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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1861.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.- 64 The conspiracy
to break up the Union is a fact now known to
all. Armies are being raised, and war levied
to accomplish it. There can be but two shies
to the cent y. Idircry man muss be on the
side et the United States or against it. There
can be no neutrals in this war. There can be
none but patriots and traitors."
OR BALE.—The double-cylinder wrivi.ca" Passa
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on which this paper has been talvV •Afor the last nine
months. It is in excellent c ' ..ving been made
to order a peat ago, and w , ft. at a bargain. Fur
terms apply at this office, or ......,:ess JOHN W. FOUNSY,
417 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
The Lyons-Seward Letters
The .dlbion, a journal published at New
York, and having great circulation and no
small influence among Anglo-Americans in
the United States and the inhabitants of British
America, is ably and judiciously conducted by
Mr. WILLIAM YorNo, brother of Mr. G. F.
Youxu, who formerly sat for the borough of
Tynemouth, in the British House of Com
mons, and by pen and speech was long the re
cognized legislative representative and cham
pion of the shipping interest of England. The
..Mbion, conservative and cool upon general
Itolitis, hos hi:aut.:tined a fair neutrality in
the present contest, though it obviously is
unfriendly to the revolt of ac the so-called
Southern Confederacy." From the first, we
may notice, it has denied the existence of
hostile feeling to this country, on the part of
the British Ministry, and has seriously repro
bated all unfriendly language thrown at Eng
land by some American journals. We were
curious to learn what the dibian would say
respecting the recent letter from Lord LIONS,
and Mr. Sew Ann's reply—we Were curious,
because use look on the di/bion's opinion upon
a public subject as precisely that of the HUM:
of wcll-edttcotM 'English gentleman, who
watch passing events with interest, yet are
not decided partisans on any side of politics.
That the British Government should remon
strate on " two British subjects having been
imprisoned in Fort Lafayette without the or- .
dinary process of law—though released, after
more than a fortnight's detention in either case,
without undergoing trial, or receiving apology
or compensation," was matter of course, the
Albion says no less so; that the American Go
vernment should reply. The remonstrance
and the reply have been published,lbut, the
Albion shrewdly says : " For our own part,
we should have been far more profoundly in
terested in a sight of the original remonstrance,
if such there were, than we can possibly be in
these ex post facto missives. What did Lord
Lvoxs say, by pen or by word of mouth,
to Mr. SEWARD, when he first made complaint
on behalf of his countrymen ? How far was
the Confinement of Alessrs. PATRICK and BAH
adaNG terminated or abridged by Lord LYONS'
expostulations Were those gentlemen in
any degree guilty of treason ? If so, why
were they not indicted ? sWere they alto-
Tether innocent ? If so, why was no regret
expressed for their arrest ?"
Lord Lvoss complained, (we still quote from
the Albion.)
" That the Amerielm Constitutionforbids, and Con ,
gress has not exceptionally authorized, the Presi
dent's exercise of arbitrary power. To this Mr.
.‘:e7eard proprrly rrplies, that his Government
does not look to her Britannic Majesty's legal ad
visers for an expounding of the Constitution; or for
an opinion as to the legality of the President's
course. It is enough, he infers, that the same law,
'or the same want of it, is meted out to British resi
dents as to citizens of the Republic. Discrepancies
and exigencies here must be judged and determined
here ; just as in England we take it that an Order
tt Conneil umild he imperative as regards foreign
ers. whether it did or did not accord with any spe
cial act of Parliament. Acts of indemnity—and
they are not unknown in Great Britain—smooth
down difficulties between a nation and its own
rulers. not between that nation and a foreign one ;
and broad questions affecting international rights
cannot be. or, at least, should not be, argued with
the same technical nicety as pleas in - an Adnairalty
Court. We have nothing, therefore, to do with
Congress. If Lnrd Lyons, in place of citing a
clause in the Constitution of the United States, had
cited the particular clause in the treaties of
amity subsisting between the two nations,' which,
he says, is at variance' with the late exercise of
despotic power, we should have approved the re
monstrance as more timely. As it is, Mr. Seward
may chuckle—of course. in a dig,nified way—when
he asserts thnt the President is "responsible by
law before the highest judicial tribunal of the Re
public, and amenable, also, to the jadgfent of his
eountrytinen." t
The opinion here delivered is that Lord
LYONS has come off second best, in this en
counter of keen wits, and that he
,either had
a weak case, or did not make the most of his
facts. The Albion adds :
".Again, we think that Lord Lions. if it were ne
cessary to epistolize hereon, omitted two strong.
grounds of compiniut, in not exposing the flimsy
charges against both Mr. Patrick and Mr. Bahming,
Even Mr. Seward's px parte statement makes it
clear that the former was nothing more than a liv
ing post-office, through whose hands passed treason
able correspondence ; for he is not accused of that
peculiar breach of confidence, for the exercise of
- which r it Jtuncs Witham - wag hauled with cpprc
brium, while a certain model State quietly adopts
it as a praotice. As to Mr. Rahming, seeing that
he was not a resident of the United States at all, it
is difficult for the non-le.al and non-official mind to
comprehend how he could be guilty of treason. even
Weft. It true that ha tried to ship oaanori from Nas
sau. N. P.. to Wilmington, N. C. Such an attempt
might be flying in the face of a certain royal procla
mation. and would naturally subject his cannon to
seizure. Rift the question, whether he could be
rightfully iltrcrtea rrr trttnqfef l OR 4 Glitirgc of treason, because he sought a closed market, might,
we opine, be contested."
If to convey treasonable correspondence
constitute cc a living post office," Mr. PATRICK'
was properly arrested, for aiding and comfort
ing the enemy ; and if Mr. RAIMING, whether
British subject or American citizen, resident
or non-resident in the United States, tried to
pass cannon from a British colony into the re
volted South, he thereby equally rendered
himself an object of suspicion, and liable to
arrest.
The closing part of the .d/bion article com
plains that Mr. SEWARD is "flippant" in an
attempt at smartness, but admits c; his great
success is in the clear and forcible manner in
which, in his closing paragraph, he sets forth
the national view, as entertained at Washing
ton, of the war, its issues, its conduct, and its
obligations. Lord Lyons traversed the .weakest
point of his case. Mr. Seward, in his reply, ex
patiated on the strangest of his.
The Orleans Princes.
Letters have been received in this city from
Paris stating that, contrary to partial expecta
tion there, the Emperor Narotiox has not
been in the least cc exercised" by the Count
DE PARIS and his cousin, the Due DE PEN
THIEVRE, having obtained commissions iu the
Federal army of the United. States. In 1850,
the Duc DE CHARTRES, (second son of the late
Due D'ORLEAsss,) served, during the Italian
war, under I'ICTOR-E3f3tANITEL'S banner, and,
though then little more than eighteen years
old, fairly won his commission of lieutenant
in the Dragoon Guards of Nice. Ile frequent
ly shared the perils of the French army in the
field, and, with NAPOLEON'S special .concur
rence, was treated by his officers with the
respect generally paid, in Europe, to royal
princes. At all events, NAPOLEON has no
control, moral or legal, over the ex-royal
family of France. The English newspapers
generally declare that "the Count DE PARIS,
heir to the French throne, as many French
men still affirm," has lowered himself
to the position of a partisan Seidler,
The Times inquires into the motives o
these gallant young Frenchmen in taking arms
in free America, and conjectures, either that
cc young and ardent men, the inheritors of a
great name, the last scions of a race which has
for so many centuries played a conspicuous
and influential part in the affairs of men, arc
anxious that the best years of their lives should
not slik away in darkness and inactivity," or
that, cc they may not unreasonably believe that
the confidence of America in purely Demo
cratic institutions has received a shock from
which it is not likely to recover, and that a
demand may arise for persons qualified by Royal
birth, and by sympathy with the cause of the
North to supply any such demand ! Really, if
the Times be serious, its friends have cause to
question its sanity. If this last suggestion
(that a French prince looks out for a throne
and sceptre in our Republic) be intended as a
joke, it is one of the sorriest we ever encoun
.tered.
W E ABE indebted for a copy of a beautiful
ct,gi•aving, published by J. C. BUTTRI, No. 48
Franklin street, Non• York, being a cluster of
medallion likenesses of Generals Scorr, Mc-
CLELLAN, BANKS, DIM, LYON, FREMONT, Woot.,
and ANDERSON. It is exquisitely executed,
and the likenesses are faithful and spirited.
It is printed on a large sheet, and when framed
will make a beautiful parlor adornment. A
copy can be seen at HENRY COHEN'S establish
ment, on Chestnut street.
4
The Southern Conspiracy of MO.
Proofs are multiplying every day, that
the present struggle with the slaveocracy
or the South was an inevitable IleCeSSi
ty ; that these misguided people have been
nursing for long years a lip-curling idea of
their superiority, mentally and physically,
over the citizens of the Northern States ;
and that Southern institutions, where they
differed front ours, insured them a more ele
vated intellectual and moral condition. This
self.esteem has been gradually growing more
and more inordinate. They now avowedly
claim that slaveiy establishes a more perma
nent, and, therefore, kinder relations between
Capital and Labor; and removes entirely from
their state of society what STr-kliT MILL
calls " the widening and embittered feud be
tween the class of labor and the class of ca
pital."
With all this self -gratulation, (and there has
been a great deal of it,) the North, as a sec
tion, would never have quarreled ; indeed,
there were large numbers amongst us who
deemed it, in some degree, well founded. But
when it reached the point of absolute intoxi
cation in the Southern mind ; when their
leaders began to put on the lordly air of mas
ters toward us ; and finally, when, forgetting
every bond of National Union, and every con
stitutional obligation, theressayed to destroy
the Government itself, the, North became
aroused into a proud and powerful unanimity,
which must soon dissipate :at least some of
the ridiculous assumptions of Southern prow
ess and superiority.
A friend has lately called our attention to a
remarkable discussion, detailed smite years
since, in a Cincinnati paper, by W. M. Con
an!, of that city, as haying transpired between
himself and A. D. BANXR, a well-known edi
tor of a Virginia newspaper; in regard to what
may be termed the Southern conspiracy of
18541. CORRIE, with many marked 'attributes
of an Able ftba sineete man, hag unfortunately
become imbued (in his European residence,
probably,) with some very visionary ideas of
social organization, and the requirements and
duty of the _American Republic - toward the
world at large. Ms disappointments in not
always having been seconded in his labors for
human advancement, exactly as he wished,
have told upon his temperament, until it occa-
Sionally becomes thoroughly «frabilidre. To
this affection we attributed the suspicions he
was pleased to betray in regard to the :rela
tions of the editor of THE rREBB with Mr.
:BrenANAN, in the publication to which - we re
fer—suspicions which, We preaume, have by
this time been completely removed. But the
conversation with Mr. BANKA, which Mr. COR
iur, rehearses, was What we proposed to ex
hibit.
In 1856, immediately after the success of
Mr. BUCHANAN was ascertained, Wheatland
became the Mecca of many a political pilgrim.
Among others, Mr. CORRIE had a mission in
that quarter, not to look for office, (as he
says, and we believe it,) but to induce Mr.
BuctiANAx " to take a new and honest depar
ture in Federal polities." On the *ay thither,at
Philadelphia, when he entered the rail car for
Lancaster, Mr. C. found Mr. A. D. BANKS of
the Southide Democrat, (whom he describes
as "young, ardent, able, and sanguine of
mind as well as of body,") and Mr. SAVAGE,
a Tennessee member of Congress—both also
eu route to visit the President elect. In the
course of their ride ; the following characteris
tic conversation is said to have transpired
"Mr. Banks soon launched out like a true South
erner and strategist against Northern institutions.
Ile held that they were a failure; that, as they
now stood, they had yielded evil rather than good,
and that the condition of the people, now wretched,
was bound to become worse and worse, till property
and liberty were both sacrificed. It was clear to
him that we must give up universal suffrage or con
sent to surrender capital and its rights to the de
mands of the mass who were destitute. As to the
state of things in the South, it was far superior;
there were no jealousies between master and slave ;
they were of very different races—he superior in
finitely, and they quite inferior by nature. There
was no possibility of changing this condition, and
no desire to do so on the part of the black laborers.
They were as much benefited by having some one
to think foi• theta as he teas hp hitNing Inahy
work for him ; our intellectual power was so much
more potent than physical, that force was out the
question. It never would nor could be resorted to
by machines who had no wish for more than the
necessaries of life, with protection. The slaves
were happy, the master was content; thermion was
one of duty and affection, as well as interest, and
would be perpetual. Such an institution as slavery,
so described, therefore, was the firmest foundation
for our political fabric. It was socially selfper
petuating and politically safe. Such was the sum
of the donversation on that topic, in which, though
strongly tempted; I did not join conclusions, for I
did not want my mind put off its bent.
"There was another matter discussed on Mr. B.'s
motion. He told us the South would have die
solved the Union if Fremont bad been elected Pre
sident of the United States; that Governor Wise
and the Virginia leaders 'were ready to take the
field—march on Washington, depose the Federal
officers, take - the Treasury, archives, buildings,
ground, .3:c., declare the Confederation etc facto
overthrown, and the District to have reverted to
Virginia, the purpose for which she had conveyed
it liaving failed. He said the thing would have
been easy. There were thirty thousand men ready;
twenty thousand cavalry, sets of accoutrements,
dc. ; that the public mind was sufficiently ex
cited to overcome all domestic resistance, and that
they could whip the North in thefight. He seemed
to 1e perfectly cool ata abstract tit these iieeletYt
dons, and without Ilozehttmplicalyhel ieted mime
he Saul. I thought it might be well to reply ; so
I said gpotlnaturedly that I was something of
a politician myself ; that I knew he was a son
of Virginia ) hut that I was a grandson , and
so we were of kin, and wherever relatives met
it seemed proper to discuss interesting mat
ters. I had thought a good deal of the proposi
tions of revolt made by Governor Wise, and had
formed an opinion contrary to the one he had pat
forward. The eleettedi of FteiSeollt, to the mind of
the extreme South, ought not to be a signal for re
bellion, but rather for strict acquiescence. Re
could only be elected according to the Constitution,
even if he got scarcely any Southern vote. But
that was no cause for appeals to force, overthrow
ing the letter, form and spirit of the Federal com
pact. The South had always been foremost in de
fence of that instrument, and she had no other
.lEgis. The Fremont Party did not do anything
revolutionary in electing him ; and if he or they
contemplated a violation of State rights, or other
rights guarantied by the compact, they might be
turned from the purpose by reflection or by remon
strance or ultimately if the purpose should be
prosecuted to action, checked by the force of the
Constitution itself, asserted by the Supreme Court,
and by other branches of the Federal Govern
ment. I bated violence and all its &mote and
incidents, but meant to have gone on to the seat of
war, if Gov. Wise had marched with a view to call
a truce, and have that kind of intimate con
ference which should take place on such an occa
sion- between grandma and grandson. I told
Bouts that I should have entreated her not to
stain her venerable hands with blood, ?tor give
to the vulgar red record of tyrants and warriors
against their country the stately fame of the
august Dominion, dc., &c., quite in the Cam
byses vein, which restored good humor. Then
I reminded him of that passage in history which
relates the :forlorn appearance and swift destruc—
lien of the,old noblesse of France, who came out
of their rereats in city and country, where they
had long been hid from sight, on the sanguinary
10th of August, at the Tuileries. Some two
hundred of the marquises dukes, and iesser
dignitaries, in small clothes and small swords, girt
the monarch that day for his defence against the
awful vengeance of a thousand years. As the
waters of Niagara carry down the cataract a
wisp of straw, so did the p eople obliterate these
faithful, but misguided, friends of past abuses,
and of an absolute sovereign, now weaker
than the peasant marching against him in
his wooden shoes, but armed with the terri
ble bayonet, and fired by the new blaze of free
dom, and the equal rights of all men, from
highest to lowest. - So it would have been with the
Virginia invasion of the District if it had not been
stopped short of its destination by the sage and
sober second thought of its great men and women.
By force aces Union may be consolidated, but
by force it eon never be dismembered. The sec
tion which attempts that, will find the rest will or
ganize resistance to overthrow the attempt; orga
nization implies leaders and followers, and some
one man invested with the supreme command. It
Will be matehcSl on the ether aide, and the result
of the conflict will be the election of one chief or
the other,
and the unity of the State, all the con
stitutional safeguards having been broken up, and
command and obedience substituted thenceforth
for law and equality. And that Virginia should do
such a thing was beyond belief ; or, if she did do
it, that she should not be overtaken by all these
consequences, was luckily now only a speculation.
But my mind was not to be withdrawn from other
matters. I did not intend, I said, to look back
wards, but forward—forward into the future,which
had yet to be shaped for the bane or blessing of
ourselves and posterity."
We trust the natural apprehensions ex
pressed by Mr. Conan: ; in regard to consoli 7
dation as a consequence of the struggle we
have had forced upon us, are entirely gratui
tous ; and that we shall conic out of this war
more powerful and more republican than be
fore
Although there were rumors in general cir
culation at the time; of a Contingent insurree
lion by Governor Wtsn and others, yet they
were almost universally discredited through
out the North. Hardly enough heed was
given them to give point to the common
ridi
cule which the matter occasioned 'Whenever
spoken of. Now, howeVer, we can see that
these rumors were not mere gasconade. We
remember, also—and so must all those who were
upon terms of intimacy with him in those days—
how earnestly Mr. BUCHANAN used to speak of
the certainty of a Southern rebellion, in' case
FRE;UONT shoidd be elected. He had then,
undoubtedly, good reasons for this earnest
belief. His correspondence with certain South
ern leaders was constant and extensive; all the
time he was a candidate for the Presidency—
from 1844 to his election. Ile must have
known, better than any other Northern man,
the violent, bitter, and ambitious feeling of the
Southern leaders, during all this period ; and,
if he had ranged himself with the Democracy
and the gallant, Doror.As throughout, on tha
Kansas questions, and sustained his own early
conservative convictions, as expressed to
Governor 1V A Limn and Mr. STANTON', in that
regard, how different would have been the
aspect of the country at present!
There were prominent and able men of
South Carolina, in that day, (for their own
sakes we forbear to name them now,) who ap
proached President BrCIIANAN at that most
critical period, and almost, with fearful earn.
estuess, urged that Rum, YAxcEy, and their
coadjutors, were bent on breaking up the Union ;
and our belief was, and still remains, that if
the Administration, by its appointments and
power, had properly sustained the national
Democrats in that State, they would have es
tablished and maintained an able public jour
nal at Charleston, whose efforts would have
gone far to render powerless the insidious
poison of the Mercury: But no, the most rabid
fire-eaterS,' though evincing a stately indiffer
ence at the very moment toward the Presi
dent, were placed or kept in the most in
fluential and important offices of the General
Government, and nothing done to encourage
what was then a brave, decided, and efficient
'Union party in the Palmetto State.
The same shuffling and paltering policy was
adopted by the Administration toward the
whole South. Union men were scarcely re
cognized ; and Genii himself, turned renegade
at the very outset,
.to his former political
affiliations—plotting afterward, and preparing
with FLOYD, THOMPSON, and others, to destroy
a Government . they feared they could no
longer control. - DOUGLAS, and the Northern
Democracy : were to be left to their fatea
fate accelerated by their steady friendship for
the South, in all times of difficulty and danger
in the past. We suppose, in charity, we must
regard all these as simply mistakes on the part
of President Bucur&NAN ; but they are mis
takes which have deStroyed the Democratic
party, and nearly undone his country !
LETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL."
WASHINOTONi OCt. 28, 1861
Who will be the historian of this war?
Thousands are preserving the materials, em
balming the romance, and accumulating the
proofs, so that the guilt of the beginning may
be set clear and the authors of our present
troubles properly arraigned at the august bar
of posterity. The just. and impartial mind who
can analyze this enormous mass of - testimony,
and surround it with the true philosophy of
the war, has not yet appeared. When such a
man approaches this gigantic task, he will be
first impressed by the contrast presented be,
tween our struggle for freedom and the.strug
gles of ancient and modern nations. A matter
of-fact people, a progressive, money-making
and money-spending race, and a Government
more than once said by foreign critics to re
semble a new building, rapidly erected, and
still redolent of fresh paint and undried walls,
are now engaged in a conflict in which
the grandest attributes of the human
character are displayed. We, who study
the records of other wars, as we thrill
with alternate anger and delight over the deeds
of despots and of heroes as we contemplate the
triumph of tyranny and the downfall of liberty,
are daily startled into new emotions by the
actors and the events of this• exciting epoch.
The gallery which perpetuates the features of
our illustrious dead is fast filling up. Hun.
dreds have already fallen. Many will soon be
forgotten, save by those who loved them best,
or be remembered only in the memoirs of
the chiefs who led them: Even our buried
chieftains are for the time omitted from our
recollection by the pressure and :the presence
of the scenes in which we live. Lyon, Greble,
Ellsworth, Cameron, Baker, and Winthrop,
while we grieve for each and all of them—
even these noble sacrifices are lest sight of in
the hope created by their living successors.
The disinterestedness of the loyal masses, and
their readiness to support the Government in
a fearless prosecution of the - war, by their
contributions of men and money, Will awaken
the surprise, and demand the applause of the
historian. •
But the discussion of this great struggle
will be found if) be profitable
coming generations in the manner in which
parties and statesmen have taken positions in
regard to it. Who, five years ago, would have
supposed that Jefferson Daviscould wiltttiglp
put himself forward as a representative of re
pudiation, of perjury, and of unmitigated
treason ? Who, recollecting the course of
Howell Cobb in 1850, would have predicted
that, in 1860, he would be found on the side of
a bloody construction of the doctrines of Cal
houn 7 Who could have anticipated Alexan
der H. Stephens as the follower of Davis and
the eulogist of the Calhoun theory? Who
ever expected to see Sam Houston the mean
apologist of treachery against the flag of the
Union ? Who, regarding John C. Breckinridge
as the rising star of the Democratic party,
chiefly because his family traditions and fami
ly prejudices allied him to Northern sen
timent, expected to see him first the can
didate and afterwards the champion of
armed treason against the Constitution
Who looked forward to the day when
conservative men like Philip Frank Thomas
and Robert M. McLane, of Maryland, would
be found on the side of the foes of the Union ?
In what wild dream did the figure of Roger
B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States,
the old friend of Andrew Jackson, appear as
the known advocate of the pernicious doe
-Hue of State rights Against the Colistiltitloo
he was sworn to expound and to defend ?
Who expected to see Southern gentlemen
engaged in the bad work of stealing the money
and the property of the Government which
had protected them? - Who would have pre
dicted that the day would arrive when the
Southern portion of the United States, which
has looked upon England as its greatest ene
my.; would crouch and crawl before the British
throne to ask its interposition against the
home Government, which it has heretofore
controlled ? Who would have expected to
see the day when Southern statesmen would
array the Indian tribes against Southern
States, and against the Federal Government,
immediately after they had invoked the same
Federal Government to protect Southern
peopl6 lima these remorseless savages 1 .
These are questions that the historian of this
day, and the, days in store for us, will have to
examine and to decide.
It would be unprofitable to examine the re
lations of parties and the public men of the
free States since the commencement of our
present troubles. It would be uncharitable
to select for popular execution those who
have taken ground against their country in
that qUarter. The historian will be amazed
that, in such a contest, made sublime by great
principles and great duties, any man or any
party should be found doubtful, much less art
tagonistic. That which remains to the loyal
men everywhere, after the fullest investiga
tion of the alleged grievances which produced,
and the ascertained outrages which precipi
tated, this struggle, is the commanding truth
that the friends of the Constitution and the
Union have the full argument, the . entire mo
rale on their side. This reflection is an afflu
ent compensation at such a period. It is a
truism as old as the human race, that no 'nation
can be defeated which standi upon a living
principle, and is actuated by hiii4ttfie Motives,
and which, while looking to its own existence,
constantly asserts its determination to protect
the liberties of the people and to oppose the ag
gressions of despotism.
In my comments upon the lamented Colo
nel Baker, I stated that, in addition to his
many other intellectual gifts, he was a fine
poet--a remark that was received by many
with surprise. lam permitted to publish one
of his fugitive pieces, written by him twelve
years ago, and now in the possession of an in
timate friend in this city. Observe how the
last verse applies to his fate
TO A WAVE.
Dust thou seelLa star, with thy swelling crest,
Oh! wave that leavest thy mother's breast?
Bost thou leap from the prisoned depths below
In scorn of their calm and constant flow ?
Or art thou seekingolllo ttiytant Inntl -
To die in murmurs upon the strand?
Mast thou tales to tell of the pearl-lit deep,
Where the wave-whelmed mariner rocks in sleep?
Canst thou speak of navies that sunk in pride
Ere the reit of their thunder in echo died?
What trophies, what banners, are floating free
In the shadowy depths of that silent sea
It were vain to ask, as thou rollest afar,
Of banner, or mariner. ship or star :
It wire vain to seek in thy stormy face
Some tale of the sorrowful past to trace.
Thou art swelling high, thou art flashing free,
How vain are the questions we ask of thee !
I too ant a ware on a stormy sea :
I too am a wanderer. driven like thee :
I too em seeking a distant land
To be lost and gone ere I reach the strand.
For the land I seek is a waveless shore,
And they who once reach it shall wander no more.
OccAStosm..
TBEPRESS. - PHILADELPIIIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1861.
LATEST NEWS
ALL QUIET ALONG THE LINES.
Another Grand Military Review,
GENERAL STONE'S ORDERS TO COLONEL BAKER,
'Affairs on the Upper Potomac.
THE WAR IN KENTUCIEY.
ALL THEIR CAMP EQUIPAGE TAKES.
IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI.
PRICE STILL RETREATING.
Gen. Fremont at Bolivar.
The state of affairs in New Granada with regard
to the United States is in a delicate and interesting
condition. Elevating the flag of State sovereignty
and State rights, General Mow;Ena. threw his
country into a terrible revolution, and on the 18th
of July succeeded in entering the capital, through
the imbecility of the chief eortuniusders of the con
stitutional army and the absence of confidence in
them by the troops ; but he has not been able to
extend his rule to even one-half of the territory or
population of the country, and there are now
powerful odds against him.
Letters from Bogota say that the American le
gation there favored the obtaining of information by
MOSQUERA relative to the strength and movements
of his opponents, by which he was enabled at last
to attack them with advantage ; that in the same
manner our minister, Gem DOSES, violating the
orders of General !Mimi° in the Magdalena
river, had months before caused the disaster
to the expedition sent by President ()SPINA
to the Atlantic States under the command of
that: chief, Gen. JONES having caused a steamer
to proceed down the river, by which the rebels
were informed of the position, strength, and plan of
attack of the Government troops. These letters
also assert that, on the evening of the 29th of July,
when MOSQI7ERA. most cruelly. ordered the murder
of three citizens without trial, even denying them
spiritual comforts, Gen. Joxas lent the United
States flag at a ball or soiree given at the house he
occupied.
It is known. too, that JONES himself hastened to
recognize the self-assumed Government of Mos-
OtEriA, presenting to him the appointments of
United States consuls for Panama, and asking from
him the exequaturs, which were immediately given.
In consequence of .these proceedings of General
JONES, Mosor.EnA assumes to have been formally
recognized by the Government of the United States,
and therefore attempted to abruptly terminate the
labors of the New Granada and 'United States
Commission, organized nearly five months ago for
the examination and settlement of the claims of
American citizens, through personal animosity
against Messrs, IiVRTAOO and Porno, the former
a commissioner and the latter charge d'afaires of
that Republic.
Re first attempted to divert the funds provided
by New Granada for the commission, and next to
recall or supersede Mr. IluttrAno, notwithstanding
the commission. by the terms of the convention, is
of a judicial character, and is placed in a position
independent of political interference by either of
the Governments joining in the arrangement.
General JONES is now on his way to the United
States, and his successor, Judge Bow.hriv, has pro
bably, by this time, arrived at Bogota. The above
facts, though not derived from Government chan
nels, are_ reliable, and it is known in diplomatic
circles that MORVERA I by high-banded and discour
teous proceedings, has placed himself in hostility
to the English and Preach Legations at Bogota.
From the tipper Potomac.
Accounts from Darnestown, received to-night,
say a sufficient force remains at anti near Edwards'
Ferry to insure safety against, any 'attompt of the
rebels to cross or molest us.
The review to-day completes the series of general
inspection reviews of the army_ciftbo "P"'"'" 4o .
akevcrLELL m - ost empasuoally expresses
himself gratified and entirely satisfied with the
progress made by the armyiu military practice.
He has so reported to the Executive. He has made
himself acquainted with the commanding officers,
not only of each division and brigade, but even - with
the regimental officers, and generally with the men.
There is not a man, probably, irk the Potomac army
whom he has not personally inspected. His face is
familiar to every soldier, and in his superior abili-
ties for the important position he new holds the
army generally have the most entire confidence.
These are established facts, and they are not with
out great importance.
Dame humor is now engaged in creating a di
vision between these two generals, and has sue.
ceeded so far as to propagate a report that in con
sequence of the senior general's tenacity of autho
rity the junior has tendered his resignation. In
all this there is not a shadow of truth. All that
General hieCLELtax has asked for is the control of
the army of the Potomac, and that has been con
ceded to the fullest extent. With him, also, as a
consequence, the entire responsibility of the acts of
that army rest. He asks to have the full control.
out of no love of power or pride of position, but
wholly in view of the fact that, while ootaultations
are important and desirable, a division of his au
thority naturally tends to weaken hie influence,
and render the movements of the army less certain
of success.
It is true that one or two veteran Army officers
have—one of them within the past reek—intima
ted a disapproval of the appointraOat - of Gertorol.
MCCLELLAN over those who have been longer in
the service ; but these, too, cheerfully leave all pri
vate feeling for the public good, and cordially throw
the testimony in the scale of entire confidence in
the ability of the young general, •
Grand Review To-Day.
The principal attraction here to-day is a general
review by Gen. McCLELza.w, of the troops on this
side of the Potomac. under the command of Gen.
CASEY. At 11 o'clock the regiments began to
leave their respeetiVe encampments at the various
points around the city, and march to the review
ground on East Capitol Hill. Regiment after regi
ment passed down the Avenue preceded by their
respective bands of musk, and led by their com
manding officers mounted. The 'morning being
fine, the citizens, and particularly the ladies, were
out in large numbers, and the indications of the
city were those of a general holiday.,
The review presented attractions ot unusual in
terist. Its magnitude;the precision,of the, evoln
tions, the aptitude of regimental officers in
.receiv
ing and giviag orders, and the resit:hate in exe
cuting them, all evinced an improvement in mill.
tary tactics, that commanded general admiration,
and could not but have afforded great satisfaction
to the superior officers of the army. ,
It 4 un4ltrAtoo thg,ttbis is the ItAgenereirclidefq
on this side of the river, previous to a removal of a
number of the encampments hero to other important
positions, preparatory to a general engagement
against the enemy.
The Wounded at Ball's• Bluff.
The wounded were not brought to this eity
was expected. but are in the hospital at Poolesville•
Thirty sick soldiers from Gen. BAxxs' army ar
rived yesterday, via the canal, and are now in our
haspital.
Five prisoners in the common jail here, one for
murder, and others for counterfeiting, obtaining
money by false pretences, &c., had so far succeeded
in making their way through the wall, that they
had reached the last course of bricks, when the
plot was discovered on Saturday. ' The work had
been done with a knife obtained from a colored man
in the kitchen.
There is a foolish law on the statute books here,
which forbids the sale of goods by sample. In se
veral cases recently, it has been enforced, and the
repreeentatives of New York houses have been fined
twenty dollars and costs of. suit. This law is with
out justice or reason, and ought to be wiped out of
existence.
Our Arms Again Victorious in Missouri.
A despatch was received nt Gen. Seorr's Mien
this morning, from which I obtain a copy :
ST. Louis, October 27.
To Cot.. E. D. TowNsurni : I have just received
the following despatch from General Fremont,
dated liumaneville, October 22
Major Zagonyi, at the head of my Guards, made a
most brillant charge upon a body of the enemy.
draxin up in line of battle, in their wimp at Spring
field, Missouri, 2,000 strong. He completely
routed them, drove them from the town, hoisted
the national flag upon the eourt house, then retired
upon a reinforcement which laid already joined
him. Our loss is not great. The imeeeSsful charge
against such very largeludds is an example to the
army. Our:id:ranee will occupy Springfield to-night.
C, MoKuuvuu,
•
Assistant Adjutant General.
Ronnur Cnoznot has been appointed District
Attorney for Kantios, in the place of Mr. Bennis;
who is engaged in the military service,
The blockade of the Potomac by the rebels has
stopped our shipping. and rendered my reports
from the navy yard of comparatively less value.
The steamer Pllsry came up last night, and reports
the rebel steamer Page in Quintile.) creek. The
steamer Le.vlir went down this morning, and will
join the flotilla.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON,
REBEL CAVALRY ROUTED NEAR PADUCAH,
THE LATE VICTORY AT SPRINGFIELD.
Special Despatches to if The Press?,
WASIIIMITON ! October 28, 1861
New Granada.
General Condition of the Army.
Generals Scott and McClellan
Attempt to Break Jail.
Selling Goods by Sample
District Attorney for Kansas.
From the wavy Yard,
Gen. Stone's Order to Col. Baker.
The order of Gee. STONE to COL R Eu , pub-
Haled in The Press today, is P l 'Onouncod a for gory by Gen. &ors, The original is hold by a
party in the army, whoße veracity is not doubted.
Claims Against the War Department.
Parties. from Philadelphia are hero with claims
against the War Department, for debts contracted
by Col. BAKER while raising his regiment, and
threaten to proceed against his estate, if payment
is not made by the War Department. The Depart
ment will liquidate all legitimate bill* so contracted,
but will reject bogus and exorbitant charges, and
will defend the family in resisting the payment out
of his estate.
The Potomac Blockade
A few vessels hare come up the river, and those
whocc liwuranco policy- includes the war claw° pre
fer to press their way up, while all others discharge
their cargoes below, either at Annapolis or Balti
more.
Rumor's Three Last Victories
There is probably no city in the Union where
stories of victories ere more easily manufactured,
and more generally believed, than in Washington.
We had, yesterday, the brilliant victory at Rom
ney, which has been confirmed ; then we had the
capture of Purtsmouth, Va., by a portion of the
naval fleet ; of the bay within Hatteras Inlet, and
the rebel shipping now confined there, by another
portion of the lighter vessels in the fleet, and to
to this was added a brilliant victory by FREMONT,
in which PRICE' was effectually whipped, and es
caped to Arkansas. These victories were all re
ceived and communicated by the newemongers at
Willard's, and were verified by parties who pro
fessed to know how the information was received,
anti were ready to guaranty iti authentleity. To
day, however, we have official intelligence of a
victory in Missouri.
Scarcity of Wood and Coal.
Wood 18 worth $7 and SS in our city, and coal
brings $6.50 and $7.50, with an upward tendency.
Miscellaneous
The publication of the details of the great naval
expedition ; by the New York papers, meets the un
qualified disapprobation of the President and Cabi
net. It is supposed that the information was fur
nished by an officer who holds a high commission
under Government, and an investigation of the
filets will most likely follow. It is common report,
that a number of officers in our service not only
sympathize with the rebels, but seize every oppor.
tunity to make public such movements of our forces
as will likely prove of advantage to them.
Some new developments are reported to have
been made in the case of Col. Kammoka, a member
of Congress fiord New York, who has been Maier
arrest for some time, on the charge of affording
aid and comfort to the rebels. The matter creates
much conversation in certain political circles.
A rumor was very prevalent this morning that
the late naval expedition had - captured Norfolk
and Portsmouth, On inquiring at the Navy De
partment, we learned that no such information had
been received.
Barracks are to be erected on the other side of
the Potomac, in the vicinity of Washington, for
sixty thousand troops.
Some of our regiments have not yet, received
their overcoats, and we understand that orders
have beeit issued that no other regiments shall be
forwarded unless they are properly clothed for the
winter campaign.
There is no lack of improved arms.
SICKLES' and HOOKER'S brigades are Still at
Port Tobfteeo. The report that the rebels have re
moved their batteries from Matthias Point is not
believed.
Col. CAKE is here on business connected with his
regiment, which is now encamped—one thousand
strong—in Schuylkill county. lie says that his re
giment has been full since the 18th inst., and is
under almost perfect discipline. He is now waiting
for his arms and overcoats, and expects to have his
regiment here in the course of ten days.- Col. CASE
formerly commanded the Twenty-fifth Pennsylva
nia in the three-months service. Gen. PATTERSON
remarked that they were the most orderly, and
best drilled and disciplined regiment in his divi
sion. Col. CAKE'S regiment is now called the
Ninety-sixth, and he has in his ranks, besides a ma
jority who served with him in the old Twenty
fifth, a number who did good service in the Mexi
can war.
CLINTON 1101 - T, Company F, .11ARLAN's Cavalry ;
EDWARD BEKNETT 7 Company 11, Fourth R6gAieiii,
McCALL's division, and ALLEN ESENBRAInf, mu
sician, Company G, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania,
have died in the hospital.
Some important movements took place among
the troops on, the other sitle_of__ the Potomac this
morning. A gififorel forward take
place in the next few days.
Merchandise is now being transported from Bal
timore to this city by express. Three wagon loads
arrived this afternoon. They were mostly light
pttoksFeg.
It is said that a second railroad track will be laid
between here and Baltimore before the Ist of Jan
uary.
A number of Republican Senators and Congrces
men are now here.
PROM MISSOURI.
GENERAL FREMONT AT BOLIVAR.
TEE FIGHT AT 'SPREtiGITELD,
SITUATION OF AFFAIRS•
THE COMING BATTLE
DISAFFECTION AMONG THE REBELS
Gen. Johnston to take Command.
RETREAT TO ARKANSAS DIRECTED.
A BaWle with Fremont to be Avoided
[Special Despatch to the St. Louis Republican.]
Cegr RICHARPSON, BOLIVAR, FOLK Ce
Saturday night, Oct. 28.—General Fremont and
staff arrived , here. sixteen miles from Camp
Morissey, and encamped this evening on the out
skirts of the town.
&diva, like nearly - all the towns in Southern
Missouri, is almost entirely deserted, the stores
being all closed and many of the houses abandoned.
It is now ascertained that the loss of Fremont's
body-guard, in the brilliant charge at Springfield,
was six or eight killed and from fifteen to twenty
wounded.
A number of most brilliant instances of daring
were shown on our side. A sergeant had three
bonefish& from under him, and a rebel placed a
NEM at Major 4og9ni'ff briT§ti and WM in tho aSt
of firing when the Major severed his arm from the
shoulder, and laid him dead at his horse's feet.
Col. Carr's Third Illinois Cavalry, and Major
Holman's Sharpshooters have left here for Spring-
Bel& and one regiment of Gen. Sigel's division will
march there at midnight. •
Gen. Fremont and staff and Sigel's division de
part by forced marches for Springfield at daylight
to-morrow morning, and will probably arrive there
in the evening.
Gen. MoKinstry was within two miles of Warsaw
last night.
Gen. Pope was this side the Osage river, and Gen.
flouter in Advance of him, all marohing to title
point.
I understand that in the forthcoming battle Ge
neral Lane and General Sturgis will have the left
wing. General Ilunter the right, General Asboth
the main column, and General Mckinstry will form
the reserve, General Sigel taking the advance.
Nothing farther has been heard from the rebels
under General Price, and there is no news of Me-
CullOCh.
[Special Deepatch to the St. Louis Democrat.)
Lens, Mo., Oct. 28.—General Kennedy, who
has just returned to Sedalia from General Price's
army, says that Price's men are much dissatisfied
at the prospect of leaving the State, and that they
will force Wan to make a stand within our borders.
On the other hand, it is asserted that General John
ston has left Kentucky to take command of the
forces under Price and McCulloch, and that, before
leaving that State, he cent a ender to Price and
McCulloch, directing them to fall back into Ar
kansas, and not to give Fremont battle until he
could first reach them. General Kennedy says that
General Fremont will have a much larger force to
contend against than he imagines. Considerable
numbers of Price's rebels are arriving in this sec
tion daily, and it is feared that they will renew
their plundering habits as soon as our troops leave.
FROM CAIRO.
ROUT •OF REBELS.
CAPTAIN AND LIEUTENANT KILLED
CAIno, Illinois, October 28.—A party of thirty
men of the Twenty-eihchth Illinois Regiment, while
scouting on Saturday, encountered a party of rebel
cavalry and infantry, thirteen mike below this place,
A brisk engagement ensued, in which the rebels
were routed with the loss of a captain and lieuten
ant, and several wounded. No loss on our side.
PROBE KENTUCKY.
REBEL CAVALRY ROUTED.
13 Killed and 24 Prisoners
52 HORSES AND CAMP EQUIPAGE CAPTURED
PADCOO I 2 Oet. 29.—Three companies of the
Ninth Illinois Regiment went to Saratoga, forty
eight miles up the Cumberland river, en Saturday,
and attacked a company of rebel cavalry 100 strong,
completely routing them. The rebels lost 13 killed,
24 prisoners, and 52 horses and all their camp equip
age were captured. The Federal loss was only two
wounded.
Letter from Garibaldi.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The following letter
from Garibaldi has been received by tllo United
states Consul at Antwerp
[TRANSLATION.]
" CAMERA, 10th of September, 1801.
" Dunn SIR : I saw Mr. Sanford, and regret
to be obliged to announce to you that I shall not be
ablo to go to the Unitotl States at prat,
" I do not doubt of the triumph of the cause of
the Union, and that shortly ; but if this war should
unfortunately continue in your beautiful country,
I shall overcome all obstacles which detain me, to
hasten to the defence of a people who are so dear to
MO. Yours, t 3, GARIDAMtI,
le Air.Quiggle, U. S. Consul at Antwerp."
A Secessionist Ridden on n Rail.
BOSTON, Oct. 28.—Asa T. Pratt, of Braintree,
who gave expression to strong Secession views M a
speech which he delivered at the late Democratic
Convention, was ridden on a rail by several of
his townspeople to-day.
The Steamer Arago oft' Cape Race.
Sr. JOHNS, N. F.. Oct. 28.—The steamer Armin
passed off Cape Race on Sunday morning. Her
advices hare been anticipated.
Public Amusements.
WALNUT-STREET TRF:ATRE.---"La C ircassienne,
adapted from the opera of the same name, a drama
weakly rendered but handsomely placed upon the
stage, and well played, attracted a large audience
to the Walnut-street Theatre last evening. A
number of fine tableaux occur in this piece, but
they were tamely arranged, and the encounters
which take place at the end of the first and the
end of the second acts were so lacking in intensity
that they might have been meant for burlesques.
The principal parts were sustained by Mr. and MISS
Richings, although Miss Gray, Mr. Bolivia, and
Mr. Johnson ; matte the most of minor characters.
A seraglio scene was well painted, and among
the :ladies of the harem little Miss Perry, with an
intelligent face and more than ordinary cleverness,
made a subordinate part amusing. The conception
of La Cireassienne—a young soldier who assumes
female costume, and in this guise infatuates a Rus
sian military leader—is in itself preposterous. but
Miss Richings made of it a pert. pleasant, dashing
character, and her transition from lady to lad was
very naturally sustained. The language of the
piece was seldom either precise or painted, but the
situations and incidents kept up the interest, and
the audience seemed to testify, by frequent ap
plause, their approbation and satisfaction.
In the afterpiece, Mr. Adams and Mrs. Cowell
made the best of unhappy parts.
MR. J. S. CLARKE will appear at the Walnut
street Theatre in a few weeks, and play a star en
gagement, introducing most of his leading comic
characters. -
CONTINENTAL THEATRE.—The "Siren of Paris"
drew a thronged house last night, and seemed to
please the patrons of the theatre. We reserve a
notice of the play for to-morrow.
soon BLITZ, whose genial personal qualities
and professional experience and aptness have made
his entertainments popular for more than twenty
years, gives nightly exhibitions during the winter•
at the northeast corner of Tenth and Chestnut
streets. Folks of all ages and tastes can find profit
and amusement at the Signor's exhibitions of ven
triloquism and magic.
TI!E PRESTIDWITATEUR.—The first performance
of Hermann will take place at the Academy of
Music to-morrow evening. The sales of scats at the
box office yesterday were very creditable.
Enwv FonnEsm IS BOSTON.—We subjoin the
following.complimentary and just opinlun of Mr.
Forrest's merits as an actor, taken from a late am
ber of the Boston Transcript. Ile will appear in
Philadelphia early in December :
Mn. FORREST will enter upon the fourth week
of his very successful engagement at the Boston
Theatre to-night. on which occasion be will appear
as Jack Cad, in Judge Conrad . .. , play of that
name. The public will be glad to learn that Mr.
Forrest has no intention of relinquishing his pro
fession, and has never authorized any such an
nouncement. At the conclusion of his present
engagement in Boston. he will open at the Acade
my of Music. Philadelphia, where ho will probably
act for two months. From thence lie goes to New
York, and will there finish the theatrical season.
We understand Mr. Forrest has had large sums
offered him to visit Europe and California profes
sionally, all of which he has declined. We arc
glad d this, inasmuch as the presence of en actor
on our stage who has so thoroughly studied into the
depths of the great art will be of incalculable
service, not only as a teacher to the rising sehool
of young actors, but as living evidence that genius,
when accompanied with persistent industry, is
certain to achieve an exalted and honorable posi
tion: as well in the dramatic as in any other pro
fession, where a high order of intellect is requisite.
Because an actor adepts any particular artiste as
a model, it is not necessary that he should be a ser
vile imitator ; yet, it is the same in acting as in
i'auting or in
.m..ulpture a „ rm i u l ia nem
'cry for
Ening up, and chs.duu,"
of the piece. the inspiration of It, stemia be left to
tite - imagination and genius of the artist. No inve
terate imitator can achieve greatness,, as all the
faults and blemishes of the original are generally
exaggerated, while the beauties are rarely ap
proached or unveiled. Heme t we contend, that by
having a model to work from, a more effective pic--
ture can be made, and yet not be an imitation. A
school for actors to study in is as necessary as for
any of the fine arts. If members of the dramatic
profession would strive to speak naturally. and act
so, rather than strain after effects at the saerifiee of
nature, they would oftener stir thehearts and arouse
the sympathies of their audiences.
We have always considered the greatest beauties
in Mr. Forrest's acting to be in his quiet and sub
dued scenes, which, at times, are Nature itself, in
all its grandeur, as well as touching simplicity. In
portraying the more -violent passions. there is an
intensity about Mr. Forrest's acting that is often
wrongly and unjustly attributed to rant. Being a
man of great power, physically as well as mentally.
his delineations of the more robust passions are
given with proportionate strength sad intensity,
while his delicate touches of pathos stir every
heart. His great physical powers are simply aids
to his intellectual grandeur. There may have been
Mom who never trod the stage, and poets who
never penned a verse. because in their constitu
tional formation one quality was wanting. This
quality Forrest possesses in an extraordinary de
ho uses in skilful eisediaues to the im
pulses of his genius.
PHILADELPHIA. MANSIONS.—What strikes every
Englishman with greatest surprise is the extent and
completeness of Amur'tenn i ais4 espetink of rhik,
delphinlntnsions One of the young gentlemen in
the Prince of Wales' suite, last October, was in
troduced into some half-dozen houses, inhabited
by leading business men and others in this city.
He said, what was tine, that with the exception of
about twenty of the highest and richest, scarcely
any English nobleman's town-house in London,
which he and his family occupy from January to
August, was half as good as oar dinning-60es
" up town. - This day, at noon, at the Philadelphia
Exchange, Messrs. M. Thomas it Sons, who dispose
of so much real estate, will sell a mansion. capacious
and elegant. S. W. corner of Broad and Poplar sts.,
far superior to any which the young and. noble at
tache had entered. In London, it would be eagerly
appropriated as the residence of some rich Duke or
Marquess—here, it will bo purchased and inhabi
ted. by one of our merchant-princes, who has
awned a fortune by successful enterprise. It oc-
cupies a lot 240 feet on Broad and 160 on Poplar
street; has gas throughout the house, which was
built with extra thick brick walls, covered with
mastic, for Benjamin Stiles, Esq. : has large
pillsts and steps in front ; end the drawing=
rooms and. rotunda, when thrown open, form a
apace one hundred feet long. The main building is
65 feet in front, 75 feet deep,ond 4 wings. Art
and experience hare been : premed into the service
to make this dwelling complete in all lid clefiteatie
details. Three hundred feet of greenonses—for
flowers, grapes, and pines ; stableS and coach
house, shrubbery and fruit-trees, billiard-room and
fountain complete the lot. Moraoyer, the furni
ture, made .to suit the house, can be had at a va
luation, and $30,090 of the purchase money left on
mortgage. We wish we could afford to buy this
pahlee,
LARGE POSITIVE SALE OP BOOTS, SROES, Bite-
GAss, Arnr,mso-nAos, &e.—The early attention
of purchasers is requested to the large assortment
of boots, shoes. brogans, soft hats, &c., besides a
'full line of travelling bags, embracing a general as
sortment of desirable seasonable goods, to be pe
remptorily sold, by catalogue, for cash, commencing
this morning, at 10 o'clock, by Myers, Claghorn, h
Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 anti 234 Market street.
EXTRA VALUABLE REAL ESTATE, STOCKS, ETC.-
To-day, at the Exchange, including the splendid
Broad-street residence, and other desirable city and
eountry property. The valuable farm and the
Fifth and Walnut-streets property, and others, to
be sold peremptorily: See Thomas & Sons' pamphlet
catalogues and advertisements.
SUPERIOR Fortationx—Sale this morning, at No.
1725 Green street.
The Prize Captures in the Gulf.
The following correspondence has been received
UNITED STATES STEAMER SOETR CAIIOLINA, t
SOITTIIWESZT PASS, Oct. 4, 1801. )
Sln : I have to report that the two schooners
brought here by me were captured by us. The
first, the Ezada, was taken on the 30th ult., four
or five miles from land. with the TiMbelier light
bearing W. IS. about thirteen miles. The other,
the Joseph Toone, we caught, after a hard
chase of five hours, at the entrance of Barra
taria bay. As soon as she discovered us she
stood to the southwest. They both claim to
be English. The first, the Ezi Ida, was cleared
for Matamoros. by Capt. T. 0. Sullivan, of Cork,
Ireland, and the log is signed by him, but it ap
pears he left her tefore she sailed. and when cap
tured by us she was commanded by an ex-United
States naval officer, William Anderson Hicks. of
Mississippi, who resigned from the Naval Academy
at Annapolis. in March last, and was an officer on
board the Sumpter when she left the Mississippi.
fie had curried' lute Cienfuegos several {irises taken
by the Swo.pte r . , and when we took hire he was on
his way home rut Havana. Re had as puss mger
Mr. Badenhoff. a merchant of New Orleans, whom
I have determined to let go on his parole.
The crew list of the Ezi/da contains not one
Englishman. and, taken in connection with thb
fact that he had contrived to get so far off his
course—over four hundred miles—against ad
verse winds, not to mention the cargo, 10) entirely
contraband of war — a list of which is herewith
sent—l at ease pronounced him a prize to the
United States Government. One of the bills of
lading says, 4 , Shipped sixty-one bags of coffee to
any port of the Confederate States north of
Brews. — The Joseph IL Toone's. captain is from
New jersey, and her crew, ;judging from ap
pearances, are mostly foreign to the British
Crown. An abstract which 1 send you of her
cargo, taken from the bills of lading found on
board , being lates!ly arms aid to-
gethor with ether articles contraband of war, were
so convincing I immediately made her a prize to
the United States Government lter pazzoni , ' ers
were: William Aymer, merchant, of New Or
leans, hails from Bt. Andrews, N. 8., and is owner
of both cargo and vessel; Thomas Lewis, late of the
United States army, and Intely attached to the
U. S. Arsenal at Washington, has an English
passport and travels under the name of John Mar
tin. Bath of these are to go to New York,
prisoners of war, in the Niz/ttingats. Dr. D. L.
Lefcbre, a Frenchman, says he thought ho was
going to Tampico. I shall let him go on parole. I
have directed Stephen R. Hudson, mate, to pro
ceed in the Arigitti”,mde, with the cargo and
prisoners, to testify in both eases. I estimate the
arms to be from 4,000 to 5,000 stand.
Respectfully, JAMES ALDEN, Commander.
To Flag Officer WM, W. Mcliomv.
Commander Alden, in his communication accom
panying the official reports, estimates the number
of arms captured at from 4.000 to 5,090 stand.
Many of them are old flint-looks, and sonic aro en
tirely useless from age and rust. The commander
adds : "They serve to show, however, that the re
bels must be sadly put to it for arms when such
things will pay the freight. I trust, however, that
a large portion of them will be found of this first
clew, and do us good service." The officers and
crews were in fine condition, and enlivened by
their success, their prizes amounting. in the short
space of three months, to the number of sixteen.
THE CITY.
Business of the Leading Manufactories.
\►'e present Mow a table representing the number of
workmen employed in the leading city manufactories at
thin date and at n corresponding date
of 1860. The lint
Is necessarily incomplete; but in believed to be an per
fect as call at thin time be made. The factories given
represent about 8,000 workmen, and more, than C20,-
000,000.
c.. -5 . :
IlcsiNEss. .Ea. i
Wnt. Sellers C 0...
M. W. Baldwin A; Co
IL IleMehl Si: C 0....
Norris R Bon.. .... ; .
Wm. Wood A: C 0....
Navy-yard .....
liridesburg Arsenal.
Matthews & Moore..
Bement Dougherty
iron founders.— 200 200 full tino;
locomotives.....; 700 450 do.
brass founders ..; 25 35 do.
locomotives 000 200 do.
domestic goods.. 42 52 do.
Government .... • 200 2400 do.
Government 100 :200 do.
iron founders...." 250 230 do.
machinery for
7001009 do.
Army 1200 d o .
bread .... i
1000
iron castings.... GO 80 do.
machinists an d ;
iron f oundt.ra..' 75 100 15 hours
GOTel7llllPlit j !
Reach-A. Arsenal...
Mechanical Bakery..
Architectural Iron
Works
Morgan, Orr, sc Co
IT, littglee Bruner".
domestic 230 230 full time
yard ma nufact u'r, 30 30 fall time
woollen and flan- 1
B. 11 t on
Devine's..
nel goods.- 350 350 15 hours
woollen g00d5....; 170 170
cotton LIOMIS__ 100 100 'laird°.
woollen and flan- . j
120 150 full limo
hollow ware...... 140 40
'stores and shot.. 250: 175
machinist' 630, 650
I
J
mr,
chemists do. do.
wrought-iron I
mill ...........215 245
flannel g00d5.... aoo,
printing cloths.. 300
dornesticgoods.. , 200 I
planing mi 11..... 2tlj
Freer l McCreigbt
Norris k Groolooii.
Conipbell & Elliot..
Savery & Co
North,Cbase,& North
Merrick &
Verree 6; Mitchell,
telbrandt, 114-
) bins, Marshall &
t Griffin, all
Rosengarten & C 0...
Rowland ............
Glenburne Mills...
Drake , . Mill
Guy & Co.
Thompson, late Sloat
S AT 31ANATUNK
Hiltons Ding.
1:• W. ik J. Preston
Holt ,t 1,5e0ck....
S. Solo's
J. D. Winpenny..,
Daniel Arbuckle...
,T. Dlason S.: Son..,
G. Sutton R Son...
B. Schofield.
Joseph Dobsin, woollen
mill, falls of Schuylkill. 160
l'oper Mills,
Feror
Joseph Docket....
Stellwngen ... . ..
Joe. McDowell
Cotton all
25 ! full time
200 200 ; do.
9.5 10 ; do.
225 175 do.
100 75
75 stopped ; do.
100 ! do. do.
70 do. ! do.
50 50 do.
• 30 GO I half time
_l3 15 ! full time
15 'stopped do.
Ripkas
Campbell ,t 7 Co., 3 mills.
Stephens & Whittaker...
600 600 , full time
200 . 200 f do.
• Flour Mills.
Pugh's flour mill, the only,
one at Manayunk 10
employed on Government work
• .';F RD COTTON AJD 'e e ,
4 - e
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.
1
Ge 0 a
•'"- ' 5 •:. . , .1. g 4
FIRM. t... = I '''.,.. "E
0 C. , ~.... .
0 "
1. 4 4 1 1.'70 a
- ;a I .".u‘' a.A
P. 1% 1 P1...2,
_
I '' i g- ,..
1Vy1e........... i 40 1 05 full time
Evans I 100 , 100 double time
Driller 1 401 90 two-thirds
'Briggs i 45 1 45 , one-halt
Garee3 i 475.; 015 folk throe
Foster ... I TO i TO do.
Bain . i 70 I 70 half time
Colladay ... ' 50 i 50 I full time
Print and Dye Works. ,
Lippincott ' 11.419.1 1 Usual runtime
I No. No.
Wilson..., „„,„..... .. I i 15 i 30 two-Akira
Harrod( .... 30 , SO two-thirds
Iron W I
orks.
Stanhope ..t: Supplee .... I 53 i 135 ; full time
Rowland . 40 ' 30 I do.
Miscellaneous.
Yankirk's chandelier fac-;
'tory too
',...
27.5 200
The hands engaged at the above cotton and woollen
and print works comprise men, boys, and women.
cat PAve AND Rs War4ol7c4llPicti With
the Bret sad antaAnCebient front Washington of the
death of Col. E. D. Baker, Of thia city, came a telegraphic
despatch, stating that he bad made his will Info , c going
into battle. Like many other is specialdespatches' front
'Washington, coming through irresponsible sources, it
ices wholly untrue, being Probably predicated upon a re'
mark recently made by the martyred statesman and war
rior, that he had "settled his affairs."
0-A sister of the deceased returned from Washington to
her home in this city on Saturday night, and having
conversed with her yesterday, we have obtained several
facts alike pertinent to our subject and interesting to the
puldle.
Colonel Baker died intestate—so far as hie relatives
have any means of ascertaining. His business affairs in
the Atlantic States will be settled up by his brother, and
in San Francisco they have been entrusted to his son-in
law, Mr. Stevens.
A despatch from General Stone, which is important
as showing that the deceased officer was not chargeable
with the rashness and fearful responsibility which have
been falsely attached to his name, is now in possession of
one of his relatives in 'Washington. When he was
picked lifeless from the earth the manuscript, stained with
his own life-blood, was fumed lying at his side, having
fatten from his pocket_ It reads substantially as
R 11101111;
"Push ahead. Gorman will reinforce you. Advance
as far as you think discreet."
Col. Baker knew and appreciatedthedanger of attempt
ing to cross the Potomac at the designated spot, and ac
cordingly he had intended to cross in the night. time. He
had been assured, however, that he would be reinforced
by way of Edwards' _Ferry, (its ha might with proper
means of transportation, have readily been,) and accord
ingly ac tniesced in the decision of his superior officer.
Over two hours wore consumed in transporting the first
boat-load of troops, 30 men. When these men had land
ed, they saw a body of troops advancing, and supposing
that they were the expected reinforcements, they cheer
ed, hfiaiiied, iii & NeaMed their lilts In air. Tha seutuenes
is already known.
Col. Baker had a singular way of courting self-convic
tion against his better judgment. Before the transit of
the troops was commenced, he walked about twenty .
paces along the Maryland shore, his eyes directed across
the Flier. Calling to Cal. Young, ha said; hesitatingiVs
"Colonel, this is very good ground, it seems to me. Don't
you think it will answer our purpose"! And yet, in his
tones and face, were the strongest contradictions of his
words, and very little hopefulness.
There was a rebel encampment, we are told, just be
hind the shrubbery of tha bluffs, of which fact General
Stone could hardly have been aware. Had the ordinary
precaution of a reconnoitre been taken, the whole dis
aster might have been averted, and hundreds HOW stark
in death, spared to lives of future usefulness.
NAVAL ArrAlßli,—The Keystone Slate was,
Yesterday, lying in the stream oppysite the navy yard.
She Will be put on the sectional dock, for repairs, as soon
as the work on the State of Georgia is completed.
The United States steamer Hatteras, formerly the St.
Mory, which hasbeet. undergoing alterations at the yard,
will probably leave for the gulf to-morrow. The Hatte
ras was built at Wilmingtau, Del., Mine time since, And
was lately purchased by the Government. she is of per
culiarly light draft, and is designed to be used for pur
poses of transportation. Her force, comprising crew,
officers, and others, will number about two hundred. She
is to be furnished with four :V.-pounders and one 20-
'wind rifled cannon. The following are among her 016
cers: Commander, G. P. - Emmons; liantensatt, S. L.
Breese; chief engineer, A. M. Covert; first assistant do.,
N. P. Bates: acting masters, C. Cruse, G. B. Holfaer,
E. Brooks; acting master's mate, P. J. McGrath.
The work of coppering the steamer State qf Georgia
la rapidly progressing, and it is confidently expected she
w ill Ice itefely tot sea ditilitg ISO prePant Walt.
The new gunboat Wissahickon,. Launched about three
weeks since at the ship yard of J. W. Lynn, foot of Reed
street, wilt be ready to deliver to the Government during
the present week. A trial of her machinery was made
yesterday, when Hie working of her engines was focal
entirely satisfactory. The contract time specified for her
CoMpletiOli wag the eighth of Novembor..
A trial of the engines of the. TIOW gunboat MAW,
which wee launched one day prior to the above, was
made Olt Saturday last, at the wharf of Morris fi Co.,
Richmond. Her machinery was found to be in adntira
ble working order, Mal She will be ready for sea in a few
days.
A steamboat, of about lisooom blirdent is now in
course of erection at Lynn's yard. Site is 220 feet in
length, 34 feet breadth of beam, and %.3.1 feet depth of
hold, and is intended to ply between this port and Bos
ton, taking the place of the Plaineas Sprugue, which has
been sold to the I luvernment. A force of about 120 work
men are at present engatteil on the vessel, and she will,
ProPably, be completed in threeweeks time. Nestle ,S;
- Levy are to supply the engin( s.
CANNON OF THE litraE.Gumt.a...—The Rom
Guard Brigade recently received' sixlo-ponfal rifled cam
n•.a, commonly known as Parrot ein They are each
Reran feet long; and will carry a ball' about four tam
The shot used for them is el an °yid shape. Two more
guns—a twenty and a ten-pounder—are soon expected
to arrive, and these will complete the two batteries. The
Home Guard have alromly bees furnished with 204 sets
of harness, saddles, act, necimary for the horses . that
are to he used in pulling the gilts. The harness is rout.
piety, anti is not a t . in /11»n. l Ai'l e.
The gnus and harness are at the armory, Broad and Race
streets.
A VALUAD.LE .I...gyuuTledc—lmenovEn CAN
NO! nAMMER...WO - were ghowu yesterday, by the in
ventor, Matthew C. Bogie, Esq., of t h is city, the model
.
of an unproTed cannon-rummer, which he has lately
patented, and which will probably lie adopti.4 by Govern
ment. It works upon the principle, hitherto neglected,
of leiisening, the shotk.upon the plainer, so Ili It he *nay
cam charge after charge with scarcely nay fatigue. The
improvement had been uffered to c, c ,entnent gratis.
Tho sane principle is stoteptible or annum infinite ap
plicatiou and perhaps may be introduced with advan
tage in die plating of iron vt , ggele. • -- _
A BROAD-STeEET MANSION.—One of nio
most commodious, elegant, and fashionably situated pl.+
Vale mansions in this city its to lie din/m.4 of to-day as
auction. It is owned by mid for the last tea years has
occupied by Mr. Anspach, a prominent merchant of the
city. It was built about 16 years ago by Mr. Benjamin
Stiles for him own use. For now time it as occupied
as a convent by the Sisters 1.1 . Charity.
The walls are of brick, extra thick, and covered with
mastic. The main building is 6.5 feet front, 15 Poet deep,
and hat smith .0..1 south wings. The Arß,ing-rooms
and rotunda include ;t space about 100 feet in length.
The green-ligai,e4 consist of two grriperies of tlin
choicest fruits such its XI mmittine, Catawba, ete. The
pineapple house contains a number of plants about 20
of which are in full I.loom, bearing a fruit all the year
round, far superior to any imported. Then, there are
patina, rant runt, ' etc. We were !Mown a contagion Of
500 cantonal and 300 azitliati in enw hums.. The hot
lionws are warmed both by but air and hot water, which
ore conveyed from a central boiler in iron pipe:, about
three inches In diameter
A number of lemon and orange trees are now in full
bloom. The lemons are not but lelsor,ly cows
to maturity in the course of a year or so. Thy metro,
however, n. temperature ahoy' 40 degrees. It Is Impossi
ble to estimate the value, hi dollars and cents of the
horticultural portion of thy 'establishment. Sago-palms.
and Norfolk spruces, worth $5O each, (the former cost
$lOO many years ago,) together with the rare magnolia
firondiffora of South Carolina awl Florida are disposed
in the finely laid out grounds, among flumtalos, and statues
Of heathen moddemers, carved from Italian marble,
Then there aro coach-houses, hiliard-rooms, stables,
and all the usual appointments of a first-class mansion,
which the public have already had an opportunity to in
spect.
The grounds are enclosed with a prick wall, (180 feet of
it in front faced with tnarilli.,) snrinonnted with iron rail
ingSt Thy edifice It tam of the inindlomtnif In Broad
street, we can well credit the aniertion that Wilil,o{l9
was paid it not limy years plug.
MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.—LaRt
evening tiro regular utated meeting of the Mao] of Wade
wvu held, President bluthin iu !4i, qhmr, Th e h o nti t e , i
of the last meeting were read and approved. Since the
lost meeting ninety-four new members were proposed
and elected. There have lieen two resignations. The
prtsident 111111011/Iced the receipt of a number of public
documents. The following resolutions were offered by
Thlanag Kt/ober, and adopted by the meeting:
Rooked, That the /NA 4f TrOP
min with the utmost gratification the prospect of the
early completion of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
by the proposed loan of credit of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Comeau.
RePotted, That the vast commerce of the lakes, never
so large as during the present year, and which is now
litendly overflowing the canals and railroads of Sew
York and crowding the wharves of Its great commercial s ,
port is most eminently worthy the attention of the mer
chants awl citizens of Philadelphia, both in view of this
new avenue about to he ereati,l between our city and the
port of Erie, as well as of the channel' , already opened
with other ports of the lakes.
Mr. ?Umber, in presenting the resolutiimay stated that
tumult/di as thee Rimed of Traria, on a fermis OVIMAI3II,
had advocated the assistance by the Pennsylvania Rail
road to its dieter corporation, it scented proper to express
its satisfaction at the completion of the proposed arrange
ments. Tide appeared pecidiarly appropriate, in view
of the long struggles of the Sunbury and Erie road for
many years, daring a portion of which one of the toast
prominent of our mentherd, and of our citizens, ore.
Rifled over that company; one to whom Philadelphia
owes, more than to city OM else, the completion of
the Pennsylvania Railroad itself--Mr. Samuel Y. Mer
rick—ac well as in consideration of the great twig.
nitude of the trade of the lakes, and its import
ance to our city and State. lira K. /dated that he had
just returnea from a vi2li to New York :hate, and round
the New York Canal and the New York Central and
Erie Road entirely unable to transact the business offer
ing from the lakes, although they had largely raised
their rates. The priers of grain were at this moment
higher ht New York than in Philadeladelphia, while the
freights from tiew York to Europe were almost always
lower, thus showing that the trade attracted the facili
ties to transact it to the greatest telvantage.
A vote of thanks was returned to the Secretary fur his
great care in publishing, the Twenty-eighth Report or
the society. Albourned.
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PHILADRLPIIIANS AT BALL'S BLFFF.—IIL
our notice yesterday of the sufferers at Ball's Bluff we
mentioned Mr. Charles Cowgill as a "Philadelphian."
He is, however, a native of Kent county, Delaware, and
resides' there till the breaking out of the rebellion. Hs
is a member of a large and influential Quaker ("unity.
and hie medley's family name is also Con - 011.
A young Philadelphian, aged only nineteen, a member
of Company 11, California Regiment, was ono of tki
brave men who made the terrible charge for the rescue
of the body of Colonel Baker, when about to he taken
away by the rebels. His name is James S. Smyth. He
finally swam to the island, and in now safe. 4
Walk, Wingate, &oilipAily' A , whvs4
appears among the missing, was at one time engaged in
business as a broker, but at the time of his enlimenent
(which wee made upon the impulse of the moment after
the Bull Run disaster) be was employed 11.4 a clerk in a
large perfumers' store on Chestnut street. He we., a gra
duate of the Central High School. His mother, who re
tied upon him for sunort, and Is not in the mumt comfurt
aide circumstonce is overwhelmed with grief.
PHILADELPHIANS IN THE SPRINGFIELD PIG HT.
—Attached to the body guard of Major General Fre
mont, which made such a brilliant exploit at tipringfiwirl,
oh the 25th, iite two young et.miti6isith Wong
ing to this city, viz: Walter Newhall, a son of Thomas
A. Newhall, Esti., and Charles Triechel, a son of the late
Dr. Triechel, both residents of the Twenty-second ward.
The former is first, and the latter second lieutenant
IMPROVEMENTS AT CHERRY-HILL
The irregular area of grotind on the eastern side of
Cherry-hill Prison, extending the entire distance of a
square northward front Coates street, has been en
closed by a stone wall so as to correspond with the front.
and is now being tilled in awl graded preparatory to sod
ding. The wall is about two feet high and ourrnowntA
with a tlapatone coping. The aide of the prima or
Twenty heemal street should be similarly itne. ' .
it is equally susceptibleof intprovement,
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THE RESELT or THE EXAMINATION FOR SCR
GEONS.—The following appointments were officially an
nounced at the Executive Department On Saturday mem
ingefienons—Win. IL Tamort,
liemble, Harrisburg; Won J. Fleming, Philadelphia;
Wm. Allen Pet:, Montgomery; 0. M. Robbins, North
umberland : Franklin Midi, Allegheny ; John J. Marks,
Mifflin j J. P. Wilson, Centre; D. Websterßland,
Schnrt
kill: in. H. Worthington, Cheater; J. R LaMar,
Greene; Jonas W. Lyman, Clinton; F. Coquette,
Philadelphia; J. M. Allen, Delaware! E. Griswold.
Mercer; Isaac D. Knight, Philadelphia; G. L. Pottor,
Bellefonte; J. L. Stewart, Erie; E. It. Scholl, Reading;
Wwt.lL Ginninger, Philadelphia; J. It. Hays, Chester
county; Win. F. McCurdy, Philadelphia; Jas. L.
Dunn, Crawford; J. N. Everhart, Chester C. S. Which
field, Montgomery; J, P. Homielc, Mereeg ; Wm, R.
Blakeslee, cheater: Robert Barr, Indiana; A. W.
Wright, Chester; R. S. Simington, Montour; &refit
Merrill, Philadelphia; G. F. Hoop, Centre; Wm. H.
(+ankle, Chester: John McGrath, Philadelph i a; John
G. Frow, Perry; Wm. It. Shively, Bucks; Geo. B. Fun.
denim/17, Somerset.
Assist:La's- sruocoxe—Wm, F, Robinson, Montgome.
ry; J. P. McClearly, Northumberland; JOhlet
den, Philadelphia; Washington G. Nugent, Ducks gJ.
W. Anawalt, Westmoreland; Thomas B. Potter, Centre;
Theodore Jacobs, Montgomery; William Morrow Knox,
Berks; C. J. Siemens, Northampton; A. Owens Mille,
Philadelphia ; A. W. Fischer, Northumberland; George
W. Miller, Philadelphia; Theodore S. Christ, Lewis.
burg; Lewis G. Cummings, Philadelphia; W. Murray
Wiednuin, Lebanon; 'r. McCandless, Allegheny; A.
Pitlinos, Philadelphia; J. Bird l'eele, Philadel
phia; Charles W. Houghton, Philadelphia; John C.
Levis, Beaver ;
. A. W. Mutinies, Delaware; J. S. Mar
bourg, Certainly D. F. McKinney, Lycoming; George
13. Lummie, Philadelphia;' J. Stites Whilldin, Erie;
Wm. 11. Davie, Tioga; Robert R. Croice, Plrittylet
phitt ; George T. Weememeni Dauphin; Thomas F. Dun.
Can, Philadelphia; J, At, Junkin, Chester county;
Philip Leidy, Philadelphia; J. 11. Wintrode, Hunt
ingdon; P. Wager, Montgomery: Wm. Chm cb, Oretw
ford ; Robert et. Christian, Philadelphia; J. F,
sbteon, Centre.
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THE Put.kcy CASE.—Testerday morning,
in the United States District Court, Judges Grier and
Cadwalader, Thos. Quigley, Edward Rockford, ani
Daniel Mullins, three of the pirate crew of the Jeff
Davis, captured on board of the Enchantress, were
placed on trial.
A number of technical of jectionti were raised by the
conned fur the prisoners, in regard to separate trials,
want of notice, and, tinnily - , that the name of Rock
ford WAS incorrect. The three men were arraigned,
and to each count, when called to plead, Rockford an
swered that that was not his name. A plea in abate-
MOM. irk as Alsd ih bas behalf, setting forth that Ida tom.
was Rockford, and not Rockford. The District Attorney
filed a replication that the prisoner has ever been called
by the name of Rockford.
Upon the issue thus joined a jury 11113 called to test
the question.
ASSAULT (TUN A•Wommi.—Yotiteitlay morn
ing, a man known as George Robinson, alias Lama
George, was committed by Alderman Dallas chary,'
with having committed mnanderone neenute upon On
elderly woman named Candy, at her residence, on Bar
row street, near South. lie is alleged tohave struck her
a violent blow upon the head with a huge club, crushing
in the front part of the Moll, Nra Cat* fa [yin in a
critical condition, at her residence. •
ACClDF.NTS.—Yesteragy morning, a man
named Edward T. Duvall, aged forty-eight years, a
tavern-keeper, residing at the corner of Beach and Bait
streets, Nineteenth ward, was run over by a train of
cars on the North Pennsylvania itagroad, at Oak tau,.
and inetautlY killed. His head was crushed and his right
arm horribly mangled. The deceased was married, and
leaves a wife and four children.
Last evening, a man named James Riley, aged abratt
twenty-tire years, received a severe cut on the head.
NI FlVVetltt! and Market streete• •Re
wee conveyed to the hospital.
RUN OVER.—Joseph Haas, aged about six
years, was run over yesterday morning, about seven
o'clock, by an empty bay wagon, at Fifth nod Lombard
lamb!. Ho attempted to cross the woo, and trim
knocked down by the limes, hut escaped Injury. WWlr
under the wagon, he endeavored to crawl out between
the wheels, when one of them passed over his head, eau
sing quite a serious wound. The little fellow was picked
up by telegraphic operator Dint, met causer vi to the
residence (Aids eareutN No, 514 Lombard street,
.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A laborer named Patrick
Nolan was instantly killed, by falling front a scan - old, at
the Hurd Orphan Asylum, in West Philadelphia. The
deceased %%118 forty-one years of age, and resided at Rad
dingtan. . _
NARROW ESCAPE hi Sunday night, about
ten o'clock, Lieutenant Colonel Naylor, accompitnied by
Lie wife, while riding down Broad street, drove his horse
into a trench. near Spruce street. The animal was extri
cated by the Fifth district pollee, by means of ropes, after
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STRAXOLED TO DEATH.—A lad named ..Ve7-
ander ltobinenn, 13 years of ap,e, died from stranizulatitn
about_ noon on Smiday, ast him residence, near Twenty
fifth tont Biddle streets. Re had been playinq with - a
pistol-bullet, and gwalloweil it accidentally. All ellorte
to relieve the unfortunate buy were In rain, and lie ex
pired in about twenty minutes.
FIRE.— Yesterday morning, about one
o'clock, lire broke out in the brewery of Mows.
tseirweitzer 2 , 7., 715 ..rth Third sheet. The
ileil.ea rased gmititguislud boforo any cototidorohle *nag@
was done.
SoLoma's FUNEIIAL.—The funeral of James
COg,g3Well, Fl•rond corperal of company C, California
Regiment, will take place this Afternoon, from the reii
dole(' or hip , uncle, - No, 1510 iireen street. The ,
h . :MA 11,13 only ninetetm y.-am of age.
Ma. JAMES S. GIBBONS' " Overland Ex
presst" that is to run between here and Baltimore durinz
the blockade of the Potomac, began operations yester
day, fifty wagons starting out on the first trip. The
railroad is antomal to the work of transportation. Mr.
Gibbous is a well-known Philadelphia merthant. and
WHA formerly in bnwinrss on Chestnut street, below
Third. From his energetic character, we are assured of
the sarcess of the enterprise.
Ti: (:BEAT NAVAL EXPEDITION--MUCh in
1. fa Ly ona- regtiPal i 6 111.0 design of
the grand naval expediten now being fitted out.. The
Beer is one of the finest ever 40tten tip by any GOVern
ment. The Rani ell mama, in the oggregatc, 180
and the whole (Wl' nearly 400. A stunning blow is to he
struck - at sumo ftoini on tPft Southern coast, anti afi our
people must wait patiently for the remit, they should in
the we aline visit limo mammoth clothing emporium of
Granville Stokes, 000 Chestnut street, who has oti
hand the mast superior and cheapest assortment of tall
and winter garments ever offered for sate at anrosta.
blishment in the city. One yrice only asked fur cloth
ing.
AN ACCEPTABLE INFERNAL MACHINE b - A
reverend gentleman lately received a suspicious-looking
box, which was left at his door. Be had fears of an in.
fernal machine, and he opened it with great care, by cut.
Hug through the bottom. When tho box was penetrated.
there was an appearance of gold, and the result of further
illeitilOlLS revealed—heels hundred and eiphly dollars
fit hard cash! Accompaoying the motley was • note
giving the imam of its donors, and assuring the , person
to whom II was Bent that the most elegant garments for
the wear of both soldiers and drilloo ,, , wag than awe
at the Brown Stone Clothing Halt of flocithill h
Nos. OIX) and OW Chestuttt street, above Sixth.