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BY SHY W. FORYZY.
!onus NO. 417 CHESTNUT STREET
THE DAILY TREES,
Swim OMITS PAIR Witittr, payable to the Gender
Moiled to Butiecribers oat of the City et Su DOLLARS
rat ANIMUS(' TOUR DOLLARS TOE EIGHT floiras, THaril
%DOLLARS iron Su:Morzas-inreriebly in advance for
Inktitnis ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Nagai tofinbaulbera tot of 114 Olty at Titan Hat-
LANs FO Aunt, I! advance. • .
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
GREAT BARGAIN'S ,
-
FINE CLOAKS.
TO CLOSE OUT THE STOCK
PARIS MANTILLA, CLOAK,
AND FUR EMPORIUM,
708 ORESTMIT STREET,
PREVIOUS 10 REMOVAL.
SYNOPSIS OF REMOTIONS.
FROSTED'BRAVSR CLOAKS '
From $26 to $26-From $22 to $l7.
PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION FOR
THE RELIEF OF DISABLED FIREMEN.—
Thu Adjourned l'unnty-uighth Annual Mooting of the
Aeaociation ttlll ho held on SATURDAY EVENING,
January 11th, 1602, at 73 o'clock, at the HALL OF
E FIDE .
- FROSTED DEAVIR CLoASR, j TII aB-4t WM. J. PAS ASSOOIATION
COE, &militant Secretary.
From $lB to 814—Froth SIO to 57.60.
4 ^ BaowE SEALSKIN OR 8A131.8 OLOIM CLOAKS,
From 818 to sl4—From $lO to 812.
CLACK SEALSKIN OR OTTER CLOTH CLOAKS,
From $lB to Sl4—From Sle to $l2.
VELTHT CLOTH GUARS.
From S3O to s22—From NO to 52e
FIRS BLACK BILIMIR CLOAKS,
Fran $45 to s3s—From $35 to $26
rmx BL ACM VRATHR °Lomita,
From 9.15 to 919.50—Fr0m $2O to 910
FOE MACK BICAYER CLOAKS,
From $l6 to sl2—From $l2 to 69
IFAXCI , BEAYISS Clcomrs,
From $4O to s3ll—From $3O to $22
KAMM' Nioßso • BRAVER ()Lamm,
now toltla:-Frooi $ll3 to SIS 66.
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• a11tman44,4.0.00,
ROna te gall.--frismaAol6l44. -
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OUR FUR DEPARTMENT,
Nihicti repletessith every deeirabla atyle and descrip
tion, wait open to /111111MICUDI1 at prices corresponding
' , to. the general reduction •, , particularisation, among each
"on in fi nity of Qualities, being, if not impossible, at all
sysente, unsatisfactory., de3l-1m
COWEERTHW.A.IT. & CO.,
HATO WIC 0111 band •
A LAROS,STOM
MUSLIN'S:
, Which will be sold, at ierlees
LOWER THAN TUE MARKET BATES.
Also, GREAT BARGALNS IN PRINTS,
$OOO garde of efletcb- will be sold very low. jet-6m
11OLIDAY DRESS GOODS.
The following goods are desirable for
Christmas Gifts :
Low pried DeLalnes and Calicoes. _
Wide English and French Chintzes.
Brilliant Figures new American De Latins.
Dretthing Gown Stuffs of Gay Cashmeres.
French Figured Do Danes and Fancy Merinos.
Plain Poplins and Rich Styles of Eplnglines.
Plaid Flannels, Bright Broche Dress Goods.
Blankets, Table and Piano Coveys, Quilts.
Aid GlO'Vek, Warm Silk and Cloth Gloves.
Embroidered Collars and Lace Goods.
Silk.llandkarehief., French Linen Cambric Hdkfs.
BlackSilic Gruyere, Scarfs, and Neck Ties.
Plain and Fancy Silks, Rich Black Silks.
Blanket Shawls, Broths Morino Shawls.
SISARPLESS BROTHERS,
CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets.
HOLIDAY PRESENTS. -
Deßaines, at laiir mob; Callcoes,l2X cents.
Blss'h and fancy Silk Hamikercblefs.
Neck-Tteie Gloyes,"Genta' Shawls.
' brume and Linas' Shawls in variety.
Nice assortment of Dress Goods.
Balmoral Skirts la groat variety, at
-J. H. STOKES',
702 Alter(' Street.
K. R.—On hand, gck.straws and Bolltalrea, made bY
and sold for an Invalid. They are nice games as well as
preaenta, and any one would confer a favor by purchas
ing the same. dell-lf
HEAVY CLOAKINGS.
Brown and Black Sealskin, 750 to 81.60.
Clean Leavy Coatings and Cloaking,
- Nine Black Cloth, and Beavers.
(toed stock eassimeres at old prices.
COOVER & CONABD,
S. E eon' NINTH and MARKET.
ROUSE FURNISHING D RI
GOODB.-811EPPARD, VAN lientrltaubi, a
ARIHSON, Importers and Dealers in Linen, and House
turnishing Dry Goode ' etc.
Have now on baud afull assortment of Linen Sheeting,
Table Cloths, 'Napkins, Table, Diaper Towelling, ern,
etc., Imported under the old tariff, or bought a groat sac
rifice.
N.B.—Rive per cent allowed on purchases as above, If
vald for on delivery. - n027t1
WILL CONTINUE TO SELL UN
TIL JANUARY Ist, our entire stock of
;BLANKETS at the old prices.
Will open MIS DAY a large stock of all Wool Flan
cals.
Our 25 cent 'White Flannel" are the beet In the city.
Very handsome neat style. DeLaines at 18,10 i hand
some dark gronade, all Wool, at 81 and 37 cents.
COWPERTHWAIT &
64.tt R. W. ,turner MAWS and MARKET
commasslcq ttOU
HUTCHINSON,
Igo. 11:11 infESTNTIT STREET,
COMMISSION M 'BORA.NTS
701 771 BALI Olt
pHjT,A DELPHIA-MADE
GOODS.
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES.
SELLING OFF,
FOR CASH OR SHORT CREDIT,
STOCK or
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES,
VESTINGS;
CFormeriy owned by J. W. GUM dz BONS, to be Bold
REGARDLESS OF COST.
A. H. GIBBS,
j01:12t 631 MARKET Street.
CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS
CLOAKS! CLOAKS ! CLOAKS!
WATER PROOF CLOTH CLOAKS,
In endless yariety;
LIGHT AND DA_TtK CLOTH CLOAKS,
of every shade'
BLACK CLOTH CLOAKS,
of every finality;
BLACK SILK•VELYET - CLOAKS,
EVERY NEW STYLE,
EVERY NEW MATERIAL;
THE LARGEST STOOK
AND
THE MOST REASONABLE PRICES IN THE OITY
IVENS,
No. 23 Booth NINTH Street.
G REAT BARGAINS
11
LADIES' CLOAKS,
To close out,
At the
E.EGIL.STBEET CLOAK AND MANTILLA STOBE,
N. W. corner TENTH and ABM SW.
5031.43 ca JACOB HOBSTALL.
. J CLOAKS--
Handsome eerie' of well-made, serviceable gar
ments. The beet made, the beat fitting, and the best
materials for the price. A large stock from which to
Select. COOPER & 00NAP.D,
dolt B. E. ear. NIFTY and MARKET.
rfLOAKEI!
NJ The Largest, Cheapest, end Beet-assorted Stock
Ln the city.
HOUGH a
No. 26 Booth TENTH Street,
Opposite rranklin Market.
MILITARY 'GOODS
ANDREWS' ORIGINAL CAMP, OR
TRAVELLING
BED TRUNK.
(Patent imbed for) For sato by
W. A. ANDREWS.
aol6-2ot No. 612 011B8TNIIT Street.
A RMY CONTRACTORS
AND BUTLERS
SUPPLE= WITH MOMS at tho lowest rata.
Always on hand, a large stook of
CAVALRY BRUSHES.
Government standard; -
WAGON BRUSHES.
Government standard ;
eleryDeeoription of Brushes required for the Augm
ICEMBLE & VAN • HORN.
ageaka - 3SI MAIM= Street, Philadelphia.
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER
&
Northeast Corner FOURTH end RACE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
LIKPORTERS 1131 D DEALERS
If9REIGN AND DOMESTIC!
WINDOW AND , PLATE GLASS.
WAIWFACTIIHNRII. OF
ww'r MAD AND ZING PAINTS, PUTTY, dio
• AGSM am TEI OXIGEBBATID
PUNCH ZINO PAINTS.
paiikos and commute suppli e d gt
VERY LOW PRIORS FOR CASH.
:TINT RECEIVED, per " Annie Kim
rty INA" frau Liverpciol, Nander t WOSTer, di Man
ion Peringions
• 115 as &vend dead 1, in Ilb Arc
• SI $a Marna Hyoserytunl, In 1 lb Jars.
NI 4 a Natrset• Belladonna, in 1 Si Jae.
140.ir ?strict Ismael, In 1 lb Jars.
•f 0 Be Yin Bab Volobtol, In 1 lb bottler.
100 Be 01. Suoelini Beet., In lb bower,
400 Le Calotnel, in 1 lb bottler.
fen De Pit SlYdrartr.• in 11 , jam
WETHICRILL d BROMIC%
ii 74 47 and 0 /forth AINOOND Street.
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VOL. 5. - NO. 136.
NOTICES
tam THE ANNUAL MEETINGOF THE
Mutual Fire Insurance Company or Philadelphia
will be lield on MONDAY, Jannary 13th, at 12 o'clock
M., at the Rooms of the Board of Trade, No. 505 CUES-E
-MIT Street, at which time an election will ha held for
twelve Directors. T. ELLWOOD CHAPALIN,
5a1 1 .3t* Secretary.
TrTHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
Stockholders of the FARMERS' WESTERN
MA REET COMP ANY will be held at the WESTERN
MARKET HOTEL, No. 2129 MARKET street, on FRI
DAY, the 17th Instant at 8 o'clock P. M., to elect officers
for the ensuing y ear. J. W. SIRES, Jn ,
359.8t# Secretary.
orFAME INSURANCE COMPANY, Office
No. 406 CILE'STNUT Street.
PrtiLsintents., January 0, 1802.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of tho ram
Insurance Company, hold this day, a semi-annual Divi.
deed of Three per cent was declared, payable on and
after the gist day of February, 1802.
jaTtfcbl WITS. T. BLANCHARD, Secretary.
crrOFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
City Passenger Railway* Company, 2LOO CHEST
NUT Street—January 0, 1662.—The Board of Directors
have THIS DAY declared a Lividend of ONE DOLLAR
and FIFTY CENTS per there on the Capital Stock from
the earnings for the past six months, payable to the
Stockholders or their legal representatives' on and after
the 10th inst.
The transfer books will be closed until the 16th lost.
ja7-10t Tin. W. COLKET, Secretary
irrOFFICE OF THE RIDGE AVENUE
AND. MARAYUNK PASSENGER RAILWAY
COHIPANI. corner of RIDGE and COLUMBIA avenues.
PIIILADELFRIA, January 6, 1862.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a Divi
dend of FIFTY CENTS PER SHARE of the capital
Stook of this company, payable on demand, at this ofitce,
to-tlinAtuckholders or their legal representatives.
• LEWIS STOKES,
nemterry and Treasurer
OFFICE OF THE FRANK • lAD AND
SOUTHWARK PHILADELPHIA CITY PAS.
rif:ER RAILROAD COMPANY, BEIM'S (late
Chatham) Street, below Fourth.
PAILAMILPIIIA, January 2, 1862.
The Board of Directors have this day declared a divi
dend of Three and One-half Per Cont. on the Capital
Stock, out of the earnings for the past elx months, paya
ble to the stockholders or their legal representatives on
and after the 15th inst.
The transfer books will be closed until the 15th inst.
ja3415 CHAS. B. ABBOTT, Secretary.
ixOFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA
AND DARBY RAILROAD COMPANY.
Pnmsnoi.rms, December 29, 1861,
the Annbal Meeting of tho Stockholders of this COM.
rany will be held at the Depot, on DARBY Avenue, Le
tticen Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets.on lilObi DAY,
tho 13th day of January, 1882, at 3) P. M., at which
time an election for President and Directors to serve for
the ensbing year will be held.
The Supplement to the Charter, approved the twenty
eighth day of February last, will ho submittal for accept.
once or rejection. THOMAS SPARKS,
deSO-tial3 . Secretary.
r.crOFFICE OF THE FRANKFORD AND
SOUTHWARK PHILADELPHIA CITY PAS.
SENGER RAILROAD COMPANY, BERKS (late
Chatham) Street, below FOURTH
PHILADEPIIIA, December 21, 1861.
The Annual Meeting of the Stmkholders of the Frank.
ford and Southwark Philadelphia City Passenger Rail.
road Company will be held at the Office of the Company,
on MONDAY, January 13th, 1882, at 12 o'clock M., at
which time end place au Election will be held for Prost.
dent and Twelve Directors to serve the ensuing year.
d3o.tjal3 CIIAB. B. ABBOTT, Secretary.
DTOFFICE OF THE ENTERPRISE IN
BURAIKIN COMPANY, 400 WALNUT Si'.
pIifILADELPIIIA, De:ember 28, 1801.
NOTICE.—The Annual Reefing of the Stockholdere
of the Enterprise Insurance Company will be held on
MONDAY, the 13th day of January, 1862, at 10 o'clock
A. M., at the Office of the-Company.
. . _
An Elect on for Twelve Directors to serve the ensuing
year will be held on the same day, at the name place, be
tween the hours of 10 o'clock A. IL and 2 P. DI.
CHARLES W. 00XE, Secretary
OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA,
CITY PASSENGRE RAILWAY UODPAN Y.
LKS
Ditanunun 27, 1861.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the PHI
LADELPHIA CITY PASSENGER RAILWAY COM
PANY will ha held at No. 25 MERCHANTS' EX
CHANGE, on MONDAY,tho 13th day of January, 1882,
at twelve o'clock DI., at which time an Electiou for Ptak
dent and Six Directors to servo for the ensuing year will
ho held. WM. W. COLKET,
de22-14t Secretary.
07. OFFICE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
COMPANY FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES
AND GRANTING ANNUITIES, 804 WALNUT St.
PUILADELPUIA, January 2, 1862.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of tins Corn.
pany 'trill take place at their °Mee, 304 WALNUT Street,
on MONDAY, 20th Inst., at 12 o'clock M.; and at the
same time an election will be held for thirteen Directors
for the ensuing year. WILLIAM. D. GILL,
jaB42o* Actuary.
my. OFFICE HUNTINGDON AND BROAD
TOP MOUNTAIN RAILROAD CO.
- 26th, 1861
NOTICE.—ThO Annual Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad
and Coal Company will be held at their Office, No. 219
South THIRD Street, on TUESDAY, tke 14th day of
armory, 1862, at 11 A. 31., when an Election will he
bold for a 'President and twelve Directors, to servo for
the, ensuing year.
• 3..8,•AE/LTSEH,
de ,
27.atial4
Secretary, _
cras-Irre - c - r. -- t,utrirAratr - tLF - TUE
STATE OP PENNSYLVANIA.
JANUARY' 2, 1862.
_
An election for thirteen Directors of the Company, to
serve for ono year, will he held at the Company's Office,
Nos. 4 and 5 EXCHANGE BUILDING. on MONDAY,
January 13, 1862, bet,een the hence of 10 o'clock A. 2,6.
and 1 o'clock I'. M. WILLIAM IiABPEIt,
ja3•tlS Secretary.
MPHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER
20th, 1861.—Thy Annual Meeting of the Stock
ot tho LOCUST MOUNTAIN COAL AND IRON
COMPANY will ho held at their Office, No. 210 South
THIRD Street, on MONDAY, the 20th day of January,
A. D. 1862, at n o'clock A. M., when au Election will
bo held for seven Directors, for the miming year. The
transfer book of the Company will be closed for fifteen
days previous to the day of election.
de2l-tja2o JOS. C. COPPUCR, Secretary.
TrFAME INSURANCE COMPANY, OF•
FIGS No. 404 CHESTNUT STREET.
PIILLADULVIII I, December 30,1801.
The Aunnal Meeting of the Stockholders of tho Fame
Insurance Company mill ho held at the Office of the Com
pany on MONDAY, the thirteenth day of January, 1002,
at 10 o'clock A. ➢I.
• • • • - •
An Election for Twelve Directors to servo for the ensil
ing year will to held at the gismo time and at the same
place, between the hours of 10 A. M. and?. P. M.
dSO-tjal3 W. 1. BLANCHARD, Secretary.
or OFFICE OF - THE GIRARD VOL.LEGE PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPAN
- Corner of Colniupla and Ridge avenues.
PHII,IIEI.I'III4, Jan. 6th, 1862.
The Board of Directors of "The Girard College Pas
senger Rails ay Company" have tine day declared
Dividend of ONE DOLLAR PER SHARE out of the
earnings of the past bilC months, payable to the Stock.
holders, or their legal representatives, on demand.
Ja7.6t W. S. BLIGHT, Treasurer.
arOFFICE OF THE MINE HILL AND
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN RAILROAD COM.
YAWL
PIIILADELNTIA, 12th month 20, 1881
A stated Anneal Meeting of the Stockholders will be
held at their office in the Hall of the Franklin Institute,
South SEVENTH Street, the 13th day of let Month,
(January,) 1862, nt 11 o'clock A. 31., at which time a
report of the proceedings of the Board of Managers will
be presented, and an election will be held for a President
and ton Managers to conduct tbo affairs of the Company
for the year ensuing. WILLIAM BIDDLE,
de23•tjal3'F Secretary.
tryPHILADELPHIA AND READING
RAILROAD COMPANY, Wilco 227 South
FOURTH Street,
PIIILADELPIIIA, January 2, 18G2
DIVIDEND NOTICE—A dividend of seven per cont. ou
the Preferred Stock of this Company has been declared,
payable on the 16th Instant, free from State tax.
Stockholders on the books of the New York Agency
Witte paid at the Partners' Loan and Trost Company.
Stockholders on the books of the Boston Agency will
bo paid at the office of Messrs. J. E Thayer & Brother.
ja3415 B. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
ri:r. OFFICE OF THE RELIANCE MU.
'UAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILA
DELPHIA, Jan. 8, 1862.
The Annual Netting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany will be held, in pursuance of the Charter, at the
(nce, No. 308 WALNUT Street, nt 12 o'clock M. on
MONDAY, the 32 day of February next. And an
Election for Twenty Directors, to serve for the ensuing
year, will be held at the same place, on the day named,
between 12 o'clock IL - and 2 o'clock P. M.
jniLthatutfe3 D. M. lIINCIIHAN, Sec'y.
rc OFFICE OF THE UNION MUTUAL
INNVEANCE COMPANY PHILADELPHIA,
Doc. 30, HEIL—The annual meeting of the Scriphoblers
of the Union Mutual Insurance Company of Philadel
phia wilt be held at the office of the Company on MON
DAY, January 13, 1862, at 12 o'clock M., at which time
an ekelion will be held far eight. Directors, to serve for
the ensuing three years. JOSEPH COLLISON,
de3l-tittlia6t Secretary.
arEAST MAIIANOT RAILROAD CO'..
TANY, 407 LIBRARY Street.
EIIILADELPIIIA, Dec 23,1881.
Tho Annual Ideeting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany, and an Election for Officers to servo the ensuing
year, will be held at the Company's Office, 407 LIBRARY
Street, on 'MONDAY, the 13th of January next, at 10
o'clock A. 3f. ARCHIBALD 3foINTYRE,
de2i•tuthAetfal3 Treasurer and Secretary.
ayOFFICE OF THE LITTLE SCHUYL
KILL NAVIGATION RAILROAD and COAL
COISPANY, 907 LIBRARY Street,
PMLADICLPiTIII, 18th Dec, 1861.
Tho Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany, and an Election for Officers to servo tho ensuing
year, will ho held at the Office of the OompanY, No. 40 7
LIBEABY Street, on MONDAY, the 18th of January
next, at 11 o'clock A. M.
del9-thetutjalB WM. WALN, Jr, Secretary.
tirAPPEAL FOR THE SUFFERING
POOR.—Hundreds in our city aro now suffering
from cold, hunger, and sickness. That loathsome and
appalling disease - small-pox, prevails largely at present
among the desti t ute. THE HOME MISSIONARY
SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA"
appeals moat earnestly to the public to furnish the aid
necessary to enable its agents to relieve this want and
distress. Thin Society has been laboring among the poor
et this community for twenty-six years, and many
thousands whom It has aided by its timely assistance and
counsel can testify of its efficiency and success in this
very important work. During the last seven years It
Las sent to good homes in the country no less than eight
hundred and four children—the offspring, mostly, of
dninken parents—and nearly all of them have done well.
Donations of money, however email, may be sent to
the Timmer, Mr. THOS. T. MASON, No. 434 MAR
KET Street.
Donationo of fool, food,' and clothing will ho very at
tellable at this lime, told may be Beat to the °Mee, No.
42 North FIFTH Street, or. they will be called for on a
note being addressed to Mr. JOHN P. ARRISON, tame
place. GEORGE 11. STUART, PreWitold.
MAO It. SMITH, Vice President.
It. K. HOEFLION, Secretary. ja7-tuthatlt
lUNITED STATES MARINES.-
Wanted, immediately, for the United Mateo Marine
Corps, THREE HUNDRED ABLE-BODIED MEN
for sea etrvice, between the ages of eighteen and
forty years. All Information that may be milked will
be given at the Rendezvorm, 311 South FRONT Street,
below Spruce. JAMES LEWIS, Captain,
.M3-12t Recruiting Officer.
THE NATIONAL HOSPITALS.-
A DEPOSITORY of 0 The United States Sanitary
Commission" le now open at No. 1235 CHESTNUT
Street, Philadelphia.
Contributions received for the Hospitela, and for Sick
and Wounded Soldiers. del7-4w
CO.RD PRINTING, BEST AN])
N.." Ohcanost in the City, at BINGWALT & BROWN 8,
Ili bulb TIIIIID Street. non
g4t ;11 rt6s.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1862.
A Winter Itide Across the Potomac
[Special Correspondence of tho Philadelphia Prom]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 1902
Yesterday, when the sun was shining brightly in
Washington, and the air soft and balmy, we started
on horseback, for a ride on the other side of the
Potomac, in search of news At that time an overcoat
was an impediment to one's comfort, than other
wise; but when we reached what was onoo termed
the aqueduct, now converted into a military road,
by drawing off the water, and bridging the alma
turn, on the outskirts of Georgetown, the sun
seemed suddenly to have disappeared over the
western bills, and the atmosphere become cold and
piercing, as though congealed by the frost of winter.
To our left the water of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, and that of the Potomac, which but a few
days ago, danced and sported at the base of the
ridge of earth which stretches far beyond the chain
bridge to the northwest, dividing the two bodies of
water, was covered over by a thick sheet of ice,
across which ono might almost walk to the
' opposite shore without danger to life, while
the hill-tops on either side of the Potomac wars
crested with snow and ice, over which the
branches of the pine showered a fall of loose
snow at every breath of the wind. There was
plenty of travel on the road of horsemen, and
teamaterswith their heavily-ladonod wagons drawn
by from four to six horses. First, there canoe an
Moor, galloping "like mad," witlnn " orderly "
after him, towards Washington, as though he was.
the bearer of despatches to General McClellan an
nouncing the descent of the entire rebel army on
our extreme right wing at Prospect Hill. Next
came a private—a Buoktail," wethink—who
minimd a bundle under each arm, and the bridle of
whose horse was thrown over the pummel of the
saddle. Again, there came an ambulance, heavily
bearing down upon the springs in front, at the
danger, so it looked, of being pitched into the
canal at the next revolution of the wheels. Just
then, the driver got off the seat, and, riding up to
the door of the ambulance, we pushed aside
the curtains and glanced within. A sick soldier
to be sure; no one need wish a second glance
to convince him of that fact. He has the
typhoid fever, and is very ill. His looks pro
claim that The emaciated condition of his body ;
the pallor of his face and lirs ; tho leaden hue of
his eyes, tell you that "soldiering" with him must
be laid aside for a time. ' , lle has been in the
hospital for some time," so the dikver says, "and
his sister having coma down to Washington to nurse
him, his colonel has granted him permission to go
over to Georgetown until he gets well. I don't
think Tom will ever mine htick, though," adds the
companion of the sick soldier in a very low voice.
Poor fellow ! but it makes us feel so thankful that,
if he does die. some one of his own household will
be there to close his eyes, and receive his parting
words.
At the next turn of the road there comes in sight
a long train of transportation wagons, on their way
to Georgetown after forage. It has stopped at the
side of the road, and the drivers of the wagons are
engaged in watering their horses, to obtain which
they are obliged to break the ice in the
canal. Then the drivers jump into their saddles on
the rear horses, and the train is soon in motion.
There are pedestrians on foot—on horseback, and
in carriages : strangers from Philadelphia and
strangers from the far West on the road. Now
there is a father or a brother, and occasionally a
mother, a wife, or sister, journeying towards
Langley, whither they expect to meet the loved
one, from whom they have boon so long separated.
And with such diversity of scone we roach the
Chain Bridge. There our 'pass is examined, and
we move on. Peet the little lane on the left that
once led to the encampment of the lamented
Colonel Baker's Brigade—past the knoll of ground
on the right, where we ones made a balloon anon-
Sion with Professor Lowe—past Ethan Allen on
the right, where she sentinels on patrol stare at you
with a wondering look, and thou turn their backs
upon you and resume their weary watching, until
we arrive al,the little frame house, situated on the
hill-top on the right above, once occupied as the
headquarters of General Smith, previous to our ad
vance to Falls Ghurels, but now,used fog the put.
There are mor_e_silkiiiitsLietsjny.'--
: " I? ; m " :2:: tiur 3 Wire - wards, (some of
these days we shall write the story of a soldier who
died here, with all the sad circumstances of his
death ;) while outside the hospital several soldiers
are employed in splitting wood, and piling it away
beneath the shod back of the hospital.
At ibis point it is that the sterility of the scene
more_ forcibly reminds you of the presence of the
desolating monster—war. The country around is
bleak and barren ; and half-destroyed and unoccu
pied houses meet the eye at every turn. Crumb
ling walls, blackened by the torah that fired the
structure enclosed within them, abound, on the
right hand and on the left, and all proclaims how
deep is the curse that has been hurled upon the
traitors to our Government.
Passing through similar sights to those witnessed
on the road to Chain Bridge, wo reach Langley,
the headquarters of Gen. McCall, the commander
of tho Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. There is a
pleasant welcome hero that causes ono to feel him
self at home. Not alone from the General, but
from Col. Biddle, and Captains Seheetz, Clow, and
Meeonkey. Having obtained all the news here,
which it is-proper to communicate, (none hero to
day, however, proper or otherwise, " the boys"
taking breath after the drubbing given the rebels at
Drtmesville,) we pass on just as Brigadier General
Ord, the hero of Dranerville, dismounts from his
horse and enters General McCall's room.
On we ride towards Lowinsvillo to call on Sur
geon Shippon, division surgeonef McCall's division,
who jocularly informs us that he is "neither dead
nor ill," as he has been reported, and then (still
onward), we drop in to see General Hancock, of
Smith's division, at Mackall's Hill, within half a
mile of Lewinsville ; thence across to General
Smith's headquarters at Smoot's Hill, stopping at
Colonel Friedman's quarters,—and then off on a
gallop sores the country to Minor's Hill, Brigadier
General Morroll's ; Hall's Hill, General Porter's
headquarters; and still further on, until we arrived
at General MoDowelPs headquarters at Upton's
Hill. Here we meet General Wordsworth, with
whom we enjoy a half hour's conversation, toasting
our feet all the while at the grate, where the wood
of the Old Dominion smokes and blazes away at a
fearful rate. No news hero either—everything is
flat, stale, and unprofitable. And so, as it is getting
dark outside, and the weather rather too cool to be
comfortable, we again mount, on our return to
iVaehington, past General Auger's brigade, and,
crossing the railroad where Mr. Cutts, father-in-law
of the late Judge Douglas, nearly lost his life by
being fired at by a rebel, late in the summer of
1861, we come to Ball's Cross Roads, aspot memo
rable in our history as the place of our arrest some
six months since by a certain colonel now being
court-martialed in this city. Hero wo met a
traveller on foot, an old man with whitened hairs,
who had been a resident of Virginia for many
years, but who was obliged to leave his home
in consequence of the rebellion Ho walks at
the side of our horse for a full half-mile, and
grows eloquent as ho narrates the story of
the wrongs inflicted upon him by the rebels.
Colonel Averill's Cavalry; Fort Corcoran; Chor
man's (late) Cavalry ; tho Arlington House,
are . passed in quick succession, and then, just as the
gas-lights are burning brightly, in kitchen and in
parlor, on the other side of the river, our horse's
feet touehltho aqueduct bridge, and in a few mo
ments arrive sit Georgetown. On horseback, we
have an opportunity now and then of peeping into
the houses along the sidewalks, where the suppor
table. with its clean white tablecloth, is being
spread, and the fire on the hearth is burning most
brightly. We can almost hear the clatter of dishes,
as they are being sat upon the table, and the hunt
of merry voices, who welcome the approach of the
loved ones of the family circle. The sight has a
strange charm for the reporter's eye; it may be
because of the familiarity he has with the sterner
scones which he daily witnesses, as "the army re
porter of the Philadelphia Pass. And ao, think
ing and building air-castles of giant proportions,
we reached Washington from a twentymilos ride
across the Potomac. Con.
THE Germantown Telegraph, conducted by
Major FREAS, is a weekly newspaper of large
circulation and great influence. Although the
Telegraph is almost exclusively a literary and
family newspaper, it has devoted itself to an
earnest advocacy of the war, and discusses with
great ability the many political questions
arising out of it. Alluding to the position of
lukewarm loyalists in the North, the Telegraph,
in a recent number, makes the following point:
t , One of the handles used by these papers of
doubtful loyalty is the enprmous taxes to which the
war will subject the country. This they aro con
stantly harping upon to enlist opposition to the war
and the Government, well knowing its usual street
upon the masses of the community ; but, forgetting
this in their anxiety to help the rebellion to a sue•
cessful issue, they arc clamoring for a. war with
Great Britain, avlach would double the taxes; and
war for what? To sustain an not which was done
without the knowledge or consent of the Govern
ment, and to maintain a principle which, for fifty
years, we have protested against, and which, in
1812, wo actually went to war with the same Power
to abolish!"
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1862
THE REBELLION.
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
`THE ADVANCE TOWARD NASHVILLE.
REBEL OUTRAGES IN SOUTHERN KENTUCKY.
LATE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH,
A REBEL VIEW OF THE SITUATION
WHEN THEY EXPECT THE FEDE.
RAL ARMY TO ADVANCE
AFFAIRS IN TENNESSEE.
GEN. LANE'S GREAT EXPEDITION
Full Particulars of the Means to be Usod,
and Ends to be Accomplished
TEE IMPRESSMENT OF BRITISH SUBJECTS
IN TIIE SOUTH
THE AIISSISBIPPI GUNBOATS AND FLOTILLA,
LATE NEWS FROM PORT ROYAL.
THE MILITARY COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS
AND THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
&C., &C., &C.
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
The Advance Towards Nashville.
: y
e s d e.
t a
c ps h od as ß a inc li e rr t g li e .
battle [Fromthe lihmood Dispatch, ins. 2.)
months
b T av ie 43 / 1 4 .
The pub) mind has been puzzled fora solution of
a ba 'di e re o ll ; a .b P lan
P°
MeClellau'Song-continued inaction upon the Po
army is a ;ill-ascertained fact. Moro than five
More thusio months, a period long enough to be
gin amidnii a modern European war, and of course
aflordik tae, with ample opportunity, to reor
ganizatrues, develop immense resources, and re
nnimae (hoping courage. For three months the
Nord - has tad a force at Washington which, ac
cordig tots own account, outnumbered our own
two dons which has had abundant time for disci
plineint/as at its command a/limn:Nivea-mount
and ifhite variety of arms llMMunition, and
equipeits of war. And yet," whilethe winter has
thus smen the mildest on record, while the roads
haveson as firm and smooth ns in midsummer,
ulnas delightful weather has presented a daily •
invitiol of ' Come on"—the Federal army con-
Gnu tolie sluggish, torpid, and motionless behind. t
its
,tresehments on the Potomac. "If you are
why don't you come along ?"
long the variety of speculations upon the real.
cat of this long-continued delay, the theory is I
ga ng ginned that MeCltllan does not intend to ;
a ollre till the 2) iod arnrcs when the term of
elment of our volunteeiseypir es , and when, I
kouseqnenee of their return to their homes, the
shorn army will bo so reduced in numbers as to
fent but a feeble barrier to his immense masses. I
jt - eithstending, the vaporing of the Yankee 'pa —
B it in evident that„ even with heavy odds, they
se no stomach for encountering the chances of
.)ther Manossaa. The Southern expeditions,
it
forllihqed; would draw off a great body of
I
'a Southern troops to the defence of their own
I aside, and inspire the suceessotet of- the Bull run.
re with enrage enough to make an advance
pvement. But this hope failing, there remains
it,t one equally promising opportunity—the expire.- I
s of the term of duty of the volunteers—and the ;
ladle now gaining ground that McClellan will '
limit that ;moment befota ?wiling his onward
kis:en:cut, and that then, -when out eamim are tle
rted, or the vacant places supplied by troops '
Yai cannot by any possibility, in the interval
remaintng„ be made the equals of the pi esent I
.Rebel Outrages an Southern Kentucky. 91iintecTarmy in d, and ejlicieucy, the Federal
We noticed the other day a recent proclamation pees will male their grand and long•pronitsed •
issued by Zollicoffer to the people of Southern Ken- at andmovement.
tucky, in which he urges them to take up armskti, arc au-are that Congress has legislated
with the rebels and drive the Federal forces across moo-to encourage re-enitstment, but Wi
the Ohio diver. Ile tells them, too, that ho comes j not learned that its leg:gotten has, to any
as aft lend and deliverer, and appeals-to the honor gD extent,. stewed the object desianed. Our
sve , cers did not
et Kentuckians, and to, the chastity of their wives enter tho army for money,
and daughters, to stimulate them to the "deed of - y have had a right to expect the treat
treason. We know enough already of the onor- -I"ytio gentlemen and to soldiers—treatment
=hies committed by his ruthless bands, but tin- -
i n.
o wtakheive boon of far more service in at
fortunately_ wo..ean * l 2 r to, I _ t e.. i . r " use 444 Pr" "/Ifi rriar Y a l -
fintaee — ilie as atrocious as any condnittee ' 1. 96' he - artless and Li :dal neglect have
the rebellious Sikhs in the British Indian war, 9 ,,f'dthern muse in more peril than all tins
Nene Sahib is an angel of light end merov yt thf k ions of the North. More even than this I
compared to the Confederate ruftiana_..l - "4e rust of inaction, to which they have
that this assertion is no exaggeration, i rl n. .proof mr ,
ondemned, has eaten out some of the bravest
Green, who was compelled to leave Jame, C
4 and these f Rots ac ,as well known to the
town, Russell county, and take refuge at Co nrha i n their front as to any ono in the Southern
lumbia, writes to us from the latter plane that the tioar_
e, sty, have emboldened them with the hope
counties of Clinton, Wayne, and Russell are nom-
'gc'cl." a l- the expiration of their time of enlistment,
nletely overrun by the Confederates. Their fetes tint Aeleteers will return to their homes, and that
Consists of eleven regiments of infantry and about 19
v "runitwill then fall, almost without resistance,
fifteen hundred cavalry, with eight pieces of can-
M i te the hmds.
non, two of which are rifled twelve-pounders. The' ' Ire tothat these confident expectations are
cavalry are ranging over the country, shooting destined tsinevitable disappointment. Certainly
down citizens or taking them prisoners, and taking we havefoned a false conception of the character
pee:session of all the horses, cattle, hogs, and bed
c othes. In come instances they have compelled of Sou her volunteers, if the y, like the Northern
vohnteers nro bent upon forsaking their camp
Union men to pull off their coats and hoots that I whin theitime is up, no matter what the danger
they might appropriate them. They have taken Iby no country is menaced. Indeed, such a
fourteen citizens of Russell county away as prison
supnitio would be more derogatory to Southern
ors; they robbed the store of John A. Leveredge, the to 3orthern volunteers; bOCRUFO when the
at ltheenas, of all his goods, and destroyed his • lair left they injured nobody but themselves,
books and notes to the value of $lB,OOO ; they plan- mdid not expose their territory and their homes
dered the store of George W. Lurdwile, in James- Itoren invasion; while the withdrawal of South
town, of all the clothing it contained, and also took I emokinteers would leave the way to their own
his horse. In Wayne, -near the line of Russell jEs and firesides open to an invading horde, who
county, they violated the person of a Mrs. Dean in (tare that their time for submission and corn
the presence of her father-in-law, en infirm old ease has forever gone, and who aro panting to
man aged ninety, and left her nearly dead, and to g desolation and defilement upon every South
committed a like fiendish act upon two sisters named
'lnnis, end treated them so barbarously that they
hey° ounce died, or rather Mr. Green has hoard a Ificulties of Invading the South—Phy
report of their death. In several of oar border Etiological Facts.
counties half of the male inhabitants aro in the poi the Richmond Examiner, Jon. 3.)
Union armies. Russell, with a voting population he difficulties of invasion increase in geomotri
of nine hundred and fifty, has sent five companies cratio with the distance. It also increases in go
to the field, and about seventy more men are scat- etrical ratio with the numbers of the invading
tared in oilier commands. There are no Moro loyal dine. This double impediment nets with tro
people in the State than in the counties of Russell, unions power against the enemy. The slow pro-
Clinton, Cumberland, and Moline, the four twins pa which has been made by his armies scams
ties having furnished at least twenty-five hundred aady to have established the proposition that in
soldiers. These men have all been withdrawn ion cannot be effected at all by regular marches.
from the protection of their homes, so that rebel , invading army of magnitude cannot penetrate a
marauding parties are ravaging the counties with- • miry as barely provided with provisions as the
nut a single soldier to oppose them. Colonel atli, except by slow movement, fortifying as it
Woolford's regiment of cavalry, which was ,ves.
raised in that region and knows the cony- I European warfare furnishes no criterion for mill
try well, has been ordered away to the , ryoperations on this continent. There the eoun-
Big Sandy, some throe hundred and fifty miles ' y is densely populated, and abounds in provisions
away. Mr. Green thinks that the troops raised in 1; every step. There, too, the agricultural labor
the counties named would in all-sufficient for their tg population are non-combatants, and are not
defence, had they been allowed to remain there. 1 kited with the penalties of war. They are hu-
Their
unprotected state has induced many to make I ,finely and prudently left to till their fields and
terms with the rebels, and has disheartened the I other their lieryeF.ts in the midst of flagrant war.
most loyal. Zollicoffer knows this, and, therefore, ;oo much credit is not to be allowed to modern
he has thought it en opportune time to deceive the mnanity on this score ; for, if any other policy
people by tho delusive pledge of friendship and 1 'ere pursued, the great potentates who conduct
safety. But let the suffering Unionists of that re- he wars would bo as unable to move their armies
gion have patience a little longer, and they will ob- I a Buell is found unable to move his in Kentucky,
tain all the aid they desire, and be enabled to de- Is bus been expected of him for several weeks
stroy the entire band. of ruffians who are now pal- mast.
luting the soil of Kentucky. The blow may be As our agriculture is not sufficiently thorough in
delayed from motives of expediency to make it die South or productive to admit the passage of
more sure, but it will fall with crushing weight armies over our, sparsely-populated domain, so our
upon the head of this hellish rebellion, and then roads aro, for the most part, mere natural paths,
the people of Southern Kentucky will be free to ade by use ' and not by heavy . outlays of money
respond to Zollieoffer in fitting terms. nd labor. They aro not, as in Europe, finely-
Bow the Rebels Trent Irishmen and Ger- 'sued streets, hard and smooth as a marble floor.
'or the greater part of the year they are more fit
inan e ,
or navigation than travel ; and it net unfrequently
A Kentucky Correspondent of the Cincinnati as happened in the last season that army horses
Times sap: 'rind mules have sunk down in the highways and
Ono otheritem about the rebels. The physician drowned in the mud. To compare European oilm
en Rosseau's staff-1 disremember the doctor's paigning to American is to compare things totally
name—basin his possession u brand, which has been unlike in all their circumstances.
need to mark suspicious men in the rebel army. The implements used in modern warfare add
Numbers of German and Irishmen, to his own lnuch to the difficultytransporting of
an army.
knowledge, have been marked with it. ale iron Me Wet" implement relied oil is the cannon, and
is heated, and the letters C. A. (Confederate Army) .the batteries required for a few brigades, fifteen or
burnt on some parts of their body. The purpose is twenty thousand troops, will suffice, in running
to detect them should they desert, over them, to ruin the best of our roads. Add to
the wear and tear caused by these that produced
by all the wheels and teams necessary for the
transportation of twenty regiments, and it is at
once seen in hole wretched a state the passage of a
small force will leave the roads of this country.
The effort to move an army of fifty or a hundred
thousand men over considerable distances in any of
the Southern regions is almost Herculean, and we
have not yet seen it made with success by the Yen
- kees in the progress of the war.
There is an important physiological fact to be
, recollected also in connection with this subject.
For men to fight welliand long, they must not have
liefore undergone fatigue mad loss of rest. If an
!army is required to rise early and marsh several
hours ' it is a physical impossibility forlthem to ex
habit, for any length of than, the proper nerve on
the field. On the morning of Manassas the
Federal army tecre required to rise at three o'clock,
after a fatiguing previous day, and to -march a
I pull day's journey before reaching the battle field.
' They foughtpretty well until nature became
over taxed, and at three o'clock in the afternoon,
just twelve hours after they bail risen from sloop,
they took that panio which has brought upon them
so much ridicule, and which has excited so much
disgust among all intelligent mon, except the more
observant of our physiologists. The case was very
much the same at Bethel. Their defeat was due
to their cowardice, but the panic into which they
fell is only to be accounted for on the physiological
principles. The ease was precisely the same again
at Carnifex Perry, where ltoseerans had committed
the indiscretion of attacking a fierce enemy, well
posted, with columns which had risen early, had
been twelve hours on the march, and had been
ployeloally exhausted by in tramp of twenty miles.
His men could not stand the fierce volleys of our
men; they took it into their heads thtq we were
shotting our guns with molten opener, they took a
stampede and fled; whereupon their generals
thought it advisable to gall them off."
The best and most successful generals of whom
we have any account, from Comex to General Tay
lor, have always made a point of resting their mon
well immediately before going into action. If an
army is rested twenty hours before going into a
fight, the chances are ten to ono that they will main
tam the action ten hours without any symptom of
flinching or flagging unless from excessive twat or
some other extraordinary cause. The physical con
dition of soldiers on entering an engagement has
mush more to do with their moral deportment while
'it is pending than is usually supposed. This
knowledge has always been discovered by groat
generals, and most scrupulously employed In plan
ning all their actions.
In tespect to this physiological fact we hate
[Special correspondence of the Louisville Journal.]
Muaronnsvimx., Hart CO., Ey., Jan. 6, 1862.
The bridge over Green river will bo completed
to-day, and consequently a general movement of
the troops may be hourly expected. It is rumored
that Hindman has taken a position at Cave creek,
about twelve miles south of this place, with a force
of eight or nine thousand men. If this report be
true, you may expect to hear of a general engage
ment before many days. Many persons seem very
Impatient about the delay of our army at this place,
acd with frantic cries of " On to Dowling Green,"
would urge a quicker movement of troops. This is
simply ridiculous. It is no child's play to manceuvro
thousands of troops, and at the same time pay due
regard to the health and comfort of eaoh particu
lar soldier. To insure victory, and especially when
the antagonistic armies aro animated as at present,
no advance should be made which cannot be fully
sustained, and no position taken which is not in di
ract and open communication with a receiving de
pot. If it had been either a wise or practicable mill
t .ry measure, we have no doubt that an advance
would have long since been mndo, and in spite of
Vie time-worn adage, that "Delays are danger
ous," we are fully impressed with the belief that
no dolny hits been made by this division which will
nit ultimately redound to the credit of our com
manding general and the honor of the country,
We daily hear of pet eons who aro desirous of re.
turning from the land of Dixie to their homes.
Emile of these persons were formerly men of high
respectability, but it is impossible to say how cor
rupt they may have become since they wandered
off from the faith of their fathers to worship strange
gods. However, would it not be well to eller,
them to return, if they will come and take the
oath of allegiance, and hereafter behave them
selves ? We have conversed with no one on this
subject, and consequently know nothing of what
the general opinion in regard to it may be, but it
surely does seem that as our war is for the Union,
and not a war of subjugation, that wo should be
willing to forgive those who repent of their mis
deeds and avow a willingness to return again to
the homes and Government of their fathers ; but
this is a question for the " powers that ho " to de
cide.
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
The Situation
[From the 3tobile Register and Advertiser, Blat.]
It seems to be the popular impression—we sea it
in men's faces when we do not hear it in their
words—that the military affairs of the Confederacy
are not very cheering just now. We may chiefly
account for this tone of feeling by the fact that
some time has elapsed since our arms achieved any
success of moment.
These victories seem, at, the first glanoo, to ho a.s
much the muse as the consequence of patriotism.
But, because, where our arms aro glorious with
triumph our patriotism effulges, and we swear most
enthusiastically by the Stara and Bars," ono man
must not infer from the quietude and cheerless as
pect of another, that his patriotic confidence is less
fixed and earnest than it he were hurrahing over a
fresh success of arms.
The affair at Dranesville contributed tie mite
to the depression of public spirit. We are so
unused to adversity, that anything which is not a
brilliant success seems defeat. Thus the invading
enemy slow Col. Terry, as noble and bravo a man
as wears the Confederate uniform, at the pass of
Green river. They have crossed that river, which
many thought would be their Sty; and aro ad.
raneing in force. In Missouri, too, our banner
seems to trail ; for the telegraph tells us that Price
is in full retreat. Thus the enemy seems to be
progressing along our northern frontier, while all
around us he lords it on our coast, organizing his
expeditions on our soil, and threatens us with future
invasion. These aro the points of the situation.
A lull, a pause, a suspense exists—preceded by
minor events which cause a feeling of apprehen
sion, snore than of confidence, as to she More.
We know that the enemy are in groat power and
meditate mischief, and fool that ore long their
blows, the heaviest of the war, must fall. We trust
that their hammer will strike our anvil ; but we
aro not sure, for we aro in doubt whether at some
points there is an anvil to meet the hammer. These
points can only bo on our coast, for we are ready
to meet their worst at Manassas, in Central Ken
tucky, and at Columbus, and also at most points on
our coast. But we do not know with what over
whelming force they may not make an onslaught
at some unprotected point, and gain a moms to
inspirit them and dispirit us
Let us remember, however, that our deteamina
tion in the prosecution of his war is not depmdent
on victories, though their ay he. If eve* , bat
tle ended in our defeat, see must stilt offer battle
and make nest snorifiacs of slaughter upon the altar
of independency. , If we could not win that inevi
table goal of out effort, by defeating the enemy,
we could do it by exhausting him with his very
victories. it have bean so won. "Live or die,
survive or perish," we are "for independence."
But our Musa does not approach this bad strait
yet. It displais almost an uninterrupted record of
victories, and *heir remembrance should inspire
our entire eonftlence as to its future history.
This lull of'arms will be broken anon by the
shouts of Southern victors, wherever on the border
the enemy maychoose their battle-fields. Is it not
why we wait maptiently, that we wait for victo
ries? If we doaded defeat, we should not be im
patient for the event. Our very impatience, then,
is a presage ,tt victory, which lessor evidence of
desponcleney (mot discountenance.
Perhaps wear° to pay tbr too joyous hopes sug
gested by
. the Trent affair, ste the crushing desppn.
dency wh i ch. will ensue in case of disappoint
ment as to th result. This will bo a profitable
lesson, tonehhg us that the reliance of the South is
in its own abut arms, net on the uncertain hope of
a 'alma rod to independence through foreign in-
terventioni It would seem that we have actually
been restitg on our arms, to bear what Great Bri
tain wouldsay about the insult to her flag, and the
enemy seen to be doing the same.
The domion of Great Britain is of momentous
importnno to, us, it is true : but whatever it may
be, rellitnf activity in the meantime is our proper
course. let, we do not charge any lack of active
intents osethepart of our military authorities; but
it seems tint our people have given much more in
terested ittottion to the voices from across the
ocean; don to military operations. This is not
right. Citr lope and trust should all he still in our
armies inthe lad, as it has been heretofore—not in
outside aid.
The Knolvile'Register, of the 221, says : " We
have positiopformation ;hat the Lint:olEllles made
another ineurpt into Scott county, Tennessee, a
few dap ego ~' We aro informed that they pene
trated Hafer Oho head waters of the Now river
fork of fh.twfumberland river, in Scott county,
near the &tenon county line. They killed Ro
bert Patten* David tihopuffin, Cabo Gibson, end
a Mr. Low-ull good Southern men."
The Bovhf; Green correspondent. of the Nash
ville Untorays: "A few clays ago General Buell,
ennmeandirfoneral of the Federal troops between
Green riseand Louisville, by way of making
amends fettle inhuman refusal of ono of bis
officers to Mho remains of Gen. Bucknor'a little
son have elation burial, at the family vault in
Louisville, arted a flag of truce to this place and
an apologist letter."
The 11.6 bi vs. the UllllOll Army—The Song
of the Swan
always had the advantage of the enemy in
the progress of this war. We stand on
the defensive. The enemy invade. They
must make the assault ; and the fatigue and pro
tracted loss of rest encountered in reaching our
lines, make them a prey to panic and -morbid im
pulses. The Bull Run and Bethel panics are not
the only ones that have seized them. Their stam
pedes from Prestonsburg and from Cumberland
Ford were oven more remarkable than the others,
from the fact that they
- ran, like the wicked, "when
no man pursued."
Affairs m Tennessee—the Rebel Army of
the West.
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Tho Catholic Bishop of Nashville has arrived at
Ile states that drafting in Tennessee proved a
partial failure. Union men are numerous in that
oily. They are not outspoken, but often indulge In
ridicule of the Confederate Government, and use
language which indicates their feeling. The rebel
wanly sea veater terror even to Secesnontsts than
the Union army. If Bowling Green falls, Nash
ville will be destroyed. Forts are being built near
the city, one is situated two miles north of the City,
on the Gallatin turnpike, and others east and west
of the city.
The Bishop Came by way of Bowling Green and
Munfordsville. Ho knows nothing of - the force at
Bowling Green. No reinforcements had arrived
from Columbus. Ile saw at Glasgow Junction the
remains of the splendid tunnel, destroyed on the sth
by rebels. The railroad from that point North has
been entirely destroyed—even rails taken away.
Tho turnpike has been obstructed by foiled trees.
The rebels are endeavoring to draw Union men on
Bowling Green. Ho says the approach to Colum
bus, Kentucky, is splendidly defended by nume
rous butteries, chains and torpedoes obstructing the
river, and thinks it an utter Impossibility for gun
boats to live in the water at that point. General
Zollicoffer has thrown three regiments of rebels in
Jimtown, to keep the roar open and to guard.
JIM LANE'S GREAT EXPEDITION.
Saving the Union and Letting Slavery
therethea
army
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pervade the political skies;
Take Care of Itself,
whlrdelotha gloomis o p lei t i n d there i al
t h e n y i loigssohpl darknessToi f r l re d i i spirit Tribune.]
Booms to po ssess our generals,
and
and treason seem to hold their perfect,
work ; when the nation seems to be struck with
palsy, and settling down into the embrace of death,
divested of power of self-preservation, a daystar
of hope appears in the West, beyond the Missouri.
The telegraph brings the joyful tidings that the
President has authorized General James 11. Lane
to gather about him an army of thirty thousand
warriors of the Cromwell stamp; men in whets°
hearts the sacred firos of Liberty and Union glow ;
men who will strike at the vitals of rebellion quick
and decisive blows, and who are not afraid of hurt
ing the rebels' idol; who will wage war in earnest,
and fight with an eye singly to crushing the hydra
headed demon of treason, dithich has fastened its
fangs in the-Union, and struggles for its destruction.
The Administration has authorized GeneralLano
to make Leavenworth his headquarters, and there
collect together 30,000 picked men in the shortest
practicable space of time, and to march to his field
of operations with all the alacrity possible. Jim
Lane is not the man to fall asleep when at work,
nor to let his braves die of inaction and lassitude.
He believes that rest wears more than friction, and
that idleness kills and demoralizes more soldiers
than hard marches. Lane's method of dealing
with traitors is to settle accounts with them the
first time he pays them the honor of a visit, and
to make such clean and thorough work as ho goes
along, that the same ground will not have to be
conquered twice. Jim Lane's army will go forth
animated with the idea that made Old Brown a
terror to Secessionists, and Oliver Cromwell
invincible against tyrants—love of freedom.
Lane has selected Western regiments exclusively.
His expedition will be a Western enterprise, and
the campaign will be conducted on Western princi
ples. reonomy, celerity, and bravery are the im
plements. There will be no wasting of millions of
treasure and months of precious time in useless,
cumbrous preparations for the purpose of consum
ing the subsistence mid patience of the people in
doing nothing - mob as have characterized the other
divisions of the army. Lane's force will be chiefly
mounted. lie expects to start with 15,000 cavalry,
10,000 infantry, 1,000 flying artillery, 1,200 fuels
leers, 4,000 loyal Indians, and about 1.000 contra
bands, now in Kansas, on the start; but the latter
force is expected to increase as he proceeds South.
He can employ 8,000 to 10,000 able-bodied contra
bands to great advantage, as servants and laborers.
Ile needs them to take care of the horses, mules
cud cattle; to Wise trains;
collect forego; cook
hl
waysen d
, c p o o ll r e f e o t r t ni ng
performing
in v te a l i l u i
nod serve food ; cut and handle timberfor bridges;
er
repair roads; for scouting in a country in which they
ce
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v t i h e e a n t
my ; taking care of the sick and wounded ; building
forts and helping to garrison them; and, in a thou
d
lightening the toil of the soldiers General Lane
claims that, with the help of eight or ten thousand
robust, loyal blacks, as men of all work, he dim
double the efficiency and striking power of his
troops, and prevent more than half the per cent. of
sickness and death that is wasting the ranks of the
other div isions the artny,ssiss
Um' et - tae tA., - 11-. • -s.
stand, have assigned the following forces to consti
tute the army of the Southwest, under Gen. Lane :
Cavalry. Infantry.
Linnets ......6 Reg'te 2 Reg'ta.
Wisconsui 2 2
2 i•
low n
()MO 2
Indiana 1 1
lienses 4 1
NerthweEdern Dlechenic Fuelleem, and eight batteries
of artillery.
We have not learned all of the regiments which
have been selected for this grand campaign ; but
Lane himself boa the choosing of them, and he will
pick the best he can find. The Mechanic Fusileers
at Canip Doulas was the first regiment put down
on his list. He fell in love with them some time,
ago. He wants them as the pioneers of his expedi
tion, to open roods end fling pontoons across rivers
and morasses. The law allows them the regular
pay of soldiers and forty cents a day extra for all
the time in which they may be employed as fast
loom Colonel Daniels' Wisconsin Cavalry, en:
camped at Fel:osbn. it is understood, have boon
selected from that State; and Colonel Brackett's
Cavalry and Baldwin's Infantry, at Camp Douglas,
from this State. What other Illinois regiments aro
selected is not known. Doubtless most of the regi
ments that will ho embraced in this expedition are
now stationed at Camp Benton, and scattered
through Missouri, doing nothing, except waiting
far something to turn up. To take part in an ex
pedition of this kind will be their greatest felicity
mud delight.
The immense proportion of dragoons to foot
soldiers shoes that Lane intends that celerity shall
characterize his movements. There will be no
snail-pace crawling along, but ho will sweep for
ward like a prairie fire, enveloping and overwhelm
ing all opposing foes.
The infantry will be used to support the ar
tillery and cavalry 'in the shock of the battle, and
to wrench victory from the rebels by a rush of
Mini bullets and a charge of bayonets. General
Lane will not encumber himself with unnecessary
baggage. He will take along no more than is ab
solutely needed. lie will use the light wagon of
the plains rather than the heavy, cumbersome regu
lation article. When his draft animals give out he
will replenish by confiscation from the rebels, He
does not intend to depend on Washington for bread,
or Secretary Chase for money. Ile proposes to
make the traitors furnish the rations and bear the
expenses of the march. It is they that caused the
trouble, end they kunst bear the :cost of the court
and jury which will try the ease.
Lane has purchased a patent horso.power saw
mill to aid the Fusileers in bridge building. He
bee also bought five hundred hand corn mills, being
about two to a company, to be run by the contra
bands. A regiment comes to a corn field; the con
trabands pitcis in and husk out the corn, shell it,
dry it on pans, and grind it in the mills, and then
convert it into hoo-cako, pone, and other forms of
the article. Cattle and hogs will he procured by
the foragers and reduced to rations. He intends
there shall be no famine in his army. slt will have
the beet the country affords; and wherever the Se
cosh can live, there his troops can also subsist. He
will take some provisions with him at the start, and
trust to the resources of the country, and to the
enterprise of his boys, to collect what they need.
The Government will he subjected to no expense on
Lane's account, after the outfit is provided. Ills
men will take onro of themselves from thence for
ward, and of the rebels into the bargain.
The field of operations assigned to Lane by the
President, is Kansas, Southwestern Missouri, Ar
kansas, and the Indian Territory, as stated by tele
graph, end ae much farther South as he chooses to
go. After his army starts from Leavenworth, it
will quickly sweep Price and his butter-nut rabble
out of Southwestern Missouri, and into Arkansas.
The particular direction of his further advance
will be shaped by the circumstances of the case;
but it can be told, with tolerable certainty, that he
will visit Fort Smith, clean out the rebels, and es
tablish a depot there ; that ho will quickly pacify
and restore to loyalty the Cherokees, Choctaws,
Seminoles, Creeks, and other tribes in the Indian
Territory, which have , been led astray by rebel
emissaries.
A look at the map will show that the road down
the Red river through Northeastern Texas into
Louisiana, lies directly before him, and that Now
Orleans is at the end of it, and furthermore, that
it passes through a rich and fertile country, well
stocked with loyal contrabands. What Lana i s in
tentions may be, is more than we know, but we
venture to put this prediction on record, that he is
going to take his army to the Gulf of Mexico ; that
he will travel by land to the Crescent City, and
return by water, and that his column of 30,000 bold,
daring, swift,moving warriors will do more towards
striking dismay into the traitors, and crushing the
rebellion, than (lens McClellan, Sherman, Buell,
Lockwood, llalleek, Grant, end Paducah Smith, with
their half million of soldiers, operating on pro
slavery principles. Lane's men, fighting for the
single purpose of saving the Union, and employing
the means best adapted to that end, will accomplish
more in a given period than ten times their num
ber. trying to save slavery along with the Union.
Jim Lane and his Union-saving army will be more
terrible and formidable in the oyes of Jeff Davis
and his fellow-conspirators than all the other divi
sions of the Rational army, from St. I.ouis to Wash
ington, end dowa to Charleston.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
The " Bechtel's" and the ~ Tigers."
We extract the following incident, graphically
descriptive of the gallantry of the , tllnektall "
Regiment, Colonel Kane, and of the precision with
which their Minie's "told" on the Louisiana
t , Tiger " Zouases, in the recent engagement with
the rebels at Dranesville, from a private letter re
ceived by one of the compositors in this office, from
a brother in the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Re
serves, Colonel Simmons, dated Camp Pierpont,
Fairfax county, Virginia, January 8, 1882. Wil
liam Strino, Jr., the writer, is ono of a family of
five brothers, all of whom have enlisted in the cause
of their country:
TWO CENTS.
" The 'l3tiektails l fought well, and every 'Minis'
told on the person pidked out in the vicinity of the
breast and head. I had a long talk with Captain
Magee, of the Bucktails,' a few days age, and the
many interesting incidents of the 'skirmish' he
related to me would very much ple'sse you,/ know.
Captain Magee had command of the left wing of the
regiment. Be is an intelligent Irishmuni I became
acquainted with him in Western Virgaie, and ono
of the many incidents he related I will' give you-:
The left flank of the Bucktails ' was skirting, a
small piece of woods, wherein was concealed the
famous Louisiana Tigers.' The 'Bucktalls' would
fire and drop, a la Zottare, and thus escape the
Tigers's' bullets. At almost every volley from ,
the 'Tigers' the Bucktails ' would retreat, trying.
to get the Tigers' out of the woods. In gradu
ally falling back in this way, (which was policy,)
ono of Captain Magee's men lost his cap with the
bu et tail in it. The 'Tigers' were pretty well
scatpred, and a big, burly rebel being in advance,
picked up the cap and swung it back and forth in a
defiant manner. Bucktail,' seeing rebel with his
private property, broke ranks, made after rebel,
and when within good shooting distance, drew a
bead ' on 'Tiger,' who stopped suddenly, leaped
high in the air, and dropped stone dead! 'Buck
tail' rushed on to where ho lay, got hie cap,
Tiger's' gun, and siv rebel bullets- put through
his clothing. There is grit for you!"
•
A Visit to Camp Griffin.
[Correspondence of The Prem.]
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting. Camp
Griffin, which lies about three or four miles- above
the Chain Bridge, and about six or eight miles-from
Dranesvillo. It is pleasantly situated on a hill,
which overlooks the surrounding camps.
Gen. liancock's Brigade, composed of the Pbrtn
sylvania 49th, the New York 434, the Wisconsin
sth, and the Maine 6th, occupy a principal portion
of the camp, and it is of them that I intend more
particularly to speak.
Gen. Hancock reviews and drills his brigade
every day or so, and on this occasion a set of men
are presented whose equals for soldier-like appear
ance and good discipline are not to be found in
any portion of the vast army now in the field.
Gen. Hancock, himself, is a fine officer, perfect
gentleman, and fully qualified to hold the office
entrusted to him. The colonels of the different
regiments under him are all men of the same
stamp, and especially is such the ease with Wm.
11. Irvin, of the Pennsylvania Forty-ninth, who
served his country faithfully through the Mexican
war. He is a good soldier, and kind to his men,
and there is not one of them who would not follow
him into the very gates of hell."
As a general thing, the health of this brigade has
not been so good as that of some of the others
thereabouts, which is accounted for by the fact
that it, being in the advance, has been doing all
tho picket duty, which has broken down a great
many of the men. In one company, of one of the
regiments no less than thirty-two were reported
at one time on the sick list.
Strictly speaking, the men have not gone into
t winter quarters, but they are almost as comfortable
I as if they had done so. Each moss gets at work,
and builds a square, place of hewn pins logs, filling
the chinks with clay, and then they sot their tent
on the top of this. With a good fire in this, it be
comes as warm as could be desired. Some have
stoves, some fire-places, while others have a sort of
bake-oven, which extends under half of the ground
covered by their quarters, making at very pleasant.
The men have different ways of whiling away
the spare time. Some talk, some read, some have
"nigger shows;" but by far the most usual way is
by singing, and I will conclude my article by
giving you a snatch of u song which I heard while
passing througli a company street of the Forty
ninth. It ran thus
6 . The Forty-math, De are the crow
To ralee the stripes—red, white, and blue;
McClellan now, who takes command,
Will lead us down to Dixie's land ;
MT Davis may ride jackass or mule—
We're bound to catch him, his neck to pull."
WIDE-AWAKE.
The ilitssissvoi Gunboats and Flotilla.
A correspondent of the Missouri Repriblicall, I
writing from Cairo, under date of January 6,
While affairs aro so - still on land, the navy is more
than atoning for it by increased'activity. Steamers
are moving from one point to another, transferring
necessary loads, some for immediate physical com
fort, others for future 'offensive operations, while
score of little tugs dart along the ater, puffing offi
ciously with the mighty responsibility of errand
delivery. allTrotseen at an • moment dm._
V, err arannanu
not ready for service. They can be Made so in a err
days. The gunboats aro nearly completed, the last
finishing touches being all now necessary. The
Benton, which will bo the flag-ship, has had. its.
boiler placed lower in the hull, and floats upon the,
water the most formidable river craft probably
ever made. From trial the jar caused by firing on.
the Afferent boats is so slight as to be hardly per
ceptible, while the craft can be moved in position
easier than was anticipated. They will soon thun
der their broadsides before Columbus, and on. their
effect will hang the fate of the rebel stronghold.
While the Federal gunners, under cover of the iron
sides, will be working more safely than in case
mates, their opponents, within open earthworks,
will be fully exposed to the falling storm of shot
and shell. The advantage possessed by the assail
ants in such a case was fully shown at Port Royal ;
and, with the immense mortars and splendid
guns of the present fleet in fullplay, Columbus
cannot be held. The country for a mile sur
rounding there can in less than a day bo made
wholly untenable, a perfect rain of shell falling
among its defenders, while not one shot in two
hundred fired at the boats will prove effective,
unless setting at naught all calculations of science.
Although underestimating the struggle necessary
to take Columbus would be worse than folly, the
opposite view can be rendered still more injurious
by embracing the extreme, and placing before
Union soldiers the ghosts of impossible and barely
imaginable terrors. Every clump of bushes around
Columbus is not a masked battery, and their flying
artillery are not 125-pounders, like the Lady
Polk, of Belmont fame, which burst, it will bo
remembered, some time since, killing so many,
and nearly breaking the leg of Sir Bishop, after
whose lady it was named. To show the difficul
ty of bitting vessels on the river, the case of the.
Lexing, tot/ and Conestoga, which occurred when
first came to Cairo some mouths since, will de
monstrate. These boats were engaged for over
three hours with several batteries, in all twenty
guns, justabove Columbus, and-although the can
nonading was kept up vigorously by the Con•
federates, not a single shot took effect. A'gunboat,
when in action, lies with the bow up stream, in
which position it is more motionless, and does not
sway with the current's action, only the stern's
breadth affords an object for its opponent's aim, and
at a mile and a half, or oven less, this appears
small,
At peaceful practice it would be hard to hit a
similar target, and in the heat of battle it is mush
more difficult. So, with all the bragging and taunts
of another Manassas, the most prudent military men
stoutly affirm that Columbus can and will be taken.
The Confederate army now there numbers about
thirty thousand strong; and a deserter who came
into the lines night before last states that six hun
dred torpedoes are sunk in the river between Co
lumbus and Memphis. This last story serves to
shows how credulous a commander would bo who
I should place any reliance upon the men who con
i staidly arrive, proclaiming themselves from the Se
cession army and telling marvellous tales of hair
• breadth escapes.
M. Thouveners Despatch
Thouvonol's despatch on the Trent question
is pronounced by those who have read it in the
original, a masterpiece of diplomatic composition,
apparently conceived in the kindliest spirit toward.
the 'United States.
Another Yankee Doodle.
[From the Richmond Whig.]
Yankee Dmitri had a mind
To whip the Southern traitoi 3,
BeCallEo they didn't choo4e to live
On codfish and potatoes.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doe,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
And so, to keep hie courage np,
Ile took a drill of brandy.
Yankee Doodle sold he found
Icy all the census figures,
That he could starve the rebels out,
If he could steal their niggers.
Yankee Doodle, doodie•doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
And then he took another drink
Of gunpowder and brandy.
Yankee Doodle made a speech;
'Teas very full of feeling:
I fear, says he, I cannot fight,
Dot lam good at stealing.
Yankeo Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
'Hurrah for Lincoln, he's the boy
To take a drop of brandy.
Yankee Doodle drew his E. ord,
And practised all the passes;
Conte, boys, hell take another drink
When WO wt to Manassas.
Yankee Doodle, doodle don,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
They never reached Manassas plain,
And never got the brandy.
Yankee 'floodlo soon found out
That Bull Butt mils no trifle,
For if the North knew how to steal
The South knew how to rifle.
Yankee Poodle, doodle•doo,
Yankee Poodle dandy,
'Tie very clear I took toot:men
Of that infernal brandy.
Yon
And scampered Ott at full run,
And such a race was tuner aeon
As that ho made at Bull Bun.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
I havn't time to stop jag floor
To take a drop of brandy.
Yankee Doodle, oh I for shame,
You're always intertneddling ;
Let guns alone, they're dangerous things;
You'd better stick to nedMing•
Yankee Doodle, doodle.doo,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
When next I go to Dully Run,
I'll throw ass ay the brands'.
Yankee Doodle, you had ought
To be a little smarter;
Instead of catching moody heads,
I vow you've caught a tartar.
Yankee Doodle, doodle-deo,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
G o to hum, you've had mouth
re and Dtalldy.
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Hoiv a Rebel Sympathizer was Trapped.
A Cairo corregondent of the Missouri Rept6li.
can says:
A rather amusing circumstance happened at
Caledonia, where Captain Fullerton's company is
stationed. A very respectable old gentleman,
holding a high office in the county has long been
suspected of Secemion sympathies, , and it was de
dressinedto try him. A young man of the company
ed himself in fine citizens' clothes, went to tin
old roan's house at night, and asked for " assist,
lame " He was gruffly told that he could get no ,
money or anything else ; but after some parleying,
disclosed that he was a bearer of despatches
to the Southern Government, and that it was
absolutely necessary for him to cross the
river that night. lie was immediately brought
into the house and warmly welcomed, being
treated to a good supper, with spiritual accompani
ments. As there were no skiffs in the neighboi
hoed, the old man told him the location of some
logs, and gave him a rope to tie them, so as to make
a raft, offering to assist him. The Confederate
emissary thought that he could do the job alone,
and went off with the rope, which he carried down
to quarters. The next morning a dle of Soldiers
brought the "Squire" into camp, where he was
charged with secessionism. He denied the charge,
whereupon he was confronted with his guest of the
night before, ontl the rope. Ile then made a clean
breast of it, and was released upon taking the oath
of allegiance and promising to abstain from similar
acts in future.
Eater from Port Royal.
NEre YORK, Jan. 14.—The steamer Oriental
has arrived from Port Royal, with dates to the 4th
instant. She passed the steamer Atlantic, going
in, nt six o'clock in the morning.
Nothing suesial had occurred since the sailing of
the i r andeAdt. Gen. Elevens still held his posi
tion on the main land, and was awaiting reinforce
ments. Two regiments heel returned to Hilton
Read.
Gen. Stevens visited Hilton Read on the sth, but
returned the next day to the main land.
The steamer Ocean Queen would soon leave Port
Royal for New York.
No !Volts front Fortress Monroe.
BALTIMORB, Jan. I.—The Old Point boat has
arrived, but brings no news.
The passengers state that a flag of truce had
reached the fortress with some released prisoners,
but they had no newspapers- from Norfolk or Rich
mond.
Charleston at our Mercy.
The colonel of a regiment stationed at Hilton
Head, who come up on the t r ainferbitt, and is now
at Washington. says that he has no doubt of his
ability to take Charleston with his Single regiment, '
to great is the Southern panic, Houses ton miles
iss the interior are known to have been abandoned
by their owners as hastily, and left in the same
condition, as-the Beaufort residences were found.
Munehausen Williams.and• Hiss Slidell.
Fairfax. authorizes an emphatic - dean= of -
the assertion of foolish commander Williams, that ,
Miss Slidell used her "little knuckles" on his face.
He adds that she did not strike Lieut. Fairfax,"
but, on the contrary, behaved, as-did all the ladies
on the Trent, becomingly, and with great mode-
ration."
Accommodations- at Fort Warren
We understand that the prisoners of war at Port
Warren are co well satisfied with their condition
there, and have so little stomach , to be further
" counted in" in the fight on the Sonthern side s
that from forty to fifty of them have voluntarily
surrendered their right of exchange to others. It
is to be hoped their example will not be generally
followed, for our poor fellows at the 'South have rto
such wish to remain in their presitut quarters,—
Tribune. -
The Request of 'Gen. Alottsfieta to- be
Transferred).
The Secretary of War declines to grant aen.
Mansfield's request to be transferred from. his pre
sent command under Gen. Wool.
Weekly Renew of the Markets.
PHILADELPIITA, January 18, 1882.
Business has been neglected and dull tidavieek, owing
in some measure to the wet and unsettled state of the
mother. 111eadstuffs "continue steady, and the demand
for all hinds moderate. Bark is scarce and rather higher.
The coal trade is pretty much at a stand-still, the ship..
Ping season being over. Iron is heldifor higher pricea.
Cotton is also firmer, but buyers come forward slowly at
the advance. Groceries and Pro', idioms-are in a like con
ditlon, and for the latter prices are unsettled. Fish,
Fruit, Naval Stores, Oils, and Plaster ore quiet. Rico
and Salt aro mthout any alteration. Seeds rather better.
Teas, Tobacco, and Wool are in good deroand,and price*
tending upward. Is Dry Goods there Is no alteration to
note.
The FLOUR market is unchan.d.and only luoderate
-13 active, the demand being principally for high grad
family; sales reaching 11s:012,000 bids, mostly Western
at .5.5.815er0, including common Western snperfino at
55./ 2.M nt5.25, and extras nt $5.62S 05.75 41 3 ' bbl.
Small
sales for the supply of the retailers and bakerearo ma
king lima $5.25 to 55.50 for common and good superfule.
$5.62S sr 5 25 for extras, 55.81:4(0 for extra fem Ph. and
SO Me 0.75 for land tote. Rye Flovrond Corn Moat are
dml xi h sinal a : •
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and white at from 140 to 150 c. Sma s 1 es o' • ntily - 7
vania Rye are reported at 72m7dc ; and Southern at Clic. \
Corn is quiet; sales of 20,000 bushels now yellow at 5801
60c ; and some old, in store, ats9aooc. Oats are dull at
57 ft SSC. SOS bushels Western 'White Beans sold at BLS'i,ti
225 •tfr huultel, and 1,000 hus. Barley at 80c.
PROVISIONS.—Tha market is quiet, but there has •
been very little change to notice. Small sales of Western ,
and city-packed mess Pork - at $12©12.75; prime is held
at .58.5000, without salcs4. a contract for 1,000 Wits city- •
packed mess 5511.9 made with Government on private
let ins. City-pocked and Western mess,Beef is in steady
demand at $125t19. bbl; 2,500 bbls mere taken by
Government at a price kept secret. Bacon—There La
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Very little demand for Any kind, and prices are nominal;
sales of plain and fancy Hams at 6mSc, m in quality ;
Sides at 534 ate , and Shoulders ut •tX oft, e a ch andshort
time. Lard—The demand is limited, and prices have
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again declined; sales of SQB bids tual its at SaS,Sic, cash.
closing at the comer late, and kegs, in lots, at 9es9Xc.
Butler is rash., dull, and meets a limited inquiry only;
sales of 801 l at Malt., as iu qmtlity, sad solid-packed
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ntSc, including 100 tubs gond Ohio at the latter
rate. Cheer: it steady at 7aiSe. and Eggs nt ito 4fe
METALS —Pig Lon is beta with firmness, bat the
dsmand, at present quotations, is limited. Soles of 1,"M0
tons No. 1 Anthracite are reported at 820 , , and 250 tons
do at $l9 cash. There is no Scotch Pig in first hands.
A lot of old railroad bars sold at $2O per ton, 0 months.
No change in liar or Finder Iron. There has recently
been mi netisa inquiry for the latter. Lead—There is none
in first bands, and a sale of 600 pigs recast NI as made re-
centle et 56:87% cash. Copper us uncharged. Sales of
Eng Sheathieg et 23e, and yellow metal at 22e, 6 meg.
BARK.—The receipts and stocks of Quereitron are
very small, and it is in steady demand. Sales of No. lat
550m31 per ton There Is no Tanners' Bark offering,
and prices are nominal.
BEESWAX is scarce. A sale of 1,500 lbs prime yellow
ni made at 32c 4,
CANDLES ere unchanged. Sperm are very dull at 20
030 c; small sales of city made Adamantine at 16631.8 e - '
cash and 4 coos.
COAL.—The obstructed state of the navigation by ice
and the scarcity of N easels, with the falling off of orders
from the East, have eupended operations at Richmond,
but for home use there is a fair demand, and prices are
steadily maintained.
COFFEE —The stock in first hands is very light, and
there is a moderate inquiry at fully, former prices, with
sales of 6elo bags Rio at 1.0e1031, a small lot of Java at
25c and St. Domingo at 103‘e, mostly cash.
COTTON.—The foreign ads ices have caused rather
more firmness in prices, but the demand is very limited;
manufacturers hold off and purchase only to supply im
mediate wants; sales of 200 bales low and good middling
Uplands at 33035 e, and sons South American at 34% es
35Se cash.
HAGS AND DYES.—There is very little doing ;among
the salts see notice Sodn Ash at 2% mac, 6 months,
White Sugar of Lead at 12c, and Cutch at B%c. There
is no Log,wood in first bands. Indigo is scarce and
firm.
FEATHERS aro steads', with sales of 3,000 lbs good.
Western at 3Sc, cash, and short time.
FRUlT.—Foreign is scarce, and the sales limited; Do
mestic Fruit is steady ; Green Apples are selling at s.3od
tel bbl, and are getting scarce; Dried Apples sell freely
at 607 e, es in quality ; unwired Peaches at 6010 c for oil
quarters and new halves; Pared Peaches are very scarce
I and wanted; Cranberries sell at $5OlO for inferior and
choice lots; of Peanuts the stock is very light.
FISH.—The demand for Mackerel centinues extremely
' light. The 8111113 aro confined to store lots at $10m10.2.5
for No. 1; PS for No. 2; 56.25 for large; .5.3.7506 for •
medium; and 54 for small No. Os. Pickled Herring
range from $1.75 to 3 50, as in quality. Codfish are '
held at $3 21, but with limited sales.
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool the rates arc improving,.
Wo quote Flour at 3s; Grain at 12d; and heavy Goods at
32a o,tp3ls. A ship was chartered to London un private
terms. A ship to arrive from a neighboring market wan '
taken up to load for Belfast, on private terms. West
I India freights are rather doll, owing to the scarcity of
suitable vessels. Two schooners were taken to north side
Cuba and back, at 40c for Sugar, foreign port theme
paid. To Halifax the last engagement was at 30c
ban - el. To Boston there is mole offering, and vessels are
muted at 28c fur Flour; Or for Grain; 6c for measure- -
ment goods; and 5.2.25ee2.50-1 0 ' ton for pig and manufac
tured iron.
GINSENG is very scarce; a small sale of crude was
made at 65e, cash.
GUANO 15 eels" quiet, and sea sales of any account
is ill be made mite the active season opens.
HEMP is held with increased fionness, but without •
sale, to note.
111 DES are dull; city-slaughter range at from to
714 c efY lb.
HOPS are but little inquired for, and the sales aro only
in a retail way at 20¢22c for new Eastern and Western.
LUDIBER, as usual at this reason of the year, moves
off simile ; a cargo of Southern s Mow sap Boards sold
at 514 V' 121 feet' w bite-pine Boards are neglected;
cooperage Lumber is scarce, and isr fair request. Laths
sell at 511501.25 4 M.
MOLASSES.—The market is very dull, but prices re.
Meal without quotable change; sales of cloyed Cuba at
24c, Muscovado at 261-§c, and Si rue at :33m3Sc on time.
NAVAL STORES.—Stocks of all kinds are Very much
reduced. Sales of common Rosin at $6.75, medium
grades at 5.707.50, and fine et 59,1'12, as in quality. Tar
is held at 510m12, and Pitch at s7m% but with very
fielded sales. Spirits of Turpentine meets a steady in
quiry at a further whence, turd sales at 51.60m1.62 efr
gallon, cash.
01LS —There is a good demand for Linseed, with
fin ther isles at S 5 seSne, cash. Lard Oil is very quiet at
73,1800 for city-made mid prime and western winter-
Dell Ode are held firmly, but sell only in a small nay
fern store. For Pine Oil and Burning Fluid prices are
unsettled, owing to the advance in spinte of turpentine
and nisi - eel. Coal Oil sells at decree', casts.
PLASTER is scarce; an invoice of soft sold at $2 2-5
4P' ton.
BICE is steady sales of 100 tea at 7e, cash.
SALT.—Prices continue steady, and the only sale is
2.000 bus Turks Island, a prize cargo, at 20c, cash.
SEEDS.—There is rather more doing in Cloverseed,
with sales 011,000 bus at 51.25;14.50 de l bus Bess ; but teera
now refuse to pay the latter rate. Flaxseed is scarce and
=nal IN Drava at 52.153 , 2.20 etY lens.
SUGAR —There is a firm feeling in the market with
only a moderate inquiry •, sales of 100 blade Cuba at B,Simi
Beic, and 300 boxes of Havana brown, at 81i . eeeic, on
time. The stock on hand is light.
SPIRITS.—There is very little doing in Brandy or
Gin; Rom is better; Whisky continues to tend upwards,
flee sales of Penne and Ohio bbls have been made at 22m
ilk, and drudge at 20323 e 4P' gallon; the market exerted
and on the advance.
TALLOW is held firmly ; 200,000 lbs Butchers' Associa
tion, for export, at 9%c cash. Country is worth tesecePc.
TEAS continue to have an upwara tendency ; the de..
mend is limited.
TOBACCO.—The market is nearly bare of leaf. For
manufactured there is a Meade inquiry at full pnces.
WOOL.—There are lees activity in the market, but
phaviesg
aro m we e l
ed u b aine d contracts
ff for
manufacturer%
army goods, are
turning their attention to cloths and cassimeres which
has tressed more inquiry for the fine grades, and price%
for tills description are improving; sales of 150,00016%
ranging Hem 60 to 08 cents, the latter for common eat
t ub washed.