PITT8BUBOB: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1868, TO advkbtisebs Advertisements must be hs&ded in before 9 o’clock, r. to Insure insertion. ITEHB. Oar Government now holds 81,000 rebel prisoners. A confederate dollar is now worth just six and a quarter cents. About $lBl,OOO have been subscribed in San Francisco for the Sanitary Commis sion. There are 268 public schools in Phila delphia, and the cost oi maintaining them last year was $603,100. During the year 602 bounty land war rants have been issued, calling in the ag gregate, tor 98,190 acres of land. The Louisville Journal says river pilots are now gettting from $2,600 to $B,OOO per year. The Republican State Central Com mittee of California suggests Gettysburg for the next national Convention. The value of cotton held in New York ci’y by speculators is estimated at about $10,000,000. Several of the steamers on the Hudson have suspended their trips to Albany on account of ice in the river. In 1862, 300,000 pounds of opium were imported into this country. Opium eat ing is fearfully upon the increase. A writer in flie Railroad Advocate says that statistics show that traveling in the cars is safer by night than by day. Hehey Andrews, of the 144th Ohio, has beon se atenced to be shot January S.h for desertion. More than 600 rebel prisoners at Cutup Douglas, 111., have made application to take the oath of allegiance. The Montreal Gazette Bays the emigra tion to the United States has been very extensive from that vicinity for some time past. George W. Newell is editing a com pilation of the lettar-i and papers of the late WtLLijrM L. Marcy, which will scon be given to the public. The qaota of Illinois, under the late call is rapidly filling up. The moment the recruits are clothed they are sent forward to fill up tho old regiments in the field. Judge Swan, who is in new York, has not yet signified his acceptance of the ap pointment of State Snpreme Judge, ten dered him by Gov. Tod of Ohio. A farmer took a single wagon load ot his produce to Syracuse last Saturday, and sold it for $1,658,60. It was the wool produced by his 880 Bheep. Steps are to be taken by Congress at an early date for mustering out of service a large number of major and brigadier gen erais. It is estimated that about forty will thus be weeded out from the army. General Meade’s removal is decided. The only difficulty is to find his successor. What starred hero now desires to enter as candidate for the next grave in this Gol gotha of generals? Provost-Marsbal-General Fry reports that less preparations are being made in Pennsylvania by the State authorities than in any other Stato to raise volunteers to avoid the draft. Cedar river, lowa, is said to be literally awarming with wild gesße. Cornfields are devastated, and people living in the neigh borhood declare that is almost impossible to Bleep, so annoying is their wild and die cordcnt musie. West Point is now full again. It now contains 260 cadets, under the instruction of 26 commissioned officers; G 7 have been admitted daring the past year 46 of Whom w4re appointed from the United States volunteers. Congresswill . be asked to add to the number of clerks in the Government em ploy, as Well as to increase the salaries of those now authorized. The Quartermas ter General’s Bureau alone asks for oue hundred and sixty more. General Hall eci's report is looked for with .much interest by military men. It will be a complete resume and review of the Hat year of our war, in all its thea tres, and will place General Halleck, his &ienae olaim* in an entirely new position . ■before the country. Two thousand one hundred and thirty Confederate prisoners from Chattonooga passed through Indianapolis, Ind., cm Monday, en route to Bock Island. Twalvo frmftfred more .were expected there on Tuesday• . One hundred and thirty-one oneoffiobra, -mostly belonging to Major /-Gbit. SI. C. Breckinridge's command, >lgo fetpsedJhppngb, en route to Johnson’s island.. .. .... Quartermaster-frauds appear to be gi gantlo, tlod to be increasing in frequency add enormity. A Washington dispatch states that the frauds -in the Qnartermas ' teria Department at Alexandria increase in magnitude. They will roach over a million of dollars. In addition to the Chief Quartermaster Ferguson and Cap tain-Stoddard, hertofore arreßted, Cap-j fifing CinRY and a brother df Stoddard | hayq be-en committed to prison. Theateamer J. C. Swon was fired into by gnerrlllas near the month of Red river afew days ago, 'While on her way to New Orleans. A fleet of, gon boats lay witbi n shooting distance, soda gunboat was conr veying her past the place, bat the rebels pmd'no mare attention to them than .« they had. been a fleet of tracaports. The firiagwas from musketry, and some ten balls penetrated the pilot house, but no one was hurt, A steer on the lower dec k waa killed. . The Richmond Dispatch of the 4ttL, says: “The,Confederates ,have sustained to dgy tie most ignominious defeat of the whole-war a defeat-for which there is but little excuse or palliation. For the first time during onr straggle for national in dependence our defeat is chargeable t D I the troops themselves, and not to the blnu- ' dering inoompetency of their leaders. Tt - is diffioult for one to realize how a defeat I so. complete could have occurred on I ground so favorable, notwithstancing th e great disparity in the forces of the two hostile armies. The ground was more in onr favor than it was at Fredericksburg, where Gen. Lonostbeet is Baid to have estimated that Lee's army was equal to 300,000 men. And yet we gained the bat- 1 lie of-Fredericksburg and lost that of Missionary Ridge. THE PITTSBURGH_POST_SATHKDAY MOMTOG, derm™,, ~, 18 „, THIS KAYORALTY CONTEST. tiona, and by inangurating measures look- This afternoon and evening the Aboli- pg to ihe solution of the question of races tionieta of this city meet in their primary United States, that the loyal citizens meetings to alect delegatea to.Conv.n- tion, which will place in nomination some poaitiou for your consideration: one for the coming Mayoralty election. l. 8t - That there shall not be any alteration The straggle between the dtfferent factions h th ® B^® df>ral Oonstitution before July is unprecedentedly bitter; the most serious 2d. That the people of any seceded charges are made againßt some of the as State or part of a seceded State, whenever piring candidates, going to show the des represented in Congress, be held not to peration and the bitterness of the conflict. ha¥e been , in rebellion against the Gov- OT»*k fk™ u . eminent of the United States. With these charges we at present have OJ nntMnff to „ 6a • iae immediate repeal ot the con- °’ fis'cation laws, and all other laws of the Oar only object in alluding to this Btrag- 87fch Congress, which may be calculated gle, is to advise Democrats to take do part impair the social or political position in it. So bitter have our opponents be- ? r material interests of persons involved . . • ,» ~ , in the revolt against the Government of come towards each other, that they are the United States. soliciting Democratic votes to help them 4th. All parties to the war to restore through their trouble. In this we trußt confiscated estates as far as practicable, they may be disappointed. But a few 6ltu ■ Liie National Government to as , Bume a portion ot the Confederate debt, weeks ago, according to these same aboli- not exceeding in amount one hundred tion leaders, Democrats were copperheads millions of dollars, provided the same be and traitors, unworthy of their association; g h t £ te property of residenW ° f the United now they are good enough to not only vote, The national pension to apply to but to make an Abolition nomination, the disabled and widows and orphans ot Bet let us let the factions fight it out among themselves. Democrats have no right to take part in this struggle, because they will not support the nominee at the polls. Besides it is not by any means re spectable in allowing one’s self to be used by political opponents. “THE BULK IN THE COCO AN ITT.l T T. By easy coaches, our learned aud as tute cotemporary, the Pittsburgh Commer cial is—under the standing caption or ‘‘Nepotism”—coming to the point of i’.s lucubrations. When it first began the agitation, proving from history that since the days of the Homan Tarquina, “uepo tism” had, in all countries, and under all forms of Government, eventually corrupt ed the people, even unto the deßtruc tion of their Governmental systems, we imagined we were to be informed of something formidable and dangerous to our country. The Southern rebellion we thought troublesome enough, but “ne potism*' is even worse. It has, as de monstrated by the Commercial, ruiutd every form of Government, besides dam aging the spiritual power of the Pope:. This is pretty heavy on Mother Church : and yet his present Holiness,notwithstand ing, occasionly issues a “ball,” the like of which used (according to Bui.wer) in the age of iron to “curb the mighty and raiaP the low." After preparing its thousands of reader* for something alarming, in previous ;u, papers, the Commercial yesterday up proachtd the development of its mys terious hint-and inuendoes. It says that Mr. Seward and others in the Cabinet have sons and other relatives in the pub lie service ; and then the milk in the co coanut is thus handsomely accounted for. Bays our neighbor: “The record of the Cabinet, however brilliant it may be otherwise, is in onr view sadly tarnished by the nepotism of some of its members. But by far the most corrupting and detrimental influence con aiflts in the extension and dißseminatiou of this evil by giving to Congressmen the control of the public patronage in. their re ■ spective districts." ( Here we have the whole difficulty in a small nutshell. Gen. Moorhead, our member, hasn’t been distributing the i Administration slices intended for this dis t-rict, impartially among the faithful, and hence the danger of the sudden corrup tion of our Government. The only mat ter that troubles ns, jast here, is to dis tinguish what the “Roman Tarquins," and the “spiritual power of the Popes," have to do with Gen. Moorhead’s par tialitiea among hungry Abolitionists ? This is “a moat lame and impotent con clusion »e thought from the perusal of the first two articles on nepotism, that we were to be put in possession of something more destructive to our Government than Southern treason; but the whole difficulty is that Moorhead doesn’t do the right thing with his pationage. Were he to change his pets the damages of nepotism would not probably be so alarming in some people's estimation. We rejoice, however, to see that our talented neigh bor has discovered something which is to be guarded against, besides “Northern j sympathy with treason.’’ In fact, from the following concluding paragraph we ‘ infer that it regards the evil complained j of, as being more destructive than even t treason itself; it says : “We shall devote a paper to the consid eration of this new rule, which, whether intended to gain congressional support or shirk public responsibility, equally merits pnblic reprobation. It leads swiftly and surely to the destruction ot the Republic. ’ 1 THE WAY TO SET (L£ HOSTILITIES. I There have been several private meet lings of leading citizens of New York I lately held in the metropolis to consider the best means of restoring cur severed Union. A friend in New York has Bent ns the following as the result of their de liberations. Among those who have given this document their approbation are Tnunnow Wked, Muxurd Fiuioke, Gen. McCi.Kl.LiJt and Acoustus Belmont, by whose authority, we understand, it will soon be issued. We give it to our readers in the meantime, with the expression ofcnr willingness tc Bupport almost any scheme that will secure peace to the country, save that of dissolution: I Fellow Citizeks : We hold that the war I in which the people of the United Statos tare now involved is a Revolution, the I consequence of nnavoitUble social and I political antagonisms and an improper I administration of certain important do mestic interests: among these are the an- I tagonistic political ideas implanted in the I country dnnDg the colonial period—sun- I posed conflicting sectional interests I questions relating to the legal and moral I rights of the servile system of certain I Btates —the promulgation of the doctr.ne I of negro equality and the determination of large numbers of the people, especially of the servile Stales, to maintain the supremacy of the white race in the Repub lic. To these may be added as among the causes of disruption a system of acqnirin lands and occupying new territory, which* together with a general maladminigtra! tion ot the affairs of the subordinate peo ples of onr country has produced a licen tious disregard both pnblic and private of human life and human rights, of j ua ! i tice, truth, and common.honesty incur : dealings with those peoples, and a conse- 1 qnent indifference among ourselves to 1 moral obligations and the requirements I of law. - . Now, believing that by recognizing the revolutionary character of the conflict, ac cepbng’terms of adjnsttpent of past ferencee based upon' nrntual .concessions thc eontending parties—removing all apprehension relative to the fatnre of persons and property nf therevolted sec- the deceased of both the Union and Con federate armies. 7th. States which have been invaded by either Union or Confederate armies to be exempt from the operation of the internal revenue laws, for from one to five years, according to injuries sustaißed. Bth. A general release of insolvent debtors. 9th. Congress to pass a general bank rupt act. 11th. The repeal of all the laws of the 87th Congress relaliug to slavery. 12th. All legal obstruction to manumis sion or general emancipation by their own citizens to be removed by the slave States and territories 13'h. The laws of all the States and territories to recognize and protect the family relations of all persons of what-, ever condition. 14th. All the States and territories to permit the education of persons ot color, provided that the eduealiou of persons held to service be conducted with the con sent of their guardians. 16th. The right of transit, also of tem porary residence for persona held to ser vice in the free States and territories. lf>. Alt persons released frnm servitude by the chances of war to be forever free, provided that no person be adjudged free through the operation of any law cf Congress, or of any proclamation of the civil or military authorities of the United States. 17. American born persons of color to be pern.itt'-d ro reside m and hold proper ty p-:d orpersonal. in any Stall- or tern t(M y of tht- Union 18. 'ldle adoption of a eyet.-m of ran scm. wht-reby persons held to g. rviee may claim and seenre rf-loaxe from serviceapon payment of a valuable consideration to rheir guardian. 19. No recruiting of persons held to> service for the Federal army in any slate I or part of any state, represented in Con-I gress, and uo colored troops to be station-1 ed in any state, or part of a Btute, repre sented iu Congress. 20 Congress to Appropriate annually for twenty consecutive years, commencing in December, 1363 4, five million of dol I iars for the support of steam communion I tioD and the transportation of mails be I tween the United States and Hayti, and! Liberia, and to otherwise encoorage and! facilitate the emigration of free colored I people from the United States to the Wea< Indies and Africa. I 21. Measures to protect the Pacific/ State against Asiatic immigration. [ *--■ The renewal of the Missouri com I promite m the two territories—Nebraska I and Washington north of the parallel 36° I 30 , and into New Mexico and I Arizona, south of that hiu—the extent! of each territory to be OO.tXHJ square I miles AH oLher territories and parts! of territories -(except the Indian ter I ritoryj not included in the four reorgnn-1 ized territories, to be organized and gov-1 erned as Aboriginal territory until the year I 1900. J 23. Thu ancient boumiunea of the State of Virginia to be reaion-J. "4. No territory to be Lereafter adcoit ted into the Union as a Slate until it shall have the requisite population tor a mera ber or the House of R&preseui&tifea. 2i>. No foreign territory to be acquired by the United States betore the year 1876. 26. The territory west of Arkansas, known as the Indian Territory, to be or ganized as an aboriginal territory; the acquired rights of the people of the same, as guaranteed by treaties with the Federal (iovernment, to be secured to them in the flfiw organization. 27. A general restoration of rights and privileges to the aboriginal popnlation of thecountry. Ist. liygettingapartanam k u ?? a^D ODe or more territories to be held and occupied by them and their descendants for ever, and to be closed against emigration until admitted into the Upton as States 2d. By extending full citizenship to ail aboriginal nai ivea of the United States, 3d. By providing for them local govi-rnmeniH and educational aya toms suited to their condition. Annuities, and all other Indian in terests confiscated or withheld by the Fed* Government in consequence of revolt or other disturbances during the present w ar, to be restored. 29. The abolishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the creation or an Aboriginal [department, as a distinct crunch of the government. SO, That the government make do more treaties with Indians of the United States, but counsel with them when their relations with government require it, as with citi zens of I he Republic. 80. At the first session of Congress following the representation of all the states in Congress, the Federal govern ment to appropriate one hundred millions of dollars toward the construction of n na fional military railroad and collateral tel egraph to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States nt or near Sa rann ah, Georgia, and San-Diego, in Cali fornia. The work to be built by companies organized by the states for that purpose. The stocks to be sold in limited qnanlilies to citizens only, and materials used to be exclusively American. Also to appropriate whatever sums may tie necessary for the construction of a railroad between the Missouri and Columbia rivers, on or near the 44th parallel. 81. Upon the restoration of peace all arms and munitions of war in the posaea siou of the Federal Government to remain the property of the United Slates; and all arms, he , held by the Confederates to be retained by the States respectively to which the several bodies of the Confeder ate forces belong At the same time all flags, standards, he., whelher held by State or National Government, to be re turned lo the Stales to which they origi nally belonged. 32. Congress to pass whatever acta may be necessary to put in operation immedi ately the measures proposed in the 2d, 3d, 9th,,llth, 19tb, 20th, 22d, 23d, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th articles of this paper. The States to provide for the measures proposed in the4'.h, Bth, 12th, 14th, 16th, 16th, 17th, and 18th articles. 33. The war to be prosecuted until the revolted communities recognize uncondi tionally the Federal authority, or accept such just and honorable terms of recon ciliation and peace bb may be proffered through the legislation of the Federal and State Governments, or proposed by a con vention of the people. 34. A national convention to eonsiit of delegates chosen for the same by the peo ple of such States and parts of States, aa recognize the Federal Government, to propose terms of conciliation and peace. Issued at Philadelphia, 1 November 1868, / THOU CHATTANOOGA. The Ftfffaton the Left. The army correspondent of the Chicago Times, writes as follows of the battle uf Chattanooga : The most stubborn jeaistance made by e T e ? emy j n the battles before this place, thfl ]* a J 9 , ore written you, was upon Th' ieU ’ Waere Sherman commanded, is was undoubtedly occasioned by the eceeaity of keeping open his line of re fn?*!L a railroad, which a success aßsault of Missionary Ridge by Sher lutel» W ° U <i faave endangered, if not abso n / Prevented. The achievments of rioKt Ber i ® beridan and Hooker, upon the the will JQBtly rauk a moDg line^® 1 bnlllant of tbe war - But their nearly ® re ?° lon £’ and tbeir at taokfl so cono-fn? *“ IlaneouB » lhe enemy could not point lra J e Bn P enor force at any one was rn! D !. after a de8 P resistance, valor°nf P6 ed t 0 >leld his * roand to the UDon ik i°t 0r I ™°P 8, Not so, however, hern efL The P° Bltion Of the enemy man^M 0 admirabl y chosen that Sfaer andßn ! , M DOt -? iaalt . wllh a large force, uomnnll Wi thal, that the enemy were to hold 1° poocaotrate troops sufficient tionof t k S 1 hazardB ’ The conforma rieafcrtaB^ 1 “T" BUch> too > that batte conld ro° 1S ngbt ’ aad beyond his moving i tt^k P ° n aok of his columns i^ 6 aBsauit * Tba task had been Sherman k lm » j aDd ’ though desperate, lisU of If he the ] ong already and wounded which I have ten Lhn 8n j yon * * rom a force of less than not Qd m6D ; wili Bhow that it was fanV^L^ 8 WaDtof a determined and gal tnn k; twice repeated. I cannot pay tnbn te to the unfaltering of S- wI “K’ a » Dd J otn E. Smith’s in ® uob a as they made is mi t 7f g ° rioaa - To advance to the sum 8 mo “ in the face of a deadly m , nB^ e yy- through a storm of and BheH from the front and flank, tar 8 derce storm of canis when ,K B b f hnr £ d bBCk by 8 Baperior fori e ’ i. »n » j far ,° ff creat wa ’ at laBt reached, th. » nderta^ lu B which but few troops in all or l d could be induced to attempt at p ' an , d ew iodeed after one repulse, oat, when the order for the second assault S 8 given, I watched them, with a glass, advance once more up the hill, over their ...4-, dyin « comrades as firmly and as dily as at first. I saw the ranks thin nea by the grape and shell tearing through em .the tailing colors grasped and waved aiort by new hands as one gallsnt forn, atter another went down before the deadly shower. I saw them close np and pres« forward faster and steadier, when the of .l™ llad * ed lbem t 0 glory upon other fields could cheer them forward „<> more. I saw them again borne back, lhe second time, as the firsL, 1,-om an unequal contest, vainly striving to carry with them the cherished lorms of those they had learned to love and obey. They failed! “ut in failing the heroes lost nothing of the lanrels ot Champion Hills and VvcUb bnrg. 1 1 * pay 8 b ‘K ber tribute to the gallant I Irish Legion of yonr own city, or to the I memory of its dead Colonel—can 1 say I more for Col. Putnam of the glorious 93d I of yonr Btate—then to Bay that, in the two I desperate charges, where all behaved so ■ gallantly and where none faltered, they (boro their part nobly,—they share in tbe I common glory ? I b*oor Colonel 0 Mearn fell in the second charge up the hill, when only about half w a J up, and refused to be brought Irom the field by the hospitalaUendanti-.be canse tnere were others who needed alien tion. When our forces were driven * nek. I his gallant men were compelled to leave him behind, and supposed he was dead When night came on, however, a party J of his gallant heroes went back upon thi battlefield and brought him away. He was still alive, but died on the secoud day afterwards, surrounded by many of his officers and meo, who were in the hosp tal. Sherman was as proud of his Irish Legic-n as Chicago can be, and was strongly affec ted wheo he learned how terribly it had I suffered. I Mrs. Franklin Pierce We copy the following just tribute to ! the lamented lady of the ex President of the United Slates, Franklin Pierce, from the Boston Courier of the 3d, whose re cent death L>aa occasioned grief iu ninny circles : “The- distinctions of earth fade away in .he presence ot death ; hot the memory ol departed excellence comes forth fr*sh and perennial from the very portals of the grave. To day this paper records the lamented dt-cea.-ie of one who has filled the highest station in the laud with dignity and propriety unsurpassed, and who has adorned private life with every estimable quality which conld become a true Chris tian gentlewoman. The many who have esteemed and respected her throughout her life will deeply deplore her loss, and will sincerely sympathize with him whe has been tha3 called to submit to one ot the severest of human afflictions. His be loved companion has passed through great sufferings, bearing always with him the memory ot a great grief, and has doubt less gone to that rest which we know ‘re maineth for the people of God.”’ The Hartford Times also observes: “How much of bereavement is implied in this brief announcement they only can know who enjoyed the pleasnre of a per Bonal acquaintance with Mrs. Pierce, and knew how close and strong were the tics of mutual affection which in this case hound the husband and win- m the bonds of an imperishable love. She wan a gen tie and loving goal, a woman of rare social virtues, greatly beloved by an extensive circle ot cherished friends, and held by them in a most affectionate regard. She had bet-u a fragile and delicate person— little else, indeed, than ,a valetudinarian, ever since the death of her little son, by a railroad accident, eleven years ago. From the effects of that bereavement she never recovered; it transformed, to her, the glittering display, and honor and power connected with the elevation of her hon ored husband to what was then the most august office in the world, into the moat hollow and empty of fleeting mockeries. All that assiduous care, prompted by anxious affection, could do to restore her : shattered health, was done by General Pierce \ but even a residence 10 the love ly May climate of Maderia, among lha vine clad steeps of that moat beantmil of the islands of the summer sea, failed to restore the bloom and enjoyment of life to her whose heart was already in that Hotter Land where her lost treasure was, and whither she herself has now gone to meet again her darling boy. The sympa thies of thousands of friends will gb out to the bereaved husband, who, in this hour of affliction, is made to realize the hoi lowness of all worldly honors, in the crushing experience of a loss like that he is now called upon to suffer. The Hebei Congress This bod; assembled in Richmond on last Monday ; and, the Dispatch of that city, alluding to those of its members who make speeches for banknm, remarks : “Oh ! let them for Heaven’s sake, for the sake of the country, for the sake of their constituents, abjure speech making. —This is no time for Bunkum. The day when speeches could be made for that locality with effect is gone by. The time is come for action, action, action. He who wastes the precious hoars of the session in speech making is an enemy to Ms country, a traitor to his cause; sa wretch who ought to be expelled from the boundaries of the Confederacy. He does more harm than McClellan found it possible to do with 160,000 men—more harm than Grant has just done us at Chattanooga —more harm than all Tan keedom, with all its malignity, has been, or ® V ® be > t° d0 ~ nß - Lp - 1 00 such b^trustßl; for Tie U one who wonld -Win his conti try to astonish his con- Bbtnento. Congh him down, hiss him out, Put the previous question upon him, make to Hf bo ! to , bo]d him ’ d 0 B «r.h.og it .. kia everlasting gabble speak; 6 m!’ a l «" allowing uo man to rion k »n4 r c hSD ° n th 9 BSme q Dfi “- Urinutes d 1‘“ lUng ® T6r 7 B P eech to ten hi , ® A . man *' ho cannot tell what he epeak at^ll‘ n n 6“ m,n ? ,eß ia not fi t to and ran Jt'' He csn lnBtruct nobody, which i H *£ e J lO reason for his own vote, For Helv 6 ■° r ? ” aD of Bense to hao r. who H B aftk & put into Coventry all "nh l“ !h rD C , ongr6Bß into a debiting scorn he ft d” dead—let the finger of scoru be fixed upon them, for they are Promote 0 ,h W ° nld betray their conntr 7 to p omote their own ambitious views." The Bombardment of Charleston Brum the Charleston Mercnry. The enemy’s bombardment of Sumter fe & w d e ays nC6d ' lUle Bp ‘ rit f ° r ,he paBt On Tuesday night one hnndred and forty rifled shots were fired, of which sev enty fonr missed, and four mortar shelU, all of which fell outside. Coring the night a negro was killed by a rarrott shell. Much a’gnaUing wes observed between the fleet and Black Island, bnt as yet its meaning is not apparent. On Monday twenty two mortar shells were fired, of which eleven missed, and one rifled shell, which atrnek the fort. Only two mortar shelia were fired on Monday night, both of which missed. On Tuesday, eight mortar shells were thrown, four of which missed. There have been no casualties since Snnday night. J About half past twelve on Monday night the enemy again opened upon the city, it even shells were thrown, three of which tell short. At twenty minntes after foar on laesday p. m. this fire was renewed, and sixteen shells were thrown. By a fragment of one of them a Miss Hathorn was mortally wounded. The bombardment aroused most of the batteries on James Island, and a rain ol shells was poured upon the obnoxious bat tery. The affair eaded by a spirited artil* lery duel between Gregg and James Island. Fro vision* lor tbe Yankee*. From the Richmond Knquirer, Deo. 8, Ihe permission granted the enemy to send their prisoners clothes and provisions having been abused, to the detriment, of our cause, should be withdrawn. It has subjected us to iusnlt from a dastardly enemy and to chargee of purloining the things sent, for our own use. We hope notice will be given that no more will be reCf'ievu. 1 he Secretary of War has given orders ihat no abatemeut of rations should be made because of tbe supplies, hence the reception does not relieve in the least our commissary. The privilege we grant to the enemp’a soldiers is withheld from our own soldiers in the United States. In one instance it has come to oar knowledge that boxes Bent to the prisoners have been appropriated by the guard, because sent by sympathisers in the enemy’s line. th© abase and falsehood of our en emy relieve as from all duty to let them feed their prisoners, and Comminsioner; Meredith's conduct in pretending that he i was not sure that the provisions had I I reached the prisoners, should cause our I [authorities to justify the enemy that we will no longer hold communication with I them through the medium of such a knave and 100 l as this Meredith has Bhown lobe. E* t . ow «,d And diaeomfitted m v 1 * ii iniih i ii li 1 Ould, he has his revenge in publishing falsehoods where he knows contradiction and exposure is denied us, and revels in I the latitude of a lie with all the facility and pleasure for which his countrymen are so remarkable. I The permission to supply the prisoners quiets the public sentiment, which was 'n-u compelling an exchange of prisoners, and it reconciles their people to ihe im* pi iso urn ril of the \ar •, m Richmond, beccuse i hey know that the ann-lr-i aeut by them are jus: ao many luxuries which are denied our prisoners in the United States. We repeat, let it be stopped forthwith. /IG —On Wednesday nr.minx. December yth, ai.iZA, wife of Christopher Zug in tbe 5M year ol her f.ge. Fha tuner&l will take place on Saturday anm my, at in o’cii-cK. from the residence ~f bor htu band m Oakland. Carriages will leave the cor ner of and Mnithfield fits , at y o’clock. If your Hair ia turning Grej. D your Hair ia becuning TLin, It your Hair ia becoming Harsh an 1 Dry. the Rejuvenator, Wi.irh IS tho mofit sawfactory HAIR RESTwK hn over br..ugbt briurc the public. Price, One Doll.r Fy sale by SIMON de)2 Corner of Southfield and Fourtn aU. OIL, Carbon Oil Oarbi.n Oil, carbon Oil. Carbor Oil. Carbon Oil. Carbon Oil. Carbon Oil. Carbon Oil, Carbon Oil, A further I'eduction in Prioe, A further Reduction in Price* * further Reduction in Prioe. A farther Reduction in .Price, A furtho’- Reduction in Pneo[ The host W hue CM a: SO cents rer Gallon, ?& 6 S> te * ll '<-> cent* per Gadon, The host White Oil at 5u conus per Gallon, i the best White Oil at f>u centfi per Gallon, At Joaoph Fleming's Drug So-re. At Josoph Fleming's Drug Sto’e. At Joseph Fleming's Drug More,' Ooruer of the Diaim ml an,i Market street. Corner ol the DitmonJ and Market gt eot. v..,rnnr of the Diamond and Market street. Pure No. 1 Potash and Soda Ash Pure No 1 Po asa and '“ria Ash. Pure .Vo. 1 Potrsh and Soda Ash. Constantly on han.l at low prioos. , ou,taotlv oo hand at low prioeu ROIAL MAIL COMPANY’S CELEBRATED REMEDIES BLOOD POWDER AND it o iv i ; < > I NTM K N T I A oertaio euro for Diseasn. of Horses and Cattle, known to and used onlp by tho Company in their I own stabiea from 1844 until the opening of the Railway oyer the rrinoipal routes. After the gen eral nse of these remedies in all the stablee of the Company, their annual sales of condemned stock | were discontinued, a saying to thu Company ex ceeding £7,000 per annum. In 1868 the London Brewers’ Association offered the Company £2,000 tor the recoii.es and use the articles only in their own stable*. Bl*OOl> POWDKK A certain cure for I.,under, distemper, rheuma tism. hide bound, inward strain?, loss ol appetite, weakness, heaves, conghe. oolds. and all diseases ofthe lungs, surfeit of scabhets, glanders, poll evil, n.ange, mflaminHtioti of ,ho epos, fistula and all diseases arising from impure blood, cor rects the stomach and liver, improves the appo tite. regulates the bowels, oorreots all derange ments of the glands, strengthens the system, makes the skin Bmooth and glossy. Horses bro ken down by hard labor or driving, nuiokly re stored by using the powder onoe a day. Nothing will be found equal to it in keeping horses up in appearsnoe. condition and strength. I London and Interior Royal Mail Company's CELEBRATED BONE OINTMENT A certain oure for spavin, ringbone, scratches lamps, tumors, sprains, swellings, bruises, foun dered feet, ohillblaics, wind galls, oontraottons of the tendons, hone enlargements, &o. Blood Powder 50c per 12 oi, packages; Bone Ointment 500 per 8 os. iar. No. 320 Strand, Lon don. McKesson k Rorbina, Sew Tort French. Richards A Co,. Philadelphia. TORBESCK* HcOABB, ■ ’■ Pittaborgh Drag House,' T iaB:dlja Corner Fourth and Market street New Advertisejf entsi Fifth Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. FOUNDED IN 1840. Incorporate! by Legislative Charter. T H IMJITBtIOS OF THE THE U.N lON conducted by » practioal business man. Our highest dbm meroial authorities. Bast and West, pronounce i. syrtom of Book-Keeping nneqnaled, oompre hondmg every department of bnsinees, and yet so skillfully condensed that the attentive student maßters the whole in air or eight weeks. It oon gists of STOCK BOOKS, Closed once with a loss and twioe with a gain: exhibiting by three different methods, the trai ler of old to new books. partnership books, Conducted by three different methods, exhibit ing the transfer of old to now books, with the in troduo ion of a new partner; also praotioally il lustrating the PRIVATE LEDGER, By meins of which the results of the bnsinees are kept out of .the general books, for the ns* of partners only. This book is not even named else where. The settlementnf partnership books by EIHOLE entry, w iih six practioal illustrations, exhibiting the books re-opened by Double Entry. A conoise role for reolifyiog DEBAHGED DOUBLE ENTBY BO'-EE With six specifications. Tbo gain or lost found, and the books oorrectly re-opened. The learner is alao exercised in OPENING BOOKS, Prom tight specifications, including speoiai ooo* ditions not often met with in business. Also,-a series of exercises in CLOSING BOOKS, Brem now and peculiar specifications. Thelea-n er alsn writes about eighty BUSINESS FORMS Of Promlas ,ry Notes, Judgment Notes. Drafts, Oidora, Bi:lg of Exchange Aocouata. Invoi.es Ac. Also, series of BUSINESS LETTERS, Wbioh, with tbe business forms, are all connect ed with hi< course of Book-keeping, making it a regular course of business practice, with a oourse of tweaty five Lev tares Upon Boob-Keeping, By tbe Senior Principal, explaning all the busi ness matter recorded in the text. Also, twelve LECTURES ON BUSINESS Snbjtcts How every one may get rioh. How to get rich by trading. The eanses of oommeroial failures. On speculations. Tbe moral iufluenoe of integrity in yonth, Ac. Also, lectures upon COMMERCIAL, LAW, Carriers, the Statute of Limitations, Practi cal inrttaction in dotecting COUNTERFEIT B.4NK NOTES By a full set of genuine vignettes and counters, and a large collection of counterfeit notes. Our RAILROAD BOOK-KEEPING, (In manu'oript) exhibits the oonstruo.ion and equipment, the operating receipts and expendi tures, the hooka closed aod a dividend reoorded. Theee books aro advertised by others, bat not taught o'sewhero ip the City. Our system of pri vate. BANK BOOKS, tin manuscript,! embracipg aH -he best forms in use anong private iianke s, Oar new enlarged ediiion ol DUFF’S Steamboat Book-Keeping, How in press, pronounoed by competent anther ity. "A perfeot sjstoin tor such books and ac counts ’’ In this department students have the assistance of our Superintendent. Mr. THOMAS B. Ski ITH, an experienced Prao.ioal Mercantile Acoountant, and formerly clerk or a Mississippi steamer, Harper's talai-geo FxlUlau of Oafl's Book "Keeping-, I Sold by Booksellers generally 1 be lollowing testimonials indicate the oharao tor of this work—the only modern one ill us trio- toreisn and domestic aocoants: work, upon book-keeping explains the snbteot with so mnoh dearness and sim- P k- v K - W.KDMO»DS t Cashier Meohamcs’ Bank, Wall st., N. Y. ‘ It gives a dear insight into all departments of this science.” A. 8. FBABER, Cashier of Seventh Ward Bank, N. Y. "It contains mnoh Important matter to the merchant” C. 0. HALSTEAD. President Manhattan Bank, N. Y. " The m ,oet oomplote work ol the kind I have ever seen. 1 JaS B. MURRAY. President Exchange Bank. Pittsburgh. " Ihe most clear and comprehensive that I have met with-” JOHN r-NYDER, Cashier Bank of Pittsburgh. ” You have put your own iong expedience as a mo chant to good use In this work 11 RICHARD IRWIN, Merchant, No 98 Front st. N. Y. As an oxtensire ship owner, American and bur.-.pean merchant, bank direotor. eto., he baa born, the reputation of the highest order of bu siness talents, JOHN W. BURNHAM Merchant, No. 8 booth at, N, Y ‘ Mr. Duff is a tuan of rare qualifications for business. JOHN M, D. TAYLOR Merchant. Union st., Now Orleans. Duff “ “ merehant of ‘J 6 hray-ea^ecta- Merohant, New Orlean«. ** I graduated in puff's College in half the time 1 expected, llw admirable system includes noth mg superfluous, nor leaves out anything essen tla ' „ f U- „ J. R. l OMPTON. i Cashier Niagara Bank, Lockport, N. Ti “ The favorable opitiions already expressed by gentlemen of competent authority are well de served and properly bestowed.” CARLK& M. LEUPP, i Special CommtttAa tWAV' 1 ® “•} I Extract froni the Minutes PROSPER M. WETMORE, Secretary. '' Your Committee unanimously conour ia the opinion of the utility of the improved method of. u r> O GURDON J. LEEDS, Recording Secretary of the American Institute.; New York. kUbC *! OnW.H. Duff 1 s Penmanship, i 12 FIRST PRfiJUIJJis, For and Ornamental Penmanship . awarded oar present Penman by the United States Fair at Cincinnati in .... Penn'a&tate Fair at Wyoming. .." la«n Western Penn’a Fair at Pittsburgh " I««n Western Virginia Fair at Wheel in and the Ohio StaU Fair at Cleveland.. . 1868 all of which are exhibited at our offioe. bargb f Post* Bm ' tilo penmm ’ s art’’—Pitts- ' These performances can enly be excelled by the author.”-Pittabargh OaMtte. 7 „ 4 U .P“ ornamental designs are new and re markable performances. —Evening QuattA ■, The late W estern Pennsylvania Karr &m*+tiaA OUR TEBHSt P SL&i? radn4tinfroo,u “- time un- Bl wh^e“ d BU f on «y- (oorttag » OO'SS* 00 The Enlarged - 260 Keepnig — . 'SrSa®'”' sssj&’masSS® **• DUFF A SOW, Principal*, del2-ltddrw PITTSBUHaH. PA. ( *4» Advertisements. BP L lIUVK, B. M’FADDSBI & CO., 9S Market street, ®A T OPENED of nd 01031 comprehensive stock I fIOtIDAY dbODS. We hava everexMbitedun loipating the wants Of 'nr friends, we have made opr display mnnh earlier than nsuat, and now invite oufigito mers and the public gonerslly to an early ex anunation Of oor gtods. which have been se." looted with esDooial regard to their tastee for HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Embracing an nnnsnally largo assortment of WATCHES, Wi h the newest and most elegant designs of Ihamonds and Pea-ls Inlaid, enameled and on graved oases. DIAMONDS, In great variety of Clusters and Solitaires. jewkjlky, All the latest style,-of Solid Hold. Onyx, Coral. Pearl. Enameled. Garnet and Carbunole Jew- SILVER WARE, f OW*. Pieces. Tea Set. Trays, Bask. ts. Casters, Pitohers, Ac., Ao., fancy goods, A beantifai eolleotion of the most rraoefoi PEt of Bohemian and Frerioh Vases and Toilet Ware Bronzes, Clooks, Boies, etc., eto., JT. B, KI’FAItDEBr * Co., 95 Market street. del2 d3w N j • TT u Jr J 3-5 B ? a ! I U g u *2 *3 a - - a FA.® 3 * »S o’S . «* *S CP £ m 7--N ft, T 3 ® g* w F M 9 (3 OC ■£ S Js gfl fe 8 : Il>» ® j 1 Q 34= » s| O 3 « is ° - v S -I. J s S'! 0 ||;H f! g 5 I © * a o ||if I 3* a s g J* 8 j's-Sfa rtJ • & rt £ I ® .-siij J|« ° fl 3 4J ® •-fsS’2= - 3-S • *s Q S •• ~ SaaSr^aS -jo, ® © a o es B co ' o » b£ K« ? Ji&sssa s 3 Jg 9J (g l^-a^Rg-gS 5? VJ 5 tS ■“*’►s262l*6 2g t a ssig3-l3as h§ m s 25^|asiSf £g . 3 Hisliglfs © s o‘ 3 JUST OPENED, 40 PIECES beautiful, MDELSINE SIU BIPPS, Selling- at 37Sc, WORTH 62 l-2c. Hngus <fc Hacke. dd.2 ARGE I^TOCM PHOTOGBAPH ALBDIS! SIBLING AT 6REATLV REDUCED RATES, TO CLOSE OUT THE LOT. AT ®A 8 . C ■ MELLO ng 81 WOOD STREET. TH * ksabe a Co. The fioeet stock ever received in Maon* which is one snporb Concert QrandPrSln' fro u i d K d t ;M. eMh “«- OHAKLOTTB BLUME. 43 Fifth street* SgSs’iSi SFiw susrvsSESs awjaststett«fiSs ru s“V‘^, bao * to “ntlm stTbriok “S.. t “l. ‘or hvehorses, m “aSKtt?&o b £EE .wYkliL I ’.' 8, cherry. apple and abide txeei ahrubbery. ete. Immediate pon«jioi)L s a. cothMet a/Ws, 51 U&rketstroet. JUST rh uivun .-MUSS' Tsn wo* mans felt over-shoes, the best article tor Keeping the feet waim and ary, and to prevent •lipping on 100. Call and see them it ‘ J. H. BOdLILND’S. No. 91IW*k*t*£,t. oeoond door from Filth street. ryiHß ATTEMTIQjr OF THE pi^S B°bl! SaWftfflaMS J- §; BORIiAND, ff°* M»rk*t rtreet HWIC Sr«BE. We will open oar new atoek of Pianos, Melodeons Wo. 2 BT.CI>AIB BTBEEI. TYameUnk ia now Bait par oh Min. our •look, which wijl be the finest ever brought to •his etty. Persona intending to porohaae anr. thing m our line lor a Christinas or New Yearn' Present, would do well to wait his antral. The pupils of Prot W , wiUbo notified throngh tb* evening pape a whm he will renone teaobtoi His abeenoe from the dtr will not be nroJoiSS orer a week or ten dam. a- wuwea deg-tdelB VAbTRT.TNy $ senate house. So. 57 OHIO STREET * ALttSGHBKY CITY. ftYSTEBS SERVER I* kvkbv «du?^£idtf i<iw - & bMt Li ->”0 “2J ' PBKEtuiVOH . morning between the haora odOind "assi*« Barau sa
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