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" BAG "
MANUFACTORY.
i; It LAP BAGS, OF ALL SIZES,
FOR CORN, OATS, COPES, BONE DUST, Sic
ALSO,
SEAMLESS BAGS.
,standard makes, ALL SIZES, for File . oheap. for net
o .li on delivery
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L
QEAMESS BAG. • .
2,x(x) CANADA A, all Cotton,l7 ounces.
3,03 OZARK'S, I •
CM KELLY'S, " "
1.0 AMOSKEAG C. "
SO HAMPDEN E., half Cotton.
Her halo low by •
GRIGG & LIARNISTEA.D,
BERCHANDIZE BROKERS, '
JODI No. 21 STRAVirBERRY:Street
COTTON -YARN.
BTPERIOR COTTON YAW, No. 10,
FOR SALE BY
NEOT.HINGH4M & :WALLS. •
5132 , iszkir v —ma .A-7, 14.. R D h it
HUTGIIINSON, . • •
No. 112 ONESTNIIT STREW
OOMMISSION MERCHANTS ;
FOR THE SALE OP
PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODE!.
4826-8 m
ATLANTIC COTTON MILLS.
BHEETINGS AND SIIIRTINGS.
CHARLES AMORY, JR., & 00.,
IWO .CHIIRCH ALLEY,
PurLeDnpur
1,2)51:i I,teliki : I 0,1 DFAII
SIN GEIV S
SE WING MACHINES,
Tor Fatally Sewing and Manufacturing Purposes.
810 CHESTNUT STREET.
ialS ym
WHEELER & WILSON
SEWING MACHINES,
6218 CHESTNUT STREET,
O-2.53m PHILADELPHIA.
•
THE WILCOX & GIBBS .• •
• •
AUTLY •
SEWING MACHINES
bate been greatly improved, making it
ENTIRELY NOISELES..
tad with . Self-adjusting Remmers, are now ready for Bald
by PAIRBANIES &
715 ClißSTNirr- Street
CLOTHES - WRINGERS.
THE GREAT CLOTHES WRINGER.
if
PUTNAM
SELF-ADJUSTING CLOTHES WRINGER"
A warranted to be superior to any other in cule.
EVERY FAMILY SHOULD POSSESS A
CLOTHES WRINGER.
8EC1A3783,
Idld. It is a relief to the hardestpart of washing-day.
. It enibles the washing to be done in one-third less
ane.
3d. It saves clothes from the injury always given by
tifisting.
4th. It helps to wash the clothes as well as dry them.
WE BELIEVE IT ADVISABLE TO PROCURE
ONE OF THIS HIND I
11410A1782,
FIRAT. The rolls being of vulcanized rubber, will
bear hot and cold water, and will neither break nor tear
off buttons.
beconn. The frame being of iron, thoroughly gal
venizsd, all danger from rust is removed, and the lia
bility to shrink, swell, split, Sto., so unavoidable in
Wooden untoitines t is prevented.
THIRD. The spiral springs' over the rolls render this ma
chine self-adjusting, so that small and large articles, as
Wail CA articles uneven in thickness, are certain to rth
aeiva uniform pressure. •
Fonnyn. The patent fastening by which the machine
lc tightened to the tub, we believe to be superior in aim
?licity and officious, to lintloLorra&--
Firms. It will bterantisciiloiln orsAttlaro.trdm one-
SW to onolind-a-goirter Whoa -ha •thlOmeoe, without
the least alteration.
RriTAIL
No. t, 86.00 Tro:2, 85.00.
13 - • Agents wanted in every county.
Sir Reliable and.energetio men will be liberally dealt
with:
For Sale at the
"WOODENWARE.ESTABLISHMENT"
A. H. FRANCIigOTJS;
No. 433 MARKET St. and No. 13 North FIFTH St..
7a13-tuth9'tmbB' ' Wholesale agent for Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM YARNA.LL,
DIALER rN HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 1020 CHESTNUT STREET,
Agent for the sale of HALEY, MORSE, St BOYDEN'S
PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING
CLOTHES-WRINGER,
Believed to be the beat CLOTHES-WRINGER in use.
It wilt wring the largest Bed Quilt or smallest Hand
kerchief drier than can possibly be done by hand, in
very much less time.
N. B.—A liberal discount will be made to dealers.
n0.3.3m
CABINET FURNITURE.
CABINET FURNITURE AND BM.
LIARD,TABLES.
•
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 261 South SECOND Street,
In connection with their extensive Cabinet Badness, are
DOIT manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES, ••••
And have now on band IMP R OV E DI p C U SHIONSth the
MOORE & CAMPION'S which
Ire pronounced by all who have used them to be mge•
riot to all others,
For the quality and finish of these Tables the manna
hctorers refer to their numerous patrons throughout
the Union, who are familiar with the character of their
Work. strl3-43m
MIMVrI MR.'nM
ROBERT SHOEMAKER & C o.i
Eorthesst Corner Fourth and RACE Streets.
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
EOREIGN ADD DOMESTIC.
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS,
MANITFACTURERS OP
WHITE LEAD AND, ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY. &a.
sauna FOB, TUB OIMEBRATIIII
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealers and consumers supplied at
tio274m VERY LOW PRIORS FOR GABEL
CAUTION.
The vrell-earned reputation of
FAIRBANKS' SCALES
Rat induced the makers of imperfect balances to offer
theakas " FAIRBANKS' SCALES," and purchasers hays
kliereby, in many instances, been. subjected 'to fraud. and
iwpoettloa Fairbanks' Scales are manufactured Only by
the original inventor's, B. St T.' FAIRBANKS at CO., and
ikre adapted to ,overy branch, of the business. where a
morreca and durable Scales is desired,
FAIRBANKS & SWING;
General`Agents,
1014( MASONIC HALL, 715 CHESTNUT ST,
517 ARCH STREET.
C. A. VA.NICIRK CO.
Have on hand a fine assortment of
CHANDELIERS
AND OTHER
GAB FIXTURES.
Also, French Bronze Figures and Ornaments, Porcelain
oari Him Shades, and a variety of
FANCY GOODS
WROLERALE AND ` RETAIL.
Please call and examine goods. "Mr
11E RRI N S
F RANKLINITE IRON DRILLED.
:From New York Journal of Commerce, of Jan. 8,1808.]
UNDERSIONBD were preiont - -at an experiment
r the Purpose of testing the drill-proof qualities of a
r opto ofIFRANKLINITE or CRYSTALIZED IRON, left
1 ; 1 th the Manhat tan Bank of New York, by a HER
-11;/.0 St CO., as drill-proof. The Iron'was tested with vats
d (%) inches in diameter, *tad Wats
-.Jed readlirin our preseitte.
W3I. L. jA.COBS,
EDWARD BURNS.
GILBEIiT LAKE.
J an . .4.18a3. jala.tntits-et
5 OASES MINCH BLABKSTONE
UMBRELLA GLOTTIS.
sale by NATTHE•••• Birt ' SONS,
, Maas.
CRAIIIPAGNE " •AN 1144:PICE
to " rrit,ivicoLa,i'f' andl. treen Soil" o,q t riftiOnne
1/7 • ' •
203 and ' • Sreet.
VOL. 6.-NO. 144.
UP STAIRS DEPARTMENT.
BOYS'• CLOTHING
LADIES' CLOAKS,
READY MADE OR MADE TO ORDER.
COOPER ib OONARD,
Jabtfel S. IC COB. NINTH and-lILLEICIT
JAMBS R. CAMPBELL & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND CASH DEALERS IN
DRY C4OODS,
AT'WHOLRBALE AND RETAIL, •••
"7a7 OHESTROT STREET.
Have 3!iatreeetvedisnil• ace now olteglnt. magnificent
lines of ... •
• :1411,1D3;.SHAWLS;141D DRESS GOODS,
• ...
ESPRC-lAILY.ADAPTED TO THIS SEASON.
`, nol-aor •
TRESS GOODS,
_-.-A_T__7l D II C E D PF.I C
5,000 - 1 4 DS.. ;',2IIO:USE P EEIA DXT:daREQ,
.
.• : • OP CHOICE STYLES.
On band, Sazony.:*rinfu . DßESS 9qati . s; itnd
SI cents per : - • • ; • ' • •
OURWEN 5T0.15 aiEtito;,
91150, CM. and 484.1 . 1. SECOND Street:oo , e W)Ilow.
.1417-4 t • • • • • . : • :
LINENS, WHITE GOODS, LACES,
AGENTS.
A fall assortment always on hand at LOW
PRICES.
Just received, lace-trimmed Embroidered and
Mourning Muslin Bows and Beek-Ties, for-the
house and street. Also, all-linen Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs, at hi cents.
Also, all descriptions of Linen Handkerchiefs,
for Ladies, Gents, and Children, at
EDWEN'''HALL k BRO.,
26 Sonth SECOND Street,
Rave reduced the priceslof
Fanoy Silks,
Rich Printed Dress Goods,
Choice Shades of Merinoes,
Beautiful Colors of Reps'or Poplins,
All-Wool De Lathes,
All kinds of dark dress goods
Also, • :
'Fine Long Broche Shawls, - *.f
Open Centre Long Cashmere Shawls.
Rich now styles of Blanket Shawls.
44 Lyons Silk velvets. Me Silk.
TRY GOODS FOR WINTER.
Rep. Poplins.
bench Merinos,
Colored Morisselines.
Poult De Soles,
Foulard Silks,
Blanket Shawle,
Balmoral Skirts,
Black Silks„
Fancy Silks,
Black Bombazines,
•
Worsted Plaids,
Cheap Delaines,
•
French Chintzes,
Shirting Flannels,
Broohe Shawle,
Fine - Blankets,
Crib LESS kets. SHRP BROTH
CHESTNUT and RD:MTH SM.
MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR;
Cassimeres for Bust aess Suits. .
Cassimeres for Dress Suits.
Cassimeres for Boys' wear.
Cloths adapted to every use.
Boys' Clothing, ready made.
Ken's and Boys' Bulls made to order. •
,
BLANKETS..
•
A..tiptop lot at $6.
- .V.Damaged Gray Blankets akin 60 and $3.60.
Horse Blankets—Army.BLanketa.
Domestic Goods at lowest prices. •
• •TABLE LINENS.
Fine Table Damasks and Cloths. •
The famous no wor-loom,Table Linens.
Bargains in 'Napkins, &c., &0.. - •
DRESS GOODS. • - • -
2,631 yards newest styles Delaines at 'Ke.
Blue Reps, Blue Poplins, Blue Paramattas.
Brown Reps, Brown Popl ins , Brown Coburg&
Balmorals at $/76, $3, 7h and 83.60.
OPER & CONARD,
FLN: battier NINTH and MARKET Strea:,
H• STEEL SON: HAVE A LARGE
.• • assortment' Of DRESS GOODS, *table for HO.
LIDAY PRESENTS.
Rich Fancy Silks ; Plain Silks; choice colors.
Plain and Figured Black Silks.
Plain and Figured Rep Poplins. .:
Plain and Figured Merinoes.
Plain Solferino Cashmeres, at 3734 c, worth 62
WINTER SHAWLS, in great variety,
MERINO SCARFS, BROCHE BORDERS.
CLOAKS—Of New and Fashionable Styles, made of
Black Beaver, Frosted Beaver, and Black Cloth.
W
Call and examine our stock. e guaranty to give sa
tisfaction, as we sell nothing but good articles, and at
lower prices than they can be bought elsewhere.
delS Nog. 713 and 715 NorthsTENTH street.
CRIB AND CRADLE BLANKETS.
Large Crib Blankets.
Fine Cradle Blanketa.
lal V/RE & LANDELL, POIIRTEI and ARCH
'PYRE &. LAN DELL; FOURTH AND
A-. 4 ARCH, have a flue stock of ' '
GOODS FOR FAMILY CUSTOM.
. Good Large Blankets.
Good Linen Sheetings.
Good Muslin by the piece.' •
Good Unehriuking Flannels.
Good Fa.st.Colored Prints.
Good Table Linen and Towels.
Good Quality Black Silks. •
Good Assortment Colored Silks. • lel
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
606. ARCH. STREET.
I` .:S • AND .r A-p 50a• t •
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
SUPERIOR QUALIrT, AND AT MODERATE PRICES.
isS-atuth Sza
I'INE SHIRT MANUFACTORY
The subscriber would invite attention to hie
IMPROVED CUT OF SHIRTS,
Which be makes a specialty in_ his , business. Also, con
stantly receiving,
NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
J. W. SCOTT,
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE,
No. 814 CHESTNUT STREET,
• Four doors b flow the Continental.
.HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
Nos. 1 AND 3 NORTH BUTE STREET.
JOHN 0. ARRISON,
Has now In store an elegant assortment of
GENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS,
U. S. REVENUE STAMPS.
A O , ENCY: - FOR THE SALE :Or
UNITED STATES TAX
' STAMPS,
No. 57 South THIRD Street, first door a'boye Chestnut.
A full supply of all kinds of REVENUE STAMPS that
have been Issued by, the Governiaeut for sale iu =entitles
to suit.
A liberal discount allowed on amounts of NO and up.
Wards.
Orders by Mail promptly attended to.
JACOB-lE. RIDGWAY,
No. 57 South TIIIRD Street.
1000 - DOZEN HICKORY SHIRTS.
1,000 do• GI RAR D EI A I T IIIR B TV E .
500 d° ' I "S WALIVO9I r iIIn
500 do.
rris C ITYSLIH SHIRTS;
1,000 do. DENIM OVERALLS.
10,000 PAIRS COTTONADE PANTALOONS.
For sale by
BENNETT, RUCH, &
jalS-lm Mant,fitotarers, 217 CHURCH-ALLEY
A OPPENHEIMER,
No. 231 CHURCH Philadelphia.
CONTRACTOR. AND MANUFACTURER OF
ARMY CLOTHING
Of EveriDesoriPtion..
ALSO. -
TrarrS.
- CAW BLANKETS,
KNAPSACKS,and „
BED TICKINGS FOR HOSPITALS:
MATERIAL BOUGHT FOR KCONTEA6TORS.
All goods ninde wii2 be gasrantied rregulattoi in sizes'
add make..
Orderi of any size filled with despatoit: ja7-tf
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS,
of all numbers and brantlo.4 , eß . t .
Raven's Duck .Awning Twit* of all descriptions for
Tents, Awnings, Trunk, and Wagon Covers.
Also, Paper Manufacturers' Drier Felts, from Ito feel
wide:' Tarpaulin, Bolting. Sail 'Fwine
JO .N W. WilittMAN & do.; - -
.11kY44 , • .102, JOBB& Alley;
nARD PRINTING, 'NEAT AND
CbeaPe at RINGWALTas REOWN'SOLU l i t o ortb
romali bqiew Cheap*.
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RETAIL DRY GOODS.
i~_ . y 1' :y ::~
NEEDLES.
AND
EMBROIDERIES.
WHOLESALE PRICES. JaB-tf
1024 CHESTNUT STREET.
Full Assortment 'of
IN GREAT VARIETX
O. A. HOFFMANN,
Successor to W. W. KNIGHT : .
606 ARCH STREET. 606.
(FORMERLY J. BURR MOORE.)
SCARFS, NB= TIES, GLOVES. age..
In Great Varietir.
HAVERSACK%
PONCHOS,
TUEBDAY, JANUARY 20, 1863.
James Dwight Dana, Silnman Professor
of Geology and Natural History in Yale
College, and also Editor of the 'Avieriarn
Journal, of Science, has the, ' reputation.abroad of equalling the late Dr..auekland •
and • Sir Henry Delabechc, and.the liVl4 Sir
Richard ..Murchison and Sir Charles
in the'extent, variety, and Vane of his tidien-,.
title-attainments. Like these eminent. men;
'ilso,'Professor Dana has the faculty of corn:
inunicating his knowledge in the- plainest
:language—his .noble simplicity of - eijirci
`slc4 making - Ids. writings;Clear even to.thOse:
'who take them. up.as studentil: iaavork
on MinralogY has a , guieetW.
and has gonelbrough several' editions. In
the -. second of _Coriumidore .Eli 7
ploring ExpePition (1.838-1.80);he Geolo
giCal -and Natural 'History :Reports were
written by. PrOfessor Dina; who was
ralogist.md geologist to the Expedition.: His
illustrated "•Geology of the Pacific " is one of •
..these Beno*,—of which so few copies were
.iesued bytheThliad',Sta ‘ tes-Geiennentztliat•
the work is known more - by. rernitation :than,
perusal: AfisYoatid- fora *any, rs, in th.r.;
litbo.Wof Professor -Silliman, .his :father-in
law, to __whose chair in
,Yale College he
suCceeded eight yars ago, his,leisure . ; ever
since, has been mainly eniployed, upon 'a
Manual of Geology, whiCh has lately been
published in' this eitY. It "foinii'*i:edtavo
volume of over 800 -p,. - g - sirit is illustrated
a 4 Physiograplue . art of ,the World,
engraved on steel by John 14....,8ut1er-; 3 it is
enriched with.over thousand well-exe- :
cuted W,00(1-cUbi, • every which has .
been newly engraved---genirally. from dra.*;
ings on the box-wood byafx. T. itiMeelc, a
"good palaeontologist,, as Well as artist.; In
numermi& Cases, these drawings have bee.n
made from the specimens themselves, or from
Professor Dana's own works, partieularly
the reports connected with Wilked' Explo
ring Expedition. The illustrations of Ame
rican paheozoic life have been largely Copied,
the author states, from - the reports of Prof.
Hall. The _wood-engravings'. have been
executed by Lockwood Sandford, .of New
Haven, under Professor Dana's own surveil
lance. Being original, chiefly from Aineii
can subjects, and rarely copied from foreign
geological works, they place additional ori
ginal object-teaching before the student.
Besides a full table of, contents, the book is
completed by a capital Index. There is also
an Appendix, one valuable portion of which
is a Synopsis of the whole work7which
must facilitate its use as a class-book. More ,
over, the book is handsomely got up: : -
printed, on fine paper, by C. Sherman &
Son; electrotyped by L. Johnson & Co.;
and published by Theodore Bliss & CO., all
of Philadelphia. It is sold at such; a re.-;
markably low price ($4 in muslin coVers;
and $4.50 in half turkey-mbrocco), that it is:
placed ;within the reach of that vast army of
inquirers and readers, the . public at, large,
and will:be:mailed - by the publishers, to an r,
'address, prepaid, upon receipt of the price.
Many persons, we are confident, will thank
us for giving these particulars. •
A treatise, specifically intended for educa
.
tiorial purposes in this country, irstands to
reason should have special relation to Ame
rican Geological History. • The manual
under notice, has been prepared 'With. Unit
.view. • The anthor-saysOnhis pretice : i ""
"Two reasons have led him to give this manual
its American character—a desire to adapt it to Ame
rican students, and a belief that, on account of a pe
culiar simplicity and unity American Geological
'History affords the best basis for a text-book of the,
science. The author has, therefore, written out
American Geology by itself, as alntinuous history.
Facts have, however, been added from other coati.-
, nents as far as was required to give completeness to
the work, and exhibit strongly the comprehensive
ness of its principles.
"It has been the author's aim to present, for
study, not a series of rocks with their dead , fossils,
but the successive phases in the history of the earth
—its continents, seas, climates, life, and the various
operations in progress. Dynamical' Geology, con
trary to the views of some geologists, has been
placed after the stratigraphical or historical por
tion. It will, however, be found that through the
latter the facts have been followed by statements
and explanations of principles; so that the stu
dent, on reaching the„ pages treating of geological
causes, has already learned much of what they con
tain.
"The manual has been adapted to two classes of
students—the literary and scientific—by printing the,
details in finer type. The convenience of a literary
class has been further provided for by the addition
of a brief synopsis of the work, in which each head
is made to present a subject, or question, for special
attention." '
Geology teaches the Natural History of
the Earth, and elucidates the Past by
inductions drawn from facts by Science.
It shows the various changes in the
" great globe which we inhabit"—changes
which were made by the active •.prin
ciple of Progress, which, the Omnipotent
Creator has unceasingly carried on. Never
before has' this science been placed before
the world in a manner'which is full without
diffuseness, and lucid without being dry and
hard. We, 'who have 'sat under Buckland,
can tell young students of both sexes that
there' is no science' more. interesting, •more
instructive, or more fascinating than Geolo
br; none which more plainly shows the
Wisdom and Greatness of •the Creator
none, with such a Manual as Professor
Dana now places in their hands, which can
be so easily acquired, or so practically ap
plied. Eveiy quarry is a lecture-room for
students of geology—even in a lump of
'coal, or stone, a lesson of knowtedge may
be found. How to apply and extenkand
systematize this knowledge isprecisely what
Professor Dana's Manual of Geology 'dear
ly teaches.
..
606.
* Manual of Geology : treating of the PrincipleS
of the Science with especial reference to'American
Geological History, for the use of Colleges; Aca
demies, and Schools. By James D. Dana, IL A.,
L.L. D., Sillirnan Professor of Geology and Na.
tdral History in Yale College ; Author of " A Sys
tem of Mineralogy," &c. Illustrated by a Chart of
the World, and over One Thousand figures, mostly
from American Sources. One.volume, Svo., pp. xvi.
and '798. Philadelphia : Theodore Bliss & Co.
The British Enipire.
To Me Editor of The Press
SIR : Your correspondent, "A Reader," in your is:-
sue of the 13th inst., refers to my communication, pub
'lobed on the 6th inst., and wishes to be 'enlightened
as to a portion of it, which I am not unwilling to
do ; though he has misquoted my letter, wbich.was a
statement of facts, rather than eulogy. I stated (in
ter die) that "England has the largest, empire, the
largest population, the largest navy, -the largest
debt, the highest credit, and is by far the, most
wealthy—le.nding to all nations, whose banker she
also is ;" and might have truly added that she also
has the largest mercantile marine. Your
,coirespon
dent wishes me to explain " how and by what means
this grand result has been accomplished." • -
The question, as a whole, is too large to be dealt
with in a newspaper`Whose space is valuable;, but I
may briefly state that •It has been accomplished by
treaties, conquest, invincible courage, commercial
enterprise, industry, toil, and inherent and indomi
table energy. Many of Great Britain's most eminent
men were of humble origin, who raised.. themselves
to the highest state by indefatigable application and'
honesty of purpose, apart from polities, and bargain
and sale, The celebrated and learned Lord Chancel
,.
for Eldon's father was a coal-hauler in the north of
England. Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, whose father
was an aitist,was born in Boston, Mass. The fathers
of Lord. Chancellor St. Leonards and Lord,. Chief
Justice Tenterden Were eountry barbers. These men,
and thousands of their compeers, statesmen, iner
chants and others--English, Irish, and Scotch 7 have
added great lustre to the fame of Great Britain.
I ant then unreasonably charged with not men
tioning " the squalid poverty, misery, degradation'
and crime which exists in that emplre, nor the
thousands that are starving.". This is somewhat
the case in all countries, and if ymir correspondent
has ever been in Europe, I..defy.hinr-to.;name the
counterpart of
_the unfortunate, abominable, criminal
and filthy &Welters Bedford: street, its-neighbor
hood,;
and many other localities of this beautiful
city, where may be found all he names t in_ its moat
hitleoust , and revolting forms. _ .
"11. Reader," , in a spirit of badinage, calla on meto
explain the means used whereby the wealth produced
by the labor of the millions has been absorbed by the
few. My reply is, that in many cases the law of
".primogeniture " is doubtless the cause of this, and
-=Whether this right is, an unjust prerogative is ts
.." - vexala quatio." The British laborer has, however,
same chance of acquiring wealth as those of
other countries, and among the thousands who have
become rich and great may be named the late Lord
Mayor of London, now a member of Parliament,
who, when = a young man, was a carpenter, with his
brother, at s7a week each.' -Another : Sir S. M. Pete,_
Baronet, once : a bricklayer at small, wages him ob
tained honors and riches and dispenses
$60,000 yearly to his church (Bapthst) and the de.:
serving poor. The men I have mentioned ennobled
themselves, but
"What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or eowardsl/1-.4:
Alas! not all the blood of all, the liowards."l
O. E. T.
Dana's Geology.*
PIIIL/DE4gl4, TU E SDAY, JANUARY 20,:1863:
aßenTliart OF - 311 E GULF.
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....4144.11veialfiss - ilfidisseiter—Detalls of the Sur-
ItSl4O-. . orthetPnlion Forees—The Fight on
. the. Ilsirriet- Lane Blowing Up of the
,Westfield—Governor Hamilton Safe-71415t
• "of the; Stilled . rind - Wounded—The Owasso`
• --lie'vissitigetisme . in Progress.
' • NEw On:LEArre, Jan. 6, ilia.
- •*: SITUATION OF GALVESTON.
.
A glance at themap and an understanding of the
situation of the island and harbor will satisfy one
:that Golventorelas strategical advantages. It
is situated rizealcer, sandy island, about thirty miles
lotig,' arid , on an' average about a mile and a half
Wide- It isiseparated from the mainland by shallow
•Viater,Whielf almost fordable. Abolit four Miles
from the eity, arid% to the west of nits a long rail=
'road bridge, spanning this water and connecting the -
-island mainland. This bridge :was -in- pos.':
session of the rebels, who had three batteries etzt-'-
tioned at the end of I_t on the •mainland, and one
battery on the island.' But even had•it not been'
in their possession the extent of-the island and the
shallawness of,the water; which is actually fordable
•in placei; rendered it an easy matter folthe enemy
to throw troops across. The water, in fact, scarcely
added strength to the situation, and; our forces
would, perhaps, have been as secure upOn the Main;
land as upon the island.
•
Three companies were certainly inadequate to
guard a - coast thirty miles in extent, even if it had
all been in their possession. It was naturally sup
.posed thatthe railroad bridge Was the point of dan
ger; and the giinboats were expected to prevent the ,
army from crossing. . The Harriet Line, for this purer
pose, had been sent up the channel' as near -the
bridge as she could 'get, and the channel where she
was lying a the time of the attack was so narrow
and shallew that she. could neither turn nor /fiancee
vre with effeof and the event 'showed with, sue:lsle&
clearness that she was quite unable to perform.' the
part to which she had been assigned.'- of=
Galveston posseaserrthany advantages as a base
operations for the rebels. The communication by,
railroad with numerous points inland and on the
coast renders it easy forithem to;concentrate alltheir •
available trooPs there in a' short time ; and General
Magruder, who is now in command of the Seceseion
army in Texas, did not fail to avail himself proreptly
of all' these advantages: Be collected upwards of: ,
three thoinnil' meni and on the night of Efec.
had his` prePayrillims complete for a combined ettack
by land and . - ,
• Hints/lad been thrdwn out-by the .Texan news
papers sometime before ; that an attack was about to
be Made upoiithe Yankeegunboatie; brit these hints
were generally regarded' as empty - boasts: On the
evening in question, two white women came-to the
flagship in a small 'boat,' from the mairijand;. and
warned.Commodore Renshaw, who was.an- command
df the fleet, that he mould be attacked before morn
ing. -But he did not. credit' their statement, vegard
ing it as one of the many idle 'tales had so`often
heard reeeated.
The-fleet consisted'of the ` following Vessels : The.
Westlieldillagship, l liron-ela‘nine guns), Commis
dere Renshaw ; -the. Harriet Lane, - Commander ,
Wainwright; the: oOrizmander Law, arid
The trarisPort IVlaryEoardman, with supplies es
board, arrived , and"
crossed the liar. about seven
o'cloek on the eveningbf the attack. Fortunately •
she did not arrive in timeNflarid any supplies. She
lay i inside the' harbor, arid'carried' a twelve-pound
howitzer on her bpw, • .. .1 • . • „
• THE'ATTACK. '•
The night was as still.sie-the grave, and no One'
appeared to belleVe in - an attack: Whether this
sense of security was such that proper vigilance was
. nit - exercised lam unable to say. In any event,
the-darkness of the night greatly favored the sole
niy's mevements.• -•-
-He commenced the attack about three o'clock in
the morning, the moon having sunk imveria hours'
before. He came down from Galveston bay with
five vessels, and one of them sufficiently-formidable,':
as the event showed. This was a steamer of. very
light draught; built after the -manner, of a Milais-r
sippi ricer ..boat, -with ; her- machinery completely,
protected,with cotton, compactly fixed .on every
side. Frm her deck cotton had been built up to'
the height-of twenty.five or thirty feet, planked.
and fastened with bolts, forming 'a high parapet;
wall, from behind which sharpshooters, with: comb
parative security, could fire-down upon the. deck of
any one of our gunboats ,as soon as they came-,
within range. She appeared like a long floating,l
house, smoke-stacks for chimneys:, and Carried'
several guns. The other foil? vessels, although less '
formidable, were all protected by cotton and all ears:
lied guns, and they were all crowded with infantry, '
'the majority of them - riflemen.
THE FIGHT WITH THE HARRIET LANE.
As might have been expect ede, the Harriet Lane
was the first object of attack. Her position in the
channel rendered her comparatively helpless, and - it
was important to the enemy that she should be die
posed of first, in order that the bridge might be left
free for the passage of his. troops. Two of the ene--
My's Vessels, including the most formidable,:accord
'ingly bore down upon her, and seemed to :have a,p
peached very near, before tkey were discovered. As •
. soon as they were seen,
the - Harriet Lane opened
; upon them, while, at the same time, the enemy,
opened his shore batteries upon the Harriet Lane.
This artillery fight lasted more than an hour, with-.
• out inflicting- any serious damage, on either side.
:•The two ships, however, succeeded in getting-doss;
Up to the Harrietane, oneon each side of her; for .
they were of such li ghtdrauhgt that run all
around her, and. were thus enabled to colic( to Mese •
quarters. As soon as they came; within range,
the- enemy's riflemen opened a destructive fire, '
,pouring a shower of bullets upon the, deck of
the doomed vessel, and killing - the gunners at
:their poets; and as soon as, they got well along
.;• side they boardedher in overwhelming force. There 1
'were about one hundred arid thirty men, all told, on,
the. Harriet Laife, :oho made a desperate, but hope
less fight. The odds against themwere so great that ; '
,theywere- crushed by the.merenszeight-of . --szezerbbref
and - the War inimediately . became . the scene of - a
sanguinary . slaughter of 'ghaatly Proportions. The
poor fellows fought hand 'to , hand - with their cut-.
lessee, With the splendid valor with Which.eur sai
lors always do fight;. . but it availed them nothing:
against the shower of bullets thatiall like hail from':
the high cotton-walls, and: the crushing tide of hoe- - -;
tile men which swept over them from either side. •
The deck became 'slippery with blood, and, in a mo
ment's time, was literally covered with dead bodies.•
;It was a hopeless contest, and the tragedy of blood
:and horror was soon at an end. •
Of the one hundred and thirty men who fought
'Upon the deck of the Harriet Lane, it is believed
that less than thirty escaped death and wounds.
...We have as yet no list of the brave men who fought-
And died there, nor can we ever know the deeds of •
• valor they performed in their last devoted service to
. their country.
The enemy's attack was thus wholly aucceseful.
'The Harriet Lane, a favorite vessel in the navy, as
it had been with the public for years, fell into his
possession, and it is believed that she had not been
materiallidamaged, either in her machinery or her
. . - arinament.
. PROBABLE CAPTURE OF-OUR SIGNAL
SYSTEM.
• Itis feared, and generally believed, that the signal
-hook of the Harriet Lane was captured by the rebels.
••If so, this, for the first time, places them in posses
sion of our system of signals. .
" THE LAND ATTACK.
While this successful attack was made upon the
Harriet Lance the enemy pushed a heavy force
across the railroad bridge without opposition, and
marched, nearly two thousand strong, to attack the
small body of Union troops which was stationed in
the city. Colonel Harrill had his men drawn up on
the wharf, and, although he was attacked by more
than five times his own number, he made a stout
resistance, and actually repulsed the first attack of
...the enemy. Of course it was a hopeless struggle un
less he could get relief from the fleet, and he
•despatched his adjutant, Lieutenant Davis, to the
.Commodore, to notify him that he was attacked -by
a force he could not long resist, and that he should
.be compelled to surrender. When Lieut. Davis left
' the -wharf there had been but very few of our men
killed, and, as he surrendered-soon after, it is probe
. ble that but few lives were lost. The whole foice
. was, of course, made prisoners of war. ,
• : THE FIGHT BY DAYLIGHT.
The darkness had effectually covered the opera
tions of the enemy, and all were ignorant of what
had occurred beyond their own ship.- When morn
ing dawned, signals were sent up frcini the flagship,
which,were responded teby all the gunboats except
the Harriet Lane; and now it was that the commo
dore first discovered that she had , fallen into the
hands of the enemy.
The light also revealed the position of the enemy's
fleet, and his preparations fore an attack from the
shore with artillery and riflemen.
It was now determined by 'the commodore to re
take the Harriet Lane, and he ordered the Owasoo
to round to and open fire. This gunboat has an ar
mament of one 11-inch and two 9-inch guna, and she
opened with her heaviest. - •
No sooner had she sent one of her shells than the
rebels crowded our prisoners—some of them wound
ed'anddying—upon the deck of the Harriet Lane..
„They then raised a flag of truce, and paroled and
• sent the acting master of. the Harriet !Lane, and
her only surviving officer, on board the flagship,
with a message to Commodore Renshaw, to the of--
I feet that another shot was fired upon the Harriet
Lane every Union prisoner would. , be instantly
thrown overboard. In consequence , of this message
Commodore Renshaw ordered the firing to, cease,
and made no further attemptto recapture the vessel:
The position of the enemy's fleet was at this time
as follows : The two vessels whichhad accomplished
the capture of the Harriet Lane were still lying
near that vessel, swarming with sharpshooters. Two
more lay further off toward the bay, while' the fifth
beldherself aloof at a considerable distance. This .
fifth vessel was reported to be the fl ship,' and,
throughout the engagement, was said to have on
board the precious carcass of General Magruder,
whom the fortunes of war, since the outbreak of the
rebellion, have carried from Yorktown to Galveston.
But it is probable that Gen. Magruder was on land.
• During the morning the enemy opened fire upon
our vessels from the shore and the city, of .which
they were now in possession. Their sharpshooters,
. breaking open the houses along the shore, took pos
session andfired from the windows, while the batte
lies which had been placed in position also opened.
They were responded to by our gunboats, and this
'mutual exchange of courtesies continued for some
time, without much effect on either side.
- The rebels had placed two guns , upon a point of
land inside of and near the entrance-to the harbor.
The gunboat Clifton was directed to silence these
'guns, and performed her, work very handsomely.
• She fired first 'from her bow gun, then rounded and
,poured in a broadside, then turned and fired from her
••gun aft, then rounded again and delivered a broad
side. 'This she did twice, when the enemy's gums
were effectually silenced- ,• . • -
•
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION--DEATH OF COM
MODOREPENSHAW.
•• The flagship Westfield was aground, and, a little
before ten o'clock in the forenoon, the Commodore
• determined to burn her. The determination resulted
in a terrible accident, which cost the Commodore his
'life. He covered, the deck with turpentine, and made
all necessary dispositions to insure her burning and
*had her set on fire. He then got into his boat, with
Lieutenant Zimmermann, Chief Engineer William
B. Green, and two sailors, to proceed to another
vessel. But the _magazine had been left open, and
scarcely had the Commodore and his comradesseated
• themselves in the boat when a terrible explosion oc
aurred. The magazine, which was stored with am
munition, ahells, &c., caught, and half t,he flagship
C
and the C ommo dore's boat were scattered through
the air in ten' thousand fragments. Not one of the
unfortunate men on board the vessel at the time or
in boat escaped instantaneous death. It is not
known how many perished by this terrible explosion,
but the number is estimated at ten to twenty officers
and sailors. The explosion left the smokestacks •
standing and the vessel aft unharmed, but what re.;
mained wasenoon burned.
Meantime the rebels were making formidable pre
parations on shore to prevent the escape of the ves
sels. 'They were seen to drag artillery with heavy
'Mule teams'-to the point commanding the bar, and
:were busily engaged in planting their batteries and -
fraininetheir guns to prevent the exit of our ships.
:The transport Mary 13osoliman, which is rigged pre-
Wisely like a gunboat, wail Wing near- the flagship at
the time of the explo sion , e and the fate of the Com- .
AnOdore was known only on board this vessel. It .
;wee supposed on board the other 'vessels that the .
Commodore had gonk on board this ship. They .
.therefore signalled her, Joking " What shall we dot , '
Major Burt, a volunteer aidde-camp on the staff of
Governor Hamilton, told the captain of the vessel
that they had no signals with which to reply, but
that there was one signal which they could make
which he thought would be heeded. He proposed to
, sail at once, and the captain, agreeing to this, im
mediately started. This was taken as a signal of re
treat, and •the Boardnian was followed by all the
other vessels in our poesession. The passage over
the bar wan exceedingly dangerous, and the vessels
Were near grounding hopelessly several times; but
they all escaped before_ the .enezny had- treined his -
gabs sufficiently to' dCrtheiii ithY 'harrie:in 'crossirig.
!.- 1 7:(73
.
. .
The transports, which had gone to carry supplies to
the island, immediately put to sea and returned to
this eity,'the gunboats remaining behind.
List OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Commander Win. B. Renshaw, otthe Westfield,
killed by.the explosion.
Commander Wainwright, of , the Harriet Lane.
CoMmander-Wainwright was a son of Bishop Wain
wright, of New.'York, and was killed during the
fight on the deck of his ship.
Mrst Lieutenant Charles W. Zimmerman, of the
"IN'estlield, killed by the explosion. •
Chief Engineer William R. Green, of the West--
field,
oy the explosion.. Mr. Green was a resi
dent: of. Nework where he has a family. He.
volunteerethhis services on the Westfield. ..
Firit Lieutenaht Lee, of the Harriet Lane, shdt
throligh both shoulder blades, and mortally wounded. '
Acting. Master Monroe, of the Harriet - Lane, had
his right arm shot off'. • -
man' on board the . Clifton, whose name is ult.'.
known, was killed by a rifle ball from the shore.
.Onv board the Harriet Lane it is supposed that a
hundred men were killed and wounded ; but there is
yet no record of their names. ,
On hciard,,the Westfield ten to twenty-men were
also.killedof whom we have no list. - • •
THE TRANSPORTS.
'bid or three schooners were . Wing off - Galveston,
• •which were captured by the enemy. One of them
?was the Cabello, andanother of them was the yaaht
lornierly_ owned by Geniiral Mansfield Let , ell.- The
'Elias Pi ke; Fortamouth, loaded with coal,'•was also
captured.
9 VEEN,OR IfAMILTON AND THE TEXANS.
- -, Gbv;•Efsunliton •Is in; this c ity, and••the rebels un
- doubtedlY Wafted soreidisappolntment in not find
.ing:him 'among their prisoners. The Governor was
oppoied to the expedition to Texas, !twits - generally
'eurfpdsed, and, ow-account of his belief that it would
- effect, nothing,' refused
.to join it. •He sent Major
Boit to report the progress of events t 'and; like most
of tlie• Texans connected with this expedition, re
•• mailed in.thitkity. • - • , Ool. Davis, of-the 2d Regiment •
Teets 'Volunteers, sailed in the Oumbria••on - Thuri.:
'day-hist; and' there hs much Apprehension that the .
iieakl-will 'fall into the hands of the enemy. [The
Chitabria -has since returned safely to New Orleans.
EdrHeraldt]
-, * c lit IS a sutjject of:general remark and surprise that
dll-thegunboata should have left and come here im
mediately. Had they remained outside the bar they,
fight have warned any of our approaching trans
(Lets ; but they all sailed immediately for New Or
gems, leaving the coast entirely unguarded.
The transport Honduras,_ which sailed on Friday,
vi as:met and warned; and has returned in safety.
• She had on board Halcomb , s battery.
soon -as the neNits Of the disaster at Galveston
-.retched the headquarters here, a consultation was
:;held between general Banks, , Admiral Farragut,
afistivernor Hamilton,-and General Augur ; but the
.nature of the discussion s or the conclusion reached,
'has not transpired.. It is known, however, that the
'.Afintiral immediately 'despatched a fleet to Galves
.
:ton.
*-,.c.The following le.trlist.of-the officers, and crew of
-thsVWcattield, wlio•toOk.'Rainutge and escaped on
ti :bbard the traneporilfoordsnan
mamas.
Acting Master—L. D. Smally. • .* ,
Acting' Master's Mates—J. B. 'Johnson; John P.
Arnett.
-Acting 'Second Assistant Engineers—George S
!Sillier, Chas. W. Smith. . • . ,
- ,
Corporal David Oiriell. „ ' ,
.;:P ath iiv_ D at t nDag e d o nnzh ir Geo. Alton, Geo. Donehoe,
4.314ey,.J0ih1n n. " Dian, John Fitz, Henry
. PETTY OFFICERS.
David Johnson, armorer.
''Biwrenos Lxnch,'inastei-at:artni.
James Bflunitord, captain of forecastle.
:Dunes Stewart; quartermaster.
'lllam Tayloroursees steward.-'
James Johnson, messroom steward. .
Henry Chevar, Captain's cook.
ItichardHevel, quartermaster.
-Richard C. Halloran, sailmaker's mate.
• DaziletCargen;carpenter's mate.
• l'ohnßrokenberger ship'sook.
',W• W. Blake, mes s _ .c room•sook.'....
William Sloan. , OharlaiT. Rodden.
obert Saddler
J. B Wallace:
, • • pear,
, • • ORDINARY SEAMEN.
Charles H. Roberts. John Gordon.
-John Rowland.. Charles Thompson.
Peter Johnson. Thomas Collield.
Boyd. William R. Chaney.
Jades- McPhee. Louis Dedericks.
LANDSMEN. ' i .
. •
Williant-.T. Flynn. John Rengan.
v..Tifijii:Gfiruld. Ed. Doyle.
Ihisid*Wbildey. .. John McOurty.
• Thothas.Cotter. John Rielly.
t i LyiL Granville Bailey, first-class boy.
. ENGINEER'S DIVISION.
John Glover, Henry Piper, Eugene
Sniitli:Patriek Callen,- Theodore A. Smith, Francis
Whihei,_Wun Maurer. - • •• -
Coal Passers—Patrick Larkin; James Percy; Jere
- Edgerton, 'WariV•Sinith, Philip &fifth, John
Meenan; Wm.:Raton, Eugene McCarthy, Charles
"Morria, Geo. Campbell. '
The, Diary Boardintus also brought one pritioner—
• Philliri; of Gliveston7 -
The, above Bat embraces only the men who were
taken osf - board'the Mary Boardman. The total num
ber faired was one hundred and thirty.
• "' • ' INCIDENTS.
Thif Weather On the day'of this affair was warm,
'Cleat arid delightful, and no doubt the rebels had- a
'grand celebration of New . Year's after our gunboats
lett.
• .
..ThieeiPlOsion:of-the Westfield. occurradat aboutt
ten O'clock. Commodore :Renshaw, having deter
mined to burn her, put all hands working smartly to
remove cutlassed,, smalL arms, hammocks, furniture,
office.rs , baggage and the boats were kept busily
,plying between (lie Westfield and the Mary Board
manidischarging ;nen and baggage, only the oars
men returning for other loads. Most of the baggage
„and all the men - were thus transferred, and only'
„about twenty sailors were. on board. the Westfield
' when the Commodore left the ship, with orders to
fire her, eipeeting, of course, that there would be
• plenty , of time for all to escape safely. A large boat
load at this moment was lying alongside the Mary
Boardnian,,iibout to go aboard. The oomniodore
had sent by this boat two swords and pistols and a
bible; with the following directions in regard to their
disposition; and in giving this message he uncon
' sciously , uttered his last words : " Tell them to seed
these things to'-my sister, at the corner of Four
teenth street and Fifth avenue." Major Burt has
charge of the articles. •
Two oarsmen were in -the Commodore's gig. En
gineer Green descended and took a seat, followed by
Lieutenant' Zimmerman. 'The Commodore de
scended last, and was yet standing when the torch
wee applied :to the turpentine with which the deck
was covered. • There was a bright flash, and . the
Commodore turned his face 'to look at the vessel - ;
the sailors - all - stopped work, and from every boat
and vessel all eyes were turned in - the direction of
the Westfield, attracted by-that flatal flash. It was
a mordent of suspense and of perfect silence, and it
was only a moment Then there was a flash of light
blue smoke, and then a fearful explosion, which
shook the Mary Boardman as an earthquake shakes
a house. The shells of the magazine, rising in the
air, 'burst farup ; then there was a plunging noise
in the water,auch - as is occasioned- by the falling of
a heavy body, and then, for a radius of five or six
hundred Feet, there was .a shower of fragments
which sounded like the falling of rain.
' The Westfield was seen to part or burst out for
ward, like a chestnut.bur, .and when the smoke
cleared away there was no sign of life about her. For
ward she was blown into fragments down to the
water ;ibut the machinery bad not been spoiled,_ as
the singing of the steam was distinctly heard after
the explosion. The Commodore's boat and all in it
were annihilated in the terrible catastrophe—scat
tered through the airin fragments. .
The smokestack and the after part of the.ship lay
a black mass in the it ater for. ten minutes, when
there was another flash, and she was speedily wrap
ped in flames. Her guns exploded one after another,
and then it was that the Mary. Boardman moved off,
-leading the'retreat. She was followed by all the
vessels, including , the gunboats, the Cliftonbringing
up the rear. .
LAST. SIGHT OF THE REBELS.
The retreating fleet was followed by one of the
cotton-clad - vessels of the rebels. The Clifton gave
her two shots from her gun aft, when the rebel ves
sel backed off and made no further effort to pursue.
The passage over the bar was extremely difficult
and dangerous, and the interest of the occasion was
not lessened by the sight of the rebels with their
mules, busily engaged in hauling artillery, with
which to prevent their escape. - The vessels would
bUrnp . against the ground every minute, and the,
bia s f a tnit, l 2le and bend as if about to fall
mortal terror. The passage of the Ltr c...6(Air,lf-d some
hours, and it was two o'clock before the fleet was
outside ready to sail. ,
The last seen of the wreck of the Westfield was
a cloud of smoke. She - was still burning when the
fleet left. .
It seems that , the French and English consuls
have made themselves quite busy in our affairs at
Galveston. They, had notified . Commodore Ren
shaw of certain claims they, had upon private pro
perty in Galveston, including all the cotton in the
city and many residences. These claims are founded
upon' an advance or pretended advance, of money
upon the ; propert y in queation. There was but a
small quantity of cotton in the city, but this
would' have been seized but for the recapture 'of
the place.
STATEMENT OF A REFUGEE.
I have conversed with a gentleman who effected
his escape from Galveston after the enemy was in
Possession of the city, and who witnessed a part.of
, the fight between the Harriet Lane and the rebel
fleet. From his statement I gain the following in
formation': ' • -
It was reported that this attack was to be made a
long time before it actually occurred, but the story
was generally discredited.
There was the hulk of an old vessel sunk in the
channel, and the Harriet Lane running foul of this,
stuck-fast; and, at the time of attack, was entirely
unable to manoeuvre: The enemy's vessels were
nothing but small steamboats, well protected with.
the exception of one—the larger one—which was
iron-clad on her
,bow, and constructed fora ram.
The object of the enemy, however, was to capture
the Harriet Lane, and not. to damage her, and the
artillery firing from the enemy was only intended
for a'diversion. •
The fight on the deck of the Harriet Lane was
fearfully desperate and bloody. The brave-fellows
fought hand to hand, killing a great number of the
enemy, whose loss was probably greater than ours
in killed and wounded.
Commander Wainwright was killed early in the
action on the deck. He was shot in the left knee
by one of the enemy's sharpshooters, and had
dropped upon the right knee, and was exhorting his
men to fight. " Stand up tosit boys;" he shouted ;
and this directed special attention to him. Two of
the enemy rushed upon him'; but be had a revolver
in his right hand and shot them both dead. A third
came up, and, placing a pistol to his head, shot him.
The men fought until all but - the acting master
and eleven men lay dead or mortally wounded upon
the deck of the ship; and these made no formal sur
render, but were disarmed and overpowered.
The fight in the city was of short duration. Col.
.Burrill's command consisted of Companies A, B,
and C, and my informant saw the colonel taken
prisoner. He reports that three of the Union men
were killed and about twenty wounded, My in
formant then. effected his escape to the transport
Saxon.. He is a Texan, and•had come to Galveston
to enlist in the service. He is now here, and has
offered his services to Governor Hamilton.
I am enabled to give you the following trust
worthy statements gathered from the officers of the
Owasco : • •
- CASUALTIES ON THE.OwAScO.
Killed.—Thoralts•Jeff, ehot through the heart. ,
...Woinded.—L. V. Gassallo, acting master, shot
through the thigh.
Frederick Saunders, shot in right shoulder and
chest., • .
Isaac P. Hews, seaman, skull fractured by a piece
of shell.
Michael Wreck, coalheaver, through the eye.
Titus Freeman, colored, shot through the thigh.
John Carney, seaman; fracture of skull by shell.
' Frederick Ether, landsmen, shot through the
thigh. . -
John Honan, t ordinary seaman, shot through the
' •
' Wm. J. Murphy, landaman, shot through the hand.
Charles Burnham, captain of the after guard, shot
through the right cheek.
Win. Reed, captain of,the forecastle,- shotthrough
the arm and buckshot in shoulder.
James Penny, slight wound on leg.
' Henry Brown, bullet in the arm.
Georgelichier, slight wound. .
... - Wm:' Taylor, 'seaman, bruised by splinters,•
Hen4 , :fierk
del. Ward.
Total of casualties on the Owiipso t One killed and
fifteen wounded. •,..; • -
CASITA.LTINS ON THE N4Blan LANE.
Killed.. •.: •
Commander Jonathan M. Wain ht. '
Lieutenant and Executive Officer Edward Lee.
Assistant Surgeon Thomas N. Penrose.
Acting Master Charles H. Hamilton.
Acting Master Willis F. Munroe.
Assistant Acting Master Julius Richardson.
Second 'Assistant Acting Master.Charlea H. Stone. -
Third Assistant Engineer JohreE:'Cooper.
Third Assistant Engineer Robert N:
Third Assistant Engineer A. T. E. Mullen.
Master's Mate Charles M. Davis. •, ' •
LOSS ON THE WESTFIELD.
There were thirteen men missing from the Weat
field ,•" but two are believed to, have been picked up.
The total loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, is
probably as follows:
•Troopii taken in Galveston city .210
Killed and wounded on Harriet Lane .............110
Killed and wounded on Owasso .. 16
Killed and wounded on Westfield .. 11
Total • 407
A man named Shaunessey, from Boston; was se
verely wounded in the engagement on the wharf;
The troops on shore built kbarricade, and twice
repulsed the enemy before the surrendef. '
THE OWASOO IN THE ENGAGEMENT—A
FLAG OF TRUCE FROM GEN. •MAGRUDER
—THE REBEL GOVERNOR OF TEXAS ON
BOARD, &v.
The °wimp,. under command of Capt. Wilson,
was lying "on the wharf on which the Union troops
were stationed when the attack was made on the.
Harriet Lane. She immediatelysteamed upto take
part in the fight, and got 'within 300 yards. of the
scene of action; when She was so'near getting aground
that she could not approach'nearer.. she was within
easy range of the rebel riflemen, as the bullet marks
through her bulwarks plainly show. Her shrouds
were shot away, and most of the injuries received
by her men were the result of musketry, as will be
seen by the above list.
Just at daybreak the enemy got possession of the
Harriet Lane, tore down the United States flag, and
raised a small Confederate"flag and a flag of truce:
The Owasco, finding the Harriet Lane was in the
hands of the rebels,' sent a shot clean through her
machinery, just' above the water line, having first
steamed down out of musket range. The shot pro
bablydisabled her, as the rebel vessels subsequently
towed her off to the xharf. -The rebels replied to
the Owasco with the guns of the Harriet Lane.
• About an hour after daybreak, General Magruder
'sent a flag of truce, in charge of two' rebel officers,
on board the Owasco. He demanded the surrender
of all the vessels in the harbor, and gave three hours
for deliberation. The captain of the °was%) sent
the flag of truce to Commodore Renshaw, saying he
had no powerin the matter. . • • -
The . rebel Governor of Texas (Lubbuck) accom
panied the flag of truce, and became so much in
terested in the Owasco, and so much 'amused by his
own conversation, that he remained on the Owasco,
while the officers went to the Westfield with the flag
of truce.
" She is aline vessel," said the Governor, looking
about admiringly. "She will be a fine Addition to
the Confederate navy."
The captain of the Owasco, not seeing the subject
exactly in that light, put on steam, and started
toward the bar, passing the rebel batteries with the
Governor on deck,. earnestly conversing on the
prowess of the Confederate soldiers, and the ad
vantages of capturing the vessels then in the har
bor, bestowing especial praise upon the Owasoo. He
wanted to know how much the vessel cost. He
_walked from gun to gun, asked the calibre ' and many
other questions, until he suddenly awoke to the fact
that the' ship was gradually slipping out of rebel
power.
"I wish to go ashore now, captain, if you please,"
said the Governor. .
"The weather,"-replied the.captain, "is exceed
ingly line to-day. Governor, do you always get so+
pleasant a New Year's day as this in' Galveston? It
is really charming."
"This is not right," said the Governor; " I wish
ow to go ashore."
"By the way, Governor," replied the captain, the
Owasco meantime pushing on with good speed. " '!1
the way, Governor, you are the successor sat tat
Sun Houston in the gubernatorial Omit), :Houston
was quitepopular North of ono time; but he seems
t's L';'. - ve gone óVer io the rebels. Do you know where
he is nowt" ' - • -
" said- the Governor, "this is all wrong...
came litre under a flag of truce,- and 'I now demand
that
_you stop this vessel and put me ashore."
Houston was a singular man," .replied the cap
tain, "a very singular man, indeed," speaking in
apparent unconsciousness of Governor's dearest
thoughts. "He won a great reputation as the cham
pion of Texan independence;and was regarded as
one of the firmest Union men in the whole South."
• The .GoVernor discovered, when too late, that,
having allowed the flag of, truce to depart without
accompanying it; he could . no longer claim its pro
tection, and he .now began to fear not only that the
Owasco would slip off, which she was all the time
doing, but that he would be carried off as a prieoner.--
However, the captain kept him on beard only until
he had passed all the rebel batteries in safety, wheh
he obligingly sent him ashore, • .
There is little doubt that the shot tired through the
Harriet Lane saved her from getting aut to sea, and
tkatif not retaken by us, she will at least -be de-
Ftloyed. - •
- The rebel officers who bharded the Owasso with the
-flag of truce boasted thalthe Confederates hturkilled
nearly all the men on the Harriet Lane, and stated
that only Acting Master Hannum and -eleven men
-were left alive. . _
DEPARTURE OF THE FLEET
After the death of Odmmodore Renshaw, the Qom:
mend of the fleet devolved upon Commander Law; of
the gunboat "Clifton, the senior surviving. officer.
Commander. Law • immediately ordered the whole
fleet to sail for New Orleans. . „.. .
'INVESTIGATION ilsr-PROORE§S.
Admiral Farragut has ordered an investigation of
the whole affair, and it is now in progress on board
his flagship, the Hartford, which is now stationed
here.
• The Admiral promptly Bent off a fleet sufficient to
demolish the whole city of Galveston and everything
else on the coast.—Herald.
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE'
The Rebel Raltrtato Holly Springs—Rebel
Account orthe Affair—A Graphic Misstate
ment.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 15.3
YAN DORN'S BRILLIANT CAVALRY RAID
INTERESTING PARTICULARS.
. _
The recent cavalry raid of Genersl Van Dorn in
the. West was one of the most brilliant feats of
the war, not falling short of any that have been
made by the renowned Stuart or übiquitous Mor
gan. A correspondent the Mobile er gives
the following interesting particularso his bril
liant achievements in the vicinity of Holly Springs,
Miss. • .
Van Dorn took -a by-way and meandering route
through the swamp, and came within eight miles
of Holly Springs in the evening, where he bivou
acked his force until two hours before day, when
he moved cautiously into town, leaving the Texas
brigade .upon the heights outside as a reserve. As
our forces dashed in from all sides the entrance
proved a complete surprise, the breaking streaks
of daylight showing the Yankee tents, with their
yet undisturbed slumberers. A charge was ordered
upon them, and the torch applied to, the canvas
Ivl.ch covered them. To paraphrase "Belgiuffi's"
picture--
"Al,, then and there was hurrying to and fro,
And running in hot haste,
And cheeks all pale and blanched with woe,
Exhibiting Yankee cowardice."
The rapidity with which the tents of the enemy
were vacated was marvellous; and, impelled by
burning torches and rapid disch.arg of aide-arum,
the Yankees took no time to prepare their toilets,
but rushed out into the cool air of a December morn
ing clothed very similarly to Joseph when the lady
Potiphar attempted to detain him. The scene was
wild, exciting, tumultuous. Yankees running, tents
burning, torches flaming, Confederates shouting,
guns popping, sabres clanking, Abolitionists begging
for mercy, "rebels" shouting exultingly, women, en
dishabille, 'clapping their hands, frantic with joy,
crying "Kill them ! kill them !"—a heterogeneous
mass of excited, frantic, frightened- human beings—
presented an indescribable picture, more adapted for
the pencil of Hogarth than the pen of a newspaper
correspondent.
The surprised camp surrendered 1,800 men and 160
commissioned milkers, who were immediately pa
roled. And then commenced the work of destruc
tion. The extensive buildings of the Mississippi
Central depot—the station-hi:me ; the enginehollaes,
- and immense store hor,i, eB .;_were filled With' supplies
of clothing and 00Miniasary stores. Outside of the de
rv& the barrels of flour were estimated to be half a
mile in length, one hundred and fifty feet through,
&tie fifteen feet high. Turpentine .was thrown Over
this, and the whole amount destroyed. Uptown,
the court house and the public buildings, livery
stables, and all capacious establishments, were filled,
ceiling high, with medical and ordnance sores. These
were all fired, and the explosion of one of the build
ings, in which were stored one hundred barrels of
powder, knocked down nearly all the houses on the
south side of the square. Surely such a scene of
devastation was never before presented to the eye of
man. Glance at the gigantic eatimates :
1,809;000 fixed cartridges and other ordnance stores,
valued at $1,500,000, including 6,000 rifles and 2,000
revolvers.
100,000 suits of clothing and other quartermaster's
stores, valued at $600,000; 6000, barrels of flour and
other commissary stores, valued at $500,000. -
$1,000,000 worth of medical stores, for which in
voices to that amount were exhibited, and 1,000
bales of cotton anti $600,000 worth of sutler's gores.
While the capture of the camp, paroling of the
prisoners, and destroying of the stores was going on,
the Texan Rangers, comprising the Ninth, Sixth,
and Third legions, became engaged with the Michi
gan cavaliy, and drove them pell mell through town
and run them off north, with a considerable loss to
the. Abolitionists, and a loss of thirty in killed . and
wounded on our part.
wild
The ladies rushed out from the houses l with
Joy, crying out: "There's some at the Fair Grounds,
chase them, kill them, for God's sake." One lady
said, " the Federal commandant of the post is in my
house • come and catch him ;" and a search was in
stituted, but without success, when the noble wo
ble insisted that he was there, concealed ; and finally,
after much ;ado, the gallant. (save the mark) Col.
Murphy, the intrepid Yankee commandant- of Hol
ly Springs, was pulled out from under his bed, and
presented himself in his nocturnal habiliments to his
captors.
'
The provost marshal was also taken, and, address
ing Gen. an Dorn, said :.well, General, you've
got us fairly this time. I knowed it. I was in bed
with my wife when I heard the firing, and I at once
said, 'Well, wife, it's no use closing our eyes or
hiding under the cover; we've gone up.' "
Our attention was given to Grant's headquarters,
Which he had left twenty-four hours before. All his
papers; charts, maps, &c.,were captured,together with
his splendid carriage, which was burned. Among
his papers was found a pass to pass the bearer over
all railroads and steamboats in the:United States at
Government expense ; to pass all pickets and guards,
and other papers, at once interesting and valuable.
Mrs. Grant was also captured, but no indignity was
offered to her.
Nearly every store on the public square was tilled
with sutler stores, and, after our men had : helped
themselves, the' balance of the goods were burned.
When our forces first reached the depot , i there was
a train about leaving. The engineerjumped off and
ran away, and one of our men took is place, shut
the throttle valve, and stopped the train. Sixty cars
and two locomotives were then fired and destroyed.
After the complete destruction of all' public pro
perty about the place, and after each man had sup
plied himself with a suitable quantity.of clothing
and boots, at Mx o'clock in the morning th•-march
was renewed, and Davis' Mill was the next place
attacked. Here the enemy were entrenched, and
sheltered themselves in a block house and fort
formed. of .cotton bales. The cavalry were com
manded to charge, and attempted to do so; but the
swamp and intricate lagoons breaking off in front
of the enemy's position would not permit it. The
Yankees opened fire' with 'some effect from their
fort, and were supported by a nine-pound rifled gun,
mounted-on an iron-clad railroad car, forming a rail
road battery. The Texans were again ordered to charge,
and Major Dillon, of Van Dorn'e staff, whose gal
lantry during the expedition was particularly con
spicuous, attempted to lead them to the attack, but
the men refused to follow, believing the way imputa
ble and the position too strong for cavalry demon
stration alone; 'Colopel lltioUullough, of the Mis
sissippi cavalry, was ordered to get in the rear of the
railroad battery, cut the track to prevent its escape,
antbeapture it. I believe he succeeded in cutting,
the - road, but"our forces were compelled to. withdraw,
`and the steam battery was not taken.' The force then
pushed onto Middieburg and Bolivar, and attaoked
both.placetf r tnitiynind'theta too strongly defended
.• cciSl. •
THREETENTS.
and garrisoned to succeed in taking either of the
points.
When .the command turned back after its unsuc
cessful attack upon Bolivar, the enemy sent a force of
10,000, comprising the three branches of the service,
out after Van Dorn, and made great efforts to flank
and cut off his force; but this dashing officer was too
wary for them, and succeeded in returning with 400
head of captured horses and mules, laden with spoils
taken from the enemy. .
The peopleefTennessee are represented as having
been aost frantic with joy at the appearance of our
forcemonce more upon their borders. They fed our
soldiers with ;a, bountiful hand, and wept for joy.
" Thank God, .you have come at last !" one and all
exclaimed. Their hospitality was not a little sur
prising to our soldiers, who have been so uniformly
swindled and extorted from in Mississippi. The
people of Tennessee had been induced to believe
that General Grant% headquarters were at Jackson,
Miss., and that our whole army had been captured.
Judge, then, of thesurprise, when they were visited
by Van Dorn's command.
The entire number of prisoners captured and
paroled during the raid is two thousand one hundred
privates, and one hundred and seventy-five commis
sioned officers.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Preparations for Another Adyanme—The
Rebels Apparengly Ready to Meet Us—
Change of Army Corps Commanders.
Lssrr GRAND DIVISION,.
NEAR FREDERIOKSBITRO, VA., SAM 16, 183.
The ominous quiet of the past few days proves to
have been the, calm which precedes the storm. The
tempest has not yet broken forth with the thunder
of artillery and the surging roar of musketry ; yet
the signs of the heaveneare too apparent to doubt
that they:presage a speedy renewal of the unsuc
cessful attempt of December 13. ,The heavy rum
bling of the pontoon trains is again heard at night,
and red signal fires which blaze out in the daikness
suggest that important movements are on foot: The
point or points on which the forthcoming efforts are
to be made must not, of course, be mentioned. A
few days will, however, tell the story of success or
defeat in another attempt at orossing the Rappahan
nock. •
Everything has been, thus far, auspicious.. The •
roads are hard and dry, and the recent rain has, for
tunately, not interfered with the success of the un
dertaking. A strong south wind has also favored
us for two nights past, concealing from the enemy
the rumbling of the pontoon trains, which was so
clearly revealed by the still and frosty air of the
night in which it was last attempted.
Wednesday, when darkness bad insured seoreosr,
the boats whickrhad been 'at Belle Plain were moved
up •to the neighborhood of headquarters, where a
guide was furnished to conduct them to their desti
nation. So secretly has the movement thus tar pro
greaaed, that few in the army are aware of the im
portant events which are close at hand.
It is to be feared, however, that the enemy, who
are so frequently in the secret of our operations,
have too . much knowledge of what is impending.
Activity is too plainly visible on the other side of the
, river to permit the hope that they will be unprepared
for the present movement. ,C ounter movements are
observable, 'and it seems more thaa probable that the
enemy are at present watching to see how they may
besticheckinate us in our undertaking. The rebels are
td-day known to be extending , their lines. Rebel
pickets to-day shouted to our own pickets across the
Rappahannock, "We know what you are at; we
are ready for you." • It is to be feared that some of
the inhabitants have made their way into the rebel
lines with valuable information in respect to recent
operations.
It. is much to be regretted that the Army of the
Potomac could ilbt have been paid before the pre
sent movement had been commenced. It is useless
to deny that, duringthe inactivity , of the past month,
a universal murmurhaa gone forth from the soldiers, .
who have been—many for six months, most of them
for four months—without a Any of their hard
earned wages.
Thousands 'of letters have been sent to the men
from their 'half-starved and destitute families, de
picting their needy condition, which have made the
inactivity , of camp almost intolerable: Had not the
Potomac baen in their rear,we should have heard of
hourands of desertions, from the ample fact that.
the men have been unable ,t 0 Send mil7ley to their
families at home, The Pro,4;ect of a movement may
possibly dil!pel all discontent and. despondency; but
certainly Gen. 13urnside is the most courageous of
men to lead this army against the enemy in its pre
sent condition.—Tribune. •
CAMPAIGN ON THE PENINSULA,
The following official documents were submitted
before the ZdcDowert , court of inquiry at Washing
ton
PROCEEDINGS. OF A COUNCIL OF GEN.&
RALS.
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF POTOXACI,
FAIRFAX . OOI7II.T HM4E, March 13, 1862.
A Council of the generals commanding army corps
at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac
were of the opinion— , • • '
l'irst. That the enemy, having• retreated , from
Manassas" to Gikdensville,, behind the RapPahan
nock-and Rapidan, it is the opinion of the generals
commanding. army corps that the 'operations to be
carried on will be best undertaken'fronV. Old Point
Comfort, between the York and James-rivers, upon
Richmond ; provided, first, that the enemy's vessel,
the Merrimac, can be neutralized ; second, that the
means of transportation. sufficient for an immediate
transfer of the force to its new base can be ready
at Washington and Alexandria, to move down the
Potomac ; third, that a naval , auxiliary force can be
had to silence or aid in silencing the enemy's bat
teries in York river ; fourth, that the force to be left
•to cover Washington shall be such as to give an en
tire feeling of security for its safety from menace.
Secinul. If t h e foregoing s:annot be, the army should .
then be moved against the enemy behind the Rappa•
hannock at the earliest possible moment, and the
means for reconstructing bridges, repairing railroads -
and stocking them with material sufficient for sup-,
plying the army, should at once be collected for both
the Orange and Alexandria and the Acquia and
Richmond Railroads. Unanimous.
• Note—That with the forts on the right bank of the
Potomac fully garrisoned, and those on the left bank
occupied, -a covering force in front of the Virginia
line of 25,000 men would suffice Keyes, Heintzeiman,
McDowell. A. total of 40,000 men for the defence of
the city would suffice Sumner.
SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL Mc-
CLELLAN.
WAR DEPARTMENT, March 13, 1862.
•
To . Major General George B. McClellan:
The President having considered the plan of opera
tions agreed upon by yourself and the command
ers of army corps, makes no objection to the same,
but gives the following directions as to its execution :
First. Leave such force at Manassas Junction as
shall make it entirely certain that 'the enemy shall
not repossess himself of that position and line of
communication.
Second. Leave Washington entirely secure.
Third. Move the remainder of the force down the
Potomac, choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe,
or anywhere between here and there, or, at all
events, move such remainder of the army at once in
pursuit of the enemy by some route.
\ • EDWIN Pa. STANTON,
. Secretary of War.
REPORT OF GENERALS THOMAS. AND
HITCHCOCK.
Forty minutes past seven o'clock.
Wasnilarrox D. 0., April 2, 1862.
In compliance with your instructions, I have exa
mined the papers submitted to me, and have the ho
nor to make the following report :
First. The President's war order No. 3, dated.
March B,.requires that on taking up any new base
of operations the city of Washington shall be left
entirely secure. The other points of the order it is
unnecessary to' consider, as the enemy since its date
have abandoned their positions and batteries on
the Potomac and retired behind the Rappahannock.
Second. The council . of general officers held at
Fairfax Court House, March 13, took place after the
enemy had retired from Manassas and destroyed the
railroad in their rear. The council decided unani
mously to take up a new base of operations from
Fort Monroe, and three of the generals—a majority—
decided that the force necessary to be left should be
sufficient to fully garrison the forts on the,right bank
of the Potomac, and "to. occupy" those on the left
• bank with a covering force of 25,000. It is, we think,
thejudgment of officers, that some 30,000 men would
be necessary thus to man these forts, which,with the
number of the covering force, would make a total of
55000.,
Third. The President's directions of March 13, to
Gen. McClellan, direct: First, to leave such a force
at Manassas Junction as shall make it entirely cer
tain that the enemy may not repossess it ; second,
that Washinton shall be left entirely secure ; • third,
that the remainder of the army move down the Po
tomac or move in pursuit of the enemy. In regard
to occupying Manassas Junction ' as the enemy have
destroyed the railroadsleadingto it, it may be fair to
5881131 e that Ls:py have no intention'of returning for
the reoccupation Of their tail; i ?esition, and there
fore, no very large force would be necesisary to hold
that position.
Fourth. Major General Majlellan's report to the
Adjutant General of April 1, after giving the several
positions of thetroops proposed to be left for the de
fence of .Washington, gives a representation as fol.
low.s : At Warrentonthere is to be 7,780; at Manas
sas say 10,859; irithe valley of the Shenandoah,3s,467;
on the Lower Potomac, 1,350. • Total in all, 55,456.
And there would be left for the garrisons and the
front of Washington, under Gen. Wadsworth, some
18,000. In,the above enumeration Gen. Banks' army
corps is included; but whether this corps, operating
in the Shenandoah valley, should be regarded as a
part of the force available for the protection of the
immediate front of Washington, the undersigned ex
press no opinion.
Fifth. Gen. Wadsworth's report of April 2d gives
his' force as folloWs : infantry, 15,835; artillery,
858—six404; cavalry, companies only mounted.
Total, 20,477. •
Deduct sick, in arrest and confinement, 1,455.
Total for duty, 19,022.
Prom this force General Waffinvorth is directed
to detach two good regiments to Richardson's divi
sion, Sumner's corps which should be deducted from
his command, one regiment to replace the 37th New
York, in Heintzelman's old division, and one regi
ment to relieve a regiment of Hooker's• division at
Budd's Ferry; total, four regiments. He is also or
dered to send four thousand men to relieve Sumner
at Manassas and Warrenton. General Wadsworth
represents that he has no mounted light artillery
under his command ; states that there were several
companies of reserve artillery still here, but not
under his command or fit for service.
General Wadsworth further reports that nearly all
the force 'is new and imperfectly disciplined ; that
several of the regiments are in a very disorganized
condition, some of them having been relieved from
brigades which have gone into the field in conse
quence of their unfitness for service, the best regi
ments remaining having been selected to take their
places, two heavy artillery regiments and one in
fantry regiment, which had been drilled for months
in artillery service,
having been withdrawn from the
forts on the south side of the Potomac, and their
places supplied with new infantry regiments entirely
unacquainted with the duties of that arm and of
little or no value in their present position. If there
was need of a military force for the safety of the city
of Washington within its own Unite, that referred
•to in the report of Gen.• Wadsworth would seem to
be entirely inadequate.
In view of the opinion expressed by the council of
the commanders of army corps of the force necessa
ry for the defence of the capital, though not numeri
'cally stated, and of the force represented by General
McClellan as left for that pure we are of the
opinion that the requirements of poa the President, that
this city shall be left " entirely secure," not only in
the opinion , of the General-in-Chief, but that of the
"commanders of the army corps," also has not been
fully complied with. All of which is respectfully.
submitted: - • .
L. THOMAS__, Adjutant Oe.l.lerlil. •
E. A. 114TOIWOCK., iffejorGegi.l7. S. A.
, _
REPORT OF GENERAL HITCHCOCK TO THE .
PRESIDENT.'
The following is a copy of a paper handed to the
President by General Hitchcock :
MA.nex 30 1862 .— The main line of the enemy ex
tends from Richmond through Chattanooga and Co
rinth to Memphis, and at Corinth there is a connec
tion south. Gen.. Halleck, at St. Louis is aoting
west of this line, with Gen. Buell as his immediate
commander, having , Corinth in view as one ()fleet,
and some point at or near the Cumberland Gap as
another object. Gen. McClellan, before Yorktown,
- has Richmond for his object, with Washington un
der his safe-keeping. • The immediate interest of
this war is connected with the above indications,
and all adjacent operations are incidental. It is ne
cessary to break the line of communication between
Corinth and-Richmond. This may be done by Buell,
and if he should occupy the Cumberland Gap. near
the railroad, this object will be sufficiently accom-'
plished. If some point east of the Gap be also made
an object, as proposed by the President, it will re-
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Ohio Railroad—the duty assigned to Gen. Fremont.
From present indications it - might be better, in
stead of sending to ilertiountatit department all of
the force desired by its commander,. to- divide' that
force, one part to go to litimfor theprotection , of the
Baltimore and Ohio rafkioad j and the country imme
diately south of it, and the other prat tb strengthen
McClellan's right, now ermined by Shields, the
route to Richmond in that directiOs being:open- to
the enemy, who, though not likely to take it', might
be invited by its weakness to make wane desperate
attempts similar to one already made-by Jackson
upon' Shields. A movement from-McClellitnts Deft
is known to the enemy. Hence nothinwis.morena
tural than a blow on McClelinn , s right, Nothing
has intervened since that madea fewilays- since- to
prevent a repetition of it with a larger. force. If
McClellan shall fail at Yorktown—nut likely to
happen—but if he should fail, what would: be' the
movement of the enemy I It might he it desperate
attempt to turn the right of the Army of. the
Potomac—the Shenandoah valley. This should be
guarded against by a part of the force called , for
by. Fremont, instead of 'sending that force tb cut
the Richmond and Knoxville railroad, the success
of which might , even aid in forcing the-enemy to.
make some desperate attempt on the-right og Wash
ingkin.
OUR IItORAJAD
Departure' of an Important Irone-Clatl Ex
pedition. from New York-Deseripticru of
the Vessels and their COmirianaers:
.
On Sunday last a fleet of men-of-war, two of
them iron -clads, took their departure &sue New
York, bound on active and important service" An
nexed is a brief account of each vessel :
Nahant, 2, ironclad Ericsson battery, left the
Navy Yard on Saturday, and anchored ofeßedleela
island, where she took her powder on board: On her
arrival here a most awkward bluuder_wasdiscovered
by the authorities in connection with the- turret.
The port-holes in all the iron-clads have been pur
posely left colorless, in order that they should not
present a shining mark to the enemy. The Boston
people, however, painted them black, thus rendering
them exceedingly conspicuous. The officers of the
Brooklyn yard were then obliged to paint an entire
black band around the turret which covers the porta.
Thus the Nahant will easily be known.from all the
craft of her class. She is said to be one-of the most
'successful of the lot. Her armament consists of the
regulation battery,' one eleven and one fifteen-inch
gun. Although her commander hannot had much
experience in working iron -clads, heis. known to be
brave and competent. The officers- of the Nahant
are:
Commander-John Downes.
First . Lieutenant and Erectdivi. Officer-David D.
Harmony.
Acting Master-William Carter.
Acting Engineers-Charles. C. Rutter and Charlie
A. Clark. ." •• •
Assistant Surgeon-ll:Merles E Stedman.
Assistant Pagmaster-Edward Putnam.
Second and Third Assistant Engineers-T. H. Bordiey
and Abram Michener.
Weehawken, 2, iron -clad, accompanied, the Na
hant, which took her powder on board, and is at sea.
Captain Rodgers, the commander of this vessel,
worked night and day to get her off, but two acci
dents delayed him. First, a sort of fire broke out
on board, and tlren, through carelessness, a part of
the machinery became deranged. When these mat
ters were put right the weather became foggy and
suspicious, a fact which, in view of recent events,
made it advisable not to seed the ferry craft
away until the wind changed. Upon the top
of the Weehawken's turret a railing for rifle
men has been placed, from which the crew
can fire on the enemy's troops when ascending
rivers, and which secures them in a great measure
from returning balls. Of course there is nothing
impregnable about this affair, which a discharge of
two-pound grape would destroy. Captain Ericsson,
as already stated, hag introduced an additional im
prove/Wit in the gun apparatus, which enables the.
celiac to work it with great ease. On her late trial
trip its usefulness was demonstrated in the most
satisfactory manner. The commander of the Wee
hawken, Captain Rodgers, is called in the navy the
" fighting Rodgers." His conduct under fire at Fort
Darling, - while in command of the Galena, elicited
warm commendations from tne Secretary. The fol
lowing is a list of the Weehawken's officers :
Commander-John Rodgers.
Lieutenant Commanding, and Executive Qfficer-L.
H. Newman.
Master-B. W. Lorin.
Paymaster-' Pynchori.
Engineers-Acting Chief, J. H. Bailey; Assistants,
---Hardy, Henry J. Marton, and -
Lackawana, 9, screw frigate or corvette, out
ward bound on her first cruise, has just been com
pleted at this station. She is one of the most symme
trical ships in the service, was launched on the 9th
of August last, and is in every respect a regular
navy:built craft. She is a single-banked corvette,
two hundred and sixty-two feet long, thirty-two feet
wide, seventeen feet ten inches deep, and measures
• about 1,000 tons. Her machinery was constructed in
-New York, and is believed to be serviceable. It con
sists of two horizontal back-acting engines, with
cylinders forty-two inches in diameter, and thirty
inches stroke. The propellor is a fixed brass one,
fully fifteen feet in diameter. Her officers are as
follows :
Captain-John B. Marchand.
Lieutenant Commander-B. E. Potter.
Lieutenant-Stephen A. McCarty.
Surgeon-Thomas W. Leach.
Paymaster-James Fulton.
Acting Ensign-Barker Van Vorhis.
Gunner-Jobn G. Vosser.
Engineers--Edward Marblane (first assistant) ; A.
H. Gunnel, A. H. Fisher, Orleans Longswe, F. H.
Beyinerr, - George - W. - Roche
lroquois,-9, screw gunboat, is also a regular navy
builtman-of-war. She is the fastest of her class, and
when sotheconvoy business is performed, will be
sent to reinforce the fleet chasing the Alabama. Her
first service. was performed in the Mediterranean,
where - she became somewhat seriously damaged on a
reef.
She subsequently . put into Genoa for repairs.
When the rebellion broke out she was called home
to serve on the blockade, which she did most effi
ciently. Since her last arrival at this port she
has been thoroughly overhauled, and is now as
good as new. The Iroquois is 1,910 tons burden,
and is rated for nine guns . We subjoin a list of her
officers :
Commander— Case.
Lieutenant Commander—H. B. Mullen.
Surgeon—W. E. Taylor.
Assutant Paymaster—John A. Bates, Jr.
Acting Ensigns—Joseph Avant, J. D. Deyber, Thos.
Stodhart.
Engineers—J. W. Storm, (Ist assistant); W. I.
Howard. (acting 2d assistant); Warren Ewen Jos.
H. Mathews, (ad assistants);W. J. Barrington, Hugh
S. Short.
Gunner—John C. Clapman.
Boatswain—John H. Downes.
THE REBEL NAVY.
Its Condition, as Viewed by an ex• United
States Commodore—Politics Worse in the
Southern' Confederacy than in the Old
Union.'
Among the private letters captured off Charleston
by our sailors was the following, supposed to have
been written - by ex• Commander Arthur Sinclair,
formerly of the Federal navy
"NAVY DEPARTMENT, O. S. A., BunrAu or
ORDERS AND DETAIL, Oct. 29, 1862.
"Mr DEAR BaoxEren: Sanders . leaves in the
Twining, and has kindly offered to take charge of
letters. lam es busy as possible, but cannot let so
good a chance slip without a line. I have written
you several times since your departure, and trust
you may have gotten some of them at least. The
last was by Captain Lawson, who has a contract
with the Government: Lelia is with me and very
well, having run the blockade, and will leave for
home again on the 10th of November, by fiag-of
truce.
"'Little Terry has just left us to rejoin his ship in
Mobile, now the Florida. Rehm been very ill with
yellow fever, which he contracted at Havana, and
Buchanan, who now commands at Mobile, sent hint
on here to see us and recruit.
" MatEtt has behaved in the noblest manner, and
still no notice has been taken of his conduct by the
Government, and such fellows as Mercer Brook
promoted for vgallant conduct.' Indeed, Terry, .1
fear we are gone in the navy; polities worse than in the
old Government. But we are raising heaven and
earth (that, is Commodore Forrest and niyaelf, for
no one else appears to be interested in the matter).
The 'gallant Fegram 'is very quiet. Terry, he had
a noble chance to have immortalized himself by re
fusing his commission, which, at best, is only for
the war, and below some of his juniors, and said to
the honorable Secretary ,' I have suffered myself too
much to be willing to inflict the same sting upon my
brother officers.'
" But I could not get him up to the scratch, and
he accepted, under a protest, which amounts to
nothing, and acknowledged the compliment. Oh !
that I could have had his chance. I have refused
active service until justice is done me, and told the
Secretary that I want nothing but my rank, and
that I will die in the gutterbefore I will suffer my
self to be degraded.
"I have mentioned all these cases of injustice to
members of Cvngress and the Governor, and they
say justice shall be done us the next session. I
told them of Captain Semmes having only eleven
years of sea service in the old nayy, and lost the
two only vessels he commanded;also, of Brooks'
and Bullock's cases—in fact, all. We have also
given them a reorganization bill, which provides
for admirals—three of each—six commodores, &c.,
and a voluntary retired list after forty years in ser
vice. All, I think, will be right the next session.
" The Commodore says the button, sword, and cap
ornament were adopted, except the flag in the latter,
which will certainly be changed very soon. He
wishes you to send over one hundred vets of the
large—that is, the frock-coat—size, fifty of the
small, and twenty of the jacket, or medium. I
want you to send me a piece of steel-gray cloth, and
two pairs of good walking-boots, No. 5, but for fear
their .5 may not be the same as ours, I send you the
length of the foot. Lelia will add a line and tell
you about Norfolk and Norfolk's doings, and what
things she wants.
"God bless you
THE ISTHMUS.
Further Details of the Fire at Aspinwall—
Total Damage 8300,000.
The brig Costs Rica, which has arrived at 1 1 1 - ew
York, brings the following details of the destructive
fire which took place on the night of the 26th De
cember last, in the ship chandlery establishment of
Messrs. Laimbog & Blandenon, in Front street, in
that town, destroying sonie three blocks of buildings.
on Front street. Among other edifices burned down
we find mentioned
The office of the Panama Railroad Company r. the
Howard House ; the St. Charles Hotel ; the Aspin
wall House; besides a number of other tine new
buildings. The total loss is estimated at 000,000.
This are will naturally be the cause of serious lose.
to 'American citizens, who are largely interested in
this rising city, which has been named after an Ame
rican merchant. It was formerly known by the ge
neral name of Chagres ; 'but since American enter
prise infused a newlife into the place, its name was
changed to that which it now bears. The old. Cha-.
gres is now but a mere collection of lints, with As
; =wall eight or ninemileato the northeast..Aspin
wall is an important port of Central America> on.the
Atlantic side of the Isthm . us of Panairm, forty-nine
miles from Panama on the Pacl2c,. about two.
thousand miles from New York, azd newly equi
distant from San Francisco .and Yalparais - o. Tim
harbor is one of the hest on the coaat,.hnving an an
chorage sufficient to rideiniiinodateime-bar the com.
merce of the United States. It is the principal en
trepot between the Atlantic States and California.
It baa semi-monthly communication with New. York
MA San - Francisco. - A railrosbd. forty-niner/idle& in
length, connecting Aspinwall with Panama (on the
opposite side of the Isthmus), was opened February
17, 1855. This has done away with the tiresome pro
cess of crossing the. Isthmus on the backs of mules.
Aspinwall is well stippiied with hotels, one of
which has accommodations for six hundred visitors.
A newspaper - also - exleta there. The town was
founded about the year 1850 by the well known, en
terprising merchant whose name it bears; and la
1855 it was estimated to contain 2,500 inhabitants.
The place has been gradually increasing in import-
SOUTHERN FUNDS:—It is stated, on" the au•
thority of a letteffrom Paris, that Messrs. Baring,
of London, hate five' million dollars on deposit be
lcnging to citizens of the South, who are either now
in Europe or ootho way thither,
ARTHUR)'