--- THE PRESS. rIIBLISLIED DAILY, (SUNDAYS ERGICPTSD,) 33V JOEEN W voiarvy, mous NO. 417 CRESTNUT ATRIUM'. PA 1.1.,Y PR.IESS, priLV s I;INTS PER Wu, payable to the Carrir Milled to Subscribers out of the City at Btx Dow A' f o peril, Foot Domini 101 Mani m, Akite Dose Poizsas FOR SIX 7V.ONTlli—javarialpA* tit ed. 4 "its , coce for tho time ordered. TRI-virsziu,y rims,- ilted s to osaribers ont of the City "" I ' w _ i AM pis Artrititt, in ammo. .- al lfilawn Den. - _ • 1,1, I DiElltY GOODS., SP RING 1861. 0 6 . 1ti.13140N - S. ai r; it9s - NET SILICH. LACES, CRAPES. 1.,1,1 1, Sit'or46. STRAW GOODS, AND BONNET FRAMES, 3 ,, io satil 'rank', and at PRICES TO BRIT THE TIMES SIMON STERN.; (Successor to Stern & Cook•) 726 CHESTNUT STREET, CA SPRING. 1861. ROSENILEINI, BROOKS, & CO., NO. 43/ MARKET STREET, North ride, Sear Firth, invite the sttentiott for buyers to their LARea AND 'HANDSOME ITAIIISTISO 01 fiEBBC)NS. FLO wERS, STRAW AND FANCY BONNETS , 'WREN AND CHILDREN'S BATS AND FLATS, SHARER HOODS, RUCHES, AND ARTICLES AFTERTAINING TO THE MILLINERY LINE. Jim :nt FRENCH FRAMES, FEENCIT FLOWERS, STRAW GOODS ria; LATEST STYLES CONSTANTLY RE CEIViNG. THOS. KENNEDY & BRO. NO. 729 CHESTNUT etroet,beiclr ETGETIL a .9.3 m BEDDING. BEDDING STORE /40. 44 North TENTH !Street. below Arch. BEDS, FEATHERS. iii.iITTRESSES, BLANKETS, COMFOR TABLES, QUILTS, CUSHIONS, SACKINGS, ( q- Andel other Articles belonging to the Business. usli.lll-3rn AMOS allt•BOBII. SEWING MACHINES. WHEELER & WILMON SEWINU MACHINES. PRIMES 'REDUCED, NOVEMBER laru, MO. fell Sol 192/§ CHESTNUT Street. Second Floor. 11ARRIS' BOUDOIR SEWING MACHINE. Igq. I—FOR FAMILY USE. Mn. 2—A NEW MACHINE. FOR QUIVERS ARP HEAVY WORK. amn sew from two spools without the trouble of re 'a maim and runs withlittle or no noise. For sale at No. 700 ARCH Street. Philadelphia. MA tin. :3 BALTIMORE St.. Baltimore. Md. nal3-11m CABINET FURNITURE. rABOTET FURNITURE AND BIL WARD TABLES. MOORE 40 CAMPION. No, SOI SOUTH SECOND STREET, in connection with their exteruOve Cabinet Buniness, am now manufacturing gs dditiolOr article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on hand a fell supply. finished with MOORE CARPION'S imritovED CUSHIONS, vunh are pronounced. by all who have used them, to he vovertor to all others. For the quality and finish of thee! Table! the MUM. facturars refer to their numerous patron! thrOgghOUt the Moon. who are familiar with the OhalrbOter OI their work. fe2l6-im REMOVAL. W. & IT. ALLEN & BRO.; itopeetfnlly inform their fnende and customer; that the r hove removed from No. 940 South SECOND Street to their NEW STORE, 1209 011E9 TNUT STA.Z.B.T, where they will hove ailwigs on Lead i flith sompirmint 'I ROSEWOOD, WALNUT, AND OAK FURNITURE; whnsh they will sell at lees than their former prieen, in ^eusessonoo of harms greater facilities for busmen's et'l twine under tem enclose. They The peethilly molted a call before "archaising iese-am LOOKING GLASSES. LOOKING CLASSES. Now daily exhibiting and completing new and eaten otyleo of LOOKING-GLASSES, Omutkinms all the latest imerovementa and facilities in isannfecture. Great novelties m Walnut and Gold and Ronewood and Gobi Frames for IdIRROIIB. The most extensive and 'varied assortment in the (maths: JANES E. BARU & BON, KARLES'• GALLERIES, inia-tf 816 CREWE= STREET. PAPER HekI9GINGB. PAPER HANGINGS. ROWELL & BOTjEtitr.., ft. owner of FOURTH sod BILILEXHT If treats mmenrkeyonias ay PAPER HANGINGS, BORDERS, FIRE SCREENS, WINDOW-CURTAIN PAPS-- I C. Ain/143(m hand, a large and ELEGANT STOCK ffOoDS, from the FINEST COLD PAPER to the LOWEST PRICED ARTICLES. In our RETAIL DEPARTMENT will be found THE NEWEST STYLES OF THE SEASON. mh2-2m BANKING. MICIIENER & Co., BANKERS, No. 50 SOUTH THIRD STREET. TIME PAPER 13(EGOTIATED• CObLEcTIONS 01,E UNtOlt ALL -ACCESSIBLE TAN TB STOGIES AND BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION Uneurrent Bank Notes bought at the lowest Mae of Dismount. Drone for We on England and Ireland, (ma-W*lM AUGUST RELMONT & CO., BANKERS, M) WALL STREZT, NEW YORK, Ilene eiders of credit to travellers, available in sd etch; at Europe, through the Memo. Rotheoluld of Pa nr. London, Frankfort, liselee, Vienna, and their nor otanden a COAL OIL. SUBTERRANEAN COAL OIL, unequalled for Illuminating and LUBRICATING PURPOSES. rlua thl to beautifully white, entirely free from any unrigagant odor, is non-engin:dye. and burns with a beautiful bright and white flame. Warranted in ea, oases to give satiefaotion. Mennfaotared and for Rain by GEO. W. WOOTTEN, Itaas-im 39 sou* SECOND Street, rhis.4oiolll4l HARDWARE. nOORE. HENSZET. & 00. ARE NOW MINIM THEIR SPRING--STOCK OF HARDWARE, T hi V n MET. and 416 COMMEXCE .117REET . . . ~ . . • A . ~. . ... . . . . . _ . - O\A \ 1 r,' ,4 X ' .-. _ -.; :•. . • ** A* . . t. --0" . ,' o • ' I, - . : . .. . . . ' ' '' ( ' ' (7 4 r 2; ‘ .. . 11.... . ~...;., 7 - • - -,,r7:,. l'l'ljl' l llliiH.s.r: \ :l ‘s‘-l . 'l l lll-4;11 : ,, / . 1 ..... 1 .,.. :( 11 84 -,--- - :- . '1:::11:-- ::''1:":'7:::'*-14:7117---) - - -.--. - ; -.0.1,\ ,-. ' - -., : i, , -.._- .. ri.--L--„ , ,,,, , ,:,..----;r at r.' . .7-,:.--;•,,I,;: r; , :-...:- • -•— , f, . ... . -...,... / 7 ..., .; :-..„: .. • ~ ~„ . . . 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IikkOETERS AND JOBBERS DR Y Goons, NO. 47 14014TICTRIRD STREET, PRILABILTRIA, Merchants visiting this city to purchase Dui GOODS will find our Stock large and admirably assorted, and at Low. FIGURES. In certain classes of Goods we offer inducements to purchasers unequalled by any other house in Philadelphia. mhlB-2m JAMES, KENT, SANTEE, 80 CO-, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS 01, DRY GOODS, kW& 239 AND 241 NORTE THIRD •STREET, ABOVE RACE, Respeotfully invite the attention of GASH AND SHORT TIME BUYERS, ' To their nintel LARGE AND COMPLETE STOOK OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS, Among which will be found full lines of BATES' MILLS AND NAD OK. COMPACOMPANY'SCOT TOES. Also, a LARGE VARIETY Or NNW AND CONFINBD STYLIS or PRINTS, MERRIMACK S ECOIPDS , CHAFFEES, STOUT & Co, 4:MS MARKET STREET, JOI3BERIS IN FOREIGN AND DOMEOTIO DRY GOODS:. Our stook being FRESH ANC COMPLETE, we are enabled to ore' . extra inaneesnaioa to CASH AND PROMPT-PAYING. MERCHANT& Or Stook kept up throughout the season, and specie attention given to melees. nth*lm SPRING, 1861. BENJAMIN V. MARSH, Harms ardmanlr, 1/WW/8 W. ROTWADD , RICHARD WOOD. BllleD Y. Towilesitn, ar.rnao H. FOsTEA. R. WOOD, MARSH, & HAYWARD, importers and Wholesale Dealers in DRY (loops AND CLOTHING, mh23-ini No. 309 hd&RICET street, Phihsdelphia. SPRING 1861. 11'..1 1 . WAY 4100., • -- n salmi THLIU SINNET. . - IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS Or DRY GOODS. • OUR STUCK IS UNUSUALLY LARGE . AND SWF= COMPLETE. SPRING GOODS, 1861. ABBOTT. ,T(-)kiNV-s Be CO are 5.04,; 527 MARKET STREET, AND 094 COMMERCE STREET. Have nor open their NEW IMPORTATION or tHIAS AND TANDY DRY GOODS, whieh they invite the &Heinen of the trade. YARD, errIALIMORE: & CO. Are now in their Kew Store. JAYNE'S MARBLE BUILDING, NOS. SIT CHESTNUT ADD .614 JAYNE SIREE'I, PHILADELPHIA, and have opened their SPRING IMPORTATION OF SILKS FANCY DRY GOODS. ALSO, DRESS GOO1)S. IN GREAT VARIETY, SHAWLS, MITTS, RIBBONS, With a splendid Stook of WHITE GOOD!, LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, Ae. fel4-2m SPRING, 1861, WURTS, AUSTIE, ac 'IoVEIGH, IMPORTISKA AND JOUNEDA - DRY GOODS, No. 11 MARKET STREWN, Ahoy* Third, PHILAZILPHIA. Charles Warta, Henry_ Aladin, Hamilton T. oValli', John B. Wenner, Jonah Huron. frWPm WHITEY BROWN AND BLEAOHED SATIN TABLE DAMASK, CALLED 8 4, 94, AND 10:4 WIDE. I would gay to the. Dry. Goods Merchants Quits after ten yeane experiment. I have succeeded in producing an article of WHITEY BROWN TABLE DAMASK, fe36-6m* thit will in even reeved compare in WIDTH, STYLE, FINISH, AND DURABILITY with the imported, and at fifteen cents per Yard lea. A simple of these good. 'can be NOM at Wm, Watson & Bangs & Maxwell's, Stuart & Bro's, Philadel phia. or at my pleas, Frankford. Any person can have 200 DOLLARS, or a case Of feeds *Mont eat, who on calling at the above places, will show that he can ./MOOrt.in the regalar way , =oh goods, or goods that will compare with them, for lea' than fifteen muds per yard more than theme are offered for, I would Bay to the trade that this is the first season I have hrA such goods. JOHN CLENDENNING, apn. St FRANKFORD. 'EL MADE BY THE RAPPITER; Ain) ADAMS' Cat KiEvittri s orit CHUBETTO 115rszFxr9cry. AT BERT --O: -ROBERTS. DEALER IN EINE GROCER' E CORNER ELEVENTH AND VINE IS win; - - NOi GROCERIES. DRY-GooDm JOBBERS. 1861. DALE, ROSS ; &. T,Nrs DALE, ROSS, & WITHERS, NO. 521 MARKET STREET, Rave now oven their full SPRING IIVIPORTA.t'IONS OP SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS. The attention of CASH BUYERS is espeoially mh2o-2m RAIL UEL, A/10 0M & Cm ; NO. 220 & 222 NORTH THIRD STIMET, • Are now Mining their weal large awsortment of PRENOII, BRITISH. GERMAN, & DOMESTIC/ DRY GOODS, To whioh the attention of CASH AND SHORT-TTMF. BUYERS Is PARTICULA.BLY INVITID. nth.l6-Im, SPRING OPENING OF CLOTHS, CANIMERES, VESTINOS, LAD I 14 1 .5' CLOAKING-8, And el! goods muted to MEN. AND BOYS' WEAR, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, C. SOMERS & SOWS, ODS CHESTNUT Street, under JAYNE'S HALL. mh6-Ern COMMISSION HOUSES WELLING. COFFIN. & Co., No. 1116 CHESTNUT STREET, AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF DURRELL SIFO. CO,' PRINTS AND LAWNS. GREENE MPG. 00. TURKEY RED AND STAPLE PRINTS. Fine Bleached Cottons. LONSDALE ROPE, BLACKSTONE. SLATERS VILLE, JAMESTOWN. BED BANK, GREENE, vruort, AND 'BELVIDERE. Brown Cottons. ETHAN ALLEN, MT. HOPE, FREDONIA.% ET TRICK, OHIO, GROTON, VIRGINIA. FAMILY AND MECHANICS' AND FARMERS'. GRAFTON, SLATERBVILLE, AND JEWETT CITY DE.PTIMS - AND STIIIP ES. LONSDALE CO.'S NANKEENS AND SILESIAS. GLASGOW CORSET JEANS. BOTTODILEY'S BLACK AND BLENHAM CO.'S FANCY MI'Y'RD CLOTHS. • STEARNS AND SAXTON'S RIVER CASSIMERES. GREENFIELD CO: BLACK DOESKINS. ' RODMAN% FINE JEANS, DOUBLE AND TWISTED CASSIMERES, NEGRO CLOTHS. ecc. MINOT. BASS RIVER. CRYSTAL SFICINGS,"!CH_E SHIRE, BRIDGEWATER, AND BRISTOL SATINETS. SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUI'OOII4I3ON, NO. 112 OH.ESTRUT ST., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOR THE SALE OF PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. mh2l4m CARPETINGS. NoTigE, The laurtrierehiP heretofore existing between SAMU EL 1.. DAILY and WILLIAM. L. DAILY, under the firm of BAILY do BROTHER, was themolved, on the Oth ultimo. by therdecesse of WILLIAM L. BAILY, The business of the late Firm will be settled by the surviving partner. CARPET STOCK, SELLING - pUT, NO. 920 CHESTNUT STREET. In order to close up the bmeness of the late Firm BAMY & BROTHER, THEIR LARGE AND FRESH STOCK OF FINE CARPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS, &c., WILL BE OFFERED FOR BALE AT REDUCED PRICES. Housekeepers and Storekeepers will Lad it to thei nterest to call, as every article wilt be offered 'low ape-stathlm. FOURTH. STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE, No. 47, ABOVE CRESTNIIT. I am now opening an entirely new :and carefully en acted !took -of IMPORTED AND AMERICAN CARPETING'S, embracing au desonnlions sad some 'superb &sigma And patterns. all of Thigh. bolus purohseed at preesut depre's'sed *flees for CASH, I am prepared to Bell VERY LOW. sad respectfully solioit an examination before pur ohming elsewhere. 3. T. DELACTROIX. mhl-ta th IM-2m NeCALLUM & CO., CARPET MANUFACTURERS, GLEN EURO MILLIS, GERMANTOWN lELPORTERS AND DEALERS IN CARPETING, OIL CLOTHS, ROOS, dcts, WAREHOUSE, 409 CRESTNUT STREET, - OVPOSITZ TEX ISTA:TZ 801:161. FRESH CANTON MATTING. J. F. & E. B. ORNE, .f7-c•r; OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE, Have now open their SPRING IMPORTATIONS OF DOUBLE EXTRA IMPERIAL WHITE. PURPLE, and RED CHECKED CANTON MATTING IN ALL THE DIFFERENT MOTHS, AT MODERATE PRICES J. F. & E. B. ORNE, mikle-Ste OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE• AA ROH-STREET CARPET Ja- WARE HOUSE. OLDEN & RICiCNER, NO. MB ARCH STREET. 2 Doom below NINTH* Biwa now In Store a splendid stook _OF ENGLISH AP O )? t i ralasfga; ,. CIARPETINGS, Bought at PANIC r.,lolll,and• 1411 be sold VERY LOW FOR GASH.. tgrearpetinge io per cent. shearer than any house the trade. aplo-bn FLOOR OILC.E.OTILS. AUSTIN BROWN. WHOLESALE DEALER IN FLOOR OIL-CLOTHS, no largest stook by three times in Philadelphia* PRICES LOW. Atti0.1.64 North THIRD "STREET. (upstairs.) reb337lm. 1111:EV;triiiiiillAVIIER;, 1141 ;RIEt Awl MOW> atur getfaleety WatAlphoo k er - A aird phOtoiteph of the eboVe- -, etre htoALbitsTaltikcsitOTHElt. ele-3t - Thtfbcilftteittrr..ettoot. . , PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL II;1861. GENTS' IFERNISIIING GOODS. THE LATEST STYLES SEVENTH & CHESTNUT, SEVENTH ec CHESTNUT, SEVENTH & CHESTNUT_ THE CRAVAT STORE. THE CRAVAT STORE. THE CRAVAT • STORE. THE CRAVAT STORE. ntbta-tuth&ed HOMES FOR THE IN DITSTRIOVS, TAB ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY MECTIANiOS, FARMERS, AND WORKING MEN The attention of the enterprising and industrious portion of the oommunity re directed to the following statements and liberal inducements offered them by the ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD DOMPANV, Whioli, m they will perceive, will enable them. by groper energyipereeverance, and industry, to jgovide comfortable and permanent homes for themtalaii l families, with, oomnaratiyely Boosting, T Cry little ospi. tel No State bi the valley of the IYlisedssippi offers so great an indstoement to the settler as the State of Illi nois. There is no portion of the world where all of the conditions of climate and soil so eidmirablx combine to prodnoe those two great staples, corn and wheat, as the prairies of Illinois. RICH ROLLING PRAIRIE LANDS. The deep rich loam of the prairies is cultivated with uoh wonderful facility that the fanners of the East ern and Middle States are moving.to nilllloiD m great numbers. The area of Illinois is about equal to that of England, and the soil is so rioh that it will support twenty !pillions of people. These lands are oontignode to "a railroad seven hun dred miles in length, whiolt counsels with other roads and navigable lakes and rivers, thee efibrding an an broken'oommunioation with the Eastern and southern markets. APPLICATION OF CAPITAL. - Thus far capital and labor have been applied to de veloping the soil; the great resources of the state in coal and iron are almost untouched. The invariable rule that the meal/auk arts flourish best Where food and fuel are cheapest, will follow at an early day in Il linois, and in the course of the next ten rears the natu ral lawn and n0088531:6 of the 9640 'warrant the belief that at least five hundred thousand people will be en gaged in the State of Illinois in the various manufac turing employments. Over $100,000,000 of private capital have been ex pended on the railroad ttystem of Illinom. Inasmuch se part of the income from several of them works, with a valuable public fund in lands, go to diminish the State expenses, the taxes are light, and must consequently every day decrease. The State debt ie only 010,106,398 14, and within the last three years has ',been reduced $2,9 15 917 4 6 80; and we may reasonably expect that in ten years it will be come extinct. • ' The emu!' is rapidly filling up with population; 869.07 E Damon. having been added eince 18150, making the pie neat porilationl,ll9,496--a ratio of 102 per oent. Iri tan 'Para The agnoultural prodnote of Dhows are greater than those of any other State. The produota sent out dur ing the past,year exceeded 1.500.000 tons. The wheat 'crop of 1&) avproookos 3640001000 buoholat while the own crop inside not less than 140,060000 bnohelz. Nowhere can the industrious farmer mecum such im mediate results for his labor as upon these prairie /toils. they being composed of a deep, rich loam, the fertility of which is unsurpassed by any on the globe. TO ACTUAL CULTIVATORS. Since 1804 the Company have sold 1,300.000 acres. They se/2 may to actual cultivators, and every contract contains an agreement to cultivate. The road has been constructed through these lauds at an expense of ,839,- 000000. Ix PM, the population of the forty-nine eoun fists through which it paeses was only 335,598, since which 69,293 have been added, making the whole poPtt lation 814,891—a gain of 143 par cent. EVIDENCES OP PROSPERITY. MATTING, THE LATEST STYLES THE LATEST_ STYLES THE LATEST STYLES THE LATEST STYLES SPRING SCARFS, SPRING SCARFS: SPRING SCARFS, SPRING SCARFS_ SPRIN G SCARFS, SPRING SCARFS. SPRING SCARFS, SPRING SCARFS, f SPRING SCARFS, SPRING SCARFS, 'l, AT ESHLEMAN'S, r, AT ESHLEMAN'S, AT ESHLEMAN'S, AT ESHLEMAN'S, AT ESHLEMAN'S, NORTHWEST CORNER NORTHWEST CORNER NORTHWEST CORNER No. 701. 41 , No. 701. No. 701.'"" - No. 701. No. 701. No. 701.. No. 701. No. 701. ILLINOIS LARD. IN THE 6ARDNN STATE. OF THE WEST. Have for Bale 1,200,000 ACRES OP RICH FARMIN4 LANDS TRACTS OP FORTY ACRES 'AND UP7r,AEDI ON LONG CREDIT AND AT LOW FRIONA. LANDS OF ILLIPIOIS. EASTERN AND SOUTHERN MARKETS, RAILROAD SYSTEM OF ILLINOIS: THE STATE DEBT PRESENT POPULATION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS FERTILITY OF SOIL - - Ai an evidence of the thrift of the people, it may be stated that 600.000 tone of freight, =eluding 8,600.000 busheM of grain and 5N1,040 barrels of flour, were for warded over the line bet year. EDUCATION. Meobanies and workingmen will find the free-sohool erstem encouraged by the. State and endowed with a large revenue for the support of sohoole. Their chil dren oaa live in eight of the church and eehool home, and grownp with the'prosperity of the leading. Mete in the Great Weetern Empire. PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT. The prises of thee. lands vary from 416 to $25 per sore, according to location, quality, tee. First-class fanning lands sell for about 1/110 or $l2 per acre ; and the relative expense of subduing prairie land, as com pared withwood land, is in the ratio of one to ten in fa vor of the former. The terms of sale for the bulk of these landswill be ONE VELEM INTEREST IN ADVANCE. at six per cent. per annum. and sm interest notes at KIX per cent. payable respectively in one, two, three, four, five, and six years from date 'of sale: and four notes for principal, payable in four, five. six. and seven years from date of sale; the contract stipula ting that one-tenth of the tract purchased shall be fenced and cultivated, each and every year for five years from the date of sale, so that at the end of five years one-half slutll be feneed and under cultivation. TWENTY PER CENT. WILL BE .DEDUCTED from the valuation for cash, amulet the same should be at six dollars per acre when the cash price will be five dollars. Pamphlets descriptive of the lands, soil, climate, Productions, prices. and terms of payment ,oan be hod on application to J. W. FOSTER, Land Commissioner, Illinois Central Railroad, Chieare; Illinois. For the Tomes of the towns ' villages, and cities situ sled upon the Illinois Central Railroad, see pages 133 139, glad 199 Appleton's Runway Guide. fel-tath&JAnt JEWELRY, &c. IFINE WATCH REPAIRING. pERSONS HAVING FINN WATORES = 'that have hitherto given no satisfaction to the 111616116, are invited to brine them to our store. where all degeota can be remedied br thoroughly akillat and scientific workmen, and the watoh warranted to give entire eatisfaction. Mantel Clocks, Musical Boxes, &a., carefully put in complete order. FARR & BROTHER, Importers of Watches. Musical Boxes. Cloolos. &0.. ag4-3m 324 CHESTNUT Street. below Fourth. COAL. HOUSEKEEPERS, LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST !—BUY YOUR COAL at RICKS!, where nothing but tho very-beet Lehigh nod Oohuyitiu Mal is offered at the %Bonn reduced moms ; Lehittiorora, RE!. and 0tra—.........4.76pari0n. W rirr ria . _ N t l ei t"— freeli n 4;i n a ' aluiVilitiaVeight, at Ilitr Yard, southeast corner or M ARSHALL are wr LOW. call and See. VILE DIANII.FACITORY, all- NEW , STRET. • Flies-and' of _ovary- desoriotion, and good axiality. madis-t4 _OA! HI, at the above establishment. ROZWALIE and' RETAIL+, at mann/halogen pines. .Redlitting done in a superior manner. api-deco J. S. SMITH. ijt Vrtss. TIIUR O DAY, APRIL 11,:1861 Notices of New Books. The presenoe of a goodly number of new books upon our table gives us the hest assurance that the publishing business is recovering its vitality. Among these are several new editions, some re_ prints from Boglish, and a few original Work& *e_shail take them it they are twit to hand, with out patting to &Milder what order of precedence each may be entitled to. CLEVELAND'S COMPENDIUM OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE Professor C. D: Cleveland, " a scholar and a ripe onal 6 'suitably follows up his oicellent Compen :diums of English and American Literature, by a similar volume, (6i2 pages, 12m0,) comprising .6hOier extracts, translated from' the best I2kree'k aed Roman writers, with biographical sketches, .achounte of their works, and notes directing to! :the best editions and translatiOns. - Thttt snob a book has long- and pressingly been- re qnired is: Weil known, bat the Alitheelty was to havg it prOporly, executed by a competent perm, Who should: be at once a good scholar and a sound critic. Mr.: Cleveland, as his work shows, is cer tainly, that person. The Greek authors, of whom epeohnens, with brief bat suffloient biographical notes, are given here, are those from Homer to Bonginue : the Latin authors extend from Plautus to Bathing, who flourished in the fifth century. Mr. Cleveland deals with each author in the following manner ; First, he gives a biographical sketch; next an account of and discriminatory aritieisto upon his principal productions; then he refers to the various editions and translations, particularly designating the best published in modern times ;.lastly, he gives specimens, selected with judgment and taste, from the best translations —going as far back as George Chapman, Ben Jon. eon, and the elder scholars, and doming down even to Moore, H. H. Coleridge, Cheney, and Balm's. In all cases the names of the translators are given, and, where armory, foot-aetae are ap pended. Moreover, a comprehensive Index com pletes the work, which is embellished with a por trait of the Editor—a handsome, expressive, in tellectual face--as frontispiece. [The edition for the public, we believe, does not °imitate' this por , trait, which is exoluaively given in the copies in tended for Professor Cleveland's pupils, among Whom we are pleased. to think he allows us honorary status ] There are orowda of people, everywhere, who bad no opportunity of learning even " little Latin endless Greek " in their youth, yet now desire to have general and correct idea of the writings of the Classical authors. For these, zioveespeoially, this Compendium is the very in. itruotor required. It is a handsomelpprinted book, too, and ought to find a plates itposi library. tables and book-shelves. .Published by E. C. and J. Biddle, Co., of this city. LEIDY'S HUMAN ANATOMY Dr. Joseph Leidy, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator of our Academy of Natural Sciences, (membership in which is aooepted as equivalent to belonging to the Royal Society of England or the Institute of Pratte%) has just given to the world, through J. D. Lippincott. 43s - Co a handsome GT° volume of 418 it pages, entitled "An Elementary Treatise of Hu,. man Anatomy." This is one of the handsomest professional works we have ever seen. The typo graphy and paper are extra good, and the inns tenting, of which there are neerlyfour hundred, ere "brought up" (to use a technicality) as dimly as if they were simply for ornament, instead of tieing, as they are, for practical utility. Profes set Leidy States, in his brief and modest preface, that this IS an . flonenter , ry treatise on human tuti4 Wray, and not an elaborate system adapted to the use of those who bave already advanced in anato rnical knowledge., lie has prepared oxeetly such a book as would hive been of servicelo hiniself in the commencement of his studies. He adds “Much of the difficulty, of which we hear constant complaint, in the acquisition and retention of ana tomical knowledge, arises from an excessive, and, in some respects, objectionable nomen clature. -Not only has the naming of com paratively unimportant parts been carried to. an extreme, bat, in numerous instances, the came parts ',are designated by a multitude of names, Whirl - are indisorlmimately used by different writers. The nomenclature of anatomy has been faurided on no ; vac:attar 'System, the mum having been chosen:wording to the fancy of anatomists, from the shape, lunation, or map posed' resemblance of the part, or in commemora tion of the original investigator. In some Mea sure to avoid the difficulty to whioh we refer, the author has adopted the plan Of generally: using a single mama for each part # of the many names em ployed, to use that which is most' expreasiftref the character of the part, and, when admissible, the name is anglieised. A copier's synonymy is added, in footnotes, which may be found useful for future refer/meg." This is no mere boast, but plain•faet, There never was a . clearer and simpler text-book of Human Anatomy than this. Its concentration, without running into obscurity, is remarkable. No point is omitted—no point diffusely dwelt upon, TO crown all, there is a good Index. Many of the drawings (principally eagraved by August Wil helm, a young artist in this city) are original— made by Dr. Leidy-himself, or by - his friend Dr. H. D. Sehroidt, favorably known for his anatomical investigations. The book will still farther exalt the reputation of Philadelphia as a great school of surgery and medioine. - MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENOLAND,VoI.V. E. H. Butler Zs Co., of this city, have just brought out an ootavo edition of the new and closing volume of Maeitulay's History, to match their library edition of the former volumes. It is handsomely printed, with good type, on excellent paper, and extends to 304 pages. The Index, at the end, to each of the five returnee separately, isnot so convenient as one Index for all, which wo lately no ticed as one of the advantages of Messrs. Harper's 12mo edition. A Boston house, we understand, also have an edition in hand. Messrs. Butler have bad the preceding four volumes corrected from the text of Macauley's last edition (seven volumes post Svo.) which vont:bine some additional matter, chiefly in defence of his attacks npon William Penn and the boottish nation. They also claim the credit Of stria adherence to the English mode of spelling the English language. LOCKHART'S LIFE OF SCOTT Uniform with their Household Edition of the Waverley Novels—in size, paper, printing, bind. ing, and engravings Ticknor and Fields, of Boa. ton, have commenced a new edition of Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, to be complited in nine volumes, two of which will be issued *vary month. This Life will contain several biographi cal notes .not inelwied in the Edinburgh copy. Volumes 1 and 2 from the first instalment, just published. The illustrations consist of portraits of John Gibson Lockhart, Scott's son-in-law and bi ographer ; of Scott himself, at the age of six ; and of his father. A memoir of Lockhart form; a suitable introduction to the main work. These two volumes, commencing' with eeott's Autobio graphy, from his birth , in 1771. to 1909, when " liarmion" made him fully famous, .give us his life up to the age of thirty-seven, and a life it is, from which would-be writers in the present day might take a lesson. It is the habit of our times to rush into print'as early as possible, but Scott, who was a student always, was actually twenty five years old before he ventured upon authorship, and then it was only as a translator of the Ger man ballads of Burger. Three years later he 'translated Goothe's play " Goetz von Berlichen gen," and, after that, ventured to compose a few original poems. His first regular book, the "Bor. der Minstrelsy," was a collection of floottish bal lade. lie was 33 when he wrote " Sir Tristram," and 34 when " The Lay of the Last Minstrel," which bad been over three years on hand, was pub lished. " Marnrion," which did not appear until he was 37 years old, may be said to have caused the culmination of hie success, and Scott was close upon 45 when ,4 Waverley" renewed the brightness of his fame. This Life of Scott. whi,h is to our time what Boswell's Johnson was to the literati and literature of the last century, will be read, in this new and beautiful edition, with great interest by a new generation. LIFE OF MAJOR JOHN ANDRE Of this work, published by Ticknor aod of Boston, we do hut make mere mention now, as we purpose drawing from it, in a day or two, mill cleat materials for a separate article. It is a hand some 12mo volume of 471 pages, with only one great fardt—theWant of an Index, which, were we Judge in a Court of Literature, should be consi dered auctorial misdemeanor of the first class. Da full title is, ;, The Life and Career of Major John Andre, Adjutanteeneral of the British Army in America," and its, author is Winthrop Sargent, who belongs to the Keystone 'Rate, though his pre biding-plaao is far away in Adams county, Mississippi A portrait of Andre, and a map of the distriot'in ,which occurred Arnold's treason .and Sadie's' death, ere the appropriate illustra tions of this blographY. A more impartial, and, at the same time, cranriletely interesting Life, we hero rarely perused. ' ILLUSTRATIiD •WORRI L OF CHARLES DICKEN "Eliver Twist," in two roluiWes, formS s farther portion of W. A. Towneend & Co.'s new edition of Dickens, with original illustrations by American parley and English Gilbert. The books are of the size and general style of the Household Edition of the " Waverley Noyes," but with a different cha racter of binding. The whole of "Oliver Twist" is contained in two volumes,—that sad and touch ing story, in which life is so truly depicted, not in sunshine and joy, but in sin and sorrow. The moral is plain and direct, Who can forget poor Nancy —true woman as she was, even irk her degradation? Who can forget Fa& and Sykee,---Noah Clay pole and Charlotte,—Mr. Bumble and Mrs. COT ileyi—the A Will Dodger and Master Charley Estee, —Mr. Brownlow and Mr. Eirimwig, alwaye okoring to eat his own head;? They are eternal—as much so as any characters in fiction. The illustrations, engraved on steel by T. Phillibrown, are both from original drawings by Darley, and respectively re- Feeent Oliver's unwilling complicity in the bur gla7, With Sykes and Hata Toby Craekit, and his involuntary conssiottanong of the wealth possessed by that amiable old . gentleman, Mr. Fagin. Mr. John MoParlan, 33 South Sixth street, is the sole agent For this editian of Dickens, COOPER'S NOVELS, WITH DARLEY'S ILLVSTRATIONS. • Published in 1847, near the close of Mr. Cooper's career, " The Crater ; or Vulcan's Peek.; a Tale of the Paella," reminds the reader more of Ro binson Ovate, than almost any other modern fiction No account of the origin of this romance, or of the circumstances under which it was written, Is' given in that charming volume, Miss Cooper's " Pages and Pieter's," but the author evidently - Nue* his whbte heart into it. We have here the imagined story of a colony settled upon an inland in - the Pacific, the crater of an extinct volcano. Civilization and prosperity go hand in band. Even a newspaper arises, and then partisanship followa In the end, the Wooleton family, who really bad established the community, are deposed, by " the will of the People," and return home. Mark - Woolston add his household coming back to Brietol, en our own noble Delaware. lie returns to The Crater, in after days—but this inland was extinct. Just as, in 1831, Graham's Island rose in the Me diterranean, after an eruption of VOKIIViIIa, and sank bask into the sea in a few months' time. In the preface to this work Mr. Cooper distinctly de clares that the Woolston family existed in Penn sylvania when he wrote, the senior, Mark, having died, not long before, at the ripe age of threessore and. ten, having lived in Bucks county, full forty years after his return—that his wife bad followed him—but that a few of the younger members of ,the story still survive. The illustrations, all by Barley, are very fine. In the wood-cuts, especial ' ly in the tell-pieces, tepreaenting anirisallife, there is fidelity as well as spirit. The steel engravings contrast curiously—in notion and repose. The first represents a battle between the Colonists and a band of invading savages i the other, simply shows the ilerinit of the Crater, in utter solitude, except the clompartionsbip of a broWsing goat, with a wreck oh the beach, and his little canvas tent in the .haokground. Mr. S. McHenry, 406 Walnut street, is agent for this series, in this city. A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORS Here is another volume which we shall briefly notice torday, seeing that we purpose digging into it for a column or two of and about the medical profession. It is a very neat reprint of a volume recently radiated in England, where the first edition lea exhausted in a fortnight. The title simply Is " A Book about Dootors,'". and the au thor is J. Cordy JeaTreson, author of two novels, and an agreeable work entitled "Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria." The frontispiece is Hogarth's "Undertaker's Arms," Ordaining portraits of the eminent physieians or notorious quacks of the .artist's time. Ireland, who edited Hogartb, ezpressly points out Dr. P. Dod, Dr. timber, Chevalier Taylor, the ()enlist (father of be who wrote "Monsieur Tonson"), Spot Ward, a noted quack, and Mrs. Mapp, once celebrated as a bone-setter. We have read this volume attentively, and found much in it to in n:net and amuse. One ehapter, in which the career of that noted quack, the late St. John Long, is traced, we read with great interest, having had wine knowledge of the man long years ago, and can declare that Mr. Jeaffreson has set down nothing in malice. This is the best book of medi oal Ana that has yet come before us. It has one fault—it wants an Index. Published by Rudd and earloton. NeW York; supplied here by Mr. J. Me- Varian, 33 South Sixth street. PETER PARLEY'S LATEST WORE Our neighbors, E. H. Butler and 00., have published a neat volume ; with sixty wood en gsavirts, entitled 6 i The American Plato. rial History of the United States," intended for use in schools and families. It was the very last 'work of S G. Goodrich, author of " Peter Parley's Tales," and is intended to serve as an introduction to his " rietertel History of the United States." The narrative closes with a notice of the Prince of Wales' visit to• this country, last autumn. The engraviegs are of a superior character, and the history itself, though necessarily brief and rapid, omits no point of importance or interest. THE NATIONAL CONTROVERSY Redd and Carleton have issued a 12mo pamphlet of 108 pages, from the pen of the Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, entitled "The National Controversy; or, The Veins of the Fathers upon the State of the Country." The reverend author argues, more earnestly than convincingly, that the disaffection of the South is the fruit of the ill-doing of the North- His pamphlet is strongfy endorsed by the Executive Committee of the "American Society for Promoting National Unity," of 'shish Professor Samuel F. B. Morse ie president. We barely no tice the publication here, having an old-fashioned idea of the propriety of keeping politics out of this literary column. We are compelled to leave several books un• noticed, to-day, and have just space for mention of a few periodicals. The Historical Magazine, for April, opens with a jest and genial notice of the late Dr, J-. I*. Francis, which is followed by John G. Shea's ac count of Chicago from 1873 to 1725; a, sketch of Dr. Albigence Waldo, surgeon in the Continental army ; and some curious Virgrnia papers in the Privy Council Register. Next come Proceedings of Societies; a groat number of Notes, guteries, and. Replies ; Notices of books, and a column of Miscellanies. One article here, from the pen of the leading bibliophilist in America, is devoted, with great force and truth, to the condemnation of books without indexes. He quotes from Lord Campbell's preface to his Lives of the Chief Jus tices: "So essential did I consider an index be to every book, that I proposed to bring a bill into Parliament to deprive an anthor who publishes a book without an index, of the privilege of copy right; and, moreover, to submit, him for his of fence to a pecuniary penalty," and adds, " After author,' above, add or publisher,' and let snob a bill be passed at its next Legislature by every State which boasts an author, publisher, or print ing-press. What would be thought of an arehiteet who built a large house and left it without stair cases for exploration? What, then, shall be said of an author or publisher who sends a book into the world without an index?" The American Journal of ale Medical Sci ences, edited by Dr. Isaac Hays, contains, as usual, a large number of original communications, and much valuable matter selected from leading foreign journals. The Art Journal, for March, (of which W. B. Zieber is agent in this pity,) has throe engravings on steep: The Armourer, by. IL Lem from the Royal Collection; Turner's Modern Italy; and Cupid captured by Venus, from the sculptured group by G. Fontana. There aro several articles richly illustrated with first-class wood engravings, and the fourteenth part of Benson J. Lossing's "The iludson from the Wilderness to the Sea." Of the Cosmopolitan Art Journal, published quarterly, we have the first number of the fifth volume. This is the special organ of the Cosmopo litan Art Association, the annual drawing of whieh will take plane on next Thursday week, (April 18,) at Now York. The literary and art contents of this periodical are of a high order. It has reached us through Mr. T. B. Pugh, corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets, the new Agent for the Associa tion, who will issue tickets of membership up to the day of drawing. Of course, all the tickets is sued by the late agents are recognized by the Association: SMOIDE or STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER.-011 Monday night, Mr. Stephen Van Rensselaer, a member of the well-known family of the ragito name, living atAlbany, called at the drinking ea. loon kept by Elizabeth Hoyt, at No 478 Broadway, and, poisoned himself by taking laudanum. He went to the place in company with Mr. Hulse, and inviting several persons who were present to drink with him, he took a vial from his pocket and mixed the opiate with his liquor ; then remarking, "This is my last drink," he swallowed the mixture before an attempt could be made to restrain him. Dr. Quaokenboes and several other physicians were summoned as quickly as possible, but the antidotes they administered failed to ber of no, and he ex pired about four hours after taking the draught. Coronae jankman, eras notified to hold an inquest in the ease, and he gave a permit for the removal : of the body to the late residence of the deceased in Fourth avenue, near Twenty-second street. Mr. Van Rensselaer was about 35 years of age, and for some years past led a most profligate and dine - lute life An it "meat will be held upon the body to-day --N. Y. Times, yesterday. Tan camizsas . Talapoona; Ala.; have pledged themeelven to buy no goods from: mut. °hula who purehase goods in the free States.: TWO CENTS. 11 Ballo in litascfiern; ~1 1 Ballo in Maschera " (the latest, add by the dilletanti admittedly best, of Verdi's compositions) will be the first great feature of the coming sea- Son of Italian opera at the Academy of Music i being announced for prednetlon, for the first time in Philadelphia, on Tuesday evening next. This opera has almost simultaneously created an im. manse success in Paris, London, and New York— the beauty of the melodies, and enorceavz &en sembie with which the opera is freely Interspersed, and the exciting character of the plot, (Verdi is always great on plots and dramatic situations), combining to render this one of his most popular walla, There is little doubt but that in the eon atruntion of Ballo Members" Signor Verdi had in his musical Millis eye 4, thatave III.," an opera of Antler's, which enjoyed an immense amount of :popularity some twenty•Afe years , since, when an English version was produced , at ' Covent Warden Theatre, London, with aniraordi , nary success. The plot howeter is materially al tared, and the scene shifted front Sweden to (oddly enough) Boston—the period 'being the latter part of the seventeenth century, during the En g lish ' occupation. The story, _ ~ as musically and dramavt i paly. told, is carious ineLtateropig:_ itzeay.:ztot; perhaps, come up to the standard of the Puritan fathers, nor are we aware that in these days they were in the habit of giving marquoraito bale Boston ; but we will give our readers , a compressed idea of the plot, to which Verdi has wedded some most beautiful'music. Count Rzekard of Wartritck, the Governor of Boston, is introduced to' the. audience in the ze nith of his power, holding a levee and receiving • the municipal-authorities of that eity-tamong them are two Omen:anted °Mims, gatitnel and Tom, (whose surnames have, not been handed down to the pro:Mont gnu/regen t ) who are conspirators against the power and peace mind of the Count Governor.' Reinhart, the Onion's creole secre tary, and Oscar, his -page, are important perso nages, not only during the hive, but throtigh out the opera. A local judge presents a sentence, of condemnation against an unlortunate fortune teller, Ulric," by name, whom Oscar, the page, with the sympathy and pertness of his class, defends, and not only succeeds in enlisting the Count in her behalf, but ettleeeds in inducing him to, consult her macular powers in company with his vice-regal court. Amelia, the wife of Rein kart, is very improperly, but nevertheless madly, in love with the Count, and seeks Mrica for the Purpose of obtaining frani her a charm which will erase from her heart the attachment which is con suming her peace of mind. The Count unfortu nately listens to their interview, and overhears not only the confession of the lady, but the advice given her by the fortune.teller. Entering immedi ately on her departure with his suite, the Count demands an exhibition of her mysterious powers, when she predicts that he will be slain by the first man who touches his hand; laughing at the idea he gives his band to his secretary, Reinhart, and a joyousfinals concludes the act. In act second, we find the Lady Amelia alone on Boston Common ' in compliance with the direc tions given her by Mica,. She Is soon joined by the Count, who, having heard the conversation, as a gay gallant avails himself of the opportunity, The lady, alarmed by the loneliness of the spot, faints, and is caught by the Count in the not of falling. A love-scene ensues, which is interrupted by the husband, Remthart, who comes to warn the Count of a eepspiraoy against his life The lady being deeply veiled, is unknown to Reinhart, and the Count departs, first exacting a pledge from his secretary that he will not endeavor to ascertain who the lady is. The conspirators rush in, be lieving the Count is still there. Amelia;' natu rally alarmed, unwittingly salmi her veil; and lletnhart, of course, discoVers that it it his own wife, to his own horror and astonishment, and the great mirth of the conspirators. We next have a domestic scene between Rein hart and his wife, Am!ue, whom he bids prepare for instant death. The conspirators enter, and iota are drawn for who is to slay the English Go vernor. Oscar, the page, enters, bearing in. vitations to the Governor's masked ball—he, meanwhile, being somewhat desponding at home, and appointing Earthen as envoy to England, whither his wife is to accompany him, in order to sever the connection between him and her, as he respects§ her too much to avail himself 1 of her admitted preference. The bail takes place. The Count and Amelia exchange last farewells during the fastivities, in the midst of 'whieh Rein hart plunges his dagger in the bosom of the former, who, dying, proclaims the lady's purity and his forgiveness of his murderer. There, now, we have saved our readers the trouble of wading through a libretto, and the ex pense of purchasing one ; and we have only to add that the principal roles will be sustained by Mesdames Colson, Hinkley, and Phillips, and Signors Brignoli, Ferri, Coletti, Barilli, ka. Interesting front China. 'EDICT FOR TEN TOLERATION OF CHRISTIANITY. (From the Boston Traveller.) We eau indebted to our friend, Dr. Culls, for copies of the Bhang'hao "braid to January 12. The chief matter of interest which they contain is an edict for the toleration of Christianity in China, issued from Nankin, by a young Prince of only twelve years, son of Siatfrienen, " Celestial King" of China, under the rebel dynasty. This toleration is granted elually to the Protestant and Roman catholic missionaries. We copy the document, as follows Edict for the Toleration of Christianity, given by the young Prince, the eldest son of Hung Sint genet), on solleitation of the Rev. Griffith John, the Rev. H. Z. Kloekers, and others, at Nanking, November, 1880. The Decree of the Heavenly Father, the Hea venly Sire, and Oar Sire, has been received; and it is our pleasure to proclaim it to you, our brothers Ho and Fib ; to you our Unoles Han, Tah, Ynb, Bin, Ngan, Hien, Fa, and Chang; , to yon-all our Younger Brethren, the Heavenly Leaders.Gene rale of Divisionv, Principal Magistrates and Magis trates General. Divine Controllers, Court Directors, Metropolitan Protectors, Divine Leaders, Members of the Six Boards, Chief Attendants; and to all our Ministers, both within and without our capital, that you may know the same. The True Doetrine of the Father and the Eire is . the Heavenly Religion, and in it the Religion of Christ and the Religion of the Lord of Hpaven are both included. The whole world, with Our Sire and Our Self, being one Family, all who kindly and lovingly conform to and keep this Doctrine, are permitted to come to our Court. From a memorial presented byonr Uncles, Kan, Ngan, and Chang, we sou and /MOW that Yang ' Tun-sin (Rev. Mr. John) and the others, miseionap ries from foreign lands, deeply interested in the Heavenly Kingdom, reverently obedient to the Father and the Sire, and grateful for the bestow ment of power and authority to effect wondrous deeds, attracting the near and the remote, have coma on purpose to observe these eethe, to de homage to the High Ruler and to Christ, and to ask permission to propagate the True Doctrine. Considering that the present is a time of war, and that troops are moving in various directions, we are truly afraid that the said persons, while devoted to the propagation of religion, may thetain scrim injury by the revolutionary army, to our deep regret ; seeing, however, that they are really faithful men, and reckon it as nothing to suffer with Christ, we de regard them with high esteem. Let our Brothers and Uncles, therefore, give eommande ; that they be treated kindly and lor ingis ; and that there be no occasion for strife or quarrel; and let all, realizing that the Father, the Sire, our Sire, and Our Solt are one' Family and one 'Body, treat the Missionaries with extraordi nary courtesy. This is from the Prince. This edict is written on satin, with the vermillion renoil t and stamped with the seal of the father of the Prixioe. At the Miatan Islands the inhabitants are very poor, even the cows not being much bigger than Newfoundland doge. At the Taku forts, on the contrary, sheep weighing sixty pounds when dreesed, cost only $2 do a zen hares, $l, and twelve or fifteen wild ducks, $l. An Actress Attempts Suicide. The Pittsburg Gazetta of the 9th says: A few days since, an actress, well known upon our boards, arrived in this city and put up at one of our ho tels. She seemed to be affected with melancholy, but as she had been lately abandoned by her hus band (or had voluntarily separated 'rem him) her trouble was assigned to that cause; and no tears were entertained that she Contemplated self-de struotion. On Saturday morning last, she did not appear at the breakfast table as usual, and late in the day her room was found closed. No answer being made to repeated rape, it then became esq dent_that all was not right, and the door was opened. The body was lying upon the bed, in a deep stupor, and a tumbler containing a portion of opium was found near the bed. A physician was immediately called, but before his arrival an emetic , had been administered, and a portion was thus' removed. The unfortunate lady soon began to revive, and in a few hours she was out of danger. The reason assigned for her terrible conduct was that she found herself without money and friend less, and feared that her eharaoter would sutler if it became known that she wee atone in the world. She bad brooded over her misfortune until her mind was almost bereft of reason, when she deter• mined to end her sorrows in 4 ( the sleep that knows no waking." She now regrets haying mode the tearful attempt, and seems gratified that she did not succeed In accomplishing her purpose. It is to be hoped that she will hereafter avoid despondency, and meet all her reveries heroically. .. Tun lottery men in Delaware are in trouble with the judicial authorities. On Friday after noon lest, an injunction, issued bv Chancellor Har rington, was served on Wood, Rl', Co.to re strain them, their agents, a nd all eoneernea, from drawing the Delaware lottery, of with* they ere the. managers. In defiance of the injunction so nerved on them, the Wilmington Republican nye, they went on with the drawing, thereby sett ing the chancellor and the laws of the State at de fiance. Itigriog iiCla.a.:—Au ark Arrived at Harris burg, pa., on eaturday from the North, with large quantity of newly : n:44l6 in:Upleautar, which the owner found readyintle Or at...two -.cents Per cake, or a dips; per THE WEEKLY PRESS_ tics wisits reine still be sot w sebeeribent mail (per mum in $O.OO Three --- 6,00 Ve " " " 5.00 " 1.21.00 " o f to one satetN) 90.00 (to address of Ten 0 Twenkt " " Twenty Copies, or ever coati subscriber,) oath._ - LSO For a Club of Twenty-one or own, we will send as war& copy to the getter-np of the Obab. LIP pottnattarr are requested to ast as Moats far Tau Waslay P&iu. CALIFORNIA FRES% Issued three times a Month, to time for the Calder = Steamers. THE REVOLUTION IN 'NE SOUS, The` Preparations in the North. IMPORTANT FROM TEXAO. rfcwspaper Facts and Rumors. MILITARY AND NATAL ATP/LIRA IN NEW Nunn. I krom the New York Time, of yeaterdarti Comparative .cittiet prevailed yesterday in the city respeoting military and naval movements, the Balling of the steamera Baltic and Mame on Monday night having, for the time, left the public to occupy itself with other matters. The destination of the ebips---whother for Team, for Pensacola, or for the relief of Major Anderson, or for all three of these purposes—eontinues to be the theme of conjecture. The steam.tug Yaakee vies also quietly char tered by: the Government, and slipped eel of the harbor on Monday evening at 5 o'elock, in com pany with the Baitze. She le a new and powerful tog; aimiliir in her construction to the William H. Webb, only she hes 'but a single, engine, built at the Fulton Works, and draws about eight feet of water. ' She le 'about 400 tons register, 150 feet long, 30 breadth of beam„and 12 feet hold. She is -owned bi z Oaptain .Iftussell llll. Snags, andit ie cons sttP 141 4 ~0110kaAg eem • laTita Mat antra 11117.4derutte qUattlitY of pro. vide= As is thewe with this otter vesside,„her , particular ciectination,remain!l ifs, &egret.. 4 1 1 1 4 ,4 too tonsil a venial to performa leuttbl ittjtite; I ' is surnilied -that she is to slot as a tender Wilms Urger Teasels, as emergencies may arise., The Ocean Queen had not been chartered yes terday, as expected, 'and, for the present, there is probably an end of the - shipment of troops from this port, The east-survey steamer ViZen has been , de tailed for moieties Iservioe in place of the Ha,rriet Lane, transferred to the Navy Department. Bite came down from the navy yard yesterday; and an °bored off the Battery. Commodore Paulding; the . newly- appointed Ad viser-in-Chief of the Navy Dp pastun ent, and Com modore :Stringhans,. his predecessor, in .the game exalted position, somewhat znysterioustrappeared at the "Brooklyn navy yard yeeterday. They pre sented themselves for their neeal.pay toldr. Dun lap ; bat rumor says" that their so , doing was only blind) , Commodore. Breese, too, who has been In Washington sitting on the Armstrong Court Martial, was expected to return to his quarters last evening. The °Moors of the station all assembled at the Lyceum to receive their pay. With the ex ception of these movements, everything was quiet at the navy yard. Governor's Island was also dull. The quar ters were in a vervoonfused state, and were being put to rights., ,Fort Ilamilton would pass to-day for the original of Goldsmith's Deserted Village. The 914 torggent, and a few atraggling fetchers that remained over their time in the city, compose its only garrison. Fort Lafayette is completely empty. Bedloe's Island is, barren of excitement: The troop! in the barber are now diminished to the ex tent indicated in tbe following table Governor 7 +l Inland 7300 Dadloe's Island 60 Merinee.at the. Navy Yard, and on board the Northh. Star 122 Total... .. Over M pieces of heavy ordnance are on a barge off Fort Umtata. Their destination to LATE AND IMPORT/MT FROM TEXAS We collect the following items from our Texan exchanges: The Brownoville of the het, FeterS to the rumor that general Ampudia, at the head of three thousand troops, was within sixty miles of Brownsville, and adds " This report has been sent by Colonel Ford to the authorities of. Texas. Colonel Ford has some four hundred Texas volunteort at Brownsville, and will- doubtless be able to repel any attack the Mexicans may venture to make, though we think they will make none. We suspect that they are a good deal more troubled by apprehensions of in vasion from Texas than interested in invading this State 240 - 1 t OUTRA(018 A correspondent at Uvalde writes to the San An. tonio Express as follows : . The Indians have committed some fresh depre dations, and although occurring between here and San Antonio you may not have heard of them. They stole a lot of horses near Dbania en Sunday last; A scout is in pursuit. Another party hare been up the Sabina! canon and stole raven head of horses. The people in that canon have-built afore, - and some fifteen or twenty families have moved into it." DIVIDING THE STATE The Sherman Patnot favors the plan of forming a new State out of certain 'serail:los of Northern Texas and the adjeoent Indian territory; but de niee that the objeot is to make it a tree State. Many of the Indians are slaveholders, and the Patriot assorts that the institution will be pro tected. Nevertheless, that paper says the interests of Southern Texas, which it represents to depend en notton and sugar, and those of Northern Texas, which depend on grain and live stock, are dissimi- far. We learn from the 'Ledger that Colonel S. Mea nt], under the authority of the State Cowiention, hoe been taking prompt claps for the proteetion of the frontior south and west of Soul Antonio. THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION The Richmond Examiner foists the following charge upon the majority of the State Convention : Again and again we repeat, the Federalist ma jority in the Virginia Convention is responsible for that civil war. Bat for their vote on the bth of April, that war would rumor giallo the multitude— the woful, pitiable, weeping multitude—of widows and orphans who will shortly ory to God against them. Their oowardioe, their folly, their criminal delay, and winked, selfish, base calculations of what was or was not popular at the moment, makes the war. Rad they evinced the slightest loyalty to the South, to their own soil, to their own coun try, from whose fate they oannot sever themselves, the usurpation at Washington would never have ventured upon the villainy now begun. The Sub missionist party' in Virginia have at last done the deed of blood. Virginia could have made the se paration. of WS Union peaceful, and mashie, toe, to both its sections; she has made it sangutoary, terrible ' ruinous. Never was a greater treat com mitted to a nation's hands; never was it more despicably betrayed. W hat vengeance Divine Providence keepe in dare for a foolish State we will not attempt to know. But of this we feel sure, that the curse of Cain will set on the brow, and the infamy of Ar nold will dog the steps, o f ? the men who voted for submission, on the st h of April, In the Virginia Convention. DROIONG UPON GOVERNOR LUGGER A correspondent of the World writes : It is very generally understood that some sinister designs are contemplated by the Secession members of the Convention with reference to Goiernor Letober, should they succeed in carrying Virginia out of the Union. he seems to be partioularly obnoxious to the fieoessiou party for his determined oprbbi don to their movements, and they will, if possible, tate - revenge. They denewince him publicly and privately, and there is good reason to apprehend that they will do something to injure him, if they only have the power. Of that, however, there is littla TEN ABNEY imn NAVY ANNIGN/TIONN From the National Republican.); Of the eleven hundred and ten ofioers whose names are on the Army Register, the number of se signations, to thie date, since the present rebellion commenced, is eighty-six. • Of eight hundred cad Fix echwiliFiene4 efroFrfh thirty-three have resigned from all clauses since the let of January, to which should be added four lieu tenants who resigned in December, from their sym pathy with secession. Of the seventy-six commissioned 'Matters of the navy from the seceded States on the ist of January, fifty remain in the Berne& THE WHOLESALE TRADE OF CHAELESTOE The business men of Charleston are already be ginning to reap the advantages of the independent position which the South has taken, in oonsequence of the refusal of the North to grant her constitu tional rights. Basin's. of all kinds bee increased at an amazing pace ; customers are thronging the city from all quarters of the South, and the indioa tions are that Charleston is destined to become the commercial metropolis of the Confederate States. In dry goods and fancy goods the operations have been very large, and the purchasers, we are in formed, are principally composed of those who used to patronize New York. One house alone, the business of which heretofore was chiefly con fined to Georgia, has sold heavy bills to merchants from Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. In shoes alone the sales of the hot two weeks have 'amounted to upwards of s2oo,ooo.—Charlestow Mercury, Mardi 27. A CHEERFUL VIEW OF GOVERNMENT Deßow'a Revuw for March, speaking of the " true origin and nature of all government,". says : "AU government begins tenth usurpation; and as eonttnued by force. kiature pats the ruling ele ments uppermost; and the masses below and sub jest to those elements. Less than this is not go vernment. The right to irovern resides with a very small minority ; the duty to obey is Inherent in the great mass of mankind." The Italian are in the original article. ARMS FOR GENERAL HOUSTON. We find the following in the letter of the Wraiths ington correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, under date of March 31: Governor Houston's agent passed here to-day on his way to New York to purchase arms. He says Houston is raising an army of two to five thousand in Texas, Arkansas, and will oppose Mop- Mlsl3ollri, and TeDnezese; Tisdiotion of the Confederate States, but ultimately intends to invade Mexico. It is believed here that he is in secret , correspondence with the Cabinet on the imbjeot, and is acting in concert with their plans President Davis may have work t o d o b e , fore long. llgArs or Bsrow.—The following extract from a letter from Bt. John, (N. 8.,) dated March 24, says the Washington Intelltgencer, shows that our colonial neighbors have had a liberal supply of snow " We have bad the moat fearful snowstorm ever experienced In Ms colony since its settlement. There is now at beast seven feet of snow on the Tolima more probably it -will average eight feet. 411 communication with the country is cut off. Five mails from Boston are now dee, andthem. two M or three. days , may , elapse before we g y better to Frederickton bad not reached taere, al et though the lith day on the way. This is a mail route of eleven Nedra. In the streets Or this city the Bowls twelve to fifteen feet deep, end photo. grapblets were occupied yesterday in getting the extraordinary scene." NOT Samisrlso.—Baltinfore Is not satisfied with the United States amide of that city, sad an oratoeuse bee been introduced into Councills to taki ode 'under the distation of the Board of Pollee o f that Ally. The =distance will probably be sfioPivi-'
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