Vrtss. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1861 EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.-- The conspiracy to break up the Union is a fact now known to nll. Armies are being raised, and war levied to accomplish it. There can be hut two sides to the c ontroversy. Every man must be on the side of the L'iliteJ States or against il. There eon be no neutrals in this war. There can be none but patriots and traitors." FOR SALE—The double-cylinder Turt.ott" Palms on tibirh this roper boa been printed for the last nine months. It is in excellent condition, haring been made to order a year ago, and will be sold at a bargain. tror terms apply at this office, or address JOnll W. FORM', 41T Ches.teut Street, Philadelphia, THE LATEST WAR NEWS. The rumors which prevailed in our city yester day, in regard to an advance movement of the army of the Potomac, were not altogether without foundation. A brigade of the Pennsylvania Re serves, under command of Gen. Ord, had au engage ment with four regiments of the rebels at Drupes -vine, in which the enemy suffered severely. After a battle of an hour and a half, they fled precipi tately, leaving on the field seventy-nine killed and wounded. Advices received by the Atlantic, which ar rived at New York yesterday, from Port Royal, With dates to the lath inst., state that Gen. Stevens' brigade, of 000 men, are in full possession of Beaufort, and that a largo amount of cotton has been already seized. Qn the 16th, 400 of 94!' mcu crossed to the mainland, towards the Charleston and savannah Railroad, to make a reconnoissance, and they encountered a force of 1,500 rebels, who only stood to fire one volley, and then retreated. It is supposed that (len. Sherman will soon make some important movement, as he has Issued an Octet , that all newspaper reporters should leave the place Immediately. George W. Jones, once a Senator in Congress from lowa, but lately American Minister to Bogota -wader Mr. Bath/moils Administration, has been arrested in New York, on a warrant issued by Secretary Seward. Mr. Jones professes the utmost Surprise at the arrest, as he had an unusually cordial interview with Secretary Seward, a few days ago, in Washington, when no intimations were expressed doubting his loyalty to the Government, and ho thinks the arrest is attributable to the officiousness of several persons in Washington who were unfriendly to him. Ile was sent to Fort Lafayette. The Montgomery AdviTtiser has a significant paragraph, which states that there must be a " diabolical " attempt to burn that city by some of the denizens, as fires have become very frequent of late. The tone or the Canadian papers. from which we publish extracts, shows that the war feeling in that country is quite as strong as iu England, and that active preparations are being made for the hostili ties that will ensue if a diplomatic adjustment of the existing complication with England is not speedily made. The consequences of a- war with that Power, at this juncture, are so grave and se rious that it is the solemn duty of the Ameri can people to stare them fully in thu face, and to avoid them, if they can honorably do so. We are now fairly progressing in our efforts to crush the rebellion, but ono of our most effective weapons is the American navy. The stringency of our blockade causes more distress and ember lament in the South than the movements of our army. It constantly cripples and injures them in every possible way. The diversions made by our naval expeditions at Hatteras, at Port Royal, at Tybee Island, at Ship Island, and other points, die. tract their attention, fill their minds with gloomy apprehensions, and add immeasurably to the dif ficulties with which they are obliged to contend. Much as our navy has been increased, it is still so far inferior to that of Great Britain, that one of the first consequences of a war with that coun try would be the virtual destruction of our blockade on the Southern coast_ The whole power of the rebels could then at once be con centrated upon their northern line of operattons, while a tide of wealth would flow in upon them for their cotton, and they would be abundantly sup plied with all the arms and munitions of war they could possibly require. Meanwhile, our seaboard would be menaced by the British fleets, and oven if we were fully successful in defending it, wo would necessarily be obliged to devote to that purpose a largo portion of our available strength. It is true, that in turn wo might do great harm to British in• terests; that her citizens own many hundreds of millions dollars' worth of property which we could confiscate ; that our privateers might prey upon her commerce; and that we might conquer a portion or the whole of Canada. But this would be but a slight recompense for the almost certain success of th e rebellion, and the total disruption of our Con federacy, which would probably be secured by British aid, and for the herculean exertions and enormous sacrifices we should be obliged to make to contend successfully against two such adversa ries as the rebels of the South and the greatestnaral Power of the world. Common prudence teems to require that in the midst of the greatest struggle in which we have ever engaged we should do all that we honorably can to avoid an additional com- - Lineation of the gravest character. The intelligence from Washington indicates that Mr. Seward has evinced a conciliatory spirit in his discussions of the Trent affair ; that war will ho avoided if the national honor can be peaceably maintained. At all events, we think hostilities cannot ensue, unless they are forced upon us on such en issue as will place us so clearly in the right, and England so clearly in the wrong,. that the judgment of the intelligent portion of her own people and of the civilised world will be em phatically against her. We have received further information from Mis souri of a gratifying character. A band of thirteen hundred prisoners, including three colonels and seventeen captains, have been captured by Col. Davis, and as we have now an ample number of the enemy to exchange for the Union soldiers in - their possession, the chances of a speedy return of the latter to their homes are greatly increased. The rebellion is evidently on the point of being forever destroyed in Misseeri, The recent procla' =Alen of General Price to the people of that State seemed to foreshadow that event, and his subse quent inactivity confirms the supposition. He pro• cured but few men by his bombastic address, for we see that Claib Jackson, the ex-Governor, has issued another pronunciamiento, dated at Colum bus, Kentucky, calling on the people he formerly governed to furnish the rebel chief with twenty thousand more soldiers, go that his forte may be increased to sixty thousand. A few more such Union victories as were gained by General Pope and Colonel Davis will entirely rescue Missouri from the ravages of the Secession hordes. it was recently stated by a correspondent from st. Louis, that Gen. nalleek designedly left a por tion of Missouri in an apparently exposed condition fur the express purpose of entrapping the enemy into antenalAo positions, and the gratifying news lately received from that State shows that this Arntarin lute bean completely Eueeessfal. Is 13 TUE Cr OM for many of the opponents of Mr. LINCOLN to say, that his course towards the South has been that of an unfriendly and partial magistrate—that he has neglected their just claims to a share in the administration of the aevernment—that he has been the enemy and not the friend of the South. Of course an argument like this cannot claim an an swer, Its malice is so apparent, that its force is destroyed. One suggestion occurs to us, however. In the recent message of the Presi dent he discusses the necessity of reorganiz ing t 1 Supreme Court, and alludes to his failure to appoint successors to Justices Mc- LEAN, DANIEL, and CAMPBELL, in these " I have so far forborne making nominations to fill these vacancies for reasons which I will now Mate : Two of the outgoing judges resided within the States now overrun by revolt, so that if their successors were appointed in the satne localities, they could not now servo upon their circuit, and many of the most competent men there probably - would not take the personal hazard of accepting to verve, even here, upon the Supreme bench. I have been unwilling to throw all the appointments north ward, auto dt.s.abling myself front d o i n o. J a ni ce to the South, on the return of pone,: although I may remark that to transfer to the North ono which has hitherto been in the South would not, with reference to territory and population, be unjust " Here we have a Republican Presddent, in the midst of ernbaertissmonta and dengots, en gaged in a great war, which the South precipi tated upon him, hesitating in the beSteWal of three of the most splendid positions in his gift, simply because he desires to do justice to those who are doing wrong to him. This simple act of President TaiNGOWN - 16 a type of his whole course towards the South, and is a fitting answer to the unfair charges made against his integrity and justice. President LlNeoza would have been per fectly justified in throwing these appointments into the North. If he has shown any par tiality whatever, it has.been to the Southern States. The Supreme, Court has been, to all intents and purposes, the agent of the South ern statesmen ; its sympathies have been alto gether with the South ; in construing our laws it has never omitted an opportunity of showing its regard for the institution of slavery. It was the last stronghold of the . Southern power; and since this war came into being it has been either silent and sullen or actively engaged in throwing obstacles hi the way of the Administration. We are in the work of national reorganization ; we are living in an ago of ideas, in a puled of pro gress, and the necessities of the country de mand a reconstruction of our highest judicial tribunal. In doing his part of this delicate and responsible duty, the President will act with wisdom and candor, and there will be nothing in his conduct to either the North or the South to show partiality or partisanship. LETTER FROM •• OCCASIONAL." WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1861 Private letters received in this city, from American gentlemen sojourning in London, represent the feeling of the British people as intensely hostile to the United States. All the latent hatreds and concealed envies of the last seventy years have burst forth with re newed violence, and nothing seemed to be more popnlar, even with the British masses, than a war with the American Republic. One writer, a well.known and highly-respected Pennsylvanian, says, under date of` november 80, "I sicken at the thought of the conse luences of this bitter British sentiment, and I trust that the hopes of the European despots will be disappointed." Hence, whatever may be the result of the pending negotiations be. tween the two Governments, growing out of the capture of Mason and Slidell, and I have now no doubt that it will be a peaceful one, not a moment should be lost in making vigorous and complete preparations against any sudden attack on the part of our European foes. Mr. Seward's sagacious and well-timed let ter to the Governors of the differeit States, calling upon them to look to the fortifications of their borders, internal as well as external, however neglected at the moment, should now be responded to without delay. I am glad to see that Governor Curtin has not been idle during the interval, and that he has taken the precaution to collect all your military re sources at the State capital, and to press upon the consideration of your municipality the im mediate strengthening of your coast and har bor defences. It is a source of just pride that the various Home Guard organizations in Phi ladelphia and elsewhere throughout the State are now in such a condition of discipline as to be made effective at the shortest notice. Greatly as such a spectacle Would affect the destinies of mankind, let us not be surprised if the great struggle on these shores should be etete.nded to othoi nations, Mid that this con flict should culminate into a world'S battle. We can, in fact, place but little reliance upon the friendship of any foreign nation. Russia, indeed, can afford to sympathize at her safe and wintry distance ; but our principles are so antagonistic to all the existing systems of the Old World, and our growth has been so mar vellous and so irresistible, that every indica tion of our weakness, and every omen of our destruction, arc accepted withjoy by tile ene mies of free institutions. We can realize how much we have done for mankind in the almost avowed anxiety of the oppressors of our race to break us down, now that we are beset with indesoribable troubles. We nuist baffle these interests, first, by refusing to give England a chance to embark against us in this great struggle, and, next, by taking such steps as will put us in a position of impregnable de fence. Two elements will henceforth be enlisted for our destruction--s/arfry Pit ritofOro and despotism in the Old World, The two are con genial and co-operating elements. The one, born of the loins of monarchy ; has, from the earliest days of our colonial existence, yearned for the countenance and support of a strong government, and, during more than thirty years, has toiled to degrade and to dominate over the white race on this hemisphere. Ido hot care what politlams may say, it is a fact, irrefragable and patent, that all the calamities which now surround and imperil the Republic., remit directly from the in trigues of slavery and its advocates. It was an easy and a natural transition for Euro pean statesmen to drop their empty professions against slavery the moment they perceive that slavery had taken the field Poutrance against the Government of- the United States, and to Seize with malignity upon the opportunity thus presented to avenge themselves alike upon the example we present to our down-trodden fel low.beings, and becauso of the triumphant manner in which we have made our stand against the proudest and strongest Govern ment on earth. When this world's battle shall open, let it find us ready for our many-handed foes, and in that hour let us write upon all our standards the imperishable words, cc Hostility to American slavery, and to European despo tism." The result cannot be doubtful. OccasioxAL. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. Speeted Despatches to "The Press." I ifASIIINGTON, Doaomber 20,1901 Senator Wilmot Advioes from Senator Wir.3rov stato that he has arrived safely at his home, in Towanda. lie is re- Covering from his illness rapidly, and hopes to be in Washington after the holidays. The assertion that he has the cancer of the stomach is un founded. His disease is not of such a serious cha racter. Resignation of Volunteer Officers Last Monday there were 37 resignations of volun teer officers in the army of the Potnmae, and ea Wednesday 21. or about 75 during the week. A few of them resigned for the purpose of accepting higher appointments in regiments other than those to which they were originally attached. The London Exhibition The President to , day submitted to Congren a message enclosing a loiter from JAMES R. PART RIDGE, secretary of the executive committee ap pointed by the President to represent the interests of Americans, addressed to Secretary Sr.tv.kun, chairman of the committee, suggesting that ade quate provisiOn be made for the payment of ex penses for fitting up the space in the fair building at London allotted to the contributions from the United States, and compensation of agents for whoa .crviee it will he indispensable to provide. The President recommends this subjeet to the fa vorable consideration of Congress. The message was appropriately referred in each House. Army Promotions and Appointments. The promotions and appointments in the army of the United States, made by President Lploorm since the publication of general orders No. 68, of August 27th last, have just been officially prou2ul - From this pamphlet, it appears that there have been 215 promotions, and 650 appointments of all kinds, in addition to 60 brigadier generals of volunteers, the-whole number of them being about 110. Among the declinations is that of JAMES 11/ELDS, of California, to be brigadier general. The appointment of aids-de-camp to generals num ber 52. Thirty-one officers have been honorably retired, under the law upon that subject. The 'Trent Aftitir—No odietai Demand If any conference has taken place between Lord LYONB and Secretary SEWARD. it has been of an informal and confidential character, as no official commutticatiena hare paaaed between them with reference to the Trent affair. The Missouri Victory Confirmed. A brief despatch from Maj. Gen. .11mamcx to the army headquarters confirms the truth of the reported successes of Gen. POPE'S expedition in The Kerrigan Court Martial. In the court martial trying Col. KERRWAN, to day, the principal witness was Major SAVAGE, who tvetified to the Colonel being in the habit of dining at BAILEY'S house, beyond the Cross Roads, it being at that time an outpost of our army. The court adjourned till Monday. Dr. Russell. Among the rumors of the town, it is stated that RUSSELL, the colebra!ed correspondent of the London 'nous, is exeeedingly belligerent. Among other things, he is greatly exercised because the Secretary of State has not invited Lord Lyons to a protracted audience. 'there aro certain forme - to be observed in diplomatic intercourse, and from these forms the Secretary will not step aside. Ile will take his own time in answering the demands of England. Official Despatch from Com. Dupont. Interesting reports from Fleg-oincor DUPONT have been received, giving account of two recon noissances above and below Port Royal. Com mander DRAYTON with the Pawnee, Unadilta, Smith, and Vixen, loft on the sth and pro ceeded up °Aga)°, landing on Hutchinson's Is land, where he found that all the buildings (in cluding the negro houses) and all the picked got ton had been burned two days before. Some negroes had been shot in the attempt by rebels to drive them off. A painful account is given of the condition of negroes, especially the aged and infirm. As far as the entrance to Beaufort Creek, the same desolation was observed No bat teries were found on Ositon Island, or in the Great Oguebee. A fort mounting eight guns, not quite completed, was found on the eastern end of Green Island. Two shots were fired at the returning ves sels from the fort, both falling short. A Mexican Imbroglio. Important papers relating to Mexico were sent to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day, being a proposed treaty, which, if confirmed, will have the effect of othdrawingFrance and England from their offensive alliance with Spain. It pro vides for the payment by us of eleven millions dollars to satisfy French and English creditors, an a l on the other hand for a grant to our Ocovernment of certain commercial privileges, and for an ad justment of all our outstanding debts, and the tran. sit for our troops. 'News from the Enemy. I have been conversing with a party who came directly from Centreville within the last few days. Ile states that the rebel generals have 75,000 men at Centreville—that the heights in the rear of the town are elaborately and strongly fortified. The roads to Centreville are considered impregnable, and it is said the enemy has oven gone so far as to wine the approaches. The forces are all well drilled and enthusiastic, but aro enduring many Privations in consequence of thy pcycrty OF the country, and the difficulties of transportation. They wilt be compelled to 'fight or starve, as their condition is rapidly approaching one of despera tion. The practice of tiring upon pickets and malting sorties is only intended to draw " the Yan kees" into an advance. They constantly wonder why the Yankees do not attack. It is often a mat ter of wonder to them that McChishias is not re moved, and the propriety of such a policy is dis cussed in the ranks of the enemy. It is hardly probable the Administration will be guided in its military policy by the wiehee Of the rebels, A Singular Theory. There aro numerous and ingenious theories presented by those who aro now discussing the question of a war with England. A prominent Border-State politician originates one which is in genious. If England makes a peremptory de mand for the possession of MAsos and Stannta., and refuses arbitration en the part of the other European States, then let us recognize the Confederacy as it is, only holding the Bor der States. Being an independent Cenfeciergoy, the fight will simply bo confined to the border, unless J.SFTERSON DAVIS should recede from his claim to hold Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. Our navy will be released from the blockade, and the armies of the North will be withdrawn from all of the Southern country with the exception of the tract of territory contested. Our army would then be released from any foe on the continent, and with the army and the navy wo could then meet Eng land on an equal footing. She would seem to be allied to a Confederacy based upon slavery—a Con federacy which LS /Ally the representative of cotton and the slave trade. The Southern people would divide among themselves, and a great part of the eouth would assist in the war upon the exorbitant English power. I give you this theory, because it is exciting some attention. It is ingenious and amusing. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. BRILLIANT EIGHT WITH THE REBELS, AN ENGAGEMENT AT DRANEWILLE A PORTION OF GEN. McCALL'S DI VISION ENGAGED. GALLAIsi TRY OF GEN. ORD. THE ENEMY COMPLETELY ROUTED. TWO CANNON CAPTURED THE LOSS OF THE ENEXY, SEVENTY-NINE KILLED AND WOUNDED. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—This morning, at six o'clock, a portion of General McCall's division pro ceeded in the direction of Dranesyille on a foraging expedition, and for the purpose of making a re connoissance in that locality. Dranesville is about midway between McCall'a headquarisra and Lees burg. On arriving in that vicinity they encountered the enemy, The had four regiment* of infantry, com posed of South Carolinians, Alabamians, and Ken tuckians, with one battery of six pieces, and a regiment of cavalry, under the command of Gene ral Stewart. The only troops on our part engaged in the affair, at Drancsville, were General Ord's brigade, the First regiment of rifles, and Easton's battery of four guns. At four after the actin, ant ral DicCall sent two officers to coant the rebels who were killed and wounded, and it was ascer tained that they left on the field flfty-seven killed, and twenty-two wounded, Three of the latter died on being removed, making their loss sixty killed and nineteen wounded ; making a total of seventy nine killed and wounded, and they no doubt car ried off many more. They also left nine horses killed or disabled The epemy were completely routed, and fled precipitately after a fight of au hour and a half, leaving two cannon and a quantity of small arms, blankets, great coats, dc., more than our troops could bring away. Our men also brought in some prisoners besides the wounded. Our loss is, as near as can be ascertained at present, about ten killed and fifteen wounded. The expedition returned to their camp at Langley's at nine o'clock to-night. General McCall, in a despatch received at head quarters to-night, says too much credit cannot be given to General Ord for his gallantry and skill throughout the day. Easton's battery was admirably served and did good tteoution. The Rifles also behaved finely. IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI. I*i IJRITEXI STATES TROOPS GEN. POPE EXPECTED AT SEDALIA CRUSHING BLOWS TO REBELLION. NEARLY 2,000 RECRUITS CAPTURED LEAVENWORTII, Dee. 20.—The Conservative, of this city, has advices from Mound City, dated the 15th instant, stating that a portion of the Third Regiment, under command of Major Williams, made a dash into Missouri on the 12th, and burned the villages of Papinsvillo and Butler. The latter Was the county seat of Bates county. The troops returned with a large number of Union refugees, stock, Ste. They bad but two men killed at But ler. These towns have been for a long time the roNort of the sliorilla, bands of rehots. General Price was at Osceola at the time, and was threatening that he intended to attack Sedalia. Two companies of the Fourth Regiment of regu lar cavalry arrived at Vort Leavenworth on the 18th instant, having been twenty-two days coming from Fort Wises. SEDALIA, December 20 --Colonel Palmer's bri gade arrived here last night, and General rope Is expected to reach here to=night. All the information from the west and north is to the effect that no efforts have been spared to send General Price ample supplies of clothing for his rebel army during the winter, AU Or nearly all of this has fallen or will fall into our hands. Nearly two hundred heavily-laden wagons are already in our possession, together with large quan tities of ammunition and arms, one 010104114 horns, tents, camp equipage, etc., end between eighteen hundred and two thousand recruits have been taken prisoners. Major Ballard, of the First Missouri Cavalry, has captured over sixty rebel recruits within the past few days, killed several others, and taken a con siderable number of tents, several wagons, a quan tity of baggage and arms, and burned a mill which bad been supplying the rebels for some time pest; altogether, the rebellion has received a terrible shook in this section of oountry within the present week. It is thought by trmay that Price will cross the Osage to assist hug generals, Stein and Sleek, who are now in the river counties with four or five thousand men to escort recruits and supplies to their main camp at Osceola. If ho does, he will be com pelled to stand a general engagement, in which event there is no doubt whatever that ho will be badly defeated i MA ht army entirely mattered, The Settlement of the Mason and Slidell • DAScotty. 1 4, 7nw Yew:, Dee. 20.—A special despatch from Washington to the World says the Government despatches coneefning the Mason and Slidell dif&- oulty will be of a dignified but mast conciliatory nature. They will satisfy the 'English Cabinet that no insult was intended, and there is not the slight est doubt bllt tbot SIN , affair will in how ably, and anileably arranged. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1861. LATE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Two More Union Men Hung at Knoxville. REPORTED EVACUATION OF GALVESTON, TEXAS, BY THE REBELS, CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—The Memphis Appeal of the 18th instant has the following despatches : #OI4XY/W,R, Tenn., Deo. 17.—Two more bridge burners (Union men), were hung to-day, by order of General Carroll. The Momphis Avalanche of the same date says that Galveston, Texas, has been evacuated by the Confederates I Jeff Thompson is busy fortifying New Madrid, Missouri. The Cairo correspondent of the Chime TrA. says a pontoon bridge is being constructed over the river at Memphis. On this side of Memphis there is a fort mounting 102 guns, called Fort Fort Randolph, near Memphis, is being strongly fortified. The rebels are jubilant over the English inter ference in the Maeon and Slidell affair. The number of Federal prisoners at Memphis is eightysoven. Desertions from the rebel army are frequent and numerous. Claib Jackson Was at Columbus on Wednesday, and has issued a proclamation calling on the puoplo of Missouri to furnish Jeff Thompson with twenty thousand men, and increase General Prioo's force to sixty thousand. FROM PORT ROYAL. RECONNOISBARCE TO THE CIitiBLESTON AND SAVANNAH RAILROAD DEPRESSION OF THE SOITTII A Great Negro Insurrection in Mississippi. Naw Yonx, Dec. 20.—Adviees per the steamer Atlantic state that four hundred of our men, on the 16th, (wooed to the mainland, towards the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and encoun tered a rebel forte of fifteen hundred, who retreated, after firing a volley without effect. The Fourth New Hampshire Regiment had gone to Tybeo Island. The balance of CI en. Wright's brigado would follow. Tho spacial oorremndonce of the New York Tribune, from Port Royal, gives a rumor of the de feat of the rebel commodore, Hollins, and the sink ing of his ship by the lifacsachusetts. 'Universal depression is reported throughout the South. New Orleans is particularly depressed. A great negro insurrection is reported in Missis sippi by which an immense amount of property was destroyed, including $150,000 worth on the Quitman estate alone. CONFIRMATION OF THE UNION VICTORY COLONEL, JEFF C. DAVIS IN COMMAND OF THE FEDERALS SEDALIA. (MO ), Dee. 20.—Early yesterday morn mg, au seouts brought us information that the large rebel train and reinforcements, which had marched South to intercept our forces, had divided, and Go lait6P p.iition were marching. South from Waverly, intending to camp at night near Milford. Gen. Pope brought the main body of the army in position a few miles south of Waverly, and sent a strong force, under Colonel Jeff. C. Davis, a few miles bouth of Warrensburg and Knobknoster, to come on the left and rear of the enemy, at the MU time Ordering Morrill's cavalry to march from Warrensburg, and come up to the right. Colonel Davis pushed rapidly forward, and came up to the enemy in the afernovn, drove in his pickets, carried a strongly-defended bridge, by a vigorous assault, and drove the enemy into the timber, where, finding himself surrounded, he sur rendered twelve hundred men, including two colo nels, 11110 lieutenant colonel, one major, and seven teen captains. They were all taken prisoners, and sixty wagons, heavily laden with supplies and elothia l t, and large number of horses and mules, fell into our bands. Our loss was only two killed and fourteen wounded. That of the enemy is considerably greater. This is the best planned and executed action of the war, and reflects great credit on the general commanding, and the officers and men who so faithfully and promptly carried out his project, The War in Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Dec. 20.—General Johnson's bri gade made a reconnoissance in force to-day, six miles south of the Green river, without Reding # traoe of the enemy. No official /mount of the fight at Mumferdsville has yet been received at headquarters, nor anyGlits from General dohoepff. CINCINNATI, Dreember 20.—A Frankfort de spatch to the Commureial says There has been no news received from Somerset to-day. . . . Two Union men and one Secessionist write from coyfingsvitle, as the nth, to the fullowhig effect "It is reported, and generally believed, that Marshal and Williams (rebels) have fifteen thou sand troops between West Liberty and Piketon, with scouts extended to within a short distance of Owingsville." The gentleman who received those letters fears that the information contained in them is true, though it is not generally believed. Sailing of the Africa with Despatches for England. NEW YORK, Deo. 20.—The steamer Africa sailed at 6 o'clock this morning for Liverpool. The bearer of the despatches of Lord Lyons to his Government and a bearer of despatches to our Minister went out in her. Captain Seymour did not go in the Africa. Despatches from Lord Lyons to Admiral Mimes were also placed on board the British gunboat Landrail, which sailed immediately for Bermuda, The British gunboat Rinaldo has arrived here. Only $194,000 in specie was taken away by the Africa. It is said that active preparations are making for large shipments in ouzo the events of the next few days warrant them. George W. Jones, of lowa, ex-minister to Bogota, has been arrested by order of Secretary Seward, and sent to Fort Lafayette. XXXVIITII CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION. "Ws3uoi , c, - roN, Dec. 20, 1.841.1 SEI4ATE - Mr. TIIITMBITLI, of Illinois, presented a petition for the emancipation of the slam o f: rebels, if necessary - to save the Union. Also, several petitirns for an armory at flock island. Also, a petition asking for tho removal of Jesse D Bright from the Senate. Mr. IV 'LIMN, of Massachueetts, bresented • pettiton for the establishment of a system for the exchange of twit oners. Also, a report from the Military Committee, with a joint resolution expresaing recognition of the gallantry of Gente al Lyon and the fiehilerti under hit command at tipringfirld. Mr. POIIIEIIOI, of Kansas, made a few remarks in eulogy of the character of Gen Lyon, with a sketch of the battle of Springfield, where the warrior of this war ended his gallant and well.spent life, and a tribute to the gallantry mid bravary of his soldlet , e. Nr. DIXON. of Connecticut, also spoke of the irne worth and eevotion to the country which characterized Gon. Lyon. Bad Lyon lived, he thought the disaetere in Missouri would not have yegurycej, Mr. FOSTEIt, of Connecticut, Laid he wait an intimate friend of Gen. Lyon. Some of the last letters which Lyon wrote were written to him. Connecticut mourns him as a gallant and true eon, and the notion mourns him as a patriot mid hero, The resolution was passed. Mr. SUMNER, of Massachusetts, reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations the Ammo bill for Mb Idiot of the OWilere of UM British ship Perth...A.6.e_ Laid on the table. Mr. TRUMBULL, of Elinoig, cavorted ` back front tho Committee on the Judiciary the bill to abolish the Su premo Court, and asked to: be discharged from the further consideration or the subject. They were accord ing:ly discharged. Mr. HALE, of Now HumpAire, said, with all duo do feret.co, that he thought the committee had tzot actol up to their duty. Mr. HARRIS, of Now York, reportAd a bill to prohibit the sale of 110101'S to soldiers in the District of Columbia. The bill is an amendment to the former bill on this snb jeer, and probibits not only the nalo to soldiers, but vii thy preniirito. Tho ponalty it it fine and int. pri7mancnt and a mvacati , Na of license, The bill was paged. Mr. WILSON introduced a bill providing for the or ganization of a staff to be attached to each division of the army, regulate and volunteers. Thu Vdeohition raeavel by Mr. garlsbury, of beiaware, calling on the Secretary of War for a copy of the procla mation of Gen. Phelps, and by what authority it had boon otade, was taken up. Mr. TRUMBULL moved to amend so as to include the inoetunathme made by all other generals. Mr. WILSON thought there WWI no necessity for send log Or Ow proclamation& ficoorall rem nonotntrd to use the sword and not the pen, and If they do not use tiro sword better than the pen, they should be mustered out of the service. The beet thing that could be done was to make a statute Oat no general shall be allowed to mc.ke any Proclamation, Dlr. SAV I, 6BURY wanted a dieavowal from the M. miniKtratinn, that no authority had been gin"' for such moetamatien. Mr. RICE, of Minnesota, said that if the stthordinato officers have not carried out the 'Mahon of the President, it was his duty to correct the wrong. Ile moved to lap the resolution en the table. Areal to Mr. WILLEY, of Virginia, resumed hi:: remarks on the resolution offered by him yesterday. Continuing the argument against the doctrine of 8000:181011, he referred to the declarations of the leaders of the rebellion, as show ing their intention to overthrow republican institutions and to establish a monarchy or a despotism. lie declared that the people bad nothing to do with SOCedilig the re bellious States from the Union. Virginia wan taken out of the Union by a secret conspiracy, awl against the will of the people. The resolution was laid en the table fur the present, The Senate went into executive session, and Raise intently adjourned till Monday. ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Mr. BENNETT (delegate from Colorado) introduced a resoludon, which was adopted, instructing the Com mittee of Ways and Moans to inquire into the expediency of establishing a brunch mint at Denver. On motion of Mr. BICRNIIEISEL, (the delegato from Utah,) tit. ComoMee on 'Perri ter! e a wove tudtructod to itatuire into the expediency of providing for a geological eurvey of that Territory. . . . On motion of Mr. DUNN, of Indiana, so much of the Report of the Superintendent of Public Printing all Cofer. to tho destruction by firs of tho mechanical tsrt 01 tho Patent Office Report, was referred to the Committee on Printing, and that they report as early as practicable In favor of printing volumes 10 place of those thus de shuyed. On motion of Mr. LAW, of Trliana, the Committee on Military Affairs were instructed to inquire into the expe diency of instructing, the Paymaster Generai of the army to authority pay masters and assistant minimum' to credit and pay all commissioned sincere and voltln leers their pay and allowances from the date of their an. ceptanee and taking the oath of allegiance, as required by the oM.ers appointed by the President. On motion of Mr. ELIOT, of Massachusetts. the on I.3oefercore were instructed to inquirer into exWieney of reporting a bill for the preservation and repair of harbors at Prnvincetown and Plymouth. litamachmotts, with a view to commie° tho tuitional 111 r. STEVENS, of Pennsylvania. reportml it hill appro priating $150,000 to complete the defences of Washington. Passed. The House then passed the Senate bill providing for transmitting allotnionts of pay of volunteers to find.- fa milies and friends, each State to appoint throe persons to Viet the several departments of the army and receive the money. The provielon of the former haw allowing liCpa to tattlvre nn stddiers' pity Is repealed, and all rasa. lotions on the subject abrogated beyond the rides and ar ticles of war. The, Home also pillaged the &nate bill authorizing the appointment of general courts martial in tine of war, etc. Mr, HOLMAN, of Indiana, introduced a resolution, which was adopted, iradructing the Committee on Mili tary Ariake to report a bill amendatory of the preeent law' so aim not to exclude, in the appointment of chap. tains, any religious societies. Ho mentioned that at prc. tent Jewish Rabbles were excluded, nutwithatanding that there are a large number 9f fldbT9Wil is the army, Mr. WICKLIFFE. of Kentucky, urea...cited the 13fI0e !intone of the Kentucky Legislature in favor of relieving elsnd In view or thy probable famine. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affsini. Nr JULIAN, of bulimia, offered a resolution that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to report a bill, so amending the fugitive-slave law of 1850 as to forbid the recapture or return of any fugitive from labor, without satisfactory proof being first made that the claimant of such fugitive is loyal to the Government. Mr. HOLMAN ingidreit whether his colleague would not consent to make the resolution merely one of in quiry. Mr. JULIAN replied that ho preferred the present form of the resolution. lIOLMAN moved to lay the resolution on the table. Not agreed to—yea, :0, nays 78. Mr. WICKLIFFE, of Kentucky, ineffectually appealed to Mr. Jirian to so amend the resolution as to confine its operations to the citizens of States which have or may The resolution was pasfaxl—yeas 78, nays : YEAS-11CHSTS. Aldrich, Allay. Arnold, Babbitt, Baker, Baxter, Beaman, Bingham, Blair ( Mo.), Blair (Parma.), Plalso, Dimmer, Chamberlain, Clark, Colfax, Friirk A. rankling, ROPelle Conklin°, OenWay, 0 0 4..ede, Outlier, Davis, Dawns, Delano, Buell, Edwards, Eliot, Fenton, Fessenden, Franchot, Franck, Gooch, Goodwin, Guer ley, Irate, Hanchott, Harrison, Hooper, Hutchins, Ju lian, Loomis, Lovejoy. 'McKean. McKnight, McPherson, Moorhead, Morrill Mo, rill (Vt.), Olin, Patton ' rilze, Pomeroy Patter, Porter, nice (01e,), Ritl- Ttolllue (N. 11.), Itursget. edlitulis, Sttella.)erger, Sloan, Sherman, Spaulding, Stevens, Thomas (Masi.), Train, Trevehrldne, Vander..., Wall, Wallace, Walton 0 11 01 Wfwtiburpv, Whtlier, whlooy, whit () (11111.), W'inilom, and Worcester. Nara—Messrs. Ancoma. Baily ( Ponna.), Biddle, Cobb, Cooper, Uoar q . Craven, Crittenden, Dunlap, English, Fotike, Hatdh,°. taw, La year, Leary, Lehman, Mallory, Marna. d, filetutios, Nor ris, Noble, Noell, Norton, Nusont, Pendleton, Robinson (Del.), Shiel. Steele (N. Y ), Steele (N. J.), Vallandig ham. Wadsworth, W abider, White (Ohio), - Wickliffe, Woodruff, and Wriht, Mr: ARNOLD, of fdinois, introduced a resolution, which was adopted, tendeting the thanks of Congress to Colonel Mulligan mid hie command, for their heroic de. fence of Lexinpon, and autbarizin, theisventY-tliiri Itegiment of Illinois to bear ou their colors the name of Lexington. Mr. LOVEJOY, of Illinois, offered a resolution that the. Committee on the Judiciary report a bill for the coo ilscalion or all the property of nil citizens found in armed rebellion against the Government of the Ilni.ed Status, and ouch as aid and abet the rebellion, and the uncon ditional liberation of their slaves, and protection of the Blares from recnathre by their rebel .nesters. The Ilf.nse refused, by a vo . e of 52 yeas against 50 nays, to order the previous question on the passage of the resolution. Mr. VALLANDIGIIA,M moved to commit tho roso lotion to the Judiciary Commlttot, /Uri 140 - WO . move) that Cdr. Yallandightun'a tics be tabled Agree.) to—yeas Oh nays 65. such action was thereafter taken as had the effect of laying the whole subject ou the table, by two majority. Dlr. 'WILSON offered a rasolationdire,ding the VOlll - on Military Affairs to report a bill providing an additional article of war, by which all officers of the army shall be prohibited from using any portion of the force under their respective commands for the purpom of returning fugitives from service or labor. and pro viding for the punishment of such officers by dismissal from the service. rendiug the consideration of the resolution, the House adjourned till Monday. From Gen: Bank Column A GALLANT ACT-A RBDEL MILL BURNED AT DAM NO 5. WILLIAMSPORT, Dec. 2o.—Last night, a party from the Fifth Connecticut Regiment and Lieut. Riekett's battery men Wea war is a skiff and burnt the mill et dam No 5. which has been occu pied by the rebels as a stronghold. Thoy captured §9819 gyps Riad tvoh, irtendri for the purpoeo of In caking up the dam No. 5. with blankets, A:0. Two deserters from Jackson's rebel force arrived here yesterday, giving some important information. Jackson. it is snid," has been promoted to the com mend of the whole talky of Virginia, and that ho has five regiments on the neck opposite hero, with 75 guns. All is quiet this morning. Col. Leonard arrested a man, yesterday, under suspicious circumstances, leading to the bend that he is a spy. The Connecticut State Loan. Hen Trout), Conn., Dee, 2o,—Th9 QOM:MUM state loan of 51,200,000 Wad taken to-clay, at from par to two per cent. premium. Seces..eion Sentiment in New Brunswick. CALA/S, MC., Bee. 20.—The office of the St. Croix Herald, at St. Stephen's, N. 8., was de- stroyed last night. by a party of Secession sym pathizers, owing to the optioAtioia iniinirested by the editors to the cause of the Southern rebels. From Cairo CAIN°, Dec, 20,--ficonte front Kentucky report that a Loge contraband trade is being carried on with the rebels from Illinois via Cave in the Rock on the Ohio river. Also that rifled cannon have been placed on t lie Tennes see river for the purpose of sinking the _United States gunboat Conestoga, which makes her occasional trips up the river. The Kentucky Legislature FRANKFORT, Ky., The. 20.—1 n the Legislature, the Douse-has adopted, by the usual party vote, a resolution that Eentucky shall aFsnma tne payment or her portion of the direct tax imposed by Congress. The Senate adopted the Noose resolutions on Federal relations, with amendments endowing the present action el the Ott ann - lent regarding Fremont's emancipation Proclamation and Cameron's original report, and re• Questing the President to dispense with Secretary Ca. Dacron. The vote was unanimous on the amendments. THE CITY. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. AMERICAN ACADEMY or MUSlO—Broad and Low:lst streets— ,, Richelieu." WHEAT/ AVE CONTINENTAL THEATRE—WaInut street, above Eighth_—ii Tho Southern Rchtllien by Sea and Land"— ,, The Cataract of the Ganges." ARIM-STREET THEATRIE—ArCh Eltreot, above Sixth.— "The Robbers "—" Guilluame Tell "—" Dun J uan." WALNIIT.STRICKT Tnakrna--alintti and Walnut Etil.— Tho tour Phontorna"—.‘ Wantrii, Ono Tlaoumunl liners "--" The Gumnaker of Moscow." TEMPLE or WONDERti—N. E. corner Tenth and Cheat. nut atreeta.—Signor Entertainment. FRANKLIN INSTITUTK—N.IONTHLY MEETINU -- A P tatud monthly meeting of tho Franklin Institute was held on Friday evening, the president, John C. Cresson, Eso ,in the chair. Nominator, a wore made for officers, board of managers, and auditors, for the ensuing year. It woe decided that the polls for the election should be open from four to eight o'clock P. M. on the third Thurs day in January. Mr, Washington Jones, chairman of the Committee on Meetings, presented as improved combined angle and scale, very accurately graduated by machinery', and in tended fur the we of mechanics, th 4 model having been contributed by Messrs. Field Hardie, of this city. Mr. Jones also exhibited a rrzor strop, the invention of Mr. C. Y. Bayne. Mr, lielftiOll, Of the Committee on Meetings, exhibited and explained a number of inventions, all of Philadel phia manufacture. A watchman's clock, manufactured by Messrs. Code, Hopper, & Gratz ; it great variety of specimens of paper tags nod collars, both plain and orris bossed. mnile by the Lockwood Mttlili o durtng Com pany ; an apparatuo ter preventing keys from being turned in locks by means of nippers from the outside, the invention of It, H. Bailey, Es t. Prof Fleury exhibited specimens of imitation Russia ahem-Iron, made under a process invouted by William lit Reading, pa. MA alga read a raper On tha preoerve.iOn of atone, and the impe:Pinee of obtaining a pure hydrated solution of silica for that amf other Pur poses. A patent comp funk, with IA and table attached, was exhibited by Mr. W. A. Andrews, the inventor. Mr. Howson placed on the table a working model of H. G. Armstrong's paper bag machine, as improved by 8. E. Pettee, Doi.; and also exhibited specimens of en velopes made at the rate of 30,000 par diem by a maebino invented by Mr. Penes. The meeting then adjourned to enable those present to examine the diderent articles presented. THE rENNSYLVASIA. RAILI2OIII COMPAVV.— The Palmylean's. Railroad Company has just added two hundredeight-wheeled ears to its rolling stock, intended to accommodate the tonnage of the Westmoreland Rail road Company, which is on the hicreasq, and, from pre sent indications, coal will seen he vile et the important items of its trade. Its passenger and miscellaneous freight business is now very heavy, probably equal to that of airy other road of like capital in the country, the receipts of tlic yvori ending on tilt let inat,, amounting to over seven millions of dollars! Throo through pas. seny,er trains rue daily between Pittsburg and Philadel phia, connecting direct at Fhiladeltibia with through trains to and from Boston and Now York; and all paint!: East, and in the Union depot, at Pittsburg, with all through trains to and from all points in the West, North west, rind Southwest. TUE VOLUNTEER HEMESILMENT SALOONS.— ft•gtiViil ti ell of the ltermahmeat Ar.ociailuas wilt take place in a few days. tlov. Pollock will not only preside, but will speak on the occasion. Rev. Dr. Prztintad, riev Dies& Smiley, Atwood, and Rutter wilt addtess the tikqembluge. The laugh, will be famished bg the National Guard regimental band. Apropos to this, the following contributions have been received during the wool:: A. T. Lane and employees $5O j American /ronrituro Cumpany, 850; Protaction Lociilo4 1. 0. 010 F., llemuriile, $10; Mini Trutuan'azlclumo,BB.2s; l'eoplf's Literary Institute, Bayard Taylor's lecture, $12t.87; Kensington Dank, $l4; Wm. P Hamm, Esq., F 25: Mutual Insurance Company, $100; Capt. C. Stabba; 55; 'Loniki B. M. Dolby, $lOO. 11f EF,TusT: Or - L.etotNi.—An adjourned meet ing of the Indiep of fthiladolpltia, of all denominations, UM be held on Monday afternoon next, at 3 o'clock. at the t'aneom•etreet Hall, to complete the arraugemento for the great festival to be given on the Sth of January next, in aid of the - Volunteer Itefreshtnent galoon. SERENADE.—Last evening, a few of the members of the Corn Exchange Association, accompa nied by the National Band, serenaded Mr. James Wright, of the lino of Peter Wright & Sone, at his re -O*M on the Township Lino road, a short distance above the city. A similar compliment was extended to Mr. J. W. Proctor at a late hour in the evening. A GREAT NAMII.—A colored man, evi dontly deranged, wan found, on Thursday, evening, tiering about the Streets nt 0 , -rrnantorrn. lie gave his name lit Major A rdersun, and declared that Ito had been in all the principal battles of this campaign. The "hero" watt properly eared fur by the police. POCKET PICIERDi—A lady had her pocket picked of a Roan amount of money, in the care of the Manaymtk Passenger Railway, on Thursday. Another Indy was relieved of her pocket-book, during the Masonic parade, at Manayanic. A light-fingered gent wee found in the crowd, and arrested, but wan tifavburgyd for want of eridenco to implicate him in The robberit.s. BREADSTIIFFS VOR EUROPE.—The ship Con gress sailed for Liverpool on Thursday, haying ou board 1 2.000 hatrels of dour, 1,904 Luollels of c o rn, and !WO bushels of wheat. The ship Philadelphia ' lying near Lombard-greet wharf, is also taking on board large uuantitiee of wheat for the English market. The utuva dares are working day and night. in order to comploto the lading of rho slug at as early a Natal as possible. SLIGHT FlRE.—Yesterday morning, about half past eight o'clock, a fire occurred in a ono-story frame building, No. 456 North Front stroot. The roof partiany .I,,,droye 14 i per cent. lower than yesterciay. ohe Southern State stocks are scarce. Tennessees are him at 41, Georgina 64107, North Carolinas 58059. lifts senri sixes are steady at 31.fic37X. The Foram' Exchange Market is extremely quiet to day, ou account of the abort interval between the sailing of the Af',4iss 'andt s_3oZlllor. The roan on L0i1d(41.6 very flue at 110 h Xlll, several of the leading drawers refusing to draw at the outside figure. The Secretary of the Treasury left for Washington at 10 e'ci9Cii this mining, as there was Ito further rause for a longer stay. The bank onion seem 10 be greatly encouraged by Mr. Chase's favorable statement of the future prospects of the army and navy, and to this may he ifttributed much of the hopeful feeling observable in financial circles today, The banks are lending more freely, trough the severe discrimination of securities is unrolaxed. The call of 83,500,000 on the now funded stock was paid into the Stili.Treesury yesterday, by the banks, with their usual promptness. Theallloll.ld of demand and past-due treasury notes employed was only $lOO.OOl Thete is still ten per cent. ane on the second fifty millions 7.30 treasury notes, but Mr. Chase prefers to draw against the new funded stock, because the twe-year notes are not redeiVaLle in tart payment. The gold in bank this morning, at the opening of bind nese was something less than $17,000,000. The loan certificates issued amount to 57,071,000. The spine re serve is still 10 per Cont. on the net depeaits. The _Africa left this port for Liverpool this morning at about 7 o'clock. There is no official information as yet eel:Wee to the commonierabons or the. British minister with tlu Fcdcral Gorerment, consequently various con. jecturee are afloat as to the nature of the despatches which went out by the steamer. • The Africa takes only $104,358.74 in specie, which is less than was expected. There has boon active prepara tion among the boll'on houses for large shipments in Case the events of the next. few days warrant theta. Should affairs wear a tolerably pacific aspect, sonic considerable parcels will probably go forward to morrow. CHICAGO Bottoa.—A decision was made at Chicap on Monday, by inage Manniorre, against that city, on ant action broogbt by Giles, Evans. & Co., and a mandamus xranttal, ordering tho city officers, compelling them to hens 4110 fur thy payanuf of a claim alluwea In Lim old claps commissioners The amount involved in this case is only about $21,000, but as the principles apply to a large number of similar claims, it is of considerable int portance to the city. Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sales. Decembor 20,1861. REPOBTND BY S. E. BLAYMAIIER, PhilaJel pkia Exchange FIRST BOARD. 500 2d SCA FR 111 st mg 05X 100 Reading. . / 000 3 d tit TS 14 mtg, 90 1 ,i 0 Nur VI Prol',I)Ilrit10 - 00 Reading It...vat:ill 16)6 IMO City 04 ...... 3 Ivs It:l , i :10 du " 5.... 16.1i,' 3000 Road Gs '56 73 00 do ... .10'4 1000 do. ..... .....- 73 100 do 16, 15 Lehigh Valiey... 01 50 do 16%ii 408 Lehigh liar 6, —lOO 69 do ~,,,, I • BETWEEN BOARDS. 1000 City 6nC& P ch 87;V 100 d 0... 1009 do .2dys 87S, I 29 Penns It _ . 200 Boadiug R 16) I 21 d 0.... SECOND BOARD. 50 Poima 8...........307.1 10000 City 6.i N 0 1' G 50 lots,. 36x 6000 „(.1 & yi 9 do. 26% 100 ..0 •t: P• • - 82 %4 25 410 i10=( /000 110, "II a Val' 1 Gault ot N Amet..llo 300 do, .0 & P... 52,%i 100 Beading It._ bk. 16.1 i 700 , d 0.... S2X 100 do ...R5.. 16. 1 i 1000 Perffill. 5s .77 ba n 5& int.. 141.1( 2000 do . . ... 7 7 25 N Prima. N 3 13 Lobigt 12 Mitteldll It 41)4 5000 961‘01 , Nay GA '72 g 0 500 City 6s new C & P.. 87, , 6 90 Ca &Amlt in ItsllS 600%. do d0......87)6 1000 Omit & Ara 6.4 '75 03% CLOSING PRIOES—FIRM Bid: Ask. Phil& da 32, 1 52% fill Ask. Elmira I; Prof. 15 )si Elmira 78'78... . 7 68 Long Island IL. '3,t; 10,:z Leh Cll & 46 48y liola CI 6cN Sari) 32 N Panne 4 yi 6 N VOOllO it 01.• 54 56 N 'Puna& 106 70 78 Vittawiail Prof,. 4M ferlad It South. B 37 .. Philo as 82 1 4 ' 82Y, Philo Be 87. V 87)' Penns be 77 Rundiug B. 16 j Ift 1 , -10 heading Bda '7O 81 bZ IrdgM 06'80'48 92 .. Rend m 68'80.. 13 73N PunnalEt - • • 26% 80.1 Ponta R2d m Cle 833.1 8.1,4" 2d &ad ats B.S. 4: .. Race& lane-stall W Phila .... 5034 51 SPrliC9 fi Pint., V tiM Grt*u & coates 16.!y Clu.st & Walnut ;A .. . . . . 01 Con Morris 01 Prel.lo6 108)i Bch Nay 69'82.. .. 69 Bob lira 8w • • 74 Bob Nay 6iroca. UTISICZIE= ICITY ITEMS. TILE REV. JAMES EMMETT - WILSON, Or Onto.— A wigs of rggival megLingu bas been in twos's= i.t the Central Methodist Episcopal Church tin charge of the Rev. John Thompson ' ) Ville street. abort: Twelfth, dur ing the last three weeks, which have been rendered unu sually successful by the preaching et' the Rev. James Emmett Wilson, of Ohio. Since coming to Philadelphia Its has, we believe, preached in this church every ere. mug doting the week, and twice on Sundays, and the effect of hit earnest appeale to the unconverted lieS linen of the most marked character, a large number being awakened almost &very night to a sense of their lost con dition in a state of unfergiven sinfulness. Mr. Wilson is a 3 ounresnan of manly bearing, and possesses unmis laid+, power us a pulpit orator. In Dorman and felt tutee he so much resembles the portrait; of John C. Brerkinridge, (no reflection upon Mr. W.'s Inyalty,) that ono might readily mistake them for Mr. Wiketed own. Valor and ho tioYorthole4a at intervals, all the warmth and See peculiar to Western pulpit orators of the Methodist school. Huhu a good voice, under complete control, is graceful and appro. priate in hie geattires, and in some of his somi.extereporo flights is eminent and poetic. He evidently feels what he sal f, which is the chief secret of effective oratory. On Tuesday evening last we heard Mr. Wilson preach a die course upon the passage of scripture contained in let John, ii, 20: 4.13ut ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." In this sermon he en larged upo the characteristics of God's holiness, ex p'ained, critically, the meaningof the term 6 . unction " in Ode (num./moo, and concluded by contrasting the ins yortance and grandeur of the Chri.ltiatt's knowledge with the niece v orldly attainments of men uninstructed ha the things of Gied as revealed by his spirit. He is still preaching regniatly in this church, and attracting large congregations. RE3IESIBER THE LITTLE FOLKS of BEnreatfl sretsT Dts,taroa.—ln accordance with the custom of furnier meintona, the manager!' of lißlfis.,l-st,,,t riirpom, making, the poor children of their es hool happy On uhristrans day by giving them a good dinner, and in order to do to, as will to seen from their advcrtisenient, hit linoilo.c column, they Follett. donations of ponitrY, meaty, bread, or money, to ahl them in this praiseworthy and Christian object. They also sitggeet to r, kind hearted Chricticam" the propriety of aerating 11011 r, gre crriee, coal, cast•off clothing, awl other necessary arti cles, in order to alleviate the miser) of the poor ~f that deject, el portion of our city. We tenet that these Mots will meet a liberal rrsponan, Whatever in contributed it sore to he judiciously appropriated, as may he judged from the ',an t es of the gentlemen attached to the advertise.. ment. NEW ORGAN IN A METIIODIST CIIURCII.—The congregation of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, tCtt bare jot alba La the at. tractions of their large edifice a new organ, which, we understand, will be used in worAdp, for the Unit time, In-morrow, The introduction of organs in Methodist Churches is rather unusual. NEACilit46i2 THE C. Buss.—Mr. John C. Blips, well known to many of our citizens, from his prr•minent ennnee , ion with the origin of the Noon day Prayer Meetings in this city, in the fall of p3.n, and a late graduate of the Allegheny Seminary, will preach in the First Rcibrmed Dutch Chur...h, corner of Seventh and Spring Garden streets. to•morrow morning pnd evening, MESSRS. J. W. PROCTOR & Co.'s ADVER TISHMENT —The readers of The Press will have no diffi culty in observing the timely and comprehensive adver tisement of Messrs. J, W, Prei.tor A: Co, No. NI Chestnut street, which appears in another coluni n of our paper this morning. As the advertisement sneaks for itself, we do not, propose alluding in detail to its several featiros, further than to say that what they there profess to rip they are DOING. For some years past no home in Phila. delphia has hail a m re flattering patronam than Messrs. Proctor AS Co.; in fact, their house, under the familiar -title of ‘; The Paris Mantilla, Cloak, and Fur Enan.>- rinin," has grown into an institution, and not to lamer it as the Store in this City, in this particular department, is not to know Philadelphia. Thor advertisement none, at Min be seem contemplates a removal, We him in this fart the secret of the sacriticea they are now making in the sale of their magnificent La dies' Cloaks and Fancy rum, in ender to re duce - stock. Thin plan, while insuring to them an enormous amount of sales daily, is also a businoSs , liku and graceful way of exhibiting their apprecissiun of the liberal patronage which has hitherto been accorded to them by the halite of our city. We unity state—front our own observation—that, large as have been their sales within the last few days, their stork of every description of Cloaks and Furs is still very extensive and complete. Persons wishing to buy goods in this lino—and nothing could be more appropriate for presents—ought not to lots sight of this opportunity of doing so at a very large per