New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-15
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Those Pirsics-Arming the state-Raec's Of
the Timcs-The Traitor mason-A Vego-
table Glut-Fusitive Experiences.

the Tinics-Thc Traitor Mason-A vegc-
table GIut-Fusitive Experiences.
From Our Own Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13, 1861.
There is no Distsking the daredevil look OF
the tw" gaugs ef pra'es now in pr'ou here.
I Talk az Que may about Southern chvslry, these
are all Misunderstanding dogs. such as one dopt
o.tsn zee collected in any group outside OF jail.
I saw them all as they came up for examination.
The thieves excite DO pity whatever. On the
Contrary, when the Petrels crew were found to
have been rescued by the st. Lawrence, there
| WAS a universal exclamation as nIDst the Com
usnder ,or lot blowing their boats sky higb aud
.ruone them all to the bottom. The old story
Of nobody hurt came very near being told over.
| Had the boodhounds been thus dispatched, the
country would have ruDg with congratulations.
| But it doe. seem as if this war ia to be carried
"n by us Tor the purpose Of doing the least pos
sible harm to the enemy. There bever was
| more fragrant case Of piracy committed than this.
| Then look at the evidence given by the black
steward of The recaptured schooner Encbantress.
1t shows that, While playing pirucy. these royers
aad touches of the slave-trade. When the Alba-
| tr.ss hailed the Eucbantress, Garrick, the sttw.
ard, Jumped from the latter vessel into the SEA,
| CRYING out that she was pirate. But. before
| tue capture took place, when the pirates felt
sure OF getting into Charleston, they told Garrck
| that he was good niger, and would bring
| bgn pr,ce in toat city, where they intended To
s-il hun. He 10 a iree-bsrn native Of Santa
| Cruz, but that small fact seems to he Of no ac-
1 A nj. fvaa. .hnrn Had
they got HIN into Charleston, this brave fellow
would have been sold into Slavery. AL these
cut.throats are now 10 prison, to be tried at the
next term, in October. Their CaptsiD, Perry.
is full % years old. X. NJ. Harvey, one Of tn.
officers, was formerly midsbipnan in our navy
TIE gunner is q Frencbman. The sailors give
deplorable accounts of the starvation they suf-
tered in Charleston, previously to shipping.
Many of them we're entirely destitute, bad
nothing to do or TO eat, some with families on
their hands to provide for. These stories may
be lodges To gain sympathy. but they obtain
very little here. The feeling of public e1aSpcra.
tion is very general, with profound regret that
our Courts are to be put to the trouble and ex
peu.e of even trying them. We think that
business could have oeen dispensed with by send
ing them to the bottom in their own boats.
Our next Legislature will take measures to
establish State Military School. West Point
10 considered too small affair, now that peace
in the future 10 so uncertain. Besldes, this State
seems to have been caught mapping, its principal
armsments being such as are needed in attacking
coaI mines or turning over sods in corn-6eld.
The thorough preparation shown by Massachu.
sett. has msde powerful impression on us, aud
| will cause US hereafter to combine the military
with our traditouary pastoral character. Up to
this time We have made great advances toward
such change in our status. Already numerous
m,chine shops and fouDderies, whose ordinary
business has been destroyed by the Rebellion, are
working full.banded on arms and missiles. Can
ION are being rapidly manufactured, and In 4
single machine shop 200 rides are completed daily
| This description Of industry il going on all over
| the State. In this city, ono large establishment
is devoted merely to manufacturing tools and
macbloery with which other shops are to produce
| .ma.arms. The quantity Of such machinery
turned out will make rifles drug within year.
| Be.ids what is made for home use, large orders
tor gun machinery are being executed for foreign
countries. 1t is apparent that the end Of this
war Will find Pennsy yania bristling with bay0nets
and canDon.
There can be no boarding Of specie going on
here, as the bank returns show constant in
crease. The loans diminish, because everybody
avoids making new engagements who can. and
the quantity OF paper for discount. either at
bank or III the street, is unprecedentedly small.
Contraction and liquidation are the order OF the
day. OF the bank discounts renewals form q
large proportion. In fact banking all over toe
coaut'y must be at lower figure than ever
known, but it happens TO be sound with us.
Commercial paper being now looked at with 80
much sbyness, must drive the banks u large in-
srstnients IN Treasury Notes and Government se-
curt'es. They can earn dividends with certainty
IN DO o.ber way. The war is affecting almost
every thing. Rents Of stores and dwellings
Throughout the city have been forced down vita.
IN a m"uth past to lower points tbau We have
seen. IenaLts demand ENORMOUS reduc-
tions, and landlords promptly concede them.
Some even volunteer tLem while others get
nothing ryOnd taxes aud insurance. All ths is
the resut Of simple stagnati0n, not insolvency.
Jobbers are selling no goods and are conse-
quenty not paying expenses. In keeping with
their condition, the retailers complain loudly that
the community has ceased TO buy. They patronize
the auctions more extensively than ever. OBJ