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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1864.
**- We oan take no notice or anonjmonc commu
nications. We do not return rejected manuceriph.
Voluntary correspondence colioited from «n
•pert* or the world, and eapeeially from OUT <2i ftijrea*
military and naval department!. When ured, it win
he paid for.
The Punishment of Treason.
If, alter having learned at the point of
the bayonet that slavery is the enemy of
Union, -we fail to use tin's gland opportunity
of destroying it, then we shall deserve an
other rebellion, and shall literally court the
future destruction of the Republic. We
shall conquer in this war; no doubt of
that. Rut to extinguish flames and leave
the embers burning i# to invite the fire to
rise anew from its ashes. But half the
work is done when Graet has annihilated
Bbagg, or Me abb entered Richmond with
all the drums beating and all the flags fly- j
ing in triumph. Military victory will de- j
stroy present danger, but cannot prevent i
future troubles. All our successful cam- i
paigns, past and to come, but conquer j
a basis to build upon. General Steeps
drove the Tebel armic s from Arkansas,
and the next thing was an Anti-Slavery
Union Convention of the people at Little
Rock. Why, this is as great a victory
as Chattanooga. It is moral victory; it is
the second half of the work; and now that
we have no reason to doubt that the perfect
triumph of our arms is ultimately certain, it
is indispensable that we should follow up
that triumph with correspondent legislation.
Congress will obey the commands of the
people in proposing an amendment to the
Constitution prohibiting slavery throughout
the whole count ly. The House has already
struck a terrible blow, not only at this rebel
lion, but at the possibility of future rebel
lion, in passing the joint resolution explana
tory of the confiscation act. The heavier
such blows the better. It is not with rebels
that we arc to deal so much as with rebel
lion. What is the use of hanging traitors
if we leave treason unharmed ? At Rich
mond it is not-the throne, but the power
•behind the throne, that is mighty, and againstr-j
it we wage the war.
The confiscation act, as it now stands, is
a. declaration that the real estate of rebels
Can be confiscated in fee, and not for life
simply. As originally passed, it was sub
ject to interpretations which would have de
feated its purposes, and made it but an idle
threat. Now, it is a strong blow at one of
the roots of the rebellion. The objections
to this measure, in the great debate which
preceded its passage, ignored the truth that
rebels can have no rights which the rights
of the nation do not imperiously transcend.
To put down the rebellion, and leave the
wealth of the g outh in the possession of van
quished rebels, is to subdue the enemy and
leave his weapons in his hands. The spirit
of puerile mercy to the traitors who have
had no mercy to us, is, faithfully translated,
nothing less than cruelty to loyal men.
The resolution will undoubtedly pass the
Senate by a larger majority than that of
the House, and will work to the perma-
nent advantage of the Union. It has been
intimated that, the President will not sign
the act as amended, but the rumor is not
worth contradiction. It is well worth noti-
cing, however, that there is a combined and
persistent attempt to claim the President as
a conservative—that is, asunwillihg to sanc
tion those severe measures for the punish-
ment of traitors, and the extinction of slave-
ry, which the people earnestly desire, and
•Congress is actively adopting. To this
claim the anti slavery record of Mr. Lin
coln, the emancipation proclamation, and
the oath annexed to the offer of amnesty,
sufficiently reply. There is no doubt that
the entile Government and the loyal majori
ty of the people are united upon a national
policy, and the attempt to divide the Union
party upon such a question as the confisca-
tion of the property of traitors is preposte-
rous. It is especially absurd to predict op
position to stern and practical measures for
the destruction of the rebellion from the
President, and we may very emphatically
rest assured that any change ot the policy
Of the Government is, of all political impossi
bilities, the greatest.
The Freedmen.
"W e find the New York correspondent of
the London Tima, in Ms anxiety to serve
the interests of slavery, ana prove the Eman
cipation proclamation a criminal interfe
rence -With the law of forced labor, declaring
the condition of the freedmen to he miserable
cruel, anakideous. In a recent letter he says
the liberation of the American slaves i& an
-“ act of cruelty to the black, as well as of
suicidal folly to the wMte race.” This he
makes good by an exaggerated picture of
the sufferings of the freedmen on the sugar
and cotton plantations of the Mississippi; of
the helplessness of the wives and families of
the freedmen who have fled from slavery to
the protection of the American capital
and are now “ huddled together like ver
min” in the camps and hospitals around
Washington; and of the inability of the
freedmen who have emigrated to the North
ern cities to find employment. He quotes
the report of Mr. Yeatmait, president of
the Western Sanitary Commission, who vi
sited the plantations between Cairo and
Natchez, as evidence that freedom, sudden
ly gained, is a curse to the black man. Mr.
batmak s facts, according to this corre
spondent, show that “the white lessees
strive invariably to get the utmost positive
amount of work out of the negro for the !
smallest possible amount of wages; that if i
■a negro becomes ill his pay immediately j
ceases, and he is turned adrift to starve, j
which was not the case when he was in a I
state of slavery.” He tells of 2,100 colored
women and children living amid squalid suf
fering and destitution ; of a camp of 4,000 j
refugees reduced to 2,000, chiefly by death !
from starvation and diseases, and states as *
Mr. Yeatmah’s conclusion, that “the ne- !
groes who cannot obtain wof& are dying j
off, and that those who do obtain it are in a i
state of involuntary servitude far worse than I
that from which they have escaped.” Upon j
facts such as these the correspondent ac- ■
cuses the United Stateß of heartlessness and
cruelty, and finds freedom and misery sy
nonymous. We at once reject this peculiar
method of reasoning, this argument of the
weak or the subtle mind, which so dexterous
ly makes a principle responsible for anacci- j
dent, and confuses the grand end of a great
system with its incidental and local results.
We will not believe these stories entirely
true, and affirm them to be the exaggerations
of our enemy. Grant that we are right in
this, are we to end with an indignant de
nial of slander ? It would be well first to
■see if the slander of our foe may not be
founded on the impartial testimony of our
friends.
It cannot be denied that the condition of
the freedmen along the Mississippi has
given our enemies ample opportunity, and
that the falsehoods they tell are dangerous
because they are not entirely false. There
suiftring, great tyranny, great waste
of life and labor among the freedmen and
frien families. We know why. We un
derstand that the sudden revolutions of
smaety are never more certain to bring
. misery than when they make freemen out
■of slaves. Sudden changes which break up
systems of labor are necessarily injurious
even when they are wholly for permanent
good. All the more reason for using
every energy to lessen the amount of
transitory and intense evil, that the triumph
of the permanent good may not be endan
gered or postponed. It is our duty and our
interest to accept fairly the facts of des
titution and disorganization among the
freedmen, and to begin at once to reform
the reform. To make the slave free is not
enough , we must give him the opportunity
to use Ms freedom, and, when necessary
must teach him to use it. That freedom
does not mean misery we know. The
■correspondent of the Tima has very
-carefully omitted all reference to the
■condition of the freedmen of Port Royal,
' ® elected onl y such instances as
illustrate his argument from the Plantations
of the Southwest. We iK rSr to th"
.success of the experiment of sudden eman-
cipation, if we chose, and cite numerous
cases, but we shall not tell the old tale to
our readers at present. It is enough that
they know that freedom is proved to be as
great a blessing to the black man as it is to
tbe white, and that, again and again in the
history of the war, the freedman has vindi
cated, by his industrial and social progress,
the wisdom and humanity of the President
of the United States.
But, it is tile dark side of the picture
that we should force ourselves to examine.
Let the prosperous plantation alone. It will
take care of itself. Our duty is to help the
wietched thousands. They beg of our
generosity what they might demand of our
justice. It is useless to deny that the plan
tations are badly managed, and that, saving
their freedom, many of the freedmen were
better off as slaves. It is not useless to attempt
to change their condition, and make every
slave set free as prosperous as those who
are now becoming landholders on the sea
islands of South Carolina. General Lo
res 7.0 Thomas, who has been especially
commissioned by the Government to visit
the Southwest, and organize a liberal, just
system of leasing plantations, employing
colored labor, and providing for the wants
of. the freed people unable to work or obtain
woik, is doing much— probably no man
could do more. But he can be helped, and
no city is better able to help him than Phila
delphia. To-morrow night a free public
meeting will be held at the Academy of
Music by the friends of the Pennsylvania
Freedmen’s Belief Association. Let it be
well attended. Those who care to know
the facts, whether friends or foes of emanci
pation, will then hear the whole story; and
those who sincerely wish to relieve the suf
ferings of which freedom is but the second
ary, and slavery the final cause, will have
the surest and the speediest plan explained.
The Eternal Danish Question.
The latest news from Europe permits us
to imply that England may interfere to
maintain the supremacy ot Denmark over
Schleswig-Holstein, which the German Con
federation would transfer from Christian
the Kintk to Prince Eked eric, of Augus
tenbourg. One account says that England
will be joined, in this interference, by Russia
and Austria, —that she has sent a fleet into
the Baltic,—that her war establishment is
to he immediately augmented by twenty to
thirty thousand soldiers. Another statement
denies ail this, declaring that France will
not act in accord with England, and—
what is very probable—that, as the British
Parliament would have assembled ou the
4th inst., Eord Palmerston' would not
take any decisive measure without the ad
vice and concurrence of that body.
It is evident that, having signed the
Treaty of 1852, by which Prince Gnius
tian, of GKickstadt, was appointed succes
sor to the late King Frederick; VII. of Den
mark, England is bound to maintain him
on the throne which he now occupies. So,
one would think, are the five other Powers
—France, Russia, Sweden, Austria, and
Fiussia —who were parties to that Treaty,
the double purpose of which was to pre
vent any difficulty on the death of Frede
bhtv VII. without issue, and prevent the
severance of the dominions governed by
him. That Frederick VII. had as much
right to the disputed Duchies as to any
other part of his dominions, appears to be
admitted ; but that he treated them as they
desired to he treated, may be doubted. To
siftk their legislatures in that of Denmark,
aid to insist that the language of Denmark
should be used in their courts of law' and on
usual public occasions, was enough of
wrong to the people of the Duchies. That
Christian IX. is King of Denmark is true,
Ac facto; that he is Duke of Holstein is what
Prince Frederic fef Augustenbourg denies.
In this denial he is supported by the Duke
of Saxe-Cobourg, cousin to Queen Victoria,
brother of the late Prince Albert, uncle to
the Prince of Wales, and unele-ia-law to
the Princess of Wales, eldest daughter of
King Christian.
It has been contended, by one of the
ablest lawyers in England, fJ. Manning,
Queen’s Ancient Sergeant, ) that Prince Fre
deric has no legitimate claim to iuherit even
his own father’s Duchy of Augustenbourg,
and that, even if he had, his father’s sale of
his claims upon Holstein wholly cut him
out. As these points are historically as well
as legally curious,' we shall give them here.
The reigning Duke of Augustenbourg, still
alive, contracted a'morganatic marriage, of
which Prince Frederic is one of the issue.
r lhe fact of this left-handed union with a
lady of inferior birth is not denied. How
the European law of princedom is that the
issue of a morganatic marriage follow the
fortunes of the mother. It the father be a
prince and the morganatic wife a noble, the
issue are noble, but not princely (adelig, aber
fi't'itlich nicM). The issue are, for all pur
poses, the lawful children of the mother
and can inherit her property, but they have
no claim upon the rank, the titles, or the
property of the father. So, if a noble con
tract a morganatic marriage with a bour
geoise, the issue are bourgeois; so if a prince
contract a morganatic marriage with a bour
geoise.
If ci prince malic a fiicwlliaiice —say if an
Emperor marry tie daughter of a peasant
(a Griseldaj),'with his right hand— the issue
are not less inheritable than if the mother
had been a princess horn ; while a morga
natic marriage, which is with the left hand,
aoes not invest the issue with any right to
the inheritance of the father. Prince Fbe
dekic is the fruit, not of a rac-iallmnce, but
of a morganatic marriage—the mere fact of
the husband’s giving his left hand to the
bi.de emphatically affirming her inferiority.
The ducal family of Holstein had long
consisted of four branches. Four centuries
ago the eldest and reigning branch acquired
the crown of Denmark. The last prince of
this line was the late King of Denmark and
Duke of Holstein, Frederic the Seventh.
The crown of Denmark was descendible to
females in default of males, but the County
or Duchy of Holstein was descendible to
males only.
The three junior branches of the Holstein
family were : Ist. That of Augustenbourg ;
2d. That of Gliickstadt; 3d. That of Gottorp.
The Augustenbourg branch had no blood
connexion with Denmark ; that of Gliick
stadt through females the royal
family at Copenhagen; that of Gottorpi 3
represented by the Czar Alexander ir., of
Russia, who, without the territory,, inherits
the title of Duke of Holstcin-Gottorp. In
IK) 8 the present Duke of Augustenbourg
joined the rebellion in Holstein, and, on its
suppression, was pardoned and restored to
his forfeited possessions in Holstein, upon
condition of relinquishing his contingent
right of succession to that Duchy, for the
benefit of Prince Christian of Gliickstadt,
who, by reason of a renunciation made by
the Landgravine of Hesße, of the first Hol
stein branch, had become the presumptive
heir to the crown of Denmark. At the same
time, he received, as compensation, a sum
of $150,000. The reason why Prince
Christian of Gliickstadt was appointed
successor to the childless king of Denmark,
was that Tie had borne arms, on the side of
Denmark, in the rebellion in Holstein.
The Duke of Augustenbourg renounced,
before 1853, for himself and descendants,
all claim to the Duchies. The public law of
.Europe has generally made such renuncia
tions binding upon descendants. Of this
there are numerous historical examples.
All the descendants of the party thus re
nouncing hold bound by the act. If the
Duke of Augustenbourg, who is still alive,
bound only himself, his son now claims,
not in his own right, as the next heir, hut
as the cessionnaire of a right which had, as
against the cedent father, been extinguished
long before the cession was made.
, wcmM a PPear, then, that the Augus
tenbourg prince rests his family claims to !
the German Duchies of Denmark on very !
slight grounds. The whole diffl cuUy mt ght i
have been settled, on the accession of Kimr '
Christian, by his taking such measures !
as would have preserved the nationality
of the Duchies. This act of justice ho S
was advised not to do. The result is '<
the inhabitants of the Duchica have Bhown
themselves anxious to withdraw from their
allegiance to -Denmark, and even King
Christian’s own brother has quitted Co
penhagen rather than take the oaths to him.
Another curious anomaly in the political
trouble is that, out of the six European
Powers who appointed Cubistian to the
Danish Crown, two are in arms against
him, and it is said that a third ("Russia ) has
threatened to annex Denmark if the treaty
of 1852 be not carried out. The fact that
their respective Parliaments have refused to
supply the sinews of war to the Emperor of
Austria and the King of Prussia, may check
the onward course of these princes.
The Mexican Question.— One of the best
political bon mois of the age was M. Jules
Faykk's retort to Napoleon’s Minister,
during the recent debate on Mexico in the
French Legislative Corps. M. Rouzrnn re
ferred to universal suffrage as the test of
Mexican feeling, on which M. Jules Favke
remarked that it was odd policy to kill a
nation in order to obtain its vote. “ Are we,
like Pagan priests,” said he, “to cousult
the entrails of victims for favorable augu
ries t” This is an epic in brief; the Empe
ror’s Mexican policy in a nutshell.
LETTER FROM “OCmiOML”
Washington, Fob. 12, 1864.
The military situation begins again to
assnmc a grave and momentous aspect, and
the interest aroused by the proceedings of
Congress is once more absorbed in the pro
gress of our armies and in the probable pur
poses. ot the rebels. Many speculations and
not a few complaints spring from the rumor
ed dangers surrounding our recently-recover
ed vantage ground in East Tennessee ; but
I feel justified in saying that, whoever may
be to blame for the late reverses in that
quaiter, very little apprehension need be
entertained as to our ability to hold
and rivet what we have gained.
It would, indeed, be a sad termi
nation of ail tlie sacrifices and losses of
the people and the army, and a mournful
sequel to the liberal contributions of the free
States, in response to the appeals of such pa
triots as Taylor and Montgomery for the
purpose of relieving the sufferings of the
impoverished population of Eastern Tennes
see, if that interesting region should fall
into the hands of the heartless rufliang
from whom it has been rescued. The prize
is too valuable to be easily or even tempora
rily surrendered. Some of the most intelli
gent observers of the times do not hesitate
to say that the rebel chiefs would rather
yield Virginia than fail in the reconque3t of
Eastern Tennessee, and this theory is advo
cated the more strenuously since the last
report of the evacuation of Richmond.
But when we note the grand land and
water movement organizing under Sherman
and Porter on a more distant line, involving
and closing in, as it must, a section or sec
tions equally important with that of Eastern
Tennessee, and thus rendering it physically
impossible for the rebels to retain any
part of that .State, we may well dismiss se
rious apprehensions. The coming campaign
will, of necessity, be one of the greatest
magnitude. Every reason and every interest,
political, financial, and commercial, con
spire to make it as decisive as possible.
It may be that the preparations for this cam
paign have given to the rebels an opportu
nity suddenly to attack our salient points
with such forces as they have at hand, but
these will be ventures of impulse rather than
of cool deliberation. The blows soon to be
struck by the Union forces will be terrible.
Our reinforcements, unlike those extracted
from the famished and desperate people of
the South, are drawn .from a fresh and
athletic race, who are strong from the double
motive of leaving their families or those
dependent on them well provided when
they go to the field, and the ennobling con-
sciousness that their cause is good. There
is no holding back in such recruits; no re
morseful recollections; no ghosts following
them fas they march to the defence of their
countryj of breadless children and despond
ent wives, mothers, and fathers. How dif
ferent from the rank and file on the adverse
side! You have only to read the de
bates of the conspirators in the Richmond.
Congress to enjoy the eloquent and con
vincing contrast. And the confessions
are from men that we know to have been
men of mark in days when they had not
blackened their soulb with perjury and
treason. Mr. Smith, of North Carolina,
fno doubt the same -who was near being
elected Speaker of the House five years ago,
and was, in fact, elected for a short time,
and would have taken the place but for a
lew changes of votes, ) declared on the 30th
of January, in the Richmond “ Congress,”
that there were four hundred thousand
men on the muster-rolls of their army, and
that less than one-half of this force probably
w r as now in the field; “but it is well
known,” said he, “that we are unable to
feed this fractional part that is in the field.”
If provisions were to be seized to feed this
army, “where, he would ask, were the
means to feed the ten times that number
who remained at home ?” “ Private appeals
were daily coming to members of Congress
from soldiers in the army, speaking of the
suflerings at home—how many of their
families are wanting the necessaries of life,
when they are unable to send them any part
of their scant pay; how many are asking
relief from the farming interests ; how some,
stimulated by the prospects of starvation,
and the deficiency of food in the army, are
driven to despair and dese tion.”
Mr. Chalmers, of Virginia, another fa
miliar name, said, in the same debate, that
* 1 manufactures were as necessary as agri
culture, and there was as great a deficiency
in clothing to-day as there was in food.”
He was opposed to exemptions. “We
must,” he said, “have more than two hun
dred thousand men in the field next spring.
We have all the supplies we wiU have then,
for the farmers’ products ("Indian com;
won’t be available till next winter.”
Mr. Goode, of the same State, better
known in the free States than many of the
living actors in the Secession drama, de
clared that his State could not stand another
draft, and that their great danger to-day
was not Jeff Davis, “but the tyrant at
Washington.”
And laßt, though least in stature, comes
the erratic and impulsive ex-Governor Mc-
Eae, of Mississippi, whose rampant Seces
sionism seems to have oozed out under the
presence and pressure of the Northern
He contended that their present
insufficiency of provisions and clothing ex
isted “ because there were so many of the
enemy within our borders, and we had not
sufficient numbers to drive them out.”
I need not add that no such utterances
have fallen from any opponent of the
Union, not even from Fernando Wood in
Congress, or Vailandigham in Canada.
They would he laughed at by their own
associates if they made the attempt, and by
none more than by the brave men in the
field, composing, as they do, the best-fed,
best-clothed, and best-paid army in the
world. It is this army, in the face of such
confessions of the rebel leaders, and of the
notorious disaffection in, and thousands of
desertions from, the rebel lines, and the
despair of the Southern people, that will
soon he thrown upon the forces of the
traitors. The latter will fight with the fury
of desperation, but the endurance, the
morale , and the boundless resources of the
North, will prevail as sure as that God
iiveth. As well might the pirate with his
black flag essay to defy the tempest that is
marshalled for his destruction, as for the
rebel hordes to roll back the tide soon to be
let loose upon them. Occasional.
The Treasury.
Washington, Feb. 13 —There are over twenty
five millions ot gold in tne Treasury, sad It is ru
mored here that Mr. Chase wUI, before long, sell a
part of It for notes to apply to the expenses of the
war.
The Secretary Is waiting to see what Congress will
do in reference to taxation, before deciding what de
scription of new bonds to issue.—Foil.
Government Sale of Cigars.
Boston, Feb. 13.— Twenty eases ordgsrs, libelled
in the United States District Court for violation of
the revenue laws, were sold at auction to-day. El
’Deslquio brands ranged from $82.80 to $123 per
thousand; other ohoice lots brought $9O to $lO2.
The average amount per thousand was $93.71.
Specie from California.
San Francisco, Feb. 13.— The steamer Oonstltu*
lion sailed to-day tor Panama, with $BOO,OOO in ipe
ole tor England and $600,000 tor New York.
The Steamer Jura.
Fobtland, Feb. l*.—The steamship Jura sailed
tor Liverpool at 6« o’clock this ftamopn.
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1864:
„ Washington, D. 0., Feb. 13.
Arrival or an Escaped Officer from Kicii-
Captain John f. Porter, of the 14th New York
Cavalry, arrived here to day, overland, from Rich
mond, having escaped two weeks ago from Libby
Prison. He oame out of it in rebel uniform, having
secured one that had been abandoned. He remained
nine days in Riohmond, unsuspected. Among the
recentiy.escaped officers from Libby Prison are Col.
Ftbbioht, Col. TiFPBN, Major John Hbnev, and
Col. Rouorbs ; but it is not known whether they
hare yet cleared the rebel dominions.
The rations Issued to tho offioers iu’the prison con
eist of a quart of rice to sixteen men every eight
days, and a small piece of corn-bread every day to
each, together with about four ounces of very poor
fresh meat once a week, and very rarely salt and
VIDCgM.
Representative Hale, of Pennsylvania, and Se
nator Davis, of Kentucky, have severally Intro
duced biffs, similar in substance, and which are
before the Committees on Claims in both Houses, to
provide for asccrfainl'g and adjus’icg claims against
the Government for injury or destruction or pro
perty by the army of the United States, or by mili
tary suthori'y, during the present rebellion.
There bills provide for the appointment of one
Commissioner and one Solicitor of Claims for the
district composed of the States of Maryland, Penn
• ylvania, the District or Columbia, and Virginia;
one Commissioner and one Solioitor for the district
composed of the States of West Virginia, Ohio, and
Indiana j one Commissioner and one Solicitor for
the district composed of the States of Tennessee and
Kentucky ; one Commissioner and one Solioitor for
the district composed of the States or Illinois, Mis
souri, and Kansas; and ono Commissioner and one
Solicitor for those States not inoluded in the fore
going districts.
The commissioners are severally to have cogni
| zance of gjl claims against the United States
ATiaing in their respective districts, and which
should be presented to them by any person who.
during the present rebellion, has sustained, or may
sustain, damages by injury to, or destruction of,
any property which haa been, or may be, injured or
destroyed by the use or occupation of the army of
the United States, or any division or portion thereof
or by any military authority : Provided , That all ex
ieting claims embraced in the provisions of this act
uot presented for adjustment within three years
firm the passage or this aot, and ail subsequent
claims not presented for adjustment within three
years from the time mayor shall accrue,
shall be forever barred.
It is made the duty of the commissioners also to
ii. quire and take testimony asto the loyalty of every
peison who has‘sustained loss or damage to his or
her propeity during the present rebellion, and who
may present their claims under this sot, and as to
whether the said persons in any manner supported
cr favored rebellion against or resistance to the laws
of the United States. And no person who has en
gaged, or shall at any time engage, in the present
rebellion against the Government of the United
Stales, or been at any time hostile to such Govern
ment, or given aid and comfort to those engaged in
the rebellion, shall derive any benefit under thja act.
Destitution among: the Cherokees.
Mr. Lewis Ross, brother'of the chief, .Toni* Ross,
' I with credentials showing him to be associated with
the present delegation, hat just arrived at Washing-
I ton, direct from Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation,
whioh place he left on the S2d ult., with despatches
j to the delegation, and a communication to the Presi
dent from the National Council, touching the poei
[ tive destitution and suffering condition of the ioyal
j Cherokees, and general mismanagement of army
I affairs there, which is corroborated from other re
liable sources. The following are a few extraota
I from the report of our present U. S. Indian Agent,
j J. Haeiak, Etq., from Fort Gibson, Deo. 7th, 1383,
I to Wh. G. Coffin, superintendent of Indian affairs,
at Leavenworth City, Kansas :
There seems to be no system in anything but one,
I in the management of the army here. And let who
I will be at the head of affairs, the same system con*
tinues, and that is, to keep the whole Indian force,
(twenty-two hundred of whom are Cherokees)
rolely against their will, cooped up as closely as pos
sible in Fort Gibson, while Kansas troops and
others jayhawk the country for oattle for use and
abuse—horses to run off to Kansas, all the corn
they can use and destroy, and garden vegetables.
A man must be here, and see and hear for himieir
to get a just idea of the management, or want of
management. “Under the present management,
and it is as good, I think, aa the present managers
can do,” white soldiers, sutlers’ wagons, army wag-
ODers, foragers, scouring the country in every direc
tion on every road, have left desolation in their wake
throughout the nation. “We are excused, and some
times justified, when, under uncontrollable passion
caused by great provocation, they inflict a great in
jmy on an enemy causing it. But when a whole na‘
tion is ruined by its friends, which has done no
wrong, there is no excuse. We are taught to believe
there is a just God who rules tho universe. Why
the Cherokees should be wholly destroyed, tortured,
littJe at a time, by their friends, by those sent here
by the Government, under treaty stipulations, for
which the Government received an adequate con
sideration, shakes the faith of the truest believer ”
And in a communication from John T. Cox, Esq
Indian agent, dated Fort Gibson, C. N., Deo. 5 1363
to Superintendent Coffin, he says :“ I must,’as in
my rormer letters and reports, urge that more abun
dant supplies be sent, on account of the constant de
crease or supplies-and the inclemency or the season-
On the 16th inst. rations will be due, and not less
then three thousand will bo promptly on hand to re
ceive them, but we will not have one pound of flour
or meal for them, nor a possible chance for any for
three weeks. Nearly all must suffer, and want
starve.
The enrolt&ent bill, at returned to the Senate, with
the House amendment!, will be acted upon bp the
Military Committee or the former body to-morrow.
The points of disagreement between the two branches
of CoDgrecs are comparatively trifling, and will soon
be adjusted and the bill become a law.
Gov. Andrew Johnson. •
Governor Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, has
arrived in Washington.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Kollock, who feigned
to be affected with the rmall-pox, has deserted from
the U. S. steamer Brandywine.
Acquittal ol the Presidents Coachman.
Patterson MoGee, the President’s former ooaoh.
man, who was arrested on suspicion of setting 'fire
to the President’s stables on Wednesday night, has
been liberated bp Justice Drury, the oharge not
having been substantiated. The accused was at
Grover’s theatre at the time the Are was first dis
covered.
THE WAR IN VIRGINIA,
A Railroad Train Captured by Guerillas
Baltimore, Feb. 18.—The express passenger
train which left Camden-street depot on Thursday
night, for Wheeling and Intermediate points, was
esptured by a company of rebels when near Kear
neysville depot, about eight milee west of Harper’s
Feiry.
It appears that a switch had been turned and the
usual signal, the waving of a lighted lamp, made
by the “raiders” as the train approached. The
signal oaused the engineer to stop the engine. The
train was then surrounded by the rebels, and a
number of aimed men entered the oars.
The passengers, among whom, of course, there was
great consternation, were more or less mulcted in
the shape of ransom. Some produced greenbacks,
others watches, while several reluctantly gave dia
monds, rings, or breastpins as equivalent for their
personal liberty.
The aggregate amount of money taken from pas
sengers was not 530,000, while the value or
the jewelry was also considered large.
It Is said that Major Harvey Gilmor, of the rebel
cavalry, was in command of the expedition. No one
was injured, nor was there the least disposition on
the part of the “ raiders ” to take any prisoners.
Several members of the Maryland State HegUla
tuie, delegates from the western counties, were
tmorg the passengers.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THE RAID.
Depxrtmbut West VinoiNix, Feb. 14.—[Special
to New Yoik Herald J—A portion ol the guerilla
paitythat stopped the train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, and robbed the pasaengers, were
overtaken and captured a few hours after the rob
beiy was committed.
Fiom the best information it does not seem that
they numbered over thirty-elght, and we got ten of
them. Our cavalry bands are still on the hunt.
They consist or some of the chivalry, and rebel
sympathizing Baltimoreans constitute a portion.
RECONSTRUCTION IN TENNESSEE.
St. Louis, Feb. 13.—The Memphis Bulletin pub.
lubes a card, signed by three hundred of the best
eitizess of that place, addressed to the people of
Tennessee, upon the subject of the reorganization of
State, and the re-establishment or relations with the
the National Government. Itreeommends immediate
and unconditional emancipation as the best and
truest policy and only alternative, and calls upon all
to support the same by meeting at Memphis on the
23d Inst.
BEOEGANIZATION MEETING AT MEM-
Cairo, Feb. H.—A reorganization meeting was
held at Memphii on the 10th, and adopted reeolu
tiona ol emancipation as recommended by Governor
Johnson.
Advices from Natchez to the 6th represent a
healthy reaetion as taking place in that vicinity.
The planters are returning to their allegiance and
their property, and a large number of deserters are
coming into our lines. They report the country in
a terrible state of disorganization. All the males
between eiateen and sixty years of age are being
taken for conscripts. Boots are sold at $2OO per
pair; coats, $360; overshoes, from $lOO to $l5O.
The Union sentiment in and around Natchez la
growing. Eighty-four men enlisted in the 2d Lou
isiana Cavalry from one section alone.
Much sickness prevails In the contraband oamps,
and the small-pox is raging to a considerable extent,
and many are dying for want or tke proper treat
ment. There are also many esses among the citi
zens.
The judiciary district of Natohez hat been fully
reorganized under Judge Hart and his associates.
General Ohetlain, commander of the colored troops
in the State of Tennessee, has left for Memphis.
A number of horse.thievesi and notorious coun
terfeiters escaped from the Cairo jail last night.
The steamer Swan pasted here to-day for Cincin
nati, with ezo bales of cotton.
Fortress Mohrob, Feb. 12.— The steamship Go
vernor Chase has arrived hen, in twenty-six hours
Horn Philadelphia, with the 22d United States
Colored Beglznexit. The trip was a pleasant one,
and the troops are all In good spirits.
Fortrrbb Moxrob, Feb. 14.— The brig li. D.
Csrnw, Captain Samuel White, from Philadelphia,
bound to Pensacola, was wrecked on Farmer’s Beach
last night, and la a total loss. The crew were saved.
WASHINGTON.
Tflc Adjustment or Claims.
Tlie Enrolment Bill.
Desertion.
FORTRESS MONROE.
IMPORTANT REBEL NEWS.
Reported Escape of ICO Officers from
Libby Prison.
CONDITION OF THE REBELS.
WAS&nroroir, Feb. 14.—A gentleman who arrived
to-night from the Army of the Potomac saw before
he left there a Kiohmond paper of Thursday, found
on the pei son of a deserter who oamo into our lines,
in which appears an article stating that 109 Union
effleers have escaped from Libby Prison, by digging
a tunnel under the street for that purposes It is
supposed that the prisoners had been engaged upon
the work for at least a month. They were missed
at roll call, and forthwith troops were despatched
in various directions to. capture them. Four
were overtaken on the Williamsburg and Han
over Court House roads. The others, it Is
supposed, were secreted in the neighborhood of
Richmond. The guards were arrested on the belief
that they were in collusion with the prisoners, but
were afterwards released, the subterranean mode of
escape having become knowD. The paper says that
Neal Dow was not among the runawaye, but was
probably waiting to accompany the next batch.
The deserter above referred to say* * large num
ber of his regiment, the 14th Louisiana, were bare,
foot, and that the daily ration consisted of a quarter
pound cf meat and one pint of meal.
There have been no active military movements
for a week past.
THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST.
REBELS DEFEATED ON TIE YAZOO RIVER,
A SICK NEGRO SOLDIER MURDERED—RETALIATION,
Rebel Deserters at Little Rock Entering
our Army.
Cairo, Feb. 14,—The Memphis papers of the 13th
contain no news.
The slesmer Platte River has returned from S*r
latia, Yszoo liver, where she, with other transports
and gunboats of Generals Porter and Sherman’s ex
pedition, were attacked on the 6th by a force of 3,000
Texan troops, who, with artillery and musketry,
fired into the transports, wounding six soldiers. A
fight ensued in whioh a portion of our infantry and
our gunboats participated, resulting in dislodging
and driving the enemy, with what loss is unknown.
Eight or our men were killed and thirty wounded.
The llth Illinois, with the negro cavalry and in
fantry, were engaged in the affair.
The enemy were also driven from MeohanlcavUie
without loss to us.
A sick negro soldier, belonging to Col. Wood's
command, Btrsggied from the regiment, and was
murdered by the rebels. A lieutenant and two pri
vates, who committed the deed, were captured, and
Col. Wood, in retaliation, had them blindfolded,
earned them to kneel upon the dead body of the ne
gro they had murdered, when they were shot.
Colonel Andrews, of the 3d Minnesota Cavalry, at
Little Rock, has been made a brigadier general. HU
regiment has re-enllsted. A portion of them arrived
here to-day en rr ute for borne.
All was quiet at Little Rook. Deserters are
coming into our lines In Urge numbers, and reri.
ments are forming, two of them being filled with de
sertera from Price’s army. They state that no
knowledge of the amnesty proclamation existed
among Price's men, and express the opinion that as
'°° n fl , s * lle J, bcow lla conditions theie will soon be
little left of his army.
Tllc Steamers Built for China-Keturm to
En-glaml.
nf-.t N K I ’ E^ C,SC0 * Febl W-Hong Kong papers of
December 20, received here, do not mention the gale
China * teamera wllicil out from England for
They .sytbat the Chinese Government repudl
#tf.lt^eJ)arsaln wWch lta “Sent made for vessels
with Oiborn, the agent of the British Government,
on the ground that his instructions were exceeded,
for instead of furnishing river flotilla, which was
intended, Osborn brought out a fleet sufficient to
guard the entire Chinese coast, composed of expen*
sive vessels, too large for river servioe.
Moreover, the owner’s agent, Mr. Lay, entered
into an engagement with the officers and orew, in
volving great outlay, without authority. After
further refusal, Osborn went to Pekin, making there
every effort for the acceptance of the steamers, but
in vain. The Chinese Government preferred to
forfeit the advance already made. Osborn conse
quently returned to Shanghae, registered the vessels
as British at the Consulate, and despatched them,
part to England and part to Bombay.
The Hong Koi g Pros' of the 16th says they have
all left ere this.
Arriveii-Ship Lydia Sohofleld, from Boston: bark
Edith Eob6, from New York.
Butter is firm, and the shipments from the East
are continued.
The dry weather operates to the injury of the
growing crops, causing the grain markets to assume
increased firmness.
The collector or the port, Mr. James, sailed to-day
in the Constitution for Washington. Naval Officer
Farrell sailed twenty days ago for Washington.
BERMUDA.
New Yoke, Feb. 14 —Bermuda papers of the -2d
mat. have been received here. The steamers Index,
Emily, Minnie, and Caledonia, had arrived from
England, and were supposed to be intended for
blockade-runners. There had been no arrivals from
rebel ports. The steamers Don and Dee had sailed
for Nassau, - -
XXXVIIItIi CONGRESS—Ist SESSION.
Washihbtox, Feb. 13, 1861
BESTATA
Communication from tlie Secretary ofWar
A report of the Secretary of War wm read, answering
s » o i2 t } o V eia i lve coiomutaiinnß for qnar*
ters and fa*!, and scon*mg that there aresB7 officers here
dra-wluff Bu c h coinmu-ation, viz.: 9 major generals
24 b c ?.J o S els - ilemenant colonels,’
24 majors, 12t captains, 4,.* lieutenants, 24 surgeons. 12
assistant surgeon*, and 79 pa> roasters.
.v *V-fL° WE’ of Wisconsin, presented a memorial from
the llilkaußee Chamber of Commence, representing that
within a few roonthß more than twenty-five millions of
dollars have been mixed, and are now waiting egres*,
Bl ??. Bf;f ** n * sid lD the conetrnchon of a wagon road with
Sirea ly trotection trough Central Minnesota. 1 Re
, Mr. HARLAN, of lowa, introduced a hill for the reel*-
tration ©f voters in Wiiehinkton city. SeferreA *„ ?t, a
CoromUtee on the District of Columbia
c .^ n , mot'on of Mr. WILSON, of Massachusetts, th§
Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the bill
states soldiers.
of California, withdrew his amend
ment confining the benefits of the bill to those in the ser
viee from the passage of tlia aet.
Colored. Troop* and the Bounty-A. Debate.
Mr. SUMNER offered an amendment providing that in
ft® #wb ’ ti6y " hau be paii M tlwt rats
Mr. GRiMBS, of lowa, hoped that the Senator wonld
withdraw hxa proposition, and that from this lime for.
soldier, whatever might be his color, may
leceive the same pay; ard if any abases or acts,of injixs
tice arise,they could be remedied by subsequent legisla'
nn?*«rP e ft° P6d «^k a V Ije tf 11 t>9 allowed to Stand
on its merits, without making It retrospective.
ffom : lowa WE concn rred with the views of the Senator
K°Y ed etr i ka out tlie olanseinthe
committee s bill aiyin* colored troopa the same pay, Ac .
except bounty. during the whole time they have been in
Janna] r y, i Ts64“ ,d in6ert ftom aad after the Ist day of
Mr, 6UMMBS eaid he not withdraw his amend
ment without explaining that Its provisions Wonld only
apply to a few regiments, and, ttere'ore. there would
&* 0 *£ r<a £ d i raf^o,ltfc ® treasury. He did not think
?ii a n t «H* e t U ?\ tfcd States could afford, at this time, to do
injustice to tl e colored troops.
Mr FBSSBROfiN, of Maine at this point of the pro
eceding, claimed the floor, and from the Committee on
ginence reported certain amendments to the House De-
POMdnsth koala?. thalc cousilie ™‘ i °“ »e po^
in reply to Mr Sumner,
faic that if the b’ack men of Maryland were as good as
bJack men elsewhere, why make exceptions? They
were ail enlisted under the same law. If justice were
dene according to the view* of the Senator from Massa
chusetts, some $6OO, CCO would be taSen from the treasu
ry, or, as he unoerstood it about si,£oo,<XK). AU should
ho paid alike, why did not Massachusetts pay those
troops herself?
Mr. FESSENDEN said le understood that the colors 1
troops refused to receive it.
WILSOiN- «xpiain«d the circumstances under
TThSch tbe colore,, troops from Massachusetts had refused
to receive their pay. They held the Government to tne
pedscs made to them, and wanted the fall par of thir
month, oratltea to he discharged from
Mr. JOHNSON said then they ware colored gentleman
or extraordinary senatbiliUes 3
Mr. GRIMES said that from tbe very outset his col--
leaaneiMr. Harlarland htmselt were in favor of patting
tfce nearo troops on an equality *ith the -whites, fel
Hr sSlftS.”®?" 1 in J hiis respeet previous to the action
0 xi e .^i a rv^f ron l.^ lasBBcnaseJtß (Mr.' Sumner )
I *v * * aid that in a public ppeeck iiehad stated
1 ViSr 6 ie was in favor of esurMik the war info
SnaTurl faTOl °‘ carl^«*'3 Afrl « n
' thlr. GRIBfhS said he was not only in favor of carrying
tbe African into the war, but for paying him thirteen
dollars per month, and f-r placing him oa a footing with
the other soldiers, if we were going back to pay these
colored troops from M&ss&c&asetts, Ac., why not pay
those from Tennessee? Be was informed that there were
some thirty reaimentß of these troops there.
He thought there waß trouble in the future to be ap-
Pifherdea from making the retrospective character of
this bill indisciimis&te. He sympathized with the gal
a# »?w rictic . yoa ?* “en of the Fifty-fourth and
fi “ Massachusetts (colored) troops, but -he could
s?* At lp toeHevJng that it was on accontt of their action
that the colored men of the tfonth Carolina regiments re
fused to receive their pay.
Mr. COWAN, of Pennsylvania, said that if we were
going beck for these colored men.’ he was also in fitvor
of going back in favor of th« white men who Were our
earliest volunteers, and had borne the heat and burden
of the day.. He was not In favor of overriding the sta
tutes to dojußtlce to these negro troops until equal and
exact justice had been dose to the veteran white soi
olere. -When the country chould ba reftored to tt,
wonted prosperity, we could do justice to all, bat now
ltisfxceedirgly dangerous. . "
b The amendment of Mr. Wilson was then adopted
The smenoinent of Mr Doolittle, providing that from
tfcejnonthly pay of colored troops mustered into the se™
Vice in tne insurrectionary States, the sum of three dol
lars per month shall be reserved to reimburse the ex
ptnees ix enrred bj the United States in feeding and
clothing the widows, children, and pa.ente of the sol
dier, was rejected after some debate
Mr. CaBLILB, of Virginia, said that in the old days
of peace the netroes had a holiday on every Saturday
afternoon; and, as all persons were equal under the
law, and as half the afternoon had been ipent ia the
service or the ntgro, he moved that the Senate do ad
journ. [Great laughter. ]
at the instance -cf several Senators he withdrew his
motion.
Mr. fcUMNBH proposed a proviso, that la all cases of
?aet cervices Of colored troops, Trber© it »buU appear t»
the featlufaetion of the Secretary of War. from the actual
papers of enlistment, that the troops were enlisted under
he act < f July, JS6I, they shall be allowed the pay pre
mised by that act. Rejected—yeas 16, nays 21.
Mr. OOCHKAN offered a substitute for the bill as
amended, providing that, from and after the passage of
this act. all soldiers of the United States, of the same
a «? or theserjlce, sheil receive like compensation.
Mr. COWAH supported his amendment ah length,
claiming that the negro must be regarded as a citizen
offer t>e Constitution, as he received the protection
of the laws*
Mr. SaULSSUKT. of Selawaro. said if that eras the
basis of tie Senator’s substitute, It was abhorrent to his
views, and he would not support It. The old-fashioned
term was '•negro;’'now they are "colored citizens. ”
Mr. HOWE would inquire whether the negroes were
not colored in Pelaw&re-
Mr. BaULBBUBY doubted if they were as *' colored *'
as they were in Wisconsin, according to population. Ho
would never consent to equality, either political or so
cial, with the negio.
Mr. COW AN asserted that the negro had a legal status
under the Confutation wh’oh protected him
„ Ponding the action on the eahstituie of Mr. Cowan, tha
Senate aojvaxnea,
HOUBB 0? REPRESENTATIVES.
The House was not i 1 session to day, having ad iourne 1
til Monday.
Markets by Telegraph.
Baltimore, Ftb. 13 —Flour quiet, extra, ST.6O;
■Wheat firm; Kentucky white $1 95. Cora hasa de
clining tendency; white $1.12; yellow $l.ll. Whiakv
dull at 9le. for i )hio.
Si’ —Cotton without tale,; ».
eelpta 112 bale* Wheat drooping. Cora active and
5 eta. loner. Oat. have deollieu 2oU Flout
ptecied. Bard 10? i ; sale, or l -190 bbls. Pork
deliverable at Clutnoy at $l9. '
CHINA.
CIIARUKSTON.
Atttmpt to Destroy the Bloclcadlhg Fleet
Boston, Feb. 13.—The Herald's Folly Inland cor
respondent eay* that the rebels hare tried several
times, lately, to reinforee the almost worn-out garri
son In the ruins of Fort Sumpter, but have failed.
Most of the men in Fort Sumpter are negro slaves,
and that twenty or thirty are killed daily.
Night before last, it being somewhat hazy, one of
the rebel ramfl, in company with a cigar-shaped tor
pedo boat or infernal maohine, left Mount Pleasant,
and proceeded down the creek in the rear of Suut
van’s Island, for the purpose of going out to make
an attempt to destroy the gunboats Housatonic and
Nipsie, which were doing guard duty that night in
Santee Channel, near Beach Inlet.
When the ram and infernal machine had got ready
to make ;a dash out of the inlet it was found that
the machine was in a sinking condition. She was
then turned baok into the inlet, where she now lies..
She went down, oarirying ten of her crew to the bot
tom. This put an end to the attempt to destroy our
vessels. This is the third infernal maohine the rebels
have lost.
A few days since a guard of ten rebel soldiers, in
cluding a sergeant] escaped to our lines. They say
that starvation stares them in the face in Charles
ton ; that all oiril laws are at an end; and that
militaiy rulers have full sway over the civil authori
ty ; that they are becoming desperate, and that they
will reEort to every means in their power to force
the blockade here. They report the city badly dam
aged from, the effect of Gilmore’s shells. m
NEW ORLEANS.
Arrival of the Morning Star—Capture of a
Slaver, etc.
Nsw Yowc, rebi 14.—The steamer Morning Star
hag arrived from New Orleans on the 7th via Ha
vana.
A Spanlih war steamer arrived at Havana on
the morning of the 9th with a brig in tow having on
board about seven hundred slaves, captured off
Remedies, on the north side of the Island of Cuba.
Nbw Orlbanb, Feb. 7,—There are no army
movements to report.
The split in the Free-State party continues. It is
thought that Mr, Flanders will be withdrawn before
the election.
A grand flag presentation has taken piaoe. The
flag waß the gift of the ladies of Massachusetts,
reeideDt in New Orleans, to the 4th Brigade of
Cavalry. The presentation was made by the oldest
daughter of Gen. Banka, and acknowledged by 001.
Dudley, commanding the brigade.
The rC'Cnllstment of veterana progresses fiaely.
The 14th Msineis thelastregimentreoorded. Ithas
Just arrived in the city on the way home.
A Conservative Union ticket was nominated last
night, with Christian Roselius at its head for Go
vernor. Its constituency Is composed of semi- secesh.
and pro-slavery Unionists, its hopes for suaoess are
based upon the Bplit in the Free-State party, but the
fiitnds of Mr. Hahn are oonfldent of beating Both it
and the ticket nominated by the bolters from the
regular convection.
The United States steamer Hartford left last eve
f«rJbf. ? Urp ° Be of vi * itin g> «i« supposed, the
fleet off Mobile.
Gold is selling at 63@63>£c, and 62@62Kc is the
buying price. Exchange on New York is par to '-S
discount. Tne discount market is quiet, cotton—
Lew middlings, 73,j strict, 75>j, a decline. The
market is quiet. Sugar—lnferior, Bj£@a%; com-'
montogood common, f,i r to ftillyfair,
; prime to choice, 13X@13%; yellow, clari--
fied, 13»g@i4j white, do, new crop, 15@16>£, and
good fair old crop, 12=f. Molasses-1,200 bbls sold
at 60c for common, 63c for ordinary, 55@660 for good,
680 for prime, and 60c for choice new orop.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT,
Two Cars Him off a Bridge One Hundred
and Twenty five Feet High.
CFrom the Toronto Globe, February 10. J
One of the most frightful railway accidents it has
been our duty to record for a length of time, ocourred
yesterday morning on the Grand Trunk Railway!
suiting in the instant death of three persons; em
iS.*?! 6 . TI SSi. J? e iollowingare the particulars
of the affair. The Grand Trunk Railway, a short
distance west of the Georgetown station, crosses over
the liver oredit by one of the largest bridges oa the
f i IB one of the highest— it nut the very highest
i ll1 *'; ** btieg not less than one hum
d , r ® d R £, d Jwenty.flve feet from the surface of the
, th . c floor of the bridge. The river at
if I *., point “ T f r y “hallow, being at this season
SI-SS? year not more than two or three feet in
and almost completely frozen over. About 8
erdar »s No. 16 freight train!
item Sarnia, was approaching this bridge it
noticed by those on the tram that an axletre’o of we
of the reor cal s was broken. The engine driver, on
being notifUd of the last, at once whisiled “ brakes
but owing to the ice on the track, and the
IL I, j? 1118 ou . the down grade, the train could not be
J7Ef" e< L aB “« under ordinary circumstances.
,1 ™ < l'L f f ct l n tbeaxletree was discovered,
the train was within about two hundred yards of the
bridge, and going at the ordinary rate of speed The
did “•< m their powerto stop it.
£i’i th «n , lfo i t0 ’ however, were unavailing, as 1 the
train still kept moving, and in a few moments entered
on tne bridge. The engine and the tender and a num
« paßaed onward in safety, but just
as the last two ears came upon the bridge the
coupling of the forward one broke. In theaf carl
were the conductor of the train and two brakes
tde Parting of the train the
last two cars ran off tne track, dashed throueh the
aVc e , r :j, l ? 1 „ ,hc -ir" g ?’ to , ok »“ leapkfto the
air, and fell, with a fearful crash, into the river be
neath, a distance of one hundred and twenty-flvefeet.
They weie, ofcourse, smashed to atoms, ana the three
unfortunate men were mangled in such a horrible
menneras to be scarcely distinguishable as human be-
Aiielr arms, br;ciea ? heads, and lesra were cut,
smiaated, and crushed into one sickening. Awful
mass of crctpmg, jellied flesh aril bone. The head
of the unfortunate conductor could, at first, no
where be found, but after searching awhile among
Pieces of skull, face, and brain, all that
pb'Y,”' cai bf d of i*. were picked up and gathered
together. There ean be no doubt that the accident
item the axle tree, as all that portion or
fhl hrif, 1 " bf i? re K th ? broken car passed safely over
toe bridge. The bridge was not very much iaiured
o? thf a few of the rails and the portion
5 Whiell tUecara having
Speech of George Thompson.
At tbe close of Miss Dickinson's lecture la Bos*
*°°’ °“ Thursday, George Thompson, the English
Abolitionist, was called for, and responded as fed.
lows:
: , If one unaocustomed to nubile
BhTwh® Pjf°fd in nn embarrassing pool loa
it is when he is called upon, as I am now to address
haß beßn *° ch "*bed and highly 1“
?, ch cl oquenoe as that whioh it has been
your privilege and my privilege to listen to to-night.
* ayß aa when eome actor who has
?!!!'*?>? the stage retires, the eye looks listlessly to
T,.fH? bO Tv BBowa i 18 i t4 * ’ aDtd 80 * come before you to
-1 hor* C<, T t ' Venty s ® ara * s ° America cast
me irom her. 1 was a vile, pestilent man s I
rr.^TT l^ 101 ? be publio peace; I was an ene
my of the Union; I wzb thought worthv to be tip.
iJOUEced by your President, nnd la an address to
SKV 1 arn unchanged I have not wandered
off from the point on which I then stood, but have
JLE, tvithout variableness or shadow of
hen , l was oast forth these were my last
tmr™ ‘ TK Al s fr j ca wI J I yet Witness another revo
dencp ‘ ,h? e fl[ “n l 18 !?’’ nob,e on ® was for Indepen
cence, the second, holier, more benign, more bleued
more impartial, will be for liberty. But you, the
PmEl®i?J M ,*” aollu i etts ' will livef and I pray God
which T » 6 ’ n* ,be da ? when the principles tor
which tarn l hated,persecuted, and banished ‘will be
the principles oftheOid Bay State." I am no enemy
ot Ameriea now ! I have been an all-but idolri-
Mn n he,i m , irer i O l? ou^ oo V n,r y- Brln K ree an Ameri
can here tonight and place him foot to foot with
me, and let us see who is most American in feeling
m nope, or aspiration, he or I. Thirty year, W ? r
£sh£iM,* rk : lood "P | >" «*« bSrizSn^ 6 Nothin;
p, »ce in your oountry has surprised
5® jYi*, tbl =—“ a ®cly, your enthusiasm for thecause
5t wh ic h I pleaded apparently In vain. I have no
thing to address to you to-night, nothtDg. I have
P ee “Pell-boiinc]. America, be proud ofyourdiugh
r.f m „T .' h , my c' OUr ' t , r5 ’ WOmaill should be pfoud
? f “,y„ c .°V I ritr y for . her * afc e- Appreciate her, reward
her by following her counsels. I must confess lone
accustomed as f have been to puMic meettaS aSS
A e tlMtfo t ££d b ti t h» l °S' 18n 5S on either «ide of the
Atiautio, ard to hearlag those who are esteempri
iS Parliament, I
“° speech which, for its pathos, its argu
ment, ita satire, its eloquence, its hum nr ;«■<*
sarcasm, ard its well direoted denunciations’ has
ever been surpassed by any I have heard before T
eh B . 4bab * b ® this lady may be spared
tbat she may see the desire of her heart in the una-
? B > ad ° r i tIO S by hor ftliow-citizens or themat
principles she has enunciated to-night Givi me
America free from slavery. Give me
which shall be established universally, as vour'len !
tmerhss said to-night, without distinction IfSlime'
mortals could win, the victory over self ti.
example wiil cheer my country on and
sis;* gs
« assdss ssi ■£ SiS “F? S
harvest® wave over them, when vouMJonsfcifcnH™
New Mode of Warfare in River Naviga
tion. "
The Memphis Bulletin of February 6 says ■
The guerillas did heavy work Teitpmkf _
Three shir.teSdSS!.’
tbe pantry, one in the i«m«> £rw^ plo i e ?r' one 1,1
several places, but through the*finarra in lu
of mind or Captain Wlifard h fhl fl^™ nd preseace
Ssoaped them narrowly
injured. e Jl,ai r» cabin, but escaped un
wbeo **
6r periods {Suohtag 1 ?® lD,,auoe * bucalr >g tbe aa nds
MortoSdUd ath?.°r«w ° KTO?, ''^ ThB Hon ' Marcua
DniwSfiW A, flnf b . e , r , 19 ’ nB4 ' Braduated at Brown
Massachusetts Seriate mTsn^H^hSd 8 '* 1 of
Congress frotn th.t. m. , , loll* Us held a scat in
hmZmSi 55?®A at Slate from 1817 to 1821. Iq 1523
fd “lemlnaS r^ e .1 UtlVB Oounol1 5 la 162* was elect
ed urra the D an ‘\.* ub,eauantl y appoint
for many ® B ? Cb ' hb Continued
Hi. nuSic £2..™ E w “' twice eleoteil Gorernor.
3&s&2S@ftSS£S*
&VKri«nHST*“*ssss
SSS:eS'W£L# h s
of the-iSth Ke
veterans oriOd put, " £ e t the t one of t,le
and stob quibbling atvint Ure organize,
aider ourselves repaid foi’ou?hiw»’.S? d Y,® ooa '
to thi. anotber soldier m reply
many CoDncrhsada in *u<» * Thors ars too
meanlzatlnn » tJ ta tbe Senate to effects peaoeful
Sclfridge (a wLfejEP’r.y o soldier, Colonel
the serried Srtm'SS t 2 ,r J rtto
The Great Quicksilver Case.
The triangular Quiokstlver fight was begun In the
Supreme Court, end attract*’much attention. It is
the C&E6 of the Quicksilver Mining Company aad
the Berreyesa Mine against the Government ana
sgafost each other. The case was called oa the
calendar and set down down for argument OH SOth of
this month. The quesrion to he argued is
whether the line between the Berreyesa and Fas*
sat Ranches locates the Almaden Mine of Califor
wJLJJP 01 !*. 00 ® or tte other of these ranches, or
i“ e B °utbern line of both these raoohes lies
ussi °« * he naine, leaving the mine on Government
fS?p e «« rfll J' eftl 's ago this same esse was up be
thl 92F, t ’ and 4t was remanded to
run thft Una i^ OUtt of Oalifornift, with in.struoti.one to
eviflence Sr»i “* n ?<-'r,«nd thatcourt, after
iS“S HM«b p Th£ toO'rtMMM mine on tbe Bjr
owniotwen^
twenty fourths to some minor heir. Tf t-hi
cirion ibould be reverted and the mine bsloc.Hert'nn
tbe Fassatt Bench the Company will own the whom
of it. If the oourt locates the .outhern line of the
tWO ranches SO as to leave t&e mine.,a the public
land, then neither the Berreyesa owners nor the
Quicksilver Mining Company will have any inte
rest, but it will belong exclusively to the Govern
ment. The Attorney General and Mr. Will, appear
for tbe Government, Mei.ro. Black, Gushing, and
Curt* for the Quicksilver Company, and Mr. Wil
linmr, of California, for the Bflrreyesa interest.—
Times.
The Situation in East Tennessee.— We are
authorized to announoe that tbe telegraphic report.,
published in the morning piper., under date of Cin
cinnati, Feb. llth, to the effect that parties arriving
at Nashville from Knoxville, on the 10th instant, re
port that Cumberland Gap i. cut off, and that nearly
all that part of East Tennessee is in possession of
the rebel., i. not confirmed by any information in
the possession of the Government, but, on the con
trary, there 1. good reason to believe that the report
Is not true. If such news had been received at
Knoxville on the 9th or 10th inataDt, it would oeo
tainly have bren communicated to tbe Government
here before this time.— W<nh, Republican,
Public Entertainments.
The Academy of Mcbic.—The patronage be
stowed on tbe German opera hac, so far, been unu
sually brilliant, the Academy having been thronged
every night. This evening, for the fir.t time in
Amerioa, Spohr’s opera of “ Jessonda ” will be pro
duced. New dresses and scenery will give an addi
tional dclat to the production of this opera. Indeed,
we feel confident that the management will more
than keep it. promise, in this respect. The period
represented is tbe sixteenth century, and tbe scene
on the coast of Malabar. The cast is a fine one, in
cluding JohannseD, Frederiol, Hermanns, Himmer,
and Stein echo. The German opera ha. always been
very successful in thi« oity, but never more so than
during the present season, when each department
has been eo unusuallythorough and efficient.
New UHESTNtTT-STKKET THEATRE —The last
night, of “The Ticket-of-Leave Man” are an
nounced. During the past week the audiences have
been excessively large. The evenness of the osstis
the great merit of the performance. Notwithstand
ing the great success of Tom Taylor, play, it will
be withdrawn after a few nights to give way to other
novelties. From the decided success of the new
company we are led to look for equal excellence In
each fresh performance. We have remarked before,
and we reiterate the opinion, that it has never been ao
well performed in this oity, and that the largest, most
gratified, and altogether most paying audience, that
have ever assembled within the walla of the New
Chestnut, have convened there within the term of
Mr. Grover’s management. The Saturday wntindas
are new features, whose excellence should promote
their popularity even should they meet with couutor
competition.
New Akch. street Theatre.— Miss Charlotte
Thompson closed on Saturday no engagement which
we cannot class among the most brilliant or her ne
gotiations. Old, threadbare, and by no means over
attractive plays, were produced, though whether
this was her fault or that of the management we
do not know. Mirs Thompson (by advertisement
and otherwise) has been abundantly extolled else
where. But this not increased her popularity here.
She possesses a touching, charming voice,'and is
fascinating in some of her rides. But, to be perenni
ally attractive in the class of plays which she prim
tipally produces demands considerable novelty. We
are aware of the cut>aud.oome-again career of stars
We know that they are here to-day and gone to-.
morrow, although, to use another original phrase,
unlike the Biblical sparks, they do not always fly
upward. But with the p rivate troubles of the thev
trical profession, which is just as muoh a matteoof
fact means of gaining a living as that of the news
paper is, the public cannot be expected very greatly
to concern itself. Where something novel, and
sudden, and unexpected, and awful, and terrlfio, and
grand, takes place, (as, for instance, the totally new
mode of proof of the immortality of the soul, by the
Davenport infants,) the public are very willing, once
in a while to pay—a dollar ondahair, let us say. But
where flimsy plays are reproduced with no especial
attraction added, the public are very pardonable In
keeping themselves' to themselves.
Miss Etchings enters upbn an engagement this
evening. One or two operas, never before presented
in Philadelphia, are announced. “ Departure for
California,” seems to be the theatrioal dodge. Ever
to many clever people have gone there, and the
latest announcements are those of Miss Etchings
and Miss Western. This naturally brings us round
to the
Wamujt. street Theatre.—As we suspected,
the engagement of Miss Western has not been lim
ited to two weeks. Miss Western, Mrs. Waller,
the management, and the public have been mutually
accommodating, and we shall have “East Lynne”
for a few nighto more. Mrs. Wadier, who is a legi
timate and most effective tragedienne, and who has
not visited ns for one year, will shortly commence
an'engagement.
The Morris Minstrels— The Morris Miu
stieis and Brasß Band, from Boston, enter this eve
ning on their second week at Concert Hall. Their
entertainment is excessively amusing, and moreover
is not without skill and refinement. That bane of
theatricals, want of space, has hitherto prevented
our noticing the very pleasing novelties of the Mor
ris troupe. The company is large, the programme
is new and and the force is most efficient.
Signor Blitz The children of tender years,
known as the Davemport Boys, having vanished
Signor Blitz is alone in his glory at the Assembly
Buildings. The entertainment is always new, and
ao is bis popularity.
Mb. Murdoch's Beadihos.-To- morrow eve.
Bing, end also on Thursday and Saturday, Mr Jai
E. Murdoch will give a eourieof Scriptural 'reodl
Jngs. The renowned elocutionist has entered upon
a new Held, and one which wiil undoubtedly attain
unparalleled success. Musical Fund Hall has been
secured, and will be crowded upon each occasion
The Natiohai, Oincus.-The National Circus
continues on its way, which is by no means wind
ing. Its path hRB been one undeviating course of
deserved success. On nest Thursday evening the
benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker will take place
They are hardworking public performera, and de
serve tubet&ntial encouragement.
THE cit y .
[von APPITIOKAX. CITU mwe, sec VOUBTH FACS.J
Visit of the Naval Committee to
League Ist >. nd-Banqubt at the Continental.
On Saturday the Naval Committee of the House
of Bepresentattoes of the United statea visited
League Island, to their official capacity, for the pur
exs“inkl 8 Peraonally the merit* of that po
sition aa a site for the new navy yard. They were
escorted to their destination by a committee of City
,® ver y* hin e neoea.ary to personal
we i* ** 10 affording the beat mean*
* rao J* '““Plete investigation, were amply pro.
vided. On their return in the evening the com
to participate to aaumptuoua
banquet to their honor, which came off, as every ono
“! I" ‘he met plea’, ant mTnT
l V sr ®t co “P»“y »« down to an elegant
entertainment in the main dialog room, Mr. Lynd,
Stlect Connell, presiding at the head of
nf'tho In °“ elther »“« or him were the members
tbe oommittee, members of the Board of Trade
and Corn Exchange Association, of this city, and
distinguished citizens. Members of City Councils
"2-?*" ““da occnpied the transverse tables,
presentative* left their seats at Wa«hir,'SJli ,e °i Re ‘
now in our midst. They a™ with*ii« n m < i n »* ull r*Ts
ofthi/cnion. “ oa * perished sister State*
ni”ht r th° tbe “ C hereto?
spsssrtgpgrf
LnJ? U «,? ta r e ’?- nd other distingmshed citizens
tox d u l 7.‘ ft f^ i r v e^S„r ana Wlfb ***£%%&
~ S * j,^!' rt 2'* nB . e of fe »tive courtesies has been a
otof™?*,? red custom with all civilized nation*. “2
merely follow a precedent who***
too/ A date whereof the memory of man run.
of not to me contrary. [Applause.]
Sll* 0 '"^ 111 P uW, ° * n d private, is worthy of
fsciii?3o V£* X l on J iU Jndiciouß performance will
ltok“o? e o“unton. en thE blndlDgupOl theb ™Sn
function* here this evening
?DeeSh r^£ oe J hß B P e ® ker » no ‘ to make!
»hecirv^?Phn«LmS5 efore ,ay ’ 10 conclusion, that
sV.i_ y Bhiladelphia expects every man to dnhi.
s£3 *ho d 1 h oP e , th *t that duty will hesopmfeLJd
tog’s Velt/ction? 88 ‘“nscmenlwill bcar, P he“
b Z!l e i V?* concluded, knives and fork*
began to rattle, and the splendid fare of theesta!
blisbment was tested to an inter! sting extent. The
feast of reason and flow of soul commenced about
eleven o clock, when the chairman announced the
first tosst of the evening: announced the
tu7,^„ P b Sen n ‘ ofthe Ucit * d states—One of Na
he participated in so brilliant- which
iitorhoi s £S« ?? smsss
eneroieß, he it a man distinguished by sterling ?i B
Mr. Klee took hi. seat amid great applause, when
Hon. Ja*. S. Rollins, of MUseurL w». oaUedT” 6 ”
to icspond for the “ Union •» H U d '* poa
Union. By birth <*,«*>
man, but be thanked God, he watlt ♦Ei?m Sou ? 1Wl1
a Union man; [a.pplause.l ThirSJ I™/* 0 *? time,
a barquet. whose magnitioest
equalled tnia. was given in th« fully
by General Y^Wngkin
Tennessee [cheers] was an invitedmXt JI VS! OUI ot
SSff i «
live. In ht. posteilty. W* 1 MTSSSna HutttlS
Union shall be maintained though it 00,1 J
year,, more or desolating war. 1
Out honored guciti' l tv as very clmkaml
to by HoAofan A- Orla^oTd,
Mr. Griswold aaK: I left Wartiogtoa vrith\l
pectation of receiving such aeti of ho«DltaM;l
kiodneei at the hand* of the people of Phil&dJ
m I tkJi day been honored with rl
lelasd was tma mornirg to me a mvtkT uJil
What in tbf/fIX of the young lady who h»ii
viiitcd the FMIb of Niagara. IhVww «ke d j
had visited the apot, and, ashamed of her limit*!
vela, replied ahe bad sever aeen them, but had
them very highly apoken of. I hadjif-ver
League leland, but had heard It veiy-oflKy
of. [Laughter and applaute.J lam bound to
however, that at time* I had heard it not to h
»poken of. I waa told in Washington th*
Naval Committee of the Senate had atten
to visit it the other day, and were
land. [Laughter.] I* was- an. extraonb
position. It bad been recommended &a
great naval ddpdt of the country,* and it
until to-day that I saw the explanation of the
culty which the committee encountered \ %a
I learned that instead of cowing w> Philfci e i '
and stopping at the Continental, like
and sober people, or of going directly to J jo ,
Island like the dignified: committee or the ]{ r ,
they undertook to approach League isUmt i> B
way of Chester. [Renewed laughter.) W; } *,
League Island may be in the future, It is faa* t )B ,
ing historic ground. [Applause.] There ar e
lent attacks made against League Island, * 9
ae powerful arguments in its favor, and, W p
interested in the spot, I should propose >
great calmness! that every person in
poiitioo be invited to investigate it. I B t'
TrnnPlW ** was visited to-day by prominent
Union. Afl a citizen fro,,
Sr 1 fcc * A PfMe in whatever you pft .
to know y th U l have ari * ht *> feel proud: lam
Matted £ * re v nve States of thn Union ri
Smfid heSblcf^ 1 CapplauM], and if any,
it wnniil 1 att r»otlons of this ontc;
that the time is not far distant when around'
board, as these there will gatherfas of yr“ '
and brothers from all parts ot our glorious Ren •
[Applaure.J ' '
Hod. T. -T. Bigham, of the State Uesisi.tn,.
sponded in answer to the toast honorary m
vernor Curtin, and Hon. Wm. I>. Kelley foil,
in reply to the sentimeut.
»• The Hon. Secretary of the. Navy—Under hi
ministration our navy has grown to be the loro
of the world.”
Judge Kelley eloquently depicted the grow
the navy, and paid a just tribute to the.
bility and quiet statesmanship of Mr. WeJ[ P ,
then B&idtbatbe vmintensely interested for Lg
Island, and would say to Congreif that if
dclphia did not present tbe best site fora
station, he would not ask that it should beaciv.
When he viewtd the great advantages which ]>'
Island o/Tered in its situation in fresh wa**>
nearness to the coal and iron of PenniylvAoi.
contiguity to a great and thriving oity, he c
not but feel that a* every day passed by there
one day less to indulge anticipation*, bo Hrm
bis belief that Philadelphia is the right losatln i
Hon. Samuel Ji Randall, who was
speaker, expressed very decidedly his prefop
for League Island, in the course of a speech in
sive to the "Army and Navy.” He Bald tha-
Philadelphia delegation, regardless of politic j
a unit in lavorof League Island, and that the k
Committee, despite the abuse against the iJcat
w«ie disposed to do it full justice.
On Account of the lateness of the hour, far
Ui day night bud vanished into the pCao«*fui j.
of tbe Sabbath, the regular toasts of the m*
were thereafter dispersed with. As the com
were about breaking up, there were Join! c^i 1 ,
Mr. Donnelly, Representative from
in response to the urgent demands, Mr. D. rjl v
biief, patriotic, and spirited speech, tu ty;,.,,,/
pledged himself to do for Pbiladelpbia, niV
home, whatever was in his power, whenevc-* ”
not violate tbe obligations he owed to hi*
■tituenoy.
Among other guests. Hon. J, M. Rrootasii ,
the delegation of citizen* from >”■
last week, so handsomely entertained the in’
Naval Committee and a large representation <V •
zfDB from Philadelphia, were present, we believe
invitation.
- The entertainment was furniithe:! in the hi
style, but tbe conduct of those having charge of
ariangrments was characterized by* a
which, we feel bound to say, does not reflect c*
upon our municipal interests.
Phtlotecunic Society.—Tliia soci"
whioh isoompoied of Alumoi ana unaergr,u'i>.
of ttie FolJ'teolmlo College, field Its fir.t pnbiio m
iDg of the year In the leotuie-room of the cn’v
on Thursday evening last, the President, !«,
F. 'Wittmer, Esq., of Lancaster county, i' n ,
chair. After the reading of the minutes or tt,--
ceding husinesß meeting by the newly elected s '•
tary, Mr. F. Flrmstnne, of Easton, the pie,,,'
introduced Mr. John W. Nystrom, who g» ve a hi j
interesting account of the history of modern a,
architecture, especially as regarded the “ii L ,
of the ship. Upon the proper selection ami am,
ment of these depended the capacity of thr --i
for speed. The resemblance of these lines i, -
fleetest vessels to certain curves derived fro -i
tions of the oone hsd long been observed: but i* t
to Sweden, the native country of the lecturer'-
the worJd was Indebted for the proof that the ' ,"
bollc form is the best. He hsd sought to add t
knowledge of the subject, and his investleatloM,
him to the conclusion that the parabola both ■
tbe cross-sectious and the longitudinal, oiisbt til
adopted, at least below the water line He it I
trated and enforced bis position by diagrams ,1
sections of vessels, the lines of which, iron ti
stem and the stem to tbe “ dead-flat ” or wi td
section, and crosswise from the water-line to il
keel, were parabolio. Two beautiful model, ]
hulls on this principle, and mathematical tables v!
foimuim for calculations based upon it, were nj
placed before the audienoe, who testified their sstl
faction by passing a resolution oompiimenlatv J
the lecturer before adjournment. , 1
Advance op Price.— The horseshoe:*
this city have resolved to charge two dollars op- 1
for horseehoing. All tbe “ bosses” have exiiresii
their determination to enforce the rate.
CITY ITEMS.
Thb • i Flobxttob” Sewing Machine.—Thin o;.
brated Sewing Machine, made by the Florence -
M. Company, and sold in this oity at their spier '!
establishment, No. 630 Chestnut street, is f ua -|
attracting universal attention. It makes no J
than four different stitches, alt perfectly; is n s ,e J
with more ease than any other; perfoMyr • v»r;J
of thirgs which no other machine hm-VJ
tempted; Is so simple and yet durable In ire c;J
struction that for It to get out of repair It aind
impossible, and is highly ornamental. It i, ,
wonder, therefore, that it la rapidly taking tie y j
front place in the sewing machine category. J
own judgment is, that it is the moßt perfectly.')!
struct! u labor-saving maohine in the word, 1.. ri
body should go to No. 630 Chestnut street an > -J
there machines in operation. I
Gbeat Guns !—This expression Is *omeH«
used in a literal sense, but oftener figurative!?. :
the former it applies appropriately to the great or
non recently cast at Pittsburg, weighing 113, .»
C“ B;^ the , lattec applies with equal fora!
the great Coal Establishment of W, W. Alter l
North Ninth street. We are quite sure that's
latter does more firing than the Pittsburg gas c.
ever do, though it may make less noise.
Towriro Icebergs—A genius in New Her) fori
fitting up a steamer for the purpose of towing m
IS 1 *olodi 0Iodia > where they sell for six cents a pour!
This would be about as sagacious as to attempt!
take around upon rollers, to all the customers of •>
ooncern, the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of fine!
bill & Wilson, Nos. 603 and 60S Chestnut strse
above Sixth. Persons in want of a ton of ice or
first class suit of clothes will profit by this hint.
An Elegant Stock os Gentlemen's Fn
fhaf Cmbraolng everything necessary!!
ifiAt lino for a man of taste to we&r. tvfii hp finin
6loO,le,tl iUt*treet. Hit "Prill
MthS agef \ ’ ted byX F ' Taggart,l«w ; S!!!-
Gheat Beduction in Pbiobs.
Great Beduction In Prices.
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine Cloaks,
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine Closks.
Alio,
Bieh Furs of all kinds,
Rich Purs of all kinds.
now of , the 0101,8 of 1118 eeasori, wa u
mernS" 63 msko * ,ar 8* «>“eession from SOI
mer priees on all our stock.
J.W. PEOOTOE A Co,,
The Paris Cloak and Fur Emporium,
920 Chestnut street.
&CoJJ OIIR WIKTEE CloTa "«> at Chas. Svo«’
Bnv llul w ia t er ® lothlD S Ohas. stokes & CO.'!
Buy your Winter Clothing at Ohas. Stokes 3t Co.i
“ One Price,”
“ One Price,”
“One Price,”
Chestnut .‘I 1 * 6 !’ unde rthe Continental Hotel.
cS" ', Under thß Continental Hotel.
Chestnut street, under the Continental Hotel.
hiT” DnKß| Who “ m 8 *° Mir lMia!
eaidta ho ro » S 0I 1“ ,Mne tlme *fiO, In Paris, h
the Lurne.oof f “ Plating a vlBlt t 0 this country .of
Stlt« “S. f raß,mutSll S his diamonds into Unite!
much ta. T nm<ait considering thca
= uve,tment> He h “ *tresdy trsn»
muted to the Parisian outter at the fashionable tai
loringeitabllehment of Granville Stokes, No.e«
Chestnut Street, his order for a complete outfit
the latest American itylei, v
Weat«fwith'th« T^», mo A . B • throat disea.es, catarrt,
SSrsr^asssKt
street! ««mined at hi, office, 1027 Walnut
M^^-^Slsr™Marti» A i" u A ? D ‘ rHIIIIi Tkbat-
South’ Sixth street, announmtw K * pubu,bet ‘’ 2S
lar medical work®
Mosehzisker, t.»ow^“
Eoonomv should n H , ‘ .
in all things. One dollar by CTOI7b ° J
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