The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-13


soldiers who,e weather-beaten aud SCARED faces
proclaimed them 10 be veterans who had faithfully
and devotodly battled for the honor of their coun
try. After short speech had been made by the
President, Colonel VIM. A. Gray, Major Sellers,
Of the Goth Pennsylvania Volunteers, read
series Of resolutions, in which the present Admin
istration was fully endorsed. and the wish eN-
pressed that 1t might be continued. Then fol-
lowed speeches by Captain Isaac Neil aud Lieu
tenant l.. G. Reeves, formerly of the 29th Penn
sylvana Regiment.
The following Committee Of Superintendence
was next announced by the President. .-Colonel
7. G. Ellmaker, Colonel John f. Glenn, Major
Richard Ellis, Maj0r A. J. Sellers, Major g. G.
knight, Quartermaster William Tiers, Quarter
master Joseph L. Ford, Adjutant J, B. Allen,
Captain J. b. De Haven.
On motion, the President was added to the COM
mittee.
The vast assemblage then adjourned with great
cheers, the line was formed, and the march was
taken up for the National Club House, where the
parade was dismissed.
Any soldiers or sailors desirous Of Joining the
Club may hand their names to the Janitor Of the
National Club House, No. ll05 Chesnut street.
In short time room, specially prepared for the
Clu0, will be opened in the Commonwealth
Building.
EXTENSIVE OPERATIONS AT THE SHIP YARDS.
On the 18th Of next month the frigate CAattd-
noogd, now under way at the ship yard of Cramp
Son, Kensngton, will be ready for launching
This frgate is one of four ordered by the Gov
ernment, three Of which are being constructed at
the Navy Yards. The Chattanooga is lis feet
long, 46 feet beam, and "a feet depth of hold
When in fighting trim she will draw II feet of
water The same firm Is also engaged in raising
the deck Of the light draught monitor, built by
thcmi ~ inches, so as 10 make her ht for service.
-Four steam transports, each 1870 feet long and 80
ieet hold, are under way for the United States
Army Quartermaster. These vessels will draw
but four feet OF water, and will be capable of con-
yeying regiment, with its wagons, cauuons sc.
steam propeller of 700 tons burthen, for Flana.
gan Co., OF this city, will be ready soon for
launching. Two propellers for the outside line
for New York, recently built by this firm,
are now at the wharf receiving their machinery.
Press CLUB OF PmLADELrHIA-This orgaul-
zation is already very strong, and contains ma
iority of those persons who write for the newspaper
press in this city The editors and reporters of the
following journals are membersof the club
Ledger, Inquirer PfesS, Age, North Alneican, Daily
Nctcs, Bulletin, TELBGRAPH, Sunday DisDatch
Transcript, Meyctay. German Democrat and Free
Press, Commercia List, Dial, Programme, and
other papers and periodicals published here.
The club is now n permanent institution,
and bids fair to elevate the newspaper profession
to that high position 20 which u Is entitled. IL
has already obliterated many professional jea-
ousies which, had they been permitted to CON
tinue, must have caused injurious, if not danger
Gus, feuds. An adjourned meeting of the club
will be held in Select Council Chamber TO- morrow
wednesday, afternoon, for the transaction of
some important business.
SEVENTEENTH WARD DRAFT MgErING.-A
large meeting of the citizens of the Seventeenth
Ward was convened last night, in the Harrison
School House, Master street, below Second, to
facilitate the praiseworthy exertions which are
being made to fill the deficiency of the quota in
the Ward without reference TO n draft Mr.
James lsMaupH presided uefa
and harmony of sentiment prevailed, il being
now evident that with n continued and renewed
eNertion the Ward can most assuredly he cleared
IL was reported that credit had been given for 1871
naval recruits, and 1t is believed that still greater
number will yet be credited upon additional in
quiries being made by the committee. The sum
of Sll95 was last night contributed on the spot,
and another meeting will be held on Thursday
evening next, which every citizen of the Ward
who is liable TO military duty should attend.
ASSISTANT ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPART
HENT.-To-night the delegates from the various
fire companies will meet at the hall of the Board
Ct Fire Directors, and elect Assistant Engineers
of the Fire Department. The following, it is
thought, will be the result or the election =
First Dstrict-TerrenCe McCluskey, of the
Moyamensing Hose Company.
Second District-Joseph Robinson, of the vi
giant Fire Company.
Third District-James Adams, of the Decatur
Engine.
Fourth District-Jacob COnover, of the Frank
lin Engine, of Germantown.
Filth Decentralization Scott, of the King
sessing Hose.
UNION OPFICERs IN REBEL HANDS. The
recently released Union officers from Charleston,
who arrived in New York on Sunday, state that
on the 4th of July there were twelve hundred
Union officers held as prisoners, at Macon,
Georgia. A vote for Mr.. Lincoln being taken
among them, resulted in the polling of one thou
sand votes. Of the twelve hundred Union
officers held as prisoners az Charleston, none of
them are desirous of exchange save on terms
that will be advantageous and highly honorable
to the Government. Six hundred of these officers
are in the Jail and worlIhouse, the whole number
being under fire. At Savannah, Georgia., six
hundred of our officers are confined. In Charles
ton only three or four stores are open on that
once famous thoroughfare known as King street.
A HUMANE MovEHENT.-A home free to sea-
men and marines, disabled in our naval service,
is contemplated being established through the
fundamentally of the National Sailors Fair, 10
be held in Boston the early part of next month.
The navy of the United States now consists of
not less than 33l vessels OF all classes, and of
from so, 900 TO 10000 officers and men. Ships of
large tonnage, now in the course of construction,
will greatly increase the number both OF vessels
and men, so that In a very short time the naval
service, at moderate estimate, will require
1000 sailors, or nearly nine times rs many as at
the commencement Of the war.
AN APPEAL.-The lO6th Regiment Pennsylva-
MIA Volunteers, which arrived here in August
last, and some Of the soldiers belonging to the
2Sth Reg't Pennsylvania Volunteers, who have
been at the Union Refreshment Saloon nearly
seven weeks, are not yet mustered out of the
service. Will the proper musteTing-Out officer
be cOndescending enough TO grant these men
their discharge and thus allow them TO visit their
wives and little ones Ii is hardly courteous, to
say The least, that these men should be compelled
TO subsist upon the bounty Of the Refreshment
Saloons any longer.
SANITARY. The National Quarantine and
Sanitary Convention will hold lis fifth session in
this city on the 25th of October next The enight-
ment Of public opinion on the subject of health,
and the adoption of laws calculated TO couduce
to the improvement of the social, moral, aud
physical health Of the people, is the object had in
view by the convention. Drs. James McCree and
Ward, and MessIs. James Steel, Arthur Hughes,
and Peter Ambruser, will act as delegates from
the Board ofHealth ofthis city.
The WRONGS or SEWING WoMEN.-At Kater
Hall, South street, below Sixteenth, a meeting Of
sewing women was held last evening, for the pur-
pose Of encouraging the formation of Unions for
the protection Of their interests. Addresses were
delivered on the subject, and measures adopted
to carry out the proposed object.
SERIOUS CHARGE.-Three men were committed