THE " PRESS. PUBLISHED DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,) BY zoEur W. FORNEY. OPTION NO. 417 CHESTNUT ETENET PAILY.PPLZSS, Tvramva exTire Paa WII3IX, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to Salmorilmm out of the City at Six DeLtalts Paz Amatnn, Fouit DOLLARS FOX 16. 'r —BHT MONTIIIS, Tllwat DOLLAIts pox Six in ad vance for the time ordered. TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, Nailed to Subscriber" out of the City at THREE DoL tams. Pas Arnim, in advance. COIRMISSION HOUSES WELLING, COFFIN & Co. Ifo. 116 CHESTNUT STREET, AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF DUNNELL MFG. CO.'S PRINTS AND LAWNS. GREENE MFG. UWE TURKEY RED AND STAPLE PRINTS. Fine Blenched Cottons. LAMSDALE , ROPE, BLACKSTONE, Si, ATLAS VILLE, JAKLESTOWN. RED BANK, GREENE, UNION, AND BELV DER E. Brown Cottons. ETHAN MANN, NR'. HOPE. FREDONIA.N, ET TRICB, OHIO. GRoToN. VIRGINIA FAMILY AND MECHANICS' AND FARMERS'. GRAFToN. sLA.TEREVILLE, AND JEwETT CITY DRIVIMS AND STRIPES. LONSDALE CO 'S NANKEENS AND siLFEHAS. GLEN HAM CO.'S AND GLASGOW CORSET JEANS. BOTTO&thEY'S BLACK AND FANCY MIXED CLOTHS. STEARNS AND SAXTON'S RIVER CASSIMERES. GREENFIELD CO.'S BLACK DOESKINS. RODMAN'S FINE JEANS, D0UR,..1.: AND TWISTED CASSIMF.RES, NEGRO CLOTHS. ke. • MINOT. BASS RIVER, CRYSTAL SPRINGS,"CHE SHIRE, BRIDGEWATER, AND BRISTOL SATINETS. fel9-tf SHIPLEY, HAZARD, L% HUTOHINSON, NO. 119 ORFST.N UT ST.. OOMMISSION MEILOII.9.NTS FOR TAE SALE OF PHILA DELPHIA-MADE GOODS. tee-fixr AWNINGS AWN INGS. AWN INGS. JOSE PH H. FOSTER, 443 NORMS THIRD STREET. At the old-established stand can be obtained. at the shortest notice, AW NINGS. FLAGS. TENTS, SAILS, SACKING-BOTTOMS, 14/MX. I IO'MS ' BAGS, &c. CANVAS of all descriptions, plain and fancy. of the beat quality- mho- Im PAPER HANGINGS. PAPER HANGINGS. HOWELL & BOURKE, N. E. corner of FOURTH and MARKET Streets, MAISIIVEVTIIII.BII OF PAPER HANGINGS, BORDERS, EIRE SCREENS, WINDOW-CERTAIN PAPER, Ao. Always on hand, a large and ELEGANT STOOK of GOODS, from the FINEST GOLD PAPER to the LOWEST PRICED ARTICLES. In our RETAIL DEPARTMENT will be found THE NEWEST STYLES OF THE SEASON. mh2 2m LOOKING GLASSES. LOOKING -G-LASSES. Now daily exhibiting and completing new and elegant styles of LOOKING-GLaSSES, Gmbhans all the Intent improvemente and facilities in 1111111:1fatitilTe. Great novelties in Walnut and Gold and Rosewood and Gold Frames for MIRRORS. The most extensive and varied assortment in the country. JAMES S. EARLE & SON, EARLES' GALLERIES, mbi-t[ - Ste CHESTNUT STREET. 1 FINE WATCH REPAIRING. p UPSON'S HAVING FINE WATCHES that haiq hitherto given no satistaction to the venters 'ire invited to bring them to our etore,where all defects ova be remedied by thoroughly ekllful and scieonfic workmen, and the watch warranted to give entire satisfaction. Mantel Clocks, Magical Razes, &c.. carefully put in complete ender. FARR Pr AROTHER, importers of Watohee. Mumma! Born. Clocks. Bto., lakt-am 34e CREST. 4 t-treet. below Fourth. • VISIT CLARK'S ONE-DOLLAR sTpRE, TER L ARGEST TN THE WORLD. JEWELRY AND Rl' VER-PLA. ED WARE. Largest and Beat stook ever Faniniled in this Citv. CALL AND EXAMINE. The follosross is is paths' list of the Goods offered for ONE DOLLAR EA , _:l3—the same as are usually sold at from as to ate each Orii,Y ONE DOLIF,AR IaAOH. =M= Bets Of 6 Forks Plated on German Silver " 6 Table Spoons. " 6 Dessert epoono. " ... " " 6 Tea Spoons. " •. " Pairs of Matti- Knives. " Balt 'l/00118. 44 44 Balt !ttatida, different styles. Nils Crac.ere, i Drinking Cupe, Cream ..blets Cups, `DI deren t AY ISA C Knife:lnd eork I Fairs Napkin Binge. i Bilver Pencils- f with Benton Bros' Gold Pen.) The above goods are nearly all manufactured by me, and warranted to give satisfaction YOUR. 0 h OMB FOR ONE DOLLAR. JEWELE.TAND FANCY COOPS. . . _ 808 Jow-iry, and Dr°Pe. Drltcelets, Vest Chains, Medallions, Fleove Buttons and etude, Ewa Pens with Cases, Gold Pencils, Gents' imitation Dia mond Pins Watch Keys, Charms, Thimbles, Neck and Guard ~hains. armlets, Porte Normaies, Bair Brushes. (inlaid.) Reticules, Calms, Pocket Knives. tng. and itnameled Crosses. &0., &c.. &c. The largest and beat stock o Jewelry and Silver-plated Ware and Fancy Goods ever offered by any house in this city. Pt. B.—Coy - Mu Merchants and others - win comma their intereste by examining my goons, and wholesale prioes, before making thetr purchases. The above goods are warranted to be of a rood quali ty, all of which are all Gold or Plated, and will wear for 30W — in fact, they are the game good* that are 4 usually sold for solid Gold. Ladies and Gentlemen are respectfully invited to cell and examine oar goods, MORS We are closing out a large STOOK of Standard and Mis cellaneous Books, at about one half the regular prices,. O. W. CLARK'S GREAT ONE-DOL r.AR STORE IS AT No. 602 CHESTNUT Street, south side. Watches and Jewelry repaired at short notice. AT DEAN & CO.'S, 335 CHESTNUT -rm Street. FhiladelvinaPa.. At D KAN & 80 'West FOURTH Street, Cin cinnati, Ohio, At DEAN &C0.'5,115 DEARBORN Street, Chicago, Illmoie At DEAN & CO.'S, Detroit, Michigan, At DEAN & CO.'S, i 1.4 MAIN Street, Buffalo, New York, At DEAN & CO.'S, 8 ARCADE, Rochester, New York. At DEAN & e t post *Moe, Erarriaborg, PEIPLUIIIVBI/16§ At DEAN & 335 CHESTNUT Street, -Phila delphia, Peinuiglvania. YOU CAN BUY A first-rate Vest Chain..— ....for SIOO A rood guard ...for 100 A Lady's Chatelaine Chain- --.... _.for 100 A lady'. Neck Chain-- - for 100 A Child's .for 100 A karat Gold Pon and Silver Holder _for 100 A counting-bongo Pen and Holder. for 100 A Gold - Pencil.... for 100 A .ady's Cameo ;get.— for 1 1:0 A Lady's Jet Set. ....for 100 A Lady'. Lava Set- ---------.--for 100 A Lades Onyx Bet -for 100 A Lady's Coral —_..-.for 100 A Lady's Enamelled Bet.— .-.....f0i 00 A Lady's Carbuncle P et.— for GO A Lades Garnet Set. -for 100 A Gold Ring._ ..-.. 1 00 A Sat Gold Bosom 5 tud5...._.._„_.......-. . ..f0r 100 A pair Gold 81eaus Buttons.— 1 00 A Gold Pen and Bolder— —.for 100 A Gold Scarf Yin— ..for 100 A Gold Pm. for 100 A Gold Tooth 100 A Set Gold Jewelry. all kinds.— --- _tor 100. A Set Silver P. Table Cryan— —.for 100 A Bet Silver P. Tea spcons...----.-- -for 100 A Bet Silver P. Forks Sor - 100 A Silver P. Salt Stand.-- 100 A Set Silver P. Knives.._.-....-..... -for 100 A Silver P. Mug. engraved— -.for 100 A Silver P. Awn Cup.-- for 100 A Silver P. Wine Cop, Gold lined— 1 00 A Gold Eland Bracelet...- 100 A Miniature Bracelet-- 1 00 A Link Bracelet— --for 100 A Coral Bracelet.-.- -for Ito A Cluster Br/insist— 1 00 An knamelled Bracelet ....—......„......f0r 100 A pair of Armlets for 100 A splendid assortment-- ..for 100 And take your choice-- 100 And.take your pick_ --..for 00 And anything you want .......„...._...„...,...._f0r 100 And any artiele in the more.. —.for 100 And no Bogus Goode sold here.— —.--for 100 And no Gilt Jewthry sold hers--------for 1 00 And no Guivant zed Stars sold here.- ___ .for 100 An our goods ars genuine.. - -.for 100 All our goods are llrold or 1 00 All our goods are A No. 1.--. .for 100 Ask enatomers who have bought-_—_ __for 100 Ask jewellers who have b0ught.....„.._... for 100 Ask your friends who have bought for 100 Ask our Bogus Imitators-- ...._-......f0r 100 Ask the publics _ , . so , Ico Dean & Co. sell good Jewelry-- for 100 Rasa 41; Co. do not humbug, pp Dean & Cos aro known as A No. i. --for 100 Dean & Co. are the origui t. - ----for 100 Dean & CO. sell no bogus goodis..2„ _f or 1 00 Dean & Co. deal on the sonars-- -...-._-..for 100 REMEMBER DEAN & CO.. REMEMBER DEAN & CO.. 335 CHER NUT Street. Philadelphia . . Pa SO West FOURTH (Street, Citotonati. Ohio. 145 DEARBORN Street, Quango, Minot*. DETROIT. !Mahican. E. ARCADE, Rochester, New York. 214 MAIN threat, linlftio, New York, Next to the Post Whoa. Harrisburg. Pa. DEAN & CO'S ORIGINAL 81 STORE. 333 CREST NI UT Street. Philadelphia, Pa. Those who purchase en worth at one time will be canoed to any article in the store. of their own melee non, free. - • • - . Send anima, by mail or express, to any of our gores. or call tUliOntilli MIA examine the !argent and best Koahilf otrwehr and lined Wit th e United States. tee- ~.-, • . . - ' - ~ . . . . ,•,..,. \.AI I I / 1/ ‘ NI f ii ,/ , 4 e 4. :4* .• _ , . , . . . . ' . .C. . . . • , . ,/ ,i I a - -•• '' • ' ' ''.• trtt 7 A , : .. ........- -7 \ '''' . • , .... • - - ••, ir.,,lpar. ,:f;.''': ' " ‘,11,,,..-_,...0r0-4- ...;,... i, .•,, •.•-4. •• • -.. 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IMPORTER AND JOBBER, No. 223 MARKET ISTREBT, PHILADELPHIA, la now prepared to offer to CASH AND SOUND-CREDIT BUYERS One of the mod attraotive Stooks - of FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS TO BE FOUND IN THIS MARKET We nivite apeoial attention to our LINEN DEPARTMENT. Which at this time °manses a fall assortment of our own importation in E-30C_ITCH A.N.13 IRISH LINEN GOODS OP EVERY DESCRIPTION We have, also, a full line or 'nBLEACRIID AND BROWN COTTONS &night during the patio, for sale greatly below present kINGLIBII AND AMERICAN PRINTS. IN STANDARD MARM -Wa hava made anntmantanta to taaaiva *sumac all MANY CHOICE STYLES OF GOODS, - And shall maintain A GOOD STOOK Threughout the eenaon Buyers will raid our Stook IMAYS FRESH.. AN PRICES AS LOW AS THE LOWEST fell-ti CARPETINGS. McCALLUM Lt CO, CARPET MANUFACTURERS, GLEN ECHO MILLS, GERMANTOWN IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN CARPETING, - OIL CLOTHS, MATTING, RUGS, &e. WAREHOUSE, 509 CHESTNUT STRRET, OPPOSITE THE STATE uorss. MILLINERY GOODS. STRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS. LINCOLN, WOOD, & NICHOLS, 725 CRESTRUT STREET. EVERY BTYLE 07 PANAMA, PALM•LEAF, AND STRAW HATS. ' FOR MEN OR BOYS. PALM AND WILLOW SHAKERS. STRAW AND FANCY BONNETS. VERNON BLOWERS, RIBBONS, RUCHES, LACES, &O. We are now prepared with a finely-assorted stook of all the above articles. arm invite the attention of al cash or short-tame buyers. mh4-8m E=MNIMII AUGUST BELMONT it CO., BANKERS, 50 WALL STREET, NEW YORK, Issue letters of credit to travellers, available in al "arts of Europe, through the Blass?". Rothschild of Pa. rim. London. Frankfort. Naples,. Vienna, and their oor• _ rearondenta. feX-em* CABINET FURNITURE. CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL LIARD TA,BLEs. MOORE ens CAIVIPION, No. 261 SOUTH SECOND STREET in connection with their extensive Cabinet Business, are now manufacturing a surwrior article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on hind a full supply. finished with MOORE & CANtrION'S fur soVED CUSHIONS. Which are prononneed. by all who have used them,to be superior to all others. For the quality and finish of these Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the charac terfe26-6 of their work. m REMOVAL,. W. & J. ALLEN & 13R0.; R.:wpm:tinny Worm their friends and customers that that have removed from No. 210 donth BECOND Street to their . NEW STORE, 1 0 9 CILEETN UT STREET, Where they mill have aiwat. on hand a fine aalortmeat of ROSEWOOD, WALNUT, AND OAK FURNITURE; Which they will sell at less than their former price., in consequence of having greater faoihtiee for buemese, and being under lees They respectfully solicit a nail before purchasing elsewhere. jsanklni SEWING MACHINES. WHEELER & WILSON SEWING. MArIMINES. PRICES REDUCED, Novirourait 16TH, 1804, ref•3m 625 GELEISTNUT Street. Ellwood Floor. ARRIB' BOUDOIR SEWING MAC3HINE. No. I—FOR MACHINE, !Xo. 2—A NEW FOR QUlLTlffille AND HEAVY WORK.. Both BM from two irpoolis without the trouble of re einding, and rune with little or no mine. For sale at No. 7.20 ARCH street, Philadelphia, and No. 73 BALTIMORE Bt.. Baltimore. Md. 1a12,13m HARD WARE. MOORE,ETENSZEY, tk CO. ARE NOW °PERIM) TliErß SPRING STOOK OF HARDWARE, 427 MARKET, and 416 COMMERCE STREET. zob•I-2ffi GARDEN. SEEDS. BUIST'S WARRANTED KITCHEN GARDEN SEEDS. SEED WAREHOUSE. 929 and 914 MARXHT Street, above Dinah. fert-Int GROCERIES. pURE ORAB-APPLE CIDER, MADB BY "SHE RAPPITES. AND ADAMS' CELEBRATED MASSACHUSETTS CHAMPAGAE CIDER. FUST RECRIVED. ALBERT C. ROBERTS, DEALER IN FINE GROCERIAS, CO hE RNER ELEVENTH AND VINE STREETE, AMI LI FLOUR, MADE FROM CHOICE WRITE WHEAT. C. H. M4TTE3ON., S. W. cor. ARCH and TENTH Streets. M AMBER., HERRING, SHAD, SAL '••S• sa.-5,ta6 bbbb bleu roc 1, or, and I Mack erel. large. medium. and small, in assorted twinges of choice late-can ht fat fish. MOO bbls. New Hatifsm. Eastport, and Labrador Her rings. of choice qualities. 6,000 boxes Gattti new sealed Honing, 8.060 boxes extra new No.l Herrings. 3,000 boxes large !deem me Herrings. - 130 bbls. laminas° 'W hits Fish. BO bble. new Eeoriontt Mess Shad. , 25 bbil, sew Rallis& ilalmos. Ow genitals erand 'Dank Cod&M. too boxes tterlnmer-eounty Cheese. In store and landing, for ame Is, MURPHY & K00N5..." . ON. 14A NORTH WEL/MYNA. VLIOIOE NEW CROP PORT RICO le rmkne ggligit sa te tw etrictly prime Rio COPPRR, In a. REED ic CO., No. 115 ARCH Street. DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. 1861 SP RING 1861 RIEGEL, 13AIRD, 4Sc CO„ IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, NO. 47 NORTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Merchants visiting this city to purchase DAT Goons will find our Stock large and admirably assorted, and at Low notions. In certain classes of Goods we offer inducements to purchasers unequalled by any other house in Philadelphia. mhlB-2m JAMES, KENT, SANTEE, SG: Cco.,. , IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS • ea DRY GOODS, 1(08. 439 AND 9411. NORTH THIRD STREET, ABOVE RACE, Unsafeßy - invite , the attention of CASH AND SEW/I-TIME BUYERS, To their moat LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OP FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS, Among which will be found fell hoes of BATES' MILLS AND YORK COMPANY'S COT TONADEs. Also, a LARDS VARIETY Op SSW AND CONFINED STYLES OP PRINTS, MERRIMACK SECONDS, 4-c mhs-2m C • SOMERS 86. SON RAVE OPENED, IN THEIR NEW STORE, 626 CHESTNUT and 615 JAYNE STREETS, An elegant Spring Stook of MEN AND BOYS' WEAR, TAILORS' TRIMMINGS, Exc. Alec, LADIES' CLOAKING CLOTHS. CEULIALUT SOMXIRS WILLIAY B. SOMEIRS. mh6sm SPRING. 1861. . J. T. WAY So 00.4' N 4. OS NORTH THIRD STREET, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS or DRY GOODS. OUR STOOK 18 'UNUSUALLY LARGE AND. feBs.2rn • COMPLETE. SPRING. GOODS. 1801. ABBOTT, JOHNES & CO, 527 MARKET STREET, AND lin COMMERCE STREET, Rave now open their NEW IMPORTATION . SILKS AND FMWY DRY GOODS, To which they invite the &Matron of the trade. fe2s-lm ALD RIDGE & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, FURNISHING GOODS, AND FANCY NOTIONS, No. 619 CHESTNUT ST., and 616 JAYNE ST., PHILADELPHIA. ST Our Stook is unusually large, complete in all de departments, and ready for buyers. fey!-lm DID CtOURSEY, LAFOUROADE, & 00., No. 63/ CHESTNUT STREET, Are now reoeiving their IMPORTATIONS OP CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, ETC. Yeas -um SPRING GOODS. BARCROFT CO„ 1108. 405 AND 407 MARKET STREWN, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS 07 FOREIGN AND MIMEO= DRY 600D8, Now complete and ready for buyers. feWew D 1 . WILLIAMSON & 00., WHOLESALE DEALS/VS AND JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, No. 4its MARKET STREET, and 414 COMMERCE STREET, PHILADELPHIA. We now offer an untutually full and JOMPLETE STOOK OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, To which the attention of PROMPT-PAVING Buy ers 11 solicited. felB-1m YARD. GI.LLMORE. & CO. Are now in their New attire, JAYNE'S MARBLE 80/LAINGi, NOB. 617 CHESTNUT AND 014 AYDIN STREET, PHILADELPHIA, and have opened their SPRING IMPORTATION OF SILKS /LED FANCY DRY GOODSi ALeO, DRESS GOODS. IN GREAT VARIETY. SHAWLS, MITTS, RIBBONS, As., 49 With a splendid !Rook of WHITE GoODS, LINENS. EMBROIDERIES. &o felt-na SPRING, 1861, WURTS, AUSTIE, & MoVEIGH, IMPONTERB AND JOBBERS DRY GOO DS No, 311 MARICHT RTREET, Above Third, 'PHILADILPHIA. Charles Wont, Henn Amities Hamilton Atoyeich, John 1!, Weimeri fimm Ju*eph Bu g u, It SHOEMAKER & s GLASS. PAINTS. OILS. AND vaßzuslika, Dozikesist Coma 1701/11ft and RACK Straits. dattla e ll • • SAY, MARCH 15, 1861. ( Clje Vrtss+ FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1861 News of Literature and Art. There is good promise of several new bio graphical works. Lord Brougham is said to be engaged on his Autobiography, of which the first portion is nearly ready.—Tne Life of the late John Wilson, ".Christopher North," of Blarkwood's Magazine and Professor of Mo ral Economy in the University, written by his sons. in-law, Professor Frazer, of St. Andrews, and Aytoun, of Edinburgh, is announced.—Mr. , W. N. Massey, M. P., author of the History of England, is writing the Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons. Dr.• Doran will immediately publish Memoirs of Queen Adelaide, wife of King William IV.-. A second and enlarged edition of Mrs. Gil: lespie Smith's Historical Memoir of Queen . Carolina Matilda of Denmark, sister to King George the Third, with Memoir, and a Seim-, tion from the Correspondence (official and fa.o miller) of Sir Robert Murray Keith, K. 8., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo, tentlary at the Courts of Dresden, Copenha gen, and Vienna, is in the press.—A letter received by Lord:Vernon from Pietro Pratt celli, of Florence, states that his new storico critico work, the "Life of Dante," will ap pear In about a fortnight. It will be enriched with copies of all the documents which the author has been able to collect in reference to the poet and his affairs. The Messrs. Chambers' London trade has increased to such a degree that Mr. Robert Chambers is about to transfer his residence from the Scotch to the English capital. Mr. Thornton Mint, who lately visited the United States, is said to be writing a book upon America. The Critic sags, ccAs Mr. Hunt is known to be highly favorable to the views of Mr. Buchanan, it is not unlikely that this work will contain some explanation or defence of that statesman's policy." Mr. Hunt, who has disposed of his interest in the Spectator, and has resigned the editorship of the London Morning Chronicle, IEI preparing an complete edition of his father's writings. The Rev. Dr. Hoary Caswell, prebend of Sarum, announces cc The American Church and the American -Union." cc' Friendly Sketches in America, by William Tallack," is a new work, referring almost entirely to the history, condition, and pros pects of the Quakers in the United States. Mr. Murray announces from Lord Lindsay's pen a work to be entitled f 4 Scepticism ; its retrogressive character in theology and philosophy, with especial reference to the new movement at Oxford." The Essays and Reviews have just reached a fifth edition. It is a mistake to call these Oxford essays, two out of the six essayists being Cambridge men, viz the Rev. Dr. Row land Williams, and Mr. C. W. Goodwin, M. A. Moreover, Mr. Goodwin is not a clergy man, as generally Erapposed. Mr. Thomas Hood the younger (son of the Thomas Hood) has in the press a volume of prose and verse, to be entitled $c Quips and Cranks." It will be illustrated on wood, from his own pencil' The famous Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror is now at the Ordnance Map Office, Southampton, for the purpose of being copied by the new process of photozinco graphy. The third volume of M. Guizot's transla tion of Shakspeare hasjust appeared at Paris. It contains “Romeo and Juliet," " Tinion of Athens," if The Two Gentlemen of 'Verona," and 'c Midsummer Night's Dream." The Rev. W. D'Orsay, B. D., English lee. turer at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in his recent lecture on the study of the English language at the Royal Institution, said: .c In the middle and upper classes, the knowledge of English was very deficient. Few could write a. really good letter. Bow many of our writers seemed to knew nothing of punctuation ! How many youths of good families, educated at our public. schools,' have been rejected at-our Civil Service Examina tion from sheer ignorance of spelling I" Mr. John Forster, formerly,editor of the Landau Examiner, and author of the best Life of Oliver Goldsmith, is announced, in the London Gazette, as Commissioner in Lunacy, on the resignation of Bryan Wailer Procter— well known in the literary worldls "Barry Cornwall." Mr. Forster had previously been Secretary to the Commission at $4,000 a year. As Commissioner, he will have $7,500, exclu sive of a handsome allowance for travelling expenses. In Pycroft's Men of Letters, lately pub lished, we find some curious facts about au thors. For the most part, in the last century, every publisher was his own critic. We can not, therefore, be surprised to hear that some of the best works went begging from pub lisher to publisher. PrideaUx's Connection between the Old and New Testament," Mrs. Thompson reminds us, was bandied from hand to hand between five or six boolzsellers for two years. By one publisher the author was gravely told that the subject was too dry, it should "be enlivened by a little humor." a Robinson Crusoe" was refused by many publishers. ccTristam Shandy" was rejected as dear at fifty pounds. Blair's tc Serinons" and Burns' Justice," valuable copyrights both, with diffie,ulty found a publisher. Field ing was on the point of taking £25 for his cc Tom Jones," when Andrew Millar surprised him almost out of his senses by offering £2OO. And yet, by very easy and , trifling work, when an author's name is established, he has earned as much, or more. For instance, Goldsmith received for his ccSelections of English Poetry" £2OO. For this he did nothing but mark passages with a red lead-pencil • but then, he used to add with much gravity, ct a man shows his judgment in these selections, and a man may be twenty years of his life cul tivating that judgment." At a recent lecture in Dundee Scotland a number of instances of authors' connection with trade were mentioned. Samuel Riehard son,- author of oe Pamela" and Clarissa," 'a man whose power over the passions is scarce ly inferior to Shakspeare, was a printer, and kept besides a stationer's shop. William Godwin, the immortal author of tc Caleb Wil liams," at one period of his life opened a shop of picture-books for children. Smol lett—a name of which Scotland is still proud— was, in his early days, esurgeon's apprentice in Glasgow, and saw, while selling pills and compounding potions, those humors-and od dities of life which he afterwards inscribed on the undying pages of cc Roderick Random" and c; Humphrey Clinker." Charles Lamb, the gentle, the exquisite, the inimitable Elia, was a clerk for the India-house, and wrote at one time, invoices, and at other times immortals ties. Keats, one of the truest and divinest poets that ever breathed, was, in his early days, an apprentice to au apothecary, and would drop the pestle to lift the pen which wrote his Ode to the Nightingale, and his Hymn to Pan. Wordsworth was a distributer of stamps, as well as the author of the ac Ex cure& n." Thomas Hood once occupied some commercial situation in Dundee, living in the house of old Mr. Gardiner, who kept a grocer's shop. Alex. Smith, author of the a Life Drama," and now secretary to the University of Edinburgh, was, origi ginally, a pattern in a Glasgow ware house, not earning a pound a week. Sid ney Tendys, or Dobell, the author of the brilliant " Roman," and of the incompre hensible and critic-bafilitg dtßalder," was, till within a few years ago. a wine-merchant with his accomplished cousin Alfred Mott, author of Amberhill De Stillis." Ruskin's parents kept a shop—we fear it was a spirit shop. One of the best ascertained facts con nected with the latter history of Shakspeare himself, is finding him selling corn and malt in his native town of Stratford.on-Avon. So that, on the whole, literatnre and poetry have not been a whit the worse, but all the better, of smelling of the shop. Mr. Thackeray made sneh a strange speech, at the recent dinner, in London, of the Dra matic, Equestrian, and Musical Sick Fund Association, that some of his critics shrewdly suspect him of having taken "a wee &apple" before sitting dowit to table. Ile sneered at entertainers; threw in their teeth that, at the last dinner, he and a couple of his friends CC dead-heads") had been charged for three bottles of wine, which bill he had just paid, receiving sixpence In change, and wound up ithus cr We have all our troubles ; you, gen tlemen, on your stage, and I on mine ; and we have over us, gentlemen—for whom, I trust, we have all of us groat respect, and a'great regard, and hearty sympathy gentlemen whom we are always glad to welcome, and gentlemen of whom I hoPe we shall never be afraid—men of the . Press, who, thank God, are among us now, in a country which is the only country to the world that I have seen— and I have seen a great number--uphere they can speak the truth, where the Press is free, and where, therefore, it is likely to be most 'generous, most benevolent, most honorable, land most feared." The editors who so ex- Itensively toadied Mr. Thaekeray during his two American visits, must be highly delighted at his amiable estimate of the London, as the ionly free and respectable press in the world ! The forthcoming (March) number of the Cornhill Magatine, will have two illustra pens, and the following literary contents : A Third Letter from Paterfamilias to the tditor • The 4dTentam of Philip on hia, WirAhinigh "the World. (With an .ilk's: tration.) ' Chapter- - Brandon's. Chapter 7 Inipletur veteris Beech'; The River.; Horse° SaUltonn. Part 2—De Prolandis ;• Toilers and Spinsters; Health; Tho Drowned at Sea; Frawley Parsonage. (With an Illustration.) Chapter 43—Is Sbe Not Insignificant Chapter 44—The Philistines at the Parson age. Chapter 45—Palace Blessings ; The Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia; In Me moriam ; The Turkish Bath. The contents of the new number of Temple- Bar, will be : Thee Seven Sons of Mammon. A Story by Geo. Aug. Sala. Chapter 7-- Mrs. Armytage is as much at borne as ever. Chapter B—Shepherd and Sheep. Chapter 9—A Lay Brother ; Paracelsus ; Madame Doublct's News Saloon ; Daughters of Eve. No. 1. Elizabeth Inchbald ; For Better, for Worse. A. Romance. Chapters 10, 11, 12 ; London Poems. No. 4. The Destitute ; Mot• ley's History of the United Netherlands; Giants and Dwarfs ; Death-Bed Secrets ; The Management of. Servants; The Art of Suck ing certain Eggs; Ancient Classical Novelists. Part 2. ; Through the Bar. Mrs. S. C. Hall is about to undertake the duty of editing a new magazine, to be called the St. James, and illustrated with steel etchings from the facile and popular pencil of Hablot K. Browne, while engravings on wood Will be given with such articles as may be rendered more intelligible by their aid. A new quarterly at half a crown is an nounced from Edinburgh. It is tote called to The Museum : a Quarterly Magazine of Education, Literature, and Science ;" and will be commenced with April. The chief contributors are Mr. Edwin Chadwick, the Rev. J. Currie, Mr. W. Scott Daigleish, the Rev. F. W. Farrar, Mr. Joshua G. Fitch, Mr. James Hannay, Dr. J. D. -Morrell, fMr. James Pillans, the Rev. Ilvtr. Robinson, 'and Dr. Schmitz. The Messrs. Brousseau, publishers, in Que• bec,, have announced their intention of bring. ing ont, in monthly numbers, a work to be called cc Les Soirees Canadiennes," to consist of, a collection of Canadian tales, legends, and tradition& 2t, new monthly bibliographical publication is announced to appear in Paris, conducted on the same plan as the ccßibliographie de la France." It will give a complete survey of modern Italian bibliography, and a resume of all the news connected with literature. If the birth of Italian nationality is to be attended by the renewal of literary vitality, such a pub lication will he of great use, es well as of great tignifidance; A new novel, by Marion Evans, author of ccAdam Bede," is announced by a London publisher. Messrs. Harper announce that it will be published in their popular Magazine. Humboldt's library, purchased in one lot by Mr. Henry Stevens, will be speedily sold by auction in London. The Jthenmum says that it consists of about 12,080 works, many of which are enriohed by copious notes in Hum boldt's handwriting. These occupy the blank leaves at the beginning and end of the vo lumes ; and where the blank pages proved in sufficient, slips of paper were used, which are interspersed through the volumes. Humboldt had a great objection to defacing books by scribbling on the margins of the pages. It will, of course, be a matter of regret to purcha sers that the philosopher's autograph is absent, Gut in its place will frequently be found that of the donors of many of the works. Pro bably, the most valuable work in the col lection is a copy of the cc Ohalcographie du Louvre," in 84 volumes, containing about 5,000 engravings. This was presented to Humboldt by Louts-Philippe. There is also a large and valuable collection of maps. • Lord Braybrooke, born in March, 1820, lately died at his mansion in Essex. His fa ther edited Pepy's Memoirs, and he was himself author of a great many books and papers upon antiquarian and archseologicAl SubjectS. Francis Denby, Associate of the Royal Academy England's most distinguished landscape painter of the romantic school—is also dead. He was an Irishman, born at Wexford on the 16th November, 1798. His frst artistic education was acquired at the Dublin Academy of Fine Arts; to the exhi bition of that body he sent his first picture in 1812. In 1820 he settled at Bristol, and in the following year contributed a picture to the Royal Academy's exhibition—cc Disappointed Love." In 1828 his poetic cl Sunset at Sea after a Storm " established his reputation. It was purchased by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and secured that painter's friendship and patron age. In 1825 his cc Delivery of Israel out of Egypt" made him an Associate of the Acade my. He continued to contribute poetic landscape compositions to the Academy's ex hibitions until 1828. In 1829 he visited Swit zerland, and continued a wanderer until 1841, when he settled in Exmouth. During this in terval he had only exhibited one picture of im portance, the "Age of Gold" (in 1881). From 1841 until the exhibition of last year he contributed to the Royal Academy's exhibi tions, more or less regularly, pictures in his peculiar domoin of sentiment. Among these, the " Painter's Holiday " (1844) is one of those which made the greatest sensation at the time of its appearance. Dr. Liszt is in Paris, whence, it may be in ferred, that cc Tannhs.user " is shortly forth coming. • Catharine Hayes is making a - remarkably successful tour through Ireland, her native land, winning fame and money in concert and opera. The London Times announces that an opera in English, by Mr. Howard Glover, c. Hoy Elea," is under consideration at Covent Gar. den Theatre. - There is to be a bust of Madame Shroeder- Devrient in the Opera Rouse at Berlin. M. Meyerbeer has been composing inciden tal songs for a new play by Mamie Birel• Pfeiffer, cc Der Goldbauer," which has Just been produced in the Prussian capital. We lately mentioned that Signor Verdi, the musical composer, bad been elected a member of the Italian Parliament. Here is his letter of acceptance : "PitIItSIDEZIT : The honor spontaneously offered me by the college of Borgo San Donino deeply affects me. It proves to me that I enjoy esteem as an honest and independent man, dearer far to me than the little glory and small fortune bestowed on me by art. I thank you, then, President, and beg you warmly to thank for mo the olootore who have entrusted me with the honorable charge. Would you kindly assure them, at the same time, that if it is not given me to earry into Parliament the splendor of eloquence, I shall carry into it lode. pendence of character, a sornpulous conscientious ness, and the firm will to co-operate with all my might toward. 'what is good, for the honor and 'lour union of this our native country, so long afflicted and divided by civil discords? Now, to the end that this long and hitherto fond desire of seeing a united country may be satisfied, fortune sends us a King who loves his people. Let us rally, then, all around him, since if he shall be acolaimed before long the first King of Italy, be will also be, perhaps, the only one who heel truly loved hie poo pie more than his throne. I beg you to wept the sincere expression of the esteem with which I take pride In declaring myself your devoted servant, "G. VIDADI. , Sant' Agate di Villanova, Feb. 6, /801." AFFAIRS IN THE SOUTH. " SUMPTER SINS PIE " The gharleston Mercury says : " The intelligence contained in our telegraphic column to-day will gratify our readers. tJumpter is to be ours without a ll,ght. All will be rejoiced that • the blood of our people is not to be shed in our harbor, in either small or great degree. To those who have troubled themselves with vague fears of war on a large scale, and the horrors of war extensively, the relief will be as groat as the apprehension has been grievous Per ourselves, notwithstanding all the Northern thunder, we have never been able to bring ourselves seriously to believe in the probability of any more than a few collisions sufficient to show that, we are in earnest, and competent to make good odr position of independence against our would-be masters. These gentry 4 -hold our valor light,' as also the honesty of the determination of the Southern pee. pie to be quit of them and their impertinent and detrimintal interference * through a Government in common. It may, perhaps, yet be necessary to instruct thence little in these particulars. But it appears that for the. present,. under the ciraum stancesin this ease, they are inclined stesibly. to dispense with experiment s and its teachings. _How far this disoretion will hvivify thei hopes andsti: runlets the efforts of recionstrnotionlete throughout' the Socialt is a matter to be discovered .by'obsor'va tlon.,,-.The damper and . Intention of the Northern 'people has now been so thoroaghly developed and, exposed to the eyes of all those at the South who will see, that we trust Paton menders are too late in their alteMpti upon the virtue and 'integrity of our .peoples: .Ornahed eggshells and friendship abused.can never be mended. We have no doubt, however, that Herculean efforts will be made in that direction, and must only take good mire of these weaker brethren at the South, whose sentiment is stronger than their reason, or who live in the past rather than the future. The straight jacket was a valuable invention. But, in the meantime, the prospect of having Sumpter is very pleasant." "A CONQUEST OP PEACE." [From the Charleston Courier.] For the first time we have authentic and reli able tidings from Washington looking towards 11131309. We refer to our special despatoh from Washing ton, which wag published on the Courier bul letin board, and read by many eager it-tends on Monday. This despatoh was for two or three hours in ad vance of any others of similar import, bat was con firmed through the day by other messages. It ex hibits another and gratifying proof of the prompt ness and trustworthiness of our correspondents in Washington, whose qualifications anu Darin]; our readers will acknowledge, as well for their reserve and caution in withholding rumors. as for their prompt fidelity in giving reports of events or changes as soon as they can be truthfully re ported. While we regard the despatoh as entirely reli able, it is neeatess to add that until It is confirmed and carried out by actions and results there will be and should be no intermission or relaxation of our preparations, which have progressed rapidly and favorably for several days. TUB SOUTH MARTINO FOR BLOOD The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says: " Information has jot been received in this city of the most important character from Montgomery. The Southern Administration know that the eva cuation of Forts Sumpter and Plokens has been do-: oided on. Despatches from General Beauregard represent that it would be utterly impossible Tor any united force that the Administration at Wash- I ington could collect to prevent the surrender of ' Major Anderson before the lapse of many weeks. Despatohes froth Washington have also assured the Montgomery Government tbat no attempt at re. internment will be made, and that the troops of the United States will be aeon withdrawn. .Presi dent Davie has, however, received the most ominous communication from his friends bore, respecting the 'intentions of the Litcoin Administration to blockade Southern ports, and make an attempt to collect the revenue. lie is assures that the most strenuous end active measures are being taken to concentrate the naval forces of the North, and that not only Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans and Mobile will be blockaded—Forts Pickens, Jeffer son, and Taylor reinforoed—but that, if necessary, vessels will be chartered to keep up as active a surveillance as possible of all parts of the coast, where there are ports of entry, between South Carolina and the Rio Clrande. The indignation that prevails at Montgomery and elsewhere, in view of this prospective attempt to carry out the threats in Mr. Lincoln's inaugu ral, knows no bounds. Cabinet meetings have been held, and it has been resolved, at the first appearance of hostilities, or just so soon as a single vessel has been stopped outside of any Southern port, to put the whole available force of the South in motion, and to march through the Border States upon Washington. Fifty thousand troops eau be collected without difficulty, and, so far from any opposition being apprehended from Vir ginia, Maryland, and North Carolina, it is be lieved that the people will rally to reinforce the invading army, and assist them with arms as well as sympathy. " ANOTHER SIDE TO THE STORY OF TWIGGS. The New Orleans Delta, says Nor can the Government at Washington com plain of the slightest deception or evasion of duty on the part of the General. The facts show, in deed, that it was that Government which dodged the responsibility, and felled to take steps to maintain its power in Tomas. The General in command repeatedly warned the Government thqt Texas would secede, and asked for instructions as to the course to be pursued in that event. He re ceived none. Loft with two small companies at Ban Antonio, he was surrounded by over a thou sand of the'best armed troops in the world, who demanded hie surrender of the post. His soldiers were quartered in houses, with no fort, or even a walled enclosure to retreat to, with no prospect of reinforcement; and no means of communteating with any other post. Under these circumstances, to offer any resistance would have been the most criminal folly and rashness. It would have called down on the veteran officer the bitter reproach and denunciation of the civilized world. His Ca pitulation was, therefore, made qi terms honorable alike to himself, and to the Stiffe of TOM which demanded it. A VIROINTAN'S OPINION OF MISSAL SCOTT Since John M. Daniel returned to the editorial chair of the Richmond Examiner, that meteoric sheet has burned blue with vituperation. The latest diatribe is aimed at Gen Scott : "The infamy of this man constitutes no small portion of the crushing load of shame under which Virginia is now struggling. She gave birth to this unnatural monster. She has heaped honors and rewards upon this - war mandarin of the Abolition. Pets That Scott was born in Virginia is a misfor tune which cannot be remedied ; but there are means by 1010 the State may brand him with the marks of her indignant scorn. The treason of Arnold swallowed up and effaced all recolleotion of his long deeds of valor and patriotism, and his name was blotted from the list of our Revolution. ary General& The Legislature of Virginia should expunge from their journals every resolution ex preFaive of Virginia's confidence, respect, and ad miration for this man. We should offer to pity him a pecuniary oonaideration fifty times their value, if necessary, for the module and swords which we gave him when he was esteemed a worthy and grateful son of the Old Dominion, and the now dishonored name of Scott should no longer be borne by one of our counties," LATEST FROM MONTGOMERY (Bimetal despatch to the New York Tributie.l MONTGOMERY, MRTOII 13, 1861 The news from Washington- is considered un satisfactory. The surrender of Sculptor is not suf ficient, The slaves hero are universally regarded as an element of military power rather than of weakness No fears are: ntertained of their insur rection, The Alabama Convention has ratified the permanent Constitution of the Confederacy by a large majority. The tariff of the Confederacy, as reported by the committee of Congress, ' proposes to levy duties as follows : Distilled spirits, wines, manufac tured tobacco, and glass, 25 per cent ; fancy arti cles generally, 20 per cent. ; malt liquors earthen ware, iron.. copper, wood, oottons, hemp, , flax. and substantial manufactures, 15 par Cent ; coal, drugs, jewelry, woollens, and iron rails, 10 per cent. ; lee. $2 per ton ; sailingyessels, steamers, munitions of war, arms, works of art, traders' tools, beef, pork, flour, corn, and coffee, free. AN initsriressinLE CONFLICT AT MONTGOMERY A letter from Itiontopmery records an Irrecon cilable difference of ainnion in tha traitor Con grass upon the slave trade. The new Constitution seems to leave the business untouched. The letter writer says : It is now feared that the blovernment will pass no law for the prohibition and punishment of the stave trade. True, the Congress did manage to compromise upon a law against the traffic, by de nominating the crime a high misdemeanor, and making its punishment trilling but even this, I learn, the President has wffely..oonoluded to veto, though the fact is kept, like everything, until it leaks out. What his reasons for a veto were, am unable to say ; and I behave the Congress is un able to pass the bill over hie veto, on account of the diversity of sentiment among its members. The pro- slave trade man are nutuoroue, and I doubt not could successfully manage to draw on their aide a little over one-third of the whole. That is enough, and thus the matter must rest for the present." THE BRITISH CONSULATE AT CHARLESTON The London News of the 20th ult. says c A ooPy of the following letter from her Mejoety's consul at Charleston, reporting the reopening of the main channel to the harbor of that port, was received at Lloyds to-day from the Admiralty : BRITISH CONSULATB, CHARLISTON. February 1, 1861. Mr LORD: With reference to my letter of the 11th ult., in which I had the honor to acquaint your lordship that the de _rack+ authorities of the State of Senth Carolina had closed the various channels leading into this barber, with the excep tion of Malt's Channel, I have now the satisfac tion to report that the main or ship channel is again open and available for vessels drawing six teen feet of water. I regret to add that the light house, beacons, lightship, and buoys, alluded to in my letter of the Sd ult,, have PO yet beau re lighted or replaced. ROB'S. BURCH, Conant - To the Secretary of the Admiralty. HOW TO NQTrIP AN AUNT it is g,enerally understood that all the forts, ar senals, arms, and munitions of war, restudy so- Oiled iron the United States, will be tamed over, at owe, to the Confederate Government. Thla TWO CENTS. will enable the President of the Confederate States to arrange complete plane for the defence. .Torre are over 12.000 stand of arms at Mount Vernon, a. large quantity of powder, ball, and shells, and at- Fort Morgan an immense quantity of munitions of war, .to. These, together with the munitions taken at Pensacola, In Louisiana, in Texas, and other player!, when turned over to th e Confederate Governmen t, will, ills thought, be amply sufficient for the complete equipment of the Provisional Army of the South: A COMPLIMENT TO SCOTT The Florida Sentinel, published et Tallahassee : thug compliments Oen. Scott: " Our indignationi Oentempt u and abhorrence of this plebeian demagogiie (Lincolnr are only equal led by what we feel for his friend and adviser, the traitor to the home of his birth, the jackass in po litics, and Jupiter in vanity,' Lientenant-General Winfield Scott. If there be - not • some chosen muse, some hidden thunder in the 'tore of heaven,' to blast this wretch who nausea his country's ruin, the curses of unborn mtilione will