JHBW4K FOH THE OtriOH TTrE ABMT OF THE POTOMAC. ISO*. ifiSa army oit thu Potomac, March HbadQoabtbb grant, accompanieaby Major 98-—■ reviewed the Ist corps,now a portion O«o- Mead e . i rew« lngi near Culpeper. While of ihe »th th they were greeted with the -passing alongtheltne to ? MerrU £ a cavalry divi . most enthusiastic cu the w hole presenting a aion was also rev curp ,, -were to have been fine appearance, fine n bnt - a heavy rain storm £tnTs«?nfs e nd"n’ S tUl contlnnes, it was postponed. ro* gmffllß. 0;oud and mostly for E vans ▼yl®- „ . wt.-nnsin and 4th Ilhnois veterans have a - t 114 sick, in charge of. Commission, came np on the steamer w Thomas, from New Orleans. Five died on MemDhis Bulletin reports cotton as having considerable change; since the last re •““i' Agre have been some transactions in better Snaliiies, and rates went np rapidly daring the c i oB ing at 4 cents-above the last quotations on •it Dualities. The receipts are about 100 bales by masons Shipped 200 bales to Cincinnati on the niendaie. Middling to strict middling 57c.; good Middling 6f1a620.; middling fair 6ia63c THE INVASION OF KENTUCKY. flAiao, March 26.—Our forces, under Colonel Vicks atPadncah comprised the Ist battalion ol fie 16th Illinois regiment, numbering 300 raw re iecrnits under Major Barnes; three compart es of «hai22d Illinois, laostrong,under Major Uhapman, «51l of the - Ist Kentucky Heavy Artil lerv (colored), under Lieut. Cunningham.- >The steamer Dakotah. burned at the marine rail * w asown»dby Captain Johnson,of Padncah, sutd valued at S2i ,000. HlessTs. Wolf & Brothers estimate their loss by Blundering at 820,000 * The steamer Bell has arrived, with 200 bales of notton from St. Louis. . CJaieo. March 29 —The rebel General Forrest, with a force estimated at seven thousand, is re ported within eight miles of Colnmbus, Ky., last night • They cut the telegraph lines between that place and Cairo yesterday. * About forty more persons captured by the rebels Of .Union Qlty, arrived here last night. They report that only two hundred and fifty prisoners were captured with Colonel Hawkins, and parties ef tbem are escaping every day. Louisville, March 29. —ln pursuance of direc tions from General Schofield, and in accordance with General Grant’s orders, Kentucky has been divided into two districts. The Western district comprises all between the Nashville Kailroad and Cumberland River, under General Ewing, with his headquarters on the rail road. The Eastern district comprises all between the Nashville Railroad and'the Big Sandy River, under General Hobson, with headquarters in the field, the whole to be under the command of Gen. Benbridge, with headquarters at present in this city. That part of Kentucky west of the Cum berland River belongs to the Department of Ten nessee. The express train which left Louisville on Mon day morning for Lebanon, was captured by gue rillas and two passenger cars were burned. A guard of seventeen Federal officers on the train surrendered without firing a gun. This guard has been ordered to Louisville under arrest. Federal scouts have proceeded some four miles beyond Bull’s Gap, and report no signs ol Long street’ s forces. General Yanghan has been appointed Provost Marshal of Louisville, vice Major Fitch, who re joins his regiment. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington. March 29, 1864 A joint meeting of the House and Senate Naval Committee will be held on Thursday next, to consider the question of the location of the new Navy Yard tor iron clads. The friends of the New London, League Island and Chester locations are all sanguine of favorable reports. Brandegee closed his arguments In favor of New London this morning. The Honsd Naval Committee, with a portion of the Military and Ways and Means Committee, will start in about two weeks on a tour of inspec tion down the Ohio nver and up the Mississippi to St. Louis, to select a location for a Western Navy Yard. No action has been taken by the Committee of either branch ef Congress in reference to the remo val of the Naval Academy from Newport, Rhode Island, to Annapolis. The military have posses sion of the latter point, and will probably retain it during the war. Colonel Pennock Huey, of the Bth Pennsylvania Cavalry, left for Philadelphia to-day to recruithis (regiment np to the standard. The returned contraband colonists are now quartered at Colonel Green’s Freedman’s Village. All have been forhißhed with new clothes. Major-General E. O. O. Ord arrived in town last night. The feliowing order lias just been issued by the Secretary of the Navy: Navy Department, March 22.—General Order No. 31. —Ensigns R. O. Chew and H. J. Blake having been reported to the Department for going below in their watch, without being regularly re lieved, while on duty on board the United States steam-frigate Niagara, (Commodore T. T. Craven Commanding, and Lieutenant-Commander Henry Reuben Executive Officer,) their appointments to the grade of Lieutenants, for which they were re cently nominated to the Senate and confirmed, have been suspended. For the same offence, the appointments of Acting Ensigns W. S. Dana, E. ~F. Harrington, William B. Hoff and C. R&thbone have been revoked, and they have been ordered to Tetum to their studies at the Naval Academy, at Newport, R. 1., as midshipmen. Acting Ensign R. C.lrvin, who was also attached to the Niagara, and was guilty of the offence of overstaying his leave,has been ordered to the United States steamer Glaucus, (third mate,) with directions that he shall not for six months be permitted to go out of that Tessel. The Department cannot admit the plea of igno rance, or that of usage on board the vessels at the Naval Academy, on the part of these officers, who, however young, have been long enough in the service to aspire to and expect promotion. If they bad no other source of information, they should have learned from the ‘ ‘act for the better govern ment of the navy, * * with which all persons in the service must be supposed to be familiar, tuatto •‘leave his station before regularly relieved 9 * is an offence which subjects the person'goilty of it to the punishment of death. It must, indeed, be obvious to the most ordinary intelligence, that if an officer cannot be trusted in his watch, he has yet to learn the simplest practical duties of his profession, and is unfitted for a station where tne lives of others, as well as the honor of his country, may depend on his vigilance and fidelity. Tho lenient course which the Department has adopted in this case, has been induced by the con sideration that, although the severe punishment which a court-martial would adjudge, might be more effectual as a warning, yet the young officers in fault may, with some reason, plead in extenua tion of their offences, that they were not duly ad monished by those whose duty it was to impress them with a pToper sense of discipline, of the se ctions ®hture and inevitable consequences of their miscondnct It is not probable-that so many of them would, have -erred habitually on hoard, the Niagara except from this cause. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. Ane to-flay communicated to Congress the report of C. B. Stewart, Consulting Engineer! upon the improvements to pass gunboats from tide water to the Western Xakfes. The Engineer assumes that upon t the connection of thosb lakes with -tide water depends our common defence as wellas general welfare, and that the Mississippi River should likewise be connected with the lakes. He argues that the great food-producing region uses this chain of lakes for transit of exports and imports, which is a line of communication at present utterly defenceless, leaving the lake cities to destruction by English gunboatß on a declaration war by Great Britain, thus inflicting damage to which the cost of these proposed improvements would be utterly, insignificant. He makes various recommendations and gives ns total estimates for improved gnnboat locks lor the Hrie, Oswego, Champlain and Cayugaand Seneca Canals, with seven feet of water, oyer $lB,OOO 000, and with eight feet ot water, §20,500,000, and the cost of a canal around Niagara Fall at from ten to thirteen millions of dollars. Representative Grinnell, of lowa, has been ap pointed a member of the Committee on Territories and Representative Beaman, of Michigan, amem berof the Committee on the District of Columbia both in the place of Mr. Lovejoy, deceased. * Lieutenant-Commander Samuel Magaw has been ordered to the command of the United States steamer 2HE THE DRUMMER boy. , The has recently appointed to the gnyal.i-cnpol at Newport a little drummer boy of v ° ls »>teers, -whose case waa by Major-General W. T. Sher. ? Uowi !>e letter. Truly, the letter tbß distinguished Major. „ ld P? n6 e. in the midst of the duties of a great campaign, to pay such tribute to ft ra!rtratea:° y ’ “ “ does *° thel “ tle hero whom Headquarters 15th army Corps, Camp ov Bio Bl ack Biter, Aug. 8, IBHi.-Hm. e M JStantm, Secretary af War Sir : I take the liberty 4)t asking through von that something be done for a lad named Orion p. Howe, ol Waukegan, 111 Who heioDgs to the 55th Illinois,-but at present at home wounded. I think he is too young for West Point, Vutwouldbethe very thing for.a midship man. When the assault at Vicksburg was at its height, OtUh« 19th May, and I was in front near the road, which termed my line of attack, this young lad came up to me, wounded and bleeding, witha' wood,' healthy hey’ s cry, ■* ‘General Sherman, send some cartridges tc.Colonel Maltnborg, themenare prarly all out.” ‘‘Wbat. is the matter, my YiiyV ’ t ‘They shot me in the leg, sir; hut I can go to the gmspitai- gent the cartridges right away.” Even where We stood the shot fell thick, and I told him m go to the rear at once, I would attend to the cartridges; and off he limped. Justbefure he dis atolearfd onthe hill, he turned and called as loud R?heconld7 “Calibre 54.” I have not seen the lad since, and his Colonel (Maimborg), on in aniJT gives me the addiess as above, and says ne {b a bright, intelligent boy, with a fair preliminary (du cation. . "What arrested my attention then was—and what renewed mj memory ot the fact now—is that one so young, carrying a musket ball through his leg, sboold have fonnd-his way to me on that fatal spot, and delivered his message, not forgetting the very important purt, even, of the calibre of his mmker, 54, which yon know is an unusual one. 1*1) warrant that the boy has in him the elements of a man, and I < ommend him to the G oyernment as one worthy the fostering care of some one of its national institutions. lam, with respect, your obedient servant, "W. T. SHERMAN, Major General Commanding. A “BOUNTY JUMPER” SHOT. Habribburo, March 29 —A “bountyjamper,” named James Murphy, of the 134th Pennsylvania Regiment, was shot this alternoon while attempt ing to desert. He died instantly. rjHE NEW GOVERNMENT LOAN. By direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, I hereby give notice that I am prepared to receive Subscriptions on acconnt of United States Bonds, authorized by the act of March 3d, 1864, hearing date March Ist, 1864, redeemable at the pleasure Of the Government after ten years, and payable forty years from date,bearing Interest at five per centum a year, payable on Bonds not over one hundred dollars annually, and on all other Bonds semi annually, in coin. Subscribers will receive either Registered or Coupon Bonds as they may prefer. Registered Bonds will be issued of the denomi nations of Fifty dollars (850), One hundred dollars (S 100), Five hundred dollars (8500), One thousand dollars (81,000), Five thousand dollars (5,000), and Ten thousand dollars (810,000), and the Coupon Bonds of the denominations ot Fifty dollars ($5O), One hundred dollars (8100), Five hundred dollars (8500) and One thousand dollars (S 1.000). Subscribers will be required to pay in addition to the amount of'the principal of the Bonds in lawfnl money, the accmed interest in coin, (or in United States notes, or the notes of National Bmiks, adding fifty per cent, for premium until further notice,) from the first day of March or September, os the case may be, until tbe day of subscription and payment. Upon tbe receipt of subscriptions, I will issue my certificate of deposit therefor in duplicate, the original of which will be forwarded by the sub scriber to the Secretary of the Treasury, 'Wash ington, with a letter stating the kind (registered or coupon) and the denominations of Bonds re quired. Upon the receipt of the original certificates at the Treasury Department, the Bonds subscribed for will be transmitted to tbe subscribers respec tively, as soon as the same can be prepared. It la expected that tbe first deliveries of Conpon Bonds will be made not later than the fourth (Ith) of April. ARCHIBALD MTNTYRE. mh24-61 ASSISTANT TREASURER U. S. WANTS. A BUSINESS MAN, WITH 87,000 CASH IS in search of an interest in a good Wholesale, Retailor Commission Dry Goods, Notion or Cloth House. He has been raised to that business, and any good house who wish to extend their business will get a good active partner. Has the best of references. Address, in real name, A. H., at this office. mh29-3t* BOY WANTED —ln a wholesale Hardware Store. Address W. P. M., at this office. 29-3* HUKCH CHOIR —A good SOPRANO and CONTRALTO wanted. Address “Davis,” Evening Bulletin Office. mh23-3t* CONTRALTO, TENOR and BASS WANTED for a Church Choir. Address, by note, F. T. S. DAILEY, No. 1618 FILBERT street. mh2S6t* . 'ABGANIST AND TENOR SINGER, capable , f of taking charge of the music in an Episcopal Church, wanted. Address, with references; BOX 2372, Post Office. ' mh29-3t* WANTED. —Permanent board In the country by a middle-aged widow (a Friend), for her self and three daughters, eldest 11, youngest 4 years. Would furnish,-and assist in family duties (If de sired), such as sewing, taking charge of house or teaching children. A quiet home more desirable than high living. Address PERMANENT. Bul letin Office for three days. mh‘l9-2;* WANTED— Two APPRENTICES at Marble Works, of STEINM.ETZ, JUdge avenue, be low Eleventh street. ' mh2B-3t* WANTED. —Two intelligent, young, hearty COLOEED MEN, to enlist in the 23d Eegi xneht, TJ. S. Colored Troops, now at Camp Oasey, near Washington, D. C-, for the post ot QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT and ADJU- TANT’S CLERK. They most have a fair common school edncation. The highest bounty will be given. Apply early to ROBERT R. CORSON, Agent of Supervisory Committee. mh2S-3t ■ 1210 CHESTNUT street. NAVAL AND MARINE SERVICE. CITY AND WARD BOUNTY ! ADVANCE PAY AND PRIZE MONEY. ill MEN WANTED for the NAVAL SERVICE and MARINE CORPS, who will bs entitled to all the City Bounties m addition to Prize Money. Seamen will receive an advance of three months’ pay as bounty. ■Application to be made at once to WM. E. LEHMAN, Captain and Provost Marshal Ist D., Pa.; mh2'J-tRi . 215 South Third street. . fSS DWELLING- WANTED by June Ist on Biiii. Chestnut, Walnut, or Arch streets, between Eighth and sixteenth. Address BRADFORD, Bulletin office. mhli-lm* ' MILLINERY. au a MRS. H. WRIGHT,No. 137 PINE street, open FASHIONABLE MILLINERY, Jt*® r on THURSDAY, March 31st, 1864. mh29-3t# Jfe- YOUNG LADIES’AND CHILDREN’S ViJ Spring Millinary Opening, THURSDAY, March 318 t., 1864. Mrs. M. O. NICHOLS, mh29-2t# No. 102 S. Eighthst., bel. Chestnut. Aha CARD.—M’LLE KEOGH, MILLINER tET! de Paris, No. 904 WALNUT street, will open on TUESDAY, April sth, an elegant andrecherehe assortment of French Bonnets,Hats, Flowers, Ac., ot the latest and most approved sty I ps, selected with great care from the first fash ion houses of Paris, together with many novelties of her own manufacture. M’lle K, invites atten tion to her Mourning Department, where orders to meet the demands of funerals to any amount are filled with despatch. mh2B-Bt# G^n?7^S TA ?£ 1NO ’ BRAIDING, EM BROIDERY and Tambourine done at CAMERON’S, 228 North EIGHTH street and . 508 South SIXTH street. - under-clothing in stock and made to •‘J’dar : Ttjo,Wd» Tjaiittv rlnp .to nrrlow IJttPORTED DRESCS PATTERNS SPRING - OPENING. 10*23 CHESTNUT Street. TEM PLE OF FASHION! Mrs. M. A. BINDER, Im porter and Designer of French. English and Amer ican Fashions, will open THIS DAY a handsome assortment of PAPER PATTERNS, Dresses, Waists, Jackets,. Fashionable Sleeves and Chil dren’s .Dresses for the Spring of 1864, at 1023 CHESTNUT Street, in front of the Academy of Fine Arts, Elegant Dress and Cioak Making in all its branches, and a perfect fit warranted; Cutting and Basting at the shortest notice; French Flnting and goffer in g, Stamping for Embroidery and Braiding: Pinking in every variety. Madame Demorest’s Prize Medal Skirts, French Corsets, Skirt Elevators, Pads, Hooks, EyeSrCharts •r®? Q-barterlv Mirror of Fashion* Bradley ’ s Wo veil Kirt and Shirt Supporter. Importingand manu eßi>v 1 caa vriil offer superior in ducements to every customer, THE DAILY EVEHiye BULLETIN ; PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30, 1864. NEW MOURNING STORE. TLe undersigned would respectfully announce that they are now receiving their SPUING AND SUMMER STOCK OF " Mourning Goods, SUGH AS Bareges, Mozambiques, Crape Maretz, Organdies, Ernanis, Poplins, Grenadines, Valencias, . Talmatines, L*wns, Challie, Mohairs, -Florentine, * Foulards; Ac.; Ac. ' ALSO—sHAWLS, Shetland, Grenadine, Silk, Barege, Lace, Tissue, &c., Ac. MANTLES of tbe newest styles. A splendid assortment of LIGHT SILKS always on bant). ’ M. & A. MYERS & GO.. fe37s&w2m 926 CHESTNUT Street. CABINET WARE. A FULL ASSORTMENT AT LOW PRICES. - GEORGE J. HENKELB Nos. 809 and 811 Chestnut street. COOK & BROTHER, Hosiery and Gloves, Trimming* and Fancy Goods, Wholesale and Retail, No. 53 North Eighth st, Phila. m2l-3ms f| FOR SALE. ft The Three-Story Brick Dwelling, No. 510 SOUTH TENTH STREET, Has THREE-STORY BACK BUILDINGS. MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. Lot 18 by 87 Feet. WOnly a small part of Oaab required. WT INQUIRE ON THF, PREMISES. fBIS-tf) THEODORE M. APPLE, GAUGER AND COOPER Hos. 162 and 1M GATZMER STREET, (Between Front and Second and Walnut Chestnut Streets,) PHILADELPHIA. Imitation Brandy Casks always on hand. Casks, Barrels and Kegs, always on hand 01 made toorder. fei2-ly CELEBRATED REEYESDALE COAL. T. W. NEILL & CO., S. B. corner Broad and Callowhill St*. mh22-3mt The Sunbeam Stories, Containing the charming, bright Stories of TRAP TO CATCH A SUNBEAM, CLOUD WITH SILVER LINING, HOUSE ON THE ROCK ONLY, OLD JOLLIFFE, MERRY Christmas. DREAM CHINTZ, STAR IN THE DESERT, Ac. Six beautiful volumes, Illustrated, 82 50. ja3l-t jyl Street. J. F. IREDELL, No. 147 NORTH EIGHTH STREET Between Cherry and Race, east side, pnua. Hu now ob hand and constantly rscsivtng an ele gant assortment of Gentleuien’s Furnishing Goods. Shirts on nand and made to order in Ui* an satlsfactor . manner. A full line ol GvnU.mcn' Merino Shirts, Drawers, Ac. Also—Ladles' Ho rlno Vests, Drawers, Hosiery, Ac. oel7-6m ' 147 NORTH EIGHTH ST. 1864 NEW STOCK. 1864 LINFORD LUKENS, N. W. corner Sixth and Chestnut Sts. Nt)W OFFERS A LABGB AHU ELEGANT STOCK OT Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods. AU the choicest novelties in this department. Constantly on hand, the best made shirts in the city. Orders promptly executed. KTPrices reasonable. fe*24-wfm,3m JOHN C. ARRISON, Nos. 1 and 3 North Sixth Street. MANUFACTURER OF The Improved Pattern Shirt, FIRST CUT BY J. BURR MOO§F, Warranted to Fit and Give Satisfaction ALSO Importer and Manufacturer of GENTLE MEN’S FURNISHING GOODS N. B. —All articles made in a superior manner by hand and from the best material*. ooft-Gm SMITH & JACOBS 1226 Chestnnt Street, Philadelphia Money Refunded If not Satisfactory I FINE SHIRTS Mad* el New York Mills Muslins. v»ry Fine Irish Ltten Bosoms, only *3—usual uric* $3 7S. williams Tine Muslin «2 75, ' usual pno, S 3 se . Very reasonablsdsduotlon to whslssals tra Ice Pitchers, Castors and Plated Ware, Of ;*very descrtpDon repaired and BS JABDEN’S, .Tenth and Race Sts BIDDING. MATTRESSES, IFE 4.THERS BLANKETS, IQ.UILTS COMFORTABLES, |BED TIOKINGS, And every other article in the Bedding business a! the lowest cash prices. AWOS HILLBOIITT, fcBB-3K» TENTH BT. BELOW ARCH C. B. WlllGflT & CO, No. 142 South Third Street, OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE, Dealers In Government and State Securities,' Quartermasters’ Checks and Vouchers, and Cer tificates of Indebtedness. Orders for the purchase and sole of Stocks and Loans p-omptly executed. mh2B lms SEYMOUR, PEARL SiSS & SANDS, IMPORTERS OP UNION CLOTHS, MELTONS, &e., SUITABLE (OR CLOAKMAKERS AND" ’ CLOTHIERS. 208 CHESTNUT ST,, CORNER OF SECOND 8T„ AND AT 58 HUBBAY STREET, HEW YORK. mhlQ-tfj EDWARD P. KELLY JOHN KELLY. TAILORS, 612 CHESTNUT ST. LATE THIRD STREET AB. WALNUT, Keeps constantly on hand a large assortment o! NEW and STAPLE GOODS, PATTEBH OVERCOATS AND Warm Sack and Business Coats. FOR SALE AT Rednced Prices. TERMS GASH—Prices lower than other Cus tomer Tailors. TO LET—Up Stairs'of 612 and 614 Chestnut st. g, HENRY HARPER 520 Arch street} MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Watches, Fine Jewelry, SoHd Silver Ware, AND BUPERIOK PLATED GOODS. ST’FINE SWORDS and SILVER WARE mads In the Factory on the premises. mh7-lm( ALEX. WRAY & CO., 239 CHESTNUT STREET, Importers of British Dry Goods, and British and German Hosiery, Gloves, Undershirts and Drawers, Ac., Ac. A fall stock for Spring Sales just opened. mhs-im . 1084 CHESTNUT ST. SPRIN G_TK ADE. £. Iff. NEEDLES I* now receiving, and offer. Ibr sale below present market rates, many norelties in LACE AND WHITE OUGDS. I He would call ••special attention” tohis assortment of over ro different new fabrics and styles of Whit* Goods, suitable for ‘•Ladles' Bootes and Dresses," In stripes, plaids and figured, paired and tucked mus. 11ns. iou pieces of figured and plain Bnffand White Piques, bought before the recent ad vance. New invoices of Guipure and [Thread Laces, Thread at.d Grenadine Veils, Edging*, Inserting®, t'lounclnes, A- Broad hemstitched HANDKERCHIEFS all linen, good quality, from 25 cents np. 111 S4 CHEB'JNDTSTKTm’ iIBLOIUIIS. Offlc*ra and Soldiers, risiung the city on JTnr. longb, needing swords, AND OTHER MILITARY EiimPMENTS ar. lu-uted to the very exten&lye Manufacturing E»- tabiibhment o! GEO. W. SIMONS ft BRO,. SANSOM STREET HAT.T, Ssnsom Btreet, above Sixth. PRESENTATION SWORDS Hade to order at the shortest notice, which ioi richness and magnificence challenge compeutiojt. no other house in the country combining the Ha NT7FAUTHRING JEWELER WrTHTHB PRACTICAL SWORD MAKER. mhB-lm6 SPRING, 1864. SPRW STSfiiI EDMUND YARD & Co., 617 CHESTNUT STREET, AND 614 JAYNE STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Hare now m-store tneir SPRING IMPORTATION OP Silk and Fancy Dry Goods, Consisting of DRESS GOODS of nil Mud*, Black and Fancy Silks, Satins, Glores, Mitts, Ribbon and Dress Trim, rungs. I ALSO, White Goods, Linens, Embroideries and Laoes. A large and handsome assortment ol Spring and Bummer Shawls, BALMORAL SKIRTS, OF ALL GRADES, : Wbicb we offer to the trade at tie lowest prices. ja3o-3mG REMOVAL. A N. ATWOOD, FORMERLY OF No. 4a NORTH SECOND ST., HAYING KEMOYED TO THE ELEGANT AND COMMODIOUS STOBE No. 45 South Second Street, Respectfully invites the trade and thepnblioto call and examine his extensive stock of SUPERIOR MATRESSES, BEDDING AND Also, ft choice assortment of all kinds of UPHOLSTERED AND COTTAGKE FURNI IURE, CENTRAL FAIR, Philadelphia; 1307 Ghestnnt Street* The undersigned, members of the Executive Committee of the CHEAT CENTRAL FAIR foT the Sanitary Commission, beg to invite the co-ope ration of all their fellow-citizens, especially of those resident in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, in this important enterprise. It is proposed to hold the Fair in Philadelphia, In the FIRST -WEEK IN JUNE NEXT, and it is con fidently expected that the contributions, coming from a popula ion so benevolent and patriotic as that which inhabits the Central States, and repre senting the most importan t and varied branches of industry and art, will secure a result in aid of the funds of the Commission, and for the benefit of the Soldier, at least equal to that which has ate* tended similar undertakings in other cities. It is not necessary to say a word to stimulate sym pathy. for the soldier. We feel for them all fas brethren, and the popular heart seeks only the best mode of manlfesting-That sympathy in the most efficient snd practical way. These fairs in other places have been productive of gTeat results. ’ By this means Chicago has recently raised for this object 860,000, Boston 8150,000, and Cincinnati more than 8200,000. We appeal, then, with the greatest confidence to the inhabitants of the Cen tral States, especially to those who constitute the great industrial classes, to send as contribution the productions of their skill and workmanship. We appeal to them in the interest or no pirty, radical or conservative, Republican or Democratic, Administration or anti-Administration. We know only this, that to send out national soldiers in the field supplies to supplement those Goverment un dertakes to give them, but which they sometimes fail to receive, and thus to relieve them when sick and in mieery, is a work of Christian charity, and that it is a worir of intelligent patriotism also, as economizing their life, health and efficiency, on which, nnder God, the nation depends in this its time oi trouble. We therefore ask every clergyman to announce this humane undertaking to his people, and to ad vise them to do what they can to further it. We ask the press to give it the widest publicity and the most earnest encouragement. We rail on every workshop, factory and mill for a specimen of the best thing it can turnout; on every great and small, for one of his creations; on all loyal women, for the exercise of their taste and indus try ; on farmers, for the products of their fields and dairies. The miner, the naturalist, the man of science, the traveler, can each send something that can at the very least be converted into a blanket that will warm, and may save Cram death, some one.eoldier whom government supplies have failed to reach. Every one who can produce any thing that has money value is invited to give a sample of his best work as an offering to the cause of national unity. Every workingman, mechanic of farmer, who can make a pair of shoes or raise a barrel of apples, is called on to contribute some thing that can be turned into money, and again from money into the means of economizing the health and the life of onr national soldiers. Committees have been appointed In each depart ment of industry ard art, whose business it will be to solicit contributions for the Fair, each in its own special branch. 7 hese Committees will place themselves in communiaation with those persons who may wish to aid us. In the meantime it is recommended thailocal committees or associations should be formed in every portion of Pefinsylva nia, Delaware and New Jersey, with a view ol organizing the industry of their respective neigh oothoods, so as to secure contributions for the Fair. Committee* of Ij&dies hare also been organized to co operate with those of the gentlemen in soli citing contributions- A list of all these Committees will be shortly pnbliahea and distributed- ‘la the meantime those who are disposed to aid as, or who may desire any farther information on the subject, are requested to address CHAB LES J. STILLE, Corresponding Secretary f f the Executive Committee of the Great Central Fair, 13u7 CHESTNUT Street. JOHN WELSH, Chairman. CALEB COPE, Treasurer. C. J. STILLE, Cor. Secretary. H. H FURNESS, Reo. Secretary. W. H. Aehhuret, S. V Merriclr, Horace Btnney, Jr., B. H. Moore, A. E. Forie, J. H. onie, N. B Brown, John Robbins, Jobn O. Cre>scn, Wn. Struthers, D B. Cummins, Wm. M. Tilghman, Theo. Cuyler, Geo. Trott, Fred. Graff, Thomas Webster, J. C. Grubb, Geo. Whitney, Joseph Harrison, Jr., R. hi. Lewis, STOCKS. Oil, Mining, Railroad and Other STOCKS, Bought and Sold at BROKERS’ BOARD. SMITH & RANDOLPH mnlSmP ollth ™ rd street. P. F. KELLY. B. K. JAMISON P. F. KELLY & CO.. Bankers and Exchange Broken, N ORTITWEST CORNER OF THIRD AND CHESTNUT STS., ia,«,™ PHILADELPHIA: OFFER FOR SALE, ON FAVORABLE TEEMS, $350,000 FIRST MORTGAGE 6 PER CENT. BONDS OF THE 3 Western Pennsylvania Railroad Com’y. Parties desiring a perfectly safe investment, •will please cadi and examine the Bonds and the evi dence as to their security. E. W, CLARK & CO., mhB.lm, 35 SOUTH THIRD ST. STOCKS AND SECURITIES SI'KINO BEDS. DE HAVEN & BRO., SO SOUTH THEBE BTSEE2. ree THE GREAT FOR THE Sanitary Commission, February 20,1864. Geo. A. Wood. Geo. W. Childs. fe-25 thsa w BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION. G. E. WORK & CO. COOPER & GRAPE, Stock Brokers, NO. 11 EXCHANGE, PHILADELPHIA. I^Si?iS? OPEa - CHAS. H. GRAFF, . u. S COUPONS bought at high ibemium. DE HAVEN &BRO, ml.*. S ° U,h Thi,d G. F. WORK & CO. gTOCKS bodgbtand^oijd^to? COMMISSION, BY GEO, HENDERSON, JR,, STREET! KNORK & DAWSON STOCK BROKERS, No. 27 SOUTH THIRD STREET^ PHILADELPHIA *2™? E. KNORB, CHAS F. DAWSON- EXCHANGE ON LONDON ( FOB SALE In Stuns to Suit, by MATTHEW T. MILLER Is CO., _ No. 45 South Third street. STOCKS Bought and Sold on Commissias^ Matthew T. Miller A Co^ _ .No- 4S South Third w>. G. F. WORK & CO. GOLD, 11LTEB, AIVS BANK NOTES WANTED. DE HAVEN & BECK 20 SOUTH THIRD ST. SAMUEL W. LAPSLEYo STOCK BROKER. No. 40 South Third Street. *y*Stocks bought on Commission in Philadel phia, New York. Boston and Baltimore. te26-2m£~ G. F. WORK & CO, MICHAEL JACOBS, BANK KRs No. 40 South Third Street, Phils. ooyernm«at Securities* Spects and TJnCEtrsa? MBought and Seld. Stocks Bought and Sold on OommissloH* particular attention paid to th* nogoUattos. *s' time papers, City Warrants Bought. 'ooJ-ttaj' JOHN 0. i-APP & SON, STOCK AND NOTE BROKERS*, No. 23 South Third Street, Directly opposite the Mechanics’' Bank, Government Loans, Stocks and Bonds- Bonght and Sold on Commission at. the Board Brokers. MONEY INVESTED ■ -AND * notes and LOANS NEGOTIATED ON THE BEST TERMS. fell-3m G. E. WORK & CO.. BANKERS AND STOCK COMMISSION 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET. mhl2-Gms ~~~JOHN ifoRN, ' Stock Commission Broker-: 140 SOUTH THIRD ST. UP STAIRS, Philadelphia. REFERENCES—Messrs: Thra, A, Biddles Co., E. S. Whelen A Co., Busby A Co., Alexan der Biddle, Esq , G M. Troutman, Esq,, Messrs- Gaw, Ma -alesterA Co .Henry J. Williams,Esq,. 1. P. Hutchinson, Eeu., D. ii. Cummins, r-... Drexel A Co. ,Jas. G. King & Sons, N, Y. fcai-amj