THE PRESS..
11 1 WIT-a!"! ) - 1 4"#1 11111 PAT.SICIIPTITO
"'V: 7 ::- 13717 - 1 . 1114 1 11 !‘:' 14 .11M0r -
"[OWIPICI 110-414„0117,8TNUT STEM'.
=Y'SYD'IILY J Ps=6ll~
ihriilti - Csars Pia Wass, payable to the Carrier
40/41:41116icTihere out of the City at fink Dome's
jilt - 4464 SeimDoihiiiiieitlfiehe tioittae, Teems
Doman Yoe Ilia exiskturiiiably In advance for
- -THE PRIM%
WSW laolubactibats out of the 014 at Timm Dot..
'Lana Pee Ammar; in *Linn on
RE'T'AIL-DRY 9(!CIDS.
daREAT BARGAINS "
,
- FINE CLOA - ICS.
TO:OLOSE OUT THE STOCK
-PARIS MANTILLA, CLOAK,
,
AND FUR - EMPORIUM.
708 STREET,
PREVIOUS 2 . 0 REMOVAL.
SYNOPSIS OF REDUCTIONS.
- FROSTED IMAM CFLOLICS P
Trial WA 820—Fram to 517.
- 1515117.1:1Zi1811.11r011Rm04400Att.347.50.
ABILOWIFBIALSUN oa SA Bl.' 01,0111 CLOW,
VrPirtslB to sl4—From $lO to $ll.
Biasicut OR *lrma CLOTH ()LOAM),
- Front Oa to sl4—Brom Ipo to 512
VELYIII? CLOY% 01.0•101,
from $3O to s22—From $33 to $2O
..• Fut' ticsec Bunt CLeira,
Tram 813 to 835—From 835 to $26
• rnsi BLACK BIAYIR CLOAKS,
Mem $26 to slo.6o—From $2O to $lB.
YfirE BLAME BeiVia OLoAts,
ffrom ISM to sl2—From $l2 to 89
F►eor B6►YY6 OLO/149,
From $4O to $3O-Flom!130 to SU.
IMO! Can't) B CLOAKS,
From 024 to slB—From $lB to 1518.50.
Lyons *ILTIT.OLOAXII,
Brom 8110 to !{e6—Prom $lO to $55
OUR FUR DEPARTMENT,
rerdeteaith es ery dilikrable style and desalt.
ca. min be open , to inspection et prime correspondin g
c.st 'Wieners). reduction; parlicnbuitation, ansonii Inch
Ann inanity, of qualities, being, if not linisnisibie et all
tussattefictory. dedf-lm
TILANNEIS.-A LARGE ASSQRT
_Ix RENT 01le
'ilallardyalti - F , LANNELS, all widths,
- Ileachdale and Saxony FLANNELS,
• shaker and Welsh FLANNELS,
cat Wyk* Woe", - • - -
GREAT BARGAINS IN BLANKETS.
'Vs Are clash* out our entire dock of
Mae sit Wool BLANKETS, '
Tine Rocbdale BLANKETS,
Heavy Oamberhuid'BLANKETS,
Cradle Anil Orßo BLANKETS,
:at bat winter's mires.
MERMAN, FUROR, AND SCOTCH
BLANKET SHAWLS—aII grades, at low prices.
Roan Black 'Moire Antique* at 50 Mits, worth la,
Riper Bieck Moire Antiques at NM cents, worth a*.
WINTER DRESS GOODS OF EVERT VARIETY.
H. STEEL a SON,
jiT No. as North TENTH Street. abase Ooates.
COWPERTHWAIT ht
Baia now on bind
A BARGE 6TOCH
MUSLIN'S.
• Which will be sold at prices
LOWER THAN THE MARKET RATES.
Mao, GREAT BARGAINS IN PRINTS,
5,000 yards of wluch wilt be sold very /ow )a4-8m
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
Delaines, at le% mutt; Callow:o.2g cents.
lila& and fancy SAE Handkerchiefs.
Week-Ties, Gloves, Gents' Shawls.
Moses' and Lodi Is' Shawls In variety.
Rico aaeortinout of Dregs Goode.
Dabboral S'airts in great variety, at
J. IL STORES',
" 702 AROII. Street.
- R. B.—Ori band, Sack-otrawo end Solitaires, wade by
and mold for an invalid. Thor are nice games w , well am
rorooents, and any one would confer a favor by Donbas.
are the same.del2- If
,
HEAVY CLOAKINGS.
Brown-fled Black Sealskin, 75c to $1.60.
Cheap heavy Coatings and Cloakings
Finalise& Cloths and Beavers.
Gael stock Caseimeres at old prices.
COOPER & OONARIY,
&IA 8. E car. NINTH and MARKET
101 - OUB E. FURNISHING - DRY
!. COODS.—SWEDPARD, VAN RAHLINGSN, &
ABELSON, Importers and Dealers In Lim, and House
Tarnishing-Dry Goods, eto.
Have now on hand a full assortment of Linen Sheeting,
Table Cloths, Napkins, Table Diaper Towelling, eta.,
eto., imported under the old tariff, or bought a groat earl
tido&
$.8..-trive per cent , allowed on purchases as above, if
paid for on delivery. uo2Ttf
COMMISSION ROUSES.
SHIPLEY, :HAZARD, &
HUTCHINSON,
X 011313TNUT HTSZET,
COMMILIBION NEBOHANTI
soi rKI ono ov
PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GO:ODS.
CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS.
CILOAKS! CLOAKS! CLOAKS!
• WATER PROOF OLOTH CLOAKS,
In endless variety -,
WORT AND DARK CLOTH MUMS,
-of every shade;
BLACK CLOTH ()LOAM,
of every onelltY;
BLACK SILK-VELVET CLOAKS,
ig-v.guy Ew-;STYLE,
-EVERY HEW MATERIAL;
THE LARGEST IrrooK
MID
pin.m T .mv!lv , l77wwm
N 0.28 Booth NINTH Street.
43.REAT BARGAINS
LADIES' CLOAKS,
To close out,
- At rho
ABCH•STBEET CLOAK AND MANTILLA 5T0414
- H. W. corner TENTH and ABM Bb.
sall4tet JACOB 'HonsrALL.
40 143 11andeotne styles of well-made, eerytwable gat.
aneate. The beat made, the beet fitting, and the beat
anal:wham for the price. 4. large stock from which to
Etteet. COOPER & .0011ABD,
dell • - S. E. cot. !UNTIE and MARKET.
Clieo AKB!
The Largest, Monad, and Beat-assorted Rook
la the My.
HOUGH k GO.,
Ho. 26 South TENTH Stied.,
oaf Opmite Franklin Market.
MII.IIITARY GOODS.
''l4wwB' ORIGINAL ()Ain, OR
A .
TRAVELLING
BED TRUNK.
(Patent ogled for) Tor male by
W. A. ANDREWS.
noltlant No. 61110HESTRITT Stmt.
A RMY CONTRACTORS
AND SUTLERS
SUPPLICH WITH BEII3IIIB at the lowest rasp
Ahrarn on hand, • large do* of
CAVALRY BRUSHES.
Government standard;
WAGON BRUSHES.
- Government standard;
Had every Description of &tulles repaired for the Army
. HENEBLE & VAN HORN.
oallApi 391 XARAZT Street, Philadelphia.
MVOS ABD CHEMICALS
ROBERT SHO
&_ Co..
ifteiteigt °omit' 7017)1111 and MOB Mess%
• PHILAMPUCA,
'WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
111POR *BS AND mans
NONN/ON AND DOMNATIO
WINDOW - AND PLATE GLASS.
_ .
auunrournauise OF
LEAD AND ZINO PAINTS, PUTTY, La
14111111% 701 TEI 01Z1IIR1TED
FRENCH ZINO PAINTS.
Dsmisrs and consumers mnseted a$
VW,LOW PRICES sox um.
sosl4lm
OMBECEWED, per it Annie Kim
" then Liverpool, Blander, Weaver, & Yea
-othithilithno
, -! lbolthereet niesdtl, In lis Jan.
Ss linnet liyoocrytonf, In 1 Spars
llee Maned Belladonna, In 1 *Jan.
IN I& Ithnract Teraina!, in 'A & ism
lrin Bel Oolcblct, in 1 le bottles.
110 bo 01. Sncolnl Sect., In lb bottles.
• M be
thilomel, 1 b bottles.
NI norm., In 1110
WETHICRILLBBOTHI9I9,
tW 41 end 49 North 830011 D Street •
S __
ritlNGt: ' OARDEN FRUIT AND
ItIRODUCII STORE STILL AHEAD.—The enb-
Norther tekse this method to inform Ate patron* kid the
weiNo pmeratty, that he has removed hie Truit and Pro
&me Nati to No. 812 SPRING GARDEN Street, where
be - 10 Mar - prepared to" keep up a full supply of Apples,
rollsayweilleot Polidoeg, granberries, Nuts ea kinds,
Witiritte,(6olb 'mein and Domestic), Butter, Dom
r-ilm... is :Mbar =TEA t&AULT;II,OII6,
ilesiiPONOt More and Oornldeet. All of which he will
4
ir
pat law ailass, be bought anywhere in the city.
di .do • pea. favors, to Mom Who have so
lzed him heretofore, the subscrTher mod
mac& a rmitinuenoe of their patrolman!, and
-others - to giver-him II Can, it - hie'new gap,
*WS tie Aiweepertor factlitiet for implarink all with
MarlN - hitline, on thimma remould& tame.
** - OTo the and let Tire; ottick raise, and
pig prate." . ..
- ifinksi elitiptle 'Steil before purchsaind elsewhere.
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VOL. 5.-NO. 140.
STATIONERY.
WILIJAM MANN,
STATIONER
AND
BLANC-BOOK MANUFACTURER,
BURNT OUT
LAST NIGHT,
AT No. 49 . R0UT11 FOURTH STREET,
IS NOW READY TO BROW °LISTON:ERB A
FULL STOOK
OF PERFECT GOODS IN HIS LINE,
No. 35 'SOUTH FOURTH STREET,
Four doors above his old Store.
JANUARY 7, 1862. Jalo.6t
GROCERIES.
CRAB-APPLE CIDER,
OLD CURRANT WINE,
OUR USUAL SUPPLY,
JUST REOEIVED
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN FINE GIIOOERIES,
jaB4f, , Comer of ELEVENTH and VINE Sto
MILITARY GLASSES
OFFICERS' GLASSES.
FIELD AND -
MARINE.
A fell supply of the above Glasses have been thls day
received from Darla.
They are of very great power, having
GRADUATED BIGHTS,
AORORATIO,
And 26 Lines. For sale by
BAILEY 6; 00.,
819 CHESTNUT STREET.
CABINET FURNITURE:
.INET FURNITURE AND BIG
01131LARD TABLES.
MOORE do - OAMPION, _
No. 301 South EIZOOND Street,
in connection with their extoller° Cabinet Stallion are
now atimufactruingsuperior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
sad have now on hand a fall amply, finished with the
KOOBZ A CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which arc pronounced, by all who have used thorn, to ha
enperior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these Tables the =nu
tlet:mu refer to their numerous patrons throughout the
Onion who are familiar with the character of their work.
angb.em
DOLIIIAY GOODS
HANGING VASES.
Ornamental Flower Fota.
Parlor Vases for Growing Flowers.
Baskets for Jardlnters.
Pedestals with Vaee for Flowers.
Antique Vases for Mantels.
Vases Benalsaaace for Parlor.
Rustic and Terra Cotta Vases.
Lava Flower Pots and Vases.
Garden Vases and Pedestals.
Brackets for Busts and Figures.
With a great variety of articles suitable for Christ
mas presents, for sale retail and to the trade.
Warerooms 1019 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia.
dell S. A. HARRISON.
IFINES AND LIQUORS.
PITRE PORT WINE.
DUQUE DO PORTO WINE, BOTTLED IN
POSTURAL IN 1820.
Physicians and Invade In Want of a reliable article of
pure Port Wine can be supplied by Inquiring for the
above wine at CANTWELL & KEFEEIPS,
Southeast corner GERMANTOWN Avenue
and MASTER Street.
ErNNESSY, VINE-YARD PRO
ertetore, Nona% Wombs it Co., Marett, Pinet,
and other approved brands of OOGNAO BRANDY, for
ale, in bowl arid from More, by
CANTWELL a KEEFER,
Southeast corner GERMANTOWN Avenue
• and MASTER Street.
STUARTB PAISLEY MALT WEIS
KT.
Buchanan's Coal Rs Whisky,
• Old To= Gin, Old London Gin,
London Cordial Gin, Bohlen's Gin,
In bond and store.
CANTWELL h HEFFEB,
Southeast corner OttitSLANTOWN Avenue
nod MASTER Street.
rJOUAVE CHAMPAGNE.—A now
LA brand—an excellent MINIo. Imported and for sale
at • rim to nit the dines, by OANTWELL 6 M
YER, southeast comfit of GERMANTOWN Avenue and
MASTER Street -
RIIDESILEMER-BERG, LATIBEN
HEM% and HOOKKEINEE WINE, in cases
of one elezen buttlee each; warranted pure. Imported
sad for side tow by CANTWELL & MIFFS.% south
east cornea GEIMANTOWE Avenue and MASTER
Street.
ritRMAIPS DRY CATAWBA
It—This approved brand of Cincinnati wine,
the beet article out for .g cobblers," for sale pure, bot
tled and in easels, by CANTWELL & EIMER, south
east corner GERMA.NTOWIT Avenue and NAME
Street. ee44-em
BUSINESS NOTICES.
'JAMES T. MoCULLOUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELKTON, Maryland, will attend to the Collection and
Securing of Claims in Cecil, Radon!, and the counties of
the Eastern Shore. d025.1m*
EOPPENHEEMER, AGENT AND
a Manufacturer of ARMY GOODS. Coutracte filled
for other part/ea. Terme liberal. Room No. 2, up stairs,
N. E. corner FIFTH and CHESTNUT Sta. ja9-1m
A OPPENHEIMER, MERCHAN.
.L. 11.• DISE BROKER In all braneliesof trade, and
manufacturer of every description of Army Goode, Pro.
48 Booth TRIED Street, west side t second storY, Etna
dabble. doll II
TORN WELSH, Practical SLATE
u BOOTEE, THIRD Street and GERMANTOWN
Bead, is popeyed to pot on any amount of ROOFING,
on the most MODERATE TEM& Will guaranty to
make every Building perfectly Water-tight.
Sr Orden promptly attended to.
QTEAIII-SCOURING AND TAILOR
ING done at the shortest notice.
HENRY B. BASOODI,
BIT SEVENTH Street, above Walnut.
H. BASOOSI'S plan for the times is to recommend
Gents to bring their old Clothing to him, and have thorn
made new. Also, their Cloths, and have them fashion
ably made up. delO-ly
BVANS & WATSON'S
. OALANAIIDER
!TOM,
- 16 60VTII IrOUBTEI BTBIIT,
PHTLADELPRIA. PA.
• lam variety or FIBX-PBOOF UMW silvan
en hand.
UNITED STATES ARMY AND
NAVY SUPPLY AGENOY AND CAMP EX-
TO MANUFACTURERS, MERCHANTS, and IN
VENTORS, and those wishing to forward Packages to
the Camps of the Army, or Naval Stations of the Coast
or Gat:
Having second' especial privileges for visiting all the
departments both of the Army and Navy, and all the
camps of the various Military stations, and the naval
vents of the Coast and Gulf, for the Mimosa of introducing
and selling to the Departments, Military Storekeepers,
Commissaries, Quartermasters, Butlers, Officers and Sol
diers, and also to Naval Agents and Paymasters of the
Navy, all articles required for,thanse, convenience, com
fort, and necessity, both of the Army and NaVY, wo have
organized the above entitled AGENCY 11...."i13 CAMP
EXPRESS, with its headquarters in the city of Wash
ington. Under this arrangement—entirely complete, and
extending through ail.the demwtments both of the Army
and Navy,—we tan offer unequalled facilities to Mer
chants, Manufacturers, and Inventors, in readiness of
sale, saving of time, and the many expenses unavoidable
through the usual tedious Channels of sale to the De
partments, Camps; and Naval Stations. Thom wishing
to avail themselves of the benefits of this thorough and
extensively-organized system of agency, can do so by
forwarding samples of their goods to our address by
express, and prices and explanations by letter. AU
packages for camp delivery marked to our address,
Washington, D. C., ALI goods, inventions, Wares. or
Merchandise, of whatever nature, ordered by this
Agency, will be paid for on delivery. Letters of inquiry
will meet with prompt atten , ion.
. .
Agents well referred, with small meant, can find pro
fitable employment In this organization. A few are
wanted. Office No. 211 PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, op
posite Wilisrd's Hotel, Washington, D. O.
REVERSNOSS:
I
GEOROE LAW, New York. ERASTOS 00ILNINO, Albany
MOSES E.GRINNELL, " Noeno & CRASS, Phllad%
etunaN k BROS., U J. M. TAGGART, "
ARAMs , EXPRESS, U ALEX. oomulaas, U
Hon. MENET WILSON, Massachusetts.
Brous & Co., Bankers, Washington, 8.0.
ial-tt JOHNSON, SWEETLAND, & 00.
BLANK ACCOUNT BOOKS,
IN EVERY VARIETY, AND
OS THE BEST STOOK,
BELLTIVO AT LOW piaoss.
Buy at the Manufactory. •
W. G. PERRY,
BLANK-BOOR MANTWACTURER,
de2o-1m 8. W. Corner FOURTH and RACE
BOOK BINDING .
OF EVERY DESORIPTION
REROUTED IN THE BEST MANNER,
,AT VERY LOW PRIORS.
At W. G. PEERY%
BOOKBINDER,
S. W. Corner FOURTH and RACE.
GNNI BAGS-60 BALES FOR
- isle by JAIIIIBTOH & OANSTAIBB,
toe 902 Bent Miff Street
VIOTT' ON. BAIL DUCK and OAN-
Iv VAS, et fel numbers and brands.
BMWs Duck Awning Twills ,ot ati dtgatigliona foir
fonts, Awnings, Tntoks, awl Wind Omen
Also, Vawse Itansfatturent Drier from 1. Sol
Mt W 1446 Mitralleig, Bening, ims Twins, ao.
JOWN W. IVISMAN & 00.,
In lONIA Anon
CARD PRINTING, BEST AND
florillathe Otth at BINGWALT & 111/OWN 5,
rEIRD Mot. sag
Cte rtss.
THURSDAY,• JANUARY 16,1862.
A "Bright" View of Tfunge
We have been permitted to peruse a cor
respondence, of some interest at this moment,
between a considerable manufacturer in one of
the Midland Counties of England and Mr. Toux
BRIGHT, the well-known Liberal M. P. We
subjoin such portions as more especially apply
to the eventful crisis which so nearly witnessed
the commencement of hostilities between
England and this country.
Tu the firstweek of last month, Mr. Baum,
who has long resided in Rochdale, which he
represented at one time, was entertained at a
public dinner by his friends, and, as was an
ticipated, availed himself of that opportunity
to deliver his opinions on the politics of the
day—more especially condemning the Russell-
Pahnerstonian endeavor to engage the United
States in war. He placed British relations
with America on their true footing, and
showed the folly as well as the wrong of the
British policy as evolved by Lord RUSSELL.
This speech was published, of course, Mr.
linnurr being a public man of no small weight,
in and out of Parliament. As might have been
expected, The Times held it up to abuse and
ridicule, alleging that Mr. BRUM', taking part
with the United States, was "the Devil's
Advocate."
The manufacturer whom we have already
referred to, and whom, for the sake of brevity,
we shall hero call Mr. K—, is a gentleman
of patriotism as well as of education, and,
roused by the vulgar abuse of The Times,
wrote to Mr. BRIGHT, saying that the term
"Devil's Advocate " could be more properly
applied to The Times than to him, who had
taken a proper and Christian-like view of the
question. Commenting on an assertion by
The Times that "Mr. BRIGHT has no echo in
the country," Mr. K. expressed his convic
tion that if, every town in England were can
vassed; there would not be a minority on Mr.
Br:ma's side; but quite the reverse, and that
Mr. K. said "from his own experience, and
from conversations with working men espe
cially, third it is fat from their wish to have
war with America." In reply to this letter,
Mr. Kamm expressed his hope that his speech
had done something to clear the public mind
on the American question, and that it may
have a favorable effect in the Stotts. lie
added " It will be consistent with the policy
and character of the English Oligarchy to fight
for the Slavedom of the South, and against the
freedom of the North:—but the English PROPER
can have no interest in such a contest."
This elicited a second letter from Mr. K
in which lie stated that, belonging to that divi
sion of the Conservative party which is rep
resented by Lord STANLEY, his political views
sometimes differed largely from Mr. BRIGHT'S.
Ho suggested the propriety of taking up a
challenge given by The Times and of testing
public opinion in England, by addressing
public meetings in some of the large towns
and centres of commercial industry in the
country on the vital question of the impending
war with America—and named London, Bir
mingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester
as the places where public opinion might best
be expressed in this manner, and it would
thus be shown how entirely the feeling of the
great mass of the intelligent and thinking of
his fellow-countrymen are entirely opposed to
the threatened war. Mr. BRIGHT'S correspon
dent further suggested a National Petition to
Queen VICTORIA, from all parts of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, cg praying that every
means may be resorted to by arbitration, &c.,
for the settlement of the question, rather than
plunge kindred nations inihe horrors of fratri
cidal war." The result would shOw, hO was
sure, that the majority desired the continu
ance of peace. "There is doubtless," Mr.
K— added, c , a large class, and influential too,
though happily not the majority, who would
be glad of any pretext for war with the North,
and would then exultingly point to the failure
(as they say) of popular forma of government,
&c., as an irresistible argument for refusing
any extension of political privilege or Reform
in this country ! Every lover of his country,
be he conservative or liberal, should strive to
prevent this. There is a class in this country
(England) whose sympathies are with the
South, who yet wish for law and order. Now,
how could these persons find fault with Ireland,
if she wished to secede from England—would
the Government of this country, or the party
I allude to, like America to sympathize with
Ireland, and to harbor her fugitives / If not,
then 'I
consider they are acting quite incon
sistently."
The final letter from Mr. Bright, dated De
cember 18th, contains the following sen
tences:
It is possible a meeting may be held in Bir
mingham very soon, though nothing is yet positively
fixed . but I cannot undertake to attend meetings
in other towns.
have given 20 years of work to the public,
and am somewhat tired of their service. I have a
large family and a large business, and neither
should be altogether neglected.
From the news from the Slates I am persuaded
there will be no war sinless our Government is
determined to have one. There has been a groat
attempt to have a war with the French, but the
Emperor has foiled it by his temper and judgment.
" There is now an effort to have war with the
States, but I suspect the Government at Washing
ton will show such temper and judgment as will
baffle the ministers of evil in this country. But
there is no security for peace with a minister un
scrupulous and steeped in the traditions of the
last generation as is —, and with a people.atol3Co
so ignorant and so arrogant as our people are.
"I hope some day your' Conservatism,' under
Lord Stanley, may be more prevalent and powerful
than it now is. I should much prefer it to any
liberalism I have seen manifested by the Whigs."
It thus appears probable that, ere the meet
ing of Parliament, a great public meeting will
be hold at Birmingham, against any hostilities
between England and the United States. The
locality, in the very centre of England, is ad
mirable for such a National demonstration,
and nothing mire would be heard of War if
petitions to Parliament and to the Queen wore
to flow in from all parts of the Kingdom de
precating rash recourse to arms.
The sagacity of Mr. BRIGHT early perceived
thaf the temper and judgment of the Govern
ment would baffle the ministers of evil, who,
fer their own mean ambitious and selfish ends,
would plunge the two countries into a deadly
war. The correspondence, of which we hero
have given a précis, is not only interesting but
important just now. It came over from Eng
land, by the mail-steamer Canada, which left
Liverpool on the 28th ult.
TIIE London Daily Telegraph, so famous, or
infamous; for the persistency of its libels on
this country, has discovered a mare's nest.
It announces that NAPOLEON is anxious for a
war between France and the United States--
in order to "annex" California. It says:
"For, although wo have declined any aid in our
own particular piarrely s it is very unlikely that the
war, if it should, break out, would be confined to
great Britain. The idea of a contest with America
Is by no moans new to the Napoleonic mind; it
dotes even before the 'present Imperial regime,
though it is strictly identified with the ambitions
of the hereditary conqueror. When one of the
most eminent of Americen envoys was taking big
leave of Paris, before the President had been eon-
Serted into the Emperor, Napoleon said to him,
Your country is the one with which I wish to
have a war.' It was Said playfully, of course,
for want of hospitality or courtesy is not amongst
the imperial faults; but, though uttered in jest, the
truth was duly reported and we know that it
had a very striking effect in New York. Perhaps a
little light might be thrown upon tho confession
by an incident which occurred very shortly after
wards. An exhibition, Which had been entirely
without precedent, and which had peculiar charms
for the French genius, was that of ',./.'ingot d'or,'
the biggest lump of gold that was over discovered
in California. It was, in fact, the hero of another
romance eminently characteristic of the country to
which it was carried; the great ingot became the
basis era lottery, the Government issuing a million
of tickets at one franc dach 1 and the prize fell, if
we remember rightly, to la gentleman at Bordeaux.
There was something more in the exhibition, how
ever, than-the collection of forty thousand pounds
by the scheme ; for it had the effect of familiarising
the French public with the idea of California, and
of its golden resources. Canning once talked of
redressing the balance of the Old World by the
New ;' and there Is little doubt that another stu
dent of political geography has been impressed
with a somewhat similar idea—that of redressing
the balance of British empire by a French depend
ency in the Far West."
The Charleston authorities talk of building an
other fort. If they want any stone for the purpose
they will find an abundance in their harbor.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1862.
THE.REBELLION.
FROM GEN. HALLECK'S DIVISION.
TUE CAIRO EXPEDITION.
THE FORCES TO BE ENGAGED, AND ITS
PROBABLE DESTINATION.
The Situation at Paducah.
THE PROGRESS OF GEN. BUELL'S
ADVANCE.
AFFAIRS IN SDHOEPFE'S BRIGADE.
WHAT ZOLLIOOFEED. NIGHT HAVE HONE,
An Important Base of Operations.
THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL
&C., &C.,
GENERAL HALLECK'S DIVISION.
The Cairo Expedition.
The correspondent of the Now York World,
writing under date of January oth, says :
Preparattons for an Advance.
It bee boon a matter of very general surprise that
en many months have been allowed to elapse with
out any movement from Cairo. Since the unfortu
nate reconnoissance to Belmont the operations from
this taint have been confined to desultory and un
important skirmishing. A vast force has been
steadily concentrating hero for some weeks, both
naval and land. The enemy has been busily
strengthening hie position around Columbus, and
has, on the whole, manifested more spirit than we
have, considering the respeotive means of offence
and defence. At length the ears of the country will
be gladdened by the announcement that a 'for
ward movement" is at last to take place.
The principal obstacle to the advance, it is un
derstood, has been, hitherto, the presence of the
Confederate army - of Price in the Missouri terri
tory. That difficulty has been easily and summarily
disposed of, and nothing hinders the immediate
precipitation of the great army of the West upon
the keypoint of the rebels in Kentucky. There is
the more necessity of this course, as it is well known
that Gen. Buell is already tasked with the advance
through central Kentucky via Bowling Green on
ward to Nashville.
Gen. HaHeck has already so far cleared Missouri
of rebel troops as to dispenso with tho immense
force which has been kept in garrison along the
various roads in that State. Price is at Springfield
with EOlllO 8,000 to 10,000 troops Col. Carr, with
a large cavalry force, will ha hoard from before
many days Nothing is to be feared from that quar
ter.
The Army at Cairo
None of the troops engaged under Fremont in
his expedition to the southwest have as yet been
transferred to this vicinity, though it is reported
with some show of truth that nearly twenty thou
sand aro being shipped at St. Louis for this point.
The number of troops now in the department
of Cairo may be estimated in round numbers
as follows : at Paducah, 12,000; at Cairo, 15,000;
at Bird's Point, 7,000; at Fort Holt, 5,000; Mound
City, 3,000; with an available force of 5,000 at
Cape Girardeau, forty miles further up the river.
These troops are principally from Illinois, though a
sprinkling of them are from Missouri, lowa, and
the Northwest. The great majority of the officers
are also Illinoisans. Gen. Grant, the commander
of the district, is from this State, as are also Gen.
MeClernand, Gen. Oglesby, and Gen. Paine. The
men are, for the most part, well drilled, and, so far
as mere drill can make them, are efficient soldiers.
Probably an exception might be found in the Sold
artillery, which has undergone but very limited
practise. Of the efficieney of tile commanding
officers there is, as usual, great dit:ersity of opinion.
It is noticeable, that a very small proportion of
them aro regular officers. Inasmuch as General
Ilalleck has shown such a decided preference for
officers of the old army in his appointments hereto
fore, it is to be presumed that when the time shall
have arrived for a simultaneous and decisive move
ment he will assign to the command experienced
officers, who have served in the more arduous cam
paign of the Southwest. The patriotism and pluck
of the present commanders aro undoubted, but Bull
Run has unhappily demonstrated the value of the
example of competent and tried officers In despe
rate and critical emergency.
The Naval Forces.
no aggregation of a respeotable fleet on the Mls•
sissippi has already attracted much attention. The
fleet consists, at present, of, eight iron-plated gun.'
boats, one of which (the flag-ship Beaton) carries
fifteen large-sized Dahlgren and rifled guns. On
board of her Commodore Foote will heist his.pen
mint. The Ecsez, the second shin in the fleet,
carries some of the heaviest armament In the ser
vice. Besides these, are the wooden gunboats
,tezington, Tyler, and Canestaka. The fleet of
mortar-boats, thirty-eight in number, still lays on
the river shore, in progress of mounting. The
heavy mortars to be used on these boats have not
all arrived from Pittsburg. whore they were east,
and it is probable that the casting of the necessary
250-pound shells will take some days further.
These, with about a dozen little tugs, complete the
naval preparations at this point. There will, when
complete, be a total of nearly 200 guns ready to
Munch forth their deadly storm of iron hail upon
the rebel fortifications at Columbus. The work of
plating the gunboats is not yet entirely completed.
They are probably in fighting trim, but await the
plating of some of the upper works. The steamer
Maria Denning lies anchored in the stream
abreast of the port as a receiving ship, whore the
marines are kept until they are transferred to their
respective gunboats. Two thousand seamen are
employed in the service, which are, in all respects,
governed by the navy regulations.
The Movement into Kentucky.
It may be difficult to point out the precise desti
nation to which the coming expedition is directed,
but its field of operations eon be defined in general
terms. The position occupied by the opposing
forces may bo deseribetias the two sides of a par
allelogram. The national army reining upon Bird's
Point, Cairo, and Paducah, is faced by that of the
Confederates resting on Columbus, Hickman, May
field, and Dover, enclosing between them thnpor
tion of Kentucky, west of the Cumberland river.
The fort on the State lino near Dover has of late
been strengthened, but it is still an inconsiderable
work. A rebel oemp sixteen hundred strong is re
ported at that point. West of that, some sixteen
miles, is camp Beauregard, where the rebels have
six. thousand troops at latest accounts. Thus is on
the line of railroad between Bowling Green. and
Memphis.
From the nature of the preparations it is dis
coverable that the object of the expedition is to at
tack and capture this force if possible, and then
bold the position. This, if successful, will effec
tually flank Abe rebels at Columbus, and may be
very seriously contested by the rebel forces from
Memphie, Columbus, and Nashville. Its great
feature will be, however, to distract the attention
of the Confederates before Bowling Green, and by
drawing off from their forces give to General Buell
a chance for his coup de main in Central Ken
tucky.
In order to carry out this plan with triumphant
success, it will require at least twenty thousand
men. Report says that fully that number are or
dered to move ; this estimate is, however, probably
too high. This must not be confounded with the
grand onset by which the passage of the Mississippi
is to be forced, as the above reasons still show that
see are hardly in shape to coneoritiato our entire
strength for that purpose ; but it must be regarded
as a supporting movement, designed to push our
lines some fifty miles further south to the Tennessee
lino.
The ehanees are that a small naval expedition
will sail on to-morrow or Saturday up tho Cumber
land river, and engage the batteries erected at Do
ver, driving them oat of the position and landing a
force sufficient to hold them, transferring a part of
the forces now posted at Paducah to that point.
Another, and more pretentious squadron, will set
sail at en appointed signal, down to Columbus, and,
under the clone-headed commodore, not only s keep
the forces there on the alert for an attack, but also
draw their fire, and thereby discover the position
of their batteries, their range, calibre, and number
of guns. This latter will be simply a reconnoissance
in force, under the immediate command of General
Grant. A far larger and more interesting force
will proceed, I am led' to believe, from Fort Holt,
directly by land, to the vicinity of Mayfield. To
day, three or four largo steamers have been steadily
engaged in ferrying over cavalry to the opposite
shore—Colonel Dickey's regiment Illinois cavalry,
with battalions of two other regiments. Three re
giments of infantry—the Twentieth, Twenty-first,
and Thirty.seventh Illinois infantry—have also
been taken corms the river. It is not entirely cer
tain whether the whole infantry corps will be taken
by the Tennessee river, or whether a portion will
accompany the cavalry across the country.
iebel Foray in lowa.
The lowa State Register of January Bth says :
Hon. E. W. English, Senator from Fromont
county, brings us the intelligence that a band of Se.
cession marauders, some thirty in number, headed
by a ruffian named Warren Price, made u foray into
lileKissock's Grove, in the southern part of Fre-
mont county, on Tuesday morning of last week.
About a dozen of these outlaws proceeded at ono
o'clock in the morning to the residence of T. F.
Fugitt, nearly a mile north of the State lino. Five
or six of them entered the house, and struck a light
to - assist them in their depredations. On awaking,
Mr. Fugitt, without being observed, escaped into
another room, from which, after arming himself
with a gun, ho returned. One of the marauders
cried out, .4 the d—d black Abolitionist is going to
shoot us!" and, in great alarm, the whole party,
save one, beat a retreat from the house.
Mr. Fugitt fired as they turned to retreat, and
be thinks, although he does not know certainly,
that the silot from his gun entered the book of ono
of the villains. One of the miscreants remained,
and at the time the gun exploded he was in the eat
of pulling out a drawer from the bureau. Think
ing he had but an empty gun to contend with, ho
drew a revolver and fired, the ball taking effect
in the arm of Mr. Fugitt. He fired a second time,
the ball passing through the same arm. Mr. F.,
although partially disabled, clubbed his musket,
and advancing on the assailant, struck him a severe
blow on the head; but while in the act of doing
so, the pistol was again discharged, and Mr. F. fell
to the floor with a terrible wound in the nook.
After he had fallen, the cowardly ruffians returned,
insulted the helpless wife and children, spurned the
inanimate body of the husband, wantonly destroyed
what property they could lay their hands on, and
finally left the house and farm, after stealing
eleven horses which were en the place.
'it appears that a young man, named Findlay,
bad followed the marauders at a safe distance, and
bad watched their movements, and after • they had
left the house he went in and rendered what ser
vice he could to the family. Through his agency
the neighbors in the grove were soon apprised of
the outrage, and at sunrise thirty-five mounted
men, under the lead of Mr. English, were following
bard after the band. Two of Mr. E.'s company,
who had been detailed as scouts, came up with two
of the band in lowa, who bad six stolen horses in
their possession. A running fire took place be
tween the parties, which resulted in the death of
ono of the villains. The other was wounded and
taken, and the horses recaptured. Mr. English's
company moved on into Missouri, and before 12
o'clock of the same day eleven men were arrested,
four of whom were conclusively identified as a part
of the hand which bad entered Mr. FuOt . 's house.
The captured villains are now in jail at Sidney.
When Mr. English loft Fremont county, last
week, Mr. Fugitt was, still living, and hopes were
entertained of his recovery.
Strict 'Punishment for Dauling Down the
American Flag.
The- St. Louis Democrat Bays that, a few days
afm,• the flag raised by Colonel. Morgan, at Platte
City, Missouri, was torn down against the remon
strances of the few remaining citizens of that plane.
Indigaant at the outrage, and aware of the conga
quenotie should the perpetrators escape, the men en
gaged in the desecration wore arrested, and, as wo
are informed, .delivered to• Col. Morgan. He im
mediately ordered a court-martial; the men were
found guilty, and sentenced to be shot, which sen
tence was forthwith carried into effect.
Affairs at Paducah.
The ;Paducah correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times•Oriting from that city under data of Janu
'Dry 9, says:
General. Lew. WaUtica's brigade, with cavalry
and a %Gory of artillery, is at this time getting
ready to March. They are expected to move off at
4 o'clock P. M., taking a wagon train, their tents
and three days' cooked rations and threo uncooked.
Were they aro going is not known.
Someincorreet reports have been put in circula
tion in regard to General Wallace's former expedi
tion. No battle was fought—not even a skirmish—
but the light detachment, finding an enemy of su
perior force in front, halted' and took position on
the bank of Mayfield creek, sending back for rein
forcements. The reinforcements mime, but with
them orders to return. Such orders may have been
very proper, but greatly dissatisfied the boys, who
were eager to be doing something for the supproe.
sion of a few rebels.
Had General Wallace, however, been allowed to
proceed, he could ' have accomplished little or no
thing. For Clay King,' the notorious horse•thief,
who is reported to have been in command, retreate
a t a double-quick to his camp, set fire to his forage,
and such things as ho could not carry off, and thence
further fled througle Camp Beauregard all the
way to Warsaw. While this was going on, General
Wallace was slowly and sullenly wending his way
book to Paducah, little dreaming of the havoc he
was working among the stolen goods of the rebels
by the more terror his appearance had inspired.
That is no more rumor; but I have 'carefully in
quired of various citizens who have come in from
the vicinity of the vault, at various times since tho
occurrence. They all agree as to the facts given
above. It is reported (which Ido not credit) that
King burnt part of his tents, and still further, that
the Confederates have arrested him for his coward
ice.
A number of very intelligent persons have lately
arrived from Emerson Etheridge's countyof Weak
ly, within the last few days, among the rest, a
sistor•in-law of that gentleman, a very beautiful
and accomplished young lady, who is going on to
Washington. Ono young lady can toll more of
what is going on generally than a dozen men. A
loyal Southern lady, when you find ono, is a jewel,
and knows how to love her country's o}lllso and
flag far bettor than the gentle sex of the loyal
States, Who know not what it is to mourn the long
absence from their sight of those " Broad Stripes
and bright Stars," which have been the symbol of
liberty and putriotio glory to our fathers for three
quarters of a century.
It is interesting to hear this young lady tell with
what trembling end anxious apprehension she
wended her way with her escort through the coun
try, where, from behind almost any bush, may
spring the marauding, bushwhacking rebel, norm
too chivalrous to insult a lady, and drive her back
to the land of oppression—and with what rapturous
delight she at length found herself safely within the
picket-lines of our loyal forces at Padua th.
With this party came a number of portions who
had never looked on a troop of " Lincoln's Hos-'
slam" before. One young gentleman,. whose bro
ther is'a captain in the rebel army, had several
times been In the midst of the " flower of the South
ern youth," and as I walked with him through one
of our etreots, soon after his arrival, ho expressed
himself as struck with the greatly superior decency
of appearance and demeanor of the loyal troops
over the boisterous, cursing, oarousm rebels.
I learn that the impressment in Tennessee has
turned out a practical &Hare, except sofar as ithas
stimulated the enlistment of volunteers to esoapo
the draft. lam furthermore informed by parsons
whose opinion is entitled to credit, that the Union
feeling is on the increase in Tennessee, the people
becoming thoroughly tired of the increasing tyranny
Of the rob"' leaders, the puro selftshness of whose
ambitions Schein - es is becoming every day more
manifest.
The fatho of the Hon. Emerson Etheridge died
at his residence, near Dresden, Tennessee, on the
25th December. The venerable man died true to
his country, with whose history his life had been
cotemporaneous.
This mournful incident reminds me of the death
of a venerable neighbor of Mr. Etheridge, on the
day of the battle of Belmont. This aged Christian
patriot, whose name wag Drury, requested that he
should be interred with the Bible under his head,
the Constitution of the United States upon his
bosom, and his body enshrouded in the etar•spanglod
banner of his country. It is a singular commentary
upon the beastly intolerance of Secessionism, that at
was deemed unsafe for the old man's 4071.1 to per
form these offices for their dead father, but it was
done by his daughter.
Since writing the above I learn that not only
General Wallace's Brigade, but also nearly all of
the brigade of Colonel McArthur (formerly General
Paine's) aro under orders to march. All day has
been spent in preparation, and probably tho force
will not move off before morning. Something may
happen.
GENERAL BUELL'S DIVISION.
Affairs in Gen. Schoepirs Brigade
Tho correspondent of the Cinoinnati Tones,
writing from Somersot, undor date of January 8,
093%9
The only nowa that wo have hero is the confizma
lion of Zoßleeder's receiving large reinforcements,
supposed to be the forces under the robot Major
General Crittenden, which, if so, will rollers the
notorious Zolliooffer from immediate command.
But this change of commanders need not to oauso
any undue amount of alarm, as the latter is not en
dowed with any greater amount of military talent
than tbo former.
Had Zollicoffer possessed the military genius of a
powder monkey ho would, when he first crossed the
Cumberland river, with a force at least eight thou
sand strong, have moved rapidly forward, when
there were less than two thousand fighting men to
have opposed his advance. Then was the time to
have tried the valor of his troops. ifad ho then
advanced ho would have got a smart little fight.
Our little Spartan band, small as it was, was
ready and willing to receive him. We have slime
tried to draw his forces out from behind his breast
works, and moot us on something like an equal
footing; but our demonstrations failing to be at
tractive to him, "ha wouldn't be drawn." It now
remains to be soon whether—since his fordo is in
creased by one-half snore than it numbered befere—
the now General will think it advisable to give us
a call, and learn what the material is now forming
the brigade of Gen. Scheel:dr. There is ono thing
that I can Bey to their [newly acquired hosts. their
increase in numbers has not frightened anybody
about here, as yet.
Outposts Advanced Sox Mtles.
:But, in anticipation of their leaving their holes, a
large fordo was yesterday sent out by nen. nehoepff
six miles in the advance toward the enemy, to meet
them should they think it advisable to seek a more
intimate acquaintance. But, as they may consider
themselves strangers in the country, and that the
proper mark of etiquette requires us to make.tho
first call upon them, we may, perhaps, after wait
ing a proper time, make them a can of welcome. I
think that the time now is nutdistant when the call
Will bo made ; and when we do call, they wilt bo
Tory apt to hear from us. We have in our midst a
number of sedate, open-dbuntenanocd-looking cus
tomers, who are renowned for making a tremen
dous noise on their approach, and sometimes raise
.an awful din and clatter about the ears of the
weak and nervous.
From the Army on Green River
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writing from ltfunfordayillo under date of January
10, sap :
None are unaffected by the melaneholizing in
fluences of this gloomiest of weathers. The blues
have spread their ()heelless clouds over the counte
nances of all. Our only prayer is that we may be
speedily relieved of these oppressive, dispiriting
visitations of rain and mud.
The, providential dispensation under which we
are now laboring will seriously interfere with the
execution of the plans of our generals.. Teo rapid
rising, to the extent of twelve foot, of Green river,
it is true, bas not done any damage beyond render
ing useless the footbridge erected some weeks
since by Wlllich's regiment. As it was intended
merely to serve temporarily, its total loss would
not be seriously felt, as the pontoon bridge Is but
slightly , injured, and the railroad bridge is now also
finished, and Is successfully defying the violence of
the tempestuous waters. But the entire destruc
tion by the rebels of the railroad to Bowling Green,
south of this, renders good roads a rondetio sine
qua non of forward movements. Either frost or
the Bun will have to reduce the roads to a better
state before an advance can be made. Fortunately,
the soil hereabouts is of a nature that will speedily
bring about the necessary change to the hotter, after
the rain has once ceased failing.
The first trial of the carrying capacities of the
wooden supplement to the railroad bridge over
Green river was made on the evening before last,
when the first locomotive passed over it. Thou
sande of soldiers watched its progress, and lustily
cheered it, as it steamed along over the trestle
work. A good many doubts wore expressed as to
its sustaining powers previous to the trial. Butthe
work seems to be up to the expectations of its con
structors.
- - -
Several times this week our most advanced pick
ets, on the south bank of the river, espied mounted
scouting parties of rebels, hovering about at a safe
distance. They were supposed to belong to the
Texas Rangers, who aro known to be still encamped
near Cave City. No hostile demonstrations were
mode by them, their Intention evidently being only
to learn the movements of our troops. The rebel
force at Cava City is variously estimated at from
five to ten thousand. At headquarters here, it is
not believed to exceed the first figures. Informa
tion has also been obtained to the aired that it would
not make a stand in case of an advance by our
forces, but bad orders to fall bank upon Bowling
Green.
The last net in connection with the late fight be
tween Willich's men and the Rangers was report
ed last week, when the spoils captured on that'oc-
Mien, consisting of horses, saddles, guns, etc., eter.,
were sold at public. auction for the benefit of Ste
widows and friends of the fallen. Several hundred ,
dollars were realized, and remitted to Cincinnati,
and Aurora, Indiana, for the purpose stated.
Your Louisville correspondent must have been
more successful in drawing " valuable Information"
out of the Catholic Bishop of Nashville, that lately
came up via Bowling Green on his way. North,
than generals and correspondents down here. The
hierarchical gentleman declined positively, while
hero, to say aught as to the condition of military
end political matters on the rebel side. As he in
tended to return in the course of a fortnight, it
seemed certainly excusable on his part to assume a
strictly neutral non-committal position. In what
ever direction his sentiments may really run, he
does not appear apt to do much harm to anybody.
He is ono of those good-natured, equanimous speci
mens of humanity that the careless, easy life of the
higher grades of the Catholic clergy naturally pro
duces.
The Federal officer lately released from captivity
at Bowling Green, and arrived here, belongs to the
Thirtieth Indiana. His name is Watt, if my in
formant caught it right. The information he gave
as to the strength and condition of the rebel army
agrees with the statements on the same subject
made by me in a former letter. lie is said to have
stated that during his whole term of imprisonment
not a single rebel regiment went through anything
like a regular battalion drill. The figures lam
told he gave of the number of rebels died and
prostrate with disease at Bowling Green,look to me
too high to warrant their repetition.
On Wednesday last a rebel flag of truce party of
about a dozen cavalrists, commanded by a major,
came to our outposts. They asked for the surren
der of a fugitive from their camp at Bowling Green,
charged-with the murder of a comrade. This re
quest was, of course ' denied, although an individu
al confessing to the killing of a fellow-soldier,
during an affray, had actually reached our lines
some days ago. It could hardly be expected that
our General would recognize tho rebel jurisdiction
in the premises, espeoially as the deserter in ques
tion assisted several Union prisoners to escape at
the time ho saved his own neck from the rebel hal
ter.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
An Important Base of Operations
All eyes are turned Southward, scanning the
coast and exploring the interior, in the endeavor to
conjeoturo upon what point the insurgents will next
be made to feel the power which is now gradually
and steadily brought to bear upon them. Many
have been already designated, but so closely has the
Government been able to keep its offensive plans
and purposes, that we should not be surprised if it
proved that all the guesses had been wide of the
mark. Meantime, we direct attention to one point,
the importance of which, as a basis of operations,
seems to have been too lightly passed over. This is
Newborn, in North Carolina. Newborn is situated
at the confluence of the Neuso and the Trent, near
the head of a eound or extended bay, which itself
empties into Pamlico Bound, the command of both
of the principal entrances to which=—Hatteras
and Ocracoke Inlets—has been secured by the
national forces. From Newborn, the Atlantic and
North Garonne Railroad stretches through about
fifty-five or sixty miles of level country, to Golds.
borough, which is upon the Wilmington and Weldon
Railroad, the direct lino of communication between
Eastern Virginia and the Southern seaboard cities ;
and from Goldeborough it is but forty-eight miles
by the North Carolina Railroad to Raleigh, the
capital of that State, but which possesses at least
equal importance as the point through which the
secondary and indirect communication of the
Southern seaboard States with Eastern Virginia is
kept up. This is effected by the connection by
railroad of Charlotte, the western terminus of the
North Carolina road, with the Columbia branch of
the South Carolina Railroad, and the connection of
Raleigh with Petersburg, Va., by the Raleigh and
Gaston Railroad.
. .
If, then, a competent force could bo landed at
Newborn, and pushed rapidly and boldly into the
interior, Goldsborough might be seized, and thus
the principal rebel line of communication would be
cut off. This accomplished, the samo spirit and
decision of movement might soon place Raleigh in
onr hands; and thus the second and last avenue
would be effectually closed. The harbor of New
born has water enough for any vessels that we
would desire to send on such an expedition; and at
our last adviees there had no fortifications of any
importance been thrown up near it. To check by
military force the passage of such an expedition as
we have had in mind from Newborn to Golds
borough would cost the insurgent loaders such a
loss from their main body in Virginia as would ex
pose thorn to a fatal advance by Dion. McClellan.—
N. Y. Timcs.
The Army Appropriation Bill.
The bill reported from the Committee of Ways
and Means, making appropriations for the support
of the army, provides for the support of the army
for the year ending the 30th of June, 1863, as fol
lows :
For expenses of recruiting, transportation
of recruits and .couiponzation to citizon
surgeons for medical attendance $lBO,OOO 00
For purchase of hooks of tactics and In
structions for volunteers 50,000 00
For.pay of the army 8,005,318 00
For commutation of officers' subsistence.. 1,574,166 60
For commutation of forage for officers'
horses 233,414 OD
For 'payments to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn 150,000 00
For payments in lieu of clothing for offi
cers' servants . 71,630 00
For pay of volunteers under acts of 22,1
and 25th of July, 1801 147,283,282 00
For subsistent° in kind • for regulars and
volunteers.... 58,429,170 80
For the regular supplies of the Quarter
maoter's Dopartment 30,800,000 00
For the incidental expenses of the Quer
termuster's Department. 18,000,000 CO
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery
horses 3,913,680 00
For mileage or the allowance made to ofII.
cent of the army for the transportation of
themselves and their baggage, whoa tra
velling on duty, without troops, escorts,
or supplies 1,000,000 00
For hire or commutation of quarters for
officers on military duty, hire of quar
ters for troops, of storehouses for the safe
keeping of military stores, of grounds
for summer cantonments, for tho con
struction of temporary huts, hospitals,
and stables, and for repairing .public
buildings at established p05t5.....'.....3,500,000 00
For heating and cooking stoves 75,000 00
For gunboats on the Western rivers 1,060,000 00
For coolingentira of the army 400,000 00
For clothing for the army, camp and gar
izon equipage, and fur expenses of offi-
co; and arsenaLs 80,630,717 91
For the blediced and Hospital Department. 3,600,090 00
For contingent expenses of the Adjutant
General's Department at Department
Headquartere 2000000 OD
For compensation of the clerk and wee-
eenger in the office of the Commanding
General 200,000 00
For contingent oxpensev of tho office of
tho Commanding General 300 00
For supplies, transportation, and care of
prisoners of war 1,121,576 00
For amount of fortlficatlons 1,620,500 00
For the current expenses of the ordnance
service 732,600 00
For ordnance, ordnance stores and sup
plies, including horse equipments for all
mounted troops
For the manufacture of arms at the na-
!lanai armory
For repairs and improvements, and now
machinery at the national armory at
Springfield, Mass. 150,000 00
For the purchase of gunpowder and lead. 1,100,000 00
'*cor additions to and extension of shop
room, machinery, tools, and fixtures, at
arsenals
For surveys of military defences. 100,000 00
For purchase and repair of Instruments.. 10,000 00
For printing charts of lako sun eye 10,000 00
For continuing tho survey of the Northern
and Northwestern lakes, including Lake
Superior 105,000 00
For pay of two and three years' volunteers 50,000,000 00
For payments to discharged soldiers for
clothing not drawn 60,000 00
For trabststence in kind for two and three
rears' volunteers_ 20,000,902 00
For transportation of the army and its sup
plies
For the purchtm of dragoon and artillery
horses
For clothing, camp and garrison equipago. 12,173,540 77
For the medical and hospital department. 1,000,000 00
For amount required to refund to the
States expenses incurred on account of
volunteers called into the he1d..........15,000,000 00
Michigan Military Law.
The State Military Board of Michigan have pre
pared with great care a law organizing the State
militia, which the Legislature will undoubtedly
pass. It is modeled after the Massachusetts plan,
with some improvements. The State is divided into
four military districts, with ono regiment assigned
to each ; two regiments form a brigade, and to each
brigade a battery of artillery is to beattached, with
officers of engineers, ordnance, and staff. A major
general commands the whole force, under the Go
vernor. All the militia are to be known as " State
troops." They aro to be enlisted for six years, at
the expiration of which time they are exempt from
poll taxes, jury duty, highway assessment, end from
any tax on property of less value than $5OO. Once
in each year they are to bo mustered for drill and
service, the camp to continue not longer than ten
days, each soldier receiving ono dollar a day for
such service, and officers according to the pay of the
same rank in the army pro rata. All old commis•
atone aro revoked, anethe Governor starts anew in
organizing the force. There is to be a State mili
tary board of five members, appointed for two years,
to audit bills. The form) will consist of about 4,000
men, and the expenses of the military establishment
will be about $50,000 a year. In addition, there
has been some effort in the Legislature to establish
a State military school, or a military department in
the University, but the money question prevents the
realization of the plan at present. Instrnetion in
military tactics, in the common cahoots, will be en
couraged.
Exchange of Prisoners
By direction of the hlenoral-in.Chief, Colonel A.
J. Bradford has been released from Fort Warren,
on parole, with the understanding that ho will bo
exchanged for Colonel W. Hoffman, United States
army. Colonel Bradford is now at Norfolk, and the
exonango will probably be perfected in a few days.
Colonel Hoffman is an old, experienced, and reliable
officer, having aeon much service, not only in the
Mexican war, but later In Utah and California.
Organization of the Militia.
Notwithstanding the absence of any cause for
serious apprehension of a foreign war, it is the de.
sire -of tho Government and of the commanding
general that the militia of all the loyal States shall
be fully and efficiently organized, and, in this con
nection, General McClellan strongly urges the or
ganization and practical preparation of artillery
corps in all the seaport and lake towns, with a view
to have in readiness, for any omorgenoy, an effeotivo
body of well-drilled artillerists for the defence of
cur harbors and coasts. It is designed that these
corps shall be provided, by the Government, with
guns and equipments, and to be paid by the United
States whenever called into actual service.
An Important Document from Mr. Cob-
den to General Scott
The Cincinnati Times of Monday says
A well-known gentleman of this oily, who has
just roturned from Washington pity, furnishes in-
formation that be sexy, a few days ago, a letter
from Mr. Cobden, theiCreat British statesman and
friend - of Araeriot, to irsoeral - Winfield Scott, in
which he expresses the ci
0 . ,:t0n that, unless the re•
hellion shalt be crushed bet ore the first of April
next, England will be tinder Uhl necessity (impelled
tiy the popular clamor of bor.' commendal and
manufacturing interests} of opera, g the cotton ports
of the South. Mr. Cobden need not bo uneas7;
*maim can fight her MB battlos, ad will not con
sult foreign nations as to-the Mae Of opening her
own ports.
.News from Roioneir.
Tie , Wheeling- Intellioncer of Taerda i v says
We learn by eificens who arrivell last evening from
Patterson's creek that - our forme left Bens.ney in
considerable of a hurry on Friday night, abot. , t six
o'clock, and remind Patterson's creek on 15almrday
morning about five. The order to•pacia up war re
ceived about two o'eloola on Friday atternem, fund
the greatest excitement and curiosity existed he the
camp. Some of. the companies. were compelled to
destroy a portion of their tents for the want at
transportation ; and a considerable quantity of pro
visions, such as bacon, and sofbrth, was. destroyed
for the same reason. lien. Lander issued an order,
which was road on dress parade, before the evaouis
tion, that any one caught setting. fire to the town, or
perpetrating any other outrage, would be instantly
shot.
Our informant is, of course, not advised-Bff to.the
evacuation of Romney, but thinks•it was topiece of
stratagem which Jackson suspected, and avoided
by going back to Winchester.
Our forces are now at Patterson's-creek, about
seven miles cast of Cumberland, and about fifteen
from Romney, but were crossing the railroad bridge
into Maryland, and are, no doubt, by this time en
camped on the Maryland side.
THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION:
DEPARTURE OP GEN. PRIM, SPANISH COMMANDERi
TOR VERA CP.UZ—PRESIDENPJUAREZ'S•PROCLA
MATION TO HIS COUNTRYMEN.
Vorrespoudence of the Now York Herald.]
HAVANI4 Jan, 7, 1862,
Mexican matters grow more and - more interest—
ing, and we get news from Vera Crux every few
days, some of which is pablisbed•and somenot. 1.
intend to give you both one and the other. The
Mexicans are undoubtedly preparing for resistance,
and are collected at Perote to the number of 30,000 ,
mien and one hundred and fifty pieces•of cannons
according to some, while others make, the figures
larger. This evening's paper puts them at 185000:
I enclose you the proclamation of President Tuaret.-
Some may find it deficient In nerve, but all will ad
mit that its tone -In calm and dignified, without a
particle of bombast or nonsense, and, altogether,
think it is admirable, and even touching in its
simplicity.
The city Government of Vera Cruz, who had ,
"implored" the Spaniards to come in and help
themselves, after the manner of the little roast pigs
that ran about requesting to he oaten, have sud
denly disappeared, leaving us therefore in grave
doubt of the statement that they had "implored."
Under these circumstances, General- Gossett has
issued a proclamation to the ef f ect that the custom
house, postal department, ac., tr.c., being thus de
serted, shall be ministered by officers selected from
the army under his orders, and that the Mexican
tariff shall remain unchanged. The details of ens--
tom-house business, I believe, will be condnoted
after the manner in use here. The post office is to
transact no business with the interior of Mexico,
and the Mexican regulations there also remain un—
changed.
In the meantime events thicken. On the 2d inst.
General Prim left for Vera Cruz, on board the
steamer Francisco de Asis, in the midst of the
French fleet, which sailed for the Mexican coast
the Fame hour, but not for Vera Cruz, as-you may
depend. The French Admiral is in high dudgeon
with his Spanish friends for having been in such a
hurry to get into Vera Cruz before their allies were
ready, and will therefore take his vessels• to Tam
pico. Additional offence has been given by the
Spaniards neglecting to hoist the French and En
glish flags on the ramparts of ITtloa and over Vera
Cruz, contenting themselves with their own exclu
sively. The following vessels composed the French
fleet :
Ship-of-the•lino hiassona, Captain Rose, having
on board Admiral de la Graviere.
Frigate La Guerriere Captain de Selva.
Frigate L'Astree Captain Duval.
Frigate L'Ardente Captain Guizolme.
All propellers. The land force on board the fleet
numbers 2,828 men of all arms. The French war
steamer Montezuma, which arrived on the 31st
ult., sailed from hero yesterday, and we have still
in port . the steamer L'Aube, which arrived on the
let amt., with six hundred troops on board.
The steamers which accompanied General Prim
were the Ulloa and San Quintin.
On the same day (the 2d) the British steam frigate
Ariadne and the Spite fee arrived here, the former
from Vera Cruz and the latter from Cape San An
tonio, where she met the English fleet for Vora
Cruz, composed of the following vessels
Ship-of-the-line St. George
Do. Sans Pawl
Frigate Mersey
Frigate Challenger
Gunboat Barraconta
Cut/boat Plover
A transport laden with coal accompanied them.
At Vera Cruz things are a little unpleasant.
Supplies from the interior are so completely out off
that the most lavish expenditure of love and money
fails to procure a decent breakfast or dinner.
Sir Charles Wyke, the English minister, arrived
on the night of the 24th, having stopped some days
at Orizaba, where there was intense fooling against
the Spaniards.
Daze, Governor of Mexico, bad been deposed, and
Azearate appointed in his stead.
The Mexican Cortezolosed on tho 15th, arterially
authorizing the President to adopt all measures he
rAlit deem prudent in regard to the "Spanish in
vasion."
Gen. Parrodi bad been named Minister of War.
Gen. basset, of the Spanish fortes, had establish
ed a custom house in Vera Cruz, and Uragahad es
tablished another five leagues from the atty.
President Juarez, of Mexico, has issued the fol
lowing proclamation :
MExtcxxs : The warnings of the approaching
war which was preparing in Europe agamst us have
begun, unfortunately, to be realized. Spanish
forces have invaded our territory; our national
dignity is insulted, and, perhaps, our independence
in danger. tinder such difficult circumstances the
Government of the republic believes that it com
plies with one of its principal duties by placing
within your reach the cardinal idea which shall be
the basis of its policy in the present state of affairs.
The interest of all is concerned, and if all are
bound, as good Eons of Mexico, to contribute their
intelligence, their fortune, and their blood towards
the salvation of the republic, all claim an equal
right to be informed of the conduct and proceodutgs
of the Government.
On the 14th of the present month the Governor
of the State of Vera Cruz received an intimation
from the commander of the Spanish naval forces to
evacuate that city and the fortress of llllea, which
that commander announced his determination to
hold as a security, until the Government of the
Queen of Spain shall be satisfied that the Spanish
nation shalt be treated in future with the conside
ration which is due, and that the compacts between
both Governments shall be religiously observed.
The Spanish officer also declares that the occupa
tion of the city and castle will serve as a guarantee
for the claims which France and Great Britain
may have against the Mexican Government.
The grounds for this aggression are incorrect—
namely, insults offered to her Catholio Majesty by
the Government of the republic, and the blind ob
stinacy with which the Government of Mexico has
constantly refused to listen to the just claims of
Spain.
The consistent behavior of the Mexican Government
does not permit the impartial eyes of justice to as
sent to such imputation. Since the treatyoflB36 the
Spanish Government has always beezeonsidered as
a fritndly Power, and bound to Mexico by special
ties, without the expulsion of the Spanish Ambas
sador being used as a well-founded objection to that
truth. Since the peculiar circumstances of that
case are well known, and no less well known is the.
disposition which the Government had and still en
tertains, to give the most reasonable and suitable
explanations in regard to that affair, which may be
reduced to a few words—the necessity of removing.
from the national territory a foreign functionary
who decidedly came to favor the chief fosterers of
a rebellion against - the lawful authorities of the re
public. The Government then used a right which
all nations possess and exercise, and which Spain
has repeatedly put in practice;. but declaring at the
same time that that determination in no wise af
fected the good relations which were then existing,
and which the Government desired to. preservo
with the Spanish nation.
Neither can the violence committed against
Spanish subjects be offered in refutation of the in
tention to maintain the best harmony with that Go
vernment, because those violence& have been not
only the inevitable consequences of the social reps—
Onion which the nation commenced and prosecuted
in order to extirpate abuses which had been the
perpetual cause of its misfortunes, but consequences
which both foreigners and natives have suffered
without any distinction of their respective national
ities. And if a greater share of those misfortunes
hoe fallen upon Spanish subjects, has it not arisen
from the feet that the number of those residents is
greater than that of those' of any other nationality?'
Could not this have arisen from the fact that the
Spaniards, more than any other foreigners, have
taken and still take part in our disseneions, in
which many of them have shown a ferocious and ,
sanguinary character?
Nevertheless, the different Administrations which
have succeeded each other have always listened to
the complaints of the Spanish Legation, and have
favorably received those which appeared bo sup
ported by some principle of justice.
Long before the recognition of our independ
ence the Mexican Congressnationalized the debt
contracted by the Spanish Government, although a
large part of it had been employed in combating
that very independence, and a no less considerable
share bad been intended for European obligations
of the Spanish monarch.
Subsequently the character of agreement was
given to the settlement of the Spanish ; but
it coming to light afterwards that some of the
Spanish subjects interested in them, abusing the
good intentions of the Government of the repub
lic, had introduced a.great number of credits which,
evidently bad not the . qualities required by the
agreement. The Mexican Government has ear.
neatly endeavored to correct those operations by
reducing them within just and equitable bounds.
For the rest, the Government has been and still
is disposed to satisfy all just claims, as far as the
national resources will permit—a - feet well known
to the Power which now invades us. 'All nations ,
.
and more especially Spain, have passed through
times of penury and want, and almost all have had
creditors who have waited for bettor times in wbioh
to secure themselves. From Mexico alone are sa
orifices beyond her strength required.
If the Spanish nation cloak other designs under
the financial question, and with the pretext of
groundless insults,
her intentions shall soon be
known. But the Government, which must pre.
pare the country for any event, proclaims, as the
basis of its policy, that it does WO declare sear, bat
mill repel horce by force as far as its means will
permit. That it is disposed to satisfy the claims
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Extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club.
ferttnaetere era requested to act ea Agenfefiet
Tan WAX Panes.
against it, founded - on equity and justice, but,
without accepting conditionc which cannot be ad
mitted without offending the dignity of the na
tion or comproinisang ice independence.
Mexicans, if such apright intentions be despised ;
if it be intended to humiliate Mexico, to dismem
ber her territory, tointerfere In her internal policy
and goversment f or perhaps extinguish her nation
ality; I appeal to your patriotism, and urge you
that, laying aside the hatreds and enmities to
which the &varsity of ow' opinions has given rise,
and sacrificing your property and your blood, you
rally united around, the tfroventraentvind in defence
of a canoe the greatest and most sacred among men
—the dofence of our country.
.Ikaggevated and - ablator reports from the ene
miirof Mexico have presented us before the world
as uncivilized and degraded , .
UV= defend ourseiver in the war to which we
are provoked, observing strictly' the laws and
usages establisliod for the sake of humanity. Let
the defonbeless enemy lire in peace -- and seeurity
ender the- protection of our laws: Then shall we
repel the calumnies of our enemies, and prove our
selves worthy of the I berty and independence, be ,
gueathed uy - by our fathers,
MEXICO, jec. 18, M6l
TrtE CITY.
ADDITIONAL ('ITT' NEWS OA SECOND 'PAGE,
AMIIBMILICVTEI THIS ZVININO
WimMT-8211881' Tgieraz—Ninth end Wabru. eta.—
..Ireland as It Was"- , 3, A Mag's. Toke"--wr at'arDiitaw
dem"
Anse-Smarr Taufnut--dxsh street, above Sixth.—
.71. Mate Horse cor the Peners"— , rori IM•Tist ,
Erwin—. Forty and KW!,
Oozernnorar. Tartitios--Walaat street, above Eighth.
cojiha War for the Ualort , — of Jack ahappard to MlNA
back."'
Tuna oiWoNnuts—T;ll. corner Tenth and ChM
nurstrouth—Signor Blitz's lintertairunent.
CRAlntalt CITAPEL—Tweetlf-PeColld and Lender eta.—
titereeeconte Views.
MITSICIAZ FUND HALL—Locust street, above Eighth.—
Grand Conant.
DESTRUSTIVE FIRE YESTERDAY MORNINC.--6.- -
The year. 18.32 has opened with a rapid succession
of fires, some of which have been quite destructiVti,
The frequency of such occurrences at the beginning.
of the present year, is in such striking contrast with.'
the scarcity of' similar accidents during the lattir
part of 1861, as-to excite marked , attention. As to
the cause, the -ire Diarshal has been able to disoo
ver nothing.: unusual. It is the. season when all
classes of people must have fires on their premises,
and, in spite of all cautions to the contrary, some
persons will beconeleas. Besides, is is well known
to every underwriter, who has given the least at=-
tention to the subject, that fires, like all other
casualties, are aptito be epidemic. The Fire Mar
shal is satisfied to add, that incendiarism, this year,
has played but a small part in the fiery mishap ;
both disastrous and' trifling, which have befallen ,
our metropolis since the advent of the new year.
Yesterday morning, about half past five o'olook,
a firs broke out in the double three-story brick.
building, Nos. 815 and 817 Parrish street, occupied
principally by Joseph Rue, manufacturer of brickl ,
makers' tools, moulders' tools, ladders, and-various
other implements. The alarm was promptly given,-
and the firemen were upon the ground in large
numbers, but the fire burned stubbornly for about
two hours, and the building and contents were en
tirely destroyed, nothing remaining but the waits.
In the rear of the strtaiturewere two attachments,
of one and two stories respebtively. These are also•
a mass of ruins. Mr. Ruo was principally engaged
in scroll sawing. He had in the building a large boiler
and an extensive lot of machinery, consisting of cir
cular saws, jig saws, dm. They were alldemolished.
There was also on hand a largo quantity of lumber
and Work, both. in a finished and unfinished state.
Some of - the work belonged to George Kessler, who
loses.about $5O. There was also a largo collection
of scroll work belonging to the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, and designed for one of their build
ings at Greensburg. The loss of Mr. Rue in stook.
will be about 82,000. No insurance. He also owns
the building, upon which the loss will be $1,500:
Fully insured. -
The third story of the building was occupied.
jointly by E. C. Hendry, cabinet-maker, ands
George W. Press, carver. They were engaged is manufacture of "tete-a-tetes." Their loss is.
$4OO. No insurance. They were young beginners
in business, and the loss falls heavily upon them. .
One corner of the third story was occupied by Ht
M. Freed and Son, cork cutters. Their machinery,
stock, &0., were destroyed.
No. 813, adjoining the building in which the fire
originated, is the three-story brick dwelling of
John Schuyler. - His furniture was badly damagedi
by its hasty removal, and the house was flooded•
with water. The roof was partially burned of
The building was fully insured in the Fire Asso—
ciation. The damage to the furniture, &c., of Jaz...-
Schuyler . amounts to about $3OO, upon which there
is no insurance.
No. 819, next west of the scroll.sawing.faetory,
is a three-story brick dwelling, occupied by Philip-
Lutz. Mr. L. also carried on shoemaking, bottling, -
end the confectionery business upon the same pre
mises. A room in tho second story wastenanted•
by Mrs. Frederick Mang (whose husband is is the
army) and ber three children.- - Mrs. Mang - and.
her children were compelled to leave in snob a
burry that they escaped with nothing but .their
night clothes. her effects wore almost entirely
ruined by water.
The upper part of the building was damaged, by
fire, and- the-entire. premises .were flooded with
water. Mr. Lutz has an Inaurance at Z5OO - the,
Girard, which will cover his loss. No. 819 belongs•
to Mr. Thurston, of Nev York. It is believed to.
be insured.
The attachments of Mr. Rue's - factory, in the
rear, were contiguous to the roar buildings of the
dwellings Nos. 842 and 844 Darien street, occupied:
by John Keyser and John Dart. The back-build
ings were partially destroyed by fire, and the dwel
tinge were flooded.
Several of the adjoining dwellings on Ninth, Par
rish, and Darien streets, suffered more or less by
water. The total loss by the conflagration is about
$5,000.
no origin of the fire has not yet been ascertained..
The Fire Marshal is investigating it. The presump
tion is that it was the result of accident.
The light caused was very great, and the snow
upon the roofs and the ground for a great distanoe,
was reddened by the glare of the flames. The ope
rations of the Tenth and Eleventh and Fourth mud
Eigbth•streets Railway Linea wore crippled for - soma
time by the fire.
VISIT TO THE COOPER'S REFRESHMENT SA:
LOON.—The =Operas of the Western Market paid
a visit to the Cooper's Shop Refreshment Saloon &-
few days since, in conches hired for the occasion.
After a formal reception by the president, William
C. Cooper, who made a neat and appropriate
speech, the party examined the institution, hos
pital, and mode adopted for the preparation of
food for the soldiers. As a matter of course, they
found everything in the institution of a model cha
racter, and the number of soldiers fed since its or
ganization was far beyond their expectations. The
institution was thoroughly examined in all its-parts,
and the occupants of the Western Market declared.
that all the aid they can render this praiseworthy
object shall be cheerfully done. After an exami
nation of the saloon, the party wore invited into
the residence of Mr. Nicklev, where they were
handsomely entertained. Mr. William Cooper, in
a short speech, expressed his high gratification at
the visit thus paid. Speeches were also delivered
by Francis B. Smith, A. C. Garvin, William Nohn,
Robert Wiley, John Rioe Robert Smith, Nathan
iel Walwork, and John D. Smith. We understand
the object of the occupants of the Western Market.
is to render immediate aid, to sustain the above
noble institution, which is in need of funds.
A BOLD THlEF.—Yesterday, a man named.
Rufus Lee, was before Alderman Reiner, having
been arrested by Lieut. Sam. Goldoy, of the Fifth
ward police, charged with the larceny of five dol
lars from a lad named J. Nettle. It appears that
Nettle had been sent by his employer, Mr. R.
Glenn, No. 23 North Third street, to collect a bill
of $28.50. The boy obtained the money allin bank
bills, except fifty cents, and was on his way back to
the store when he was accosted by Leo, who saki
ho thought the sum was short a few dollars, and
proposed that he should count it for Nettle. The
latter, not suspecting anything, handed it to Lee,
who pretended to count the money, bat slipped
five-dollar note into his .pooket, and them handed
bank the balance, saying "it was all right." The
theft was net discovered until the lad handed the
money to his employer. The rascal wasvomptly
arrested and committed for court.
SEnlOns ACCMENT. —William. Heilman; a
day inspector in the custom house, met with a very
serious accident on Tuesday, which will probably
lame him for life. Mr. H., in company with Mr.
Theodore Grace, a fellow•ofcer, had charge of the
ship Tonawanda, and was.in the " between decks"
of: the vessel, in the discharge of his official duty,
when, by POMO mischance, ho stepped into an open
hatchway, and was precipitated about sixteen feet,
striking against - the kelson of the ship, and 'injuring
himself very seriously. Mr. Grace hurried to his
assistance, and he was got out of the hold of the
vessel and cony.* ed to his home, where it was
found that the bone of one of his hips was fractured
in the sooliet, causing a very painful injury.
ARREST or A Deuor.,tu—Thomas Beer, alias
Thomas Reed; was arrested on Tuesday night, while
attempting to enter the dwelling of Mrs. Catharine
O'Donnell, No. 905 South Eleventhstreet. Thomas
bad broken a slat out of one of the rear shutters,
cut ant a pane of glass, removed tbo fastening from
the sash, and was about entering the premises,
when Mrs. O'Donnell sounded the alarm. The
burglar was captured by Officer James Simers, as
he was about to escape. Yesterday afternoon he
was committed for trial by Alderman Beitler.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY.—A well-known
professional piekFaket was committed yesterday
afternoon, by Alderman Milner, charged with
having committed an assault and battery on a
woman. It is seldom that a professional thief is
ever charged with any offence, except that of pick
ing pockets, as they generally manage to steer clear
of all outside diMculties, the risks run in following
their illegal calling being too great, and requiring
their sole attention.
RESIGISED..—Mr. John W. Brown, lieutenant
of police in the Thirteenth district (&lanayunlo),
has resigned and accepted a position in the Post
Office. Yr. Edward Reigate, who has been ser
geant under far. Brown for a number of years, has
been promoted to the vacated lieutenancy.
PASSAGE OF TROOPS.—Yesterday „morning
one hundred and sixty men, belonging to a New
York cavalry regiment, passed through this city,
on their way to the seat of war. They were well
provided for by the Cooper• Shop Refreshment
Committee.
TOE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-170 learn that
Samuel Hazard, Eq., the editor of the State Re
gister, and the compiler of the " Colonial
Archives," has been nominated for the post of
Librarian to the Historioal Society of this city,.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.—This evening the
delegates elected by the Republican party will
meet in convention at the County Court House for
the purpose of making ruieti for their governmontt
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