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alleged to Subscribers out etas our at Foos DOLLARS
tjsE Aninnt.in adweass.
COMMISSION SOUSES.
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SA dTA3 ST ,
gent for the
EAXONVILLE MILLS,
BALDwIN COMP...NT.
WILTON tfAttUFACTDMING
ABBOT WOLSTAD compe.iy.
IGAbrET WORSTED AND TARNS. -
ruu,ln colors: Non 12a andJIM'S/Arun
COTTON YARNS,
E a Warn and Bundle. nanntaotnred,
ISKI by
ZABRISKIE,
PRALL.
OAKMAN.
Wafter
CI a TiPriTIEL
DONTMENTALARPATS AND VENETIAN
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LINEN THREAD.
sAJIPBON'S ARGYLE,
VIL4OEIIT MLLE,
MoDONIALD'S.
SATIN-FINISH BOOKBINDERS'.
CAMPET - THREAD .
For %Ms by
T HE ATTENTION OF
THE TRADE
CI 'RIM iv
OUR STOCK OF
SAXONY WOOLEN CO. all-wool Plata Masud&
grmILLID PLANARLII,
Varlons makes is (fray. Scarlet, and Hark "Um
paIRTRI) 3R1T.213113 PLARINEAL
runs OFB3A - PLANEKLEL
SMACK 1107 T. 0111 WARP CLOTHS,
16. 17. IS. 1.9. 10, 11, 12 ea.
VISCI 0.1171L11111111 AND Sii.TINSTTS.
6KIBIB, d 1 bsedes.
aopTOW GOODS, MIMS, TICKS, STRIP'S, SHIM
LAMB. Am, from various MAL.
COMM, lAMILTON, & MN%
ill LETITIA Street and
Iris-Indideoß • 391 South FRONT Street.
13A0431 BAGS I BAGS I
NEW RANUM BURL 4 AND SE P C , D O
AN ND-13AND.
B auxin-
BAG 8,
FLOUR AND RAM BAGS, SIZE&
PRINTED TO OBDRE BY
JOHN T. BAILEY & 00.,
NMI Na 1/3 NOhTH racarr 8111.65 T.
G RAIN BAG-8.-A LARGE ASSORT
)I ISIT et GRAIN BAGS.
EmYIIiCKLII alma. for sale by
BbfOTROFT & CO..
Wein ioa_ 405 and 4o MARKET Strad.
aIIIPLEY, HAZARD, & RUTOHIN-
W SON.
No. 1.131 mossmur STRUT.
CODEINIESION BEF.ROHAtf rs,
POE THE BALI( OP
PRILADELPR7.A-MADE GOODS.
0e27-8m
BASKETS AND WILLOW WARE.
LAB( F.t3T AND BE6'T ASSORTED
STOOK OF
WOODEN-WARE
COTTON GOODS
LW THIS 00IINTRY
A. H. FRANCISCIES,
MARKET ADD 510 COMILIEII.O.SIWES.t
WHOLESALE DZALSB. II
WADDING, BATTING, TWINES,
WICKING, COBDS, CORDAGE,
BUCKETS, BROOMS,' BRUSHES, BASKETS,
TUBS, CHURNS, MATS, WHIPS,
TABLE AND FLOOR OIL CLOTHS,
BIRD-CAGES, JAPAN WARE,
WINDOW PAPER AND SHADES,
?lITNAISTS OLOTIECES-WRING-Ml,
LOOIaNG GLASSES, OLOCICS,
MY-NETS, FANCY BASKETS, AO., SW.
nt..11
?FANCY BASKETS.
A. H. FRANCISCIES.,
;,12 MARIEgIV AND 510 CONDIERoN, STS.,
Erre
.mt opened a large and well assorted stock arta*
GERMAN AND FRENCH
FANCY BASKETS
Or MS ow IMPORT/MOIL
r-a": TIEVICEMENTS OFFERED TO THE TRADE.
1864.
WRITE tic.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
WOOD AND WILLOW WARE,
IRIS MARKET t TREFF. .
Ir. - mac, Fele. Tabs, Wash-Boards. Baskets, Chil
i:six Coutes and Chairs. Table and Floor Oil Cloths.
tkikt and Looking Glasses. Tie Tame, Wick, Cordage.
an=t Maims, Twines. Cotton Yarns, Wadding, Cotton
are.
!SINGH. gIID GRIMLY FANCY BILSIKETIL
!lento its tits HAM, MO:11.01.. Ar. SOIDIN
sELF.AuxusTING cherßEs WRINGER.
G_REAT OPENING OP ,
DEDAR AND - WILLOW WARE.
THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY.
ti OW SELLING AT BARGAINS.
LD) Doz. CORN BROOMS.
7.3; Doz FANCY FAINTED BUCKETS.
r.«* AIMS CEDAS WASH .DB&
micESAR SUIT AND BSUBBL CHURNS.
Doz. WILLOW MARKET BASKETS.
!ALBS COTTON-WICK AND TIE TARN
PALES BATS AND WADDING.
I rr:Cria BASKETS. OIL CLOTHS.
WOKING GLaSSYS. COBDAUL bet. aa.
.ki(kadi are sold at the Msaufaetarer's Lowest Clash
-r; nzem➢tiT 111.e41-
ROWE & EUSTON,
15' tad 159 NORTH THIRD STREET.
afi.23lz, Three Doors below Rue.
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
EORGE ?DEMERIT ac Co,
JEWELERS,
403 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
(CORNER DtrAlOE XTILEWr-)
4.000 WATCHEq, MAINS, GOLD PENS, AND
PENCILS,
WORTH $600,000!
'-Fold at One Dollar exch, without regard to value,
="" to be ;aid until you know what you It/1111MM.
SPLENDID LIST OF AILTTOLNS.
ILL TO BE SOLD FOR OX DOLLAR, ELOR!
- ?- 1. .i hi Anntior Caned Wate,es $lOO 00 each.
:J. , 4.lvAcebee 60 00 each,
35 01.1 each.
.:!.1,.,./I,ek- Watches......• • • • •'' ii'd wo• to 25 00 each.
.. - ,4,y r Watches-..... hes
! i .., , 4,,,!..tipck cand Guardahains•••• - 12 00 to 15 00 each.
; e ta:du.ns and Chains.. 500t015 09 each.
:' T.-.:and Neck Chains 4 00 to 1.1 00 each.
°-1 a Jet and Gold Brooches 400 to 800 each.
3 , . - 4.. , 1 i , Ls.rit. Walla, Attl . 3 .--- a OO to 1 01 3 ):::::
~,F.:1d.„3,t. Opal. &c.. 'Bar fir , ) ,, n . t . 3 . o e o o 1 0 0 800 each.
..:,'ol , B. - east and Scarfs Pin- '3
'4.!Ta... Saud Bracelets 300 to 900 each.
...i.laAq Bracelets 5 co to lo 00 each.
33. t 4 icrui•ri a Diamond Pins and 2
50 to 2
ix, each
t„hrii.
iicod tr, t eh Keys 260 to 600 each.
'i iiiiiti.ry Sleeve Buttons and .
200 to 8 00 each.
' f' l3 '4'l '-1 !cables 400 to 5 00 each.
~...,',-.a:nre Lockets -- , 200 to 7 00 each.
4 00 to 9 00 each.
-1, . a..nrs Lockets. Masts 234 to 6 00 t.
:,',.2 , ,pi 'T.,, tbrdcke r & c.. Crosses. , iltl to i Ifii each.
41 ,- .!? 2 tiit Ribbon Bilden
6 00 to 5 o:leach.
~. ~,-;, ,i Gold BIRO
t;:::!.'''' - ,'si Muss— 2 00 to 600 each.
. s4,isiiiir' Jewelry—Jet and
600 to 15 03 each.
41 ,"- I '''''' ''' ''''''''' .cari.d
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3 00 to la 00 each.
-'' ''.i.,4,,1•caa... Silver Case. aUd. 400 10 900 eac h .
~X . 0 1:;. ' ;- •a '1 . 1 ' .8, a l1 8 1 : .1 4° 1 1.d7 ' °a." '
asci
500 lO 00 each.
"I Ftlis, sold - monntedholder 2 00 to 600 each.
4.,... — .3' , Abi in the above lot will be sold. without
` , v:, - ; , 2 1. oNE DOLLAR EACH. Certificates of all
‘!-,.;;; z iii.?,les These in similar euvatope . s.
''''',' 'n -11,E'..iCt'ieli4at onroble i ef t ri l trot:t I r r e i i l f l ar b d e to c a e ni7
' 4,..f . ;',:a5 a certlecate, yon will see what article it
tri. :,2 dtd it is optional with on to send one dollar '
4.,:,: i • E Le article named, or any other in the list of
i* , ELI ''''' .
‘tr, , , , ,• r kahattlo.t t e by mail we charge for forwarding
f' 2 '" paving Postage and doing the bust- eec.
` 2 " l . Five ceittfleatea will be cent for Ill;
~41 t?: thiri t for $5; sixty live for CO; and one
4 tbi.''''''ls
tit",4,' Ws give selections from a varied stock of
, . vibe hist make said latest styles. and of in-
A: 4 ' , Otth. at a nominal pike. while all have a
14,,fseenring articles of the very highest value
4 4 , 4 ''' , . 'ant% entire satisfacti on in - every instance. and
.94 L" 41 % be any person dissatisfied with any aril
ktVi7,gicite; t f ha7 will immediately return it.
ke, We allatTa n ott ed gctlng all agents Ten Gents
:I,,cttfteata ordered, provided their remittanoe
-!.,,.1,,?Le dollar.
..... :t i ,...
_.?Acct 25 cents for every certifitate..and re
-,44,1,;,:X, remit to us lb seats for each.
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VOL. 7.-NO. 227.
CURTAIN GOODS.
I. E. WALBA VEX,
ONWONNOE ?081. H. OAREYL.)
MkSONIC 11.111,
719 CHESTNUT STREET,
HAS NOW OPEN
AN IMMENSE STOCK OF
NEW GOODS,
MIME ACING
WIN DOW SHA.DF.6,
LACE CURTA.INS,
AND
CURTAIN GOODS,
FROM AIJOTION,
AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES.
CLOTHING.
SPICING GOODS.
EDWARD P. BELLY.
JOHN KELLY.
T EC
12 CHESTNUT STREET,
(solos' HOTEL,)
LATE 14 BOUTH THIRD 9TBIET,
Have list received a larze stook of choice
SPRING GoODS.
TO LET-HOOKS UP STAIRB. 612, 614 010113rNur
STEE ST. maw
CLOTHING.
SPRING OF 1864
EXTENSIVE CLOTHING HOUSE.
Nos. 301 aM 306 CHESTNUT STREET.,
PHILADELPHIA
The facilities of this home for doing business
r a ars each that they can confidently claim for it
gthe /fading position among the Tailoring Ha
. tablishmentenf Philadelphia. They. therefore.
•ct i nvite the attention of gentlemen of taste to their
g superb stoat of
co
0 READY.MiDE CLOTHING,
Psat by the best artists, trimmed. and Ellide . eanal
0 to Customer Work—AND AT
POP QLAR. PRICES.
g They have also lately added a CUSTOM DK-
R PARTNERI% where the latest novelties may be
12 ' &and. outbraeing some fresh from London end
ri Darin
PERRY & CO.,
303 and 305 CHESTNUT STREET.
COMM DEPARTMENT, 303 CHESTNUT ETEENT
ard-ft
CLOTHING.
1864.
LATEST STYLES.
WILLIAM S. JONES,
MERCHANT TAILOR AMID CLOTHIER,
rztol.i.1 1 :S: 41 4400: 4, :ilf 4 :110 azY•tl:4 , _:44:lFief 474.1:i:444
STEAM, PHILADELPHIA.
Respectfully invites attention to hie
magnificent stook of FINE CLOTS
IRO, rot up in superior Idyl*. by bona
fal and experienced artiate,and offered
for sale at exceedingly
LOW PR!CI&
Also. fo his large and choice variety
of PIECE GOODS for CUSTOM WORL
orelbractne selections from the Hama
nrodnetions of both foreign and do
mestic manufacture.
WILLIAM S. JONES,
OUGONSSOR TO ROBKRT H. ADAK&
Sontheaat corner of SEVENTH and MAXIM Streets.
Smo
pAp;pro! 'a_r[jatj IY_llll
P. A. HARDING & CO.,
lILPORTBRI3 .LAD JOBBERS OF
ETRAW AND MILLINERY GOODE,
No. 4121 ARCH STRION.N.
?MtLADSI3IfiI.
p 1864.
WOOD & CAM,
1864. -
726 CHESTNUT STREET,
STRAW AND MILLINERY
GOODS.
P. 6.—YEBORANTS ADD XELLDIM aso Invited to
examine Won Forohosing. as our OTOOK IB PULL
and moss LOW..
tohfrata WOOD k Okla.
V I WE RESPECTFULLY •
CALL THE ATTENTION OF
THE T RA CE
TO OVIL STOCK OF
SPRING =UMW GOODS.
wa RAVI NOW OPEN
A BEAUTIFUL ASSORTMENT OF
FRENCH FLOWERS ,
RIBBONS, SILKS, LACES, VEILS, &c.
SERMON,
726 CHESTNUT STREET.
MISS IL A. BAKER,
No. 1346 01138TNUT STREET.. .
Has PAR S a largo__asmortment of
MILLIBIRY,
Per the Spring said Summer of 1f64.
GOLD'S IMPRO AN VED D STEAM
WA.TIER-HILLTERG APPARAToo,
Tor Warminz sad Ventilating Pablis INDELeups sad
Primateßesidonose.
Itaraihatand bp em
WHOA DMZ AN) WATIR.RIATING 001EP1'I
PHILADILPIA.
JAMB P. WO OD.
41 Sone. FODETH Strait
sakill4s.2ll m. linewintiesdeut.
MORGAN OBR, & CO., STEAM EN
ax32 kranas. Iron Founders. and General
Machinists an Iler Malreta. No. ate ITALLowatra
Moo.
NMI
ett 41,Iress.
MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1864.
The Academy of Pine Arta.
This institution opens to•day its forty-first annual
exhibition to the public. Its affair. are in a pros.
porous and progressive state; its schools have been
filled all the winter with eager students, and now.
in its grateful Oahe of collating the ounoom of fie
old pupils and of other artists for the education of
the people at large, it is as successful as usual, and
criticism may move instructed through a various and
fair representation of the artistic achievement of
Licorice.
On Saturday night the customary indulgence of a
private view was extended to a number of ladies
and gentlemen especially interested in the tine arts.
At the /dose of a day like Saturday—an anniversary
so significant to literature, and so singularly typical
in the quality of its own sweet air and sunshine of
the breath that had exhaled upon the world three
hundred years ago—it was appropriate and auspi
cious to celebrate the triumphs of anether art so
akin to Shithspearels. It was to enjoy the fruits of
a craft eternally wedded to letters, for which the
creations of the imperial dramatist afford an abiding
More of inspirations, that we stepped at twilight
from the soft gloom to the soft blaze—from the April
Mr, so redolent of awakening life and thought and
memory—and Shakspeare—to the halls brightened
with creations of a genius also essentially dramatic,
and homes of many dreams and noble visions thrown
in sheets of colored light upon the wall.
There is a homogeneous charader about the pre
sent exhibition width is invaluable. A valid Ob
jection has been made to the system or-annual col.
lections, wherein a docile public is fed a little as the
court monkey Would have nourished. Gulliver,. and
miniature work and frescoes, and pictures religious,
pagan, grotesques literals poetical—all new and all
inimical—are shoveled together into its candid and
belpltss eyes. A certain harmony and continuity
is seldom violated in the succession of pictures now
arranged in the galleries; they are principally
efforts of grave and studious thought, discursive in
philosophy or elevated in religion. The pointed
lesson. of caricature or farcical art—never very
successfully grafted upon the American genius—are
'here absolutely wanting.
And now, after thole few words indicative of the
impression created by the exhibition as a whole—
an impression reliable, we think, and at any rate so
consoling- that we should be wry to change itit
would be a vast privilege to lay down , the pen, and
withhold opinions of individual works, cursorily
imbibed in a limited opportunity. We do not com
prehend, and do not envy, that faculty of prompt
and final criticism which opens its camera, and, in
the tick of a watch, receives its clear and ineffacea
ble photograph of the object under Observation,
This faculty is, however, demanded of that conve
nient and heavily-saddled abstraction, the daily
newspaper ; and we feel obliged, in the case at least
of our prominent Philadelphia artists, to commu
nicate the judgments Termed in minutes upon the
toil of months.
Mr. Rothermel, who has been partially at rest
since the triumph of his Christian Martyrs," has
only sent twq, , ,,,works. The largest of these, Galled
(64) "The. Last Sigh of the Moor," represents
hide tragedy among a group of helpless women
a❑d aged people, who watch from afar some
Spanish battlefield, or succumb to the desperate
news brought by orderlies from the fight.
The group is arranged with all of Bother-
Mere comiummate knowledge of effect, and
the lovely color we 'all know is laid with the old
purity (if the gas did not deceive us) upon the living
flesh and rich drapery. This picture will be memo
rable in the history of its artist by the flick introduc
tion of a horse. Rothermel's muse en attest is at
least as memorable an apparition as Mr. Joseph
Sedley on elephant-back. The animal, though evi
dently designed without the intolerance of Rosa
Bonheur or John Leech, is after all not bad, and
curvets in his proper corner with irreproachable
spirit and fire. The other picture is (157) " Saint
Agnes, ,, whose purity shines like the silver of
moonlight in the midst of one of Mr. BOthermers
dreams of voluptuous color. Hamilton contributes
no leas than fifteen landscapes, mostly of moderate
size. and not usually, perhaps, charged with his
very best thunder ; two pictures of shipwreck (27),
and (10), contribute his matchless knowledge of low•
ering skink and stormy water ; his (8) "Pompeii,"
the most ambitious he exhibits, seems to us to fail
from overexertion, and we,Zested with most satis
faction upon the delightful (26) " Gunner's Hun,"
Which is entranced with the very glamour of sum.
mer moonlight.
Mr. E. D. Lewis is represented by half a dozen
works, one of which (1O) the Gates of the Susque
hanna is in many respects the most important land.
sable on exhibition. The sky hi this is a rare tri
umph—tge pencil seems to gave been dipped in light
itself, that rolled along the blue of those toppling
Alps of dazzling cloud, and dipped their gleaming
reflections among the islands of the river.
Thomas Doran exhibits, among "other lindscapaa
(S 1) Windsor Cradle, a picture of considerable size,
laid upon the canvas In a thin manner, and appa
rently a reminiscence from Turner.
The unique faculty of W. T. Richards is dirpliyed
in two distinct and entirely different efforts.
No. 86 is a quiet bit of water resting under the
ripe, dark foliage of September, conceived in the
spirit of a photograph, and with its earnest atten
tion to truth only a little spoiled by pedantry. The
Valley among the Adirondack. (59) le a landscape
which it delights us to praise without reserve—a
pietwe at once broad and minute, pure, though re
served in color, and infused throughout with the
highest sympathy with nature.
The veteran Sully comes again among us with
thole pensive reminiscence' of the.. pi:4er of his
youth, which are like the visionary stories a gentle
old man may tell by the dreride. The refinement
which Dever foraook hi. brush lingers about them
In the plastic arts the present exhibition is mea
gre. Mr. Bailly contributes soma models, which we
hope to be able some time to praise in their meow
ors stallization ; at present we must pass them over.
Miss Stoddard has sent (276) a head called "Repa
ration," and Mr. Roberts (269) a Cupid"—both of
them works of original force, and creditable to the
laboole of the Academy.
With these rapid remarks upon the labors of our
Philadelphia artists—not quite secure from future
modification—we close. There are divers important
works by New York and foreign craftsmen, which,
though capital Matinee in the exhibition, do not
possess for Philadelphians the prominent civic im
portance which we have given to the labors of our
fellow•townsmen. On an early occasion we shall
extend to them the attentive criticism they deserve,
Atlantic Monthly.
The May number has reached us, through T. B.
Peterson & Brother., 306 Chestnut street, and T. B.
Pugh, corner of Chestnut and Sixth. It is a collect.
tion of striking and valuable paper.. Bayard Tay
ior leads off with an account of his Cruise on Lake
Ladoga, and is followed by Ik Marvel, who contd.
butes the sixth of " Web Weather Work" papers—
this time rambling among books written about the
country or its cultivation. Mrs. Stowe gives the
filth of her sensible and practical "House and Home
Papers." Arthur Gilman treats of " The Gold Fields
or Nova Scotia," from which England has already
reaped rich treasure. William Winter, well known
as a most discerning critic, here limits himself to
facts, and, under the title "Types," discoursing about
type-setting machines, ending with the most recent,
invented by Mr. Charles W. Felt, of Saleln, Mass.,
which, as here described, seems to be wonderfully con
structed. John G. Palfrey relates wiurthappened in
"The New England Revolution of the 7th Century."
A. hi. Diaz, in " Some Account of the Early Life of
an Old Bachelor," and Harriet E. Prescott. With the
commencement of a awry called "The Rim," give
all of prose fiction that we find in this May number.
The poetical contributions are more numerous—by
Charles J. Sprague, Robert Browning, T. B. Reed,
and T. W. Parsons, besides a ballad, of the true ring,
called "Re eniisted," the authorship of which we
know not. There lea moderate but telling article on
si The Presidential Election," and a very readable
paper on "Life in the Sellslande,"whieli belong to
South Carolina. We wonder how the paper enti
tled "California as a Vine Land" found its way
into the Atlantic Monthly, because its evident put ,
pose is to pujf a particular wine•making firm in
Los Angeles and San Frandsen. The Reviews and
Literary Notices which conclude each number of
this magazine are written with critical judgment
and commendable fairness. . .
Ticknor it Fickle, we, may as wen me n ti on h em
have followed the advice we gave them, in our re•
view of Ticknotaa admirable Life of Prescott, the
historian. The original book, small quarto and
toned paper, was richly illustrated, and, as
perhaps t h e handsomest volume ever printed
in New England, was not dear at the price
($7 b 0) charged for it. But this sumptuous
volume was not calculated for ordinary use,
and it certainly was proper that the moral of
patience and perseverance and success, which it
taught, should be in the hands of all classes. T. &
F., therefore, have limed in library edition (at gs),
to match the octavo edition of Prescott's Works,
published by .1. B. Lippincott, and a popular edition
- of 458 pages, in 12mo Mze, containing a fine portrait,
and every word in the other editions, including the
excellent index. Well printed end neatly bound,
this volume (at $2), is now within the reach of all
readers, and the side will be very great, we have no
doubt.
Other new publications of Ticknor & Fields shall
be noticed in due imaion. We may state that one
volume is the fifth feria of Sermons by the late
Rev. Frederick W. Robertecin, a well-known Eng
lish clergyman, and another contains Poems, by
Frederick Goddard Tuakerman, who, at all events,
known how to write a sonnet. A third L "The
yea Partly Lifted," by the Rev. Dr. W. H. Fur
nom, or this city, a book evidently suggested by Re
nazi% Life aims, which it fully corrects.
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Fisher," which is Hrs. ThorneycroWs statue !Of
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sons. There also are revih articles here with beau•
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PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, A PRIL 25, 1864.
THE "CAMPAIGN IN LOWMAN&
The Battle or Pleasant Hill.
(Special Correspondense of The Prem.]
GnAnia EOMre, LA., April 10, 1884.
The object of General Bank.' spring campaign is
political as well as military. The importance of the
Southwest may be properly estimated when we 00n
eider our relations with Mexico, and the embarreme
meats occasioned by the French interference with
that republic, The occupation of Brownsville, on
the Rio Grande, by General Banks, last year, did
much towards checking the designs of the French
Emperor. An American army was placed on the
frontier of the new-made dependency, and any di
plomacy between Bevis and Napoleon was thus
shattered and silenced. That occupation was merely
a check. To make it a checkmate, the capture or
Shreveport was necessary. This town occupies a
point in the extreme "northwestern part of Loui
siana, near the boundary line of Arkansas and
Texas. At the head of steamboat navigation on the
Rtd river, in the midst of the largest and richest oots
ton district in the trans-Missinippi Department, the
rebel capital of Louisiana, the headquarters of Kirby
Smith, and the depot of supplies for the rebel army,
Shreveport is as important 'to this department as
Chattanooga or Riehmend. If purely military con
siderations had controlled, it is probable that the
armies of this department would have been devoted
to an expedition against Mobile, or a cooperating
movement with the army of . General Sherman. But
the Government desired Shreveport and the wells
turbed posseesion of the Mississippi, and General
Banks was charged with the duty of taking it Hie
army consisted of a part of the 19th Army Corps,
which he formerly commanded in person; a portion
of the lath Army Corps, under General Ransom;
and a portion of the Path Army Corps, under_ the
command of General Smith. The 19th Corps is
composed mainly of Eastern troopmsend same with
General Banks when he assumed command of this
department; /t is now under the command of Gen-
Wm. B. Faulkner, formerly of the Army of the Po
-tome, who is nextinauthority to Gen. Banks. The
divisions commanded by (3-en. Smith were recently in
Grant's army and in the corps commanded by Ge
net al Hurlbut. They were sent to aid in the
movement upon Shreveport, and begaiu their ope
rations by capturing Fort De Ramsey, and thus open.
lag the Red river. General Smith occupied Alex
andria, the parish-town of Rapids', situated on the
Red river, and one of the most beautiful towns in
the State. Alexandria was thus made the base of
operations against Shreveport, and General Banks,
proceeding thence in person, assumed command of
the army.
After concentrating at Alexandria, the army
Marched to Natchitoches, en old Indian and French
settlement on the banks of what is called by a
strange perversion of words the "old Red river."
Natchitoche, is as old as Philadelphia, and so queer
and quaint, that I would be tempted to write you a
letter about it, if the events of this busy time were
not so urgent. About four miles from Natehitoehem on
the river, there is another settlement of dingy houses
called Grand Ecore.. The river here, in one of its
angry, whimsical moments, seems to have aban
doned one bank and left it a low, wide, shelving
plain, and so violently intruded upon the other bank
that it is now a high, ragged bluff, with the sides
in a condition of deesy, as every rain-storm slices off
layer after layer of earth. Thia is what is called
Grand Ecore, and when our army occupied Natchi
toches General Banks came hither and made it his
headquarters. Admiral Potter, with his gunboats,
accompanied him, and it is now the headquarters of
the army and navy. The rebels seem to have con
templated holding Grand Boors, for on the bluffs
around the settlement the rt mains of works in.
tended for large guns anti as rifle-pits may be seen.
These were built last summer when General
Banks made a feint upon Shreveport by way
of diverting the attention of . the enemy from
his attack upon Port Hud son. No attempt
was made to fortify it when the present
movement began on Sunday, April ad. General
Banks arrived here, and went into camp in a beauti
ful meadow-ground, akirted by pine woods, about
two hundred yards from shore, and near a small
*hallow stream, with pine trees growing in it, which
the inhabitants call a lake. The headquarters of
Gen. Franklin were at Natchitoches.
That army consisted of about twenty thousand
men, and was thus commanded: 'The cavalry by.
'Gen. Lee, formerly of Grant's army—said to be a
favorite of the Lieutenant General, arid with the
reputation of being an efficient and active oilier.
The artillery was under Brigadier General Riehird
Arnold, a captain of the 24 Artillery, in the regular
army, and chief of the service in this department.
General Franklin was second in command of
the forces. He had one division of his army
corps with him, that commanded by. Gen. Emory.
The division of General Green was left at Alexan
dria to hold the post. General Smith's force con
sisted of two divisions. General Ransom's force
also Consisted of two divisions, On this calculation
I make the estimate that the army around Grand
Beare, under General Banks, on the morning of the
Sunday he assumed command, numbered altogether
twenty thousand men. With this army he began
his march. The . countr y through which he war to
move was most disadvantageous for an invading
army. The topography of Virginia has been as
signed as a reason for every defeat of the Army of
the Potomac; but Virginia is a garden and a
meadow, when compared with the low, fiat pine
countries that extend from Opelousas, far in the
South, to Fort Smith in the North, and
cover hundreds of thousands of square miles.
There are few plantations and fewer settle
meats, These are merely built in clearings, of
pine logs, thatched and plastered with mud. I have
ridden for laity miles into the heart of this pine coun
try, and from the beginning to the end of the jour
ney there was nothing bufei dense, impenetrable, in.
terminable forest, traversed by a few narrow roads,
with no signs of life or civilization beyond occa
sional log-houses ami t halfoileared-plantatlens—the
bark being stripped from the trees, that they might
rot and die in a few months, end thus save their lazy
Owners the trouble of cutting them down. Into thie
country General Banks was compelled to march.
He found, in the beginning, that two arms of- his
service would be almost worthless. So long as na
marched, his cavalry might picket the woods and
skirmish along the advance ; but In an action they
would be as helpless as so many wagon-trains.
His artillery would be of no use unless
he should manage to get the enemy into an open
clearing, which was as improbable as it would
be to get troops with works to fight in front of
them. The country was little more than a great
=salted battery. It was an unproductive, barren
country, and it became necessary for permanent
Military operations to carry along everything that
an army could use. Such a thing as subsisting an
army in a country like this could only be achieved
when men and horses can be induced to live on
pine trees and resin. General Banks had very much
the mane difficulties to meet that Lord Raglan found
in the Crimea. In one respect they were , greater.
For, while our commander was compelled to march
his army as a movable column, he was also com
pelled te keep open long and dangerous line of
communications. I make theme explanations now
in order that you may more - particularly understand
the nature of our recent operations, and give Gen.
Bank. the credit that I feel to be due to him and . to
the army under his command. .
About thirty:four miles from Grand Eeore there
is a clearing of more than usual size, and upon It
there are built more" than the ordinary number of
houses, and showing more than the common degree
of enterpriee and taste. This clearing forms a
plateau, and as it rises as high perhaps as fifty feet,
the people have taken advantage of the fact, and
- called it "Pleasant Against this point it
Was determined to march. We knew that the rebel
army was in that direction, and it was not at all
unlikely that they would make a stand and show
us battle. The army marched accordingly—Lee
leading the advance, moving slowly with his caval
ry, and followed as rapidly as possible by the in
fantry divide= of General Ransom. By Thum
day, April 'lth, the whole army was in motion,
and the . advance was nearing Pleasant Hilt.
General Banks broke camp, and with his staff
and a small molt rode to the dont.' • Before
him were two-thirds of his army;": behind him the re
mainder under General Smith, and composed of
many of the bravest veterans in Grant's army, was
marching rapldly, We had not ridden more than
ten miles before the rain began to fall. It continued
to fall, and for the remainder of the day we had a
storm of unusual fury. This delayed the march so
much that it was dark before the General reached
the encampment , of General Franklin, on Pleasant
11111. The rain was then pouring in torrents, and
the shelter of a tent and a cup of coffee became luxu
ries that even a Sybarite would have craved. Early
in the day on Thursday our cavalry had passed be.
yond Pleasant Hill, and about two miles above,
near a ravine, they had met the rearguard of the
enemy. A sharp skirmieh ensued. The fighting
became so earnest at last, that General Lee began
to doubt the ability of his cavalry to fermi a passage,
and sent to General Franktin for a brigade of in
fantry, as o-reinforeement The enemy were driven,
howevef. before the infantry arrived, with severe
Ides, rhe cavalry being compelled to dismount, and
fight through the woods.. In this skirmish we lost
about fitly men, killed, wounded, and missing-
Tials skismish convinced ua that the enemy in
front were in more than usual force. We learned
from prisoners that Lieutenant General E. Kirby
Smith, of the rebel army, was in command, that
his trains had fallen back on the road to Mansfield,
and that his army was retreating with more than
usual disorder. It, of course, suggested itself that
our pursuit should be rapid, and, if we showed pro
per enterprise, we might capture Mansfield and the
whole train of the rebel.isrmy. An order was given
that the army should march early in the morning,
and shortly after dawn the whole force was on
the advance, General Banks and staff following.
The advance was pushed with energy. Our army
skirmished :all the way, and once or twice the ens-.
my made a demonstration of forte. Our troops
quietly drove them, and we moved on. The roads
began to be in a horrible oondition, and frequently
we were compelled to halt and - repair them, building
bridges, removing stumps, and widening the paths.
At about eleven in themorning den. Banks reached
Gen. Fran lin, at a point about ten miles from
Bleu/int cavalry had passed on, the train
following. • ion of his infantry had crossed,
the 4th divisi .the lath Army. Corps, under the
immediate command of Brigadier Generallimsom.
His men ware engaged in building a bridge over a
bayou that embarrassed the march, sad his trains
were about to cross. Re reported to Gen. Banks
that everything was going on finely that his force
- was pressing the enemy, Who Wag illOWly telling
back, and that as he could not hope to march much
further. be bad thought it best to make his head.
, quarter' at a neighboring log hut, end had accord
-
BMW halted his trains. Gen. Banks direote4 his owe
rata to be halted there, and, after ream Awhile
and holdings conference with Gen. Franklin, re.'
mounted and rode to the front.
This was shortly after noon. A brief ride brought
the General to the advance. lie found the °avidly
slowly pushing on, and the enemy disputing their
march. /t was a tedious process. The quietly-re
tiring foe—the quietly-advancing oavalry—the
dime dismounted, and, creeping from tree to tree,
occasionally interchanging shots—and sometimes so
many at a time that it sounded like one of the badly.
fired volleys by which some of our militia escorts at
home pay the last honors to a dead comrade.. Still,
we pushed on, making progress, but very slow pro
gress Indeed, until we reached a point that seemed
to be aboutAive miles from the bayou, and the clear
ing beyond, where General Franklin had established
hie headquarters. At this point another clearing
bad been made for a plantation. Ii was roughly
divided into fields for notion .and cane, and an old
taw•mill near by seemed to indicate that the owner
had a larger share of enterprise_ than is generally
given to the chivalrous lords of these majestic pines.
The irregular &dug was at an end, for here the
Otte my waled to creep, and armed disposed to make
a stand. Evidently we were marching too rapidly,
and if they desired to cave their trains they must
fight for them. General - Banks saw this, and
ordered the Infantry. to the front to support the
cavalry and make a spirited assault. In the mean
time, in the event of the enemy being stronger
than was, expected, or too strongly posted, aids
were sent to the rear to hurry forward the advance
of Ransom's - other division, commanded by General
Cameron, as well as to General Franklin, directing
him to advance with Emory's division of the 19th
Army Corps. We• placed our artillery in position,
and began to shell the woods where the enemy were
posted. They made a feeble reply, but were evi.
drolly in strength. Our dismounted cavalry formed
the first line of battle. The - 4th Division formed in
their rear, the line crossing the road, and extending
its Rears IntO the woods. It was now about four
o'clock, and it became evident, from the manner in
which our cavalry attack was received, that the ene•
my was stronger than Was anticipated. The events
that I have been describing transpired very
slowly, and the afternoon seemed to be
wearing lazily away. But after four o'clock
events began to grow and thicken with a bewilder.
ing fury that makes it difficult for a mere rpecteter
like your correspondent to remember precisely what
was done, and how it was done. The attack of our
cavalry was weak and spiritless. The firing lasted
for a few minutes, the discharges of, musketry be
come Incessant, the long, thin line of clay-colored
rebels began to emerge slowly from the woods, firing
constantly, but always advancing at a pane that
seemed like an uncertain, shuffling run. Their fire
was too strong for our cavalry, and it fell back with
precipitation—too mush precipitation it proved—for
before Ransom had his line properly formed he was
compelled to meet the onset of the whole rebel
force. The retreating cavalry had partly demoral
ized his men, for in the heat of action, and being
where they could not see the field, they could not
umerstand why this multitude of flashed and
frightened men ahould thus be running front the
scene of battle. Many who wanted nothing but a
- Cheerful look or nod. to make them brave men,
turned around without having seen a rebel, and ran
so that before the battle had really opened
The road presented the strange sight of hundreds of
aimed and unarmed men hastening to the rear, some
the pictures of fright, others of abject fear, and
carrying exaggerated stories to all who troubled
them for information.
Four o'clock bed passed, and the long shadows of
the evening were darkening the pine wood.. Ran
som's division fought with intrepid bravery, all
things considered—the sudden attack, the panic.
stricken cavalry, and the number or the enemy—with
a bravery that cannot be too highly commended.
The rebels, however, saw their advantage, and
pressed it. In the beginnkng of the right General
Ransom was struck in IMP knee, and carried from
the field. This dispirited the men, for they alt
loved the young commander, and rejoiced to speak
hie praise. The fight became furious, and for a few
mitutes .there was doubt, and gloom, and anxiety
among the \ Federal commanders. Aid after aid
galloped down the road to bring up the 3d division
of the 18th Corp., commanded by Gen. dameron.
It was evident Ransom's men could not stand the
attack. It was doubted if even °smarm's men
would be more successful but other troops were be ,
hind—Emory and his splendid divisim—and we
knew that the day was ours if time only permitted
us to make a proper disposition of our forces. Ran
som's column finally broke, but not until Cameron's
was formed lathe rear to renew the battle. Through
'a
long hour—an hour that seemed to be an age to
all who stood under those pine trees on that Pricier .
afternoon—the fight raged. The enemy had a tem
porary advantage, and they premed it with an en
ergy that seemed to be appalling. They must have
sneered terribly, for our guns poured into their
lines one constant fire. Our men fought them with
unavailing valor, for all the disadvantages were on
their side.
If I have succeeded in making plain my account
of this fight, the reader will understand that our
forces were in an open space—spine- wood clearing
—that our line of advance was one single, narrow
road, - And that, having made the attack ourselves,
we found the enemy superior, and were compelled to
make a defensive fight. There were other troubles.
The country was so formed that artillery was &l
innet uss.lbse. We could not place a battery without
eirhogrg it in a manner that Suggested madness,
and yet we had the guns and were compelled to fight
'Num. A. further disadvantage was to be found in
the long trains that followed the different divi.
atom The cavalry had the advance; immedi
ately behind came the baggageimagoni, moving on
in a slow, cumbersome manner, and retarding the
movements of ; the infantry. This made it im
possible for us to have our divisions in supporting
distance, and when the time came for that support
it could not be rendered: General Banks perceived
this at once, but it was too late to remedy it, and he
was compelled to fight the battle in the best manner
possible. Ransom's division had been engaged and
routed. Cameron's division was in the thickest of
the fight. General Franklin had arrived on the
field, and a division of his megnificent corps, under
General Emory, was pushing along rapidly. Gen.
Bank's personally directed the fight. Everything
that man could do he did. Occupying a position so
exposed that nearly every horse ridden by his staff
was wounded, and many killed, he constantly dis
regarded the entreaties of these around, who begged
that he would retire to some less exposed position.
General stone l his chief of atsff,with his sad, earnest
face, that seemed to wear an unusual exprention,was
constantly at the front, and by his reckless bravery
did much to encourage the men. And so the fight
raged. The enemy were pushing a temporary ad
vantage. Our army was merely forming into post•
tion to make a sure battle.
Then came one of those unaccountable events
that no,genius or courage can control. I find it im
poisibie to describe a scene so sudden and bewilder
ing, although I was present, partly an actor, partly
a spectator, and saw plainly everything that took
place. The battle was progressing vigorously: The
musketry. firing was loud and continuous, and having
recovered from the danger experienced by Ransom',
division, we felt secure of the position. I was
slowly riding along the edge of a wood, conversing
with a friend who had just ridden up about the
events and - prospects of the day. We had drawn
into the side of the wood to allow an ammunition
wagon to pass, and although many were observed
going to the rear, some on foot and some on horse.
back, we regarded it as an occurrence familiar to
every battle, and it occasioned nothing but a passing
remark.
I noticed that most of those thus wildly riding to
the rear were negroes, hangers-on and servhig-men,
for now that we have gone so deeply into this slave
holding country every non.oommissioned °Meer has
a servant, and every servant a mule. These people
were the first to show any panic, but their scamper
along the road only gave amusement to the soldiers,
who pelted them with stones, and whipped their
flying animals with sticks to increase their speed.
Suddenly there was a rush, a shout the crashing
of trees, the breaking down of rails;the rush and
scamper of men. It was as sudden as though a
tknr_derbolt had fallen among us, and set the piney
on fire.- What caused it, or when it commenced, no
one knew. I turned to my companion to inquire
the reason of this extraordinary proceeding,
but before be has the ahanoe to reply,
we found ourselves swallowed np, an it were,
in a - hissing, seething, bubbling whirlpool of agi
tated Men. We could not avoid the current; we
could not stem it, and if We hoped to live In that
mad company, we must ride with the rest of them.
our line of battle had given away. Gen. Banks
took off his hat and iniplored his men to remain;
hie stall' o.fficera did the same, but it was of no avail.
Then the General drew his sabre and endeavored to
rally his men, but they would not listen, Behind
bim the rebels were shouting and advancing. Their
musket bank filled the air with that strange file
rasping sound that war has made familiar to our
righting men. The teams were abandoned by the
drivers, the fracas out, and the animals ridden off
by 'the frightened men. Bareheaded riders rode
with agony in their bees, and for at least ten mi
nutes it seemed as if we were going to destruction
together. It wax my fortune to see the first battle of
Bull Run, and to be among those who made that
celebrated midnight retreat towards Washington.
The retreat of the 4th Division was as mush a rout
as that of the first Federal army, with the exception
that fewer men were engaged, and our men fought
here with a valor that was not shown on that seri
ous, sad, mock-heroic day in July. We rode nearly
two miles In this madcap way, until on the edge of a
ravine, which might. formerly have been a bayou,
we found Zmorre division drawn up in line. Our
retreating men fell beyond this line, and Emory
*prepared to mart the rebels. They came with a
rush, and, as the shades of night crept over the tree
tope, they encountered our men. Emory fired three
rounds, and the rebels retreated. This ended the.
fight, leaving the Federal. masters. Night, and the
paralzying Whet of the stampede upon our army,
made pursuit impossible. The enemy fell back,
taking with them some of the wagon. that were
left, as d a number of the guns that were abandoned.
Although its results might seem to be more unfor
tuitate than the real events of the day wouldjustify
us in believing, this battle convinced us of the
atrepgth of the rebels in our front, and their deter
mination to resist our advance. It became nese*.
May to light a battle, and, an we could not do. 10 on
ground so disadvantageous, General Banks ordered
the army to occupy Pleasant Hill, the position in
our rear that bad been held by General Franklin on
the morning of the fight.. The , division of General
Emory remained On the field, picketing the front.
The headquarter trains were removed back to Plea
sant Hill, and the diviliOni of General Smith were
Ponied in line of battle, in which position they :a
ttained the whole night. _Vie divisions of _Ransom
and Cameron, which had sneered so much in the en
gagement, were WithdraWn from the field. When
this bad been done * "tai`siry ileirli wiSkldlow tds line
,
to a point Aio•.ft' two toilea beyrrad Pleasant Hifi'
General Bunke made his beadguarters on the left of
the elevation ; and' Shortly before daybreak he ar•
rived in gawp, ageompanied by M■ staff. The tante
were pitched, all* hasty cup• of coffers aer►ed for
breakfast. -
Having described as faithfulag as possible the
even e t eo " ri r b t e one bll of
bloody
day, it now becomes my duty
to dthe most brilliart and successful
battles of the war. The first day's engagement was
an accident. Nothing but the discipline -of the troops ,
and the presence of mind displayed by the commend
ing general prevented it from becondeggedisaeter.
On the aecond day we retrieved and redaesned all
that had been Wet. Pleasant Bill, es / have said
bifore, is a Blearing in the midst of these vent - pine
woods, about thirty.five miles from the Red morn,
on the road that leads from Natchitoches. It fermis
a plateau that - Tines - to a noticeable elevation above
the country around, It was probably intended as a
aetilement of more than usual importance, for
I noticed an tiaffeletsed seminary, a church, a
law mill, many fine houses, and one or two
that would have done Credit to our Northern towns.
The land was in er high state of cultivation, and
every acre seemed to be traversed by ridges of
ploughed soil. On the elevation where the u Antra
ed seminary stands, e.-complete view of the whole
geld &mid be obtained, and, with a glass, the fee
tures and the rank of men at the other could be rea
dily seen. Here we determined to make a stand.
The day was as bright, and clear, and fresh as a
May day in the North, and the air was so bracing
that the officers found their great coats grateful.
The morning passed on. The plateau had the ap.
pearance of a parade-ground on-a holiday. - For any
one man to see all that Vas to be seen, or to under
stand the different movements of the armed and uni.
formed men before 14m, would be impossible. 'Re
glments marching to the right, and regiments
marching to the left, batteries being moved
and shifted, cavalry squads moving in sin
gle file through the brush, now and then
an aid galloping madly,•Or an orderly at full speed,
driving
. his spurs, and holding an order or a de.
'patch between his teeth, bugles sounding the diffe
rent cavalry calls, and drums repeating the orders of
the captains, all passed and repassed, and controlled
the vision, making very much the impression that a
spectator In the theatre receives as - he Woke upon a
melo-drama. . In an enclosure near the roadside
was a small cluster of gentlemen to whom all this
phantasmagoria had the meaning of life, and death,
and power, and fame. • General Banks, with his
light.blue overcoat buttoned closely around his
chin, was strolling up and down, occasionally con
verging with a member of his staff, Or returning the
salute of a passing subaltern. Near hint avas Gene
ral Wm. B. Franklin—his face as rough and rugged
as when he rode through the storms of the Peninsula,
the ideal of a bold, daring, imperturbable soldier.
There are few braver menthanthisChsa.o'af.alley of
major generals. He had two horses shot under him
the day before. His face was very calm that morn
ieg, and occasionally he pulls his whiskers nervous.
ly, as though he scented the battle afar off, and wag
impatient to be in the midst of the fray. General
Charles P. Stone, the chief of staff, a quiet, retiring
Mall, who is regarded, by the few that know him as
one of the finest soldiers of the time, was sitting on
a rail smoking cigarettes, and apparently more in
terested in the puffs of smoke that curled around
him than in the noise and bustle that Stied the air.
There was General Smith, with his bushy, grayish
beard, and his eager eye, as it looks through spec
tacles, giving him the appearance of a schoolmaster.
Gen. Arnold, the chief 01 artillery,with his high boats
and slouched hat thrown over his head, seemed the
busiest man of all. The other members of the staff,
colonels, and majors, and captains, completed the
group; with orderies in the distance, and servants
chiding or soothing their masters' restive horses,
and the body guard dismounted and doziog wader
the trees. It Was rather a tedious party, and group
After group formed and melted away, and reformed
and diieugged the battle of the evening before, and
the latest news and gossip of New Orleans, and
wondered when another mail would come. It might
have been a parade; is might have been a fair day,
and these Men around lie so many plain farmers who
came to receive medals for their cattle and swine,
and hear the county lawyer deliver the agricultu
ral address. It certainly could not be war, and
yet the slow rumbling of gun and caisson, the oc.
casional shell bursting from the cannon, whistling
in the air, and exploding in the woods beyond; the
sudden musket -shot, and the distant cheer—all gave
the picture the deep and deathly tints that made it a
battle piece. It is curious to study the feelings
which sOCh a scene produces. -Thil Morning scene be.
came so weary and tame that, front very languor
and apathy, I began to weave up the bright and
real tints of the picture with as many unique fancies
as the imagination could suggest, and, finally, turn
ing over on a pine board, which Ms resting against
a fence, and made an inviting bed fora weary man,
endeavored to regain a portion of the sleep that the
last night had taken away. I had scarcely time for
wooing a nap when the General galled for his horse
`and proposed to go to the front. The different gene
rals around him returned to their commando, and,
slowly, picking our way out of the yard, we rode
along the-ridge to an elevation near at hand, and
from thence surveyed the field.
It was one of those scenes that battles rarely pre
sent, but which enable us to see What is really the
pomp and glory of war. Below, or rather before us,
was the whole army of Gen. Banks. There were three
distinct lines of battle, two of. which could be seen
by the eye, the other being hidden by the woods.
The batteries were in position, and each regiment
displayed its flag. On our ffanks were small de
tachments of cavalry, who busily scoured the woods
to prevent anything like a Surprise, or a movement
in our rear. It was none eleven o'clock, and our
whole army wasprepared for action. The generals
had determined to await the attack of the enemy,
and finding it impossible to subsist the army in a
country without water or Maga, concluded to move
the trains back to Grand Eifore, there concentrate our
army, and await neweirom the co-operating column
of General Steele, which is known to be moving
through Arkansas on , Shreveport. Accordingly, be
fore our lines were formed,the trains were ordered
to move, and before noon we had a clear field, and
were ready for the attack. In order to look his
army face to face, and satisfy himself that the die.
positions were proper, General Banks rode to the
front with his staff, and thence along the whole line,
saying kind words to officers and men, and wearing
that bright, winning smile so peculiar to him, and
which seemed to give new confidence to the men
whose lives were on their country's! altar. Noon
came and passed ; but beyond the alow shelling of
the woods, and a Stray shot from some impetuous
picket, there was no sign of an engagement. Our
men remained in line all day, and passed the hours
by their guns ; .come lying don% some sleeping
and dozing, others reading and eating the rem
nants of yesterday's ration; but all ready for the
signal that would bring on the action. The day
remained bright, and warm, and clear, and it
began to be thought that.,..it would dose with
out an action, and that the enemy had withdrawn
With their booty. Those in the front knew better.
The rebels were there, making their dispotitions
and preparing for, the Onset, In the meantime the
General and staff returned to the ridge near the brick
house, and partook of some refreshment, satisfied
that the day was ours; and determtned to await
events.
On our left centre, far in the advance, was a bat
tely of - four gums, belonging to a New York regi
ment. It Occupied an exposed position, and it had
been suggested by some of the staff officers that there
was danger of its capture. This battery had been
Making itself an object of interest to the rebels, for
every ten minutes it sent a shot into their midst.
About half past four in the afternoon a sharp
volley of musketry was heard, and all eyes
turned toward. this battery, for over it circler,
of smoke were_ ascending, and around it men
were engaged in battle. The rebel line rushed
from the woods and charged the battery. The
contest was sharp. The smoke obscured the sight,
and for a few minutes we could only guess how the
struggle way going. Finally our line was seen to
retreat, but we had no fear. We knew that the men
Composing that line were men of the 15th Oorps—we
bad seentheir valor on the day-before, and, although
there before our eyes they were falling back, we
felt assured it was with a purpose. SO it proved.
The temporary retreat was a feint intended to draw
the rebels from the Woods. They came, rushed upon
the battery, and surrounded It. A,lssueoes. brought
another line of clay...colored rebeisfand they cheered
as though they had gained a victory. The time had
come. The enemy was before us. Encory's divi
sion rallied—and one of Smith's divisions, which had
been lying on the ground, arose and nentvolley atter
volley into the enemy's midst. This was something
different from fighting an exposed division in pine
woods, in • the midst of baggage trains, and so the
poor 'rebels found. Again and again they rallied,
but only to fall back again and again, and finally to
retreat and scamper through the woods. The bat
tery which tempted them from their• covert was re
taken, and its shot and shell went plunging through
their retreating column. It seemed as though Death
was reaping a mysterious harvest, and to the right
and left the sheaves were falling.
The battle was extended along the whole line. It
was nothing but charge and rally, to charge and
rally again. In every point our men gained the day.
The lines of Smith's division stood like the stone
walls that:Virgil:Limps/cis have contributed to our
military language, and every effort of the enemy to
force them was futile. Thus it continued for an hour;
and in describing the scene at the battery I nod
that I have given in detail all that can be remem
bered of this brief and glorious fight. One other
movement was noticeable. The rebels, towards the
end of the engagement, tried to flank our left by
sending a column over the ridge upon which the un
finished seminary stood. The effort was more dis
astrous than the attempt Upon the battery. They
were driven back with fearful slaughter—routed
from the neld,Jeaving =may hundreds of prisoner'
to our hands. This ended the engagement,. and our
forces were victorious.
' Night was over all, and the stars began to shine.
Our wounded were removed, and, unmolested, Gen.
Banks aceemplished Ids movement towards Grand
Eeore.
Our losses the two•days battle, in killed,
wounded, and missing, are estimated et two thou•
and. Colonel Benedict, commanding r. brigade, Was
the only:g?neral offitier killed. We learn that Goa.
MOniOn; ailsomandlog a part of the.rebellarmyt wag
also 'la* J. IL T.
OTFIC/A.L SNOTIBIRDIT.—Adjutsit General Soho
ler, pf rdaassohusetta, ostotdpg the poetie afflatus
Item bit! able& Winds of his annual report with a
graceful bit of. rhetoric and poetry, in allusion 10
our volunteers, thus: .
~ While absent from the Conimonwealth, they
hsve written to me many friendly and often cont .
dentist lovers, about their eesdiltion in the field
and of,their personal affair!- at home, ant I have
felt, and do now feel tha t ,;
•
" loved them for,the dealers they have prod.
/Lad they leVed skiUt L 41.11 pity
THREE CENTS,
LTIVIIIth= CONGRESS---ist SESSION.
WA3IIXIMTO7I/. April 11, 181 L
nowsm imPlLEPUßssiriTaTlvlifili.
Mr. WABB/3111011. of Illinois. from the Committee on
Congseres. reported's. bill to create an additional snpar
vb.ing inspector for ntanastboats—duties to be cont/ned to
New Orleans ; also for the appointment of beanie of
local inepec6ors at Pori:land. Oregon. and at Memphis.
Tenn. The board of insgeotion at Wheeling in discon
tinued for the recoon that them are two other bounds of
I onrinctot elor toe Ohio river.
On motion of Mr. COL of Ohio. it was resolved that
the Committers sn the ,Indiciary be imamate& to inquire
into the expediency of eo amending the fourth. section of
e act or March 1793. ae to empower the United Kates
Connolesionere to tabs bail in criminal eaten and to pro
vide there with a seal, ow.
The Cuhe alr/Mr. F. P. Blair, sift:
lidr. Hippy, of California, made the following report:
the and erelgli este a special committee appointed' coder
the resolutiou of the House. of the lint of Mareh-last. to
investorateahe charge made by. tee Hem J. W. McClurg.
a, member of the House from the State of Mtstoncl,
Sashes the Hoe, P. PI Dinh', Jr. also a member of the
settle from the same State, of violating the lewe in the
matter of alleged Heuer apecalatios. and to Weave into
tee 47eunlhenetel or falsity of an alleged order for the
Put chase of liquor. beating date June 31. 1933, r:apect.
truly r.port that they; have bad the matter no
rofsrrod them under Jiff:Yeti - gad an
early day to
after their appointor mt. = from
aid have
given a full opportunity So both parties to .prodace
witnetses before them, and havetaken all the testimony
offered on the erthjtct. The deputations of tee vr:thesse:
they examined ere herewith submitted - to the Hones.
It eppeared satiafactorily in the evidence before the.
committee. that on the 3d day of Juno. 1863 _ Hon. F.! F.
Bleir. Jr.. being a major eeneral In the Army of 'the
United States. in-actual service near lrmicebarg, in the
htste of Miseiseippl, together with eight members of lie
stall signed a written order, or authority, to one Anchasti
Ptwers (representing himse f to- be an agent of the
Treasury Department.) and who had offered Ma see
vices for the purpose, to procure for their. 04'5
nee, a very moderate emouni of /ItinOre, tobacco, and ,
chore, the. cost - of which. in the language of one of the
witneseee (Capt. Magnus). certainly worria not exceid
one 'hundred and fif. y to one honored and seventy •fi
dollars. This order, as it appeared' before the commit
tee was altered after it was detivered to Powers by e'
ding to and et. at, Ong the flauree. and also by addingild
least one new item. viz : twenty fin boxes of canned
fruits, to ertoh an extent that the Donator, on tut par
chase of the articles in St. Louts (and the permit for which
was ground bT the collect°, ), amounted to eight thou
sand six hundred and Ally one dollars As specimen al
teratione. one ma, he referred to. that as to brandy:
the original ceder was for • five gallons. By inserting
the figure two before the figure five. and ad ling the word
sash. " it became an order,. as nine orrsoise had eignee
it, f‘r 2 t 25 gallons The alterations which the com
mittee bedeve. from the testimontaken before them, to
have bran made in the order, will
be seen on reference
to the schedule, as hereto annexed. and. which contains
a copy of the cxi tit g order. snd a statement at the foot
tbsreof of the article., named in the °Defeat order, as
Uri/Hy as the committee can determine from the eel
deuce NM:anthem
An to the queetiOn by whom theme alterationi were
mare. the committee refer particularly to the depoeitt one
of Meters. Powers and Howard, which are among those
herewith submitted. Judging from all the eirentn- •
Mar Oat'. they.were probably made for the pnrpoee of re
altang a profitable specuiation under the cover of the
original order. That her were made by P,:ware, there
cannot, from the teetimorty, be any reasonable doubt.
At the time the order was delivered to Powers there
wan no law or militant regulation le any we , Dm
htleting it. and the committee are therefore of the opi
nion. and do report. that n' violation. of the law was
cnromitted in the premlees by General Blair. and that
the original eider was altered and falsified after it had
peered front his permission and connoi in tne manner
laereinbefore stated.
. .
Tne undersigned. chairman of committee, for himself,
deetne it proper to state that the replies of Mr. -fitair, in
the Mouse. to the charges of Mr Mc°tart, all of which
have been under ins/esti, ation before thecommittee. are
not sustained by the evidence. except as to his denial•
of being engaged to Minor speculs.tioa. and of the
vauiliezese of the order in question.
In this statement the other memeers of the committee
do not concur—the member from Kentucky, f the
reason that his conclusions from the testimony are the
opposite of those of the chairmen, and the m-m Der fr,,nt
Pew York, who was absent while most of this pin of
the evidence was taten, for the reason that he does not
consider the subject embraces in the resointions ap
pointing the committee, and that they era not, in his
Judgment, called on to express any ooinion in regard
to it.
The committee having thus completed the duties as
signed to them, respectfully ask to be discharged from
the farther consideration of the subject
WM HiIIBY. Chain:o.in.
BROTlis .1 CUT.
Joan L. PRUYII
Mr BIGBY moved that the raper' be laid upon the
table and be rortutsd.
Mr. BLAIR, of Missouri, asked the unanimous con
rient of the House to make some remarks Re did not
think this privilege should be denied.tn view of the !ant
that he did het expect to remain in this House until the
report and evidence shall be printed.
Mr i AViS, of Maryland. maid, it was due that the
gentleman should have an opportunity to be heard. and
be expressed the hope that the privilege would be
granted
Dir. Melee Speech.
. .
Mr. BLAIR. by unanimous consent being given, said
it tad been ehown that when this forgery was com
mitted upon him he was in the service of his coon
try. in the trenches at Vicksburg. doing the best he
could ix, Lie military capitally. When the charge. were
made through the newspapers he was again absent, and
was relieved from the army. He United it would not
be Improper for him to say here that he was assigned to
command by General Sherman, in the position foimerly
occuplen.by that officer, and he received the thauks of
that General in an order for the meaner in which he
conducted himself in that campsign; and - et at its ter
mination he found himself superseded in command. If
the allegations wrack. had been made. against him
when he wee in service, or when absent, were true,
it would have been a very proper thing for the ere.
sident to have removed him, for he would in that
case have been unfit to command. When he found him
self superseded he came to this Hones, and found teat
trind:ctive persons, who had put the atrocious falsehood
in eirerdat.on, had pursued him to this place The
Renee would remember that on a certain occasion. when
a member roes and made charges against him. he replied
by simply pronouncir g a certain order prounced a for
gery. The person who gave circulattoil to the foregoing
bad admitted that the order was altered The r-ports
circulated through the newspapers emanated from a mart
who is in the pay of the Treasury Department- The
gentleman. or member rather (Mr. Iffetiturg), had ad
mitted that Bonner had made the publication, and, at
though the order produced by him had been pronounced
a forgery. he had reiterated the shoo ge witn that coarse
ness and vulgarity which characterize vulgar minds.
The SPEAKER reminded the gentleman that ha was
out of order, as the rules permitted no indulgence is
Pereonalives.
Mr. BLAIR said he regretted the use of the language.
The SPX replied that the reties repaired the ((eli
tism:mix to take his seat, and the Chair would enforce
them.
Mr. BLAIR, after again apologizing, said the member
was not content to reassert the charge of his (Mr. Boar)
having violated the laws of the Uovernment and thus
prostituting the position he held. but he did it deliberate
ly and with es aogerations, in his effort to criminate him
on that occasional, He (Blair) was so indignant teat he
could not rostra his language, and for the use of which
be now spolog zed to the House. but not to the member.
These forged or altered masers had been photographed;
he did not know whether at the Treasury Department or
not. This was not the first time in the history of the
World tr at the flee arts had been prostituted to such base
noes au d ignoble purposes as disseminating counterfeits
but be could congratulate himself that the photographic
art was applied for detecting prominent or,minals
and countertenen. This feel la apparent on visiting any
police rogues' gallery. He intended to follow the sag.
nation, and entarae on the idea, and republish the
forged orders. adorned with pictures of the forgers, as
specimens of their art. These dogs. Mr. Blair said, have
been set on me by their masters. I have driven teem
back into their kennels, and I Intend to hold their mu.
tees responsible. 'lke evidence shows that the forgery
was made public by a Treasury agent who knew it to be
of that character He (Blair) said ha had no interest
whatever in the invoice of goods It was given oat
for publication because he had assailed the trade
regulation's. so that, if any officer of the army or member
of Congress shall think proper to denoance what he
knows to be wrong, he lays himself open to assault by
the Treasury Department, and all their hounds and
dogs are set upon him. He Is hounded and dogged with
false charges and forgeries. It was for the Hones to say
whether any member, who lends himsed to such par
poem is a tit associate for the gentlemen in this hall.
He (Blair) t ad asked for a special committee to examine
into the abuses under the treasury trade regulations
It was said, as a reason for this movement, chat the
Secretary or the Treasury had stopped his liquor sPeon
lations. Be would here say that he had been
in favor of Chase's appointment as Secretary of
the Treasury, hn: the true reason why he
now opposed the Secretary was that he had autho
rized the May or of Baltimore to declare that he was in
favor of letting the Southern States "go in peace " That
this was the Secretary's opinion, in fact, Woe sustained
by publications in Republican papers. Mr. Chase was
opposed to the reinforcement of Port Sumpter, and was
opposed to the employment of troops to put down the re
bellion Although many 0141111111 i peace men. even in
the Republican party, had been 'compelled to change
their position. yet the Secretary had never abandoned
his, and ha we. now endeavoring to frame another pro
gramme by which they would be enabled to gain peace.
so that there would be a permanent dissolution of the
Union.
The BPPARRIt reminded the gentleman that the sub
ject of trade mam ations was not before the House.
Mr BLAIR, replied that he thought he was in order.as
an attack had been made upon him because of his oppo
sition to trade regulations, and for this a public attack
had been made on his personal character. jn.t as it was
in 'Fremont's case, when it was asserted that he had
quarreled with' Fremont because he Would not give him
a contract
The SPEAKER again reminded the gentleman that he
was not speaking in order.
Mr, BL AIR, resuming, said this attack was made for
the same reason and cams motive—via . because he had
assailed trade regulations. He repeated that the House
had refused to give him a special committee to inVastl•
gate the frauds connected With the Treasury trade ran.
Batons,
This called up Mr. JULIAN. who said he had agreed
to refer that subject to the Committee on the Conduct of
the War.
Kr. BLAIR. said he did not know what•trade
time had to do with contracts growing out of the war.
Mr. STEVENS,. of Pennsylvania, said the gentleman
did him great in metice by a remark that he was the re
presentative of Mr. •lhase on this Boor.
Mr. BLAIR replied that be was very sorry if ho hid
done him injustice, and he resumed his remarks about
"trade regulations."
Mr. RIGBY called him to order for discussing a sub
ject not in the report of the select committee
Mr. MALLORY. of Kentucky. said the gentleman
from Missonti had the right to inquire into the motives
Which impelled the attack.
Mr. P MDT said there was noproof that a Govern
ment official had forged the order, but that the friends of
that'gentleman did It.
Perionial.
Mr. BL AIR replied that the gentleman was mistaken.
Be then proceeded to read from letters from the West,
to ehow that contraband goods paws beyond our lines,
and that not long ago Ave barrels of percussion cape
found their way from Memphis to the enemy and
that the regulations are evil. an d
. continually work evil.
• ' The power of the Secretary , " one of the writers says.
•• is used for Presidential PtOPOses. and the proceeds
from the cultivation of abandoned rebel, plantations are
for sustaining Pomeroy 'a committee. and to :tarry on a
war against the Administration which gave him his
place." He read other letters, to show the frauds con
nected with trade regulations. and one of them from
New York or arced 'that the Secretary had given
a permit to his son.in-law (Senator Sprague). by
which the latter will make two million of dollars.
If there was any doubt of the feet. ask Mr. William H.
Aspinwall. Mr. Blair read a letter from Philadelphia.
mating commend thereon, to show that Jay Cooks had
made immense sums by his connection with Treasury
operations. The Philadelphia Inquirer was principally
owned by him, affil be could wen afford to establish a
large number of newspapers in the interest of Secretary
Chase. Be did not dank the friends of Chase want an
Investigation into trade regulations, and therefore he
had volunteered to give t hem some facie. Whether
the gentlemen here enter into an investigation or
not, ennui future Hones would enter into it. Secre
tary Chase mouse , escape, and he will be .found
guilty notwithstanding tne present dodging of hie
friends Mr. Blair said, In conclusion. that according
to the Secretary's own statement. Jay Cooke. in nine
months made four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Which. he repeated. madded Jay Cooke to establish a
great many newspapers in the interest of Chess, who
had temporarily retreated because of the exposure of
Pomeroy'. merit circular. and who were nowprittiag
up Fremont, whose friends are going to hold a conven
tion on the latter like the John Tyler convention. tohelp
Whin over the Union men. so that the maybe enabled
to say, if you nominate Lincoln, we run an oppo
sition candidate." the object being to cause the with
drawal of both Lincoln and Fremont. and. the noml
- Or CI , SPe, who has not been in that ring.
Mr. MoOLDRO, of Missouri, said the gentleman, Who
is no member. had no farther occasion to attack the Se
cretary of the 'Treasury at length, and to lug in other
irrelevant matters. Be had taken °occasion to say that
Bonner knew all the forgeries. which Is not true, and
in direct conflict with his testimony , '" I prefer to say
what I hays to say while the member is here: hut if it f
the wish of the House to go on with the. tax bill. I will
Wait until sorsa other osessloll offers. believing that the
ix:ember's character. if he have any. will not sufer by a
few day.' delay. lam sure mine will not. •
[Cries from the Opposition side. 1 / 4 ` Go on! Go on
now !"]
Mr. MORRILL moved that the Mouse resolve itself
into Comradee of the Whole on'the state of the Man
on thaisternal tax bill. -
Mr. MoOLDIGI. I will yield to the wishes of the
Howe. •
WM. Tax ELUL
The House then went into Committee of the Whole on,
the tax bill.
An amendment, making the tax on railroad iron four
dollars instead of three per ton, was rejected.
On motion of Mr MORRILL, of Vermont, the tax, on
railroad iron rerolled was made two dollars per ton.
Hr. GRISWOLD, of New York, offered the following
Pd which was agreed to:
Provided, That the term recoiled" shall apply only
to rail:: 'which the mantes hirer receives pay .ftt` rams
nufaotnring, and not for new iron.
On various manufactures of iron on which a duty of 60
cents per ton was reported an amendment was agreed to
taping . them one dollar per ton.
Mr. COLE. of California, moved to amend the bill by
//AMOR the tax on Wine three instead of Ice cents per
gallon. He raid the tax wai f oesVe,as twe l v e ed of
the "'must" or new win only Rom to If.
tee li n r. " M n o " l: l ; g L ail es o i n d be was in navorof encouraging the
Production of native wince, but thought that au spiritu
ous liquors/tad been heavily taxed. as d in view of the
fact that the !aril on foreign wines wag to be largely in.
creased. the article could well bear even greatear taxa,
Lion. The emendasent wee rejeet.,L.
clonally,s were added to the Srtlllen sub sot to IVO per
oat duties.
WILD WARN Pitmfgh3.
(PUBLISHED WEEKLY.)
Tits Win Prose Will be sent to subscribers by
mail (per SIM= is 114•01011)a r t 1113 pS Three ........ ....... . ........ 5 01/
Viva C0V1436 rem 8 00
Teo eOpies. 15 00
Larger Clubs thou Ten will be charged gi the gigg
rate. 51.50 per copy.
The money must altome accompany the order. and
in no nuisance can these term. be deviatedfrotn. oath"
(Word arm WM more Shan the ant qr UMW.
ii - Pbstnlbetere are requested to act as severts foi
Tan Was Pane.
air To the getter-ago of the (flab of ten or wea r. am
extra copy of the Paper will be area.
A cotrited debate ensued upon the nec sal abase of
Wines and liquors, in which the Scriptures were quoted
and misquoted On both eldsa, and finally, to end the
decade.
Mr. MORRIfiL moved the committee rtes. vflklek *Am
agreed to
On going Into committee again. by order of the Bowe.
Ole debate onVvinee wear tererinateg. The tax on Wines
caos not changed
A.v amendment was agreed to tieroptlng Wine made
from currants. rhubarb. or berriee. Oh all other ne eau
fecinved wines the tax wan fired at fifty instead of
twenty-file eolith a gallon.
The tax on furs wen rained to ten percent. On cnetoM ,
made a/liaise of wearing apprrei the tax wan increased
to live poir tent.
On diatantide. emeralds. frecloile Mend!. and 'mita-
U(1118 thereof,. and all other jeweiry, a tax of ten per
Cent. inslead et - S
-ea wan agreed to.
Mr. MORRILL morose ;9 lucre/with ditty on eittfoll.
04h, plug Herat; and mann f aotorel-tob , tooo, not other
wise provided MT. to thirty cents per rrouad, which. was
agreed to.
On cigars valuetrot over tee and under twenty dollars
Per thousand. the taerwa3 increaaed te eight dollars. sad
valued at over twenty and under forty dollan per Mutt
sand, increased to th..snn dollars,
WOOD (N. 7 ), proposed a new paragraph,
providlng a tax ofonoper Cent. 01 ed. tordev 00. tee .area
of leaf tobacco. wheat. bar, end other agricultural pro
ducts. when ' sold in quota Mee of the veluo of one han
dled dollars and over. Hassid thin invxmeLt as tax
upon agricultural' prodUcts. Dader tLo ae
it now stood. ales YeiM WORM Day tere-third;
of the revenue to he' - raised tinder it. Me
would be derelict In hie dutir to his constitnenci if he
did not cell attention to thin tact
}lr. STEVEN e (Penne I. ente , the gentleman was very
ranch intataten lf be SuPPOLed. that there was so tax
npen Inc fat mere. Bay wah•taxed upon the InCOnle
[Which they &rived from thenri farms. and llssrc- wee
Rho a beaut tax upon the real estate of the country.
Mr. MALLORY, of ftentnctli argued- against tile
amendment. and said the agrioilltural Interests were
heavily taxed. He aloe opposed thwanaend meat became
it would late° the price of the necetsarisa of life.
The amendment wan rercted.
Mr, lititi6(4, of :owe, offered a low section. to ems
atter the section providing for a tax bf a emitter of one
per cent. on all Pelee of real estate.
Attar considerable argument, the r,endimetit was re
jected.
In the ninety. flfth eection, lumber. [Woes.' and umiak
wood were included is the 11.1 of artleies exempt tram
Wie committee then rose, and the Horimediourned.
PUNSTLYANIA LEGISILLINTEL
EfAngrszTAG, 49111 1851.
sirarAwm.
The mmonetrancel from the Baltimore Councils end.
May or, alienist the Connellsvilie and soutilßerisyivit
nia Lailread, were received.
Bills Introduced
An act authorising Mahon Wood, Of PhilP,4o)phiti, tO
nit VAY 70111 AMIN.
Granting E. le county lands out of the poblito doinatit,
To facilitate the collection of taxes in Philadelphia and
?ittEbnrg.
Paying expenses of the inausnration of Governor
;mum
To authorize State Banke. to begonia Itrational Btt•ltts
joHb sop read in place an Act leoorporetiatthe
'Mound Cemetery Company of Lyaomtnc county
The spportionment bill coming up on wand reeding,
on motion, it was referred to a committee of conference
of both Hout•es.
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Mr. BEARDSLEH called up the annniement to an aeg
relative to assignees moving out of the State. dc Passed
final/y.
Mr. GRAHAM. supplement to an net to eonferJ nrledlo
Hon on the several courts of this Commonwealth in pro
feedings to supply lost deeds. Passed Elnan,.
Mr GLYN it, supplement to acts for sale of unseated
lands. Passed finally.
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The Appropriation Bill -
The Senate then resumed the consideration Of the XP ,
pit n bill In Committee of the Whole.
r. COP DELL offered an amendment
of
the
salary or ibej edger of the District timing of Philadelphia
to three thousand seven hundred dollars Adopted.
Mr CLYMER offal ed a new section to the bill, appro
priating flf,y themand dollars for the extension of the
Wiest of the Capitol. and providing for a sinking fund
by imposing a tax of ten dollars upon all pirate Me
res. inplace-
Mr. OLT MDR said, that although at the time the bill
for the removal of the capital was introduced he wee
inclined to favor it, yet circamstanc,s have since ren
dered it evident that such a measure could not be accom
plished. The cost of removing the capital. erecting new
'building& ha, would cos throe times ae large a use as
was proposed to be appropriated by the Comm Us of rm.
ladelphia The present buildings are entirely too small
for the accommodation of the various departments of the
State Government. It is absolutely necessary tJ enlarge
amp to meet the increased wants of the Com ion wealth.
and the imposition of a tax or ten d.olare upon private
bilia would *id Pts colas of a large amount of muses.
ear, ' e same time provide a Makin,
rtitd for "•-• , king the improvement s which
are mo gregt
Mr. /op* 'boy amend the section by making
this tea apply only to such private bills as anthortge cor
porate privileges. or an extension of the mime.
The amendment was accepted and the section sosepum,
The appropriation to the Lutheran Orphan,' Home. of
Gernentown was stricken out. Also. the appropriation
to the Willa Hospital. The bill passed first reading.
Adjourned until Monday next, at 3 o'clock P.
HOUSACI.
8111 a Passed
The Home acts Incorporating the Hoary Mining Com
pany of Colorad. • for divorce of Titus anti Estelle Ore
nise in relation 'Co the new depot of the Penneylvanla
Railroad. at Fifteenth mud Market streets; supplement
to railroad law. empowering railroads to increase the
capital stock of roads merged, to Geyer expenses, Sze ,
con.o/ination supplement relative to Meoltanleal. Mfg
int, and Manufacturing Companies. inerelleing their
capital stock one million dollars; to Incorporate the
Ephrata and bat caster Railroad: all pa4sed. finally Bache
and
Ile' Formers' Market Company of
and Mot taon. ery counties
. . .
Mr. WIMLEY called up an act altPlaifilliellterY to 84
act palettee to certain election dittricte. Pawed finally.
Mr. HEARD 8 read In place an act to incorporate the
Bann Mining Company of Colorado
On motion, the rules were Impended and the NM
parsed finally.
Mr. (W0M8... M. cf Philadelphia, called up an act to
annul the marriage contract between 'Lilac Fair Org6l/19
and koralla !roblac. Paseo& goalie.
Mr. BARGER. an act to provide for old and faithful
teachers of public schools in Philadelphia, woo hays
served for twenty years.
On the final pateage the yeas were Si. nave Sa—negft.
Used. GP) members voting in favor—Foster. Goehran.
Barger. aosephs. Kearns. McManus. Schofield. and.
Smith Against —9'llarra. Hopklne. ranooset.
Sutphin, and Watson.
Mr. G RABBI'. an net to, incorporate the Hillside Illal-
Provernent Company. reseed finally.
Mr PA rTON moved to reconsider the vote on the bill
providing for old and faith (al school teachers of /lila.
detphis. Agreed to, and the matter postponed for tha
present. .
A New Harket House Proposed. '
Mr. McGLELLAN, an act incorporating Farmers' Mar
ket Company of Bucks and Montgomery counties. an.
thorizing erection of a market house on North Second.
between Mars et and Coates streets. Capital, 41703,000.
Mr. QUIGLEY vigorously opposed the .passageof the
bill Abich is la tended to drive the farmers on Second
siret into the new market house. The bill was tempo
rarily laid aside.
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An act to incorporate the South Mountain Iron Coln
psn
fu y. Passed neatly.
A rther AuPplomint to the act to incorporate the eitY
of R.rxist.atg Passed
An act to incorporate the West Buck Coal and Iron
Company. [The act authorizes the company to hold five
Thousand acres (I land, which they now posess, and au
thorizes their building lateral railroads to carry coal
and min-rals. 3 Passed finally.
Mr, OVERNSBY called up the supplement to the art
Inaorperating the Pali Brook Coal Company. tenth°.
rizinv. heir leasing and holding the Tinge Railroad, and
Btostsburg and Corning Railroad and lands desirable
for its business, and to Increase shares six thousand.]
Parsed Really.
Mr. MYERS moved to suspend the orders to consider
the Connellevllle and South Pennsylvania Railroad
Company. (now on its final passage). Agreed to: And
the bill passed finally—yeas 89, naye 17.
Mr. SMITH. of Philadelphia, called up the supple
ment to an act for the encouragement of the manufacture
of iron with coke. Passed
Mr Butictwilf called up supplement to bill to Moor.
Porate the Cranberry Ccal Company, teemed finally,
Mr. BIEtAILYE (on leave) read in place an act to incor
porate the Scotland and Mount Alton hatiroad Company.
[Capital stock Stoo,ooo. in $25 shares. Road to run from
Scotiane to Mount Alton, and connect With Cumberland
Valley Railroad ]
Mr SHARPS moved to suspend the orders. Agreed to,
and the bill passed
The Junction Railroad
Mr. HOPKINS. (from Committee on Railroads.) on
leave. reported a bill in regard to the Inaction Railroad
Company, authorizing crossing at grade and connection.
with any other railroad neer belanyikill river. Phila
delphia.
Mr. SMITH, of. Chester, opposed the section Math*.
tiring the craning at any angle.
Mr. HOPKINS. of Philadelphia. said the road wee
situated in the Twenty-Fourth . ward, and is to cross
the Reading and Philadelphia. Pennsylvania and Balti
more, and Wilmington Railroads.
Mr. SMITH. of Cheoter. moved to amend, inserting
"at such angle as shall be agreed upon by the parties
concerned "
Mr SCHOFIELD said that the Philadelphia and
Westchester Road asked a bonus of $BO,OOO of this com
pany for the simple right of crossing-
Mr. SMITH, of Chester, said the assertion was utterly
preposterons
am en dment wee negatived, and the bill passed
Mr. HAKES called up an act to incorporate the Union
Coal Company [with capital of SL00:1000, with privilege'
of increastug to $2,000.000. in NO shares, and privilege of
holding two thousand acres of Fumed
Mr iIeMPRItEII called UP supplement to an act rein.
tine to brokers and private bankers. Passed finally,
Mr. KOONCE called TIP the act- to inco orate the Ma
rp -
rlon Land and - Improvement Company. Passed finally._
Mr. BECK called up the supplement to Columbia 011
Con PRIM- Passed finally.
JaCKSOIs. supplement to Locust Mountain COla
and Iron Company. Passed finally.
Bill to incorporate the Oil City Bank [capital $2.000 -
,_
(X)0, no State sem its ),. was called up by Mr . BURG WIN.
and vigorously opposed by Messrs. Brown. Cochran, of
Erie, Koonce. and Olnistead. Pasted finsal3 , —yeas
!Wye. 2r.
Mr. KELLEY. an set providing for the payment of the
expenses of publication of resolution proposing amend
ments to the Constitntion.. Passed finally.
Mr BARGER (on leave), from the Committee 01 Judi-
Ciaty Local., reported an act vacating Wharf street, in
Second is at d, Fhllaaelptita. Passed finally.
Registration of Births
Mr. PATER. an act forthe registration of births in the
city of Philadelphia. Passed finally
Mr. REIFF. incorporating Independent Oil Comp tny.
Passed finally.
Adjourned until 3 P. N.. Monday.
A Shakerearean Diniker.
The Society of the Sons of St. George had their
anniversary dinner at the Oontinentai. Motel, on
Saturday. The twenty third of April is held in
great respect among Englishmen, for it i day
particularly dedicated to St. George., the patron
saint of England; Queen Vietoyia's. birthday, which
really occurred a month and a day later, (May 24
always egiebrated in London eff,StGeorges
Lay; and, finally, it is believed that the immortal
William Shakspeare was born on that day, in
the year leak and it is curtain that, his death Doc
coned, on that auniVeres7h iR the Yeer 1610, The,
leading toast of the dinner on Saturday had special
reference to the tercentenary anniversary of the
great poet's birth, and the sentiment was spoken to,
very eloquently, by Din. MacGregor J. MiSeheion:
Refermiee to the sates iniki eat wail Mick.- by , the
other gentlemen wha spoke, viz.: Frederick Fair.
thorns, Esq., General Patterson, Richard Smethurst,
Fig., George OrumPsEsq,,Thomas Thompson, Esq.;
Mr. Walker, and Dr. Shelton lffeekenzle. Wemay
here mention that James Allen, F. 1 40 Prelident of
the Society of the Sono of St. George s. offisiated'aa
chairman, and did a great deal to! uzoniote the
social enjoyment of the evening. The sister socie
ties (St. Alindrow's, Welsh, Hibernian, and Albion)
were respectively represented by flsvid Milne, Esq.,
Horatio Gates Sone', Esq,, General Patterson, and
Frederick Estill:erne, Egg. There was some elf
oellent singing,
.with. and without music. The exe..
ontion of. "The Old English Gentleman," by Dl'
Burn.% and of "The Star-Spangled 'Banner:" br.
Henry Bey, Esq., was particularly effeetive. The
parts aeparated about eleven o'clock, devoting a;
pinball bumper to "The immortal memory of '
Ham Shakspeare, the Fnet of all nationa.,,
A CURIOUS POBATION TO THB
—The °ladle in which Rufus Choate was rocked
in
bls infillMy has been given to the Baltimore . Fair.
It reminds the beholder of former Benno, and pro.
rents a decidedly substantial appearance, as eetra.
pared with artieles DOW Used ill thanuriery forstodi
Jar purposes. It is about three feet king, the body
being of pine, and the rockers of oak, No more ap
propriate ornamcaf to the New England Eftelum at
the exhibition could have been devised than this
cradle, in which the great rhatorisian and distill ,
Bultheitnadeate passed so many of billeatly days.
oston , TrangeriPt.
PARSON BROWIILO4'I3 CIOVVIOTIOXI3. —The Snout
villa Whig and Rebel .Ventilator, Parson Browniow , s
paver, contain, the following in reference to the ra
bete under Chalmers, who butchered the garrison of
Fort Pillow sites it bad surrendered
"Had we our with, we would threw hell wide
open, and Warm all such beast-like °Masers and niers
upon an inclined plane, at an angle of forty Ave de;
glees, the plane covered with boles lard six Mallet
thick, with a wicket at the bottom, and send them,
as one stream of traitors, robbers, and assaillnib
int?the hottest pin of ;hi inforuel kelp:age'