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