188 ATTENTION OB the trade OUR STOCK OF IXOITI WOOLEN CO. nil-wool PUln PlAnnelr willed flannels. Varloui makea In Gray. Scarlet. And Dark Bin*. HINTED BHIBTIHO FL ANNUM. lain opera flannels. iLAGK cotton warp cloths, JLAUB. u us, 16, 17, IS, M. M, n, 22 01 riNCT CABSIMEBBS AND SATINSTTB. lALMORAL SKIRTS, all Grades. joTTON GOODS. DENIMS. TICKS. STRIPES. SHIRT INGS, A*., from varlon* Mills. PS COITRSEI, HAMILTON, & KVAIfS* S 3 LBTITIA Street, end 3» South FRONT Street fe27-Tnmitae6 HORACE H. SOT3LE, O- -eOMMISSIONMESCntNT 3SA NORTH FRONT STR-SHI. PF.I.ADKI.PHIA. .nut for the U XOHVIL ts HILLS, WOT TON MAEDfioTHRING CO., COMPANY. oAIIt WORSTED AND YARNS. Fine WorMwl. In colors: Dossils and »«. Jute Yarn*. COTTON YARNS, a Warp and Bundle. J'i’aEX^KlR 4 PR ALL. OAKMAN, ind other well-known Hllle. CARPETS. ■pNTINSNTAL HILLS. INGRAIN, AND VENETIAN cabpbts. LINEN THREAD. SAMPSON’S ARQYLE, VINCENT MILLS, MCDONALD'S BATIN FINISH BOOKBINDERS’. CABOPET THREAD. Eoruleb* HORACE H. SOCLE, phl-Sm 38 North FRONT Street, mpKWEP & TRTTEFITT. _ COHXIBSION MERCHANTS, No. Ml CHESTNUT STREET. UT9 lA BU>tt* tad offer to the trade, ffKSKOH, B&mSH. AND aSBIUXT dbesb goods; SHAWM, of all descriptions. VEIL GOODB, in all colors, j i 5-4, and 8-4 ENGLISH CRAPES. LINEN CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS. &«■ fe3B-lm gAGS! BAGS! BAGSI NEW AND SECOND-HAND. gmnrr.uiM. BURLAP, AND GUNNY BAGS, FLOUR AND SALT BAGr. ALL SIZES, PRINTED TO ORDER. BY J?™* oTRjf&T. rmAIN BAGS.—A LARGE ASSOBT 'UP jteht o i as.ua bags. TUMmi UK*. for *H« BABCROTT M 00., 1f 08. 405 and «OT MAKKBT Strati. gHIPLEY, HAZABD, & HUTOHIN- So *‘ Jto. 11* CHEST NUT STREET. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 808 THE BALE O? PHBLADBLPHIA.-MA.DB GOODB. 0<26-6m MEW YORK ADVERTISEMENTS. gHAW A COFFIN, IMPOSTERS, £0 PASS PLAGE AHD 16 MURRAY BTRBET. MEW YORK. H*n la stan ul constantly rec&Wlnl direct hem gumiaetitrers: BDELAPS, Oil width*. FI.OOS CLOTH CANVAS, 4,8, and 8 yard*. BAGKHN®, la Bond, or Export. CANVAS PADDINGS, HEMP CABPETING, eed PADDINGS, towels, diapees, sheetings, AO. FLAX AND JUTE YARNS, TOE cabpet majtoiaotdebbs. For sals on favorable terms. CARPETINGS. 1864. GXJBN echo mills, v aHUUBTOWH, PA. McCALLUM a CO., HAiroPAtmnaM. importers, ahdwholrsali 1864. SPBING, DBALBKS in OA.M’jBTIItf'Ca-S. OIL CLOTHS, £c« Warehouse, 509 Chestnut Street, OFFOSITIIBTDEPBNDKWCB HALL. fcl-tf gPECIAL NOTIOEi BBT AH. DEPARTMENT. McCALLCM & CO. Bee leave Vo Wormth® public tlurt they b»ve l«»edtbe Old ettabllabed Carps' Stor., Xg, 519 CHESTNUT STREET, Oo,*oaita I&dnMnbno. Hall* tot A RSTAIL DBPABTHKRT, m.n they to* »ow opealn* a HEW STOGK of IMPORTED AID AMERICAS CARPETS, , g£?k!& th * • holtwt cabestb. liiaftMWttla full aaaortmeut of everythin! pertaht (ll to th. Carrot Baatnaaa- *” jjjNTEBPBISE MILLS. ATWOOD, RALSTON, & C 0„ CU.mnr.HiT n ” M arc WHOUBUi diues nr OARFETINGS, OIL-CLOTHS, MATTINGS, &c., &c. WAREHOUSE, «# CHESTNUT STREET, fcVSa *l* JiTBS STKSST. drugs. yjm.T.TAM M. WILSON, yf\ l»08 HASKBT Street. True Turkey Krrrh, eerooua. Coriander Bead*, ban- Corrawar Beads, baro. Unb. lam. Gln»®r, bbla. Grain.Br*ot,new crop, bole. Ber. Arrow Boot, kecs. Union. Salad Oil, obi*. OilSasoafras, cans. . ' ** Gltronella* Winter’s, cases. “ CifcroneUa. satire, cases “ Lemon* new crop, eases. •* Soee. Commercial. cases. •• Oran*e,cans. • • Benamot V. C.. cans. Bow’d Antimony. 100 ft cases, Bad Gentian, bales. In stoSfta t£u’p W DIO PAINTS. PDTTT, AO*)T9t VOS TS3 OBLKBAATID FBENOH ZINC PAINTS. ud »t pJ . IGJ|a TOK oAsa CARRIAGES. THE! BEST- FINISHED STOCK host o a e f b iaa B s En Philadelphia . .. J. 8. COLLIItOS A SOUS. , frifl-lm 685 AEOH Strut. GEO. W. WATSON BY GOO D S, jTos. 539 *nd Jt*I2fOBTH THIBD ST.* above B&ea. Philadelphia, HkTe bow open their tuu&l IjABGE and complete stock OF .t 70BBIGK JIHD DOMESTIC DBY GOODS. Kotwithstandln* the scarcity of many kind*of Dry goods, our stook is bow foil and yaried In all its do- lnvited to ; Embracing many NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS, Received direct from their Paris Agents. It will be their aim to ifvetothe Philadelphia^ public! ALL.THE ADVANTAGES POSSESSED BV PARIS AgD NEW VOBK HOUSES, and their customers will find their at yCh SUPERIOR IN STYIiE AND WORKMANSHIP To any ever offered in this city- No effort will be spared t*> moiit the confidence of those who may favor ‘ F“s! , -Ma t dame LEM^RE wU 1 give his special atten tion to the ITITIhG AND TRIMMING DEPARTMENT of the business. . \ L. LEFEVRE & CO., Impoitere'and Manufacturers of Cloaks, Mantilla?, *e. Saleroom* *O4 CHESTNUT Street, Wheeler & Wil sops Bewlng Machine Agency. mnia-gwasot JJEW MOURNING STORE. JUST RECEIVED. NEW goods SPRING TRADE, Australian. Grape. Shetland Shawls* Bep Alpaca, Balmoral SMrts. Armurei. . Grenadine Shawls, Camels 5 Hair Bombazines. Veils of all kinds, Tine Grenadines, Thibet Bbawls. Canton Cloths* Barege Shawls* Tuiin Clothß, . Taney Articles, Tof ether with a large assortment of SECOND-MOURNING GOODS. ALSO, A lane ansortmest of black and light summer BILKS at LOW FBIOES. M. & A. MYERS & CO., 9.6 CHEfcTJttJT Street. feMfmlm XX STEEL* SON HAVE NOW OPEN JA. Moire Antique.- $3 to *5 , Plain Corded 811 k., *lffl)|to *3.80. Planted Corded Silks, |LwH, Plain Poll de Solea. *l3B to *3.25. Pnngl Sllltße 75c. tO t 5. Black Sros drain Silks, *1.25 to *3.25. , Planted Black Bilk., ,1.20 to *3. Plain Black Silks. WKo. to #6. Plaid India Bllke. 87> At 704 MARKET Street BLACK CABS. PANTS, *6.60, At 704 MARKET Street H int CASS, PANTS, to 60. At 704 MARKET Street iT.mr rung PANTS, $6.60, At 704 MABKBT Street HACK CASS. PANTS, $6.90, At !m MABKBT Street moo * VAN QDNTBH’S, Mo. 704 MARKET Street HUGO & VAN GDMTBM'B. Mo. 704 MABKBT Street. IRISH * VAN GDNTEN’S, No. 70S MABKBT Street }BIGO A VAN GDMTBM’S, No. 704 MABKBT Street IBIGG A TAN GDNTEN’S. No. 704 MABKBT Btroet aaM-Aa ' • - PAPER HANGINGS. PHILADELPHIA 1864. PAPER HANGINGS. HOWELL & BOIIRKE, MANUFACTURERS OF YV ALL 3? A- P B It S AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS. COR. FOURTH AND MARKET STS., PHILADELPHIA. fl. J>. —A fine stock of LINEN SHADES constantly on Hand. fe27-2mfp OIL CLOTHS, Ac. G. W. BLABON db CO., MANUFACTURERS OF OIL CLOTHS, No. 124 NORTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Offer to tie Trade a foil Stock of FLOOR, TABLE, AND CARRIAGE OIL CLOTHS. GREER-GLAZED OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW ®lil-2m SHADES. Q.EORGE W. HILL, Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer In CARPETINGS, MATTINGS, RUGS. ALSO, COTTON AND WOOLEN TARNS. At very Low Prices. No. 126 NORTH THIRD STREET, ABOVE ARCH, mhl-2m Philadelphia. PAINTINGS AND BNGHAWINGS. JjJLE G ANT MIRRORS, A LABOR ABSOBTMNNV. NEW ENGRAVINGS the ml rAnraraea JUST RECEIVED. EARLE’S GALLERIES, SIR CHESTNUT STBBBT. » noO-tf CABIBNT FURNITUBN. nABINBT FURNITURE AND BIL- T.TIKD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, NO. S6l SOUTH SECOND STBBBT, connection with their extensive Qabihet business, are ow manu&eturinc a enperior article of BILLIARD TABLES, Bd hIT« now on hand * fall •apply, finished with the MOOBB 4 CAMPION’S IHFIfOVBD CUSHIONS, irhish are pronounced by all who Lave used them to b« rnperior to all others. ... _ ~ .. WOT the anallty and finish of these Tables, the mana* /Aettuert nfet to their numerous patrons throughout the Union. Who si* familiar with the character or their work. se!7-6m piIOQUOT CHAMPAGNE. VJ 100 caeca WIDOW CLICQUOT PONSABDIN OF REIMS inet rooolvod, and for aale to the trade at the ifficfuß OLIVE OIL. wu Mania H TBATON It 00.. -ft»-U No. HVI Sooth PROMT *!**s jp.rt 8 B'. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1864. Home Horticulture. The Assyrians used to have their palates and their hanging-gardens, and, though these were not Quite aa free to the public as Fairmount or Oeutral Park, yet the; furnish a very intelligent idea of what the Assyrian work-people were like, and of What their domestic gardening, copied from royalty, might have become capable. In the generalization, whiob, with the’Mjgance of ages, has modified the habits of tbe world, private gardening has become of more account than publio. We feel disposed to cultivate the beautiful both for itself and for our selves. Spring is advancing, and the many cultiva tors Of fruit and bower are anticipating the de mands of summer. All through the winter both flower and fruit have been sedulously cultivated in parlors, drawing-rooms, and boudclrs. Hanging-bas kets (the nineteenth century specimen of hanging gardens, grown small by degrees and beautif uUy less) have even become fashionable—so much so, indeed, that when a visitor enters a dimly-lit parlor, the first tiling he Is aware of is that he has run his nose against some odor-breathing rose, suspended from’ the chandelier. All the gigantic proportions or the ancient world, even as respects gardening, are lost in the present diminutive generation. We are be coming equalized. Instead of boasting stupendous terraced gardens, which will rerflain forever isolated in fame, we can take a tranquil satisfaction in quiet, domestlo pleasure grounds. The blooms and blos soms of April and May are ripening delicately. Now is the time when fruit, and Sower, and vegetable gardens should meet with greatest care; when all Winter work should be ended ;wheu those flowering Blrrubs, whfih flower from tbe new growth, should have been severely pruned; when those which flower from the wood ripened last year, should have been 'judiciously, thinned out ■ when, if the harmony of completeness is to be given to the summer garden, shrubbery should be planted in the smaller spaces,' and when the soil should have been impregnated with all the blushing brightness of ripe summer. Perhaps what most of - our suburban villas need more than any thing else are suitable summer houses. A city country house is a hybrid affair, and its ad juncts should at least partake of the oity character as much as of the country. A rustic summer-house may be very pretty and pioturesque, in a rustic neighborhood, but it is as inharmonious, attached to a suburban residence, as a country clotvn would be in the boudoir of the flne woman of fashion. A de gree of formality is indispensable In architecture, which has become citified, if such a term be admissible. Acd not only should the summer-house possess an elegance corresponding externally with the mansion, but its interior might be furnished with that taste which the requirements of luxury demand. There le reason in all things, we are told; but, nevertheless, there are a great many things oontrary to reason- What motive can any intelligent landholder have— and let ub hope all landholders are intelligent—in annexing to his summer palace an lnsigniflcantutue outhouse, which he calls a summer-houße, ana which looks more like a small barn than anything else 1 If his wealth is sufficient to support a handsome villa, aa well aa to attend to thoie claims which the pre sent ciroumstanees of the country render so urgent, It is enough to enable him to refine upon refinement, and preserve a suitability to each other in those luxuries it permits him to accumulate. The beauty of both the interior and exterior of our summer resi dences might also be enhanced by greater attention to coloring, to the effect of a due admixture of light and Shade and neutral tints. When it is remem bered that the colors of chestnut and chocolate, fawn and drab, or pearl gray, cream and freeatone, orange and drab, straw or buff, and French gray, and so forth, harmonize with one another, less diffi culty will be found in educing a beautiful effect where these neutral tints are employed. The deco rative alt, and particularly that branch of it which unitea itself with the useful, Is not thoroughly un derstood, even among those wealthy and educated classes who have done much to encourage it. In the vegetable gardens, especially, of both rioh and poor, evidence of this is abundant. Because a thing is useful, that is no reason why it should be beautiltal. Menandwomeuareveryuseful animals; indeed, they are indispensable to each other;, but if they were all beautirul, like the angels in heaven, bow much better they would be pleased with one another, and with their looking-glasses! So with vegetable gardens. Vegetable gardens know that, as vegetable gardens, they are anything but beautiful. Of eourte there is a moral beauty hidden in a cab- bage, (before it is pickled,) just as there maybe much moral beauty hidden In a human being who hia a pug note, a ’mouth like a half open oyster, •anguinary hair, and the eyas of an albino. The sides of the beds of kitchen gardens are usually in etraight line*, and it it almost indispensable that they should be to; still, the corners might be round ed OS', just as the corners of an angular character are smoothed, and occasionally the oourae of the bedi might be circumambient, yet admitting straight lines Within them. Vegetable gardena are seen not only from the house; they are teen alto from the road. The rounded corners of the plats would furnish, in the middle ofthe garden, space for the erection of a cistern or a tool-house, which might be in sufficient taste to add to, rather than diminish, the pleasing aspect of the grounds. Very beautiful yet inexpressive articles of decora* live culture are tbe different classes of ferns. They love shady and sequestered nooks, where they would never be noticed except by those who love and look for them. Their elegant fronds and fea thery structure carpet the damp Wildwood with * green and luxuriant elasticity. In the green-house and conservatory, particularly, they provide a deli cious background, on which the brilliant dowers of the tropics seem actually to pant and throb. Shade and water their delioate verdure must have. Most varieties, including tbe common and more showy oneß, with contracted flower-spikes, tbe maiden hair and lady ferns, the sweet-scented, and the pale green delicate swamp ferns, have been easily pro curable. They form a modest embellishment to any place in Which they bloom, and in their gentle beauty suggest ihe "ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.” Now that the warm breath of spring is looked for, lets time will be devoted to indoor plants. Besides, the most ambitious, even, of lady floriculturists na turally devotee more time to her nursery of chil dren than her nursery of flowers, and, with all her loving devotion, is as apt to kill one with kind ness as the other. It is a thought worth considering that, whilst our cemeteries are decked with beauti ful and expensive, and even magnifleent monuments, they are comparatively unadorned with the culti vated offsprings of nature. Here and there a life less nosegay reposes upon the yet wintry sod, and straggling vines and bushes droop over slabs washed clean by the newly-melted snow. In the fresh days of spring the germs of all beautiful flowers should be planted in the bosom of the oonsecrated mounds, bo that When the summer shall shed abroad the light of it, golden beauty these last resting-places of the dead may be clad with a sweetnec preclou, and emblematic to the living. A Letter from Hon. Edward Bates. One of the lady manager, or the Brooklyn Sani tary Fair addressed a letter to Attorney General Bates, soliciting. hie autograph and a sentiment, Here is hi, reply: . WASHINGTON OITV,Feb. 2, 1864. To . Madam : Being confined to my alek room, I have an opportunity, which neither my public office nor the court room affords, to acknowledge your note of January 30, written in behalf of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, and in aid of the Sanitary Com •ion* You ask for an autograph, unconditionally, and for a. sentiment, “If agreeable.” Now, my dear ladynm autograph is a cheap thing and can. be easily furnished, whether sick or wtll; but» Bentiment is quite another affair, and doe, not sott very well with the nauseous physio which I am required to take today. Nevertheless, the cause being so good, and withal Its advocate a lady, (to which high authority I habitually bow,) I must strain a point and try to give you something sentimental, but not of the sick* lj kind. I am beginning to grow old, and am a very old fashioned man; for, in apite of the rushing current of new opinions, I still believe that we onoe had' good old times, good old principles, and good old men to profess them and aetthem out, and a good Con stitution worthy to be preserved to the latest pos terity. In fact, I begin to suspect myself to be little or no thing better than an old jogy; for I ean’t help he. lievlng, with Jackson, that the constitutional Union of the States must be preserved; and I still have un doubting laith In Washington when he warns us that we cAnnot preserve our free Institutions with out a ficqucnt recurrence to the first principles of our Government. That 1s my sentiment, Madam. I fear it is grow ing very unpopular, but I cau’t help that. God knows that I would help It If I could, for I have little hope of improvement Irom the efforts of men who fancy themselves so much wiser than their fathers were', and so muoh better than the laws whioh they made for our goed. With love for your cause, and respeot for yourself, I remain your obedient servant, EDWARD BATES. Mb, Mason Jones on American Aveatrs.— The Manchester (England) Guardian ot the 15th ult. has the report of a speech In Free-Trade Hall by Mr. Mason Jones, the eloquent English lecturer, who visited this country last year. He gave an In telligent account of our oivil war and ita prospeols, and spoke warmly for the national cause, saying: There could be no more any boundary line be tween freedom and slavery; the country must be all free or all slave. The slave-owning oligarchy were the enemies of the laborer, whether black or white, and if able would monopolize political power. Such an oligarchy must eventuate in a military despotism. There could be no peace between theieopposlng pow ers ; one or the other must go down now and forever. .Without doubt the North would prevail, not only because their cause was just, but because they were the descendants of the English Puritans, and with bull-dog courage having tsken the South by the throat, they would hold on like grim death until.they had flung It strangled at their feet. * * * The monarchies, the aristocracies, the plutocracies, and the anobooracles of the old world exulted at the prospect of the overthrow of the great Republic. The flunkeys of Belgravia were wild with delight; the loungers In the Pall Mall clubs sang “Te Drumsand all the organs of the slave-owning Con federacy in Europe uttered ories of joy; the political Lord Dundresrys, like Mr. Beresford Hope and Lord Robert Montagu—[great cheering]—men with more money than brains, and more titles than com mon sense—[loud laughter and. renewed cheers] — shouted with Indecent exultation, because, as they said, “ The American bubble has burst, and we always knew It would burst; republicanism has failed, and we always knew It would fail.” The American war brought to light all the sham liberal ism ot England—and there never was so muoh sham liberalism in England as at the present moment—from Lord Brougham, Who was in his dotage, down to the renegade Roebuck. The whole theory or representa tive institutions was at (take in thla Amerioan war —namely, that the people shall be governed by the voice of the majority. If the Americans failed, re presentative government would fall every where, and the ohains ol despotism would be riveted upon the people ol Europe for the next thousand years. . The mouths of all reformers would be shut up by the Pkp.se “look the djjt Ducted States," NEW YOKE. Correspondence of Tho Press. 3 Nbw Yobic, March li, 1864. COnNOILMABIC WHIMS. On Thursday lait Mr* Healy presented to the Board ofCouncilmen a resolution calling for the purchase of one thousand ooplea of Gen. McClel lan's report of his conitltutlanM efforts to capture Biohmond. These copies were to be for the « use of the members of the Common Council.” The idea partakes of the character or the old Democratic scheme “for the dissemination:pf sound political in formation.” Mr. Healy's resolution was laid over, and baa not since been taken up. • The Common Oouneil is considering the propriety of the purchase of Mills’ Btatue of Gen. Jackson, for the benefit of the city. One of the dsllles pronounces this woik of art to be considered one of the worst « of all abortions ever brought forth by sculptural art.” There is already In the Park a brown-stone man, passing for atybody front Washlngton to Moses, it comes under the generic head of “ statue of a gentleman.” Thla was purchased by our art loving City Bathers, and ia oonaldered a good speci men of stone cutting. From present appearances, Hew York will yet compete with Borne in thla re spect. -A MILK EXCHANGE. The proportion to establish a milk exchange In this city, 1* meeting with -violent opposition in gome quarters. It ig regarded by it* opponentg as.aa at tempt to erect a monopoly,' under the plaiulbje ex cuse of furnish trig our citizens with a pure,' una dulterated article. The act nought declared it un lawful for any to cell milk from wagong, until they have gecured licengeg from the milk exchange; for which licengeg the gum oi two dollarg is to b a col lected from each applicant.. If obtained, such pow era will neceniarily give the eorporptqrstie whip hand of the public, and tronage of than tbpSe, who pay toll to the exchange. - The effeot of fflbhopolles in the neighboring dutchyof New Jersey has given New Yoikerg a holy horror of all things partaking of aucb h character, and consequently the suspicion with which come of them getm to regard the new enteiprise. BUBKAU OF TRANSLATIONS. The republication of foreign worka blda fair to be come of more frequent occurrence ainee the es tablishment Of a Bureau of Translations in our midst. Thia bureau il preelded over by a well- known lingulat, assisted by a corpg of translators, acting under bin Immediate supervision. Although es tablished more egpeoinlly for the benefit of the legal profegglon and the butlneag community at laTge, ltg nbjCCtl are not confined to mercantile Hmiti, nut It affords to public berg the recnltg of its labors. The firgt work, emanating from the Bureau, la a transla tion, by Mr. J. L. Starr, of “La Gaviota,” (The Sea-dull,) from the Spanlah of Donna Cecelia At* rom, otherwise known aa “ Fernan Caballero,” one of the moat popular novcliataof Spain. Thia tram, lation has-just appeared, Otbera, it ia presumed, will follow. SANITARY XITBBATUBB, The Sanitary fair has decided to iacue a dally paper, during ita continuance, after the faahlon of “The Drum Beat," which wag leaded in connection With the Brooklyn exhibition. Ita title ia an nounced aa the “ Spirit of the Fair.” A number of poathumoua papera, by Cooper and Irving, have alieadybeen contributed by the relatione of those standard writer!, and various departments of equal intercat are likewise promised for its columns. The price ia fixed at ten cents. “idbxs napolzohibuheb.” A maaa meeting of the blends and admirers of Mr. O. B. McClellan haa been ordered by the unterrlfied, for the evening of Thursday, March 17. It will be held at Cooper Institute. Amos Kendall will pre side. The object of thia grand pow* wow ia the en doraement ot the Young Napoleon’s claims to the Presidential ehalr. Amos has written a letter, to the effect that he has read Napoleon’s report, and finds in it intrinsic evidence ot ill treatment. the poLicK nan. The long agony connected with the affairs of the Police Commissioners is at length over. By the terms of the bill Thomas C. Acton is to hold office until 1873, ex-Judge Boiworth until 1870, John O-. Bergen until 1868, and Wm. MoMurray until 1866. Any of the Commissioner! may be removed by the Governor under the pro vision oi the statute relating to the removal of sheriffs. The right of a-Commis sioner to present evidence in his own bnhalf, where charges are made againat him, is declared. At the expiration of the terms of the present incumbents the Legislature shall eleot successors, whose terms are to be eight years. Thus terminates the cele brated imbroglio between Governor Seymour and the Commissioners, and a feeling of general satis faction at the result ia evinced. The evil elements in the existing board are so vastly in minority that their existence can only be passive and ineffectual. AMUSEMKNTS. Mr. William Wheatley appears in a new charac ter, aa lesaee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Be opens his season at that house with Vestvali as the attraction. At the Park Theatre (Brooklyn), the genuine, unalleviated, “Unde Tom’s Cabin,” iB~ announced for representation. U. T. long ago lost his dramatic, attractiveness in New York, but perhaps the citizens of the necropolis may find something sensational in him yet. "Taming s But tei fly”, la to be withdrawn at the termination of the present week from the boardaof Mrs. Wood’s Olym pic Theatre. Its success has been better than its moials. At the same time, the “Tieket-of-Leave Man” will decline any more nocturnal agony for the benefit of naughty kleptomaniacs in the metro polis. The favorite musioal drama of the " Enchant ress” will commence one of Its periodical rues at Niblo’s to-night. The present week at Wallaok’s Will be principally devoted to benefits. STUYVESANr. THE STATE. Important Obdeb.—ln consequenoe of the com plaints made by the railroad companies, or the die orderly conduct, In many instances, ol soldiers when travelling, General Brooks issued the follow ing order: Hbadquabtbrb, Department op the Monos' QAHBLA, FITTBBHEG, March 11, 1864. — General Or ders; It is mortifying to learn that many persons iu the garb of soldiers, travelling In railroad cars, are guilty of indecent behavior and a malicious and wanton abuse of the oars and appurtenances. It is made the duty of railroad conductors coming into this city to give notification to these headquarters by telegraph, if practicable, when such offences are committed by those unmindful of the behavior be coming the honorable calling of a soldier, in order that they may be met at the depot by a proper guard, and placed In custody for trial. Bv command of Major General Bbooks. THEODORE BEAD, Asa’t Adj. Gen. The Bbse&vbb Vindicated. —A pamphlet ha* been publilthed defending the Pennsylvania Reserve Gorpi from imputations cast upon them in General McClellan’* report, for alleged bad conduct at the battle of Glendale. It contains General McOaU’s report of the battle, together with the reports of the subordinate commanders, and ends with the follow ing statement: “We, the undersigned, officers of the Pennsylvania Reserves, who fought in the battle of the soth of June, 1862, variously called the battle of Nelson’* Farm, Glendale, and New MarKet Oroai Bonds, do hereby distinctly state that our division was not routed in that battle, and, although tempo rary reverse was sustained by Seymour’s brigade early in the day, the division was at no time routed.’ Natal Machinery. —The steam machinery of the new vessels built for the navy has cost large sums. The engines ofthe Muscoota, built at the Continental Works, Brooklyn; ofthe Suwanee and theSbamokin, built by Beaney, Son, A Archibald, at Chester, Pa. 5 and of the Mohongo, built at the Ful ton Foundry, at Jersey City—each fifty-nine inches diameter of cylinder and eight feet nine inches stroke of piston—each cost $104,000. The large geared screw enginei being built at the Morgan Works and at the Novelty Works, at New York—of one hun dred inches diameter of cylinder and four feet stroke of piston—are each to coat $700,000. The engines of the Miantonomah, built by the Novelty Works, cost $l6B 500: and those of the Agamentfoua, built by Morris, Towne, &Co., ofPhiladelphia,costsl29,ooo. The engines ofthe twenty* eight paddle-wheel eteam ej* pealing Indian names—each of fifty-eight inches diameter of cylinder and eight feet nine Inohee stroke of piston—generally cost $82,000, although those of the Eutaw, built at the Vulcan Works, Baltimore, cost $86,000, and those of the Wateree, built by Beaney, Son. A Archibald, of Chester, Pa., only co»t $73,000.— Washington correspondence New York Ccmmercial Advertiser . Sketches of Parliament. From an article in the Court Journal we copy-the following sketches of Parliamentary notabilities: Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald is a bright, fresh-oom plexioned gentleman who always looks as though he had just stepped from yacht, or moor, or breezy downs, and was redolent of fresh air. The Under secretary for Foreign Affairs in the last Derby Ad- • ministration, Re ranks at least ac high ;* the mem ber with the pronounced beard and the -lion-like front who now fills the office and confronts him on the Ministerial bench. A vigorous, ready speaker, with a case whisk, If not Irrefutable, at all events is • VBIV difficult to meet »nd to. npset,.Mr. Fitzgerald does his party full credit, and sit, down amid en couraging cheers with a most warlike peroration. Sir Boundell Palmer is the champion seleoted to do battle for the Government, and a most argumen tative and powerful champion he always shows him self. He is certainly the Minister who carries the heaviest metal as an orator, and his value to tbe Government throughout the recent discussions on international law has been inestimable. His pale, thoughtful, earnest face lights up ae his arguments begin to tell, and he gradually warms to his work and mskes his points with a force of manner of which you would hardly have thought him capable. The style is rather too involved. Tne sentenoec are often too long and too complicated, and are weakened bv over-much of parenthesis and reservation. Mr. Horefall speaks quietly and plainly as becomes the British merchant representative, who knows what he wants to aay, and says it without more to do. On (he Ministerial bench below the gangway, a member ha, been watching and waiting his oppor tunity, bobbing up and down when he thought there was an end of the philippic, and using those other little art* which members think lawful and expedi ent when they have a strong' desire to catch the Speaker’* eye. A tall man, with' rugged face and disdainful of well-trimmed locks, but keen of eye and confident in manner, daabing Into his subject with a quickness and impetuosity which make you desire to know more of him. It is Mr. W. E. Fors ter, the crack shot of the Commons, and the most ardent Federalist there. When Mr. Forster sits down, Sir Hugh Cairns, the ex-Solicitor General in Lord Derby’s last Govern ment, the Attorney General in that which is to come, and the conservative Lord Chancellor of the future, riser, and, disdaining smaller game, at onoe fastens on the worthy legal opponent who has spoken inae fence of Ministers. Sir Hugh has much ofthe Irish dash and abandon, toned down and reflned by profes sional training, and he hae, besides, the logical mid the statesmanlike mind which ‘“nfini wllhe great principles in a sound and statesmanlike way. It ia long since we strangers in the gallery have listened to a more eloquent an da more bril liant harangue on what con ititutional question. It is not rhetoric atone, dui brililant Thetorio joined to oogent and sustained ar gument, acting on the remion as strongly as on the OnfbSJkl*neh bihuld Mr. Dl.raOll and hlSfdl lowers sits a well-favored member, with a frontal development which would delight the phrenologist, end on his rising you see at onoe that he le high iu the respeot of the House, and la a man whole words have weight wherever they are heard and read. Mr. Walpole, as all know—unhappily and unneoem niy, m hi* t»fiy thtok-tfwied ftom Lota Delhi’s & 0 THREE CENTS. on tbe o °n*crvatlve re form bill, along with Henley, who how aita by him* But his sincerity and unlmpeaeh«* character place him abovei the level of ordinary pollticlana. and give him authority beyond the narrow circle of party. He now geea dead againat tbe Government. The oppoaitlon aeem triumphant. But Ustet an- Stria. Mi. Tom Baring rUea In their very mliot, and poura in a etorm ot rhetorical abot and abell, which Alee through their ranka, and doea Infinite execu tion. He la an American merchant. He acts at financial agent for the Federal Government. IHa ■tmpathiea and inteieiti are all bound up with the caute of the North. But that doea not matter. £fe alanda the Government in'good atead, blamea the leadera ofoppoaltion for hounding on a war with the Northern Stater, and thanke Eirl Enaaell lor averting it. The Philadelphia Annual Conference— Seventy-seventh Session* tSpecidl Correspondence of The Press. 1 SIXTH DAY* WILKIKGTOH, March 16, 1864. Conference opened At the usual hour tills morn* ihg Bishop Amrs In tbo chair*) . ■ • Hclig|ou» eserciKi conducted by Rev. John Rush. The journal was read by the SegreMiTi end ftp proved. Hey. A. Atwood, chairman of the Committee on the Bible Cause, presented the report of that com* mittee. It states that the American Bible Sooiety has distributed to the army and navy, since the war began, over two million Bibles and' Testaments, of which two hundred thousand have been sent to rebels beyond the lines, and one hundred thous&nd to rebel prisoners of war, by permission of the Government. The foreign interests they represent to be In a flourishing condition, and have been liberally provided for; and the missionary 'work is also advsnoirg steadily. The annual contributions to the society m improving, but the demands are gieatcr than ever. The following resolutions ac companied the report: Resolved, That we gratefully acknowledge the hand of God in the iiberality of Bis people and the prosperity of tbift noble enterprise. Resolved. That we have the utmost confidence in the Anglican Bib e Society* and heartily commend It tOtAO* continued sympathy and tupport of our ohurcces. % Resolved; fi'kst we will prG&eh la behalf of the BibM* -cause. take np a collection at* ash. of OUT appotntmsnta to t aetata it. and in view of the increasing demand for Bibles in the army and navy, we will urge upon out congregations the necessity of very liberal contribu tions. The report was unanimously adopted. O Bishop Ames tbea announced the transfer of Rev. G. W. Brindle from the Upper lowa Conference to this Conference, of whloh he war formerly a member. The Rev. J. Walker Jackson then presented the following report of the Committee on the State of the Country: Whereas , A rehellion, unjust and causeless In Its ori gin, aid Jnfemoueiy wiefced In Its objects, continues to threaten the existence of the Government framed by the wUdcm and sacrifice of onr fathers, and founded upon tb« corner-stone of thefreedom and equality of all men; and. whereas the success of the leaders in tbia unholy lebellicß.in their avowed objects—the dissolution of oar Bailor al Union* the dlsmemoermeni of the country, and the establishment of a new confederacy within the pre sent territorial limits, having for its corner-stone the intern of hnnutn slftvery-wpMd be to imperil the ex istence of Civil and religions liberty, which l« the life of the nation; and w hereas. as ministers of the Lord Jesus Cbiiet we relinquish ho rights as American citizens, bhi ' are compelled by our articles of religion to preach to all loyalty to the powers that be. that **ars ordained of God, we therefore Resolve, That, as ministers and members of the Me lt odist Episcopal Church, within the bonnes of the Phila delphia AULual Conference, we reaffirm onr past declara tion since this war commenced In reference tv the rebel lion, and our pledged determination to sustain this crisis o oornationai existence. Rt solved, That, while we acknowledge the war as a great national calamity, and lament the a atoll miseries that by it are entailed upon the land in the loss of pre cious lives, in its sad demorallzingUnfluenea, we believe that the duty of the nation is to provocate the war. With all its resources of men and money, until peace shall he obtained by victory, the rebellion be completely sub dued. the legitimate powers and authority of the Govern ment shall oe re-established, and till the flag of the na tion, as the emblem of the undisputed sovereignty of the Federal Government, shall wave over every root of the territorial domain. Resolved, That as the Constitution of the United States, the BnpTtme law of the land, makes it the duty of the Government to suppress rebellion, and as Government would be a nullity aside from Its administration, we maintain that loyalty to the Government is only to be understood as loyalty to the Administration of that Go vernment, as duly elected under the Constitution, and that in rendering to “Cseiar the things that belong the entire, unqualified, obedience of ail under its authority is to be rendered to the Administration, notfor wrath but conscience*sake,and that resistance toils authority, either by speech or action, is not only rebellion and treason to the civil Government but to God. Eeiolved, That while we recognize the right of citizens to diecues the measures and policy of the Government, we yet affirm that it is a religious duty not to (speak evil of ministers and magistrates, and that,especially in times like there, when the utmost wisdom is required in the administration of civil afialrs, the right of even such dltcusfeion is only to be exercised with great caution* prudence, and forbearance. Resolved, That bo far &e our Influence may extend, we discountenance and condemn the concealed treason of those who. influenced by party spirit or sympathy with human bondage, find fault with every warlike measure, nndtr the pretext of a discrimination between the Con stitution as the supreme law of the land and the Ad ministration of the Government as framed by the Con stitution 3 hey are the secret foes of the Government, with all the venom* but without the manliness of rebels in open arms. Re solved, that wo recognize In American slavery— justly characterized by the fathers of our Church as con trary to the golden law of God. on which hang all the law and the prophets, and the unalienab e rights of mankind, as well as evety principle of the Revolution— the root and palpable can*© of this most foul and wicked rebellion; and that we iejolce that a system so contrary to the letter and spirit of onr holy religion, so abhore&t to tumaniiy and to civilization* has, by taking the sword of resistance to the Government, secured its own destruction; and that In the emancipation policy of the Government we recognize the hand of Him who. thus overruling the councils of men, has caused a military necessity *’ to coincide with tbe principles of everlasting righteousness” in the extirpation of slavery, the prolific mother of wicked legislation in the State, and of diseen* M/ n end bickering in tbe Cbnrch- Resolved, Thatourbrave soldiers and sailor*.who,un der the influences of patriotism, have sacrificed the com forts of home and risked their lives in the defencejof the great interests that are at stake in the national straggle, are the objects of our sympathy and love; and that we will pray for th#m, and in all possible ways co-operate with the instrumentalities ihat are made use of for the promotion of their temporal and spiritual interests; that these Who have fallen and those who survived have secured an imperishable monument In the hearts of their countrymen; and that the orphans of those wlio, lor the defence of the nation, have sacrificed their lives, should he the nation’s especial care Resolved, That the sublimely charitable institutions, tie United states kanltaiy and Christian Commissions, asout-growtbeoftbis war illustrating, as they do, the Influence of & Christian civilization in Its efforts to alle viate the unavoidable calamities resulting from war, demand, and should receive, the prayers and donation* of all Christian people, ae wed the Freedmen’s Aid So ciety, in whose efforts to elevate the hitherto down trodden and oppressed we recognl7.e the influence ofthe teachings of Him who went about doing good, and who, in the awards of judgment, will say 1 * inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, 19 laT6 dOBB " ” JOHN WALKER JACKSON, WM. MCCOMBS, C. J. THOMPSON^ JOHN A. WATSON. STEPHEN TOWNSEND. J. B. MADDOX. Tbe Rev. Dr. Hodgion asked If what was included in tbe resolution meant a Christian minister or po litical minister? Rev. J. W. Jackson said If be had meant political ministers be would so bare stated it. Be did not consider himself a political minister. After tbe sixth resolution was read, Dr. Hodgion desired to know if the substance implied anti slaver? or .abolitionism t Although he was anti-slavery, he could not go further than that. He stood now as be always aid, ai conservative as he could be. Rev. P. Coombe thought Dr. Hodgion was getting the Conference into a wtong position. He did not want the Doctor to impress the mind of the clergy and the audienee with the idea that our fathers did not oppose American slavery. Rev. Dr. Hodgson said such wai not the meaning of his words. He did not take the ground, nor either did he think our fathers thought it was right In the abstract. He believed it to be a sin under some circumstances, and so were a great many other things which the law of the land has not touobed. Rev. J. W. Jackson hoped to see the day when the Church would have neitheila alave nor a slave holder in it. - Rev. George Quigley said he was opposed to any thing that would go into a partisan measure to be acted upon by a religious body. He could not vote on the resolutions if such was the case, as he was opposed to auoh a measurein any ahape or form. Rev. W. McCombs, one of the committee, explain ed that they had aeted as a body of religious minis ter,, and not in a partisan feeling. The seventh resolution was adopted by a standing vote. Rev. J. W. Jackson made some remark, after the eighth resolution had been passed, in relation to the desire of the Christian Commitsion and others to be recognized by the Philadelphia Conference. . The preamble and resolutions were then adoptedi by a vote ofni to none in the negative. Rev. Dr. Sewall, of tbe Rail Baltimore Confe rence, and Rev. Messrs. Barron and Stokes, of the New Jcr«ey*Conference, were then introduced to the Conference. . „ ■ ■ The Committee on Temperance made the follow iiig report; Wktrias. Owing largely to the tumult of the times, and as ft bitter fruit ofthe unholy rebellion nowin pro gress, and approaching its final effective suppression, the popular interest in the great practical virtue of tem perance i# much abated, and intemperance in the uae of alcoholic drinks is flooding the land with desolation and Wlureas, This Conference recognized the Church of God as the great conservator of public morats, and far niEtiss her org&hiz&tiOa and (ITLtlLOlitatlYO Utt6rfiH66B the most enduring bases for reformation of social evils; First. That we reaffirm our unfaltering ln i terest in the cause of temperance-an interest whlca is expressed in the general rule of the Methodist Episcopal Church upon the subject. . Resolved. Second. That we will, during the course of the ensuing conference year, preach t > every congrega tion within the boards of the Conference a carefully . prepared And earnest sermon os temperance. The report was adopted. , ■ , The committee appointed to nx the salaries of ■ Bishops Simpson and Scott reported the amount of *2 500 per year for each. The report was adopted. Rev. J- R. Bailey was then granted a location,at hie own request, be desiiisg to finish his education at college. _ The report of the Committee on the Traol Oauie was read and adopted. Tbe Committee on Education also presented their report, with resolutions annexed, whloh excited a lengthy debate in reference to laying a tax on every member of the Church for 1 the benefit of Dickinson College. They were finally passed. Rev. P. Coombe offered a resolution directing toe Committee on Finance to pay over the Bible money in tbelr hands to the agents of the various societies to which it belongs. Agreed to. Rev. J. J. Chaplain, on leave, withdrew the charges made yesterday against Rev. Elijah Miller. His character was then passed. The following named young men were recom mended and admitted on trial in the travelling con nection : IHalifax Circuit, John Stringer; Atburv Church, Thomas E. Martindale j Mariners’ Bethel, Joieph R. T. Grey ; New Hope Station, Leonidas Dobson j Newtown Station, Charles W. Bickley } Springfield Circuit, Jacob S. Hughes and Joseph McClellan; Port Carbon, Samuel ft. Kisener j Per kiomen* Henry F. liett; Zion Circuit, Ed. B. Al« died j Village Green Circuit, Gilmer Kauffman, Newport, Beni. String t Greensboro, Albert Dumb, Lewie Station, Samuel J Conner. Tbe recommendation of G. W. Oliftonwji drawn by tbe preiiding elder, it being understood that he is a married man. Rev. Ja*. Cunningham, from the pointed to investigate the chaigei *£}*“! Samuel Moßirney, stated that they discovered no evidence of immoral conduct against tain fmprudences, that have rejM^ore from an error of judgment than from any want oi m ßev P Jos. H Smlth made a lengthy speeohjWMoh re „p*,fv ,icon tbe character of Mr. Moßirney. fl A motion 1 wae made to discontinue Mm, which W The?ime of Conference was then ocoupled a short time with the reading of notloes, letters, &o. Tbe meeting adjourned with the singing of the dexology and pronouncing the benediction by Rev. E. H. Stokes, oi the NewJeisey Conference. SIVAD. Colonel Dahlgren and tbe Richmond Papers. Editor of The Press : Sir ! ln thetwell known fables of " .iErop,” wWoh Geri-rsl Ttjloi once made allusion to, there » * good one to tbe effect that when the lion was dead, all the beasts of the forest assembled to look at toe body, and that, while all the others regarded Win silence and wi&respeet, the iaokassalone wasfound .so debased »s to klck the body of the deadmonarch. Tbe application is » elea> ly made by the seared edttots of luonmonu. March 14.1884. Yours, Y. U. d9E3E9fB&3SH Stopslo® kr*®* majority. XHB "VYAJR FBBS3, (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) fn Wax Fane will he teat to subscribers by mall iper annua la advance) at . fix *w Three copies. •*—. *-- a Ofi Fiveieoplee.————* - *— ttg Ten .copies - la a* Larger Clubs than Ten win be charred at the came raie,ai.ao per eon-. The money mutt altmt/t accent pan* the order, an* in no inetnrux oau these terms be deviated from, at then afford von/ little more than the coot of paper. AW - Postmaster* are requested to get as Agents fee Tas War Puksp. **-To the letter-up ofthe Oinb often or twenty, aa extra copy of Ih, Paper will be given. . literary Notices. , The new number of the Edinburgh Review, (New York edition, received from w. B. Zaibcr, South t ,Vk! itreet,) Uof average merit. It open* with a jcli'Otlflc paper on Thermo Dynamics, goes then, In an article on the Flavian Ceossre and the Aatonlnee, Into a'.erltieal analysis of the aeventh and final volume of Metivale’s very able History of the Ko. mans u. Oder the Empire, (now In eouree of re puhlicaliitn here by MeMM. Appleton,) and truly character!-,.'ee the author a« 11 standing alone, at the preterit mo.ment, aa an impartial chronloler of the C*iar».” T.'d* article, using Merivale a» a text book, treat* o.’ the Roman Empire from Vespasian to the death of . Hareua Aurelius. TO thte auooeeda a notice of the autobiographies of the Mbrqule da Dhngeau and the .'Yuko do Saint Simon—the former, which recoids fot.'s-four years of daily life at Ver eelUse, now being first published, and the latter carefully collated from the original text. The tlma these memoira occupy is-the age of Louie XIV and the Urgency. The Progress of India, (including the production Of lea and oorton) • Jewish Hlatory aa written By the English Dfvjnea, Stanley anil Mil' man; Seottlrh Religion! Bouses Abroad, (a good euhjeet well treated); The ITegto Kvoe In Amertoa, which treat* slavery a* for oyer extinguished i Froude’e History of England, sne! and a very one sided review of the present condition of Ireland, are the other question! diICUSSVd in detail In the Edinburgh Review thi! quarter. Wis may add that though the coat of paper, composition, printing, and binding have aa much gone up of late, the price ot this American republioation of the British Quar terlies has not Ivan increased. Temple Bur, and the CornhiU Magazine, tor March have reached ue, through the attentive kindness of Fir. Cromer, 403 Chestnut street. We must confect that Temple Bar has-been more readable, being better conducted than the (SornMU, since Thackeray quitted! the latte.. There la a new story, “It WIU out," by Henry jSpicer, besides “The Doctor’* Wife,” bjr Mlrs Braddon, and “ Broken to Harness,)’ by Ed mund Yates. Mr. Sala prattles about Snargste street, in Dover, where, he aays, the Iron Duke once patted him on the head; the proposed Shake, ptarien Commemoration is quietly ridiculed, as Tar behind the time; Mareshai de Saxe is served up again, and there ate readable papers upon “ Home Contrails,” “A Winter at Rome and Warsaw,” be tides a couple of poems, which last were put in, we aurpt ct, merely to fill up apace. On the whole, how ever, the March number of Temple Bar Isa favorable specimen of a popular English magazine,, In the CornhiU Magazine, where there are some readable papers, such as the Theatre In China, the Small House at Alllngton, the Fashion of Furniture, and Margaret Denzel’s History, together with some heavier articles, by way of padding—-of course, what is moat notieeable is the sommencement of “Denis Duval,” the posthumous and unfinished novel by Thackeray. Three chnpters are given, well introducing the hero, as a mere ohild in 1769, and the heroine too—then quite a baby, but fiually Duval’B Wife, and having the scene, thus far, alter nately in France and England. Oddly enough, the style reminds us rather of that arch-imitator, Sala, (tiide his “Captain Dangerous,<’) than of Thacke ray’s own. The third chapter strikingly ends with a fatal duel. It is too soon, as yet, to pronounce a decided opinion of this tale. To uis appended an CDgravlng on steel of S. Lawrence’s portrait of Thackeray—by no means like him in his later years, when he was hoary and hirsute, but the sketch, familiar here for the last dozen years, in which the novelist has bis head well thrown back, to keep the injured nasal feature out of notice. The beat resent portraits of Thackeray are those given in the Illustrated London Mews, arter his death, and a carte de vislte, issued by Mr. J, C. Hotten, of London, the well-known antiquarian, who, in feed, published Mr. Theodore Taylor’s little memoir of Thackeray, reprinted by Messrs. Apple ton, whloh we reviewed yesterday. A novel, entitled “Eliza Woodson; or the Early Days of One of the World’s Workers,” has been published by A. J. Davit Sc Co., New York. As the head of this firm is the well known Splritualiat and Seer, we anticipated that this would be a spirited story, On the contrary, though ushered in by a pre face full of rhapsody, it is a very readable tale of American life, in which, though there is not mush incident, there is a good deal of probability, and a fair development of individual charaoter. The story ends so abruptly as to appear unfinished. Mrs, Anns. Stephen*publishes anew novel, en titled “ The Wife’s Secret,” whloh is the best she has produced since “Fashionand Famine,” bat not equal to that popular aensatlonal fiction. This new story shows more careful manipulation than has been apparent in- ite author’s recent writings. Natural aeetery is described very vividly, but the pervading fault of Mrs. Stephens’ descriptions is a verbosity which annoys the reader. In the three opening paragraphs of the book nineteen lines are wasted in telling us that a small freight-steamboat (steamer, she calls It) was goiug up the HuSson on a dsy of the Indian summer. This dlffUsenes* is made still more evident in pages upon pages of description of the interior ol a riob man’s resldenee in New York—the glories of the Arabian Nights “ pale their ineficetual fires” before the magnifioeneo Of a house on the FlftbAvenue. Mrs. Stephens too much affects fine writing. Here is a young girl and her sweetheart: “ She drew toward him as a bird ol .paradise moves in the sunshine. Her eyes shone with lore; her mouth trembled like a cherry when J-the bird that seeks It Is near.” With these faults, and others, Mrs. Stephens has produced an agree abla romance. It if improbable la gome parts; it Is Impossible in a leading point: some of Its characters are strained, but many parts are good. Though somewhat spun out, the Bentleys’ visit to the country and Daniel Hart’s story are well told. The scenes in the gambling house are spirited and efieotive, and ao are those in which the young gambler Hurst and the old hypocrite Lawrence have a passage at arms, and that In which Hurst palms off his forged claims on Bentley. There it power, too, in the trial scene, out West. But Bentley, Aunt Hetty, and the two old stagers, Mesdames FlOlt and Nicholson, are unreal, The idea of • sharp old woman of ninety treating another dowa ger of seventy as a mere ohild setting her cap at a lad of twenty, is not merely ludlorous—it is absurd. .Dinah, the colored servant, with her studied Mala propism of language, and these given with bad spell ing, is a dead weight on the tale. We are com pelled to say, also, that Mrs. Ransom, the au thoress, is a sketch very muoh out of drawing. The town and country lovers, Woodworth and Downs, are drawn with discriminating fact, and the cousins, Gillian and Martha, are well adapted to be helps meet for such true men. The organic error ofthe story is its giving particulars or the trial of Hart for killing Bentley, who, after all, has not been slain. We cannot Imagine any place in this country, having a lawfully-elected judge, Where a man could be tried for-hie life, on a charge of murder, simply because another man with whom he had latest been seen was missing. It has latterly become the fashion for female novelists to introduce crime Into their several fictions. Mrs. Henry 'Wood and Mias Braddon almost Invariably do this, hut they make no blunders la their aecounte of law and legal procedure—they probably have these things looked to and revised by properly-in formed persons. Our American female novelists, on the contrary, appear to Imagine what they write of law-matters, Mrs. Southworth, we reoolleet, wrote a novel, scene in England, With a trial in Conrt as a leading IcOldent, in which she Introduced " the dis trict attorney”—such an official not being known across the Atlantic, where John Bull will not even have a publio proseoutor! We repeat our opinion that “ The Wife’s Seoret” Is the best story that Mrs. Stephenahas written alnce " Fashion and Famine.” We have glanced at some of its faults, but have pleasure in adding that Mrs. S. here, as In all her writings, takes a high moral tone, and produces sen sational efieots only by legitimate means. Her characters, young and old, have the merit of con versing very naturally. “ The Wife’s Secret" is published by T. B, Peterson & Brothers. Mr. Burnbam, of Boston, has just brought out a novel entitled “ AWoman’a Hansom,” written by F. W. Bobinson, an English author, not one of whose previous works It has been our fortune to read, or even to bear or. The itory is in the autobiographical form, and profesiei to be told by one Canute Gear, a young London architect, who goes to build a mansion in the wilds of Cumberland, (tbe scenery of which is described With surprising realty and truth,) and there woos and wins a fair young widow to be bis wife. The characters are few. The Gear family, the lady whom the hero weds and her brother, a wild country gentleman called 11 Mad Winfoid,” Mrs. Hay and her daugh ter, and a Scotch servant called Janet. Neither Is there much Incident, and there la a dash of Improbability in parts of that. But the tale is very well told s the interest rarely flogs, and the surprise at the olose is unexpected. The dlreotness of the narrative la also a good point, and the total absence of ambitious diction and diflUied verbosity is another. "Worth and Wealth; or, Jessie Dorr." la the last Issued of the juvenile seiies oalled "The Beilin Stories.” It is published by Graves A Young, Bos ton, and relates the adventures of a young girl who has bad to struggle with poverty, who yields to the temptation of curiosity, and finally oomes dear out of the trial. An admirable likeness of the late Archbishop Hughes, engraved on steel by A. B< Walter, has been published, and Is now sold by Eugene Cummls key, South Sixth street, at tbe low price of a dollar. It is equally desirable as a fine portrait and a good woikof art. PERSONAE. The Paris Presse says Of our lieutenant general s « Grant is the American Manens, the beloved child of victory, who has never met with » who is as vigilant and Indefatigable os H he had one To few. Alone, be is able to resUt th,three armies ol tbe confederation.” ww,t.«.ra t«ttipii will never appreciate the <1 Avar’s Fills.” 1“ Dr. Ayer's Almanao f 1 * 1 ,I** 1 ** nresentVear, in the column ef “ mlsoellaoeous for 'he pr * owJng i. forap of history ”is found : "Traitor Buchanan, born AprUSUt, H 91.” -Charlotte Cushman, alnce her return to Korns, her adopted home, hae been continuing her efforts, so liberally and efficiently commenced in hop native land, in behalf of the United States Sanitary Com mission. The rebel Bragg Is a brother-in-law of Jefibrson Davis, which accounts tor hit position. “He tha pgpvideth not for his own household is worse than an infidel.” Davie U acting on scriptural authority* Paul Morphy, the chess-player, Is at Now Orleans. ' —The last Infant ot the Queen of Spain eight; names,