THE PRESS. FUBLHHJBD DAILY, (SUNDAYS HCYPTKP,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY, OITIOI No. 417 CHESTNUT STBEET. DAILY PRESS, XimLTl GISTS FBI Wxbx, payable to the Carrier Hailed to Subscribers out of the City at Six DollaiS Fax Asioh, Fou* Dollars for Eight Mokths, Thrsr Dollars for Six Mouths —inv&rlaby in advance for the time ordered. THE TRI-WEEEIT PRESS, Mailed to StLbscribera out of the City at Taaaa Dol lars Psk Amnnc, in advance DRY’ -GOODS JOBBERS. 1861. p o 1861. R O E FALL O S d M S. RIEGEL, BAIRD, & CO., IMPORTERS AMD JOBBERS of DRY GOODS, •SO. 4T NOBTH THIRD SHEET, PHILADELPHIA. Prompt-paying merchants are respectfully •Invited to examine our large and carefully-se lected stock of desirable goods, which will bo sold at prices to suit the times. Be2S-2m TAMES, KENT. SANTEE, & CO., IHPORTEBS AND JOBBEB3 or DRY GOODS. ‘Nos. 239 and 241 North THIRD Street, above Race, Have sow open their usual •LARGE AND COMPLETE STOUR 07 FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS, Among which will be found a general assortment of PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. CASH BUYERS SPECIALLY INVITED. *el7-2m fJIHOMAS MELLOB. & CO., Nos. 40 and 43 NORTH THIRD Street, HOSIERY HOUSE, LINEN IMPORTERS and SHIRT-FRONT MANDFACTDRERB. Importations direct from the HiuiuiacUnitw. sell >2lO 1861 TOCASHBUTERS -1301 H C. LAUGHUN & Co., No. 303 MARKET STREET, Are receiving daily, from the PHILADELPHIA and NSW YORE AUCTIONS, a general assortment of MERCHANDISE, bought for CASH. CASH BUYERS are espemallp invited te tall and ex amine our Stock. aes -tf CARPETINGS. CAEPs- T STOCK SELLING OUT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, CLOSE BUSINESS. BAILY & BROTHER. No. 920 CHESTNUT STREET. •eIT-tnthsZm JIOUETH-STEBET CARPET STORE, No. 47, ABOVE CHESTNUT, 1 am now offering my stock of ENGLISH CARPETINGS, EMBRACING EVERY VARIETY AND STYLE. imported expressly for City Bfltiiil Sales, at Prices LESS THAN PRESENT COST OF (MPOIiTATIOtL J. T. DEIACKOIX. Q.LEN ECHO MILLS, McCALLUM & Co.. *LAKUFAOTUBKB3, IMrOBTEBB, AND DKAIrEBa. (09 CHESTNUT STREET, CARPETINGS, OIL CLOTHS, AO. We have now on hand an extensive stock of Carpet* Ings of onr own and other makes, to which we call the Attention of cash and short time buyers. JJEW CARPETINGS. J. F. & E. B. ORNE, 80. *l9 CHESTNUT STREET—OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE, An now oiening, from Custom House Btore 9, their fall importations NEW CARPETINGS 1,000 piece* J. OBOSSLEY ft SONS' TAPEBTRY CARPETS, from 75 GTS. TO PER YARD. M TAPESTRY VELVET: FRENCH AUBCSSON: FINE AXMINSTEB; ROYAL WILTON; EXTRA ENGLISH BRUSSELS; HENDERSON ft CO.’S VENITIAN: ENGLISH INGRAIN CARPETS; AIL or NEW CHOICS SIILES. HAVING BEEN INVOICES BEFORE THE LATE ADVANCE IN THE TARIFF) Will be soli at MODERATE PRICES. «028-3 m tOOKING GLASSES. * JMMENSE REDUCTION LOOKING CLASSES, on, PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, riCIUSZ AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMER JAMES S. EARLE A SON, 815 CHESTNUT STBEET, Announce thg redaction of 26 per cent, in the prices of all fbe] Manufactured Stock of Looking Glasses; also* la MBVOTlngs* Picture and Photograph Frames* Oil Paint tags* The largest and. most elegant assortment In the •ountry. A rare opportunity is now offered to make purj •bases in this line For Cash, at remarkably Low Prices EARLE’S GALLERIES, jyp-tf 816 CHESTNUT Street. CABINET FURNITURE. CABINET FURNITURE AND BID- V/ LIARD TABLES. MOORE k CAMPION, No. 261 South SECOND Street, to connection with their extensive Cabinet Business are OQf manufacturing a superior article of billiard tables, And bare now on hand a full supply* finished with the 810088 A CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, vhlch »re pronounced, by all who have used them* to he fuperior to all others. For the quality and finish of these Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the character of their work. an26*6m • HARDWARE. Hardware. MOOSE* HENSZEY, & GO, Hare now on hand, and are constantly receiving, a targe assortment of HARDWARE* CUTLERY* GUNS* Ac., to which they invite the attention of purchasers for Ash or short credit. No. 437 MARKET Street, and ocB-2m No. 416 COMMERCE Street. Philada. BUSINESS NOTICES. PRACTICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. —The Laboratory of the subscribers la open daily* from 9 A. M. to 6 Fa M., for Analyses of Ores, Guanos, Waters, Ac. Albo, for the Instruction of ptudeots in Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. Opinions given in Chemical questions. Special Instruction In MSDIOAL CHEMISTRY, JAMES 0. BOOTH, THOS. H. GARRETT, JNO. J. REESE* M. D.* Sc4-3m No. 10 CHANT Street, Tenth* below Market. TOHN WELSH, Practical SLATE fcl ROOFER, THIRD Street and GERMANTOWN gtead, ii prepared to pnt on my amount of BOOKING, Dn the most MODERATE TERMS. Will guaranty to Biake every Building perfectly Water-tight gW* Orders promptly attended to. ■b EVANS & WATSON’S ■■ SALAMANDER SAFES. STORE, IS SOUTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. A large variety or A IRE-PROOF SAFES always fen band. TpiNE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.— JD J. W. SCOTT, 814 CHESTNUT Street, ■ few ■loon, below the “Continental.” The attention of the Wholesale Dealers is invited to his IMPROVED OUT OF Sill RTS, of superior fit, make, and material, on fetid Mill made to order at shortest notice. jed-tf VOL. S—NO. 85. importers and jobbers. ‘ S S HIRTS THOS. MEIiLOR & CO., 40 AND 43 NORTH THIRD STREET. not-lSt "JELLING, COFFIN, & CO., No. 116 CHESTNUT STREET, Offer, by the Package, the following Makes and Descrip tions of Goods: PRINTS. PTONELL MFQ, GO. GREENE MEG. 00. BLEACHED COTTONS. Bay Mill, Lonsdale, Hope, Blackstone, Greene Mfg. Co., Bed Bank, Maripoaa, Jamestown, SlatorsviUe, Belvidere, Centrpdala, As. BROWN COTTONS. Frodonia, Ohio, Groton, Silver Spring, Glenville, Eagle, Mechanics* and Farmers* Union, &c. COESET JEANS.—Glasgow, Manchester. PEKIMS AND STRIPES.—Grafton, Jewett City, Madison, Slatorsvillc, Agawam, Keystone, Choctaw. CANTON FLANNELS.—Slatersville, Agawam, Shep pard's. BILKSIAS.—Smith’s, Lonsdale, Diamond Hill. WOOLENS. ARMY BLUE CLOTHS ANI) KERSEYS. BROAD CLOTHS.—Bottomley’s, Pomeroy’s, Glonham Company. CASSIMKRKB AND DOESKlNS.—Greenfield, Gay's, Stearns'. SATINETS.—Baas River, Crystal Soring*. Oonvora- Ville, Hope, Staffordville, Converse and Hyde, Con vene Brothers, Bridgewater. ALSO, Flannels, Llnseys, Kentucky Jeans, Nankeens, Tickings, Colored Cambrics, Printed Cloakings, Ac. au9fmw3m FLANNELS ; WELLING. COFFIN. &:Co. i au9-fmw3m j JjUtOTHINGIIAM & WELLS, 34 SOUTH FRONT AND 35 LETITIA STREET, BROWN AND BLEACHED SHEETINGS, MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT FALLS LACONIA, LYMAN, EVERETT) DWIGHT, LOWELL, IPSWICH, HAMPDEN, SHAWLS, BEAVER CLOTHS, TRICOTS, CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, TWEEDS, BLANKETS, AND ARMY GOODS, FROM THE WASHINGTON (LATH Bay Statu,) AND OTHER MILLS. ocl-3m SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, GERMANTOWN, fa. roa thi bali or I PHILADELPHIA-MADE ! se2B-Bm | gWOBDS, 'BELTS, SASHES, SWORD COVERS, GUN CANES, COTS, &e„ Fine anti common, in great'Variety. Military gentlemen are invite<l to call, GEO. IV. SIMONS & BRO.. SANSOM.STUEJJX HALL. rjO ARMY CONTRACTORS. DUCKS, BLANKETS, For sale l»j' ocfiS-fmJiiirliTi ARMY CONTRACTORS A AND SUTLERS SUPPLIED 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 required for the Army. KEMBLE & VAN HORN, oclo-3m 321 MARKET Street, Philadelphia. WOOLLENS. WELLING, COFFIN, & Co., Are prepared to deliver on contract 3*4 and 6*4 Dark End CLOTHS AND KERSEYS. seS-Sm JUDIGO RLUE KERSEYS. INDIGO BLUE CLOTHS, And every variety of Goods adapted to Military Clothing* REGIMENTS EQUIPPED AT SHORT NOTICE. BENJ. L. BERRY, CLOTH HOUSE, 50 SOUTH SECOND STBEET. ocß-tf ARMY FLANNELS.j COFFIN, & CO., Are prepared to make contracts, for Immediate delivery, WHITE DOMEX FLANNELS, AND ALL WOOL INDIGO BLUE FLANNELS, of Government standard. TVERROM’S PATENT COMBINA JL* TION PORTABLE HOUSE* being the cheapest) feihiplefit, And neatest mode of house building yut pro duced for temporary or other purposes. They can be used for permanent or other camps *, for boepital purposes; for temporary or other dwellings, in town or country, or at sea-side as cottage?, or station offices for railway companies. The extraordinary advantages offered by this new mode of building are, the facility with which they can be transported, or taken down or put up; their simplicity and greater advantages in the numberless simple modes of lighting and ventilating, besides their beauty and neatness of appearance, and the trifling cost at which they can bo produced. Any information can be obtained or orders attended to, either for the manufacture or sale of Cottages, Huts, &c., or for State, County, or Individual Patent Bights, at liberal rates, by addressing A. DERROM, Steam Carpentry, PATERSON, Now Jersey OC2B-12t* riOTTON BAIL DUCK and CAN YAB, of all numbers and brands. B&ven’a Dock Awning Twills, of all descriptions, Tor A fsnsssSi^ssMf> omit,, b9t,rt4ei w? A CO., Birt-tf IWJOBMAUaj. HEAVY MERINO drawers. COMMISSION HOUSES. ANGOLA, MERINO, SAXONY, Etct. VARIOUS WIDTHS AND QUALITIES. For sale by OFFER FOR SALE SHIRTINGS, DRILLS, JEANS, SILECIAS, CANTON FLANNELS, FROM THH CABOT, CHICOPEE, and BABTLET MILLS. LIKEWISE, A FULL ASSORTMENT OF No. 11» CHESTNUT STREET, COM MISSION M BOHAHTB GOODS. MILITARY GOODS. SWORD KNOTS, FLANNELS, AND DRILLS. SIMONS & CAUSED, Agents, No. 106 CHESTNUT STREET, 11C CHESTNUT STREET, Sky Blue for sate at Oil) lowest nrieos lie CHESTNUT STREET, FORNEY’S “WAR PRESS.” The intense iuterest everywhere felt in the mighty con test in which the Armies and Fleets of the Nation arc tttgAgtd, ON THE POTOMAC, and elsewhere, anti the existing demand for a Weekly Journal that will furnish a full and accurate account of the thrilling events of this exciting and ever-memorablo period, acceptable alike to Soldiers in P»mPi to Peaceful I'irt'sides, to those who wish to obtain the latest war news, and to those who desire to preserve in a convenient form, for future reference, ft correct History Of the Great J?e&etfio»> has induced me to commence, on SATURDAY. NOV, IG, 1861, the publication of a GREAT WAB PAPER, (in lien of the present issue of tho Weekly Press*) to be called WAR PRESS,” It will be printed in superior slyle, on a large qitarfo ghvOf 0* eight pagt'S, and each number will present the following ATTRACTIVE FEATURES, viz : TNi;;slr«vtbig an event of the War, or a MAP of some lo cality where important operations arc in contemplation ; A RECORD OF THE LATEST WAR NEWS from all parts of the country, received during ouch week by Mail and by Telegraph, from numerous special CORRESPONDENTS, and all other reliable uourcea or information ; '■ whose epistles from Washington during the last tlireo years have been singularly correct in Hub* statements Ahd predictions, aivl whose comments upon public affairs have been copied and rend with deep interest through out the whole country; A THRILLING SKETCH OR TALE, ilhwtrfltive of tho romantic incidents connected wit!’, the War; GLEANINGS FROM THE BICII TREASURES OF WAR-WIT AND WAR-J’OEXBY, that are elicited by the mighty events non - transpiring; ABLE EDITORIALS ON THE GREAT QUESTIONS OF THE DAY; THE LATEST LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS ; A SUMMARY OE RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, IMPORTANT ARTICLES FROM FIRST-CLASS ACCURATE MABKET REPORTS, Including the Cattle Markets of PliiladelpUft, KW Vork, and other place*, the Money Market, and Reports of the Prices of Produce and Merchandise. Effort* will constantly be made to introduce such new features as will rentier the “ WAR PRESS” one of tho most popular and attractive Journals of the country. If, contrary to general expectations, the war should be Sud denly brought (a a close, its columns will be filled with articles that will prove deeply interesting to its readers, One copy, one year Three copies, one year.... Five copies, one year.... Larger Clubs will be charged nl tho »umu rate, thus l 20 copies will cost $24; 00 copies will cost $6O; and 100 copies, $l2O. We also offer the following EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS! To every Subscriber remitting US $2 wo will forward by mail a iirM-rate, new, largo COLORED MAP of the Southern States, which gives the most useful and com prehensive view of the Scat of War, and descriptions of the important localities of the South, that has yot been published, its retail price is fifty cents* aud it is well worth double tlmt twill< Wo will also forward one copy of this Map to any-per son who sends us a club of tliree, of five, or of ten sub scribers. Any person sending us a club of twenty subscribers, MCMBpMIiPfI Yt'i.tli $24) will be entitled in an extra copy (for t!»c getter of tlie club,) and ulso to a copy of tlio above-mentioned Map. Iti order to further stimulate individual exertion to ex tend the circulation of the “AVAR PRESS," \vc offer the following liberal premiums: will he presented to the person or persona who may pro cure the lurgest list of subscribers by the Ist of April) 1662: to the person forwarding the second highest number by the same period, and to the person forwarding the third largest number up to that time. The conditions of the foregoing premiums require all subscriptions to be paid in advance for ONE YEAR, at the rates published above. and other tojai citizens, are earnestly solicited to assist in extending the circulation of the “WAR PRESS.* They may rest assured Hint they will thereby not only secure to subscribers a first-rate journal, but one which will be an earnest champion of the vigorous prosecution fll the war and the restoration »r tho Üblah. ffPECTMEN COPIES will be furnished to those who request them. Subscriptions may commence at any time. Terms ALWAYS CASH, in advance. All Letters to be addressed to PHILADELPHIA. All Jomauls ivliicll republish this PruNiu'Ohw wilt Tip entitled to an K.xebrmgp/or one Year. TillUADElirniA, CLOTHS. Proposals are invited and will be received by tho United States Quartermaster at Philadelphia, Pennsyl vania, until 12 o'clock at noon on the 15th day of No vember next, for furbishing CLOTHS FOR ARMY CLOTHING. Each proposal UlUat be accompanied by samples of ilia doth which it is proposed to furnish. The cloth should be three-quarters to six-quarters yards wide. Light or dark blue will be preferred, and light grays will not be considered. Bidders must state the number of yards they will be prepared to furnish in each month, and for how many mouths, at the clothing depots in New York or Phila delphia, or both, and tlio price per yard for each quality and width. Proposals and samples will be plainly marked, and ad dressed to tho United States Quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Each bid must be accompanied by a proper guarantee, setting forth that, if the contract is awarded to the party named therein, he will at once execute tho sampj and give bonds hi double the amount of the contract for the faithful performance thereof. M. C. ME IQ 9, noft-Gt Quartermaster General U. 9. Army. Army clothing and equi- PAGE OFFICE, Philadelphia, November^ Proposals are invited, and will be received, at this of fice until TUJ-JSI*AY, the 12th instant, at 12 o’clock M., for furnishing WATER-PROOF BLANKETS for the army. They must he seven feet long and four feet wide, ami to have six eyelet holes at regular intervals along cacfi side, as may he seen on the pattern in this office. Deliveries to be tFftQv at the Schuylkill Arsenal, subject to inspection, Proposals will be endorsed u Proposals for furnishing Water-proof Camp Blanket?, 5 ’ and be addressed to GEORGE 11. CROSMAN, n08.4t Deputy Q. M General. T\KAIN PIPE.—STEAM-PRESSED JLJ ' STONEWARE DRAIN PIPE. \ PRICE LIST. 2-incA boro, per yard * 25 cents. 3 u « u ~30 “ 4 t* u <i .**••• 40 ** 6 u «» u •••50 “ 6 ii i( u 65 “ 7 *« '« u * 85 u 8 »» » a HO ‘i 9 u a u 125 “ 10 « « H * 150 “ 12 “ «* “ 200 «« A liberal discount allowed to Dealers, and to those or dering in large atmntities. FACTORY-SEVENTH and Germantown »ad. S. A. GARRISON, oc!s-tf Warehouse 1010 GHESTNUT Street. COAL- OIL LAMP WITirOUT A CHIMNEY. TItITTIXS’ PATENT COAL-OIL LAMP bums all kinds of roal Oil without the uw? of a chimney. Burners and Lamp?, wholesale and retail, by It. 11. WEEKS, General Agent, 1108-lm IS North SECOND Stroct. Terrapins, oysters stewed AND FRIED, AND CHICKEN SALAD.—lnvi tation Cards and other notices will be distributed in all parts of the city, with punctuality. The undersigned is at all times prepared to present, for the inspection of Ladies and Gcntlemou, a list of the things necessary for a large or small ontertalnment, as the caso may be, thereby avoiding all unnecessary profusion and waste; and flatters himself, that by bis long expe rience ijs Luamesa, he will lie able at all times to give, as heretofore! entire satisfaction to all who favor him with their patronage. HENRY JONES, Caterer, No. 250 South TWELFTH Street, above SPRUCE, ocl-6m ag. ABELE OR SILVER-LEAVED POPLAR TREKS A largo stock for sale by MAHTtW MOQRK, Nurseryman, Morrisvillo, Backs county, Pa. . , ... This bountiful tree is one of the most desirable for pluming nrar (lie ecu shore, noG-fit* IN WESTERN VIRGINIA, IN KENTUCKY, IN MISSOURI, ON THE SEA COAST, A BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVING, THE LETTERS OF ‘ * OCCASIONAL, ' 9 0 interesting to nil Denominations; WRITERS; TERMS: OKE HTJSDMSD DOLLARS IN CASH ! FIFTY' DOLLARS TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ALT. POSTMASTERS, JOHN W. FORNEY, “PRESS” Office, 41T CHESTNUT STREET. PROPOSALS. QCAnTEIIXASTER GEXEBAL’S OFFICE, VVs>hili;rtmi, October 31,1861. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1861. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1861. New Publications, This is literally tho golden age for authors. Compare Otway dying of starvation, and Chatterton committing suicide from want and disappointment, ■with Scott, Bulwer, Thackeray, and Dickens, gain ing ample wealth by the pen. A few months ago, five thousand dollars were paid Dickens for the exclusive privilege to republish “ Great Expecta tions,” and, not long before, tho same sum was given to him for a short story, called ‘‘Hunted Down'' (his only original contribution to any Ame rican periodical), which appeared in a New York weekly. Then T. B. Peterson & Brothers, of this city, who have republished Dickens in a variety of editions, hnvo now rendered the scries complete by collecting a number of their author s short storios, commencing with that quaint ancodoto, “ The Lamplighter's Story," adding in “Hunted Down" (which cost so much), and concluding with “ The Haunted House.” a curious collection of ghost stories never before put into a volume. Two edi tions of this collection aro published to-dny: one in 12mo. shape, the other in Bvo. The book, which is well printed and illustrated. is caoital pending. No writer tells a short story half so Well as Dickens. There will bo as great a demand for “ The Lamp ligliter’s Story,” as there has been for “Great Ex pectations,” of which Peterson has sold 15,000 copies, As tho story of “ Hunted Down’ 1 w copy righted, no rogue can appropriate it. The fUsts trated 12mo. edition of Dickons, rendered complete by the present addition, now consists of thirty-one volumes. Each of these contains as much reading matter ns three volumes as published in England, and at one-sixth of tho English price. A vast quan tity for one man to have written in twenty-six years. He will not be fifty years old until next February. Charles Desilver, Chestnut street, has brought out a new edition of Gilliam's Manual of Instruc-. tion in Infantry Tactics, for the Volunteers and Militia of tho United States. Combining the recog nized systems of Cooper, Scott, and Hardee, it is recommended by General McClellan, and other competent authorities on the art of war. It con tains numerous illustrations, and is sold, iu llexiblc cover, which adapts it for use literally as n hand and pocket-book, for a dollar. , Desilver has added a new volume to his Inter linear Classics, a truly valuable series—the Hamil tonian system, improved by Thomas Clark. This volume, prepared by Geo. William llotlig. con tains tho Gospel, according to St. John, in Greek, the Catholic (Latin) version, from the Vulgate, the authorized translation of tho Church of England, a new interlinear translation, and copious historical and critical notes, it is a very complete work. Count de Gasperin’s “ Uprising of a Groat Peo ple. The United States in 1861;” translated by Mary L. Booth, which we noticed when first pub lished in July, has reached a fourth edition, nnd is on sale by John McFarlnn, 33 South Sixth street. It is a surprising honk for a foreigner to have writ ten-superior, in its knowledge of Amorioan insti tutions and character, to De Xocquevillo’s. Dr. S. 11. Taylor's “Method of Classical Study; illustrated by questions on a few selections from Latin and Greek authors," is a great improvement on the old Delectus. Published by Brown & Tag gnrd, Boston. The 7 '/Ira of a volume of “ Patriotic and Heroic Eloquence," just published by James G. Gregory, New York, is letter than its execution. In the prose selections there nro too many didactic pas sages, and. in the poetry, thore are too many effu sions by "William Ross Wallaco. The very appro priate prelude is John Savage’s soul-stirring poom on Washington, suggested by Stuart’s portrait of the hero. Among the specimens of spoken elo quenco aro extracts from Webster, Clay. Holt, Meagher, Everett, Andrew Johnson, Seward, Wirt, H. J. Raymond, Ac. The typographical appear ance of the volume is beautiful. Sold by McFar lan. Tickncr and Fields. Boston, have issued two vo lumes of Scott’s “Talesof a Grandfather," to he completed in six, and to match with their Household Edition of the Wavcrley Novels, and Lockhart’s Life of Scott. The neatness, accuracy, and com pactness of these editions are beyond praise. Rudd and Carleton, New York, have published another (the fourth) volume of De Balzac’s novels. It is “ Eugenie Grandet, or, the Miser’B Daughter,” and is translated from the French, with great spirit, by 0, TV. Wright and F. E, Goodrich.—A volume of “ Essays," by the late George Brimley,Librarian of Trinity-College, Cambridge (England), has been issued by the same publishers. There is little in these Essays—actually reviews of books—to jus tify their collection into a volume. Mr. Brim* ley was a gentle critic, bestowing qearii j M muull praise upon the semi-doggrels ** Coventry Patmore as upon the beauty of Wordsworth, or, with ail mannerisms (which he is gradually basting off 1 ), of Tennyson. A slight notice by Mr. E. 11. Stoddard, tells us that Mr. Brimley, who died in his SSth year, wrote under the depressing influence of constant ill health. His amiable nature is evident throughout his Essays. The Presbyterian- Quarterly Review for October has scvii'A superior articles. Those upon “ Tho Na ture and BoCtiny of the English Language,” “ Eng land after Wiolihi?i” “Phtenicia and Carthage,” and “The Intermediate State,” aro especially noticeable. So is the paper by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson Cox professing to give “ Reminiscences of the Rev, Dr. Joseph Addison Alexander ns a Com panion in Travel.” Dr. Cox, if his own report of his own conversations with Dr. Alexander bo ac cepted as correct, must himself have been a truly tiresome, because wearily pedantic, travelling com panion. lie reports a single soaUiice of his own talk as occupying nearly a whole ootavo page. Sometimes he speaks a page and a half to two pages without break or pause—apparently stopping at last to take breath. In a word, he is garrulous, pedantic, and tiresome throughout, saying very little of Dr, Alexander, hut making Dr. Cox the principal figure in the picture. Condition of Prisoners. The following is the report of the United States Sanitary Commission upon the condition of the pri soners in the forts at New York : Sir : "With your permission I visited the prison ers of war and of State at Governor’s Island on Monday last. I should have extended my visit, the next day, to Fort Lafayette and Ellis Island, whero smaller portions were placed, had I not loarnefi Hist- they were all to be removed, the noit day, to Boston harbor. I suppose, however, that none of the pri soners eould be badly off if those crowded in the casements of Castle William were not, and there fore a report of the condition in which I found them may properly servo as a sufficient reply to all the complaints which bays appeared in the New York papers. No doubt, the circumstances under which these men were brought to Governor’s Island made their condition very trying, and almost inhuman. HI clothed, already sick from the voyage and previous exposure, they were suddenly precipitated upon a post not prepared to receive them, when there wax neither adequate room, clothing, nor medical force; but these unavoidable deficiencies were supplied with all the expedition possible. All alacrity was shown, it appears, by the commandant and his sur geon, and other officers, to meet the case. In a very short time, bedding, blankets, suffiotent food, And zncdicnl attention were furnished to all. Ab i saw them, they were in a better condition, in aU respects, than half our own men in the field. Not go crowded as most soldiers in tent, with as abun dant food, as good blankets, and more devoted me dical attention. There was nothing to complain of, except the unavoidable fact that casemates, although here quite roomy, furnish very poor ven tilation, and are in no case oomfortable quarters. The men complained of nothing (although I gave them ample opportunities to do so) except the loss of liberty. They spoke kindly of their physicians and the officers in command, The climate seemed their chief objection to this region. It went sore with them to be sent still further north. They wanted to stay whero they had made friends, knew their prison and their keepers, and where they were nearer to sympathizers and to home. The casemates wore singularly clean. I pur. poaely went unannounced, and found the floors bright and sweet. Every man had his own bed and adequate blankets. In addition to tho Go vernment supplies, the ,State of North Carolina hod been permitted to send some comforts to the pri soners, and disinterested beneficence in New York had done somotliing more. I eould really find no room to add anything from the stores of tho Sani tary Commission. The hospitals were humanely and tenderly ad ministered by Surgeon Swain and Assistant Sur geon I’eiers. The sick meu looked perfectly com fortable in the regular hospital and in tho tem porary hospitals as comfortable as cosomato per mitted. Medicines of the best kinds in unlimited quantities, and necessary stimulants in abundance, were supplied to the sick. Several very desperate cases of typhoid had been saved by the assiduity of the physicians. The low spirits of all prisoners aie, of Course, highly unfavorable to convalescence, and doubtless the sick list anil the bill of mortality (seventeen had died) wero both larger than thoy would have been had not home sickness very much prevailed. The men were usually reluctant cither to wash or to exercise. They had to be driven to both. Pains were taken to compel them to he in the open air several hours each day. Thoy were not con fined within narrow bounds, but had many acres for a play ground. The surgeon told mo he had seen only one tooth brush in uswamong the rank and file. They were evidently careless in personal habits, dirty, and sluggish. Tho officers were perfectly comfortable for prisoners, and complained of nothing. I saw, on tho whole, abundant evidence of the unreasona bleness of the complaints made of the treatment of these men. It would be a source of great consolation to be lieve that our prisoners were treated half as well. Very respectfully, yours, Henry IV. Bellows, Prcst. of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, lion. W. JI. Slward, Secretary of State. Nett Yore, Oot. 31,1801, TEE REBELLION. AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY. MCR2 ABOUT THE LOYAL 112. Y THERE. TIIE ADVANCE OF GEN. NELSON. AFFAIRS IN THE MOUNTAINS. NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. BEAUREGARD’S OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS, Rebel Account of Fight at Romney. THE GREAT EXPEDITION. SKETCH OF PORT KOVAL. THE BATTLE AT BELMONT. *f*FURTHEK PARTICULARS, THE WAR IN MISSOURI. POSITION OF GENERAL PRICE, FROM THE KANAWHA VALLEY. POSITION OF KOSECRAN'S AND TLOVD. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RE TIREHENT OF GEN. SCOTT. & C. &C. &C. THE WAR IN KENTUCKY. Mote About the Loyal Men of Kentncky. The men who in Kentucky have been most fierce ly assailed in public and private life; those who have bid defiance to the bitterest attacks of Seces sion-: v.-ho have been the most prominent targets far moral musketry, have been the memburs of the Legislature. They had to assume the lead on the stump, in the legislative hall; iu brief, every where. None iu the North, not fully conversant with the terrible energy which the Secessionists of that State putforth at the last two elections of June and August, can form any idea of the intensity and vigor of bolt-- canvasses. Both the Union and Se cession parties wore fighting for existence, and whichever won the battle at the polls effectually extinguished the other; the other could never be galvanized into the slightest show of political vitali ty; Among those who participated most actively in these two contests in Central Kentucky, was Judge Buckner, A resident of Lexington city. Here resided Breckinridge, the head and front of the Secession movement in the State. Here his former great local popularity still clung to him. The people of Kentucky have been and are excessively proud of the great rise he had made in life, as they always are of any man, np matter what his politics are, provided he wins a high reputation anywhere away from home, in any department of life. It therefore required an unusual amount of tact and energy to be put forth by his opponents to beat him in his own home before the people. The great effort on the part of Breckinridge was ’to elect a Secession majority to the Legislature. About members of Congress he cared comparatively little. With a majority of his friends in both branehes of the State Legislature, he could (with a Scorning observance of the forms of the State Con stitution) jjavo the “old Commonwealth” voted out of thermion. Hence he threw every energy Of his nature, and every available resource he pos sessed, into this design. More especially did he feel proudly anxious to curry his own county of Fayette. At such a time, and under such circum stances, Judge Buckner was selected by the Union ists of his county to make tho r&oe. He made it successfully- So prominent did this make.him that he was made Speaker of the House of Representatives, which place he still holds. . Unlike our Pennsyl vania practice, the election of a man to such a place in Kentucky may be taken as a sure evidence that he possesses ur&inS. Judge Buckner is a bachelor of forty-fire, with dark complexion and dark eyes. Erect in his Car riage, and pleasant in bis manners, he makes a most agreeable impression upon all who meet him. He left the bench, upon which he served for many years, with a high reputation for ability and integri ty. It is probable that he toay be found hereafter upon the floor of the Federal Legislature. Asso ciated along with him in the same branch, and pro minent among the members upon the floor, was • G. Clay Smith, Prom Covington, the county seat of Kenton, aed in fact the city next to Louisville in population and wealth. It is a mere offshoot of the growth of Cincinnati. Mr. Smith is about thirty-eight years of age. Serving first as an officer of Infantry, and subsequently of cavalry, among the troops upon the Rio Grande, during the Mexican war, he won a rery fair reputation for skill and bravery. Since thia contest opened his military proclivities have re vived, and he is serving as Major in Colonel James S. Jackson’s cavalry. In the Kentucky. House of Representatives he was regarded during the last session as one of the Union leaders. Skilful in debate and sagacious and prudent in council, he is looked upon by the people as one of the rising young men of the State. Advance of Gen. Nelson, The Louisville Democrat of the 7th inst. says Despatches from Maysville tell us that messen gers have arrived who report General Nelson as having advanced six miles beyond Prestonsburg, to Licking Station, and that Williams had again re treated, to a point about ten miles further away, Where ho would make a. stand with 3,00(1 men. If he has no more than 3,000 ho will not stand within less than ten miles of a threatened attack, provided, he ean help himself. If Williams has moved back sixteen miles from Prestonsburg he is back in Vir ginia, and may propose to fall back upon Floyd’s column, which, if not cut to pieces, is not more than sixty miles from Williams’ last position, That " Quiet Fellow,” Gen. Grant. The Louisville Democrat says: General Pblk is reported to have said that it would be unavailing to make a demonstration on Cairo whilst that quiet fellow, Grant, was there; for the reason that Grant was always awake and ready for a fight. We should not be surprised to hear that that same quiet fellow had routed out a blustering preacher from Columbus. When General Grant gets through with Jeff Thompson in Missouri, he willrecall his troops, .and make a thrilling demonstration elsewhere. From the Mountains. The Louisville Democrat, of (he Bth inat., says: Mr. Wm. R. Tracy and Capt. Cross, of tho Second East Tennessee Regiment, arrived at London, Ky., on the 3d inst. About two weeks ago they loft Camp Dick Robinson with two other parties, went to Tennessee on business, accomplished their pur pose, nnd reiushed London, on the way back, with out any trouble. They penetrated into the very heart of East Tennessee, and report that there are routes from Kentucky into Teunesse through which this column may be •pushed almost witho tit obstruction , and they are ready to guttle it. They furthermore state that large numbers of loyal peo ple are ready to co-operate with us, with arms, and that the country is full of subsistence. Captain Cross says there is no military reason why a column of ten or twelve thousand men could not be pushed through, even to Northern Georgia, and both gentlemen state that the Secessionists are much alarmed. They had just lieiird of Zollicofler's repulse, and it was magnified ten fold. Mr. Tracy describes their condition as that of a terror-stricken people. He learned that ZolUcoffer has 7,500 men at Cumberland Ford, 1,200 at Cumberland Gap, and about 1,200 at Knoxville for reinforcements, but most of them were poorly armed and equipped. Mr. Tracy states that, although the Union people of Tennessee are armed with rifles, they have no powder, and are therefore unprepared to fight; but they will join the army when they are properly armed and supported. The routo by which ho pro poses to guide the army is rough, but not imprac ticable ; while it affords ample subsistence lor an army, with line mountain positions for defence In short, the statements of these gentlemen, who are endorsed by tho Tennesseans of Gen. Schoepf’s com mand, satisfy those who have heard them that an energetic and sagacious commander could drive a wedge between the armies of ZollicoiTer and BuoK ner, into the wry heart of Tennessee. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge on the .War m Kentucky Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, wrote a letter on the 25th of October respecting the war in his State. The letter was directed to a gentLem.au in Baltimore, and has -been published by the Ame rican of that oity. The following iB an extract: Wc shall have bloody work and a good deal of it; but Kontuoky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, (re member that one-third of the people of the three last named States are the children of Kentuckians,) will put out their whole military strength to repel this invasion, and follow the routed rebels to their utmost den. If tho whole of tho balance of the loyal States can regain Virginia and hold Maryland and Missouri, the four States I have named above are a full match for the remaining ten Secession States, and if you will compare the facts concerning the four States now rallying against this atrooious inva* gum With those of the ten most southerly Secession States, you will see that I speak soberly. This in vasion of Kentucky was pure lt opens along four hundred miles the route for armies into the South, and it makes the secession of Kentucky from the Union surely and eternally impossible. One-third port of the population was disloyal ; the other two-thirds are ns loyal as any people that live. This is what I have said continually, and though they have been fearfully tried they have continually vindicated my judgment of them, and they will do it to the end. / tinni: God vdll trtrp, us tit e -fteto, tt , u ml that tho ,t,tlto,tal t tjc of ottr Wtitry will fa restored. Strange Story of Loyalty and Treachery. A Nolin (Ky.) correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says : There is now in tho United States service in Ken tucky a regular army officer and brigadier general of volunteers, who, five months ago, had actually written out his resignation of ins commission in the United States array, with the intention o f ojfcringhis sendees totheSonthcrn Confederacy ! A native of the South, and for yenrs stationed at various points on the extreme Southern frontier, he had, naturally enough, imbibed the prejudices of his section, and when Lincoln was elected Presi dent ho fully believed, intelligent man though he was, that the new Administration was to inaugurate a course of oppression of the South—not merely with reference to the system of slavery, hut in de nyingthem CQUaI poiirical privileges, in destroying theil Commercial equality, and in using every ad vantage that power would confer, to promote Northern prosperity at tho expense of Southern in terests. With such convictions he wrote out his resignation. Just then the shameless treason of his superior officer released him from duty for a time, and dis gusted with tho treachery, he resolved, before ho norably severing Ms own connection with an army that had thus basely been betrayed, in the interest oiftisseciion, lo travel nuiih, and sec the condition of things for himself. fjo soon saw much to shake l»i* d«i«rzniD»tion ] amL wn; Q t*»w» undecided) he fell in with an old friend, the thbT* C ?.J- h. Lee, U. 8. A., now major general in \.u* rebel ser vice. He told C6l. Lee of hi 9 intention to and asked his advice. Col. Lee advised him try ail means to abandon the idea, and assured him that, if he did resign, he Would live to See tho diiy when he would bitterly regret the step. Convinced, by his own observations, of the cause less nature of the rebellion, and influenced by his friend’s advice, our officer did abandon the idea of resigning, and resolved to remain true to the flag he had sworn to support. Three days afterward , ho heard of Col. Lee’s own resignation, The one, still loyal by rebel advice, is now a brigadier general of U. S. volunteers, and is in service, de fending bis native State against invasion; the other, rebel against his own convictions of right, is a ma jor goneral of the Virginia Provisional army, and is in service, attempting to subdue tho western half of ins native State to the same tyranny that has already eaten the -vitals out of the remainder! Recruiting in Kentucky. Kentucky is supposed to have nearly her full quota, 27,000 men, and has been engaged in re cruiting only six weeks. The New Union General in Kentucky. General Bon Carlos Bust, who has been assigned to the command of the Department of Kentucky, entered the service on the Ist July, 1841, as socond lieutenant in the Third Infantry. He was greatly distinguished in many engagements during the Mexican war, and received the brevet ranks of cap tain and major for gallant and meritorious con duct. In January, 1848, he was appointed assist ant adjutant general with tho rank of captain, and has continued in the adjutant general’s department ever since, having been recently promoted to a lieutenant colonelcy therein, to fill an original vacan cy created by a recent act of Congress. Gen. Buel is a native of Ohio, and a graduate of West Point. NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Report from Richmond. A private of the Second Michigan, wounded and captured at Bull Run, and returned because of per manent disability, is ou a visit to his regiment. He says that one fortification on the north side of Rich mond, when he left, was more than three-fourths of a mile in length. Oar soldiers iu the hospital With him were well treated. Those confined in the tobacco-house were generally abused. The Georgia troops at Richmond were greatly dissatisfied, and anxious to return home. General Beauregard’s Official Report of the Battle of Manassas. General Beauregard has made bis official report of the battle of Manassas Plains, on the 21st of July. We find the following synopsis in a letter to the Richmond Dispatch; I have been favored with a brief synopsis of por tions of General Beauregard’S report of the battle of Manassas, which has been forwarded to the War Department, and which will doubtless be published in a short time. General Beauregard opens with a statement of his position antecedent to the battle, and of the plan proposed by him to the Government of the junction of the armies of tha Sannndonh and Potomac, with a view to the relief of Maryland, and the capture of the city of Washington,’which plan was rejeeted by tho President. General B. states that ho telegraphed the War Department on the 13th of July of the contemplated attack bv General MoDowell, urgently asking for ft junction of General Johnston's forces with his own, and con tinued to make urgent requests for the same until the 17th of Jnly. when the President consented to order General Johnston to his assistance. General Beauregard goes on to state that his plan of battle to General Johnston an attack on the enemy on the loft, at or near Centreville, while ho himself would command in frost; bat the condition of the roads prevented this. It was then decided to reoeivo the attack of the enemy beiind Bull Run. After the engagement at Blackburn’s Ford, on tbe lBtb, Generalßeauregird was convinced that General McDowell’s principal demonstration would be made on oqr loft wing, »e 4 ho then formed the idea of throwing forward a suf ficient foroe, by converging roads, to attack the enemy's reserves at Centreville so soon as the main body of the latter became inextricably engaged on the left. Late in the day, finding that Gen. Ewell, who was posted on the extreme right of our line, bad not moved forward in accordance with the pro gramme and the special order which bad been sent to him, General B. despatched a courier to General Ewell te inquire the reason why thq latter had failed to advance, and received a reply from Gen. Ewell stating that he had not received any such order. The enemy’s attack having then beSOnre too strongon the left to warrant carrying out’ the original plan, as it would take three hours for Gen. Ewell's brigade to reach Centreville, it became ne cessary to alter the plan, change front on the loft, and bring up onr reserves to that part of the field! This movement gas superintended in person by General Johnston, General Beauregard remaining to direct the movements in front. At the time when General Kirby Smith and Ge neral Early came up with their divisions, and ap peared en the right of the enemy, our forces on the left occupied the cord of the arc of a circle, of which the arc itself was occupied by the enemy the extremes of their lines flashing ours, - The ap pearance of Smith's and Early's brigades, and their charge on the enemy's right, broke the lines of the latter and threw them into confusion, when shortly afterwards the rout became complete. General Beauregard acknowledges the great ge nerosity of General Johnston in fully according to Sim (Gen, B.) the right to carryout thoplans ha had formed With relation to this campaign, in yield ing the command of the field, after examining and cordially approving the plan of battle, and in the effective co-operation which General Johnston so chivalrously extended to him on that eventful day. He remarks that the retreat of our forces from Fairfax, immediately previous to the engagement Of the 18th, is the first instance on record of volun teers retiring before an engagement, and with the objeet of giving battle in another position. The number under his command on the 18th July fo sot down at 17,000 effeotive men, and on 21st to 27,060, which includes 6.200 of Johnston’s army, and 1,719 brought up by Gen. Holmes fiom Fre dericksburg- Tho kilted on our sido in this over-memorable battle are stated in the report to have been in num ber 393 and the wounded 1,200. The enemy's killed, wounded, and prisoners are estimated by General Beauregard at 4,500, which docs not include the missing. Hying will Catch Itself. A Kentucky correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says : By their own accounts the rebels have received in two instalments from Europe 500.000 Enfield rifles. About the time Tennessee was precipitated, it was heralded over Pixie that 300,000 of this improved weapon, procured by IVm. L. Yancey, hod arrived safely. When the British vessel ran the blockade at Charleston, they made their dupes believe they had received 200,000 more. Judge Ochiltree, of Texas, estimates the entire Confederate force, including raw levies in camps of Instruction, at 299,000 men. Yet ex- Governor Neil S. Brown, of Tennessee, who once held Governor Harris in extreme aversion, but is now his man Friday, at 51,500 per annum, makes a soft but solemn argument to prove to the soldiers of Ilia State that shot-guns and old squirrel rifles &r& more effective than the best modern gun. Tho Governor improves on the Yankee who put green spectacles on his mule and fed him on shavings. One Candid Fellow among the Con federates. My old friend, G Washington Bricks, a fellow of infinite jest and most excellent fancy, makes hu morous mention of facts under which none but Mark Tapleys could oome out so strong : [From the Nashville Patriot.] “THLXCS HAS RIZ.” Bachelor's Retreat, Get. 21,1861. To the Editors of the Daily Dot Hot: Gknti.k- Mbn : You are aware that with the Presidential contest of 1860 my political hopes and aspirations expired, and that I immediately retired to my Sa bine farm, on the Frogtown turnpiko, somo fifteen miles from the city, where I proposed to spend the remainder of my days in cultivating my few acres, BB<l endeavoring t u marry some young lady of rich hut respectable parents. Since that time I have visited the city but twice—once last spring, to get some Shaker seeds and fish-hooks, and once last week, to sell a few bushels of whoat and lay in mv winter supplies. My wheat, the quantity of which was small, brought me, at John J. McCann’s now mill, just $23.25, and as this was all the money I could com mand, or was likely soon to command, I had no other menus of paying for the cart-load of things I felt myself compelled to have to rondor me com fortable for the winter—coffee, soap, sugar, hat, Candles, boots, *tu. How many of these articles of prime necessity I bought for the money, you can easily determine by the simplest process of arith metical calculation. Suffice it to say, I expendod all but ten dollars of the amount, and had got neither hat nor boots, and deuced little anything else—in short, not enough to fill one end of my Baddle-bngs. 1 went into a shop where they had a quantity of good-looking hoots on exhibition in the show-win dow, intending to buy me a pair, and fully pre pared by tho experience of the day to give what our excellent old friend Squire Maxey, of Market street, would call a thundering price for thorn. I sat down on a chair with the bottom knocked out, and elevating my foot in front of tho manufacturer, who was pulling a wax end through the solo of a shoe, and, pointing to my dilapidated foot, feel ingly exclaimed, “Behold the ead ravages of TWO CENTS. Time!” The manufacturer laid down his awl, thrust his finger into a hole in the side of the boot, and, giving a sudden twist, made the rent fifty per cent. larger than it was before. “Halloo! hold!” I exclaimed, turning pale, for I had intendod to make the boots last me for every-day wear until cold weather sets in, and I was about to swear at the teilow longer and louder than a trooper, but I reflected that profanity would not repair the dn niuge in times like these, and so 1 ujvt'iri/ remarked that I wanted a new pnir. I have long had n wenknees for what they call stitch-downs, but have never worn a pair, partly because they cost a confounded sight of money, and partly because they are too heavy to go to see the girls in. For the first named reason I have left unbought n number of things, in my time, that X was not a little anxious to hare. The owner of the shop took down from a peg a pair of stitch-downs. I tried them on. X must uo them the justice to say thnt they fitted me as handsomely as if my feet had been melted and poured into them. I determined to buy them, cost what they might. “I’ll take these,” said I, stamping my light foot violently on the floor, and taking my tcn-dollar bill from my vest pocket, “ Take your money out of that,” said I, handing him the costly shinplaster. I really believe the individual who stood before me at that moment was the most thoroughly asto nished boot-maker that I ey?r- Saw. He looked, first at the money then at me, turning alternately pale and red, while his eye-balls protruded from their sockets, as if they were being shoved outward by some hydraulic pressure within. At last, just as X was about to cry “ fire,” or run for a doctor, or something of the sort, he spoke ; “ You are from the country, ain't you?" I answered that I was. “And from a of a long way in the country, too, ain’t.you?” “Tolerably deep,” I replied. “I thought so,” said he; “them boots is eighteen, dollars!” I didg : t say another word. I sat<l6w& &&<! p«iu4 off * T tlieni boots. 7 more in sorrow than in ungcr. drew on iny own, and walked out of the shop. The proprietor of the establishment must have taken ? e i 01 v r \ nce Wales, or the owner of the State bark’ Eighteen dollars for a pair of boot 3! X earnestly trust that posterity will not think me too pnrL&ufflf About but X cnh ! t pny such a price. I went to the store of iny old friend, John Ra juftge, on College street, where I gob a first-rate pair of boots for seven dollars, and having invested the rest of my money in other necessaries, I threw my 88ddlebags across my horse and started home, fully convinced by the experience of the day that the email grocer of whom 1 purchased four pounds of candles at fifty cents per pound w»8 correct when he remarked that “things has riz.” When I was spending my last red it did not occur to me that three toll-gates obstructed the turnpike between my house and the city. However, they did not hinder me much. I got through the first one I came to by telling the keeper that he would have to change atwenty-dollarbill, which of course he could not do. The other two I rode around. I shall make if all right the next time X go to town. , I want to know, now, why they make us pay such unhallowed prices for such articles, for instance, as sugar, flour, it. The sugar crop of Louisiana was never better than the present one, and Davidson county never dreamed of a heavier crop of wheat than the last. To make us pay two or three prices for articles that ought to be almost a drug in the market is downright robbery—it is villainous —in short, it is damnable, and there ought to bo a law to put a stop to it. If there is already such a law, then that law is a “ particeps crimims "—an acces sory to the rascality—and ought to be dealt with accordingly. In great haste, your friend truly, G. W. B. According to the Petersburg (Ya.) Express, we learn that t}i? rebels had 138 killed and wounded at the battle of Ball's Bluff. Rebel Account of the Romney Fight. A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer, writing from Winchester, (Va..) Oct. 27th, says : An engagement took place yesterday (Saturday) between Col. Angus McDonalds cavalry, about two hundred in number, and about two hundred mili tin, under Col. Monroe, and a body of Yankee troops, variously estimated at from three thousand to five thousand. Our little force was obliged to retreat before superior numbers. The fight com manned three or four miles from Romney, whither our troops had gone to meet the enemy. After fighting some time, it was found that they could not keep back the Hessians, and a retreat toward Rom ney followed, the enemy pursuing. Our army wa gons blocked up the road and the artillery could not pass, and it was consequently captured, With wagons, tonu. baggage, Ac,; and we regret to add that Col. McDonald, it is believed, fell into the hands of the pursuers. When last seen, he was on horseback, with the enemy but a short distance in the rear. Some of his friends fear that he has been killed, as the Hessians, it has been stated, exhibited no disposition to take prisoners, but rode up to teamsters and killed them with their Sabres. Maj, 0. R. Funsten escaped. He was thrown from a horse, but was carried off in a carriage, and has leached this place, in a bruised condition. Some twenty or thirty of the cavalry have reached Win chester, from whom we obtain these particulars. Although directly from the scene of the engage ment, they bring reports containing discrepancies as to details. I aim to give what X believe to be most reliable. It is believed we had about twenty killed, and a number wounded. A large number of the enemy were killed, the artillery making roads through them, [Our loss was two killed, —Editors Cunt.] The enemy ore, no doubt, once more in Romney, and some of our citizens fear they may extend their visit to Winchester—forty-two miles being the dis tance—but I have no such fears. A militia force left here this morning in the di rection of Romney, to check them if they should have the temerity to advance in this direction. The cars have gone to Charlestown to bring soma troops from that place to go also towards Bomney. Of course, our people regret that the enemy have, for once, “ stolen a march on eur men,” and given the invaders some cause to “crow.*' A Richmond correspondent of the Savannah News says a certain noted captain, well known in Savannah and Charleston, will soon turn up in England, and subsequently on the high sens, as a master of a large and powerful privateer, carrying the flag of the Confederate States. It is not- neces sary, to state in what manner and by what means the Yankee blockade has been thus contemptuously, violated. A gentleman of distinguished family, well known in Georgia, accompanied the captam referred to, and will, no doubt, worthily represent his State on the deck of a privateer. THE NAVAL EXPEDITION. .Reliable News Expected Soon. Fortress Monroe, Friday, No. 8, | via Baltimore, Saturday, Nov. 9. j Commodore Goldsboi-ough expects to receive news directly from the fleet, to-morrow, by a de spatch boat. Order* have been received by naval officers to report to fie commanding general of the expedi tion, the troops for which are congregating at An napolis. Steps are about to lie taken- preliminary to an exchange of prisoners. Washington, Saturday, Nov. 9. The Secretary of the Navy regards the fact that no news was permitted to come from' Norfolk-to Fortress Monroe last night, as significant of on event favorable to the fleet. Sketch of Port Royal. The Herald says: Port Royal is fifteen miles northeast from the entrance of Savannah river, and is perhaps the most important point on the Atlantic coast of all the Southern States ffjioji border Upon that sea for the purpose of a hostile visit. The entrance itself is an inlet from the Atlantic, in latitude thirty-two degrees eight minutes north, fifty miles southwest of Charleston, and fifty miles northeast of Tybee Inlet, the entrance of Savannah' river. The opening from the Atlantic is between' Edding island and Hilton Head Island, and at that point is about three miles wide. The prolongation ■ inward of Port Royal entrance is called-Broad river and Port Royal river. Running up this for about twenty-five miles, bending off eastward through the Coosaw river, and coming out to the Atlantic again through St. Helena Sound, you have an irregular area of about twcnty.five miles by fif teen. This amphibious region is out up by numer ous rivers, creeks, and inlets into a great many islands (Sea Islands) of various sizes, the chief of which are Port Royal, St. Helena, Paris, Ladies, Coosaw, Morgan, Hatliaw, Edding, Chaplin, Pren tis, and Hunting. Along the const of South Carolina, as of North Carolina and Georgia, stretches a low and narrow sand-bar—a kind of defensive outwork to the land —seldom inhabited except by lost Indians and run away negroes, who subsist by hunting and fishing. At distant intervals there are shallow breaches through which the quiet tide stealg in twice a day, swelling the naturallagoons and damming the out let of the fresh water stream till the current is de stroyed and turned back, and their flood dispersed far and wide over the debatable land of the Cypress Swamp. Then, when the heavy rains in the interior have swollen the river;, (heir eddying eur. rents deposit ail along tho edges of the sandy is lands and capes the rich freights they have brought from the calcareous or granite monntaina in which they rise, with tho organic wasto of the groat for ests through which they flow. This is the soil of tile rice and cotton plantations, which arc always found in such parts of the tidal swamps adjoining the mainland or the sandy islands as ate left nearly dry at the ebb ofthe water. The region around Port Royal entrance and island has a strange, eventful, and romantic history. It was, in fact, tho first settled spot on the ooast of North America . How interesting, in view; of our expedition, to read the story of another expedition to the same locality just three hundred years ago ! The first colony was sent out by Admiral l Coligni, a zealous Protestant, and then one of the Ministers of the Crown, who, at the time of the wax between the French Protestants and the Catholics, obtained jiejimsfion of Chrrles IX. to plant a colony of Pro testants in Florida—a name then applied also to a great part of the Southern coast. Command of two vessels was accordingly given to Jean llibault, “ a man expert in sea causes, "and in the spring of 1562 ho landed on the Florida coast. Sailing northward, he discovered several rivers, one of which, from “ tho fairness and largeness-of its-harbor, 1 ' he called the Port Royal river. The old. chronicler, Laudo niere, who accompanied the expedition, describes the scene in glowing colors.. Spleniiid forcsls, shores festooned with rich grape clusters, birds of brilliant plumage, stags and doer in the luxuriant savan nahs. As the commander cast his eye across the waters of tho beautiful river before him, saysLatt doniere, and measured the breadth of its mouth and the depth of its soundings, he persuaded him self that “all the argosies of Venice ocald ride upon its bosom.'' Accordingly, upon the island a few miles up Port Royal river he erected, it is said, on the very spot where the town of Beaufort now stands, a pillar with the arms of Franco, ami in a few days after built a fort, which, in honor of his King, Charles IX. ho called Chastos’ Fort — jsrx Carolina —from whieh cireumstsaoe the country took the name of Carolina. Kihault reminded the Colonists that they were now occupants of a “ vast country, filled with every gocdly promise, where every man was to be honored, not for hi; birth or fortune, but on account of his own personal achieve, ments." Thus it was on that very spot that, for the first time, three hundred years ago, on tho North American coast, the flag of a civilised colony THE WEEKLY PRESS. Tn Wisely Fuss will be Mat to nbscxiben t? mail (per sonnm la advance,) at S3.C* Hues Ooplsi, » V)ti> (t ii Tea Twenty •< n 11 IS.Off “ (to one address) 30.00 Twenty Go idea, or over, «»ch rabweibor,) each., Tor ■ Club of Twenty-one or o«r, we will Mud M extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club. V Postmasters are requested to act aa Ag snti lot Til WIICLT Paisa. might he seen by the approaching mariner. But this first Trench colony did not flourish, and after sending out another to the snmc locality, the French, in 1567, gaye «p nil idea of making settle, merits. It teas almost a century after this before the English began to colonize . around Port Royal. Early in the seventeenth century, Lord Cardross led a colony from Scotland, and settled at Port RfJ'llJ' but this piano, olaiiuiiig,lVom an ogVeiatcn 1 , with the Lords Proprietaries, co-ordinate authority with the Governor and Grand Council of Charles ton, it was compelled, with circumstances of out rage, toacknowledge submission. fa 1070, William Saylc was sent out ns Governor, and m hi? letter of instructions he was told to “ cause all the people lit Port Royal to Swear alle giance to our sovereign lord the King, and sub scribe fidelity to the proprietors and the form of government established by them.” With regard to the capabilities of Port Royal, an English writer spoke of it ns follows: “ The whole royal navy might ride with Safety in Port Royal harbor. Its situation renders it an excellent sta tion for a squadron of ships in time of war.” A glance at the map will show that a more vul nerable spot for striking at the rebels could not be selected. On either hand lie Georgia and South Carolina, with their capitals, Charleston and Sa- Tflnnah, the hotbeds of Secession. The e&mtauFu cation between the cities would be the first to be seised, the distance between the two cities being 104 miles, and a force moving up the waters from Beaufort would strike the road at Poeolalego, fifty five miles from Charleston and forty-n'mo from ga- YMinnh, by which meins Charleston or Savannah could he taken on the rear. The forts and batte ries of both harbors would thus be rendered use less as defences to their respective cities. The Reported Rebel Commander at Beaufort. Commodore Josiah Tatnall; the gohl Wander of the rebel forces at Beaufort, South Carolina, was for merly attached to the United States navy, which ho .entered on the Ist of January, 1812, and to which he has been attached ever since. Since then he has been over twenty-two year? SteßS, Dine years duty on shore, and the balance of the time was un employed. He was appointed from the State of Georgia, in which State he was born, and of which he was a citizen. lie hns always commanded the respect and confi dence of the Government and his fellow-officers, and the fact of his resigning was Offing more 10 tha persuaciona of his friends, together with his strong affection for his native State, than it was to any ill feeling he had towards the North or the existing Government. When Georgia went out of the Union he considered it a duty he owed to his native State to follow her fortunes, at the same time overlooking the allegiance that was really due to the Govern ment he had served for so many years, and with sueh distinction to himself. At the time of his re tiring he was the commander at Sackett's Harbor, where his family resided. During his career in the navy he held many responsible and important posts ; among others he commanded the Japan squadron at the time Of the drawing Up of the treaty between the Japanese and American Governments, and rery materially aided our minister, Mr. Harris, to ac complish that object. He wns also at China at the time of the difficulties between that nation and England, and in many ways assisted the English, believing, as he himself said, “ that blood was thicker than Water,” At the time of the Me visas war he proved himself to be a cool and a coura geous officer, and won the approbation of all He also commanded the Saratoga in 1843, and the Fairfield in 1841. The I'ui/Juh/ was afterwards broken up. The Tatnalls arc an old familv, and well known In Georgia, pue of the counties in the State being named after them. The father of Commodore Tatnall wns Governor of Georgia, and his brother, Colonel Tatnall, was a Senator from the same State. He married a daughter of Air. Jackson, member of Congress of Connecticut, and had three daughters and two sons Dy the marriage. ThCW two sons were both engaged in the United States service—one in the revenue service, and the other holding the position of first lieutenant of marines on the Constellation ■ As we have not heard of their resignation, it will be strange if father and son should meet as foes in the present contest. THE FIGHT AT BELMONT. St. Levis, Nov. 9.—General Grant telegraphs from Cairo to the headquarters here that our victory at Belmont was complete. IV e ppptltred One hun dred and thirty prisoners and all the rebel artille ry ; but were obliged to leave part of the guns be hind for the want of horses to haul them away. Some of the prisoners report that a large force was preparing to start to reinforce General Price, but this attack will no dopht prevent it, Our loss is about two hundred and fifty, and of this number about one-half were killed or mortally wounded. Washington, Nov. 9. —The War Department has received an official telegram concerning the battle at Belmont, Missouri, which generally con firms the newspaper statements. It says that Capt. Bieloski, of Gen. AtcClemand’s staff, was killed, and among other particulars, “ We fought all the way into the enemy’s Oump. immediately under the guns of Columbus, spiked two guns and brought away two, together with 200 prisoners.” The Federal loss is stated at 300, that of the enemy being much heavier: Chicago, Nov. O.— A special despatch to th 9 Times from Cairo says it is impossiblß to obtain anything like an accurate report of the killed, wounded, and missing, in the engagement at Bel mont on the 7th. It is estimated that twenty-live of the Twenty, second Illinois are missing. Tho total missing are reported at three hundred and fifty. Of the Seventh lowa, Colonel Lauman was wounded, but not dangerously. Lieutenant Colonel "Wendell was killed; tha major and adjutant ar? BiSSiDg, and the reported killed in Logan’S regiment is thirty-five, and forty seven wounded. All but forty-four of Colonel Foulke's regiment answered at the roll-call yesterday afternoon. The loss in Buford’s regiment has not been ascertained, hut it it supposed not to be heavy. One hundred and twenty prisoners were taken. All accounts concur in placing the rebel loss much heavier than our own. Belmont has been abandoned by ffiff rebel? They have one hundred and fifty prisoners, and acknow ledge three hundred and fifty killed, but would not permit the Federal officers who went to Columbus with the flag of truce yesterday, to visit the place to which they conveyed their dead. The Scene or the Battle. We 9*l>jom the following description of the region in which Columbus is situated, and in which Gen. Polk's cofaain has been lying for months past. It was published in The Press of the 14th of October : Hickman, A point only thirty milca below Cairo, is the county seat of Fulton- the extreme southwestern county of Kentucky, and contains a population which before the war was three thousand. Formerly, considerable activity prevailed! m this place. It has been a great shipping point. It forms, with two other village? of lhat section, n small triangle, within which the advance and the right-wingof Gen. Folk is embraced. His advance is at Columbus, A small town, twenty miles below Cairo. It is a miserable, dawdling, straggling town, such as you efUu see on the banks sf the Mississippi, where a couple of htlndreds of people formerly eked out a miserable existence. Off iatc years it assumed a more brisk business-air, and even its people began to think that there were other actual events in the world beside (lie eyerlastißg negro, A railroad, connected with tha very.heart of Western and also with that of Middle Tennessee, had found a termi nus there, and travellers-- and trade from the re gions of civilization actually went thither. This ia the nearest point which this part of his column has attained to Cairo. Not tang since, both Polk and Buckner wero anxious to-flank the Union forces at Cairo, by obtaining commanding positions upon the Ohio river. Buckner intended to make a dash npon Louisville, whilst Polk essayed his skill upon Pa ducah. Grant seized and fortified the latter point, whilst Buckner never got nearer to Louisville than seventy-five miles. Polk was, and has been, forced to be content to occupy a towmaouth of Paducah, so ns to resist Ihe probable Southward march of Grant. Belmont, The point at which the attack upon the rebel batte ries was actually made, is-three miles above Colum bus. It is a mere steamboat lamßng, witli a wharf boat lying there. A series-of.'high bluffs lie near, upon whieh batteries comraaadmg the riTcr have been erected. Tbsse were the batteries taken, and from which the enemy were driven into the river. Mayiisliß A town upon Mayfield creek, in Graves county, Kentucky. It 13 twenty miles south of Paducah, upon the line oS'tbe Paducah branch of the Nash ville Railroad, the main branch of which it oon joins at Union Ci ty. It is a mere post town, with a railroad station, and with hut Sew inhabitants. As a strategetle point it is remarkable. Tho porscssion of it tends t» prevent iho use of this railroad for the transpoatation of Union forces down the Missis sippi through Nashville, Middle, and Central Mis sissippi, the only route by which a great land force can be token, vvithiout enormous less, to New Or leans. Over this route travelled the Wrstern boat* men on their way home from the Crescent City, in the days of fiat-beats and broadkorss, ere steam boats- overcame the vast sweeping current of the. “ FnSher of Waters. ” THE WAR IN MISSOURI. Position of Gen, Price Major Clark Wright, who has just returned from an extensive scouting expedition, reports that tho main body of the enomy are now stationed on tho north fork of Crane Creek, about forty miles south of here. He thinks this force is about 25,(10*) strong. Gen. McCulloch is on Flat Creek .with from 7,009 to 8,000 men, and there arc numerous bands, rang ing from 100 to 1.000, scattered about the country. Gen. Price’s position on Crane Creek is favorable for defence, and he has planted bfittWiSS OH tha cliff overlooking the approaches to the plaoe. Reported Fight. St, Lot ts, Nov. 9.—No reliable newß has been Continued on Fourth Page. «.«• s.O* (to address of l.lO
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