whole power of the State to maintain
order among the people; and Gen. Harney declares
that, tins being answered, he has no wish to make
any further military movements in the State
Ihey mutually enjoin upon the people to attend
to their civil business, and express The bone n
the elements which have SO seriously threatened
the public peace will soon subside.
:, The steamer Kentucky, the mail boat between
Memphis and Vicksburg, exploded her boilers yes
terday, and twenty lives We're lost.
The Confederate authorities have established
blockade at Memphis.
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lNDIANAPoLIs May l9.-Reports we'll authentica-
ted refer to contemplated secession inroads into
Southern Kentucky from Tennessee.
The report that three thousand secessionists were
parading in Louisville is fallacous.
Two thousand troops are at Indianapolis, and
can be lodged into Kentucky in eight hours. The
brigade Commanded by Gen. Il. A. Morris embra-
ces the Sixth Regiment, Colonel L. T. Crittenden,
nephew of Senator Crittenden the Seventh, Col.
+. Dnnont Eigh b, Col. Benton; Ninth, Col Mil
reg; Tenth COL Munson. The Eleventh, Col. Wal
lace, is at Evansville.
Five regiments of State troops in arms. under
Brigader General Reynolds, can reach this point
in four hours.
Gov. Morton has rendered to the General Gov
ernment six regiments, and an addition double that
number can be raised if necessary.
Among the United States officers now here are
Col. Wood and Lieut.. jefferson G. Davies, who
was under Col. Anderson in Fort Sumter.
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LOUISVILLE, May 2O.-At the Woodland course
on Saturday Mollie jackson won the challenge vase
maae Dy iinany. Time, 7:34A. 1t was a four
mile race. In the mile race Idlewild won the irat
ana second heat Time, l:4s-l:441S.
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Arrival of the Persia at New Yorlx-The I.ou,
don Times on s.,e Civil Nv, -@"AA'

NEW YORK, May 2l.-The steamer Persia, whose
advlces were teegraphed from Cape Race, arrived
mere this evening. The reason that the freight of
war materials was not received, as because it was
considered that it would vitiate the insurance and
tion. F
The London Times says that regular campaign
IN Maryland appears to be unavoidable, and that
tne oorder Staiesswi perhaps witness horrors that
will be remembered for generations. All that Eng
land can do is to keep aloo Not only positive law
but the moral feelings of the community will for
bid that any British subjects should engage in the
conflict. - ~
Several American vessels are reported to have
been sold at Liverpool at very low rates
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Another Riot at st. Johns, N. F.

BOSTON. May 20.-Thsre was another riot at ST.
oouh s, N. r., on the 18th, at which the riot act
was read, and the mob continuing violent. the
troops were ordered to fire. Two of the crowd
were Killed and four wounded. The rioters then
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Correspondence Alexandria Gag, tie. /
FROM HARpEpJS CEpDU

nARPER's FERRY, May l5.-The day passed off
nnesteraay without any incidents of Importance
~, ne cutting OF the telegraph wires, night before
iass, Is thus explained The departure of 800 men
I'm I'm ,ne Relay to some point unknown, induced
slarylanders to suppose that their destination
was mar per's Ferry. So a small body of them went
10 10 tne Monocacy Bridge, and attempted to DESTROY
e. e.. IN tnls they tailed-the bridge being iron and
proof and their force being too small TO tear it
eowh; They went, however, to the telegraph Of
wires. NNN " oAe u'"h 'ne
- esteraay, the wires were again repaired, but
a- ight wereagaln cut, and now there is no tele-
graphic communication east of the Point of Rocks
~ one latter place, force numbering from 400
10 i'ooO men, are stationed. Bradley johnson,
NUN Nun ioree of 200 Marylanders, is there. Four
cd tb ~ ~ ne hau out 40 men, but within that peri
ou; tue ~ have increased to its present number;
anu he confidently expects soon to have it ipcreas
ed to thousand - '1e' cas-
r. prescription list, it is said, is kept by the
u.oEernment men, in several of the towns of
Maryland, which is the cause of the apparent self
expatrlaton of so many Marvlanders
~ last night, 5OO more men reached here from the
southwestern portion of the State. Among them
Mhs W. company from Rockbridge, commanded bv
the Rev. Mr.. Pendleton, of Lexington. He
grSduate of West Point, and has lett the peaceful
sphere OF the pulpit, to place his talents and his
energies at the disposition of his country. He is
said to be fine officer.
The kentuckian who was shot the other dav bv
On OIL MS comrades, died yesterday evening
=, Two more cannon arrived last night 1t is said
that South Carolina and a Mississippi regiment
Will III De here to-day or tomorrow.
ne laboring force of negroes upon the MARYLAND
heights is daily increasing. When the fortifca-
th t,n OF these heights shall have been completed,
they will be impregnable F'
hARPER's FERRY, May l6.-More troops reached
% here yesterday from the Southern portion'of the
state Three companies from Augusta will arrive
tins morning. These, added to those already here
from that county, will make nine comp anies from
Augusta. "
it may be relied upon that 20 900 Northern troops
cannot take this place now. Col. jackson seems
10 thlnk that the pick and the shovel are great
weapons ot warfare. In every direction redoubts
ana oreastworks are being thrown up, and block
houses and Notifications constructed. Men unac-
cnstomed to toll and physical labor work with re al
ana industry by the side of the stout and sturdy
mechanic ~
A. oixteen more Baitimoreans arrived last night on
the train. They had to walk to Skeville, and af.
Ter reaching there, talked loudly in praise of the
onicn In this way they got on the cars.
, Inc Indignation of all the Maryanders here at
the military occupation of Baltimore knows no
pounds Their hope is that If the federal troops
invade Virginia, the Confederate army will march
upon Baltimore.
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arrival of, OF the s,,,o california Pony Express

Arrival of the California Pony Express
Great Union Demonstration.
FORT kEARNEY, MAY 2l-The California Ponv Ex.
press, win dates to the llh inst, has arrived The
steamer of the 10th sailed with S44O O00 in +raa-
sure.
me Union demonstration at San Francisco on
the ilth inst. was astonishing success. Moth
ing llke 1t has ever been in that city before
Duslness was totally suspended, and the whole
population appeared in the streets. Union Asgs
mere as plenty as stacks of grain in a wheat field
mere were three stands for speakers. Senator's
Latham and McDougal General Sumner, General
ShleIds and Others spoke. The spirit of the ad-
dresses and resolutions was that the Administra-
ton must be sustained to put down secession and
preserve the Union procession, composed OF
thousands of citizens, embracing all the military
ana CIVIC organizations, constituted part of the
aispay. all political parties joined in the demon.
straton.
q Union meeting was also to be held at Portland,
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PHILADELPHIA, May 2l.-Peterson's Bank Note
Detector cautions the public against counterfeit
, ten dollar notes of the Broadway Bank, New York
The city is flooded with them. They are exceIIant
limitations, well calculated to deceive.
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Important from Chnmhershurn

CHAMBERsBURG, Nav 2l.-Two reconnoitePinp par
es south ward from this point yesterday and
report to-day that they penetrated the lines of the
confederate army and went deliberately through
their camps. They saw three hundred troops ten
miles from Harper's Ferry, and some seven hundred
at Wllliamsport. No reinforcements have arrived
here to-day. Nothing positively known as to the
movements fthe troops at this point, but it is be-
ieved that a forward movement is certain as soon
las Gen. Williams retnrns " ~
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Capture of Charleston Ship by the Un;tad
fnfe ten

PHILADELPHIA, May 2l.-The ship General Park
hill, from Liverpool, of and for Charleston, arrived
here this morning in charge of prize crew. She
was spoken off Cape Roman on the 18th and order
ed off by the Niagara, but the next day che was
captured whilst attempting to run the blockade
She was towed to the Navy Yard.
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The schooner Joseph Gric-, three hundred tons
burden, sailed from New York under the British
nag on Saturday afternoon, with thirty light emf
grants and two cabin passengers for Havti
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The Miedgevie Recorder publishes ''Abe Lin
cOln"-a tragedy of the Potomac. The dramatis
persona are Messrs. Lincoln, Scott and Seward
Davis, stephens and Baauregard. The scene is
laid in ga public room al Alexandra.,,
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The Belgian Government has followed our own
in the use of nickel in small coins The Belgian
pieces to be of the value of l, 2 and cents
and will contain at least 25 per cent. of nickel
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:, The jackson Mississippian says that Dr. NJ. C.
Kusseli, OF that city, is near relative of W.
ID. Russell, correspondent of the London Times and
that the latter will probably extend his visit to
jackson, visit to the Doctor.
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Col r. A. Pryor has superseded Colonel Hodges
in the command of the Third Regiment at Ports
mouth, Va Col. Hodges is raising a howitzer
CORPS
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Nomination for Cor,

3SVrTffEHttIUti TUT NONSftSS DeCI!neU.
LouisViLLE, May 20.-John Young Brown has
published letter declining the nomination for
Congress- ava
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R. J. Wood Esq, of Wedowee, Ala, has been
adjudged the extensive contract for making the
mail bags required by the Post Office Department
CT the Confederate States
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SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
TuEsnLY MAY
PRICES AND SALES STOCKS IN NEW YORK.
BY TELEGRAPH
The New York Tribune, of Tuesday, saws:


There was no marked feature in the dealings at the
STOCK Board this morning exceTtng scarcity of cash
STOCK OF several descriptions. During recent de-
preston the market has been largely ovesoi and the
effect is now ing seen in the difficulty finding cerf.
Gates for delivery This is marked in Illinois Cen.
a and some of the border State stocks but is also seen
IN New York Central. Galena, &c.
me market for foreign bills is dull and lower For
leading bankers sterling l05k is the top price with very
ilte demand This price pays per cent profit on the
54od5 35 ~
The following is the bank statement for the week:
Clearings for week ending May II S1O4 1853 42O 50
lS......... 9S, ,l025l9 73
balances 1l......... 7,ll337O O4
." lS......... 6,l3977 50
Ihe movement OF the banks in the four cities named
in which weekly reports made as shown by their lst
statements, is as follows:
Loans Deposits. Specie Circurn
York, May IL $2332 29S e4S7aa6T 3s sp5i5 .Gt 24i
Boston, Nav 49,. el5l6 go asa
Phiia., May l3 25 1l5 3S
N. OrPps, May Ii g5 C24lS 1929 473 75s5 596
TOTAL. S940 14752 256 f5 6f6 sl9 26 443
Last week.... 2S33l, ,s66 26lI IS lG9 "a %
Last year 22024 All l36 6Ss 1903 81 E33 27
The weekly statement of the Philadelphia banks pre-
sens the following aggregates compared with those
the previous week:
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Accounts from Englan state that American
agents were in that country to purchase Armstrong
and other rided cannon and nearly two hundred
thousand rifles and revolvers
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The Rev. DR.. Pinkney, OF the Church OF the As
cension in Washington, has been elected Bishop of
the State of Alabama by the Episcopal Convention
of that diocese
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Senator Douglas Recovering.
oHlcAGo, May ZO-Senator Douglas is now i'm
proving and he is considered out of danger.
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1t was currently reported at Washington on at
urday that Virginia troops were concentrating in
numbers at Grafton, on the line of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. The report, however, lacks
continuation. -
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VIGILANCE COMMITTEE IN RIcHMoND-It is rumor
eo' SAYS the Richmond Eraminer, that a Vigilance
COMMITTEE is about being formed in this citv. at
W .he heau OF which are same Of the most digni6ed
but desperate men of the communitv San -
these gentlemen hold high positions, and hev have
determined to proceed with their work. when thev
oegln, with power and effect. We hope they will
act win discretion, and hang those only who are
positively guilty of bad faith to the STATE Let
be too late ~ ~ may
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~, =" 11'|s F0BACCo-It is mentoned hv H. M
monu "hsg, tn"S.,.5 ... .ha mnliev of
oe"du, that within the last fortnight, a Northern
man visited that city for the purpose of buving tn
oacco: lie proessed to have a written permit from,
the Government to the effect that he might send
ana ioad vessels in Richmond with tobacco if those
vessels came empty. He was very anxious TO in
augurate trade on this one-sded basis; but he
met with very moor sncopSs N' NS ~
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LETTERS OF MARQUE IN ESGLAND-The city ar
ucle of the London Times of May 7th says that the
Ministers were to be again interrogated on the Sth
In regard TO letters of marque, blockade, &c and
adds:
Every event now happening in America seems
TO tell us that upon the extent of our ripht IA a
heutTai power must depend, for some time vet to
come the continuance OF the manufactures of Lam
cashire and the maintenance of our commarci,I ra
latiOns with our best Customers
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The Albany Ranks

,,a ,AtinaNY' May 70, lS6l.-In consequence of the
closing OF the Bank of Albany and the Bank of
the capital, last week, there was some run on
the Savings Department of two or three banks
mere TINS morning, but the promptness and
stance speedily restored confidence and ouieted ex-
citement. Extra tellers were employed. and de-
positors were paid as fast as they could nresent
checks. In all other departments of the banks all
is quiet, and no lack of confidence is manifested "
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~ Iorln an idea OF the extent to which this feet
increases the fighting material of the sery;oa -
Sh3uid be borne in mind that we have never before
had more than forty ships and 1000 sailors in com
mission mission IN the entire navy. There are several
Tor conversion into gunboats. and many of tbe
transports employed BY the Government could,
ana doubtless will be, made available for bIockad
ing purposes; but the list given includes every
Crat at present really engaged. The Norfolk and
Chesapeake naval guard beipp the onIv ora rbinh
ma mas taken shape, we give it, as follows:-Steam
nPlgate IT minnesota, corvette Cumberland, steamer
Iocahontas, steamer Young America, steamer Har
rlet Lane, and three Others. 1iA'
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ANOTHER TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE IN SoUTH AMFR1-
CA'-ln addition to the six thousand lives lost by
1ne earthquake at Mendoza, South America, we
learn that San Juan, situated one bnndred onS
twenty leagues north of Mendoza, had been nearly
destroyed by the same earthquake, with en- estima-
TED loss OF three thousand lives. The earthquake
approached from the direction of Valparaiso, and
great anxiety is manifested to hear from that ouar
ter. 4N"'
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Inc Internal. under-wel machine in Philadelphia
has been let go-as having no bad intent to blow!
up the Cumberland, or any other ship. Monsieur
Vllleroi satisfies himself for injury DONE that the
newspapers have given his machine a frst-rate no.
tce.
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New Hampshire Military.
CONCORD, May 2l.-The First New Hamnshira
Resiment he will leave here on Saturday morning for
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o. 1t Is stated that Mr.. d. H. Haight, owner of the
st. Nicholas Hotel New York, is now in Wa,bfnr-
ton, and proposes if the government will furnish
the ste to erect ovens large enough to bake bread
Tor all the troops in Washington, and operate them
free of cost WIN
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The Board of Aldermen, of New York, would
not concur to withdraw the corporation printing
from The Netcs and The Dan BooE
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The Wheeling Union has not ueen sold as re-
Porteo. The editor says that it will continue to
defend the rights of the South
Mr. Russell denies in a card, published in the New
Vrleans papers, that the proprietors of Harpers
"eeHfy nave an artist travelling with him.
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The INTEREST GREAT BRITAIN mas IN TuE Covprn-
ERArE STATEs.-English authorities have recently
estimated the capital Invested BY their countrymey
IN ooP sPlnnlng and weaving cotton alone, at about
ooO must be added for the processes print
ing and bleaching. The floating capital of the
importers OF the material is estim ated at s32
ooo,UOo; that OF the ship owners at SIS 900 600
making total, Independent of all subsidiary radas
mlnlsering Indirectly, 1923, 1850 0OO These are the
estimates rs OF Mr. James A. Mann, in his Cotton
Irade m oi Great Britain" published in London last
,ar. ,t ne westminster Rerie,0 for April adopts
these figures, and, although large, does not thinl-
there Is any reason for believing them to be exar
gerated " ' e"6
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The Richmond Dispatch says that the Southern
Confederacy will have in Virginia before the 1st OF
June one hundred thousand men, armed and well
drilled, and have immense resources in the South.
"Wid Cat" cred Dog" ''Blue Pup" &C., are
the terms applied to the present currency of Chi
cago and Illinois generally.
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Miss Leonora Neville, of one of the weathiest fam
lies OF New Orleans, has volunteered as VIVIAN
diere to the Monroe Rifles of that citv
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WaShinuton Items

WASHINGTON, May 2l.-Surgenn Finley will be
appointed SurgeOn-General of the army, in place
OF Surgeon Lawson, deceased.
1t is sufficient denial Of the reports as to Lieut.
Gen. SCOTS nfrm health to say that he is en-
gagged in the discharge of his official duties not only
throughout the day, but till late hour every
night.
Physicians Lincoln, Dose, Storrow, Lines. Young
Lank and Waters, lave been commissioned as act
ing Assistant Surgeons, to attend to the troops in
Washington and the vicinity, in conjunction with
those of the army.
The President, and Secretaries Seward, Chase
and Cameron, and other distinguished persons at
tended the funeral obsequies of COL Vosburgh to-
dav.
Ezra Harrington as been appointed Postmaster
at Newburgh, New York.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Seward elegapt-
~ ntertained tonight the principal officers of the
New York 7th and 18th Regiments the 5tb Massa.
chusetts and the 4th Pennsy vania Regiments, and
| those of the Rhode Island Artillery. The regi-
mental and company officers of the Army together
with several officers of the Navy, foreign Minister'S
| and other invited guests.
| The scene was brilliant and imposing and, az on
former similar occasion, the evidences of hospi.
| tality abounded.
| Hon. Cbauncey Schaffer, of New York, made a
| STIRRING and eloquent speech TO the New York
| seventh Regiment to-day, at their encampment.-
| lie invoked them by no means to retire to their
homes before the close of the war, and expressed
| strong desire to advance South.