NEW PUBLICATIONS. .'HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS, Impared,in complituace with Actsof the Leg-. islatnre, by Samuel P. Bat* ,Meni.:nf the Blst: .Boc. of Penn - Sylvania." flarrisbitrg. In 1864 our Legislature previded ! for the compilation of a mffitarrlaisicrry Otthe minden of Pennsylvania *Aura e= and militia "who have been or may be in the field." An net of April 17, 1867, , 5et forth more explicitly the scope of the proposed record. In 1866 Gov. Curtin made the judi- MOUS- alniOiritnient of Jar. Samuel P. Bates, to the office of State Historian, for the par . pose,and our present Governor has extended to the official every courtesy and assistance. Of the labor - that hat filled up the interval we now begin to get the result, in a magnificent first volume. This is a soya °duo of 1,327 pages, worthy of the State. It contains a full, and we believe remarkably accurate, history of the first fifty regiments recrpited in Pennsylvania,with complete lists of officers and men, date of forrnation,and of recruiting headquarters. The rolls are in riot so prepared as to snow the main items of the record of each individual soldier. A death record, with place and number of grave, of th ose who expired in the South, is incor porated, as completely as data now received will allow : corrections in this, and more complete data, are - promised for the second volume. The first volume,as an earnest of a difficult and painful, however proud, undertaking, is calculated to make us glory in our State, first for the enorrrions contribution to the per sonnel of,?,the war, as herein indicated, and next for !the care she shows in arranging her glory-roll with emphasis and magnificence forthe r future historian. Mi. S. P. Bates is to be congratulated for the'starrip of completeness and accuracy he has:tritcceeded in impressing on his trying labor - . He has let us see the war record of stir tats in advance of that of nearly all the other States, and in a form incomparably the, 'Most superb of any similar compila tions yet put forth. For solid, permanent, well-wearing beauty we ban find no edition to exceed that in which Putnam & Co. bring out the works of drying under the name of the Knickerbocker Edi tion. The volume just out contains the tiptmish Papers of that most genial of histo rians. There was nothing he entered into more .con amore than the investigation of obscure nooks and corners in the history of Spin, the country where residence was to him such an exquisite pleasure. The present volume, a large one of .531 pages,.contains the "Le gends of the Conquest of Spain,"with various other Legends, relative to the Moorish wars, -edited by Mr. Pierre Irving, and selected by him from the posthumous mss. bequeathed to bim for revision. These all breathe the interest and animation indicated by that letter in which Irving remark's: "Those old .Moriseo-Spanish subjects have a charm that makes me content to write about them at half price; they have so much that is high-minded, and chivalrous, and quaint, and picturesque, and Lat times, half comic, about them." The volume is prefaced by a particularly beautiful head fof Irving taken from a drawing executed by. Wilkie at the epoch of Irving's life at Seville. J. K. Simon, agent, No. 29 South Sixth •street. We receive from the Philadelphia agent, Mr. J. B. Simon, 29 South Sixth street, the December number of the National (guar terly Review, edited by Dr. Edward I. Sears. It opens with a long desultory article, condensed from about a dozen separate au thorities and not very well digested, on the ancient and modern infernal divinities.—The second paper is on early Christian literature, and contains some very interesting accounts of the apocryphal books once considered as belonging to the New Testament, and a short mentiortof most of the early fathers.—" The Sorrows of Burns," form the .sub ject of an interesting biographi cal chapter.—Bartlett's treatise on Ac coustics and Herschel's on Sound are welded into a careful article embodying most of the phenomena observed up to the present time;--=The object of an elaborate paper on Orangeism in Ireland is to dissuade Irish Pro testants in this country from uniting with a soe l lety blaimed to have been for almost two centuries the worst enemy of Ireland.—An agreeable biography of Hegel follows.—ln a .short,'earcastic article on the Miraculous Ele ment in our periodicals, the writer makes a strong point against the absurd practice of ante-elating bur popular monthlies. To such an absurd length is this usage lately carried, that we believe every. one of the prominent magazines purporting to appear the first of the present year, was laid on our table between the twelfth rindttfteenth of December; the un pleasant' jealousy which has inspired this fashion is exposed by the writer, while the prophetic powers of the historians who pre pare (by clairvoyance?) the "News" of the "Month" by the beginning of whit: 'a their narratives are in press, are held up to ironic rl admiration. For our part, we believe that the next hit will be made by the monthly which appears accurately on the day of the date : for readers are by that time fresh fur new supplies, having exhausted the periodi cals for the month some ten days back at least.—The last extended article is a study tof the origin and history of thesoriginal settlement of Tuscany by the Etruriline.—The Notes and Criticisms ap pended to this number are everywhere more happy than where they deal with literature pure and proper. The querulous tone in which Longfellow's Tragedies and Morris's "Earthly Paradise" are taken up is not much like• healthy criticism—There is enough, however,of solid scholarly study and original thinking distributed through the number to keep it in its place, as the first or second among the American Quarterlies and perhaps among the foremost of all the ponderous quarterlies now weighing upon an ingrate world. sloan's Architectural Review and Builder's Journal for January contains a description of one of the English minsters, viz. that at Canterbury; a Tudor-Gothic store, with elevation ; an Italian Villa, with per spective view and plan ; a double-front su burban residence, with perspective and ground plan ; a new Baptist church at York, with view, by Architect Wm. Peachey ; ele vations and descriptions of rural school house and cheap cottlig,es ; illustrated articles about joining and centering; and a quantity of articles without illustrations appropriate to the wide scope of the magazine. The Re val.() appears to become with every number more clear, versatile, and practical ; it sup plies a need we have long felt, and ought to be taken by every man who is in any way interested in methods of building.—Published by Claxton, Relabel, & Haffelfinger. ri The Little Corpora/ for January is a lively timber, filled with a variety of fresh stories and adventures, and a few well-en graVed ;reburses.—Published by Alfred L. bawd] 'Chicago, 111. --.TiadY Palmerston, we are told, is in astonish- Jug rpreseriAtion. She was present in Bouthamp tenkAtithe.declaration of 'poll for the division Of S I antqf Nvidch her son, the lion. W. Cowper, wool:Meted the successful candidates. lier Lady- Alp waro,lbe, party colors, and seemed to take all thattlivelyinterest in the proceedings which she adinanifented at TiverLau when Lord Palmerston wee oin,l4e)inatin.ge, The Testeherev,Wayrants. ~E'ciitor of the .EOoniii g Bulletin : SIR The. Teachers in the xPablic Schools of this eityirery.earnestly Odra to-. call leer 'atteli , t.: doe . and thronglyour: Widely, .01ra - dated journal, the, attention of,Counolls and the. , p u blic generally, to a state of agate; from Which many persons are at; preseetvauffering great pecuniary loss the Tectoheta espe cially teal this privation. We refer to the practical operation of the registration ordinance passed some time since by Councils: we are very certain that in adopting this measure, our city legislators had some laudable end in view for the general good of the citizens ; but when the' effect of law is clearly seen to be of great injury to many, and of use only to the wealthy few, 'we are sure that every just and wise citizen will desire its repeal. 'iet it is most injurious, we think we can show in a few :words. By the registration ordinance, every warrant payable by the City Treasurer, must be registered and paid in the regular order or number of its registra tion. Tnis caused to the holder of every new warrant, a delay of several weeks or months, or, an immediate loss of from two per - cent. (with which we began the year 18680 to a rate of from ten to twenty per cent., with which we are very plainly threat ened to begin the year 1869. Now, any wealthy man, holding a city warrant, makes as good an investment of money by so doing, as he could make in any other way, as interest accrues, while he waits; but a poorer person, having immediate use for the money, (perhaps needing it long be tore it was due, must sell the warrant at once, and lose whatever discount the brokers demand. Thus : A lady teaches for three months and receives a warrant for one hundred dol lars, not a very large sum for three months' labor; if Councils afford no relief by the last of January, she will receive ninety dollars (instead of one hundred dollars), or much less in proportion as the discount increases. Is this just? We ask only for what the city has con tracted to pay us, and we think after losing at the end of nearly every quarter of the first year, that Councils should make some provi sion which will afford us relief from the very onerous operation of this Ordinance. There are warrants now registered to the number of thirty thousand and upwards; there is provision made for the payment of four thousand. It will take at this rate about eighteen months to reach the payment of the warrants due in January 1869. Who, de pending upon a salary for support, can affurd to wait eighteen months for what -Js due.? Not, we are certain. MA-NY TEA OE ERS The Glorious West. The following amusing burlesques of the style of journalism prevalent in the far West were copied recently into an English paper, with severe comments upon the shocking condition of the American barbarians of the Plains: "A little bit of of romance has just transpired to relieve the monotony or our metropolitan life. Old Sam Choggins, whom the editor of this paper has so often publicly thrashed, has returned from Mud Springs with a young wife. He is said to be very fond of her, and the way he came to get her was this: Some time ago we courted her, but finding she was on the make, threw her oft; after shooting her brother and two cousins. She vowed revenge, and promised to marry any man who would horsewhip us. This dam agreed to under take, and she married him on that promise. We shall call on Sam to -morrow with our new shot- gun, and present our congratulations in our usual form". —Hangtown Gibbet. "A stranger wearing a stove-pipe hat ar rived in town yesterday and put up at the Nugget House. The boys are having a good time with that hat this morning. The funeral will take place at two o'clock. Dog Hanche is unhealthy for swells."—Dog Randle Weekly Howl. "A painful accident occurred in Frog Gulch yesterday, which has cast a wet blanket of gloom over a hitherto joyous and whisky loving community. Dave Spigger—or as he was familiary called, Murderer Dave, got drunk at his usual hour yesterday, and as is his custom, took down his gun, and started after the fellow wbo went home with his girl the night before. He found him at breakfast wish his wife and 13 children. "After killing them he started out to return, but being weary, stumbled and broke his leg. 1)r. Bill found him in that condition, and, having no wagon at hand to convey him to town, shot him to put him out of his misery. Dave was dearly loved by all who knew him, and his loss is a Democratic gain. lie never ciissureed with any but De.ruocrat3,and would have materially !educed the vote or that party bad be not been sc untimely cut off."—Siski ,you _Knock Down. "A child of Whisky Ben had an alterca tion with the Methodist preacher over at Michigan Gulley last Sundry, and ended the discussion by caving in his abolition head. The boy has been presented with a now re volver by the Cumberland Presbyterians.— AN'turs and BarB. "The scoundrel who tipped over our office last mouth will be bung to-morrow, and no paper will be issued next day."—C'ulevcras ASltrieker. "Four babies who had been put into the cage at Hell shaft, yesterday, while their mothers played a game of draw, climbed over the side. W e die not learn who won the last pot."—Rigger nil! Patriot. "There is a fellow ill town who claims to be the man that murdered Sheriff White some months ago. We consider him an im postor, seeking admission into society above his level, and hope people will stop inviti❑g him to their houbee."—Frog ,S'pring herald. Janketi I.—o. /to kalPortrait, by Charles Lichutift. "Our cousin of eleotland" was ugly, awkward and shuttling, both in mind and person. His tongue was much too large for his mouth, his legs were much too weak for his body, and his dull, goggle-eyes stared and rolled like an idiot's. Ho was cunning, covetous, wasteful, idle, drunken, greedy, dirty, cowardly, a great swearer, and the most conceited man on earth. His figure— what is commonly called rickety—from his birth presented the most ridiculous appear ance that can be imagined, dressed in thick padded clothes, as a safeguard against being stabbed—of which he lived in continual fear —of a grass-green color from head to foot, with a nunting-horn dangling at the side in stead of a sword, and hie bat and feather slicking over one eye, or hanging on the back of his head, as he happened to toss it on. He used to 101 l on the necks of hie favorite courtiers, and slobber their faces.and kiss and pinch their cheeks; and the greatest favorite he ever had used to sign himself in his letters to his royal master, Hie Majesty's "dog and slave," and used to address his master as "his Sowship." Hie Majesty was the Worst rider ever seen, and thought himself the best. He was one of the most impertinent talkers (in the broadest Scotch) ever heard,- and boosted of being unanswerable in all manner of argu ment. He wrote some of the most weari some treatises ever read, and thought himself a prodigy of authorship. He thought, and wrote, and said, that a king had a right to make and unmake what laws he pleased,and ought to be accountable to no one. on-earth. This is the plain, true character of the per sonage whom the greatest men about the court praised and flattered to that degree,that I doubt if there be any thing more shameful in the annals of human nature. Ile came to the Euglieh throne with great ease. The ; miseries of a disputed snccessi in ' hirlbeen-felt so•long, and so dreadfully, that le tit.; proclaimed within a few hours of Eli Beth's Beth's death, and Was accepted by the, nation, even without beinkilskcid to glie`arty pledge - thist he would governwell, or ;thathe WOOldiedress crying grievances. Ile' ook:a month to come from Edinburgh to London; and, by way, I suppose, of ,eterobillog ,hts new poWer, hanged a pickpocket oh the journey,*iihout any;trial,and ighted every body he could lay hold of: 'lle made two hundred knights betore he got to his palace in London, and seven hundred before he had been in it three months. Re also shoveled: sixty-two new peers into the Houk of Lards —and there was a pretty large sprinkling of Scotchmen among them, you may believe. • REVERDY JOHNSON How Ire Was Appointed 37Linister—ne verdy as a Ilninoried. A Washington correspodent writes: It is difficult 19 conceive upon what prin ciples, or from what motives diplomatic, William of the State Department selected the gay old