ME PRESS. IMBLIBBEID, DAMN (813liDATII NICIIPTIDJ fly JOHN W. FORNEY. imam No. 417 CHESTNUT STREET. DAILY PRESS, Twit .vi Curs Psi Wool., payable to the Carrier. Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at Six Domani; Pll ANlux, Fora DOLLARS FOR RIO= MONFEB4IIII I / 1 DOLLARS vox Sri ltreirsis—luvariaby In advance for the time aydarad. THE TRI-WEEELY PRESS, Mailed to Subscribers oat of - the City at TIMIS Dol.- LANs Pia Murex, in advance DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. 1861. F 0 E - PALL 0 S D H S. RIEGEL, BAIRD, & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS DRY GOODS, NO. 47 NORTH THIRD SHEET, PHILADELPHIA. Prompt-paying merchants icapsetfally Invited to examine our large and carefully-se lected stock of desirable goods, which will be cold at prices to emit the times. Nab.= JAMES, KENT, SANTEE. & LKPORTERS AND JOBBERS OP DRY GOODS, Noe. 239 and 241 North TRIED Street, above Bace, Han now open their mug s;:' LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK or FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS, Meng which will be faded A general aegorianout of PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. CASH BUYERS SPECIALLY INVITED. sel7-2m THOMAS MELLOR & CO., Nos. 40 sad 42 NORTH THIRD Street, HOSIERY HOUSE, LINEN IMPORTERS and #PAIRT-FRQNT XANINUTITBERS, 1861, TO CASH BUYERS. 1861, H C. LAUGHLIN & Co.. No. 303 MARKET STREET, Ars resolving dally , !ems the PHILADRLPHIA end .1 1 4 KW YORK AUCTIONS, a general assortment of MERCHANDISE, bought for CASH. CASH BUYERS are especially invited to call and ex amine our Stock. ses-tf 1861 FALL GOOD S-186L FRESH ASSORTMENT. DALE. ROSS, & CO., 521 MARKET STREET, Have received, and are now opining; a fresh Mookol FALL & WINTER GOODS which will be sold low for CASH and on short credits. Duyuro &U rebrocituity in-cited to Gait awl ex. amine our stock. an3l-2m CARPETINGS. "ARCH. STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE." OLDDEN & RICK.NERA NO. 832 ARCH STREET, Two doors below NINTH, South side, Mom now in Moroi a SPLENDID STOCK of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CARPETINc+S. - width are now offered at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, 0c19.12 FOR CASH. NEW CARPETING. JAMES H. Chestnut st., below 7th, SOUTH SIDE. Now opening from' the New York Auction Rooms, a largo lot or CROSSLEY'S ENGLISH TAPESTRY 'BRUSSELS, which will be sold from 75 CTS. TO $1 PER YARD. Also, a complete assortment of oßthevarieties of CAR PETING, of OUR OWN IMPORTATION, com prising CROSSLEY'S WILTON & VELVET CARPETING. TEM - MILTON'S AXMINSTER do. lIRNISEMOII% psi:MASI/ AND TWILLED VENETIANS. Also, a large variety of ENGLISH BRUSSELS, int ported under the old duty, which will be sold at low prices. Included In our stock will be found a complote settort cent of INGRAIN AND THREE-PLY CARPETING. OIL CLOTH FROM 1 TO IS YARDS WIDE. JAMES 13_ ORNE. 5.26 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW SEVEOII/ ocfp-Im FOIrETH-STREET CARPET STORE, N 0.47, ABOVE CHESTNUT, I tun now offering my stock of ENGLISH CARPETINGS, EILVICAVING WEST VABIETY AND fiTYLII. Imported expressly for City Retail Sales, at Prices LESS THAN PRESENT COST OF IMPORTATION. J. T. DELACROIX. aelit-2m GLEN SOSO REILLO, GERMANTOWN, PA. MeCALI.UII , I & Co. IILeditTACTURIERI3, IMPORTERS, AND DEALER& 609 CHESTNUT STREET, CARPET IN G 5, OIL CLOTHS, &o. We have now on hand an extensive stock of Carnet toga or our own and other makes, to which we mat the attention of cash and short time buyers. NEW CARPETINGS. J. F. & E. B. ORNE, II O. Sl9 CHESTNUT STREET-OPPOSITE STATE HOUSES Ara am oinking, tram anima Hottife oWiiii4 their FALL IMPORTATIONS NEW OARPETINGS 1,000 piece oJ. CROSSLEY SONS' TAPESTRY CARPETS, from 87i OTS. TO $1 PER YD 6-4 TAPESTRY VELVET; FRENCH AUBUSSON; FINE AXMINSTER; ROYAL WILTON; EXTRA ENGLISH BEIISSELS; HENDERSON & CO.'s VENITIAN; ENGLISH INGRAIN CARPETS; ALL OF NEW CHOICE STYLES AND HAVING BEEN INVOICED BEFORE THZ LATE ADVANCE 1141 THE TARIFF, Will be sold at MODERATE PRICES. lia29-2m CHINA AND QUEENSWARE_ 1861. FALL, BOYD & STROUD. No. 32 WORTH _FOURTH STREET, HAYS NOW 'LENIN USUAL LARGE STOCK ON HAND, To which they invite the attention of GASH BUYiStil Send Send all Money and Packages of Merchan dise for places in the Eastern States, New York, and Canada, by HARNDEN'S EX PRESS, No. 248 Chestnut street. They collect Notes, Drafts, &c., and Bills, with or without Goods. Their Express is the oldest in the United States. Express Charges on a single mule, or small lot of Goods, are less than by any other conveyance. selo-2m VOL. 5.-NO. 70. MILITARY GOODS. WOOLLEN KNITTING YARNS G 1861. ARMY SOCKS. A large stock of three-thread blue-mixed of all numbers, for sale at lowest cash prices at H. DITH RING & Co., ocll-fnmet* 26 and 28 North FOURTH Street A RMY CONTRACTORS AND SUTLERS SUPPLIED WITH BRUSHES at the lowest rates. Always on hand, a large stock of CAVALRY BRUSHES, Government standard ; WAGON BRUSHES, Government standard ; And every Description of Brushes resnirtul for the Army. KEMBLE & VAN HORN, ocl6-3m 321 MARI' Street, Philadelphia. ARMY WOOLLENS. WELLING, COFFIN, & Co., Are prepared to deliver on contract 3-4 and 6-4 Dark and CLOTHE AND KERSEY& 6•38-3 m INDIGO BLUE KERSEYS. INDIGO BLUE CLOTHS, And every variety of Goode adapted to Military Clothing. for sale at the lowest prices REGIMENTS EQUIPPED AT SHORT NOTICE: BENJ. L. BERRY, CLOTH HOUSE, 50 SOUTH SECOND STREET. ocs-1m ARMY FLANNELS.A - WELLING, COFFIN, & CO., 116 CHESTNUT STREET, Are prepared to make contracts, for immediate delivery, of WHITE DOMET FLANNELS, AND ALL WOOL INDIGO BLUE FLANNELS, of Government standard. oc4-tf ANDREWS' ORIGINAL CAMP,OR TRAVELLING BED TRUNK. (Patent applied for). For Bale by W. A. ANDREWS, ocZ-lm No. 612 CHESTNUT Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS. 1861. FALL SEASON. W. S. STEWART 84100., Importers and Jobber; of • SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, NO. 305 NANKET STREET. We invite the attention of buyers to a fresh stock of NEW AND DESIRABLE GOODS, In great variety, bought exclusively for CASH,. Our stock comprises, in addition to BLACK AND OTHER STAPLE SILKS, Many choice fabrics in PRINTED AND WOVEN GOODS, Anil will be offered on the most favorable terms. ArITLL LINE OP CLOAKING CLOTBg NOW IN STORE. ocl7-tf FROTEINGHAM & WELLS, 34 SOUTH FRONT AND 35 LETITIA STREET, BROWN AND BLEACHED SHEETINGS, DRILLS, JEANS, SILECIAS, FROM TIM MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT FALLS LACONIA, LYMAN, EVERETT, DWIGHT, LOWELL, IPSWICH, HAMPDEN, SHAWLS, BEAVER CLOTHS, TRICOTS, CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, TWEEDS, FROM THE WASHINGTON (lass BAT STATE,) AND OTHER MILLS. ocl-3m WELLING, COFFIN, & CO., Offer, by the Package, the following Makes and Descrip tions of Goals: PRINTS_ DIINNELL MFG. CO. - GREENE MFG. 00 BLEACHED COTTONS. Bay Mill, Lansdale, Hope, Blackstone, Greene Mfg. Co., /04 Batik, Mariposa, Jamestown, Materna% Belvidere, Cloaked& &c. - BROWN COTTONS. Fredonia, Oblo, Groton, Silver Spring, Glenville, Eagle, Mechanics' and Farmers' Union, &c. jiANS.--Glasgow, Manenester. DENIMS AND' STRIPES.—Grafton, Jewett Oith Madison, Slatersville, Agawam, Keystone, Choctaw. CANTON FLANNELS.--81atersirille, Agawam, yard's. IBlNSDO3.—Smithht, Lenedals, Pilamead MIL WOOLENS. ARMY BLUE CLOTHS AND HERSEYS. • BROAD cLOTHS.—Bottomley'a, romerojea,Olonhaia CASSIMERES AND DOESSlNS.—Greanfleld, Gay's, Stearns'. SATINETS.—Bass River, Crystal Springs, Conyers- NON Hope, Staffordville, Converse and Hyde, Con verse Brothers, Bridgewater. Flannels, Linsey!, Kentucky Jeans, Nankeens, Tickings, Colored Cambrics, Printed Cloekings, ko. an9fmw3n3 WILLI/IMS' FLANNELS ANGOLA, MERINO, SAXONY, ETO. VARIOUS WIDTHS AND QUALITIES. For sale by WELLING. COFFIN, &ICo. Eatt9-fmwSm w‘!• SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, No. 11% CHESTNUT STREET, COMMISSION EL %CHANTS JOS THZ !SALO or PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. oe2B-15m WHEREAS WILLIAM T. BLACK MAN, of the Nineteenth wan!, did, on the 18th day of September,A. D. 1861, make - and execute a General Assignmet of all his estate, real and personal, to the undersigned, in trust for the benefit of creditors, all persons indebted to the said assignor will make pay. went to JOHN CLA.RIi, Northwest corner of SECOND and GREEN Ste. Or, to his Attorney, JOHN GOFORTH, ocl6-wfmlBt* 115 South FIFTH Street. ESTATE OF THOMAS M. HAM.Pi TON, deceased.—Letters of administration upon the estate o f Thomas fl. Hampton, deceased, have been granted by the Begister of Wills of Philadelphia county to the undersigned, and all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having de mands to present the same to . . RUDOLPH S. WALTON, Administrator, No. 3024 MARKET Street, Or to id§ AttOHM§ H. G. TOWNSEND, re2s.lr6tir No. 811 ARCH Street. TDA VIRGINIA LUKENS, by her 1: next friend, &e., vs. MILTON F. LUKENS. In Divorce. Court of Common Pleas, City and County of Philadelphia. June T., 1861. No. 4. 70 STILTON F. LUKENS You will please take notice that the Court line granted a Rule on you in the above case, to show cause why a Decree of Divorce from the bonds of matrimony, heretofore uniting the above parties, should not be granted ; said Buie being returna ble on the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF OCTOBER, A. D. 1861. 11. OSLEB, JA., oel6-wth4t Attorney pro Libellant. BEST QUALITY itoovnie SLATE ',away. on band and fur ale et Union Inert 1441 BEACH Street, Kensington. T. THOMAS, IniTar fl 4 WALMIT Street, Philadelphia WOOLLEN YARN, 110 CHESTNUT STREET, Sky Blue COMMISSION ROUSES. OFFER FOE SALE aI3IRTINGS, CANTON FLANNELS, CABOT, CHICOPEE, and BARTLET MILLS LIKEWISE, A FULL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKETS, AND ARMY GOODS, 210. 116 CHESTNUT STREET, LEGAL. EDUCATIONAL. MR . WIN T HR OP TAPPAN'S BOARDING and DAY SCHOOL for young la dle& will reopen at No. 1816 SPRUCE Street, on WED ERSDAY, September 18. ee7.2m THE WEST CHESTER ACADEMY, at West Chester, Pm, within two hours' ride from Philadelphia, by the Peansylvania Central, or by the West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad, via Media_ The Winter Term, of full IWO months, commences on the let or NOS EMBER. "Military Tactics" will be introduced as a regular department of the system of in struction, to those who desire to avail themselves of its advantages, at a moderate charge. Eight tried and experienced Teachers assist the Prin cipal in the duties of the school. WM. P. WYEAS, A. M., Principal THE REV. M. MEIGS' FAMILY SCHOOL for Young Men and Boys, at Potts. town, Montgomery county, Pa., will reopen on Wednes day, the dth of ifnvember next. For inrcularm, giving in detail the term and course of study, address the Principal. Beferenceames L. Claghorn, James E. Caldwell, E. Webtcott Bailey, John W. Claghorn, William H. Kern, Thomas Birch, A. F. Glass, Edward Lafoaccade, Edward Roberts. oes-Igt* PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS, SCHOOL APPARATUS for CLASS ILLUSTRA TIONS, Globes, Drawing Instruments, &e., &c., made and for sale by JAMES W. QUEEN A CO., 524 QIIESTNUT Street. Paced "and Illustrated Catalogue, of 88 pekoe, fur- Walled gratis, and sent by mail free, on application. selB.2m CT SSICAL INSTITUTE, DEAN Street, above SPENCE. The CLASSICAL INSTITUTE will rename no dudes on MONDAY; BapLembo Pri_ J. W. FAMES, A. 21., an26-2mo Principal. E NGL I S H AND CLASSICAL SCHOOL.—The school of the subscriber, in Simms' Building, at TWELFTH and CHESTNUT Streets, will be removed to the larger Hall, directly over Mr. Has. wed); store, in the same building, and will be reopened on MONDAY, Bth of September. au2l-tuol CHARLES SHORT. HOTELS. ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, BROADWAY, NEW 1011 N. BOARD SEDUCED TO $2 PER DAY. Bince the opening of this vast and commodious Rotel, in 1854, it has been the singe endeavor of the proprietors to make it the most sumptuous, convenient, and comfort able home for the citizen and stranger on this side the Atlantic. And whatever has seemed likely to administer to the samfo4 of its &este May beta 0/1400 , TOMIT Withlna re gard to cost, to provide, and to combine all the elements of individual and social enjoyment which modern art has invented, and modern taste approved; and the pa tronage which it has commanded during the past six years ts a gratifying proof that their efforts have been appre ciated. To meet the exigencies of the times, when all are re• eldred to practise the most rigid economy, the under signed RATE REDUCED THE PROSE OP BOARD TO TWO DOLLARS PER DAY, at the same time abating none of the luxuries with which their table has hitherto been supplied. TbEAbWELLI WHITCOMB, & CO. ACARD.-THE UNDERSIGNED, late of the GIRARD HOUSE, Philadelphia, have leased, for a term of years, WILLARD'S HOTEL, in Washington. They take this occasion to return to their old friends and customer§ many thanks far past Clean, and beg to assure them that they will be most happy to lee them in their new quarters. SYKES, CHADWICK, it 00. WastrmaroN, Star 16, 1861. an 23-17 MERCHANT TAILORS. EDWARD P. KELLY, FORMERLY one of the leading Tailors of the city, and principal of the firms of Kelly & Brother, Chestnut, above Se venth, and Lukens, Kelly & Bro., 725 Chestnut, wilt IVlll4c the Tailgating Business 1i0.142 SOUTH THIRD street, Oct 22d, and will furnish clothes equal to his old reputation, at very moderate prices, for cash on delivery. Persons indebted to Kelly & Brother will please make payment to EDWARD P. KELLY. oc2l-6t* V . 0. THOMPSON, E TAILOR, N. E. COR. SEVENTH and WALNUT STS. CIRCIIMAR My customers, and the public generally, are respect fully informed that my selection of fabrics and facili ties for filling orders this season are quite equal to those of any former one. I therefore take this convenient method of cordially lifriting my old patrons, together with all gentlemen of taste and dress, to give my es tablishment an early visit. kinds of Military Uniforms made at the shortest notice. oc9-1m LOOKING GLASSES. IMMENSE REDUCTION LOOKING GLASSES. O reiarrumus, ENGRAYINGE4 f/OTURE AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. JAMES S. EARLE & SON, 61.6 CHESTNUT STREET, •unomice the reduction of 25 per cent. in the prices or an the: Manufactured Stock or Looking Glasses ; also, In Engrarings, Picture and Photograph Frames, Oil Paint• tags. The largest and most elegantlassortment in the eoimtry. A rare opportunity is nowoffered to make pun] shades in this line For Cash, at remarkably Low Prices EARLE'S GALLERIES. 816 CIHESTNIIT Street. CABINET FURNITURE. CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL- MOORE & CAMPION, No. 281 Smith SECOND Street, to ommootion wish their catoneive Grebinet Maness are Bow manufacturing a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on band a fall supply, finished with the MOORE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, which are pronounced, by all who have need them, to be superior to all °them Yor the quality and finish of these Tables the mann. facturere refer to their numerous patrons throughout the anion, who are familiar with the character of their work. att2l-6m MILLINERY GOODS. CITY BONNET Isrtuß.E. SEASONABLE GOODS AT SEASONABLE PRICES. SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK. SALES. Ladies' and Misses' Bonnets, Children's Turbans, Cape, &c., the best and most fashionable, and at the low est prices. Bonnets made over, or bleached, and re. trimmed Millinery Goods in quantities to Suit. BEA TER, FELT and PLUSH Goods for Children. LINCOLN, WOOD, & NICHOLS ; a .. ocl6-tf NO. 725 CHESTNUT STREET. KENNEDY'S FRENCH. FLOWERS. FEATHERS, AND GENERAL MILLINERY GOODS. No. 729 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH ocs-3m Op MILLINERY AND STRAW GOODS. ROSENHEIM, BROOKS, & 431 MARKET STREET, Invite the attention of MEROIIANTS AND MILLINERS To their well-assorted stock of RIBBONS, BONNET BILKS, VELVETS, FLOWERS, STRAW GOODS, and every other article in their line. A. ungerior brand or BLACK VELVET RIBBONS ael3-2nt Alwaye on hand. de MISS A. M MARCHE, FASH w lONABLE DRESSMAKER, having returned to thy city, she will be pleased to nee her old customers, and the ladiee generally, at No. 21 South EIGHTH, above Chestnut, Philadelphia. 0e15.12t* DRAIN PIPE.-STEAM-PRESSED STONEWARE DRAIN PIPE. PRICE LIST. 2-inch bore, per yard 25 cents. 3 64 46 44 30 {{ - 4 44 64 44 40 gi 5 44 it 64 50 " aa 65 14 7 46 44 46 85 8 .1. " 110 g 41 66 125 46 10 Li 44 64 150 41 12 14 44 41 200 '• A liberal discount allowed to Dealers, and to those or dering in large quantities. FACTORY—SEVENTH and Germantown road. S. A. JIABIS/BOX I t 415-4 1 1 Virfiraliana 1010 CHESTNUT HIDES AND GOAT SKINS.—An in voice per schooner Seaman's PM*, front St. Batts, for Bole by JATTETOHE do CABSTAIRS, 202 and 204 South FRONT Street. ocl.tt 80010 LAW AND MISCELLA. NEOUS, new and old, bought, sold, and ex. *hanged, at the PHILADELPHIA-BANN BOOK STORE, No. 419 CHESTNUT Street. Libraries at a distance purchased. Those having Books to sell, if at a distance, will state their names, sines, bindings, dates, editions, prices, and conditions. WANTED—Books printed by Benjamin Ergo/Mint as well as early Books printed in and upon America. Autograph Letters and Portraits purchased. Pamphlet Laws of Pennsylvania for sale. Catalogues, in Drees, sent free. Libraries ap praised by [feaft-til JOHN (iADIPBBIIa PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1861.1 4 11rtss. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBELt 23, 1861. British Diplomacy. Does England desire to draw thO United States into a war ? If not, what can have in duced the British Government to set Lord LYONS against President LINCOLN at this crisis ? If not, why make a mountain out of a molehill, by pretending that the arrest of two suspected persons, who happen to be British subjects, is not only a violation of the law of nations, but, as the English Attorney and Solicitor General read it, a violation of the Constitution of the United States ? They were arrested, not be cause they were British subjects, but because, living in this country, they were under 10 laws, and there was a primti fade case of suspicion against them. Has England forgotten the case of AtExax nza Annurunor and ROBERT C. AMBRIBTER, in 1818, during the Seminole war in Florida? They were tried by a military tribunal. 4E BUTHNOT was convicted of having excited - the Indians to war with the United States, and also of aiding and supplying them with• the means of war, and was sentenced to be hanged while AMBRISTER, nephew of the British Go vernor of New Providence, was convicted of aiding and comforting the Indians, and exci ting them to levy war, and was sentenced to be shot. Both sentences were carried out, by General JACKSON'S orders. What was the action of the British Government of that day? Lord CUTLEREIGH sent for Mr. Rum, then our ambassador, and said that the opinion of the British Cabinet was, that the conduct of ARBUTHNOT and AMBRISTER had been unjusti fiable, and, therefore, not calling for , the spa. cial interference of Great Britain. The public mind in England was greatly agitated by the death of these two men ; Parliament went into warm debates on it ; atocks fell, for war with this country - was dreaded; the press fanned the excitement; but the British Ministry re mained firm, declining to risk a quarrel be tween the countries on such grounds. Lord CASTLEREAGH afterwards told Mr. Ruse that there must have been war if the Ministry had but held up a finger. Thus cautious and for bearing was the Foreign Minister of England some forty years ago; his conduct contrasts very strongly with that of Earl Russeu on the present occasion. Does England think she can take advantage of our present situation and insult us with im punity ? If she attempt it, let her beware of the result. We venture to say that, if Engr land should get into a war with the United States, there would be a rising en masse of all our citizens able to bear arms, and never would a war be more popular than this. Can England bear the cost? We have be. fore us the Return of the British Revenue, for the year and quarter ended September 31st, 1861, and the deficiency in the quarter just ended, is $10,294,670. That is no inconsider able falling off for three months. What may be expected in January, Sfter the cotton spin ning laborers have had four months of half wages ? Quarrel with this country ! Why, in the next six months, England will want $200,- 000,000 worth of breadstuffs to feed her popu lation, and must come to 21,8 for half that quantity. England is likely to have enough to do with out a war with us. She meditates the usurpa.; tion and plunder of Mexico. She is likely to send a hostile expedition to Japan to avenge the attempted murder of Mr. ALCOCK, her . Minister there. She expects a renewed out-• break of the insurrection in New Zealand, On . the frontier of her Colony of the Capp of Good Hope, a tribe of Zulu Kaffirs, fierce and dis ciplined, had arisen, as latest despatches state, against British arms there. England; which is in perpetual dread of France, surely l eannot desire to quarrel with ffs ? If not, why au thorize such interference, at once feeble and insolent, as that of Lord LYONS, at the instance of Earl RUSSELL ? It is as unaccountable as absurd. The Lecture of Mr. Forster. The lecture recently delivered by Mr. FORSTER, a distinguished M. P. from Bradford, before his constituents, - upon the " Civil War in America," contains a remarkably intelligent rlyigyr gf prc. sent difficulties of the country, and the causes whence they have arisen. The lecturer takes ground against the doctrines of Sir Bormnis LYT TON and Mr. LYNDSAY, the convenient make-shifts of the London Timm, and the falsehoods or the Saturday Review. A brief synopsis is all our space permits. Alluding to the deep interest which England had in the contest, through tics of blood and the inti macy.of her commercial relations, he conceives the war to have deriyed its greatest importance from the institution of Slavery, to which he attributes its lie speaks of the rise of the Republican party in the North, whose platform was fhe limitation of slavery, and to the success of that party he at tributes immediate secession. Ho refers to the gradual change of sentiment at the South, whereby the tc peculiar institution," from being regarded a neosseeey evil, was sought. to 4 perpetuated and extended, owing to the increased demand for slave' products, and the jealousy and fanaticism engen dered from a belief in the danger of its proscription. "Thus," he says. 44 the South, when it ceased to be dominant, became disunionist, stud the an worzty, being no longer able to control the ma jority, seceded and set up for themselves." Their avowed object was the extension of. the slave power. For " success they relied upon their Danweratie allies in the North, and upon the dependence of England and Europe upon their cotton." Sustaining the position of the North, he c , shows how connivance at this illegal and uncon stitutional secession would be aprecedent for future :kb UAW and bow 'Wei with a powerful triumph ant slave Commonwealth, with slaves constantly crossing the border, and Northern travellers as con stantly ill-treated, would be impossible." He be iieveB in the ultimate resf9reglen tf th 4 Uneem; that the sentiments of the founders of the Govern ment in reference to slavery will be restored ; that slave labor will be found unprofitable in compe tition with the developing resources of India, and other countries capable of supplying its present products, and that thus a gradual and voluntary alio• lition may ensue. He concludes by advocating non - -intervention as the policy of England. GREAT EXPECTATIONS.--ThiS story, the latest by Dickens, and among his best, has run through four editions in England, each of a thousand, while Messrs. Peterson, in this city, have already sold about fifteen thousand copies, with thirty-four illustrations, by MeLonan, of New York, none of which base appeared in London. Messrs. Peter son have published this book at 50 cents for the oc tavo, and $1.50 for the duodecimo edition. The price of the London edition is $7.50. So, the Ame rican reader is interested in Peterson's. We have accidentally met a 25-cents reprint, issued (nomi nally) by a Boston publisher, on the " cheap and nasty" principle, with miserable paper, nearly illegi ble type, and four caricatures, which it calls " il lustrations." Now, considering that the Philadel phia edition is full of engravings, and is handsomely got, up, and that Dickens received one thousand pounds ($5,000) from the real American publish ers, we do think that this new "Boston notion" is an imposition, if not a robbery, on those who have as liberally purchased the exclusive right of re printing. If this system is tolerated, no English author can sell his copyright in America, and, what is more to the purpose, no American author can dispose of his in England. If this Boston edition be worth 25 cents, Mr. Peterson's 50• cents edition is richly worth a dollar—for people can rom it without ruining their eyesight. WE SEE, by late California papers, that Janes F. Kennedy, Esq., a Philadelphian by birth, has been elected sheriff of Banta Clara county, Those who knew Mr. Kennedy while he resided in this city need not be told that he is now, what he always was—a staunch Union man ; and it will not dis please his friends to learn that, at the eleotion, he received a greater number of veto than any other candidate an the PETERSON'S LADIES' MAGAZINE.—The Novem ber number opens with a charming frontispiece, giving a domestic scene, "The Little Nurse," en graved on steel from a drawing by W. Goodall. There are numerous fashion-plates, and the usual quantity of readable letter-press. The Prospectus for 1862 promises four original novelettes—one of which will be 4, The Murrays of Murray House; a Tale of '76," by Charles J. Peterson, author of "K a t e Aylesford," -"The Old Manor House," and other popular worlui. This is one of the cheapest periodicals in the world, and quite a handbook for the fair sex. THE REBELLION. INTERESTING LETTER FROM GEN, BANKS' COLUMN, AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI. Expected Battle in the Southwest: THE BATTLE AT PILOT KNOB A UNION VICTORY. THE WAR IN KENTUCKY. MINDIANS IN TEE REBEL ARMY. TUE DEFENCES OF PADUCAH. Description of the Situation in Kentucky and IVlissoun, Miscellaneous War News. Latest from Gen - . Roseerans' Column FROM THE UPPER POTOMAC, [From our Special Correspondent.] DARNESTOWN, Md., Oct. 20, 1861 There was something dreary about Tenallytowli as we lumbered heavily over its vary rough i‘otel, and through what the extreme politeness of its very polite community calls a street. As the headquar ters of our great Pennsylvania Reserve division, Te nallytown possessed a singular attraction for Penn sylvanians, an had a home-like and life-like sp. pearanee. The long lines of camp-streets over the undulating lawns; the sentinel flag-staffs floating our fair standard; the busy crowds of soldiers clus tering along the hedges; the seems of naive, en- thusiastic, and animated life ; the endless array of tents, which seemed to have suddenly ripened em the earth, like the prophet's bush, in the limits of a single night, gave Tenallytown a new existence s which it never enjoyed before_ which it may never enjoy again. But the wand of Mc- Clellan waved one very foggy night not long since, and, presto ! the canvas city passed away, and be fore the fogs of the night surrendered to the morning sunshine it was clinging to some woody hills, and some very sacred soil in that deeply-injured Com monwealth of Virginia. He is a great magician, that little general of ours, and has been playing sad pranks hereabouts and thereabouts. Penally town he has left us a little the worse far the wear. The fence rails are in a bad condition, and the do mestic peace of many a motherly hen has been fa tally destroyed. The old tavern looked very lonely and very repentant, as if recovering from alongthy ideliatteli, and Its gloomy landlord, as he scowled from his window and thought of the custom he had so suddenly lost, was a sight to gladden the heart Of a temperance man. Port Pennsylvania stood up boldly from the hill-top with its black guns, its ragged fringe of trees and branches masking the ditch; and the ceaseless sentinel ruminating on the ramparts. A squad of men were below drilling some very slow drill, marching and countermarch ing° in the most deliberate and comfortable manner. The toll-gatherer was at his post, looking as ma lignant as ever. I would like to see the army that can disperse the toll-gate men; they survive all disasters of flood and .field, gr all dangers to the State, the tempest ; the earthquake, and the ahock pf arms. They are a strange people, and justify the theory of our friend the elder Weller, which you will remember : " They are all of 'em," said that sagacious coachman, " men as has met with some disappointment in life, consequence of which they retires from the world, and shuts themselves up in pikes ; partly with the view of being solitary, and artly to revenge themselves on mankind, by kin' toile." The road from Tenallytown was like Virginia and Maryland roads generally—uncertain, rugged, and difficult of travel. It seemed as if the builder ; hadset out with the best intentions as to building a fie-adAurnnike,but had left hie work half finislmd for some unexplained:reek - li. The country through which we parsed had a fresh, comfortable, and thriving look, with none of that gloom and desola tion which seems to have fallen on Virginia. There were no broad acres of felled timber; no deserted and dilapidated mansions; nothing of the sadness and solitude which has covered the path of our army. The gardens were neatly trimmed; the fences were intact; the fields were Covered with immense crops of stacked corn; the farmer was tiiling his acres ; the trees waved and sighed in unmolested glory, and bright oyes looked from nearly every homestead. A few soldiers were thrown along the road at wide intervals for the nominal duty of keeping picket-post; and the duty was a nominal one indeed, for the soldiers were, as a gimeral thing, quietly amusing them selves with a game of cards or carelessly medi tating under their tents and road-side huts. I don't know how many "towns" or " we passed through, for in this part of the world nearly every barn and outhouse is a ' E town" or g: ville," but our first resting-place was at Rock ville, rather a pretty village on the margin of Gen. Banks' division, and about sixteen or eighteen miles from Washington. It is the capital of Mont gomery county, and boasts a sober little brick court house, which might be easily converted into a Quaker meeting house, without undergoing any unnecessary expense. There lb a pretentious little church, with a laudable attempt at a steeple—a, large and well-wooded fair ground, a few small country inns, a store or two, and many comfortable and tastily-erected private dwellings. The hotel at which we halted was a very good specimen of its class, which you certainly consider a doubtful com pliment, if the experietees of life have ever taken you on stage-coach journeys through this part of the civilized globe. There were no loungers at the door, which I con ceive to be a very bad sign, for loungers and topers hang around the best hotels on the same prineiple that flies cling to the sweetest sugar-barrel. The parlor contained three chairs, a book, a very hard sofa, an allegorical picture representing a very red Goddess of Liberty sitting on a blue shield, and supporting a flagstaff in the mart exemplary, pa tient, and uncomfortable manner. Over the man tel was a sampler-of worsted in a black, wooden frame, complimenting the meek, the lowly, and the pure in heart, and setting forth that the compli- Rion*, aforegal& Wei perpetuated by the artistic fingers of one whose name I shall not reveal, "in the thirteenth year of her age:" We had time eno ugh to pdnder over the Scrip. tural injunction, 'and to assure 'the landlord, of or entire acquiescence in his observations on the Weather, when dinner was announced, and our company entered the dining-room. The lady who presided might have been the superintendent of the Rockville almshouse, and seemed to consider her guests us unfortunate people, whom the parish bad inflicted upon her reluctant charity. A half-dozen fans were suspended over the table, and were con stantly propelled by a small specimen of the negro race ; while the appointments of the table exhibited a degree of faithful service which I trust maylla meet with a fitting reward. Notwithstanding the cooking was very primitive, the viands very crude, and the associations not very agreeable, we accom complished a dinner, such as it was, and went on our way. Our way thenceforward was through a country rather more military than that traversed in the morning ride. Just beyond Rockville a body of our soldiers were stationed in the woods, fell ing trees, widening the road and removing many of the obstructions which a negligent corporation had permitted to accumulate. These small camps, how ever, were little else than outposts, none of them containing more than a company. The scenery seemed to be in a transition state, and as we ap proached Darnestowe the country began to assume a broader and less crowded appearance than that surrounding the capital, which I take to be little more than a large variety of hills of all shapes and sizes, huddled together in the most uncomfortable, and I sometimes think the moat unsightly manner. In the distance we had a view of a mountain ridge, which seemed like an ocean-ripple ascending the horizon, and which looked very clear and very beautiful under the sober sun of an autumn's after noon. There was a cluster of four peaks, the tallest being called, I believe, the ci Seger Loaf." These summits are m the neighborhood of the Monocacy, and brawl' away from the Blue Ridge, a part of that large family of mountains of which your Alleghenies are very promising and prominent members. The country intermediate was gently rolling and desirable as farm lands ; and in farm lands most of it was, for it was well-fenced and well-tilled. We came upon the Government teams as we approached Darnestown, those sure indications of proximity to a camp. It would be impeinible to give any idea of the multitude of teams one constantly sees, and this sometimes oc curs to me as a historical speculation which you can resolve at your leisure : If our army, which is something less than a half million, requires such an enormous amount of transportation, how did the commissaries and quartermasters of pXerxea ma nage to feed and transport his army of six mil lions ? Darnestown itself is the last plane in the world to go into history; and is about the most insignifi cant and unpretending oonntry-town that ever found Waif in the possession of a sudden newspaper note•' riety. The only hotel in the place is on the north of the camping ground of a Wisconsin regiment. ti is a small wooden building, with entertainment for man and beast—the entertainment for man being a " shake-down," or husk mattress in the corner of the bar-room ; the entertainment for beast being a fence roil find a rape, with the eanapy of the trees for stabling accommodations. The proprietor of this caravanserai was cosmopolitan in his ideas, for, in addition to liquors and segara of the choicest brands and latest importations, he likewise disposed of brooms, candles, loaf sugar, opodcldoc, calico, ploughshares, lini ment, laudanum, hemp, ten-penny nails, boots, shoes, Jamaica ginger, sarsaparilla, and the latest and best productions of our standard authors; combining in his stock instruction, amusement, edification, and entertainment, and thereby typify ing the enterprise and civilization of this glorious land of liberty to which the oppressed and down tediltlefa or all nations look up frem their chains for delivery from their thraldom. All of which, as the proprietor graciously informed us, was to be had " on terms cash, and Virginia notes not taken on no account." About two miles from Darnestown General Banks bas taken up his quarters. The General himself was not at home when we called to pay our re• spuds, having gone to Washington city. Imme diately around him, extending more particularly in the direction of the Potomac, the main body of his division is encamped. His department is one of the most imports:4,W extensive in the *coun try. He holdsinarper's Ferry on the north, keeps Western Maryland on its good behavior, and is in a position to assist General McClellan, General Dix, or General Roseerans, in Western Virginia, as the ease may be. He has thrown his forces farther down the river than was done by General Patter son, who was rather too distant to be of immediate iaivleo, 10 the Minimise affair demonstrated. All the advantages gained by General Patterson during his occupation of Western Maryland and North eastern Virginia, and they were many, General Banks has maintained and improved, Ho is in a position to advance on Leesburg or Manassas, if McClellan deems it necessary; to act as the reserve division if we care to make a general advance along the line, and in fact, whatever may be the exi gnaw! of seevlee alt.ek the Poteurne, he can ren der the most efficient and immediate support. Of many things in this department, so far as our force and the details of its disposition are con cerned, it does not become a correspondent to speak, for I may say, in fact, that my etp0r1131346, as a war correspondent here teach the newspaper men, having Government confidence, that their duty is not so much to tell what they see as to be prudent in preserving such knowledge of the army tiiithag - Cinent, as they may possess. The general ap pearance of the camps in this division impresses an observer more favorably than those on the Lower Potomac. The country is more advantageous as a military situation—the ground being more rolling and open, the supplies being more easily accessi ble, while there are many excellent streams and springs of water. The men have been hardened into a soldier's way of life, having undergone many long marches, and mostly in constant view of the enemy. They seem to have great confidence in Gen. Banks—more, indeed, than I could have ex pected, knowing the prejudice which soldiers gene- rally entertain towards officers from civil life. In the management of this department, however, Gen. Banks has shown so much energy, modesty, ability, and good sense, while around him And in his confidence he has so much of our best mili tary talent that the highest hopes are entertained of him as a commander, In his personal exertions the General is un tiring. He maintains a watchful supervision over everything connected with his depart ment. He is frequently among the camps, and has a thorough knowledge of the character; the resources, and the topography of the country. The police discipline he maintains is very rigid. The rights of property and person are respected amd protected. The baneful influences of intempe rance among the soldiers are avoided, by maintain ing a guard over every dram shop and hotel in the country around, and by visiting with severe penal ties any attempt to smuggle liquor within his lines. The General himself came suddenly into the camp of the New York Ninth while, in company with lion. J. B. Baskin, Judge Coles, of New York, and Mr. Sheridan, of Philadelphia, your correspondent was in conversation with some of the officers. It was after drill and towards evening, and no one at all expected his coming. We a way he has," said one of the officers, "he drops down before we know, takes a hasty look at matters, says good-bye, and starts off again." The General looked re markably well, and recognizing some of our party, dismounted. He had just returned from Washing- On, he said, and was making a hurried tour of some of his camps. His visit to Washington was his first day's absence from his quarters since as suming command of the division. And after ex tending to us an earnest invitation to call at his quarters, he remounted and galloped away. We spent a few minutes with Colonel Murphy of the Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania regiment. As most of his command are from Philadelphia, perhaps you will be glad to bear that it is in most excellent condition, the men being comfortable and contented, with not a patient in the hospital. The Colonel is indefatigable in lids efforts to make his men good soldiers, and they are almost constantly kept on drill. J. R. Y. KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI. Hardee's Whereabouts. Yesterday, tho author of the somewhat renowned drill was represented 'as having joined Buckner's column, at Bowling Green, with a number of half civilized whites and Indians. The Press doubted the accuracy of the intelligence. It turns out that his column, consisting of a few thousands ; is still in Missouri. Why is it that he does not join McCul loch, or Price, or Polk—leaders whose forces are nearest his own? Why does his column remain so long inactive, if it be composed of terrible and ap palling material? The truth is, if it be not a myth, a creature of romance, it, in conjunction with Jeff. Thompson's irregulars, forms the force opposite to the Union army, stretching in a line from Cape Girardeau with an irregular northwestern deflection through Ironton, Rolla, and Lebanon to Warsaw. There is its true position. It will be found that up to this time it has not been transferred. It was to support this left wing of the Pillow- Polk column, and to act as a reserve to it, that " Ben" McCulloch separated from - Price after the battle of Springfield, where Lyon fell, and also with the idea of keeping Fremont from pushing a heavy column upon Price's extreme rear during the ad vance of. the latter upon Lexington, by way of Rolla and Springfield; and equally to prevent the advance of any similar column by Cape Girardeau, Commerce City, and Benton, so as to strike an effective blow at Polk's command, either at Co lumbus or New Madrid, It will turn out that the übiquitous McCulloch and the ciroulating Hardee for six weeks past have either been stationed, or confined their entire ope rations to a line on the northwest side of the Mis sissippi, stretching from scout of Cape Girardeau, through Greenfield, Doniphan, and Cassville. Neither has been strong enough to undertake any independent operation, and both have been acting a subordinate and inferior part to the action of Polk's main column, lying stretched in cc anaeon. de," form from New Madrid, upon both the Mia smal and Kentucky sides of the Mississippi, north ward to Mayfield and Benton. The main body of Polk lies at present at a point in Kentucky called Hickman, A point only thirty miles below Cairo ; it is the county seat of Fulton, the extreme southwestern county of Kentucky, and contains a population which before the war was three thousand. For merly considerable activity prevailed in this place. It has been a great shipping point. It forms, with two other villages of that section, a small triangle, within which the advance and the right wing of General Polk is embraced. His advance is at Columbus, A small town twenty miles below . Cairo. It is a miserable, dawdling, straggling town, such as you see often on the banks of the Mississippi, where a couple of hundreds of people formerly eked out a miserable existence. Of late years it assumed a wore brisk business air, and even its people began to think that there were other actual events in the world beside the everlasting negro. A railroad, connected with the very heart of Western and also with that of Middle Tennessee, had found a terminus there, and travellers and trade from the regions of civilization actually went thither. This is the nearest point which this part of his column has attained to Cairo. Not long since both Polk and Buckner were anxious to flank the Union forces at Cairo by obtaining commanding positions upon the Qkierirer. Buckner intended to snake a dash upon Louisville, whilst Polk essayed his skill upon Paducah. Grant seized and fortified the latter point, whilst Buckner never got nearer to Louis ville than seventy-five miles. Polk was, and has Leen, forced to be content to occupy, a town south of Padiioas~ eo as to 're - slat the probable Southward march of Grant. The name of that town is Mayfield, A town upon Mayfield creek, in Graves county, Kentucky. It is twenty miles south of Paducah, upon the line of the Paducah branch of the Nash ville Railroad, the main branch of which it conjoins at Union City. It is a mere post town, with a railroad station, and with but fow inhabitants. As a strategic point it is remarkable. The posseesion of it tends to prevent the use of thisrailroad for the transportation of Union forces down the Misais sippi through Nashville, Middle, and Central Ms sissippi, the only route by which a great land force can b e t e u ez , witheut enormous loss tct New Or. TWO CENTS. leans. Over this route travelled the Western boatmen on their way home from the Crescent City in the days of flat-boats and broadhorns ore steam boats overcame the vast sweeping current of the cc /ether of Willem?? A Boat Expedition a Folly. All the gunboats which can be built can be de stroyed easily by the rebels. In any expedition which may be attempted by the route of the river ; batteries will bristle on every bluff until the last one, at Baton Rouge, is passed, a distance of twelve hundred miles. Such a mosquito fleet would be blown out of water in any serious expedition. Gun boats upon the Western waters are simply for pur poses of transportation, and for river revenue and blockade purposes, until the lower Mississippi, be low Natchez, is reached. Armies sufficient to overwhelm the Q 04449 SUMO' Alld tatio Um 49 their allegiance, must march, in parallel lines. through Tennessee, Mississippi, and Eastern Louisi ana, to the Gulf, and through Southwestern Mis souri, Central Arkansas, and Northwestern Louisi ana, into Central Texas_ Fremont's Advance Column. The last reliable advices from General Sigel's column, which is Fremont's avant guard, shows that it had reached Warsaw. This town is the capital of Benton county, Missouri, and is eighty miles southwest of Jefferson City, and almost due west from St. Louis. At this point the pontoon brid g e Ir,g - 439 •1 VILA T AR4 III :- • The natural tine of Meratrror . Price would be southward through a town reply shelled by Montgomery's brigade, known as Osceola, A post-town of St. Clair county, fifty-two miles from Warsaw. This lies about eighty miles from the town near which the last advises indicate that Price will make a stand, if he fight Fremont within the limits of Missouri. That town is called Carthage, A flourishing village, and the county.seat of Jasper county, Missouri. Spring river flows past it. Its population must reach several hundred. A range of bluffs run near, which eould be formed into agtrog ellOn Qj 4cfcnc@g: thia be true, Price is farther west, and, therefore, farther from St. Louis, than when Lyon fought him at Spring field. There is good reason to doubt whether he has reached Carthage. He is most probably in the region embraced between Fremont, Lamar, ' an d Nevada city. If he has really reached Carthage, he must have immense means of transportation, or he has abandoned or destroyed all his trains, and the spoils of his ephemeral success at Lexington. AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY. Letter from Frankfort [Correspondence of The Press.) FnAmmonT, Ky., Oct. 19,1861 The position assumed by this State in a legisla tive capacity, and now being carried into practical effect by the people, is one of decided interest, and must soon destroy the force and power of that por Lion of the country now in rebellion against the Federal Government. For this purpose, the Legis lature voted, in its recent session, both men and money4the control, of which has been placed in the hands of five of the most respectable and as_ oomplished business men of the State, combining the military skill and knowledge of Colonel S. Gill, a graduate of West Point, and an officer of distinction in the war with Mexico ; the experience of General P. S. Dudley, a soldier, and, I believe, an officer of the war of 1812; Colonel Ed. Taylor, cashier of the State Bank; Colonel J. E. Temple, cashier of the Farmers' Bank, who is president of the board, with P. Swigert, Esq., secretary, a gen tleman well known to your sierehants i<s the presi dent of the Farmers' Bank of this State, and for whom he has done collecting to =enormous amount. The Military Board itself is an assurance that Ken tucky is in earnest in what she is doing, both in prudence, ability; and integrity of purpose, and her economical expenditure of the liberal appropriation. But this is not all. His Excellency, the much abused and, I think, slandered Governor, has done much to aid the board in VBiniPg out the measures that he vetoed, which was doubtless accompanied with his honest opinions of what Kentucky ought to have done.' You must know that the Governor was raised in the town of Harrisburg, long the popular summer resort for thesis we need uvt to 49 ashamed to cell the first families of the South, and with whom we, all once delighted to associate; for God knows there never lived a more genial race of people on the earth, until overtaken by this secession insanity. The Governor TOY Tccagibtrod them as they wore, and not as the bridge-burners and bank-plunderers of the present day. I kpow that he loves the Union, and no man would more regret its destruc tion than himself. His appointment of W. A. Dudley, Esq., an attorney of high reputation and large Lesley= experience, to the important and responsible position of quartermaster general, and of Colonel John W. Finnell to that of adjutant general, are assurances that his object has beenTo aid the Military Board in placing the State upon the Rai footing designed by the Legislature. He has, in the appointments alluded to, passed by his heretofore warm political friends, and much to his credit, and that of the State, has filled the positions with two of the first young men, not only of the State, but scarcely equalled in the nation ;, both decidedly unconditionally Union men. His adju tant general was the Secretary of State under Go vernor Crittenden. Last night, on his return to the Poem of his former official laborS, to =unio the duties of his new position, he was greeted with a spirited and patriotic serenade, which was appro priately and properly acknowledged in that gentle man's peculiarly happy style of addressing promiscu ous crowds, he never failing to create an enthasiaam in any cause that he might espouse. His heart is in the preservation of the Union, and his talent and influence will be felt throughout the State. I have been thus particular in describing the officials of the Mate to assure your readers that "old Ken. tacky " is with them, and intends to stand with Brownlow on the ice rather than surrender. Re cruiting is progressing, and the State will soon have twenty thousand in the field. Yours, tte., J. E, P, The Indians 'in the Rebel Camps. The Louisville Journal says :We invite the at tention of all our people to the following letter : To the Editors of the Louisville Journal: LOUISVILLE, Oat. 17, 1861_ I see a statement in a letter published by you dated Lebanon Junction, which, if true, should arouse the blood of every man, woman, and child in the land. It is stated in the letter that Buck ner & Co. have now in their camp- two thousand Indian warring, well-armed, who itFe , ao doubt in tended to make a dreadful and savage attack on our devoted city. Is it possible that our wives and children are to be butchered by such fiends? Is it not time that the Government bad sent us a sufficient force to drive at least the Wage Indian from our State ? Are we to be tomabawked and scalped in the dead hour of the night 7 Do speak in tones of thunder to our people and tell them of their imminent danger before it is too late. Yours truly, LOUISVILLE. We have received from many quarters the state ment That them are two Indian regiments in Bunk• ner's camp, and we have heard the statement con tradicted. We are notAwepared to say . whether it is true or not. The evidence that it zs a fact is direct, and 'we have no sufficient reason to re ject it. It is well known that the Confederate civil and military authorities have been diligently engaged for some time past in an effort to engage the whole Indian population in the war against the United States, and that, to some extent, they have been successful. A recent number of the Nashville Orion and American annOWItCeS the westering of ram , India» regiments into the Confederate service, and exults thereat. Of course, these four savage regiments, and all the rest that can be raised by means of bribes and threats, have been or will be taken wherever it is supposed they can be made most effective in the conflict. Mere policy will dictate where they shall be employed, for humanity, or any considerations connected with it, can have nothing to do with such a question, there being no difference, so far as humanity is con cerned, between letting the savages loose upon, the people of Mimouri and unchaining them against the eitizene of Kentucky. There can be no doubt that both of these States will resound with their hor rid war•whoops The Rebel Troops at Prestonsburg. The Louisville Democrat says: There are fire thousand two hundred rebel troops at Proolons• burg. They expect to move &tweed slaortly. It is the intention of the rebels to winter in this state. Zollicoffer has fallen back ; but that is only a ruse. The Confederates want the pork of Kentucky, and must have it, and their eager desire to.rcach the heart of the State for the sake of plunder is na tural. They expect to feed and clothe their bun. gry hordes upon the property of this State. Inter cepted letters show this. An °Murat Bowling- Green, from Mississippi, declared it had always been the purpose of the Confederates to. make Ken tucky the theatre of the war. Our people have been unsuspectimg. The atrocious project of in vading her soil they could not credit. The Defences of rwincah. A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat, writing from Paducah, Ky., under date of ()debar 16, says No enemy is near :admit. The time has passed when it might have been attacked with any show of success, and it will henceforth relapse into, a state of quietness perhaps rivallin.g, that of Cairo. The town is now surrounded by formidable de fenses, garrisoned by an effective and powerful force (about, 4.000 strong 4 and ready for an as sault, The defences consist of six forts or earth works, on which are mounted cannon of heavy ca libre, the whole forming a half circle around the outskirts of the city. Within the last few weeks Paducah's strength has been more than trebled, and a battle here is not at all probable. The enemy are at Columbus, themselves badly frightened, and Government will, I think, have to inaugurate what offensive movements occur. Gae of the roost im portant of the preparations now going on is that of fortifying the Marine Ilospital. Immense earth- works are already completed partly around it, and THE WEEKLY PRESS. Tai wzzio rim Win be sent to eabeoribeni by mall (per *Mat= in advent.,) at 62.00 Vireo CeoPies, 0.011 Five " 2-01 Teo aa a 19.00 Twenty tt a " ( to one edema) 20.00 Twenty Cooke, or over, IRlWGriberi) • aaaaa For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will wad am Copy to the getter-ap of the Club. ^bnaetere are requested to act El ARMS. tat Tam Wain, navies. WAIF soon be finished ent._.. l‘ ,.. „. em „ . , genty occur, troops could retis, tt to ttd, pike, and hurl defiance until starved out. FAx4y-tour pound guns will be mounted there. The keank. of the tr9opo is generally good. AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI.. The Expected Battle In the Southwest, The St. Louis 12rptild lean , of the 10th inst., says : Fremont is pressing vigorously forward, and by this time has probably crossed the Osage, in• swift pursuit of Price. On Wednesday, a portion. of Sigel's division had already made the passage pf that river, And the major general had reached its• bank, at Warsaw, in Benton county. Sigel'a ca valry had skirmished with one of the enemy a• mounted parties, and taken three prisoners. ller had possession of the Pomme de Terre river, with• 434tntt7 and artlll9ll,_ end with his mein body may be, by this time, in the vicinity of Price's• army, which is reported to have made a stand about forty•Sve miles southwest of Warsaw, in Cedar county. Fremont had received in formation leading him to conclude that Price is about to retrace his steps to the Osage, and there give battle. This accords with the statements that have heretofore reached us, to • the purport that Price's movement southward was for the purpose of joining his forces with McCul loch's, and then meeting Fremont. One of these statetnePta Weti l that the intended junction would take place on or about the 20th instant, at Sao river. It is quite probable that the designed union of the rebel armies has already taken place, having been hastened b • the celerity of Fremont's march, and • ..- 7 • . ::)rgr • march will be too late, 'and their - attempt' etimet be persisted in without bringing them into a position where a fight will be unavoidahke, and their defeat as inevitable. The separate commands of Fremont, Pope, Sigel, Sturgis and Lane,. McKinstry and Hunter, were all to converge at Warsaw. Sigel is in the van, and from him we shall probably first hear im portant news. Price is said to be about receiving a number of rifled cannon by the way of White River. This incident is well authenticated, and is of value, as indicating that Price intends to make a stand and give battle. Everything suggests that a grand and decisive conflict is imminent in Missouri, and that the victory will be ours. Happily, there is nothing to occasion a suspicion that Fremont has in any respect underrated his adversary. It is only to it§ fornd that the later will atilt avoid a battle. Hopes of the Secessionists. A despatch to the Refittblican from Syracuse, Mo., dated October 18, says : There are a great many Secessionists in and about Syracuse, but they preserve the most prudent silence, having given up the hope of any secession success in this part of the State. Some of them inwardly chuckle, however, and have declared confidentially that our troops will be cut to pieces before they reach the Arkansas line. They state that Sterling Price will, with Me- C•alloek's forces, have sixty thousand men before Fremont's army meets them, and that the Seces sionists. will be _Punished with all the artillery they desire. The Pilot Knob Battle a Union Victory. The Missouri Democrat, of the 10th inst., sayst It seems. from later reports received this morn ing, that though an engagement did take place near Pilot Knob, the rebels, and not the Fodeth were seriously worsted. The following is the latest, coming this time from official sources : PILOT Kalon, Oct. 17, 10 P. M., 1861. Major Gavitt, of the First Indiana Cavalry, made an attack on the enemy this morning, when, disco vering the strength end position Of the it-Ws, fell back until he came upon Col. Alexander, with 800 infantry of the Twenty-first Illinois, and one piece of artillery. The enemy followed, fighting all the way. Major Gavitt then got his guns in position, and totaaaiing hie infantry in r•EillAibh, pert of his command to retreat still further, drawing the enemy into the ambuscade prepared for them. The enemy suffered severely, and fell back with heavy losses. The St. Louie Rep:eblica7t, 9119 of the ablest De, mocratic journals published in the slaveholding States, in an article discussing the possibilities of a restoration of peace, says : <, The war of the Confederate States upon the 11i9n is zincondite - unal. To be sure, they ones 'offered not to resort to the sword, if the Govern ment would quietly submit to the loss of a large part of its empire, and many were willing to accede to the unjust demand rather than involve the coun tryin civil broils—trusting to time to reeexuent the Union—but now the dissatisfied spirits 1 . 11,91,Qt 1.261 a greater mereflees to their inordinate hest. Who can tell where the ambition and greed of the Dis unionists will stop, or what.will pacify them? Re cognise the Southern Confederacy, some say. But what is the Southern Confederacy ? Where is ita beginning, and where does it end? The Disunion- Ms claims Kentucky, and Missouri, and Maryland. Shall we give them these? If so, what else will they not ask? Of course it is just as reasonable to demand Illinois and Indiana, as Missouri and Ken tucky. " There is another matter upon which it may be well to bestow some thmight, There is no as• auranee, and can be none, that the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States would bring peace. A declaration of that kind by the Federal Government would not settle a solitary question in dispute, when the Southern States re sorted to secession. The grievances which they allege as having preeipitated them into reVOilitlOii, would be in no measure affected by an acknow ledgment of the complete freedom of the parties in rebellion. As a separate nation, they would be continually at war with the United States upon the same grounds that induced the struggle for separa flout And this they would be the more inclined to do after having once compelled submission to their arms. If the action of some of the Northern States upon the slavery question was the cause of their leaving the Union, they can find expedients to war upon them when fairly out ; for the same rights' will be as much in jeopardy then no before. L , At the length to which matters have gone, it is' indeed, questionable whether an. honorable and permanent peace is compatible with two distinct and inharmonious , nationalities in America. We had much rather trust to the chances of recto. ring the country to a united condition, even though the effort costs untold hardships and indefinite ex penditure, than rely for peace upon submission to the enormous exactions of the Disunionists." MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. The Blockade of the Potomac. WASHINGTON, October 22.—The Harriet Lane arrived up from Indian Head last night. She re ports that new batteries hive been erected at Mat thias Point. • The Freeborn and Island Belle, while making II reconnoissance at that point yesterday, threw some shot into the woods, and the fire was returned by some new batteries of eighteen heavy guns, fmme. diately thereupon the woods and underbrush were cleared away, exposing the batteries to view. Vessels in passing this point are obliged: to- hug the Virginia shore, and are exposed to fire for a distance of some four or five miles in doublingit. vessels passed down the river last night, and , it is not known that any came up. The river men report that the rebels have &atm ber of seine boats and long boats concealed. in the creeks and inlets between Aeqnia creak and Oseis-, quark bay, and that they are busy in building launches, apparently with a view to effect . a Gross ing into Maryland, or to seize vessels coMing.up.. The rumor that a number of vessels bound down have bean taken by the rebels is unfounded. Important from Fortress Monroe. FORTRESS MORROE, via Baltimore,. Oot. 21. The severe gale which has prevailed here, but is. now moderating, has somewhat retarded. the pre parations for the departure of vessels from, this point. A detachment of 250 men of the Massachusetts. battalion, who were sent out from Newport News. this morning for fuel, were attacked by the rebels, but stood their ground. The Find and, Bevel& New York Regiments had been sent out to support them when the steamer left for Old Point. From Gen. Rosecrans. IYASIIINGTON, Oct. 21.—A despatch was received today from Gen. Bosecrans, dated Camp Tomp kins, near Gauley Bridge, where he has been en camped for some time. He reports everything quiet. The rebels, it appears, are falling .backfrom their position, and, from the beat information which can ho obtained of their movements, they are con centrating in pretty large force below, to co-operate with Gen. Johnston, who has separated from Gen. Beauregard. Rebel Quarrels It seems that Wise and Floyd are not the• only quarrelsome rebel generals. A Richmond corre spondent of the Charleston Courier, after noticing the Western Virginia controversy, says The quarrel between Pillow and Hardee in. Mis souri led to a shameful disaster. Afte4 wrogng, triumphantly through a portion of the State., the two generals ' for want of concert, were forced to beat a retreat, and leave the gallant Missourians to struggle for themselves. E4TEAORDINARY SCARCITY OF LEX:O.:IS.— It is a singular fact that, during the tilde= St'SUen, when eipidentic fevers are moahprevalent, and, 'acidulated drinks are greatly needed. by Physicians fix t hei r 1 " 1 " tieuts, suffering front every species of febrilodisorder, it oftewoccurs that fruit: of the acetic Wass should become very scarce. This is eminent/3' true at the' present time. time three weetasinee a vessel Mired at our port with a cargo of lemons and limes., 'Vat price at that time was considered unusually high, via: $6 per box. Two weeks later there were but ten boxes in the market. A gen tleman purchased two of them at ST eer box. Five boxes were sold the next day at bassi dollars each, Oa the day-.following a host weft disposed of 4 0 13 " 'maims at. $2l, and the last box of lemons in the City was ash! yesterday at $lO, or at about 10 cents per lemon, wholesale rates. By to-morrow night, probably, not a lemon can be bed, and Ike market will be entirely cleared out. A v 6 t ,l6l frObi :,.`40114h America loaded with this fruits anti bound to this port, was spoken last week two bun, dred miles south of Cape 1 teldePen she has not since, been beard from, but is hourly expected. A lirely swim wilt doubtless ensue between the dealers of New, York, Boston, and this city, as to who shall obtain a share of this invoice, but the first choice will IA allowed to Philadelphia , Gorernmeat agenta are now in. Ikaitifut hero to make large purchases of the artkie tor the Washington hospital. Single lemons were sold cm WA city lust evening tbrArlY cl/111ariece, (to addrooo of
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