THE PRESS, rriB(OUSo DAILY (SUNDAYS EXOEPTED,) ulf - Jour( W. FORNEY, . rro. 11l SOUTH FOURTH STREET. ,j 1 DAILY PRESS, enrra PER Weak, payable to the Carrier. 1 Sol);crlbers out of the City at MORT DOLLARS Ao ukt, Vona Dow. Arts FOR SIX !dorms, Two Doi, Fd a To ane trio trres—bayarlably in advance for the Pr ~a inserted at the usual rates. Si.x .+4 c astltots a. square. Fri.LE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, . 1. qe , l to Sabeeribere out of the City at Fogs DOL 41,Ke Orme, in advance. RETAIL DRY GOODS. 1 .AND RELIABLIiaBURS OE' On OWN IMPORTATION AND MANUFACTURE. BA" SABLE, ROY:AI, ERMINE, : DARK SABLE MINK, . . REAL CHINCHILLA', • - DARK SIBERIAN SQUIRREL; . c'vErir FASHIONABLE STYLE, . ' FOR LADIES, MISSES, AND CHILDREN FURS MADE: TO ORDER. J. W. PROC TOR 84; N 0.920 OHESTNUT 00 STIiEET, , PHILADELPHT VSEFUL AND AOdEP — TABLE . . CHIUSTMAS AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS. t:. M. NEEDLES, CIIESTATT STREET,: Au Wig spacial attention of Purohaserß of. Pirsastrre , 7fts COMING 'llO - LIDAYS, ~h4eetatt3iVO stook of ar.tiolea artitable for that var. FOR PRESENTS . : j Aio' sad Ciente' Colored Bordered Handkerchiefs pa do Ilemetitehed do Po do In 2,, 2 % and 3 Inch wide hems. Do do Printed Bordore, Do do Frenoh and clear Lawn, p.) do In all kinds of LACE!. Elandkerchiefe, of RC kinds. liandkerchiefe, of all kinds. Handkerchiefs, of all kinds. "Da kke, 3:43orttgent of Handkerchiefs In the city. FOR PRESENTS Viread Lace Veils, $2 and upwards. Cambric Lace Veils, 750. and upwards. Potutd Lace Collar Sets, $1.60, and upwards. .ive,;tt WQr l :4 do, all prices. PRESENTS a' rims kiwis of Tact GOODS V. Loa Coiffures and Barbee. L•balcile"e:i'irELte„:;,ll. watat.3. Lace Sleeves. , D a Bands and Financings. Do frabroideries. also, D 1 d,rz?a Cambric Handkerchiefs, Embroidered with.. a ndlgon , ".. received. C intinic,ltuftled handkerchiefs, Brahroidered 4 1, 1 deten Valencienne Latta Handkerchiefs • ,i;c , l i ti c , e tr i e oak rt& ' and Children's Printed-bordered Ha dozen Ladies' Ivory Initial Guff Buttons. ypiec , ; B-4 French Muslin, 2 yards wide, for Party at old prices. c„.tatilet3 Stock of WHITE GOODS at LOW `.'SIOES. ktec. ICipitins at Old Prices. AO' of the above Will make a TiEeful and beautiful !gm m A 3 pnEsagt, and .Buyers will find it to their ntago to inspect my stock before making their yehora, as, with few exceptions, it is offered at Orx xcF. , ,, lid. cheaper thin present wholesale rates. kYlia JAMES R. CAMPBELL & CO., IMPORTERS AND CASH . DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 727 CHESTNUT STREET. Mrs ittA receivall,nnd are now offering, magnificent 198 of SILKS. SHAWLS, AND DRESS GOODS, ISPEOIALLY ADAPTED TO THIS SEASON FINE CLOTH CLOAKS. FINE FROSTED BEAVER CLOAKS, FINE BLASK TRICOT CLOA.KS. MEDIUM•PRICED CLOAKS. FINE BLANKET SHAWLS. EXTRA CHEAP BALMORALS. FINE LARGE BLANKETS. VSPERFINE FROSTED BEAVERS. (11,5TOlif BEAVERS—TRICOTS. BOYS' FINE CLOTHING, SUITS MADE TO ORDER. COOPER & CONARD S. E. COR. NINTH Sr MARKET ERA. OLOAKING - CLOTHS, SUBLIME QUALITY. • • lona any's Frosted. Beavers. Medium-priced Frosted Beavers, Thick and tine French Beavers, Tricot, Castor, and Union Beavers. Mohair and Sealskin Cloaking& Superfine Cassimeres, viz. Silk Mixes—Blank, neat fancies— Boys'—Extra heavy—Union—Meltons, ant, &*. S 4 Coatings and Overcoatings. dovelties in fanny Vesting& BALMORALS. One hundred pieces 25-cent Delaines. Auction lota tine Black Alpacas, Fine Merinoes and Poplins. Black Poplins, 870., $l, SL2B. Fine Blankets and Flannels. BOYS' CLOTHING. Experanced Cutters, good Cloths, and Good work—Garments made to order. COOPER CONARD, uStf S. E. corner NINTH and MARK fitreeta. EVIA VIN HALL & BRO., r 0 reducM 36 the S Pric ou thesiOf SECOXD Street, . : fan . Silks, Rich . .Pri uted Drpgs Goods, Choice Shades of lilerinoes, b.astiful Colors of Reps Sr Poplins; All-W,Ol. De Leine% 4 .i kind: of dark dress goods reduced. Also, PISS Long Broche Shawls, "Pen Centro Long Cashmere Shawls, Lee amx styles of Blanket Shawls. 44 Lyons Silk velvets, pure Silk. dentf DRY GOODS FOR WINTER. It i nth plin Reh er' nag M p. Pos, , dared htcu clines, Knit De Solos, Foulard Silks, Blanket Shawls, Balmoral Skirts, Black Silks, Fancy Silks, Black Bombazines, Worsted Plaids, Cheap Delaines, French Chintzes, Shirting Flannels, Brooke Shawls, Fins Blankets Crib Blanket. SHARPLESS BROTHERS, CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets, STEEL & SON HAVE A LARGE a. ,,, nrtniPin of DRESS GOODS, suitable for RO JAY Ich Fancy 1 : Plain Silks, choice colors. Pigared Black Silks, l'ialn and Fign red Rep pupil na. Plain and liiruml Patin Snl feriae Cashmeres, at 365 c, worth 62. SHAWLS, In great " riet i 34 , MurNo SCARFS, BROGLIE BOR aRS. ( LOAKS—of Now and Fashionable Styles ! made of _blunk examinerosted Beaver, aud Black Cloth. and our stock. We guaranty to give ea• as we sell nothing but good articles, and at l r , r prices than they can he bought elsewhere. tPI3 Nam. '713 and 715 North TENT 74 mtrnet. • CLOTHES-WRINGER. • frIF:GREAT CLOTHES WRINGER. SC PUTNAM ' S ELF-ADJUSTING CLOTHES WRINGER" I , Warranted to be superior to any other in use. 41.1tY FAMILY SHOULD POSSESS A CLOTHES WRINGER. Bacittak-, 1 4 It k a relief to the hardest part of washing-day. 4 1. It enables the washing to be done in one.third less yt It have® clothes from the injury always given by A •t:h z , help.; to ?sash the clothes as well as dry them. '1; RELIEVE IT ADVISABLE TO PROCURE ONE OF THIS KlND,Fixar, BECAME, The rolls being* of vulcanized rubber, r hrit ;And e . t.d. water and will neither break nor tear j 'Nf). The frameof iron, thoroughlygal j" being removed,auk the la -1,14411, all danger from rust is shrink,moll, sp lit, S te ., en unavoidable In DThoo, u p, is prevented. Thl, lddrit I springs over the rolls render this a fk.. o so that email and large .a , articles uneven in thickness, are certainto re uulfi,ria n r s. re i e a tt," 'fastening by which the machine to'tl 3 le tub, we believe to he superior in did efficiency to any yet oflbred. It toll lit any tub, round or square, from one ' 4 t [ l , l altera one-n o ti d ona-q, uarter inches in, thickness, without RETAIL PRICE: No. 1, $6.004 No. 2, 21 wanted in every county, . 4*. I . w 0.1 tant e and energetic en will be liberally dealt SAI. at the 'l ‘ .°o DBNWARE ESTABLISHMENT" N A. U. FRANCISOUS, • Ida MAP.XET St. and No. 5 North FIFTH St., Wholesale agent for Pennaylvanta LUtP Tr AND OIL `l4 CLOTHs. ` T CARPET STORE, No• 17 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. J. T. DELACROIX tll3 814 examination of his stook of Carpeting' In which will be found 250 PIECES BIWSSELS CARPETINCIS. 141 tLen present cost of Importation. 2 T Mem extra Imperial, three-Ply, rdPerfin% N. and low-grade Ingrain, Venitian, Ilan, and exa t retail, very low for camh. nnfilm SEWING MACHINES. f` Ifl~~~il IIIJP & wiLs VN" MACHINES, 01414 CHESTNUT STREET, VIILLADELPEILL "VOL. 6.-NO. 129. FANCY ARTICLES. G+LAR S ONE-DOLLAR STORE, 602 CHESTNUT STREET- Silver-plated Ware, Jewelry, Photograph Albums, Travelling Bags, Pocket Books, Port Monnitiea Calms, dm, for 6.0 to 100 per cent loss than the regular prices. The following is a partial list of articlos which we sell at ONE DOLLAR EACH. •The same goods are eold at other places from $2 to ltEi eacal YOUR CHOICE FOR ONE DOLLAR! Ladles' Bets, new and beautiful styles, --- Do. Pins, Do. Ear Ring's, Do. Sleeve Buttons, Do. Guard Chain, Do. Neck do., Do. Gold Thimbles, .Do. Finger Rings, Do., Pencils, Eld Do. ens with case. - Do, *assists, Do. Di anions, Do. C rma, Do. Pearl Port Monnalea, Do, Morocco do. Do. Wire do. Do. Purses, Do. Card Cases. ' Infants' .Armiets, Do. Neck Chains, Gents' Vest Chains, different stYles. Do, Sleeve Buttons, do. do. Do, Studs, do. do. Do. Pins. do. do. Do. Scarf Pine, do. do. Do. > Scarf Rings. do. do. Do. Finger Rings, do. do Do. Pen and Case, Do. Pencil, revolving. Do. Tooth Pick, revolving, • Do. Watch Keys, Do. Chain Hook,s, Do, Chain Charms. Do. Pocket Books. Do. Bill Books, Do. Port 'Mummies, &c. SILVER-PLATED WARE. TOUR CHOICE FOR ONE DOLLAR! Sets of Table Spoons, Do. Dessert Spoons. Do. Tea do. * Do. Forkti, Pair Butter , knives, ' Do, Napkin Rings, Knife awl Fork. -- Goblets. Cups , ... *A; Sugar Bowls, ***, . . Cream Cups. . . . .. .... Syrup Cups, . , * Butter Dishes, .. .. Castors with Bottles, . , ..... Salt Stands, Sic. YOUR CHOICE OF ANY OF THE ABOVE - ARTICLES FOR ONE DOLLAR. * NOTICE.--In order to meet the wants'of our numerous customers, we shall keep a stock of the finest Plated and All-Gold Jewelrv, together with an assortment of heavy plated Silver Ware, and a variety of Photograph Al-. bums and Fancy Goods, which we will sell at prices which will defy competition. Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and examine our stock. Every attention paid to visitora whether they wish to purchase or not. Remember CLARK'S ONE-DOLLAR STORE, - noll-21nif 602 CHESTNUT Street. • GIFT BOOKS. IMMENSE ATTRACTIONS 1 IMMENSE ATTRACTIONS FOR THE HOLIDAYS! AT THE GREAT ORIGINAL GIFT-BOOK EMPORIUM, 439 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia. THE ONLY "OIFT-BOOK ENTERPRISE IN EX ISTENCE I IT HAS OUTLIVED ALL COMPETITORS! NEW. BOOKS! ' NEW GIFTS! NEW FEATITRES I ELEGANT ANNUALS! BEAUTIFUL GIFT BOOKS! SUPERB ALBUMS! FINE BIBLES, PRAYER AND HYMN BOOKS! All the Popular NOVELS and MAGA ZINES! STANDARD and MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, in endless variety. The whole forming a fund of CHOICE - READING FOR THE MILLION t A full line of PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, of every variety of size, style, quality, and Price! CA-RTES DE VISITE in great Profusion, A MAGNIFICENT ARRAY OF YEW AND COSTLY PRIZES! Atßi- The business of the establishment, is conducted upon the same principle, with some improvements, in• troduced and pursued by Mr. GEORGE G. EVANS, which has given such universal satisfaction. Notwith standing the great advance in the price of paper and other material, we continue to sell at the OLD PRICES, and also to 'bestow upon each patron "TWO GIFTS FOR THE PRICE OF GEE!" Please remember that our Visitors are treated politely whether they wish to pier chase or not—a very commend able and satisfactory rale of action. Call and be con vinced. PAINTINGS; MIGPAITINGS ; STUART'S PORTRAITS • oF • • GEORGE AND MARTHA • WASHINGTON, . „ COPIED IN OIL COLORS BY E. C. bIIDDLETON, Of Cincinnati, (formerly of this city.) These Portraits are produced by an entirely Nem Pro cess, and are more beautiful and-life-like than the finest brush paintings, and are furnished to Subscribers_ only, et n-rontark - kbir-low'price: • - What can be more appropriato - • , CHRISTMAS PRESENT • Than a pair of these Paintings? • They must be - seen to be appreciated, and the subscriber will call and-exhibit them to any in this city who will address him. through the Post Office. • • A. BARLOW. • itee-aw • • . . • • COMMISSION MOUSES. , COTTON YARN. STPERIOR COTTON YARN, No. 10, FOR SALE BY FROTRIEGRAht & WELLS SHIPLEY, HAZARD, 42 HUTCHINSON, No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET, 00hIMISSION DIERCHANTS FOR THE SALE OF PHILADDLPITIA-MADE GOODS tiend-Sin LADIES' FURS. LADIES'- FURS .• • FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS. JOHN A. STAMBACH, IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF LADIES' FANCY FURS, N 0.82,6 ARCH STREET, BELOW NINTH. HAS NOW OPEN A splendid stock of Russian and Hudson Bay and Mink Sable, Royal Ermine, Chinchilla, Siberian Squirrel, and other styles of FURS, suitable for CHRISTMAS and NEW TEAR PRESENTS. ' 'del3-tja7 FURS! FURS! ' GEORGE F. WOIVIRATEI, NOS. 411.5 AND 417 ARCH STREET, HAS NOW OPEN A FULL ASSORTMENT -OP LADIES' FURS, To 'which the attention of the public is noIA-21n HOTELS. THE Cx 4 TRARD EIOIJSE IS NOW OPEN, And its Pro Dictum eolicit the patronage of the public HANAGA,. FOWLER;` & CO. deso-st. PRANDRETH HOUSE, Corner of BROADWAY, CANAL, and LISPBNARD STREETS, NEW YORK. CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN. The above Hotel is located in the most central part of Broadway' and can be reached by omnibus or Oily care, from all the steamboat landings and railroad depots. The rooms are elegantly furnished. Many of them are constructed in suits of communicating parlors and cham bers, suitable for families and parties travelling together. Meals served at all hours. . Single ROO.lllB from 60 cents to Per day. Double Rooms from *1 to $2.60 per day. de2,6m - TOS. CURTIS it CO. • • . • • F. I_ G ZINC, ARMY, AND TOILET MIRRORS, The best in the world for finish and durability. B. M. S. The best brand Silk-finished' VELVET'RIBBONS. Sole Agent, BENJAMIN M. SMITH, 155 DUANE Street, near West Broadway, aegtam New York. :no wrni & co., LITHOGRAPHERS -4-• AND PRINT COLORISTS, Southwest corner of CHESTNUT and ELEVENTH Streets are prepared to ex acute any description of Portrait, Landscape, Natural History, Architectural, Autograph, Map, or other Litho graphy, in the moat superior manner, and the most rea sonable terms, Photographs, Portraits, Natural History, and Medical Plates, Maps, and any other description of Plates, colored In the best style, and warranted to give satisfaction. Particular attention to Coloring Photographs. 0c23-tf TERRA GOTTA WARE. •A• Fancy Flower Pots. Hanging Vases. Fern Vases, with Plante. Orange Pots. Ivy Vases, with Plants, Cassoletts Renaissance. Lava Vases Antique. Consols and Cariatades.l Marble Busts and Pedestals. Brackets, all sizes. With a large assortment of other FANCY GOODS, suitable for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, most of which are manufactured and imported for our own sales, and will not be found at any other establishment. • S. A. HARRISON, doe • 1010 CHESTNUT Street. j,UpIFER" OIL WORKS. 1t bble. "Lucifer " Burning Oil on hand. We guarantee the Oil to, be non-explosive, to burn all the oil in the lamp with a steady, brilliant flame, with out crusting the wick, and but slowly. Barrels lined with glass enamel. WRIGHT, SMITH, & PEARSALL, fe2,1.4f Office, 515 MASSET Street THE WILCOX & GIBBS FAMILY SEWING MACHINES have been greatly improved, makiiig ENTIPAILY NOISELESS, and with Self - adjusting - FleTtiniere, are now Telir sale by FAIRBANKS & EWI se2l-if 710 CHOTIPJT Street. . . • .... . N . . - •,,t '' ,, k 1 4 ). 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'- :- 2 --- - -----;-'',.. , .-...., , • - ",1. -,---•,;; 1--tr • T ip:::;::f-1;,;; ';= , ..-;;'.. t; : :,..;;;_ ~ ~ItIplf:. ;,. ...: ". :- ".114 -- -., I N, . _ :;.-; =„., 1 ~..:2 • . ;,-,, --;a_,- • -; L--- 7--;-!.:6'.... -10 ., - ' . --_,...... -; ......; , .......;:..; „..,....... - ........-..-.-- - e.:' ,...4 .H14.,: - ,, ,„ --"-----.........- , •...i..- \ ~ ........"":•••••• ''''".".""........ . , - WATCHES AND JEWELRY, tei HOLIDAY PRESENTS. We have now on hand a • SPLENDID ASSORTMENT WATCHES, DIAMONDS, SILVERWARE. AFD JEWELRY, OF ALL KINDS AND PRICES, SUITABLE FOR • CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS. We invite special attention to the moderate prices of our DIAMONDS. LEWIS LADOMUS *a CO., &UAW No. SO2 CHESTNUT STREET. AMERICAN WATCHES. l a I. B. MARTER, AGENT FOR THE " AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY," NOW OFFERS, EXPRESSLY ADAPTED FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS,, A MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF AMERICAN WATCHES, FOR L A DIES AND GENTLEMEN, AT MODERATE PRICES. No. 712 CHESTNUT STREET, SECOND FLOOR, OPPOSITF, MASONIC HALL deg-Im HOLIDAY PRESENTS. G. RUSSELL, No. 2% NORTH SIXTH STREET,_ - - Offers a choice assortraeut.or --- WATCAES, DIAMONDS' ' • FINE JEWELRY, STANDARD SILVER WARE, Suitable for Holiday Presents, at die LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. de2•]m' rp ELI HOLD • Dealer in fine 'x' ' AMERICAN AND IMPORTED WATCHES, JEWELRY, AND CLOCKS, ' oeSL4sm* 708 MARKET Street.. ig b AMERICAN WATCHES, GOLD AND SILVER CASES. JOS H. WATSON, tual-6m No. 326 CHESTNUT Street WATCHES, JEWELRY, &O. A FRESH ASSORTMENT AT LESS THAN FORMER PRICES FARR & BROTHER, Importers, M=!.V=MMTMRM!Mf'III MILITARY GOODS; MILITARY GOODS':- EVANS & HASSALL, MI LITARY FURNISHERS, 4-18 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA Anomplete aesortraent of General, Field, and Line 02- cers'lSwords, Sashes, Belts, Passauts. Epaulettes, Can- teens, Haversacks, Field. Glasses, Spars, Candlesticks, Chapeaus, Hats, Caps, Dimms, Silk and Bunting Flags, Camp Knives and Forks, Baldrics, Gum-cloth Over- oatp & Also, a full line of PRESENTATION SWORDS, Sashes, Belts, etc., and everything requisite for the Complete Outfit of Army and Navy Officers, WHOLESALE & RETAIL. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS: 1,4 NN EL AND CLOTH OVER SHIRTS'!! FINE LINEN AND MUSLIN SHIRTS, On hand or made to order, of the most approved cut, and warranted to fit. GENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS, The largest and best assortment in the city. IniDERCLOTHING, HOSIERY, GLOVES, TIES. So WHOLESALE AND RETAIL G. A. HOFFMANN, ocl-tuths3 . na 11OLIDAY -)RESENTS.. Nos. 1 AND ,3 NORTH SIXTH STREET JOHN C. ARRISON, (BORMERLY J. BURR MOORE,) Has now in store an elegant assortment of GENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS, SCARFS, NECK TIES, GLOVES, &e., In :Great Variety TTOLIDAY PRESENTS.- OPENING a splendid assortment of - - GENTLEMEN'S BURNISHING GOOD% suitable Presents for Gentlemen. 3. W. SCOTT, No. 8196 CHESTNUT Street, Four doors below the Continental DRUGS. AND CHEMICALS. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., Northeast Corner Fourth and RACE Streets, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, IMPORTERS AND-DEALERS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW - AND T'T.4 TB:GLASS, kANUFACTUREItO OF WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, Am. AGENTE3 FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH n027-9m : CABINET FURNITITRU. At, CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL- LIARD TABLES. MOORE & No. 261 South. SECOND Street, h connection with their extensive Cabinet Business, are now manufacturing a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now oularal a full 'supply, finished with, the MOORE Sr CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, which are pronounced by all who ,have used them to be aupo. rior to`all others, , For the quality and finish of these Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the character of their work._ anm C A U T I O N,- The well-earned reputation of FAIRBANKS' SCALES Has induced the makers of imperfect balances to offer them an " FAIRBANKS' SCALES," and purchasers have thereby, in many instances, been subjected to fraud and Imposition. Fairbanks' Scales are manufactured only by the original inventors, E. & T. FAIRBANKS & CO., and are adapted to every branch of the business, where a correct and durable Scales is desired, FAIRBANKS 411 E'Ys.r I Z Agents,. aplo-tr MASONIC HALL, 715 CHESTNUT ST 61.7 ARCH STREET. C. A. VANKIRIK.6S74:IO. Have on hand a fine assortment of CHANDELIER ANDOTHER GAS FIXTURES. Also ? French Bronze Fig - nres and Ornaments, Porcelain and litica Shades, and a variety of FANCY GOODS SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS. Which they will sell at reasonable prices. Please call and examine goods. deli-tf IQITEURS.-50 CASES ASSORTED L LIQUEITBB, just received per ship Vandalia, from Bordeaux, and for sale b r fIE & LikVERGNE, ise4 RIM 41 9 403 b. FROZCZ Street, PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1863. The cotton famine prevails, with ::in creasing severity, in Fninee. ::In thatieottri. try it is estimated that nehrly 0,00000. cotton-spinning spindles were in use, before the , supply of raw material' Ceased, as against 30,750,000 SpindleS in Great Brij: twin : The Munber, of persOns depending upon this : manufacture in all raneeis about half sufficient number, if out of work, to'alarm the' GO's'erunient, In the Department of the ::140 - er,7; Seine, . the, last, iiecorints, :100,000 cotton-workers , were wholly idle, :and it Was - '7.epeetCd: , that, 'in the :'folleWMg Week, this number would be increased to 350,006. There.is proportiona bly less.. cotton on hand in France in Enghthd; ' , :ivlierefile speculators keep it in stem, to it at faminepriceS for hothe or foreign , consumption„: On the : .ether hand, the, French ouvriers, or workpeople, bear 'privation and suffering far less patiently than the. English, 'Hunger, as much as anything else, has Caused ReV1011.0011S: FralloC 7 Probably, the : facts here statad n,ni - y2atCOUnt, ...for.,:_the.4„Einperor ' , k7:ooLol'S anxiety to obta ii a 'supply. of eetton'froin the sotith.E: He, can care _truth, lie cleek hot eari.' at all—for the interests of the South. All he wants is cetton, on which the starving ope naives may work. ~ • No. 606 ARCH Street Vrtss. TIIURSDAY, - JANUARY 1; 1863 Cotton Fai.niWe in France. Imperial Courts.* The Riverside . - Bress, at which 114.'„1 - loughton emulates the exquisite tipoiraphy" of the iambus Baskerville, has not produced-a finer volume than "Imperial Courts," edited by W. IL Bidwell, New,. York. The paper- and typography*are . ..,cif Beaton, - the binding and publication are of blew York; the greater number of the engravings are Philadel . phian—Sartain-ly so. .The title-page is richly illu minated in gold, purple, and_ The.' volume, of 427 pages, imperial octavo size, is hand .somely. bound in Turkey morocco, full gilt, slid in Turkey aniique,-and can be sent by mail or express, put up in a neat bOx, without postage or any - other charge to the purchaser. We draw attention 'to. these phrticUlars to show how well adapted this is as a gift-book, this .being the holiday season'when such presents are rife. "Imperial Oourts" are here illustrated by the unusually large number of forty-two engravings on steel, by John Sartain and George E. Perine. They all bear upon the history of six great European na tions—France, England, liuszda, Eruesia, Sardinia; ' and Austria. These illustrations chiefly are por traits of Emperors, Empresses, Kings, Queens, Princes, Warriors, Statesmen, and Cabinet Minis terir, and, in some instances; historic events, as re presented by great artists, are added. The result is a historic gallery , of great variety, which, even with out the explanatory letter-press, is full of interest. Taken in national connection, these engravings are , almost a series. For example, Charlemagne may be said to open the French section. There are three scenes in the Bourbon line, viz : The Condemnation of the Princess Lemballe ; Louis XVI. Threatened by the I►lob on their - Visit to the Tuileries, and, after the famous painting by Paul Delaroche, Marie Antoinette going to Execution; The next scenes are, The Morning of the Eighteenth Brumaire; Napoleon Inducing Pope Pius VII. to Sign the Concordat, and the me lancholy scene of the Divorce of the Empress Jo sephine. Then, from the photographs by Brady, a double portrait of Prince Napoleon and his wife, Clotilde : full-length portraits, by Winterhalter, of Napoleon 111. and the fair Eugenie, and a reproduc tion, after the same courtly artist, of the celebrated picture of the Empress Eugenie and the Ladies of her. Court—namely, five French, one Italian, one English, and one American lady of rank and beauty. The historic illustrations of England are still more numerous, commencing with Queen Philippa in terceding for, the live ‘ e of the Burgesses of Calais, and Richard lll.trying to persuade the Duke of Buck- Ingham. Next we have Henry VIIL flirting with Anna Boleyn, followed by Queen Elizabeth of Eng land, and Itlary of Siotland, and, after Deveria's picture, the arrest of Lady Jane Grey. Here, too, copied from Benjamin West's well-kn Own painting, is Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament. Then succeed a number of portraits : Victoria, with Prince Albert, and the Prine of Wales; Viscount Palmer ston, Duke of WellirtitijicZail — Russell, Marls of Clarendon .nd - .Hebert Peel. There are five portraits of Russian celebrities= the Czars Alexander 1., Nicholas 1., and Alexan der 11., the present Empress of Russia, and Count Orloff. Prussia is represented here by • the reigning King and Queen, and by the Crown Prince and his wife, the Princess Royal of England. Italy shows Victor Emmanuel and Count Oavour. Austria contributes portraits of the Emperor and his wife, and a historic representation of the Empress Maria Theresa con sulting with Prince . Kaunitz, her Prime Minister. Lastly, there is a portrait showing Nasser-ed-Dini, Schah of Persia, in his magnificent robes of state. The Schah, who succeeded his father, Mehemed Schah, in 1849, is only thirty-three years old, and the most cultivated of Eastern monarchs. Such are the pictorial contents of "Imperial Courts." The letter-press, worthy of them, is chiefly • 'supplied by Mr. W. H. Bidwell, who modestly calls himself only the editor, whereas he has written the greater portion of it. There is an Introduction, by Bryant, the poet, which, considering that the vo lume is likely to become a perennial gift-book, not very judiciously alludes to the politics of the day. • Mr. Bidwell has done his own part moat judiciously. Ile has travelled, which gave him the opportunity of seeing a great many of the illustrious - or eminent persons whose portraits he - gives, and whose me moirs he has here supplied. Now and the.; as with the gorgeous coronation of the present Czar and Czarina at -Moscow, he has drawn upon other au thors who had witnessed what they vividly de scribed, but, for the most part, he has himself sup plied the historical and biographical account, and that in a manner which has left nothing to be de sired. His most .successful productions here have been his sketch of Eugenie and her 'Court-beauties,. Napoleon I. on the 18th Brumaire, the sad scenes of the first French Revoletion, and, most picturesque and dramatic of all, the fatal Ambassador's Ball in Paris. Among the- best executed biographies here are those of the Imperial and Royal persons, and of Wellington; Palmerston, Peel, and Count Cavour. ,. To our taste, this is the' best gift-book we have seen this year. It does infinite credit to all engaged, by bead, hand, and capital, in producing it, and is especially creditable to its nUblisher, Charles Scribner 4 • * linperial Courts of Fiance, -England. Russia, Prussia,'Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with Portraits of Imperial Sovereigns and their CabinaMinisters with biographical sketches, and an introduction b William Cullen Bryant. Edited by W. H:' Bidwel l.:One'lrolume imperial octave : pp. xiv. 411. New York; Charles Scribner. Phila delphia ; W. P. Hazard. .1- Mentioning books that are handsomely gof . up, welnust include Dr. 3: G. Holland's poem of " Bitter' Sweet," with some forty-five wood engravings,- by the best artists,• from original ctrawings by E. J.. Whitney. It is a wholesome poem as well as Ei handsome volunie, within and without, and few English pictorial books equal it. Ruth's baby-son,q," " that is the little one thinking about!" in the First- MoVement, is already safe -in ten--thousand heads and hearts.' We only wonder that so good -a poet - as Holland could -put Fatima as a rhyme to dreamer, which is Cockneyish. "Bitter-Sweet," we should add, is another of Mr. Scribner's publications: . .. . :.-. An ,Inipolitie Resolution Of the , School • .• . • Board. e . - .. . • . • . To the Editor of The Press: ~ , • . . , Slit: Feeling a deep interest in the educational system of our city, and having attentively penised the proceedings of thelate meeting of the Board of Control, I propose to call the attention of the public to the following resolution, which, if passed, must greatly impair the usefulness of our public schools, and detract from the general reputation which they pOFBCRS : t , Resolved, That hereafter, except at the examina tion to be held in February, 1863, no pupil shall be admitted to either High School, unless such puliil actually reside, at the time of such examination, in the school section, or the Vicinity of the grammar school from which he or she is sent." • It must be evident that the tendency of this reso lution is to compel parents to send their children' tc the public schools in their own ward. This cer tainly would have the effect to injure the interests of the system, as very many of our citizens, rather than be compelled to send to the vard school, would pre fer sending to private schools. Again, if this resolution were passed, how unjust would it be to those teachers, who, by distin guishing themselves for disciplinary and teaching tact, have gained a wide-spread reputation, and have thus rendered their schools desirablel finder present circumstances, the keeping of the schools tilled depends on, the ability and' labor of the teach ers. Now, if pupils were compelled to• attend the ward school , is it not reasonable to suppose that many' tenehers would not exert themselves to the same extent as they formerly did, and thus the effi ciency of the schools would become impaired? Schools, like business transactions, regulate them- Selves, ns people will buy where they can get the best article for the smallest amount of money; so parents desire to send their children where they can get the greatest amount of instruction in the shortest possible time. , . I hope the Board of Control will pause before adopting the above-mentioned resolution.. Our pub lic schools are the pride of our citizens, who are tie-. sirous of further improvement in them, but will.not look calmly on and see much of their usefulness de stroyed by such it compulsory process as the resolu tion advocates. A CITIZEN. • D EVEN urn: 27, 1862. Aram, 1859, Robert Kenntcott, a young gentle man from Illinois, left Washington as the agent of the Smithsonian Institution, on a scientific expedi: Hon to the Arctic regions, and has returned. He ex: tended his explorations to the interior of Russian America, and nearly to the mouth of the Mackenzie river, and by the numerous agents of the Hudson's Bay Qompany, and 'at alt the posts or factories that he visited; he was treated with the greatest kind; Pees and hospitality. The Collections of specimens in natural history and ethnology which he has been enabled to make are considered more valuable and extensive than the combined collections Of a 1 pre vious explorers in the high latitudes of America, and it is a subject of congratulation that these inte— resting treasures are to find a resting-place in Wash ington. STATES IN REBELL lON. Christmas Raid of the Rebels—The Sault lion of Affairs on thc•Rappahannock and James Rivers—Editorials and Telegraphic Despatches from the Richmond Journals. Prom Richmond papers of the 24th ult. we make the following interesting extracts ANOTHER HAUL UPON THE rANWEES. tFrom th e Richmond Dispatch; Dec. 24,1 On Saturday morning last a detachment of the ca valry of General "Wade Hampton, under the com mand of the General in person, made a rich haul on. a Yankee train in the neighborhood of Ocean:lan, They captured a - train of wagons twenty-seven in number, laden with the choicest articles for the gay, Christmas season. Many of the articles. captured, were lahelled " Christmas presents for Gen, Burn side," and consisted of fine brandies, cigars, and aral,,lndeed, everything calculated to • elevate 'the fallen spirits'of the Yankee chieftain. Besides 'these,lthere was a good supply. a l :sutlers' stores, em bracing boots and shoes, gatintlets v and nearly every other article necessary for the comfort of man during the cold season. In addition., one hundred and seventy. Yankees, Wild were guarding _the train, were made prisoners, and "arrived in this city yesterday. They also cap lured the .notorious John C. Underwood; whohas been acting as a pilot for the Yankees since the 'war commenced in the counties of Fauquier, Prince Wil liam, and others on the. Potomac border. When dis covered he was closely concealed in 'a lady's ward robe, with 'the door locked. -The proprietress of the wardrobe ivas very indignant at. the soldiers who broke open the door and dragged, Underwood from' his concealment. X , 110P11 FREDERIQKSBURG IFyout the liiehmond Dispatch; Dee. 243 The, passengers who arrived in the city, yestei•day afternoon; by the Fredericksburg train, bring us no later information' with reference to.the condition of affairs above. It is stated that all is quiet, and the fact that a bloody.battle has recently' been fought is - scarcely' realized. Our troops are said to be in the , best possible spirits, and ready for any emergency, ,though they do not. contemplate another collision `with the forces - of Burnside very shortly. - FROM THE SOUTH SIDE. • LEPt mu the Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 21] Thursday last three Yankeegunboats ascended the Nottoway and Blackwater rivers,. but were driven back by -the-forces under General. Pryor. They were subsequently-7. reinforced by two. others end at. last accounts the five were lying ten mileS below Franklin, in the Ohowan, and supposed to be preparing for another attack. - - - The' Petersburg Eapress says that the Yankee -ac counts of the recent fight at Zuni and Joyner's Ford make out a much more disastrous 'result to the Yankees than was supposed. Two hundred killed and wounded, _and they opposed by,a raerehandful of ,COnfedprates, was , indevd a glorious result:. THE AFFAIR AT -LEXINGI'OI.7, TENN CILATTAWOOCIA, Dec. 2.3.—A special despatch to the B . ,ebel, from Tuscumbia, December 2.3,- says : .A. - gentlemtin - arrived herd to-day with the corpse of his brother, killed in a fight at Lexington, Tenn., says General Forrest attacked and routed the Fede rals.there on the 18th, capturing a battery, horses, and nil, and four hundred prisoners, five hundred carbines, two hundred horses, several hundred siiddles, and a considerable amount of commissary stores.. The citizens reported the enemy five thousand strong, mostly new recruits. Our loss was trifling. A man here says - the Yankees had returned from ABRIYAL OP UNION PRISONERS IN RICHMOND. EFctim the Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 24.] By a special train on yesterday, from Gordonsville, one hundred and eighty Abolition prisoners arrived, and were lodged in . the' Libby Prison. They were captured a few days ago, by General Wade Hampton, in the, vicinity of Dumfries. THEATRICALS IN RICHMOND 121011mo:co VAnzkvins-LOne door below the Ex change Hotel. Acting and Stage Manager D'Orsey Ogden ' Wednesday evening, Dec. 24, 1862. Third night of the new play of the GUERILLAS COIF FEDERATES. Captain Arthur Douglass Walter Keeble HentyDouglass C. IL .o.lorton Blanton • Douglass • 'G. Morton Lieutenant ogden F: M. Bates 'Wiry Willey .....E. Gorman Jim - Gentry W. T. Wirt Claktun . . G. Beckham Jerry (servant) J. W. Thorpe . Jack E. G. Ishatn Mrs:::Douglass Mrs. C. Deßar Rosc•Maylie - Miss Katie Estelle Ellen Graham Miss M. Jackson Mrs. Raymond • - - - Miss Dunham FED.EX:ALS. MajdrGeneral Fremeont Jas. Harrison Colonel Bradley - H. Smith Fremont's Orderly ' ' R. J. Brown Bill Stokes ' Q. Mariman Wills Joe C. Welton Two'Soris • " Miss Rosamond Oamerosa Dance . Miss M. Partington RICHMOND MONEY 'MARKET RI CI73IOND. Dec. M..=. SPECIE AND BANK NOTES.— QuOations, remain unchanged—viz : Gold, $1.90@ 2.25 preir.iu,m ; ' silver, $1.60@2. Virginia and North Citr . plina bank notes, 25@30c, • South Carolina and GeOgia, 271c.030c. premium. The inside figures re present the buying rates; the extremes the selling rates. ' ; . . A GALLANT IRISHMAN AT FREDERICKS. 7 - - BURG- „. [Frimsbe Itichinoad Whir. Det:-84.1 The4ollowing -extract from a private letter will show: that Meagher met .his match at. Fredericks p_urs\MA-valant son of - the Emerald Isle, Colonel Robert Pdeillillan, of the 24th Georgia. We should like to see McMillan at the head 'of the lamented Cobb's brigade, pitted-against Meagher or Corcoran in an open field : " But the rejoicing ceased for a tune, and mourn ing sat on every countenance, as four' grief-stricken litter-bearers passed down the lines, bearing the heroic Cobb, who had fallen in the first charge of the enemy. Lieutenant Colonel Cook, commanding Phillips' Georgia Legion, was killed at this period of the action. A fixed resolution seemed at once to possess every heart to avenge the death wound given to their general, and it devolved upon Colonel RohertlleMillan of the 24th Georgia Regiment, to lead them in the eflbrt. An opportunity nowoffered. A column, stronger and heavier than the first, was seen to advance.. Flash after flash was seen upon the opposite river bank. Shell after shell fell around us, which were responded to from the heights in our rear. Col. McMillan directed the small arms to cease until the enemy should come within musket range. The artillery continued its thunder, the musketry re- . maining silent, till the enemy came within tire of our shortest range guns. Soon leaden hail com menced pouring from the clouds of smoke before us. The colonel passed along the lines surveying the movements of the enemy, when suddenly, at his command, the brigade rose, and sent . a volley into the ranks of the foe which carried ruin in its way. Again and again was the assault renewed, and again and again was it repulsed with tremendousslaugh ter. For the troops the position chosen wits-an ad mirable one, but on the part of the °Miter who did his ditty, there was required the utmost coolness and courage. This Colonel McMillan certainly_ mani fested. While he was passing along' the line, wav ing his sword, and encouraging his men, they seemed to catch the spirit of their leader, and redouble,timir efforts, while his own regiment turned, in the thick est of the fight, and o nlive him three hearty cheers. Be possesses the confidenee of his troops. They love him, and, if need be, will follow him to the death. f in the battle of I redericksburg.. he won a laurel ' wreath, to which fresh leaves Willtoubtless be added when tie tocsin shall again summon him to the field: NATIONAL . RETRIBUTION (Prom the 'Richmond Dispatch, Dee: 24.3 We do' not believe the history of the world affords , one solitary: example of national sin which has not been followed - brnational retribution. The punish ment of individual tranegreasors may be deferred to a future state. but nations have no future existence. If it could be possible to find an empire Which al ways adhered to the maxims of justice and wisdom, you, should find one whose. power and prosperity would be as lasting as time. The greatest of modern nations, England, will one, day add another name to the long catalogue of laHemempires. She is now in the meridian.of her glory ; but the bloody stains of her Indian conquests and the commercial cupidity Which has made merchandise of the souls and bodies or mankind are not forgotten in the chanCery of Eeaven. Even if African slavery were the gigantic crime which Exeter Hall proclaims it, and even. if the silly delusion of its .fanatics were true, that the South is now punished for the sin of slaVery, what must be the punishment of that nation which intro duced slavery into the. South, which forced it upon • our forefathers in spite of their remonstrances, and which had at one time the monopoly of the slave trade of the world, and whiCh never gave it up till its interests changed its principles? The North need not expect to escape the universal law of retribution which has :visited every nation that di:worded the rights and destroyed the peace of others. — For_all the national Sins, of the United States- 7 and.young as.that country was in years it was old'in iniquity,4t is equally responsible, 0 say the least of it, with the South. In all the filibuste ringof the-old United Statei her agency has been as:grektitif that of the South.. Even in regard to slayeiy, NeW England divide's with Old . England the honor of establishing slavery in the South ; and, if the South, has owned the labor, the North has reaped the Principal share of the profits. "tithe South is re &Wing its punishment, we cannot expect that .the North will escape. At present it is having a very : agreeable time, carrying on a war and feelingnone of its perils at home. It cannot expect, evert upon 'its own favorite idea that slavery is a sin which provokes the vengeance of Heaven, to escape retribution. It will one day have to drink the same bit tercup which is now pressed upon the lips of the South, aggravated 'by the punishment of its crimes in the present war. It is inconceivable that the Almighty should tail to visit - such gigantic wickedness as the present inva sion, and • the. inhuman rand atrocious manner in which it is carried on, with His most signal displea sure. War, such war as even the persecuted South has never yet suffered ; civil war, not sectional, bloody, and 'brutal war of races at its own doors ; war of those who have not against those who have, will yet rage at its own hearthstones, and convert its fairest 'fields into howling deserts. There are men yet living who will see the flames of the first Revolution rekindled in all their homes in the Northern States. If such a community as Fredericksburg, pure and innocent beyond compa rison, are reduced to such suffering, what will be 'the fate of the polluted Northern cities—the So dams and Gomorrahs of a depraved and infidel ,race?... PRESIDENT DAVIS' PROCLAMATION. .CFrom the Richmond Whig, Dec. 24.3 The President has done no act since his installa tion in office more in accord with the popular sense of right • and justice than the proclamation he has issued, denouncing as an outlaw and an enemy of mankind Butler, the Beast, and dooming him to swift and ignominious death should he, by any chance, fall into our hands. This manly and digit,- fled order has our unqualified approval. We regret only that circumstances have so long delayed its 'MC as to create a suspicion injurious to the cha racter of the Executive for nerve, and derogatory to the resoluteness of purpose and vigor of action with which We are waging our contest for independence. The proclamation vindicates the self-respect of the country, and gives warning to the enemy that, thous hJustice may be delayed, they are not to sup poke that their acts of lawlessness and atrocity are. overlooked, or will escape the retributive Punish ment that the laws of God and man affix to the per petration of crimes such as theirs. It is the ardent' hope of all that, in the present instance, the mon ster against whom the proclamation is directed may not escape the fate it designs for him. The ends of human Juitiee will not be attain d if Butler, the Beast, fails to meet a dog's death at the hands of the people whom he has so outraged. Fire at Cineinnkti Twenty Families • . Render& Homeless. • CINCIIINATI, Dec. 31.—A fire broke out last night, at 10 o'clock, in a house at Eighth and Sack streets, occupied by twenty fanciilies, the members of which barely escaped with their lives, losing everything but the clothing they had on their pertions. The flames spread and communicated . fire to three ad- Joining frame buildings, which were quickly do:. stroyed. The loss amounted to $lO,OOO. The Proclamation of Emancipation. In the course of a debate during the:sessions of the House of on the 19th of Decera ber, the Hon, Wm. D. Kelley, Representative - from this city, made the folloviing remarks : Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Chairman, I cannot announce to the House, as the eloquent gentleman from Maryland[Mr. Crisfield], who has just concluded, did, when he began his remarks, that what I ton' about to say is well con sidered and care:idly prepared, for I came to the Houso this morningwith no thought of oecupying any portion of its time and attention. But it scents to me that before the week closes some rejoinder should be made to the various suggestions in favor of pence and compromise,- and of hostility to the acts and policy of tho President of the United States, that we have been hearing from day to day. And, unprepared as I am, I propose to reply to' a few of these suggestions. I can promise that my words shall be honest, frank, and earnest, though my argu ment may lack arrangement. • Permit me to say, sir, that I ant in favor of peace. I was for peace when ,I first raised my voice in this Roam I was then, as I em now, for early and cutleries peace; . for peace on termislionorable to the people of the coun try, and which shall not dishonor the memory of the wise and patriotic men wh o established the independence and unity of our country, and ordained its beneficent institutions. I am, sir, for peace's() secured that it shall prevail for ever over that broad territory which, at the last Presi dential election, was covered by thirty-four State Con stannous, and that which, as Jerritory, belongs to the United States, but which trill -come under the jurisdie tion of States' whose people shall know no sovereignty save that which resides In the Genet Itntion as it came to us from the fathers. low, sir, can such a peace be attained? It can only be done by remembering, first and always, that the supreme law of the land is the Constitution'of. the United States; and that we, Its members of this House, are sworn to support that Constitution; and that the President of the United States ie sworn to preserve, protect, and deltoid it. My theory is, sir, that rights and duties arc timings reciprocal. So long as the people of a State obey the behests of the Constitution. and live in accordance with them,,they are entitled to the enjoy ment of all constitutional rights; So long as they array themselves- against them only in such force that the marshal and' his posse may suppress their violent demonstrations, they are entitled to all those rights, save as the penal code properly applied may abridge them. But when, as has been the • case in the so-called Seceding States, they assemble in or genie conientions and throw off all duty, to the . Go vernment ; when they abjure loyalty and duty, and claim to have established on our soil an independent and foreign Government; when they attempt, in the name, and by the agency of such alleged foreign Government, to create a navy, and do assemble armies to contend will the power of the Government, and thereby banish our customs and postal systeu, and close our courts, they lose their title to constitutional rights, and it becomes the duty of the Government, by whatever force it may require,regain possession and control of the territory occupied - them, and to rule the people occupying it, it ti with such mstile purposes, irrespective of State lines, or State names, or State institutions, or Stateconstitutions. It must maintain the unity of the country; and if the inhabit ants .wilt disregard all. their duties, it must govern them mnder the pi:Mar-of . the Constitution that makes the President Commander-In-Chief of the army and navy of the United States, and that requires him, if so it mast be, by military force to maintain the supremacy of the Go. vernment over every acre of our territory. When su preme jurisdiction shall be thus established, we may soy to whomsoever may occupy the country, or particu lar...' portions of it, adopt -your. State . constitution, whether the one thiti' formerly prevailed or another; open your courts, and let the courts of the United States be opened; let our customs system and our postai sys tem be enforced; avow your' allegiance to our Constitu tion and Government, and, as. you shall perform the du ties, enjoy also the rights of American citizens," Gentlemen on the other side seem to forget that sworn , 'duty, as well as patriotism and. ' the - future welfare and peace of the country, demand the maintenance of the unity - of our territory, and of the supremacy of the power of the United States over it in its entirety. These are things that must be maintained, if We would avoid standing armies and Un ceasing war. Where all duties under the Constitution aro rejected, no rights can be claimed, and the Govern ment must be maintained by force. That is my posi tion, and it is, I believe, the position of the loyal people of the country When I say loyal, I mean it; as I know no Conditions that may accompany its expres— sion. That loyalty which is conditional stretches forth a friendly hand to treason. [Suppressed ars Valise in the gallery.] Indeed, conditional loyalty is partial treason. The President's emancipation proclamation. haa been the subject of , invective and denunciation this morning, and it has been said that no mean in the country, save the President of the United States, believes that it will promote peace. Sir, has territory ceased to be territory ? Do figures still indicate numbers and power? Huts the lesser come, by some new influence, to comprehend the greater ? For, if it he not so, the enforcement of that pro clainatlon will promote peace by aiding in the establish ment of the supremacy of the Government. Has not the question as to whether four millions of stalwart people ' shall labor for user tOr those with whom we are at war, sonic importance, and a direct bearing on the issue? Will its solution, if it transfer them from one side to the other, have no influence upon the power of the rebellion? I believe, with time President, that - it will- There are four millions of brawny right arms, mostly dark-colored, but many of them, through the" fell influence of the hell born institution of slavery, fair as our own ; there are four millions of people reluctantly , giving their daily toil to the support of this rebellion: and on the first of January next, it is proposed by the President to .invite them, as wisdom would have done more than a year ago, to withhold their labors from that cause and bestow them, as they desire to, upon the cause .of patriotism, freedom, and Peace, under the starry flag of our country. Who will tell mile that the transfer of the labor of these people will have no influ ence in suppressing the rebellion? But,asked the eloquent ,gentleman from Kentucky, [Mr. leaman]—whose elaborately prepared speech, I re gret to say, contained, if L heard him aright, a sneer at those who read written arguments—who over heard of a belligerent party taking private property on land ? Let me ask him a question, - to beamswered in some of his future speeches, Who ever heard of a belligerent pro it ibiting,the people of the opposing Power from rallying to his standard ? , lie speaks of property, and I speak of men. It is a great thing, sir, to he a man. Mr. YEANAY. The gentleman will allow me to inter i upt-him Mr. KELLEY. I did not invite an immediate. anawer. As the gentleman guarded himself yesterday, against in terrnption, so did I to-day propound a question to be answered in the future. ' .;; Mr, YE.01. 4 5. Allow me one moment. I answer the gentlemah, by saying tnat I have cast no sneer upon any body, for reading written speeches. 1 answer him, also, by saying that slaves, so far from beinot , Porsolls in the eye et the laws of no EIWIS. as he treats then', while they are actually-permit's, are, by that Constitution which ho has sworn to support, the private property•of private individuals, and that neither under the Constitution, nor under tire laws of nations, can you take private property on.land;ls an act of wan Mr. KELLEY. I take issue with the gentleman there, and if be will say that they are not designated in the Constitution as 'persons, ) !..or point me to the clause in Which they are designated as property, I will yield the point. The Constitution that I have sworn to support tl Ino_ilint_thmr—TA,._tha 2nothers.. the fathom.. and_.. .thee children, all—ard — ritasoxs held to service." They are persons so held by virtue of that Constitution which has been spurned and trampled and spit upon, and yet Ite asks that those who have heaped these indignities upon that sacred instrtunent shall enjoy to the last lota the rights of loyal men under it. Did sane man over ut ter eo preposterous a proposition before? It is the ser vice of these people we need. The proclamation invites thou to our standard.- Mo characterizes them as proper ty. d say, with the Constitution, that they are persons, • and as such' will welcome them to our support. Their advent to freedom will exclude the necessity of the far ther draft or coastal tion of our sons and brothers.. . . ' Sir, I was remar lug that it is a great thing to be a luau, in contrast with }varies, cows, and other cattle with which these poor people afo habitually classitimL , and to which they have been assimilated by brutalizing laws. 'Man chains the lightning, makes the sun'his stir vent, whitens the ocean with sails—his messengers to the poles in quest of knowledge—burdocks its groat waves' with the conunodities which his genius and toil have produced, and which he is exchanging , fur ,others, the products of distant lands; valuable to him. 'From the conflicting elements, fire and water, he generates a vapory power that almost annihilates space, and practically removes mountains and levels val leys ; and, at the close of a life of usefulness, upon the sick bed, lie remembers and reviews the past, 'cheers, counsels, and blesses those about hint, and, looking to heaven, feels that with God he is to live forever. The gentleman looks upon these mil lions of persons as property; so do bad institutions pervert" gentle and generous natures. I say, sir, they are capable of all that ennobles man, and all that en deaii woman to man, and ell that openS•to either the great hereafter and its blessed hopes. It is of these women, these thildrem these men, I speak, and I say that he can point to no case in which a belligerent has refused the aid of such as these when engaged in a war suck as that which now engrosses and exhausts th e energies of this country. Sir, the only thing about the President's proclamation that struck me, as amiss was,that it was not, like the lightning, co take in stant effect. and that its beneficent resat f should be post poned to so distant a day. Are those people, or the relation in which they stand to those who hold them • to service, like cotton, leather, railroad depots, bad whiskey, and other supposed analogous things sug- vested by the,,entleman from Kentucky,: yesterday? .Co, no. Trace hack the laws of war so elaborately described by the gentleman front Maryland (Mr. Crisfield) to-day, and you will find that the invading force' not only has always welcomed acquisitions from the ranks of the enemy, but that, in the- good old clays of chivalry, a herald invariably proceeded to the gates of a besieged town and offered ; immunity and protection to all who ould join the invading Power. Title chivalric example the President's proclamation pledges him to fol low °eche coming in of the glad new year. Let us hail. the auspicious day I comeback to the question with which I started: will the .gentleman from Maryland. (Mr. Crisfield,) wilt the gentleman from Kentucky. (Mr. Yeamau,) will the gentleman from Illinois, (Mr. Richardson,) who so de lights to dance the negro before us in all his various atti tudes ; will any one of. these gentlemen, or of their If anted coadjutors, say that it is not the duty of the Pro sideut to maintain the unity of the country and the' supremacy of the Coustitutiou over all our territory? And if they will not say that, is there one of thorn who will say that he was wrong in thus inviting four millions of the people of the country to abandon rebel lion and rally to the standard of loyalty, peace, and the Constitution ? • No one of them, I apprehend; will say so. Than thiS; in my judgment, mere sympathy with the rebellion could no further go. Gentlemen deny that Slavery was the cause of this war. Let me ask thorn which one ot' the non-Slaveholding.States t from the first, lies proposed to participate hilt, and which one of the slavehohling States has been. free from a desire to pari : ticipate hi it or from overt acts of rebellion? Why is it that prevailing loyalty and treason 'find their boun daries just "here, if slavery be not the controlling in fluence ? I give praise to the Border StateS for all they have done on.the side of the, country,- but I. remember that the first of the troops from.my State. to find service found it in the lower part of little Delaware . ; I remember that Marylanders were the first to shed the blood of Now England in this unholy war m I remember that it is but recently,lf indeed the question be at all settled, that Kentucky has been able to say with assurance that she has given more soldiers to the Union than to the rebel army. All honor and glory to the men of East Ten nessee Mr. W.A.usworurn. Will the gentleman permit me to correct him ? . . Mr. }CULLEN. MIS, Mr. W.iiisweltsm. The gentle Man has , fallen into a very common mistake upon this question of the number of troops furniihml by the people of Kentucky to the cause of the Union and of the rebellion. • Mr: Kam.i:Y. will naive that qumition. Mr. W.Ani;Wottrit. 1 suppose there, have never been seven:thousand men frotu the State of Kentucky in the tebelliiin. Very early in the fall of 7561, we had thirty two regiments in the Union army ; and I understand front our adjutant general that we now have forty-three thousand men front the State of Kentucky in the Union army. I can say, in addition, that from twenty-live to thirty th ousand inhabitants of • Kentucky have borne alms is summer and fall, without pay or compensa tion, in defence of their homes, it is true, but also in do fence of the honor of the Union. _ . EtT.LVX. I had supposed that the question had been recently settled in thvor of Kentucky's prevailing. loyalty. It was, however, vory debatable ground when we last assembled in this HOUFC.; . nod I do not forget the Mot that part of the Kentucky army has boon red by a gentle man woo—brief as is my legislative experience—wit.; MI active member on this floor when I came hero in July of last year. Nor do I forget that General Brecki,nrldge and his forces have been sometimes repulsed by our`arms. Mr. WAPswonTu. If the gentleman from Penusy Ivania will allow mc— . Mr. FCM.I.EY. am simply arguing the point that every s lave :tate has shown large sympathies with the rebel lion, while no free State has gene into it, although many persons in the free States have manifested extreme sym pathies with it. Mr. WAUSWORTM I simply want to correct an error of fact. Mr. KELLEY. I ani not in error in remembering that Gen. Breckiuridge, the late Democratic Vice President, came from Kentucky, nor do I forgot that Mr. Burnett, of this House, WAR a member from Kentucky. I ant not mis taken in either of those facts. Burnett is in the Senate now, I believe, instead of in the field; but he was in the field as a soldier, and was transferred front that-to the Senate, to return to the field when the conclave of trai tors adjourns. But, as 1 was saying, Mr. Chairman, I alive all honor to the men of East Tennessee. The heroic devotion to the Constitution they have exhibited, and the barbarous enmities they hare endured, make a chapter which the people, even of the Southern Elates, will, long years hence dwell on, perhaps, with mingled pride and pain, but with Mom interest than on any other in American history We know how terribly that Stale has been ravaged by the prevalence of the rebellion within its limits. Autt Missouri, which lute elected not only un conditional loyalists, but unconditional emancipation ists to this house, has also been the bloody battle-held in which Missourians have been engaged in either tinny. Hit be not true, sir,.that Slavery is the root of this rebel lion, I ask some inspired • man to indicate its moving cause, for human wisdom cannot detect it elsewhere. ' • Now, can it bo possible, Mr. Chairman, that the . only right so secured on earth that men cannot abjure it, nor Government divest them of it even to save itself in death-struggle, is the right of holding fellow-beings in bondage? The proposition that we have not the right Loin " vitc thesepeople to freedom and our standard involvegJust this theory—that the rebels cannot, by the most flagrant. treason, divest themselves of the right to hold these peo ple in bondage; that the people cannot acquire freedom for themselves, and that no power in the Constitution, or iu the war power. or deducible from history or philoso phy, can relieve them from the duty of assisting the one- Mies of the country to destroy its life. Let the Arguments .be expressed as they may, with all the eloquence and ele gance with which care; and time, and elaboration have . clothed them in the mouths of the • gentlemen from Ken tucky and Maryland (Measrs: Teaman and Crisfield) they come to this.. And until they can demonstrate this extraordinary proposition, they cannot impair the force _of the President's. prociamation;in accordance; as it is, with all law and ell. history, with the best impulses of humanity and the spirit of our charter "of freedom. and with the growing tendency of our age. • The gentleman from Maryland asks, "Will this bring peace'? Will the South ever consent . to come In under such an arrange. TIIREE CENTS ment ?" . SirA do notproPeee to. nor ought the Governnient to ask, the South on what terms it will COW in. What the Government ought to do, and what 1' trrest it will do, is to go straightforward and establish its power by climbing out au - armed resistance, and when that is done, let it govern tho region as is Territory, if the' PCO - will uot establish their owl!' govornmeut, title condition let the contumacious remain, but whenever they will establish governmentir for themselves, adopt State Constitutions. open the courts, elect Legislatures,. and by theta and the potpie elect Senators audmembers of Congress, receive them again as Stites into tire' Unien, under such designations as toy may choose, Whether newel or familiar. By this means the' forms and vital principles of our Government will be pre-* served, and peace and constitutional freedom be se cured to the people of distant ages. Whenever this Government putts forth its power to the end that it is bound to assert, there will be no question as to whe ther we mean to violate the Constitution, •or whether the people of the South will accept the constitutional terms we offer them. But," said the gentleman this morning, "will the Border States tolerate it ?" To be sure they will. True, many of their citizens may dislike to see the Southern market closed against their human cattle ; but the rebel lion has gone so far that, with theist ofJanuary, slavery dies south of the Border State line ; and when there is no market for men, women, and children south of Virginia and Kentucky, slavery will have small value in any of: the Border States. 1 think I see the hand of God in these movements. The events of the time are deplorable, in deed ; but I know that Ills providences are inscrutable, and that. lle can make the folly and wrath of man to aise Him. I had long seen that if the Democratic party' could continuothe misrule which it had enforced on the People for years,• and especially its aggression upon the rights of the laborers of the country 'war would come which would be at the door oa t every man's home. Let us look at it. "'A house divided against itself cannot stand," quoted my' friend from Maryland, with grave deprecation. Ditrnot the leaders of the South divide our' house ? Let us look at it. Go where you will, Mr. Chairman, in our Northern States, you 11nd the Constitution of the United States taught in our elementary schools, and its democratic 'Writ every where inculcated. You find our youth growing up at true foot of the hustigs; and the great doctrine taught to every child is, "you are as good as any other' child. When you come to manhood you are to be the equal, before the State, of every other man. You must watch, guard, and maintain all your rights." Thus is the democratic sentiment stimu lated 'in every school, -from • every lecture stand,- at every' political gathering ; 'and the 'political sen timent of the whole North is that of Individualism and equality. And once in seven days comes the. Sabbath; and from hillside end. valley, from-the lanes and alleys, as well es from the broad 'streets of the city, the children gather in the church and Sunday school. There they learn that Christianity enforces while it refines and ex alts the doctrinen inculcated in the secular -school; thus the religious . sentiment adds its greater power to the `These poor are as good as you," says the teacher. "These blind, and lame, and halt are the children of your Father ; and inasmuch as you do kind ness unto them, you perform your duty to Him." Thus the political and religious sentiments blend ; and theirs is an ever-growing power. Of this we have ample evi dence all over the North in the elaborate comforts of our eleemosynary institutions, and the care that is taken of our prisoners: I had the honor, a few days ago, to receive a number of voluines from our Philadel phia Prison Discipline Society for the Congressional Library. The deaf, the dumb the blind, the insane, are cared for. homes 'are established for friendless child ren, wherethe waifs of society, the 'offspring of the des titute and the fallen, the pauper and the felon, are cared for, and reared in these teachings of democracy and Christianity. Thus the sentiment spreads, and deepens, and grows. We have one institution in •the North, the outgrowth of the perpetual contest between labor and caiiltal, that, could the South have carried its domination a little fur ther, would have inatiO war and bloodshed , over the whoe country,' It consists of hardy working ineu, and known as the trades union. We at the North live by wages. Our men are familiar with toil; our women do not shrink from it. We recognize the maxim, as true to day as the day when it was first written in homely Buglieh: t " Man labors from sun to MU, But woman's work is never done." We all labor, and wages is the foundation of the wel fare and abundance of our people. The idea that induced this rebellion, and the supremacy of which could alone have averted it, was that slavery should he not only ex tended into the new Territories of the country, but be domesticated in' ll the States. It was first to be intro duced into the States by gentlemen in_transiter, with their colonies. The roll of ' Mr. Toombs' slaves was to be called at the foot of Bunker Hill. We Were told in social intercourse in Philadelphia; by Mr. Yancey, that he would yet visit Independence Hall with his slaves. The re-establishment of the right to hold slaves all over the country was the Purpose of the leaders of our "wayward sisters." Nothing less would satisfy them. Sir, had that thing been accomplished, the trade unions of the North would either have throttled the slaveholders, or, under the influence of the prejudices of caste and color, throt tled the unhappy slaves, perhaps both. Here let me notice the remark of the gentleman from Maryland, that he does not agree with either of the two factions. Of what factions does he speak? The Governments of the Union and the Confederacy? Sir, it is the first time I ever beard the Government of the United States de nounced as a faction in the Halls of Congress. Nor aro they who are devoting all their energies to the support of the President and the Constitution, to be denounced as a faction. Hook in vain through this House for two factions. I me° that the Government, with a million of men, defending itself, and attempting to enforce its laws over its own dominion, puts been resisted by a body of armed rebels, and that those who sympathize with them, in a greater or less degree. are attempting to embarrass it; but other faction I have not been able to discover. There were two factions before the war broke out. Anterior to that event there was a body of men in the North who, under Christian impulses, believing it to be a duty to labor for the oppressed, and believing it to be a crime to hold men and women in bondage, were willing to violate all civic restraints in order to give freedom, culture, and hope to the slave. The Abolitioniets may have been entitledto that epithet. And there were Sontltun men, on the other hand, deter mined; as I have iudiWed, to carry their institutions all over the North; to make slavery national by perverting, the Constitution. There were then two factions: devotion to right and justice, perhaps not restrained by a proper prudence ou the one hand ; and love of lucre, power, and lust, that blotted out all sympathy with humanity, on the other, characterized the leaders of these factions. Bad the Southern faction been permitted' to !dominate until the roll of Southern slaves had been called in every county in every .Northera -State,' there would have broken out a war—a war coextensive with the country, and bloody—at every hearthstone; a war which might have been of races, or in which those who claimed their human' property would have suffered with their nu happy and proscribed chattels. The white men of the North, who, from their own hard-earned and hoarded wages, will support their unemployed craftsmen rather than let him work for under wages, would hardly have permitted men to work beside them for nothing, and throw their babies as property into the scale with their unrequited toil. [Laughter.) Sir, I believe this war was inexltable. The insane am bition and mad, craving lust of the South could be checked alone by the results of war. It had closed its ears hernletically against the.voice of persuasion or rm.- son. Ann wits...”-os slavery existed, that ambition and that lust had root. Slavery ilid - Calige' this war. - it was destined to cause war; and, if not put in proce&s of eradi cation, will involve our posterity in war. Is it not fit ting, therefore, that the result of the war shall be the end of slavery? The President's proclamation does not pro pose to touch the institution in the border States. lint, as I have said, 'with the market for the annual crop gone, it will he found to be of no more value in Kentucky than it is now found to be In Missouri, with its free surround ings. And then we will come to what lain prepared to say very few words upon, the compensated emancipation proposition of the President. . . . e The countless millions, the millions of millions that we have heard from the other side aro to be expended in compensated emancipation, will be somewhat reduced when we come to remember that it is only the loyal men of the Border States that we will have to deal with. • Missouri is here,. asking for_ $10,000,000 on condition that she ems neipates her slaves within a little more thau a year. In God's.name, let ns give it to her; and if Ken tucky and Maryland make the Caine claim lot us give it to them, and pity onrfull share out of the results of our "own bard labor at the North. Let us even, by au addi tion to our already grievous burden of taxes, imposed by this war—slavery's own offspring—share lle losses of those whose ElaveN shall be exalted into freemen. _ . . s.. But, say the gentlemen, the proclamation is nuconsti tutional and illegal, and therefore void. I fear self-in terest blinds some of them. It is a professional maxim that he has a tool for a client who takes charge of his own . case. Certainly, .no disiuterested lawyer will dis pute the validity of the proclamation of the Commander in -Chief,-inviting to our flag people of the rebel States, and promising them protection and the enjoyment of constitutional rights. But Will the proclamation be enforced ? Yes, I say that is certain as the coining of `ho new year. I ask, then, the gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Yeoman), and the gentleman front Marl - land; (Mr. Crisfield)r to pause in the career they open by their speeches of yesterday and testily. Both profess truly,. I doubt not,, to desire Peace ; hoth assure us that they ould give -utterance to no words that would add to the discord of the country. Let them, then. look the facts in the face. Gentlemen; do :you not see that time and-Providence are conspiringwith man to put an end to the sole source of discord. to the eoun try? Do you not see that it was this institution which cre ated divisioneven in the Convention that formed our Con stitution? Do you not see that it has been this insti tution that,. from the early settlement of the country .down to the present time, has produced more of discord than all other causes combined. The eloquent gentleman from Kentucky yesterday as serted that this rebellion had been ripening from.KOS.. agree with him that that was one staud-point in its pro gress. The resolutions of KOS marked a now epoch. But if he will go further back„he will find,in the debates of , the Couveut ion which framed the Constitution,a.bundant evidence that slavery WaS, And had been, a source of dis cord, and that it came Well nigh preventing the establish ment ofa Union. It has been a source of discord, and of discord only; never was it' a blessing to any Stale or people. 1 have no special love for the negro. I am:proud of the race of which, by the blessings:of God„I am a member. It is not for the 'negro that I plead. The gentlernan from Illinois (Mr. Richardson) the other day said.that all our sympathy andall our action was for the negro,.but not one thing did.we proposeto do for the white man. Has he never heard of the creatural MAN? I speak for man, the-child of God, irrespective of the color of his skin. Look at the baneful influence of slavery upon both white and black. You point -me to statistics from the North to show.that poverty and crime prevail with the negro there undue proportion. Ipoint you back to your laws that made it a felonr to teach him-to read. and :Write, by which hednight lave drawn moral pre cepts and power from the same sources that your white children draw them. I point back to the fact that you have never. allowed him the stimulus of hope. I .say. that your accursed institution, and the cruelty and de pre-anon inseparable froinoit,..have not- only tilled our jails With your Victims, but has brought poverty to both races wherever it. has existed, Why is it that Masse s chusetts, whose SWISS SO thin that the rocks peep through nearly every-acre, like the knees and elbows through a beggar's garment—Massachusetts, which cannot raise Wheareneingh per annum to feed her own people for a week, is yet rich and populous; while Maryland, abounding in apicaltural and mineral resources, to a degree that few States can compare with, lags constantly dragging in the rear ?*'' Why is it that old Firginin, possessing, as site did, the,, 'fluest harbor slid leading seaport of this country , at the time of_ the adoption of the Constitution, with nobler rivers than flow through any other State; with mineral resources that California herself might envy—untold wealth of iron and coal to encourage and stimulate the influx of intelligent and enterprising people; lying nearer. to the West than any other State with flue har bors ; with every blessing that . God could lavish upon a territory; why is it, I say, that the Old Dominion has sunk down and down, until her own children turn from their proud pre-eminence, and sneer at her decrepitude? Why it was because you, lords of the suit converted man Into property. was because you banished hone from your laborers; beca use °yen did not permit the toiling mother to love the child she had biros with as ssurance that it was hers, even through childhood. It is this which has made you poor notwithstanding your mineral deposits, your rivers, :Ind your vast agricultural resources. You have made the negro a curse to you; for God never permits a great wrong to go unpunished. When, in another year, Congress assembles in these 'halls, there will be no pictures drawn such as the gen tlemen have furnished us with, alumna desolated or de stroyed, women ravished, masters murdered by slaves converted into .freemen, stud grateful for the greatest 'blessing of life. The voice of thanksgiving and praise will conic from every heart io whom freedom has been 'given. It will coins from the white man as well as the !freed.slave, in tones ofpraise and hallelujah. There is, however, one thing the people of the re !hellions States have to guard against. Of that they mast beware. Let them nut undertake to re-enslaVe the ft eftl awn that the President of the United States delivers by his proclamation, or woe may betide them. Let them not thns invite the horrors of St. Domingo. The voice of histoi y admonishes them fully out this point. If they de, it will be their act, and not the President's or ours. He will make them free, and they will rejoiCe in their 'freedom, and be humbly grateful. Not iu the hour of joy and gratitude, and when singing praises for their . deliverance, is the tiger let loose in man. As . 0011 will have wrought this change, Ile will guide it. Bat let maul attempt to reverse Iles Providence, anti who shall answer for his folly? T extract the following from a letter dated Williams port, Maryland, Nov. 27„1932., addressed to me by an Offi cer of n Maryland regiment. The writer Is a native of that State: 'While I am writing you, I cannot refrain from mak ing a statement or two wttb regard to the topography or this. part of ilinryland. Doubtless, you have a correct knowledge of it generally, and, perhaps, in. detail, but no one can know and appreciate it without travelling over it and ihrough it. • - 1• have gone over it some in re connoitring: lit there are, of course, many peculiari :ties which I have not seen. Its fertility is unsurpassed, .but its chief characteristic scents to be its boundless terrier-2.)mile% To say nothing of the Patapsco, Mono csuy, Middletown Valley. creek, Antietam, Conoco cheague, and many other large streams, you meet, al most at the end of every . mile, a stream sufficient to run a gang Of mills. As I ride over this country, the ques dolt comes up in my mind, eau it be Possible that Provi dence ever designed that these mighty waters should run to wake, or that these wonderful natural faci lities should always be. unavailable? And the an swer 'comes back—no! The day will:come when the 'bimy, bum of the factory and the mighty blows of the fortMdianimer will be heard among those mountains; .when the*exhaustless treasures Which are hidden there in shall be brought forth ; and when thousands and thoomods of glad hearts and merry voices shall shout a hearty welcome to a new era. This, too, is is cdr rent answer. To accept anything-else would he equi valent to an acknowledgment that God never designed Intel lgelICC and industry to have any part in mundane affairs.". ' WORT.I3IY PROMOTION.—Sergeaut Major George N. of Calla' Zouavea, has been pro moted to the rank of second lieutenant for bravery thsplayed at the battle of Fredericksburg. Mr. Cullin was formerly an operator of the Police and Fire-Alarm Telegraph. THE WAR PRESS. CPUBLLSIEED Tun 'Plea Panes will be sent to subscribers by mail (per annum in advance) at 82.00 Five " 64 0.09 Ten " " • 1.8.00 Twenty Copies" 3%011t Larger Clubs than Twenty will be charged at the same rate, $1.60 per copy. The rconev must always accompany Me order, graf In no inetavoe can these tows be cloo r tat4from as theft afford very tittle 'more than the cost of the pciPer. *Jr Postmasters are rettnuated to act as Agenhi for Tau WAR Passe. IMF. To the getter-up of a Club of tea or twentY, adt extra copy of the Paper will be given. ' ' Special Meeting of Common Council:, The Case of Thomas J. .Didlield. A special .meetine of Common Council was held' yesterday afternoon, the object of which was uw cleratood to be to act upon the report of the Dufflebit Committee. At three o'clock it was found that, though a quorum was present, there was not a full attendance of the Dethoeratic members. Netters. Tian and Bower, who were abaent, were imme diately sent for; but they could not be found, we pre sume, for, at five o'clock, Mr. KERR called the Chant• ber to order, and the absent members had not yet reported themselves. The opposition were all pre sent, including Mr. Duffield, but, on roll call, they refused to answer to their names. Tile President decidedlliat there was no quorum present. Mr. Baucinn moved take a recess for fefte-ut minutes.- Mr. FRIIEMAIT moved an amendment, that the' Chamber adjourn. Not agreed to. Mr. liarger , s motion was not agreed to. The members remained• in their seats, when, at: half past six, Mr. Bower crime in, and the roll was again called. The President stated that there was a quotas' voting. The call fer the meeting was read by the Clerk. Mr. LEIGH then moved 'to adjourn. . The yeas and nays being called, the result was SA' nays, yeas, none ; the opposition refusing to vote. Mr. Quiz; then submitted the report of the ma jority of the committee. It opens with a long, tis dious dissertation on the rise and fall of municipal corporations, feudal tyranny, Roman glory, Grectav civilization, Magna • Charts; &0., &c. It critieises Lord Coke, Kent's Commentaries, De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, and then proceeds as fol.-' lowa Strongly imbued with -these principles, with the importance of our municipal right and with a dent determination that the laws - should be vindicated and that justice should prevail, we approach this CA SC. By the evidence herewith submitted, it appears that Mr. Thomas J. Dultield•hss been since June or July last, occupying the position, and performing the duties of Superintendent at the United States Arsenal, at Philadelphia. This fact was testified to' by the witnesses, as well for as against Mr. DuffichL It was also shown that he had an office at the arse nal in which he has two clerks and a messenger to assist him • that his salary was one thousand dollars a year. Thata he has under his charge and oontrol, from five hundred to one thousand men as the exi- • gencies of the department might require. The evidence also shows that the person who pre ceded Mr. Duffield in the partial discharge of the duties now performed bytim held the position for twenty-nine or thirty years. The foregoing statement of facts is deemed sulk eient for the purpose of this report. They are se lected because they are undisputed by Mr. - Duffield. Assuming, then, these facts to be true, it is con tended by Mr. Duffield 1. That Common Council has no jurisdiction_ 2. That the subject is res judicata. 3. That it is not an office. 4. That it is not an office within the meaning of the law. 5. That a United States officer must hold his office by appointment from the President, or by virtue of an act of Congress. The report expatiates on these five points, ant concludes with the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Common Council do now pro ceed to consider the case of Thomas J. Duffield upon the evidence taken by direction of Council. Resolved, That Common Council, having heard and considered the case of Thomas 3". Duffield,.adjudge and determine• that the said Thomas J. Duffield, having accepted an office and appointment of trust and profit under the Government of the United States, incompatible with his office and services as a member of this Council, has thereby resigned his seat therein, and this Council do hereby declare, adjudge, and determine that the seat of the said Thomas 3. Duffield, late a member of this Council, is and has been vacant since the month of July last. The Minority Report. Mr. CAVIN submitted the following minority re port : The undersigned falling to agree with the ma jority of the committee proceeds to give his reasons for such disagreement. The very question under consideration has al ready been adjudicated by the Court of Common Pleas; and such of the members of this body as voted to declare the seat of Mr. Duffield vacant have been peremptorily commanded by said court to cease obstructing "the said. Thomas J. Duillad from ex ercising the duties of the office of a member of Cow inon Council and to restore the name of the said Thomas J. Duffield to the roll of said Common Council, and him to the said office therein, and to all the rights and privileges thereto, and to allow hint to erform the functions thereof." 'ow, to carry out the views of the majority would be doing the very reverse of this peremptory com mand of the court, and place every member voting in favor thereof in direct contempt of court, and liable to be punished. therefor. The judgment of said court is either right or wrong; if right, it should be obeyed without hesitation; if wrong, it may be re viewed and corrected•in the Supreme Omit ; but cer tainly no authority can be.shown for appealing frost the decision of the court to this body, whioh the • adoption of the views of the majority_ would vir tually be. These views are based exclusively upon and justified by thejudgment of the court in the • premises ; and I might, with great propriety, rest the case here without going further; but inasmuoh as the majority do not seem to regard that judgment as conclusive, it may not be inappropriate in use to add my views also. Has this body the power to judge of the disqual(fica tion of a member, even supposing the position which he holds to be incompatible with that of Council man'? Tch do so, it must show that such power has been expressly delegated. to. it by the Legislature, or some provision of the Constitution, for it certainly does not inhere in it. The body itself is a cress. ture of legislative creation. 'Miele is the jurisdio tion conferred for us to judge of the disqualification of a member? We search in vain for it in the or ganic law. Nor do we find, it in the Constitution, or in any act of Assembly of the Commonwealth. In point of fact or law it nowhere exieta,-and for us to - oit-in-judgmc".t - nriCiltithe diaviudifica/ion of a mem ber would be usurping a jurisdiction which we do not possess. The error into which the majority have fallen con sists in their confounding. our right "to judge and determine the qualification. of our members with the supposed power to pass upon the disqualification of a member.' The word " disqualify ," "disqualified," or "disqualification," nowhere exists in any law touching the organization or power of Councils,and, except for that clause in the organic law which gives the right to judge and determine upon the qualifications of our members,. we would not even possess that privilege ; for all powers .not expressly delegated to us, are reserved to the people of the several wards, to be adjudged and determined in case - of dispute by the proper courts of law.. The organic law requires that members " shall have the same qualifications as are required by the Constitution of this Commonwealth for members of the House of Representatives." The qualifications of a member of the House of Representatives are • defined that he shall be twenty-one years of age, a _ 'citizen of the State three years and the last. year next preceding his election an inhabitant of the dis- trict from which he was elected, &c. Had not Mr. Duffield all the qualifications to -ad mit him to a seat 1 Theipajority in this Chamber fay that he has sineebecome disqualified. The report argued that, even if that qualification (listed, this body have not the power to pass upon., that disqualification. Toe testimony before the committee shows that Mr. Duffield holds no office disqualifying_ hint. from l.olding the office of councilman. Both reports were laid on thetable.. Mr. LEIGH submitted a petition, from. citizens of ,the Eighteenth ward, againstithe expulsion of Mr. Duffield. • 'Messrs. Moore, Cotten, Freeman, Harper, and . others submitted similar. memorials. Mr..Lziou moved that. the consideration of the resolutions and report of the majority of the com mittee be postponed, and made the special, order of the 'day at 4 o'clock Friday. lie held. that the matter now before the Council was of the moat:- serious importance, involving a principle • of a vital character. Mr. Qurs contended that, as every member of- Council had already made up his mind on the sub ject, nothing could be gained:by the delay. • Ildr. FREE:VAN said the testimony submitted: was of such character that no conclusion could be arrived at, unless time was afforded for its examination. Air. LEIGH remarked that, as he was present du— ring the examination before the committee, he could say that, so far as Col. Crobinfin , s. testimony was concerned, it is entirely different in the report sub mitted today. His position is merely that of fore— man of laborers at the arsenal, his name being, like - that of other laborers on the pay-roll. lie holds .no commission from the President or from any of the. heads of departments. That ha is-not an officer is.. too plain to admit of a doubt ; nor would it be al leged or pretended that he is such were it not for the • fact that the two political parties- are so nearly balanced in Councils as. to make• Mr. Duffield the • pivotal man in the organization and in. the election of the heads of departments. II such an expedient is to be justified Of: the law, is to be defied, and the decision of the court con temned, sad,- indeed, is. oun• condition.. The adop— tion of such a course would indicate a spirit•of re-. hellion "as rampant as that which rules triumphant in the Southern portion of our country. The report cited in conclusion the case of Daniel McCleary, master plumber of. the navy yard, who was also a Councilman. His case wasexactly,simi lar to Mr. Duffield , s, and the Council of 1856 ruled that Mr. McCleary was not a disqualified...member.. The motion to postpone was not agreed to. Mr. FREEMAN moved to adjourn. Not agreed to. The question being on the resolutions of the com— mittee, Mr. LEIGH' asked the chairman of the committee whether Colonel Crosman's testimony. wasscarefally reeprded. Mr. Qum replied triat it was carefully. taken down by a clerk, and the committee had not seen it till they heard it read. Mr. CATTELL, who was also present at the in-_ .vestigation, stated that he believed the facts gene-. rally to be correctly roported,.though it was highly • colored to the prejudice of Mr. Duffield. Mr. laitreat thought-that it was.useless to reason, with the majority of; this Chamber on the subject for it appeared that, right on wrong, Mr. Duffield.. .was to be excluded. Mr. LEIGH said that Mr. Duffield might , be•ex- - pelled, hut the next Councils, which will be for the • People's Party, will recognize Mr. Duffield as. member. Mr. Q1:11N moved the previous. question; and, on the question, Shall the main question be put? the - yeas were 22 and the noes 14. Carried. On the main question,the•yeas. and nays were as.. follows : Ykas—Messrs. Adams, T. F., Barger, Barnes,. Brinkworth, Hallowell, litenry, Huhn, - Hulsernsa, Layer, Loughlin, Mcalosky, McDonald, Paul Quin, Shern Sites,. Smith, Spence,Sutton, Tomlinson, Wolbert, Wright, Kerr, presient-23. NAYS—Messrs. Adams, A. W. Baird, Bower, Cavin, Duttleld, Freeman, Harper,'Hodgdon,Leigh,. Moore, Peale, Buhl, Sulger, Trego-14„ • • , Agreed to. CATTELL asked the president if he. decided that a simple majority could eject a member from, the Chamber. The president refused to,auawor the. question. Adjourned. CAUCUS NOMJNATIONS.—The. Democratic members of Common Council have marle.thefollow-.. ing caucus nominations for 1863 : President—Wilson Kerr. Clerk—Philip H. Lutts. Assistant Clerk—lsaiah H. Butler. Itlessengera—Jos. A. Taylor, Hugh Coffin& These nominations were unanimous. The People's party of the same Chamber have not yet caucused. I'. A. Trego will probably be re— nominated as President. The Democrats Of Select Council also met rester-. day afternoon and made the following nominations: President—S. G. King. Clerk—Emanuel Bar. Assistant Clerk—Horace M. Martin. Messenger—Henry J. Fougeray. We are informed that there was a full attendance of the members of Select Council. Mr. Oatherwood was not present, and Mr. O'Rourke was. Mr. P. Brightly, though invited, was not present. Bunnuco PERSTITS.—For the month end ing yesterday, the number of permits issued for new buildinge: Fcc., were as follows : Dwellings, three story, 42; two-story, 30; one-story, 2. Total, 74. Stores, 2; stables, 4; factories, 2; office, 1; ice -houses, 2; shops, 2; dye-house, I; slaughter-house, 1; engine houses, 2; drying-house, 1-92. Alterations and ad ditions, 8. Total, 100. The number of permits is sued each month of the year was as follows : Jam s ', wry, 4; February,. 16; March, 217; April, 368; May, 366; June, 238; July, 335; August, 267; September, 170; October, 292; November, 120; December, 100.
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