SVENING BULLETIN
SATURDAY,.;MARCH 19, 1864.
TF IPIiE-SHEET BULLETIN,
.In order to accommodate our Numerous
advertisers,-, and: at the same time retain
space for news and reading matter, we are
•bliged to issue a triple-sheet to-day.
THE HOPE OF THE SOUTH.
Mr. O. R, Singleton, a member of the
rebel Congress from Mississippi, wrote, on
the 16th of January, a letter from Rich
mond to Hon". J- Hancock, of Canton,
Mississippi. This letter was'captured dur
ing General Sherman’s recent march. The
writer enters into some speculations on the
~~ coining military campaign, in which occurs
the following noteworthy passage:
“If we sustain ourselves, or more, if we gain
any signal advantage over the enemy soon
after the opening of the campaign, we may
give the opposition elements of the North a
chance to combine and beat Lincoln for Presi
dent. This I should hail as a good omen, and
begin to think of peace at no very distant day.
I see no chance for peace until the Republican
party is beaten and overcome.’ ’
This passage'. reveals what is the only
hope that the rebels have left them. A rebel
victory, this spring,, they think, “may give’
the opposition elements of the;: North a
chance to combine and beat Lincoln for
President,” and he sees “no chance for
peace (which means the success of the re
bellion) until the Republican party is
beaten and overcome.’’ Thus the Southern
politicians are watching, closely and anx
iously, the movements of the Northern De
mocracy, whom they regard as their faith
ful allies. They are working for the same
end—the destruction of the Republican
party and, with it, of the Union. The loyal
people of the North; however, understand
all this, and they are determined that Mr.
Lincoln shall be re-elected and the Union
re-established more firmly than ever.
ANOTHER REBEL FAST BAY.
Mr. Jefferson Davis seems to have taken
Mrs. .Sairey Gamp for a model,'and to .be
bent upon a constant reiteration of the com
fortable declaration “that this is a wale.”
That practical secession has proved ‘‘a vale
of tears” is apparent enough; but that is
no sufficient reason why J. D. should be
constantly reminding us of it. We are
moved to these remarks by the fact that
Mr. Davis has ordered another fast day,
and he has properly enough expressed in
his proclamation his convictions of the sin
fulness of his people, and the justice of the
chastisement which they are undergoing.
According to common report the subjects of
Jefferson D. have got into a sort of chronic
and constant condition of fasting, as a
matter of necessity, and it seems like a work
of supererogation to appoint a special fast,
where a feast would be much more excep
tional and vastly more Acceptable. But
we will not quarrel with the Bavisites
because they have fixed a special fast
day, particularly as they arc willing to
acknowledge their utter sinfulness, and the
justice of the punishment which they are
suffering.
The passage in the rebel proclamation of
a fast day which, we would particularly
remark upon is as follows: “In order that
the people of this Confederacy may have
the opportunity of penitently confessing
their sins, and strengthening their vows
and purposes of amendment.” We remem
ber once to have seen a play in which the
hero, a scape-grace nobleman—Don Caesar
De Bazan, by name, we think—was con
victed of a capital offence in fighting a duel,
or for something of the kind, and he was
sentenced to death. The Don was essen
tially a “ fast man,” and the three or four
hours whichintervencd between his sentence
and its execution hung heavily on his hands.
He reasoned somewhat in this wise :
“Three hours to' live yet! how the deuce
can I contrive to 'pass the time ? Suppose
I make my will! That won’t do; three
minutes would suffice for that. I have it; I
will confess my sins. Oh dear ! as many
months would hot be sufficient for that /”
Mr. Jefferson Davis should have been a
little more considerate when he penned his
proclamation. He should have been as
thoughtful as the rollicking Don Caesar,and
reflected upon the folly of getting through
■fi-ith the confession of thirty years of poli
tical sins, and three years of open active
treason,in asingle fast-day,without thinking
at all of “strengthening their vows of amend
ment”.
“Talk is cheap,” and no set of men ever
illustrated this homely maxim more com
pletely than our “Southern brethren” fre
quently do. It is the very sublimity of
unblushing impudence for a set of false,
ou traitors to prate of patriotism, and it
amoun s almost to blasphemy for these men
sellers and. women-whippers to talk of
appealing to the Divine head for aid in the
bait °1 barbansm that they have in
hand. The bare idea nauseates us.
the invalid coups
The bill offered a few days since in the
United States Senate by Senator How“rl is
of great interest to the officers and sol
diers of the Union army. When the In
valid Corps was first created, it was under
stood that at the termination of the war
and when volunteer regiments should be
disbanded, the disabled veterans who com
prise this honorable, organization should re
main m the service, the same as if its mem
bers belonged to the regular army. Great
exertions have been madb since by the Go
the fact that, en the first of PebruaryTheS
were two hundred and ninety-two com
panics, with a total of five hundred and
eighty-nine officers and twenty-five thou
sand eight hundred and five enlisted men"
Of the five hundred and eighty-nine officers
belonging to the corps, there were actually
on duty five hundred and sixty-eight, leav
ing only twenty-one to- be otherwise ac
counted for; of these ten were absent, eight
aick, and only three in arrest. Of the
tag DAiL* : a;y mme- b.uilitin; ph tt. ad elphia,
-twenty-five thousand eight buncir.-'i ?inj
five enlisted men*, twenty-three thousand
and seven were actually on duty, leaving
two thousand and sixtyrsix siek (under ten
per cent.), three hundred and sixty m ar
rest (one and seven-sixteenths per cent.),
and absent three hundred and seventy-two
(one and one-half per cent.) During the
month of February the rolls were largely in
creased, and, it. is believed that the aggre
gate force numbers now at least thirty
thousand men,all of whom have sufficiently
recovered from their wounds or other
causes of disability to enable them to per
form some species of labor or duty in the
Army Sanitary institutions or in fortifica
tions, thus relieving ml equal number of
able-bodied men, and allowing the armies
in the field to be replenished with fresh and
experienced soldiers.
The Invalid Corps, or as it is- to be
hereafter designated, the Veteran Reserve
Corps, is an honorable place of retirement
of which no brave soldier can object to find
himself an occupant, and it can but be
gratifying to our heroes to find that what
ever objection may have existed heretofore
will be obviated by Senator Howard’s bill.
The principal provisions of this bill are as
follows; The organization of the corps and
the pay of all ranks and grades therein are to
be the same as in the United States Infan
try. Commissioned officers are to be ap
pointed by the President, subject to confir
mation by the Senate; but persons to be
eligible'to such appointments'must prove
meritorious military service, and disability
for active service, arising from wounds re
ceived in action, or disease.contracted while
in active military service. The Corps will
be composed of four brigades, and six regi
ments to a brigade ; the commander of the
Corps and the brigade commanders, to have
the same pay as like officers in the army.
All'soldiers who, upon proper examination,
shall be found unfit for ac tive service, by rea
son of disease, or wounds received in the line
of duty,but fit for garrison or other light dirty,
and whose character and military history
entitle them to an honorable discharge, shall
be transferred to the Corps to serve the re
maining portion of their term of enlistment;
and any soldier who has received from the
proper authority an honorable discharge
from the military service of the United
States, after two years’ service during the
present rebellion, and all men who have
been honorably discharged on account of
disability, and who, at the time of present
ing themselves for enlistment, are unfit for
active duty and of good character, may be
enlisted in the Corps. Any officer, non.
commissioned officer or private found guilty
by a general court-martial of drunkenness,
conduct prejudicial to order and discipline,
dishonesty, or disreputable conduct, may be
deprived of any pension due or which may
become due.
The flourishing condition of the* Corps, as
it at present exists, reflects great credit upon
its members, and upon the officers who
have had charge of its organization, and in
the future we look for more satisfactory re
sults even than those which have been
already attained.
DIPOSITION OF EEBEL PBOPEBTY
Gen. Banks has made two very important
orders about rebel property in Louisiana:
the first, reciting that incontestible evidence
has been presented that great injustice has
been done to the Government and the cause
of public order by the transfer, under judi
cial forms, of property belonging to rebels,
in which the Government and the people
have an indirect, if not positive, interest,
declares, in order that justice may be done
and the rights of the Government and peo
ple protected, that all transfers of real estate
held by or belonging to enemies of the
Government, by judicial decree, conveyance
or otherwise, be suspended until the Gov
ernment of the State be re-established upon
a basis consistent with the permanent peace
of the country, or the Congress of the
United States shall establish regulations for
the final disposition of such property. The
second order states that all suits or other
legal proceedings in the State Courts of
Louisiana against the lessees of property
from the Government of the United States,
real or personal, for possession, occupation,
rent, or trespass, are Kereby suspended un
til further orders. Any persons who may
have claims against such lessees, or who are
aggrieved by such occupation, will present
their claims to the Provost-Marshal of the
Department.
In all parts of the South which are occu
pied by the Union forces there are very
queer operations going on in reference to
plantations, cotton and other property, and
it will be a blessing to tempted army officers
when some uniform rale takes away the
present inducements which entice them to
speculate in such rebel goods and real estate
as come within their power. The line of
the Mississippi river is completely over-run
with all classes of greedy speculators,whose'
patriotism consists wholly inlove of “green
backs,” and miiny army officers have been
induced to aid their projects for buying
and selling rebel property, without the
slightest 'warrant of law.
a llr MONTGOMEBY COUNTY.
At the township election in Lower Merion
township, Montgomery county, yesterday,
Joseph Hunt, the Union-candidate for Judge
of Elections, received 279 votes, while the
opposition candidate received only" 221.
All the Union candidates for the other
offices were chosen by' nearly the
same majority, except that for constable,
who was defeated by four votes, the opposi
tion candidate being personally very
popular. Last year Lower Merion gave
the Democrats majorities of from seventy to
one hundred. Such a change as this, in an
old stronghold of Democracy like Mont
gomery county, is remarkable. It is an
indication .of the progress of free principles,
a? a s ’£ n what may- be expected
t rougbout the State next autumn,
OCR FINANCIAL SITUATION.
'Whilst Congress is wasting its time over
matters of secondary importance, and especially
ove such discussions as the M ssouri quarrels,
it is neglecting matters of vital consequence,
prom pent amongst which is the need of in
creased taxation.
It is one-of the misfortunes of the times that
those persons who have made large sums out
of the Government are precisely-those who
use their means in the manner most injurious
to our financial situation. Their object seems
to be to spend their money* as fast astheymake
it, and especially in foreign luxuries. It is in
no small measure to this that we must ascribe
the enormous foreign importations which we
see daily taking place, and which undoubtedly
do more than anything else to keep up the
price of gold. Thus the money which the
contractors receive from the Government
strikes at our prosperity in two distinct ways: it is
a d(bt upon us, requiring taxation to meet the
interest upon it, and it is so spent as to increase
our troubles and lay up fresh difficulties for the
future.
There are'many articles in the production of
which it has, always been and will probably
always be impossible for ns to compete with
foreign sources. When we observe France,
England, and Germany, we are struck with the
spectacle of three nations striving which shall
most utterly oppress and crush its laboring
population, in order to reduce the cost of pro
duction, and enable its manufacturers to under
sell the others in the world’s markets. Each
has succeeded best in some particular branches;
but all have succeeded to render the lives of
their lower classes thoroughly miserable. So
too in Italy. Sojourners in that country have
heard the peasants going to their work at three
o’clock in the March mornings, and have
learned on inquiring that their pay was eight
cents a day, including three or four cents worth
of bread and onions. These poor wretches
cultivated silkworms in their dark, ill venti
lated hovels, a privilege allowed to thair wives,
who considered themselves well paid if they
got a few francs for the silk produced by a
season’s attention and care. Successful com
petition with the products of such labor is as
undesirable as it is impossible.
IYe want, then, higher duties for a double
purpose—first, and most important, to dimi
nish our imports, which are impoverishing us,
and secondly to increase our customs. Let
those who must indulge in superfluities of
foreign origin, pay well for them. Fine silk
and woollen goods, cloths, gloves, brandies,
cigars—for these cent per cent, is not too
much, and even at any rate that may be fixed,
they will continue to be consumed in quanti
ties larger than we can afford.
As respects excises on articles of home pro
duction, these should be placed heavily on
those products which are mere luxuries, espe
cially on spirits, tobacco, and on those articles
in the production of which we have peculiar
advantages. At the head of this last category
stands cotton, on which in the future a very
heavy excise should be laid. The time may
come when it will be found that four or live
cents a pound will not be too much, and as a
large share of this will be borne by foreign pur
chases, it will rest all the easier. The product
of such an excise in ordinary times would be
enormous, and it would rest lightly on the cot
ton grower, because experience lias shown
that there is and will be virtually- no foreign
competition.
But our first and most immediate need is a
higher tariff, judiciously imposed, and no sub
ject can better occupy our legislators at the
present moment.
It has been a favorite affectation with jour
nals devoted to the importing interests, to re
present gold as governed by the same laws as
any other products, and arguing that we ought
no more to regret the exportation of gold than
of wheat. This absurdity has been repeated in
a thousand different forms, and so obstinately
that some may have been led" to believe it. It
is however, too transparent a sophism to need
refutation, and fhe commercial evils which have
always followed such exportation when passing
a little beyond what wo could possibly bear
the easy times which correspond to those pe
riods when the export of gold has been chocked
—sufficiently show the fallacy of such reason
ing. It is onr dutV now to. establish a tariff
sncli that henceforth we may cease to export
gold, so that we may hereafter buy no more
from loreign nations than wo sell to them. Of
this none will have a right to .complain. Hith
erto customs have been so arranged that we
have bought far too much abroad,and have been
perpetually drained of our specie to pay for it.
By retaining our gold product in our own hands,
we give stability and security to our financial
system. When gold is plenty few revulsions
can take place, because every one feels that
under whatever paper transactions may take
place there is a sound metallic basis, and ex
changes always tend to rule in favor of a coun
try in which great quantities of the precious
metals centre. Such has been ever the' case
•with England, and the contrary is differently
exemplified at the present day in our own coun
try, and at ail times in Austria.
Let ns then adopt as our future policy a tar
iff system such that, one year with another, our
exports, exclusive of gold, will pay for our im
ports. This is the only way in which we can
stop the incessant drain of gold which.is for.
ever taking place, and to accomplish it we must
raise our duties till the object is effected. In
so doing we shall increase our revenues and
put some check on that extravagance which is
now adding to our difficulties.
MB. JAMES E. MURDOCH.
The patriotic and gratuitous efforts of Mr.
James E. Murdoch in behalf of the soldiers of
the Union and their families are deserving of
the warmest acknowledgments from all loyal
citizens. He is lecturing or giving public read
ings several times a week in this city and in
towns at convenient distances from here, and a
great deal of money has been thus raised for
the local relief societies. On Tuesday evening,
at the Academy of Music, for the benefit of-the
United States Christian Commission, he will de
liver his popular address entitled “Providence
and Love of Country.” On Friday evening,
on behalf of the ladies of the First Union As
sociation for the relief of needy families of
soldiers, he will give a reading in the Handel
and Haydn Hall, thus affording the people of
the northern part of the city an opportunity* of
hearing him.
Another excellent scheme of Mr. Murdoch’s
is that for raising funds for the benefit of needy
families of soldiers, under the supervision of
.the “.special K'-'iu*! y’ ol the 1 U oui"ii J .s ■ fean
’Branch of U. S-. Sanitary' Commission.' Mr.
Murdoch" has caused to' oe made a paper.weight,
on which are grouped a piece of the Treaty
Elm-qf William Fumy a part of the keel of
the old frigate Alliance, jjnd a fragment
of the halyards of the Cumberland, which was
sunk bv the Herrituac. At ached to a hand
some stand, this makes a most appropriate aud
interesting ornament. It is to be presented to
President Lincoln. Another similar stand,
with a piece of gold quartz upon it, is to be
presented to Secretary Chase. The first
named ornament is the subject of uuu of Mr.
Murdock’s lectures, entitled “Relics of the
Three Memorable Periods of the Great
Republic.” For the benefit of the Relic Fnud
Mr. Murdoch is also going to have published a
volume entitled “Patriotism in Poetry and
Prose ;or the Spirit of ’76, ’l2 aud ’61.” It
will contain original poems by G. 11. Boker, T-
Buchanan Read, F..DeHaes Janvier, an article
giving an account of the relics, a compilation
from Mr. Murdoch’s patriotic lectures, together
with other articles iu prose and verse. This
work will be published by subscription for the
benefitofthe “Special Relief.” Subscriptions
will be received at the Southeast corner of
Chestnut and Thirteenth street, Third story,
entrance on Thirteenth street. This and all
Mr. Murdoch’s other patriotic projects are
entitled to the support and encouragement of
our citizens.
THE QUOTA OF PHIL aDELPHIA.
Since public attention has been so strongly
attracted to tlie-question of-the quota of men
due from this city, a calculation has been made
Upon a basis of unimpeachable correctness.
Taking the whole population of the loyal
States, and dividing it by the number of men
wanted, we get a certain proportion, which
proportion, applied to the population of this
city, gives a number far below that which is
demanded from us. Now we have an undenia
ble right to ask either that this number shall
be assigned to us, instead of that first fixed; or
else that a satisfactory and intelligible reason
shall be given to the contrary.
The furnishing of men is the highest demand
that can be made upon the patriotism of a
community, and in apportioning such a demand
two thiDgs are requisite. First, that the ap
portionment shall be made with the most abso
lute justice and equality; and second, that the
basis and system of such apportionment shall
be clearly and intelligibly explained to those
on whom it is laid. Any other cause must
produce bitter heartburning and the deepest
dissatisfaction.
It is a well-known fact that Kentucky is
20,000 men behindhand, and few believe that
the State of New York has furnished a true
quota, whatever it may nominally have done.
It cannot be the intention of the Government
to press lightly on the questionably loyal, and
force the really loyal to do their ora portion
and make up for shortcomings elsewhere.
BALTIMORE SANITARY FAIR.
A fair for the Sanitary Commission will com
mence in Baltimore on the 18th of April, and
be continued for one.week. In connection
therewith, an exhibition of paintings will be
opened, for which the managers are seeking
loans from private collections in this city and
New York, as it is their desire that tho collec
tion shall be not a 1 large one-, but composed
entirely of works of the first order. We would
remind our citizens,who may be able to contri
bute to this object, of the peculiar claim which
the Union citizens of Baltimore have upon their
sympathy. A divided community, nearest to
the seat of war, and to the fields of several of
its bloodiest battles, the demand upon their
resources on the work of humanity- alono has
been a constant one, and has been met with a
promptness and fullness that bear witness to the
sincerity and depth of ‘their devotion to the
national cause. We refer all who may be dis
posed to aid onr neighbors in the way indicated,
to Messrs. James S. Earle & Son, who will
superintend tho forwarding of all works of art
that .may he intrusted to the managers.
HON. JAMES M. SCOVEL,
We cannot but admire the gallantry with
which Hon. James M. Scotel is contending
against the Copperheads in the New Jersey
State Senate. He is in a minority, but he is
not in the least dismayed, and his'energy and
eloquence are producing etlects among the
people which will, we are confident, lead to a
political re\ olutiou in the State Legislature at
no distant day. 'We call attention to his
manly, scathing and in every way admirable
speech, on another page, in opposition to the
bill to .punish men for enlisting colored sol
diers. When the war now going on ends, as it
must, with the complete triumph of the poiicv
of the Natibnal Administration, Mr. Scovel
will be remembered as the bravest and most
able champion of free principles in New
Jersey.
MUSIC AND THE SANITARY FAIR
The Committee on Musical Entertainments
for the great Central Fair is making arrange
ments that promise great success. All The
leading local societies promise to co-operate
witli them, and a circular has been addressed
to the church choirs inviting the members to
assist. We hope all who can take part will re
spond promptly. The result will be a series of
performances of oratorios, &c., on a grander
scale than was ever known in this country.
The Hon. Charles Gilpin was this morn
ing sworn in and entered upon the discharge
of his duties as United States District Attw
ney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Tho appointment of Mr. Gilpin has given very
great satisfaction, not only to his. professional
brethren, but to all the loyal citizens of Phila
delphia.
Copperhead Bill Defeated in the New
Jersey Legislature.— Wo learn with satisfac
tion that the New Jersey House of Representa
tives has voted down the Copperhead bill pro
hibiting solders from coming to the polls on
election day. The vote stood 27 to 27. The
disloyal members could not all bo brought up
to the work of insulting and degrading our
brave volunteers.
League Island —This morning tho Navaf
Committee of the House of Representatives,
with the exception of Mr. . Rice, Chairman,
visited League Island. They were accompanied
l>y a Committee of the Corn Exchange, among
whom were Messrs. Cattell, Winsor, Knecht
and Miller, and also by Judge Spauldine Geu.
Scheneh, Mr. Keeler, Chief Engineer at Wash
ington, and Mr. Davis, of the Coast Survey.
lMcir .19, 1864 ---TBJPLE SHEET.*,
NEW PUBLICATIONS,
From James Miller, New Yoik, through
Ashmead & Evans, -we receive “Cl -s ica-
Quotations,” collected, arranged and edited by
James Elmes. The American edition ii edited
by Rev. Dr. A. H. Vinton, and we cannot give
a better, idea of the contents of the work thau
by quoting the words of the able American
editor. He says: .
“ No matter what the natural complexion of
the reader’s taste, so that :it be not impure or
his habit of mind, so thatit be not morbid he
will find among these “gleaned thoughts of
wise spirits,” enough that is racy, rare, and
wholesome, to refresh his fancy, gratify his
curiosity, or feed his faculties. It is in fact one
of the charms of the hook, that it has gathered
its contents from almost every latitude and
longitude, and some imes from the opposite
poles of thought. Jew, Pagan, and Christian
—classic and patristic—primitive and recent
authors—furnish each his quota to the design.
Men are here found standing side bv side who
were wide apart in time, space, and character
—agreeing in nothing, except that they thon-mt
on the same subject, and thought well. Arit
totle and Bacon are joined together, bat joined"
as ; ever, like wrestlers, the more closely from
the fierceness of opposition. Justin Martyr ‘
the earliest and most authentic Father of Ec
clesiastical History, harmonizes with Jortin the
aDgry Critic of the- Fathers. St. Augustine!
moralizes with Dean Swift. Plato and Coleridge
breathe into the same page the one spirit of the
earliest and the latest philosophy. King Arthur
and the great Frederick illustrate the kingly
tact, the Son of SirachandD’lsraeli the social.
The Talmud furnishes a sprinkling of wisdom
out of its poverty, and the Bible from its
overflow. Nor are the topics and authorsh-p
much more various than the styles of this little
book. Hooker, in his voluminous majesty
Milton, in le'arned pomp—South, tense and
pregnant—Jeremy Taylor, oozing forth sweet
ness like “ the irrepressible drops of the honev
_comb”— Jeremy Collier, homely, dry, and true
■ Locke, manly- and sensible, if sometimes in
elegant—and Addison, always graceful, even
though feeble ;—these are some of the sponsors
for the little emigrant work, which we now in
troduce to the chance readers ef our com
munity.”
“ Rubina” is the title of a story recounting
the career of an orppan girl. The scene is
mainly laid in New England, and the minor
characters are principally “ Yankees” of the
shrewd, keen, inquisitive type. The incident,
are set forth with clearness and simplicity, and
several of the characters are well sketched,
but the story is too uniformly quiet, sad and
common-place to bo very enlivening reading.
The name of the authoress is iyt given, but we
should fancy the book to be the work of one
who had snfiered more of fortune’s buffets than
rewards, and that too much of her dull, gray,
sorrewful nature had been allowed to melt into
her pages. Should she try to write some story
with brighter colors mingled in its warp and
woof, she has talent enough to make it compel
the regards of a wide circle of readers. J. G.
Gregory, New York, is the publisher, and the
work is for sale by Ashmead &. Evans.-
We have received from Messrs. Martin Sc
Randall Dr. F. A. Yon Moschzisker’s work,
.entitled “ The Ear, its Diseases and Treat
ment.” This is a treatise intended not only
for the professional reader, but for the general
public. It discusses the anatomy and physi
ology of the ear, with the various modes of
treatment of diseases of that organ. It appears
to be a thorough work, including the results of
modern science as well as the standard facts of
the earlier labors of those who have made the
human car their study. It is accurately and
handsomely illustrated with some fifteen plates,
and a glossary is added, hy which the unscien
tific reader may gain a thorough understanding
of the views of the author. A catalogue of
works on the Ear, from tho year 1000 to the
present date, is also appended, which will add
to the value of tho work in the eyes of profes
sional men.
It has been our fortune to meet with few
books prefaced with so many promises far from
being realized as the one entitled “Eliza Wood
son." An infant prodigy passes ten years of
her life in some nondescript place in the back
woods, with a termagant woman as a guardian.
In the last four chapters of the long story she
is in her glory at a female boarding-school,
where she discovers that the only man of the
book is in love with the only woman, namely,
herseif. And so the story ends. Considering
the -puff given the work by the publishers, and
the stupidity of the narrative, we cannot but
think of tho saying that “ it is not the first time
that the vigor of a war has not equalled tho
sounding measure of the manifesto." A. J.
Davis & Co., New Y ork, are the publishers, ■
and Ashmead & Evans iiave it for sale.
‘•The Lady’s Friend," for April, is now ont.
It is embellished with a number of beautiful
engravings and fashion plates, and the letter
press contains, among other interesting articles
and poems, “Our Ned," “Above the Clouds' 1
by Night," “Foreshadowings,” by Clara Au
gusta;” “Mistaken Duty," by'lda Mason;
“Good-by," by Mrs. L. J. Rittenhouse; “Ma
bel’s Mission," “Jenny Morris’s Trip to Cali
fornia,” by Mrs. Margaret Hosmer; “The
Transformed Village,” illustrated by an en.
graving, &c. Tho Novelties, Work-table and
Flower Department are all illustrated by finely
executed'wood cuts. Deacon & Peterson, 319
Walnut street, are the publishers.
From Wm. Carter &. Brothers, throngh J. B.
Lippincott & C 0.., we have received “Death
and Life,” by Mary G. Ware. This is a Swe
denborgian work, intended'to show that while
the common spiritualistic views advanced by
public lecturers and mediums are often false
and erroneous, yet consolation may be found in
the tenets of the Now Jerusalem Church. Tho
writer advances hor arguments with grace and
beauty of language, hpt we cannot promise that
they will convince many practical minds.
John P. Hunt, of Pittsburgh, has pnblisheda
“Gazetteer of the Southern and Border States,”
with descriptions of railroad routes, turnpikes,
rivers, mountains,, cities, &c., for tho use ol
eoldiers. It is accoippanied by a fine map, and
is of convenient size for the knapsack. For
sale by T. B. Peterson & Brothers.
Mortality Among Horses. —-At the grounds :
of the East Penna. Agricultural Society, in
this borough, Mr. H. S. Hitner has very ex
tensive stables, and keeps a large stud of flue
horses permanently there. iAmong them was
the noted “ Long Island -Jackson,” which
died on the 11th instant; of quinsey. He
cost Mr. Hitner $5,000. Since then two other
valuable animals, obtained from Vermont, one
of which cost $1,500 and the other $l,OOO have
died at the , stables, all being the property of
the same gentleman. —Norristown Republican'
\ PEESONAL. -
*! c /r': ,ort * Delaware, Kews, states that tho
a 1f er - a1,is said to ' k® somewhere in
lv in Norristown on
r Pt’h rn ri “ w ? 11 ‘ Knov '’n citizen of that bo
cra'id i rt a p f r r olmDtl,t •“«> in the old Demo
t. ri f' H a “ ember of the Legisla
li UKi’ •’ ■n Lr ' e Jea,s ’ and held other stations of
liust He was a member of thm Norristown
Cmmcd.at the time of his decease.
Col. Hartianf't ol the 51st Fenna. Regiment,
ctX‘T"'' d recent illness suffi
uei.t.j to jtsume bis duties.
M ajor C. A. R. Dimon, of Salem, Mass., has
been o.drreu to Point Lookout, Md., by Gen
miLmers’di’fa 126 -- 11 ' 0 re S iments Confederate.
ennsting m the United States
flaunting the Stars and Stripeß iu the face of
Stonewall Jackson and his column, as ho
marched through Frederick on the. first Mary
land campaign. Eyersince the lines were pub
miHd, 1 have always associated Barbara’s
name with Frederick, and she was the first
person I inquired for. Poor Barbara, I am
sorry to sav, is dead. The incident described
by the poet is founded upon fact, with less
poetic license than is usually allowed under
similar circumstances.”
A letter from a soldier, describing a visit to
Gettysburg says: “We were introduced to
Professor Jacobs, whose little book, deserip
tiveoi. tne battle of Gettysburg, has been so
attentively read. He is Profefso “f Math e
mat.es m the Gettysburg College, anf nqw
Wei! into the ‘vale of years.’ It pleased him,
he saidy to have a ta,k with those who had been
engaged m the great battle, as in this way ha
gleaned tacts which would otherwise never be
conveyed to his mind. I pointed out some of
he errors contained in the first edition of
his book, concerning the 6th corps, the time it
armed upon the field on the second day, and
the pait taken by it in the fierce contest on the
extreme left of onr line. He said that he pro
posed publishing a second edition shortly, with
corrections, as Mr. John S. C. Abbott,
toriaD, had written to him for permission to use
the materials in the preparation of his large
volumes. Prof. Jacobs is quite frail, I in
sorry to say, and regretted that he could not
accompany ns on our ride round the lines of
the two armies.”
FROM WASHINGTON.
The correspondent of the Tribune writes as
follows:
Two of the New York papers received good
sized military canards last night. Stuart has
not crossed at Fredericksburg with 5,000 men.
Grey writes from headquarters under this morn
ing’s date as follows:
By reason of reports that Stuart is concent
bating large bodies of cavalry at Fredericks
burg, preparatory to a monster raid, one cavalry
corps has been placed wader orders to move at
a moment’s notice. The wildest rumors are in
cirtula-.it,ii regarding his movements. A. ru
mor at Warreuton Junction says he bivouacked
last night a few miles south of that place, but
nothing to confirm the rumor had been received
when the mail train passed that place this morn
ing. The enemy has strengthened his pickets
along the Rapidan. and has also erected new
and made more formidable liis works opposite
the se\ oral fords.
In the Virginia Convention, at Alexandria,
to-day, a proposition‘to insert an article in the
State Constitution, punishing rebellion and
treason by entire confiscation of the rebel’s
property, and making it treason to separate the
State from the United States, was lost by a
vote of Cto 10. Of the opponents, one has a
brother in Fort Lafayette, and another is a
Northern man, married into Southern princi
ples.
Gen. "Wadsworth has received orders to re
port to Gen. Grant at the Headquarters of the
Army of the Potomac, on the 21st inst.
The telegraph story of a conspiracy in Ken
tucky is discredited among prominent Western
Congressmen.
The Herald correspondent writes:
By a special order of the War Department
the Ist Brigade of the Invalid Corps is com
posed as follows : Ist regiment, Major F. E.
Trotter, commanding; 6th regiment, Lieutenant
Colonel F. S. Palmer; 9tii regiment, Colonel
George W. Giles; 19th regiment,Colonel Oscar
V. Dayton; 52d regiment, Colonel George W.
Woodward; 24th regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel
John F. Marsh. Authority was given to the
I’rovost Marshal General to select the brigade
commander. The headquarters of the brigade
is to be at Washington. Colonel Richard H.
Rush.lonnerly Chief of the Invalid Bureau,has
been appointed to the command of the brigade.
The orders hitherto issued in regal'd to the
corps are to remain in force.
lhe correspondent of the Times says':
/ One of the officers from Libby prison pre
sented Gen. Spinner, United States Treasurer,
with a live dollar note, manufactured by the
officers, in imitation of greenbacks, so well
executed that even Spinner was at first deceived.
It was done witli a pen. Its manufacture was
resorted to by officers to obtain the necessaries
of life. One hundred and seventy dollars were
exchanged for rebel currency, at tho rate of
fifteen hundred per cent.
The cfiieers here from Richmond are fully
satisfied that the Libby would have been
blown up in case Kilpatrick’s men had entered
the city.
THE ARREST OF LIEUT. COL. SANDERSON
Lieut. Col. Sanderson has'addressed the fol
lowing note to the Mew York Times:
Pierre font House, Brooklyn, March IS,
1864. —T0 the Editor of the Virtu York Times:
In order to relieve the minds of those who
have a real interest in my welfare,-allow me to
say that I have been released from arrest, and
am not on my way to Port Warren, or any other
prison.
Asuegards the charges brought against me,
my friends, by their generous advocacy, have
shown that they need no denial thereof; but to
the public at large I would simply state that
they never had any foundation, save in the base
imagination of one, who, having proven himself
recreant to his country and his God, is emi
nent h capable of any falsehood calculated to
divert attention from liis own shortcomings.
Although a momentary sufferer by the action
of the military authorities, 1 am,
proud to serve a Government which thus shows
its determination to watch, with jealous eye,
the conduct of its officers, wherever they may
be; and shall have every cause of complaint :
removed if I am afforded an early opportunity
of explaining my whole conduct as an . officer
and a gentleman, whilst in the hands of the
enemy. Very respectfully,
Tour obedient servant,
JAMES ill. SANDERSON,
Lieut.-Colonel and C. S., Ist Army Corps.,
~ From Charleston.— A correspondent of the-
Boston Herald writing from Charleston Harbor,,
savs :
The divers have been down to examine the.
wreck of the Housatonic., They have saved
her eleven-iuch gun, with the carriage, and it
has been landed on Morris Island. If the
weather proves fine for a few days longer, allot
her guns (13 in number) will‘be saved, and
landed on Morris Island, where they will be
placed in a good position to give the rebels a
lair taste of their heavy metal. Owing to tho -
ship being full of coal and provisions, she has ’
badly settled down into the soft sand; there
fore nothing but her batteries can be saved,and'
the vessel and officers, and men’s effects are a
total loss.