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OF
dry goods.
HO. 4T NORTH THIRD SHEET, PHILADELPHIA
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Invited to examine our large find
lected stock of desirable goods, which will be
sold at prices to Buit the times.
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1861. TOGASHBIJ¥ERS -1861.
H. C- LAUGHLIN & Co.,
No. 803 MARKET STREET,
Are receiving daily, from the PHILADELPHIA and
fTEW YORK AUCTIONS, ft general ftssartmant &(
MERCHANDISE, bought for CASH.
CASH BUYERS are especially invited to call and ex
amine our Stock. ses-tf
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS.
CLOTHir '^
DOESKINS, and
BEAVERS.
We have just received,
PER STEAMER EDINBURGH,
A full assortment of
BLUE CLOTHS, DOESKINS, and
BEAVERS.
We shall continue to receive additional supplies by each
orriTal. Also,
A LARGE STOCK OF
BLACK CLOTHS, DOESKINS, Ac.,
Constantly kept on hand.
Q. RIDGWAY, HEUSSNER, & CO.,
n023-6t No. 206 CHESTNUT STREET.
EN • S
HEAVY MERINO
S H IB T S
mi 1
DRAWERS.
THOS. MELLOR & CO.,
40 AND 48 NORTH THIRD STREET.
no4-Im
CLOTHS.
IOHINCHILLA
BEAVERS,
JP5*
IN BLUE, BLACK, AND YELOUR MIXTURES.
ALSO,
IN STORE* MEN AND BOYS’ WINTER WEAR,
In great variety, and for sale by
LIPPINCOTT & PARRY,
200 MARKET STREET,
stf2l-Ct Corner Second, Philadelphia.
CARPETINGS.
CARPETINGS.
J. F. fir E. Bi OBNE,
MO. 049 CHESTNUT STREET—OPPOSITE STATE
HOCBB.
Are now opening, from Custom House Stores, their
TALL IMPORTATIONS
NEW OARPETINGg
1)000 pteeea J. OBOS9LEY & SOUS 1 TAPESTRY
CARPETS* from
75 GTS. TO Si PER YARD.
0-4 TAPESTRY YBLYET;
FRENCH ATJRUSSON;
FINE AXHINSTEB:
ROYAL WILTON;
EXTRA ENGLISH BRUSSELS;
HENDERSON & COM VENETIAN ?
ENGLISH INGRAIN CARPETS;
all of new choice styles
AND
HAYING BEEN INVOICED BEFORE THE LATE
ADVANCE IN THE TARIFF*
WIH be sold at
MODERATE PRICES.
fto29-3m
MILITARY GOODS.
NPREWS’ ORIGINAL CAMP, OR
TRAVELLING
BED TRUNK.
For sale by
W. A. ANDREWS,
(Patent applied for)
ISO. 612 CHESTNUT Street.
noI6-2m
SUPPLIES.
60,000 pairs ARMY DRAWERS.
20,000 GRAY FLANNEL SHIRTS.
10,000 RED do. SHIRTS.
600 dozen FINE TRAVELLING gHIRTS.
For sale by
BENNETT, KTJCH, & CO.,
Manufacturers of Army Goods,
HOl3-2m 210 and 217 CHURCH Alley, Ylula.
Army contractors
AND SUTLERS
SUPPLIED WITH BRUSHES at the lowest rate*.
Always on hand, a Urea stock ol
CAVALRY BRUSHES,
Government standard;
WAGON BRUSHES,
Government standard;
&&d every Description of Brushes required for the Army.
KEMBLE & VAN HORN,
Odd-3m 321 MARKET Street, PhUadslnhm.
WOOLLENS.
WELLING, COFFIN, & Co.,
116 CHESTNUT STREET,
Axe prepared to deliver on contract 3-4 and 3*4 Dark and
Bley Bine
CLOTHS AND KERSEYS.
seB*3m
JRPIGO BLUE KERSEYS.
INDIGO BLUE CLOTHS,
And every variety of Goods adapted to Military Clothing*
for sale at the lowest prices
REGIMENTS EQUIPPED AT SHORT NOTICE.
BENJ. L. BERRY,
CLOTH HOUSE, SO SOUTH SECOND STREET.
ocß-tf
FLANNELS.
COFFIN, & CO.,
116 CHESTNUT STREET,
Am prepared to make contracts, for immediate delivery)
** WHITE DOMET FLANNELS,
AND ALL WOOL
INDIGO BLUE FLANNELS,
Df Government standard. oc4-tf
TVYACKEREL, herring, shad,
lfi. SALMON, 4c.—3 000 bbla Mess Nos. 1,2, and 3
CACKEBEL, large, medium, and small, in assorted
ackages of choice, late-caught, fat fish.
6,000 hbls. New Halifax, Jfiagtport, and Labrador Her*
Kh?h of choice qnaljtiea,
fi,ooo boxeß extra now scaled Herrings.
<l,OOO boxes extra new No. 1 Herrings.
3.000 boxes large Magdaiine Herrings.
260 bbls. Mackinac White Fish.
60 bbls. new Economy Mess Shad.
26 bbls. new Halifax Salmon.
1,000 quintals Grand Bank Codfish.
600 boxes Herkimer County Choose*
In «tore and landing, for sale by
MURPHY A KOONB,
no 6 No. 146 NORTH WHARVES.
Pamphlet printing, and
every other description of Printing, of the most
Superior quality, at the Bloat reasonable rates, at RING*
WALT & BROWN’S, Drcxel’s Building, 34 South
%um &020
VOL S.—NO. 98.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
JjIROTHINOHAM 4 WELLS,
3« SOUTH FRONT AES 3$ DETITIA STREET,
OFFER FOR SALS
SKOTTN AND BLEACHED SHEETINGS,
SHIRTINGS,
DRILLS, JEANS, SILEGIAS,
CANTON FLANNELS,
FROM THS
MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT FALLS
LACONIA,
EVERETT,
LOWELL,
IPSWICH,
HAMPDEN,
LIKEWISE,
A FULL ASSORTMENT 07
SHAWLS, BEAVER CLOTHS, TRICOTS,
CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, TWEEDS,
BLANKETS, AND ARMY
GOODS,
FROM THE WASHINGTON (lath Bat Stats,)
AND OTHER MILLS. ocl-3m
SHIPLEY, HAZARD, &
HUTCHINSON,
No. 113 CHESTNUT STREET,
OOM MISSION M BOHANTB
TO* TH* SAL* Of
PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GOODS.
8028-6 m
MILLINERY GOODS.
QITY BONNET STORE.
SEASONABLE GOODS
AT
SEASONABLE PRICES.
SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES.
Ladies’ and Misses’ Bonnsts, Children's Turbans,
Caps, Ac., the best nnd most fasliionablo, end 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,
ccie-tf NO. *O5 CHESTNUT STREET.
KENNEDY’S
FRENCH
FLOWERS, FEATHERS.
AND GENERAL MILLINERY GOODS.
No. 429 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH.
ocf>-3m
FURS.
GEORGE F. WOMRATH,
NOS. *IS AND 417 ARCH STREET,
HAS NOW OPEN
A FULL ASSORTMENT
LADIES’ FURS.
To which the attention of the Public is invited. no22tjal
RADIES 5
CHOICE FURS,
WARRANTED
WELL SEASONED
VERY REASONABLE PRICKS,
PARIS CLOAK AND FUB EMPORIUM,
705 CHESTNUT STREET.
J, W* PROCTOR & Co.
Hol4-lm
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
Robert shoemaSr
& CO.,
Northeast Corner FOURTH anil RAGE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS ARE SEALERS
IK
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, &c.
AGENTS FOB THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealer, and consumers supplied at
VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
JUST RECEIVED, per “ Annie Kim
ball,* 1 from Liverpool, Hander, Weaver, A Han*
dor’s preparations;
25 lbs Extract Aconlti, In 1 lb jar*.
25 Kiu Sztract Hyoscrywm, in 1 It jura.
50 3bs Extract Belladonna, in 1 lb jArs.
100 lbs Extract Taraxaci, in 1 & jars.
60 lbs Tin Ral Colcliici, in 1 ft bottles.
100 lbs 01. Succini Beet, in lib bottleß.
£OO lbs Calomel, in 1 ft bottles.
644 lbs PU Uydrarß,, in lfo jars.
WETHERILL A BROTHER,
mhB 47 and 49 North SECOND Street
CABINET FURNITURE.
CABINET FURNITURE AND Bit
LIARD TABLES.
MOORE k CAMPION,
No. 201 South SECOND Street,
tn connection with their extensive Cabinet Business art
now manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
And have now on hand a full supply, finished with the
MOORE A CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced} by all who have nqed to bo
superior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these Tables the manu
facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the
Union, who are familiar with the character of their work*
au2s*6m
LOOKING GLASSES. *
JMMENSE REDUCTION
LOOKING GLASSES,
OH. PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PHOTOGBAPH FBAMEB.
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
616 CHESTNUT BT3EBT,
Announce Hie reduction of 26 per cent, in the prices of all
the]! Manufactured Stock of Looking Glasses; also, In
Engravings, Picture and Photograph Frames, Oil Paint
ings. The largest and most elegant assortment In the
sonntry. Arare owortnnlly Is how offered to make,a*)
Hunks In this line For Cash, at remarkably Low Price*
EARLE’S GALLERIES,
810 CHESTNUT Street.
£IOAL OIL! COAL OIL!
GEORGE W. WOOTTEN.
38 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
AGENT FOR THE
NORTH AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.
MANUFACTURERS OF C3AL OIL, AND BE.
FINEES OF COAL AND CARBON OILS.
WM. F. JOHNSTON, President,
GEO. OGDEN, Secretary.
Also, Agent for BEERS, JUDSON, & BEERS, Patent
Class Cones for Lamps, and wholesale, dealer in Dith*
ridge’s Patent Oval (fire-proof) and Eastern Flint-Glass
Chimneys, Lamps, Ac. Burners to burn Coal Oil with
out Chimneys.
Cash buyerß or prompt payers are respectfully invited
to examine our stock. no2l-lm
pORTLAND KEROSENE
O I L.
Ws are now prepared to supply this
STANDARD ILLUMINATING OIL
AT
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Z. LOCKE & CO., Sole Aoehti,
1010 MARKET STREET,
•e2-0m PaiUdelpUa,
LYMAN,
DWIGHT,
CABOT,
CHICOPEE, nnd
BARTLET MILLS.
HORESALE STOCK
M. L. HALLO WELL & Co.,
TIIEIH STOCK OF .
FALL AND WINTER
DRESS GOODS,
FURS!
BILK VELVETS,
BOMBAZINES,
TAMISE ALPACAS, Ac.
PLAIN AND PRINTED MERINOS,
MOUSSELINES,
POPLINS,
REPS, VELOURS, Ac,
WOOLLEN PLAIDS,
PRINTED FLANNELS, Ac
ALSO,
THEIR IMMENSE STOCK OF
OF VARIOUS DESCRIPTIONS,
CLOAKS, MANTLES. &c.,
KMEBOIPEBIESi AND L. C. HDEFS.
Aftrt will sell by the Single Piece their stock of
WHITE GOODS,
AND RELIABLE,
Blankets, flannels, mous-
J>KI.A.TNKS, CHXISTFiES, AND MUSLINS.—
V. E. ARCIIAMBAULT, N, E. corner ELEVENTH
and MARKET Streets, will optn this morning, large
size Heavy Blankets, from !?3 to $S * White, Red, and
Gray Flannels, from 12 to 31 eta.; Fancy Plaid Flannels,
only 31c worth 60c • rich Fall style Delaines, 12, 19, gQ,
and ££c.: Merrimac Chintzes, IO anil 11c.j Bleached and
Brown Shirtings and Sheetings, 7 to 31 cts.j new style
Plaid Dress Goods, only 25c., worth 50c ; ladies’ aud
misses’ Blanket Shawls, from $1 to $B. Cheap Carpets,
Oil Cloths, and Window Shades. c023-t29
a KEEN OTTOMAN REPS FOR
Gored Dresses.
Blue Ottoman Hops.
Brown Ottoman ltepa.
Turple Modes, &c., Ac.
Richest Printed Reps.
EYRE A LANDELL.
n 023 FOURTH aud ARCH Streets.
CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS.
gLACkCLOTHS
FOR CLOAKS AND COATS*
FROM #1 TO $5 PER YARD.
CABSIMEREb
FOB MEN’S AND BOYS’ WEAR.
COOPER, & OONARD,
S. E. corner NINTH and MARKET Streets.
nol4-fmw-lm
CLOAKS
SABLE CLOTHS.
FROSTED BEAVERS,
SEALSKIN CLOTHS,
BLACK BEAVERS,
LYONS VELVETS!
LARGE ASSORTMENT,
AT
MODERATE PRIOES,
AT TUB
PARIS CLOAK EMPORIUM,
70S CHESTNUT STREET.
iT. W. PROCTOR & GO.
nol4-tf
/CLOAKS! CLOAKS! CLOAKS!
\J WATER PROOF CLOTH CLOAKS.
in endless variety;
LIGHT AND DARK CLOTH CLOAKS,
of every shade;
BLACK CLOTH CLOAKS,
of overy Quality;
RT.AOK SILK-VELVET CLOAKS,
EVERY NEW STYLE,
EVERY NEW MATERIAL;
THE LARGEST STOCK
and
THE MOST REASON ABLE PRICES IN THE CITY
IVENS,
No. 23 South NINTH Street.
GL O A K S !
The Largest) Cheapest and Best-asserted Stock
In the city.
HOUGH A GO.,
Ho. 25 South TENTH Street)
oc!6 Opposite Franklin Market,
TVTEW CLOAK STOKE!
J. v The moHt Blegant assortment in the city.
No. 29 South NINTH Stroot,
oc!s-2m First door above Chestnut.
THE ARCH-STREET CLOAK AND
MANTILLA STORK.
NEW FALL CLOAKS.
WATER-PROOF TWEED CLOAKS.
BLACK CLOTH CLOAKS.
EVERY NOVELTY AT MODERATE PRICES.
JACOB HORSFALL,
anSl-em N. W. comor TENTH and ARCH Sta
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
AT RETAIL.
333 MARKET STREET,
27 NORTH FOURTH STREET,
lIAVif CONCLUDED TO Off If If
AT RETAIL
CONSISTING or
BLACK DRESS SILKS.
JK C6EAT VAfttETV,
SHAWLS,
CONSISTING OF
LINENS, MULLS, JACONETS, CAMBRICS,
NAINSOOKS, Ac., Ac.
ocl4-mwf2m
SCARLET LONG AND SHORT
SCARFS.
Scarlet Scarfs $2.
Scarlet Scarfs $2.50.
Scarlet Scarfs $3.
Scarlet Scarfs $5 and $B.
n 023 EYRE A LANDELL.
Eskimo cloth for cloaks.
Block Beaver Cloths.
Black Ribbed Sealskin.
Black Cloth Cloaks.
n 023 EYRE A LANDELL.
Popular shawls—
Large and full assortments of the following Winter
Shawls •
Long and Square Scotch Blankets.
Fine American, of All stylos.
Black and White Checks sn4 £r<?wns.
Children’s Longand Square Blankets.
Fine Stellas, Scotch borders.
Broche, from low to extra fine.
Black Centres Brocho Chaine Laine,
Light Gray and Dappled Berlin.
Friends’ ShnwlSi of all kindfli
CLOAKING CLOTHS.
Water Proofs, llepellants, Aqua Scutum.
Spangled and Frosted Beavers.
Black Beuvera and Tricots.
SHARPLESS BROTHERS,
uo!s CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streeter.
Bargains in dress goods.
NEW AND CHOICE DRESS GOODS
AT EXTRAORDINARY LOW PRICES.
Rich Silk Plaid and Printed Reps.
Plain Reps and Velours de Epinglo.
YERY CHEAP BLACK. SILKS.
Rich Printed Magenta Cloths.
Rich Printed Mcrinoes 87)£c to $1.25.
Rich Printed all wool Delaines from 31 to 75c.
3,060 yards Mohair Brocades at 14c, worth 25c.
2,800 yards Printed Delaines at 13c, worth 18c.
A choice assortment of Blanket Shawls,
NEW STYLES OF WINTER CLOAKS of
Beaver, Tricot, and Water-Proof Cloths,
Handsome Velvet Vestings and Cassimeres.
H. STEEL ft SON*
UoO No. 712 TENTH Street, above Coated.
Gentlemen, take notice.—
Will open this morning—
A full line of Merino Sliirts and Drawers.
A nice assortment of Gent’s Hands.
A full line of Cotton and Merino Hose.
A nice assortment of heavy Cassimerea.
Two lots of fine French Black Cloths.
Thirty doz. L. C. Hdkfs, from Auction.
Twelve doz. Suspenders from Auction.
Striped Cloths for Shirts.
Twilled Flannels, White, Red, an! Gray,
Gloves in great variety at
JOHN H. STOKES,
no!8 702 ARCH Street.
TTTILL OPEN THIS DAY AN IM-
V V mens* stock of all wool De Laines, the balance
of & large importation, conrigting of
1 lot neat figured dark grounds, at 31 cents, usually
Bold at 62)£ cents.
1 lot chintz colors, at 37 cents, usually at 75 cents.
1 lot, yard wide, Plaids, at 12K cents.
COWPERTHWAIT & 00.,
no9-tf N. W. corner EIGHTH and MARKET*
LADIES’ BLACK CLOTHS.
Men’s heavy Overcoatings.
Men’s fine Dress Cloths.
COOPER & CONARD,
no 7 NINTH and MARKET Streets.
TTLANNELS—
Jj Yard wide, fine white extra at 38 cents.
Shaker Flannels, warranted genuine.
COOPER 4 OONABD,
no 7 NINTH and MARKET titrate.
Fancy cassimeres-
Of every grade and style, from 62c to $1.50 per yard.
Black Cassimeres, some extra fine lots.
COOPER ft CONARD,
do? NINTH and MARKET Streets.
HARDWARE.
Hardware.
MOORE, HENSZEY, ft 00.
Hava now on hand, and are constantly receiving, a
large assortment of HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS,
4c., to which they invite the attention of purchasers for
cash or short credit.
No. 427 MARKET Street, and
ocB-2m No. 416 COMMERCE Street, Philada.
Drain pipe.—steam-pressed
STONEWARE DRAIN PIPE.
PRICE LIST.
2-inch bore, per yard 28 cents.
8 “ << ** $0 a
4 (i *« 40 “
6 « a u 50 w
0 “ a i< ofi H
7 *« <4 44 85 ««
8 “ ** « " 11$ «
9 ** « it * 126 «
10 « «* M ~..150 “
12 i* « u ” 100 «
A liberal discount allowed to Dealers, and to thoSO or
dering fn large quantitloa.
FACTORY—SEVENTH and Germantown road.
S. A. HARRISON,
ocU4f Warehouse lilt CBEBIHUT tee*
PHILADELPHIA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2T, 1861.
%\t Insu,
WEDNESDAY. NOV 27, 1861.
GIGANTIC FORGERIES.
Detection, Arrest, and Conviction of the
Forger.
The case of John Hart, alias Henry Donnell,
alias Alexander Gay, alias Jules Imbert, of France
Ct 4., ftta., eld. J hiit IrUly Cephas Beaumais, of Ihd
Island of Martinique, West Indies, afterwards
banker’s clerk at Bristol, England, afterwards
forger, swindler, and convict in all the cities of
America, and recently an Intaalc of the Missouri
State Penitentiary, has been imperfectly ventilated
in the daily papers. Few, in fact, save those im
mediately concerned in tracing his frauds, hard
comprehended the boundless iiiv&hlidn that stimu
lated them, the consummate cxpcricnco and perse
vernnee that sustained them, and the remarkablo
success that attended them. Sinco the time of
Monroe Edwards, no forger has ventured so largely
or been rewarded so handsomely. And in view of
the fact that he is now an inmate of our coimty
prison, and that strenuous efforts aro being made to
Mr£rt his punishment and again cast linn tuoso upon
society to devise new means of villainy, wo have
thought fit to recount his exploits, and make public
the system whereby bo has operatod.
To eoy with certainty that ha was bovfc in the
Island of Martinique, and that he was of French
extraction, would bo hazardous; for Ms duplicities
have been so numerous that tlio true history of his
early life is probably known only to himself. It is
certain, however, that his parents were highly re
spectable, and he was afforded a thorough educa
tion at Yale College, New Haven. By this means
be be Mine equally versed in the French and the
English literature, and has preserved many of his
own metrical compositions in both languages. Tho
works of the leading authors he studied thoroughly,
and many ft fragment of sentiment that he has since
appropriated to further his nofarious schemes was
gleaned in the quiet paths at the City of the Elms.
From the beginning, Beaumais was bad ; he turned
to account every quotation, maxim, theory, and
fact. He seems to have resolved in early life to be
a villain, and no young man at law, or medicine, ts
theology, devoted himself so systematically to his
profession. lie doubtless comprehended at that
tihio schemes of fraud that have been since too well
executed. Sailing for England at the ago of twen
ty-three. he entered the banking house of Daniel «fc
Son, at Bristol, and made himself acquainted with
all the details of banking, of commerce, and of
trade. Here he became a defaulter, and was
obliged to fiee the country. The captain of the
vessel in which ho embarked became sick, on the
voyage, and died before reaching tho IVeat Indies.
B&ftUlUfi-i.s tho command, ingratiated him
self with the crew, and had the vessel steered for
Trinidad, where he represented himself as her
owner, and disposed of the craft and her valuable
cargo.
At Martinique he derived a considerable sum
from his parents, and commenced tho business of
trader and shipping merchant. He soon afterward
won tho affection of » wealthy und beuutiful WO*
man of tbe island, who married him, and his suc
cess, if honestly pursued, now bade fair to be be
yond expectation.
He organized, almost immediately, however, a
system of smuggling, extending to all the West India
Islands, both French and English, so thorough
and comprehensive that the revenue officers were
for a long time tmftlcd. Ho was at length detected,
and in most of the Caribee islands a price was set
upon him. He landed at Key West in the year
1850, with several thousand dollars in his possession
and copious blanks of bills of exchango, as used by
the leading houses of England nnd the Antilles,
signatures of bankers, shippers, and merchants, and
the houses of their correspondents in the United
State?- The partner of his flight was the wife
ItftU&h inerebant, who had befriended Beau
mais.
At Charleston he bought bills of tho Bank of
Charleston on the Bank of Liverpool, amounting to
gWrUng* ifl “ first] second, and third” parts:
The “third” was mailed to Baring Bros. & Co.,
and the proceeds placed to the account of Blanchard
A Sherman. Boston, subject to the order of Henry
Beet. The “ first and second” were sold to Brown
Bros. & Co., of Baltimore, by a Mr. Henry Comer.
The “ first and second*’ were, of course, returned
from England protested; but the.
meantime, had slipped away, with tho neat profft of'
one hundred per cent., and the Baltimore Arm
£5,000 out of pocket. In this way he operated
successively upon the houses of George Peabody,
Blake, Howe, & Co., Win. Howell & Son, Blanchard,
Shermnn, & Co., Clark & fero. , and half Uie re
sponsible bankers and brokers in tbe country, being
sometimes disappointed, but oftencr successful.
Having accumulated about $75,000 in specie, he
had it shipped to Martinique to the eare of hia
wife, writing a letter to her at the same time in a
disguised hand, stating that Cephas Beaumais had
passed through nature to eternity. Tho lostrequosfc
of the deceased had boon that bis wife should lo&vo
the Indies for Franoe and take up her abode at
Marseilles, where, by means of the means he had
bequeathed her, she might bring up hertwochil
drefl virtuously and respectably. The poor woman
observed his will to tbe letter, and is at this time,
most probably, negotiating for a second partner.
His swindle upon Pres. Grote it Company
amounted to three hundred pounds, and was ac
complished by slipping an old steamboat bill tuto
an envelope, which Blake, Howe, & Co., supposed
to be tho “ third ”of a bill of exchange. He took
the “third” away, however, and sold the bill
twice. When Blake & Go, were applied to rola«
tive to this matter, they responded that the “ third 71
was in their possession.
He next forged a letter purporting to be from a
responsible house at St- Bartholomew, which intro
duced him to Willi&tu Howell & Son, of Baltimore.
Tho letter enclosed two bills of exchange for
seven thousand dollars. They were accepted and
the money forwarded to Beaumais at New York ;
but bo became fonrful and refused to call far it.
Of course the bills were returned protested. While
in Charleston, soon afterward, he sold bills of ex
change for eleven thousand dollars, receiving oot
ton in return, which wfi? shipped to Schmidt A Co.j
New York, and the proceeds paid to Beaumais.
The bills were worthless and the buyer swindled.
He did the same thing at Wilmington, North Caro
lina, receiving one thousand barrels of turpentine
for forged bills of esohange. The turpentine was
shipped to Bordeaux. In 1854 he was dctoctcd in
Baltimore, but liberated on “ straw bail.” Not
withstanding the notoriety he at that timo ob
tained, Beaumais returned to the city soon after
wards, preceded by a letter of introduction, and
bought five thousand dollars’ worth of flour with
forged bills of exchange on England, purporting to
be drawn up by Rothschild & Cohen. Tho flour
WAS shipped to hie order, soid, and the proceeds
paid over, with the bankers disconsolate.
In 1853 he sent a letter to Middleton & Co., New
York, dated Earbadoes, and signed by Samuel
Mussen, a correspondent of the bankers. Mussen
stated that he had bought a cargo of pitch-pine
lumber from Beanmals, paying him with a bill of
exchange for f 100. The “ first and second ”of the
bill were enclosed. He requested Middleton to
negotiate for the sale, and pay over the specie to
Eeaumais. Supposing it. to he all right, the money
was paid. The “ third ”of the same bill was sold
to Spa fiord & Co., and all of the three parts were
forgeries- Thus, Eeaumais had not oniy forged
the bill, but had added swindling to forgery. His
manner of mailing letters at post offices a thousand
miles away will be explained in connection with his
Philadelphia transactions.
With an abundance of money, Beaumais came
to this city in the early part of 1856, and took
board at what is now the New York Hotel, Walnut
street, below Front. He seems to have had a pre-
Bentimcnt that he would soon be deteoted. Accord
ingly, calling in the landlord, he stated that he
was about to sail for Franoe, to be absent seven
years. Unwilling to be burdened with baggage, he
requested that a large bundle might be deposited
in the house, subject to bis order at the end of that
time.
The landlord took the papers, and they remained
in his custody until a few weeks ago. They were,
really, blank bills of exchange, such as are used by
the leading bankers of the West Indies and Eng
land, and legitimate signatures and letters of capi
talists and business men in Europe and America.
These be bad collected years before, evidently in
tending to employ them in his villainies, They are
now in the hands of the detective police.
The history of his Western swindles, that now
occurred, has been detailed in the journals of St.
Louis, Cincinnati, and Chicago. We have not bere
sufficient space to enter into them. Suffice it to
say, that the old game of forging and selling bills
of exchange was repeated, Beaumais representing
a certain Alexander Gay. He had succeeded .in
duping St. Louis and Chicago firms to the amount
of £25,000, or SlOO.OOO, by forged bills. To R. K.
Swift and Brothers, of that city, he sold a forged
draft for £2.800 sterling, receiving in return bills of
exchange on the Bank of England. Being unknown
in Chicago, the firm employed a detective offioer to
follow Beaumais. His suspicious conduct, and his
sudden flight to Canada, aggravated their fears,
and finally he was overtaken at an obsoure town in
Canada West, where he was living under the name
of Jules Imbert—which many believe to be his true
name—and induced to go to New York, Here bis
behavior was marked by the utmost cunning and
capacity. He created a “friend,” who never
“turned up,” simply because his existence was al~
together fabulous. This friend was an cxcoedingly
convenient personage. If certain forged drafts
were produced, Imbert implored his dear friend
Mem. Dutton, to explain away hie complicity; and
straightway a letter, muled in Canada, came to tho
Tombs, wherein Mons. Dutton exculpated Imbert,
and took the whole blame upon his own bead. The
iiiet was, that Dulton’s letters were forged by Beuu
mais in the Tombs, and quietly mniled to a Canada
postmaster, who had them rc-enclosed and directed
to Beaumais at New York. However, Beaumais,
or Imbert, was taken to St. Louis, and in November
duly convicted of forgery, and sentenced to seven
years in the State prison.
The confinement of Beaumais in tho'Stnto prison
Whs marked by exceedingly good behavior and
every indication of contrition. His society was
coveted by the turnkeys and wardens, to whom he
related a thousand incidents of adventuro and
Havel ; and he bo prevailed upon a fellow-convict,
that the latter gave him on release, twenty-five dol
lars, his whole worldly goods. The prison-keeper
signed a paper to tho Governor, bogging that ho
might be pardoned, and after livo years Of iucar
ceration he was set free, with a gift of ten dollars
from the officials. Haggard, friendless, pale with
the results of jnil-Jife, Beaumais stopped into tho
open world. Most mon would hnve yielded or be
taken themselves to some honest though laborious
pursuit. But tho inflexible spirit of Beaumais had
been shut away, only to come forth with renewed
energy, bitterness, nnd power. He took the train
for Philadelphia and called upon his old landlord,
At tbe foot of Walnut street, for the bundle of
papers, left in bis care, five years before. They
were delivered up io him, and be took board at
once in a dwelling not far from Third and Walnut
streets, where he launched into new and greater
schemes of fraud. We can demonstrate his rare
mental tenacity in the best way by staling that ha
commenced to forge responsible names from rcrol-
Union, after an interval of seven years, during
which time be had not seen them ; and in a manner
*0 mnsteriv that exports were deoeived.
The narration of his detection will.olose his ca
reer up to the present time. On the 18th of Octo
ber last, Postmaster Walborn received a letter
from the postmaster of Portland, Maine, enclosing
another letter addressed to “ John Hart, Philadel
phia.” The postmaster requested Mr. Walborn to
obsorve the snid John Hart, us lie was suspected to
be a swindler. Detective Ben Franklin was
placed upon the scent. He soon noticed a man,
poorly attired, and with a sprinkling of gray in
his hair —a shallow eye, of a pale blue color, and a
whitened, spectral face, ns of ono just released
from jail, that hovered about the post oflico, skulk
ing in beer saloons and around tbo newspaper offices
and restaurants. The stranger had no friends that
he could be seen speaking with, anil kept a greedy
and anxious eye forever toward tho post-office de
livery window. This man was quietly watched by
Mr. Franklin, who thus found out bis boarding
house und learned his habits. The man came to
the window one morning and asked for letters ad
dressed to John llart, stating, at the same time,
that his own name was Henry Donnell. The clerk
refused to deliver up the letters, but, on tbe receipt
of an order from llart, which was forthcoming soon
afterward, iu delicate handwriting, signed “John
Hart,” who purported to bo sick, Mr. Franklin fol
lowed him through numerous alloys, and finally saw
him drop into his boarding-house, whore he remained
long enough to peruse the letter. Tho delivery
clerk was at once changed in the post office, and
the same day Donnell (or Beaumais) inquired for a
letter for Charles C. Crooks. Mr. Joshua Taggert,
an experienced deteetivo, now took up tho trail,
and noticed that Bonnell went repeatedly to the
Bank of Commerce. He was informed that Don
nell had endorsed certain bills of exchange pur
porting to ba drawn by Thomas Daniel, cf St.
Thomas, Barbadoes. to the order of Samuel P.
Mussen & Sons, payable at the house of Daniels, in
England. The some had boon placed in the hands
of Bowen & Fox for negotiation, and had been
offered by them to Brown Brothers & Co., whose
office is adjacent to the bank. From Bowen A
Fox. the detectives learned that Donnoll had
mailed them a letter from Wilmington, Del., en
closing a bill fur £1,708 9s sterling, and asking
that it be sold. The letter was plausible and
business-like. It asked that a certificate of de
posit of tho proceeds of tho bill bo forwarded to
him fit, lYilmiDgton. Tho thin!" of tho bill was
not forthcoming with tho “first and second.”
Donnell stated, however, that he expected it from
St. Thomas, and asked Bowen & Fox to inquire at
tho office for said letter and open it. They did so,
and found a letter marked “Ship, 5,” and bearing
every indication of having been mailed at St.
Thomas. It contained the “ third ” of the bill of
'exchange and some plnusiblo gossip. Everything
seemed correct to Bowen A Fox ; but Brown
Brothers refusing to cash tbe bill unless Bowon A
Fox would endorse it, they refused, and the whole
scheme fell through.
i'he next day Donnell received from the post
office the letter of Bowen and Pox that they had
mailed to Wilmington, and been there rcinailed to
him in this city.
Thfl IBiludiflg Detective Ooorgo if.
Smith, received information at this time that Don
nell was practising the same system upon A. Bel
mont & Co., of Now York. And hard upon the
tkl>66 tffitt&ictiohs came the letter referred to from
Portland, showing that the ramifications of his great
swindle had extended over to New England, where a
merchant named Cram had been addressed, and
offered a tempting West India agency, with twi
bills of exchange which he was desired to cash.
Hart, or Donnell’s letter to Cram was a model of
business correspondence, and the device of a ship
letter was again resorted to, the snares being per
fect at all points, and the rich premium cunningly
thrown out to infatuuto and blind his victim. Cram
was no fool, however, and refused to be crammed.
The end of it was, that Mr. Hart, otherwise Mr.
Donnell, otherwise Cephas Beaumnis, was tnkon
into custody by Sen Franklin, and locked up in
Moyamensing jail, with forgeries, embracing in
their object $50,000, to be accounted for beforo
twelve men and a tipstaff.
The West India blanks and fac-similcs had thus
been brought into use after a lapse of several
years; but the means whereby Beaumais had ob
tained the “ship” stamps and foreign postage
marks were explained by Postmaster Wilbirh, to
whom Beaumais had addressed the following letter:
“ Drar Sir : I arrived here from St. Thomas, at
New York, yesterday before noon, and left imme
diately for this place with the intention of going to
Baltimore in a few days, after having visited my
friends in the interior of Pennsylvania. I was
charged to deliver the enclosed to Mr. John H.
Thomas, by a merchant of St. Thomas. I under
stand that this, is contrary to law, and that all
letters must be delivered to the Post Office Depart
ment. I therefore enclose the same letter to your
address, to be disposed of as you best know.
“ Yours, respectfully,
“ JohxDbexixg ”
Of oourso the postmaster marked the letter
“ship,” seif it had arrived by vessel, and Boau
mais made it to appear that his Philadelphia forge
ries were really genuine letters, from reliable men
in the West Indies. His forgeries, moreover, were
excellent ones. They were not servile imitations
of handwriting, but joined the general spirit of the
original with sufficient variation to make them
apove doubt. The originals of many of these imi
tations have been compared with the forgeries
and the latter ore perfect counterparts. The man’s
understanding of all the details of trade—shipping,
produce, Ac.—never intrusive, but always evident,
can he seen in the several letters he has indited,
In his conversation he is often Sparkling, and al
ways affable. Some of his private papers disclose
a cultivated taste and a love of the beautiful. He
has written into his diary choice extracts, evidently
made at random Horn his readings, and in a life of
adventure has acquired an extensive knowledge of
men and places that makes his conversation amusing
and interesting. His defence is weak; but on the
trial which has just been finished he evinced his skill
and keenness in watohing his lawyer, and giving
him the necessary advice as to the conduct of the
cose. Lewis C. Cassidy represented the Common
wealth, and Charles Brooks the defendant. The
trial was a long one, and, although in tha end con
victed, Beaumais was ready with twenty-one rea
sons for a new trial, which his counsel filed at once.
The banking and business community are largely
interested in this case, and Mr, Franklin, with a
view to enlighten and caution the public, intends
to publish the life and trial of Cephas Beaumais,
wbom the officer well denominates as the “ Napo
leon of Forgers.” Beaumais has not resorted to
acids or any of the devices which Monroe Edwards
and other counterfeiters and forgers generally
adopt. Like Herrmann, ho has no apparatus, and
his wonderful performances have been accomplish
ed simply by his dexterity and sleight-of-hand,
whereby he has played to select houses; and now!
on his second retirement from the stage, can look
back to at least $200,000 as the receipts of his ex
hibitions.
Gen. Stoneman, chief of cavalry of tho
army of the Potomac, is endeavoring to introduce
some needed improvements in cavalry equipments,
among which are oiled canvas covers to protect the
animals from the rain. He has, also, made requi
sitions for forage netg, which have been used so
successfully in the French service, and by which,
in case of a movomont, oach horso caqcarry a day’s
forage slung across his back. Tho additional weight
is only about twenty-five pounds.
One of the most extraordinary salt wells on
record, perhaps, is now in operation at Wellsville,
Ohio. The well was sunk in anticipation of finding
oil, but when at a depth of 480 foet the borers
struck a vein of gaa, which burst forth with such
violence as to eject all the tools used in boring,
together with 200 feet of pipe, which had been pre
viously introduced. The boring had developed a
very strong vein of salt water, which yields a bar
iel of salt an hour.
The Steamship Trent
To the Editor of The Press
Dkar Sib . In your able reply to the New York
Albion on the arrest of Slidell and Mason, you
are quite right in declaring the Trent to be a pri
vate and not a public (national) British vessel.
The case against the Albion’s assertion is Stronger
thnn you linve stated it.
The Trent is owned by a joint-stock company,
styled the Koyal Mail Company of London. With
the single exception of the Peninsular and Oriantal
Company, they are tho largest steamship owners in
Great Britain, their operations extending to tho
coasts of South America, Central America, Mexico,
and the West Indies.
From their home stntion —Southampton they
despatch two magnificent steamers per month to
St. Thomas, carrying mails, passongers, and
freight. Those ships nro met at St. Thomas by
smaller steamers of the company, to which last
class the Trent belongs, and tho cargo, passengers,
and mnils are sent on to the principal ports in the
West Indies, Mexico, und Central America, the
ships taking in and discharging cargo and passen
gers at the various ports on their route.
Nearly all tho passengers and much of the
freight-traffic of these intermediate ports is car
ried by theso steumers, and they arc, tu every
senso of tho wtrd, private, trading vessels.
All the ships of the company are commanded and
officered by men of the British Mercantile Marine,
holding certificates ot competency from the ‘-Board
of Trade;” a department of the British Govern
ment that exorcises n supervision over tho mercan
tile (not the naval) marine of Great Britain. The
capiuin of tho Trent is not “ an officorof tho Royal
Navy though if he were it would not affect the
merits of the case, as his status while in command
of a private ship would only bo that of a merchant
ship master.
An official connection of the Itoyal Mail Steam
ship Company with the British Government exists
only in virtue of their contract for carrying the
mails to atul from England to the ports to which
they trade—,-' ud this contract docs not exempt
them from the operations of the Merchant Ship
pin" aels facade of laivs fearned expressly for the
government of the Merchant Marine of Great
Britain.) The ships, owners, officers, and crews,
are as amenable to all the pain s and penalties of
that act, as the JmmWest British collier. The.
owners can be, and have i/tfn, filed as fomm/i
carriers, and the commanders of the “ Paramatta”
and “Tyne” (ships of this company) have, within
three years, been tried [for losing their ships)under
the provisions of the act named above —and with
precisely the vnode of procedure that would have
been pursued against the master of any British
merchant ship. Tho Tyne and Paramatta were
lost, with the maids on board. one near St. Thomas,
and tho other on the coast of England.
Should the interests or property or tho company
suffer damage by the act of another party, they
(the compnny) have their legal mode of redress
under the merchant act. And you may assure
your readers that the Trent is only known to the
British Government as a merchant steam ship.
If tho Trent, was rightfully employed in carrying
Messrs. Slidell and Mason, and was damaged by
the act of Captain Wilkes, the compuny, not the
British Government, havo a claim upon tho Go
vernment of the United States to the extent of the
injury they suffered, and the United States Go
vernment will no doubt pay any equitable claim
that may bo presented through the proper channel.
Though with tho woight of legal testimony against
the right of the steamer to carry the rebel agents,
it is difficult to see how the owners of the Trent
can prefer any claim against our Government.
They may rather thank the forbearance of Capt.
Wilkes for not seizing their ship.
Tho mail contract made by the owners of the
Trent with the British Government provides that
a certain part of the ship shall be reserved for the
mails ; that the ship company shall use proper aare
and diligence in receiving and landing the mail
packages, and the ship shall perform their passages
by a fixed time-schqjluie, leaving each port at a
stated date, arriving at tho next port at a stated
time, and soon. This time-table is arranged with
ample allowance for bad weather, waiting for pi
lots, Ac., and would, therefore, permit a detention
of two hours at sea on tho ship’s private business
without detriment to her mail obligations or the
public service.
The mails are under tho special protection of an
officer of the British Government, [who is a pas
senger-,) ho holds the key of tho mail room;
and he (not tho captain of tho ship) is the custo
dian of the mails while they are on board. He is
also responsible for their delivery at their soveral
destinations; ho bas no control whatever over the
ship, her officers, crew, passengers, or cargo, (other
than the mails,) except to sec that tho ship is ready
to receive and deliver her mails at the appointed
times and places. The mail officers on the West
India station arc superannuated lieutenants of the
royal navy. A'oyagers by the Cunard steamers
(prior to 1856) will recollect that genus of
venerable humbugs, stupid always, obtrusive,
and impertinent when they dared to bo
so; slandering the officers of the ship when
ever they were safe in doing it, and fawning upon
any passenger who stood a liberal supply of wine,
or was silly enough to listen to their tiresome
yarns of the glorious times when tho muils were
carried by “ fits Majesty’s packet Snipe, under
my command. Sir.” They were a nuisance to
tho officers of the ship, as well as to the passengers.
The Ouiifitd Company have got rid of them, much
to the comfort of all who travel by their ships; but
they are still retained on the West India line. It
was one of these gentry (not the master of the
Trent, who is reported to havo behaved with be
coming dignity aud propriety) who vapored about
the action of Captain Wilkes, and threatened the
dire vengeance of “Her Majesty’s Government”
upon tho Yankee pirates; but as tho officer of
the Sail Jacinto did act fiteddie with the dis
tinguished functionary or his mail-bags, it is dif
ficult to see what damage was inflicted upon the
Government he represented.
The Trent was delayed exactly two hours, and
as she was due at 6t. Thomas twenty-four hours
bofore tho mail steamer sailed for Southampton,
this slight detention could not have intertered with
the regular transmission of the mails to England.
Mr. Slidell had doubtless opened the campaign with
a liberal supply of champagne, at the first and only
dinner he was permitted to enjoy on board the
Trent , and the ex-lieutenant, you may be sure,
had fastened himself upon the party and laid him
self out for a jolly passage. The suddon transition
from a probable unlimited supply of Cliquot, at his
rebel friends’ cost, to tho Royal Mail Company’s
fiery Sherry, at his own expense, was not pleasant,
and doubtless affected the lieutonant’s feelings fully
as much as the alleged insult to the British flag.
I hare written enough to confirm your statement
that the Trent is a private ship. Sho had mails on
beard, it is true, but they were not interfered with
or examined. There was no British Government
officer attached to the ship’s company, and no in
sult offered to that Government or its flag.
The Trait dees not go to England, but transfers
her mails, passengers, and freight to a larger steamer
at St. Thomas. The master will report the affair in
Writing to his owners in London, and the fussy
lieutenant will approaoh the prooinets of the Admi
ralty as humbly as a whipped cur. Such men lose
all their arrogance and importance when near their
masters.
Tho British Government will not fly into a pas
sion and bombard New York next week- If it has
any doubt as to the legality of the act of Captain
■Wilkes, it will refer the question to the law
officers of the Crown, and, if aggrieved, will pre
sent a proper and temperate statement of their
ease to the Government of the United States, who
will meet them in a like spirit.
Tours truly, Anglo-American.
Philadelphia, Nov. 25, 1861.
The New York Albion on the Arrest of
Slidell and Mason,
To the Editor of The Press : The Albion de
nies our right to arrest Slidell and Mason on the
Trent on two distinct grounds: First, that tho
Trent was a British public, (or national,) not a
private vessel. In my communication of yosterday
I gave evidence that will, I think, satisfy your
readers that the British ship was a private vessel,
and only known as such to British laws. Now, as
the Albion says, in the extract from its article,
quoted in Monday’s Press:
“ A belligerent may stop and search any merchant
vessel anywhere at sea on suspicion that the latter
mny be, in whole or in part, employed in the ene
my ’s service”
So that, proving the Trent to be a private ship,
Captain Wilkes, in stopping and boarding her, was
right, by the Albion’s own admission.
Coming now to the second point, against the ar
rest and removal of the rebels from tho Trent , the
Albion soys:
“ We deny faint-blank that Messrs. Slidell and
Mason had any ambassadorial character whatever.
A Confederacy that has Bo recognized national ex
istence cannot send forth an offioial representative,
whose very status presupposes recognition. To the
captain of the Trent, these persons could have been
no more than any ordinary passengers, whatever he
may have heard of their errand by common report—
for, thank Heaven, we havo not retrograded to a
passport system!—and -they wero, therefore, enti
tled to sueh protection as his neutral flag could
afford, and to such on asylum on board his ship as
her special character should have secured. They
themselves, we repeat, had no official position.
They were not ambassadors; they certainly wore
not soldiers. They could not be legally seized on
board a neutral ship at sea without some justifiable
pretext, however easy it is for a Secretary of State
on shore to consign whom he pleases to a military
prison for an alleged civil offenoe.”
The editor admits that “ ambassadors may be
stopped upon the high seas,” but in the extract
quoted above denies that Slidell and Mason were
ftjnbassadw, and theiofoio could, not be stopped.
TWO CENTS.
I have not read the whole of the article in the At
hi on, but presume he quotes the opinion of Lord
Stowell, so frequently referred to Within thO iMt
few days, justifying the capture of an enemy's
ambassador on the tray to his destination. The
intelligent editor of the Albion seems to me to
have entirely mistaken the spirit of Lord StowelPg
decision. He understand! Hint it justifies the cup
ture of an ambassador only, all lower agents or
emissaries of an enemy (except military men)
being nllowei to pass freo of sourso. I think Lord
Stowell meant exactly the reverse, and decided
that emissaries in the service of an enemy, up’ to'
and including ambassadors, could bo stopped
wpoß the eons, It is well known that an ambassa.
dor is the highest official that can he commissioned
by one Power to represent it near the Government
of n friendly Power. In fact, an ambassador re
presents the person of hififoveroign, and is entitled'
to certain privileges and immunitieseonforred upon
no lower official. At Kuropcan Courts much of the
“ divinity that doth hedge a king ” surrounds the
representative of a king —he is not amenable to
the laws of the country In which he resides as the
accepted representative of his sovereign—and when-
Lord Stowell dccidod that one claiming the high and-
Sacred character of ambassador could he arrested,
he went as far as judicial authority could go, to
sustain the right of arrest of hostile emissaries, no
matter how high their rank. We may style
Messrs. Mason and Slidell fimbllßßfidfry ministers,
envoys, commissioners, or agents of the rebel Go
vernment ; it does not affect the right of the United
States to arrest them. That they were rebel emis
saries we know on the authority of their chief, Mr.
Jeff Dayis.
The criminals had been several days in Havana,
where their presence had created no ordinary ex
citement; theyhad enjoyed the hflipaUlily of tlia
British consul ; the master of the s® ren t |us well M
his agents) undoubtedly knew who they were, and
as surely assumed a grave responsibility in taking
them on board his vessel. The editor of the Albion
exclaims, 11 Thank Heaven, we (Britishers) h&vfc
not retrograded to a passport system.” Does he
not know that in no part of the world are passports
more rigidly required than in the Island of Cuba ?
No one can enter or depart from that country
without a passport (unless he be an ambassador).
It is not to be supposed that, after the open avowal
of their official character at Havana, Messrs.
Slid ell and Mason would bide their light under a
bushel, and go on board in disguise. More proba
ble is it, that they went on board the Trent with
the full acknowledgment, on the part of the agents
and the master, of their official character, and with
passports en regie as accredited ministers plenipo
tentiary from the Confederate Government to the
Governments of Great Britain and France.
If no stronger ense can be made on the British
side of the question than that presented by the
Albion , we may dismiss all fears of trouble arising
from the right and spirited action of Capt. Wilkes.
Yours truly, Anglo-Amebic ax.
Philadelphia, Nov. 20,1861.
THE REBELLION.
IMPORTANT FROM FORT PICKENS.
THE FIGHT WITH BBAGG’S
FORCE COMMENCED.
THE REBEL REPORTS OP THE BATTLE.
THE NIAGARA AND COLORADO EN
GAGING FORT McRAE.
GENERAL BRAGG REPORTED TAKING THE
BOMBARDMENT COOLLY.
Navy Yard os Fire Three Times,
TOWN OF WARRINGTON BURNED.
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION STARTED PROM
PADUCAH.
THE BEDELS EXPECT AN ATTACK
ON COLUMBUS.
Arrival there ef Hollins and his
Rebel Fleet.
AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI.
THE POSITION OP GEN. LANE’S BRIGADE.
INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
LATEST FROM THE SUMPTER,
THE PRIVATEER BEAUREGARD CAPTURED.
IMPORTANT FROM FORT PICKENS.
Rebel News from Fort Pickens.
Baltimore, Nov. 26.—Passengers by the Old
Point boat report that the Norfolk Day Book has
a despatch from Richmond, to the effect that an
engagement was going on at Pensacola Parties
who had read the paper say that the steamers Nia
gara and Colorado had engaged Pert Mcßae, and
that the fire was briskly returned, damaging the
vessels so severely that they had to haul off. Also,
that Fort Pickens was firing on the navy yard.
Tbii affair is said to have occurred on Frida;
last, and one version is that Fort Pickens opened
on Fort Barrancas and the navy yard. This all
comes through Secession channels, and must be re
ceived with due allowance. Perhaps the atCSßierS
were only making a reconnoissance, as was done on
the first day of the attack on Port Royal.
The New York Tribune’s special correspondent
sends the following despatoh to that paper:
Fortress Monroe, Nov. 25.=Fort Pickens
opened fire on Bragg's forces on Saturday last, Nov.
23d.
The particulars are meagre, and come only
through rebel sources.
General Bragg telegraphs that he is taking tha
bombardment coolly.
The rebels claim to have breached the walls of
Fort Pickens.
Tho navy yard was on fire thusa titles, but the
flames were each time extinguished.
The village of IVarrington was burned by Colonel
Brown’s fire on the first day.
BAltlmOre, Nov. 26. —The Secession reports gay
the? affair at Fort Pickens took place on the 19th.
Washington, Nov. 20. —Assistant Secretary Fox
has received a despatch from Baltimore, stating
that the Norfolk Day Book publishes advices from
Richmond, t? the effect that an engagement was
going on at Pensacola.
Another despatch says the fight commenced on
Saturday, and was in progress on Sunday.
Fort Pickens, by firing hot shot, had set tho Pen
sacola navy yard on fire three times, hut the rebels
managed, up to the latter day, to extinguish the
flames. They had not, however, been able to sup
press those of the burning town of Warrington,
which the hot ghot had utterly destroyed.
It was thought at Old Point that our victory was
decisive.
Position of things Before the Reported
A correspondent of tlie liicfimond Dispatch
writing from near Pensacola, Fla., under date of
November 11, says:
Though at the present time quiet, there is no tell
ing how soon a detachment Of Lincoln’s armada
may fell in a mood to test the strength of soma of
our batteries, and send us a bomb by way of salute,
on which occasion they may rest assured we shall
not turn on them the cold shoulder.
Since our attack on Wilson’s camp, the morning
of the ninth of October, the entire force on the
island has heen very industrious. Billy’s “ pets' 1
have had a new and complete tit out, many wooden
buildings have been erected, and they have quite
a town there. They have put all their barbette
guns in trim, mounted a number of extra ones on
the fort (some of which are bearing up the island,
so as to rake any force that should attempt to
storm the fort in that direction,) and Colonel
Brown, with his late reinforcement, no doubt con
siders his position impregnable.
They have kept but one ship off the island since
the first of last month until Saturday last, when
daylight showed us six large vessels off the fort,
and it was supposed that our allotment of the
“armada” had arrived, but the following night
three of them disappeared They arc trying to be
as mysterious as possible in tbeir movements.
Last night, at ten o’clock, the Seventh Alabama
regiment, Colonel Wood, received marching orders,
and this morning they are on their way to Chatta
nooga, for the purpose of looking after the Union
men, who are committing depredations, such as
bridge burning, Ac., in East Tennessee. The Tenth
Mississippi is also ordered from here, but I cannot
give their destination. To fill the vacancy mada by
the departure of these troops, some 2,100 to 2,200
Misaisappi troops—part of whioh arrived yesterday
evening, the remainder to arrive to-day—are _ lo
cated near Warrington. These comprise the Fifth
and Eighth Mississippi regiments.
This portion of the army under General Braggis
in good trim, and well disciplined for volunteers,
and, as a general thing, are well satisfied, or would
be but for tbeif continued inaction.
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THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
fflsre will the_ First Great Battle be
Fought.
So far AS human few* can boat penetrate the fu
fcure, evtry circumstance points to a rapidly
approaching collision between tbe&rces of General
Buell and GunerM- Jchnstou. 31w Confederal©
forces have repeatedly threatened-to advance upon
Louisville, but have failed to* come nearer thsg
seventy-hyc miles of that ci*j, Oil throthor band*
the L nion troops, constantly augmenting in num
bers. and becoming ©very day more seasoned and
better equipped, nrc pressing forward nearer and
nearof to Biwilbg (Jrecn.- At this point the great
battle must take place, as the Union generals will
not hesitate to attack it, notwithstanding, it-
fied, or the enemy must precipitately- retroat mt»
Tennessee.
The late proclamation of Governor Hhrris; eaU
ing upon all the people of Tennessee to send’in their
arms to supply those disposed to volunteer imaddi
tion to the troops already in tha field, Shows Urol
mortal terror has seized upon even the disloyal
Governor of the State. He baa but little hopes of
JohnsonVsucccss at Howling Green. He therefore
desires all the reserved force of mea and 1 arts#
within the State to be brought out, to resist e*-
cessful and victorious enemy as they press in vast
numbers upon Nashville.
21m /-)■/.£.< SSJK then & mohlh ago editorially
pointed out the only natural overland route by
which New Orleans could be reached and taken.
That route was the one followed by the Indian, the
buffalo, and the primitive boatman, as they wendti 1
their way from the bayous of Louisiana toward tho
North star. That route lay along the pine slopes
ef Eastern Mississippi, through Northern Alabama,
Nashville, Nature and oiperienee
then, point to the rtntadeerdlwg thxoagh or over
Johnson’s column as the only feasible way by whioh
tho great commercial capital of the Southwest can
be successfully reached by land. Johnson's defpgt
insures Folk's precipitate retreat, tho fall of Nash*
ville, and the occupation of New Orleans.
Affairs at Paducah,
The correspondent of the Missouri Dtmoerat,
writing from Paducah, under date of November
17,says:
An expedition moved from here last night, to
wards Columbus. It was composed of the Fortieth
&nd Pflfly- fifSl lilifioii Regiments, a section of
Buell’s artillery, three guns, and two companies of
cavalry, under command of General Paine.
Information had been received that fifteen or
eighteen hundred Seceeh, under the notorious H»
Clay King, were at Lovolettsvill®, sisitesa mile#
distant, on the road to Columbus. There ia a large
flouring-mill there, where, it is said, the rebels
were receiving “aid and comfort.”
General Paine left here last night at 10 o’clock,
and intended to surprise the rebels at daylight this
morning, and confiscate tho flouring-mill, It is
feared General Paine will not get a fight with
King, as he is known to be a regular blatherskiting,
Jeff Thompson sort of a man.
A messenger is reported to hßve just returned
from the expedition. lie statist no enemy was
found, and that Gen. Paine confiscated the flour,
and took some of the maohinery of the mill, to pre
vent its being of any further use to the rebels, and
is now on his return maroh. Gen. Paine would
h&v& bbrned the mill, bad not an undoubted loyal
Kenluckian been a large owner in it, who says tho
rebels pressed his mill, and would .not pay him
anything for the flour and wheat they took.
Our troops at this post are generally ia excellent
health; they have all lately been furnißhed with
the “Fremont'’ tent, and they are so large they
have built brick furnaces within to keep them
warm. There is a paymaster hero now, whose pre
sence is particularly gratifying, and, although oof
boys like their money, they would like better just
now to be led against the enemy of our country.
Like our troops at Cairo, before the Belmont skir
mish, they are clamorous for a battle, and it is to
be hoped they wiil soon have an opportunity of
achieving a decided and substantial suioMa for the
Union, and not let this fine material of our army
become demoralized from inactivity.
The fortifications around this place are cow com
pleted. Regard for the public interests prevents
me telling you how many guna are mounted and in
position, for experience for the past few days at
Cairo shows that the rebels receive our papers as
regularly as we do. Friends of the Union may rest
assured Paducah is safe. The pontoon bridge, or
bridge of boats, is still here. Secessionists here
were a few weeks ago bold and defiant in denuncia
tion, and proud of the rebellion; now they are do
cile as lambs, and admit the Union must triumph.
One of the most active and prominent Secesh the
other day was heard to say “ the North has toy
ibaby men and too much money for us.'* Thia sen
timent is known to exist largely in this BtatO and
Tennessee, and upon this we must hope eventually
to reconstruct our Union.
The rebels up the Tennessee riygr are Very atlr
live. They are building three gunboats abOTe Fort
Henry. It is thought they intend to use them
against our gunboats when we descend the Missis
sippi. They are built of the old cotton boats nsed in
towing cotton on the lower Tennessee river, in
Alabama. Rebel ingenuity has hit upon the plan
of filling tho hulls and bulk heads with compressed
cotton bales; they are screwed Into position by a
steam-power, and, it is said, will offer an effectual
resistance to a cannon ball, and prevent a gunboat
sinki&g if its llles are stove to pieces. Thi©
opinion is concurred in by one of our gunboat cap
tains, who is in favor of protecting our boats in
the same maimer if we could procure the cotton.
It is thought the expedition under Gen. Pain*
may have some connection with a mcvcment *&
Bowling Green. You may look for something im
portant from there in a few days.
Secession Outrages npon Loyal Ken
tuckians,
Correspondence of the Louisville Journal.]
Smithlakd, Ky., Nov. 18,1861.
I feel it to be a duty I owe to oppressed Union
men in the counties of Crittenden, Caldwell, Lyon,
and Livingston to make n few statements af wb&t I
know to be facts, and, ns I am well acquainted
with the geography and the history of events in
these counties, I will presume to make a few sug
gestions for those it ought to concern.
For over two weeks the “ Secosh ” forces, jg
sundry parties, numbering each from twenty-five
to one hundred and fifty, nave heen riding about
arresting innocent loyal meu, robbing Union men
of their horses, hogs, cattle, wagons, edibles, and
provisions, and carrying it off to Hopkinsville. At
this time thcro are a great many volunteers here
meu of families, who left enough at home to sub
sist their families for over a year, and as a punish
ment for their offence of volunteering thw have
been effectually robbed, and their families are now
in need.
Although we are volunteering here, our hands
are tied. In the upper part of the State, vour
scouting parties go out at their brilliant achieve
ments, but send no force here to aid us. We are
located west of the Cumberland, the worst location
in tha State, for if wo hod a samp in feres abywhor*
above Dycusburg and east of tho Cumberland river,
all the Union men and their property could be pro
tected, and many of the most blood-thirsty traitors
captured.
There is now a force of six hundred « Seceah” at
Princeton, Kentucky, with six pieces of iron cannon
-six-pounders. If the country east of the Cum
berland had been occupied they would not have
come there, and, if they had, tbey could have been
driven off, and property of Union meu to tho
amount of thousands of dollars saved, and other
outrages prevented.
Secessionists are getting out attachments all
through this county against our Union men who
have volunteered here, and selling their property
for a mere song.
Expected Attach on Columbus.
There is thought to be imminent danger of an at
tack on Columbns, Ky. The Charleston Mercury
of the 21st publishes a despatch from New Orleggj.
dated the 20th, which states thatintcuse eXOitement
prevails there relative to the threatened attack on
Columbus, Ky. Commander Hollins bad gone
there with his fleet, and had telegraphed for the
stsfiffl-rom Mariams, A floating battery with 20
guns was going up that night. All tho river pilots
had been impressed. Seventeen thousand troops
and 70 cannon were at Columbus.
On the 30th, a public meeting was held at Mem
phis. The people passed resolutions to send men
and guns to Columbus, and adopted an address
calling upon sister States also to send assistance for
the defence of the Mississippi valley. The address
says:
“An invasion is at hand by the enemies of our
rights and liberties, moving upon us in overwhelm
ing numbers. In the next five days there will bs a
great battlo at Columbus, and if the Confederates
are overpowered, Memphis will be lost to the South,
unless Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana help us.
Our friends in the surrounding States must look the
facts in the face before it is too late.”
THE WAR IN MISSOURI.
On Saturday last, four detaohments of cavalry
went tp ???upy Ltttnnr, Barton county, Missouri,
Carthage, Jasper county, Papinsvillo, Bates county,
and a rebel Indian camp on Lightning creek, in
McGee oounty, in this State. Six hundred Chero
kees were reported to be on Lightning creek.
Colonel JR)))}? MOBtgOfflW if 59W 18. commanfl
of the Kansas brigade. Goneral ltains is camped
at Bowers’ mills, on Spring river, Jasper county,
Missouri, with 12,000 men. On the march in from
Springfield, and on Thursday last, there was only
the river between Lane and Rains. The bluffs are
thirty feet high, and Lane had no means of cross
ing the stream. The odds in ground and numbers
was so much against him that he did not risk an
engagement.
From Northeast Missouri.
The St. Louis Democrat says:
W* have received the following items of intelli
gence from a gentleman direct from Palmyra:
On Sunday night last a detachment of the Third
Missouri Cavalry, Colonel Glover’s regiment, in
tercepted, about ten miles west of Palmyra, on the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, and succeeded
in Capturing, without the loss of a man, a lot of
rebels, with their teams, together with a large lot
of arms and clothing, blankets, Ac., on their way to
join Prioe’s army. The rebel loss is reported three
killed, five wounded, and sixteen prisoners.
Among the killed was a son of E. W. Mitchell, one
of the wealthiest farmers in Lewis oounty, and on*
of the most aotive in stirring up rebellion in his
neighborhood. A son of William E. Olds, of the
firm of Olds & Berry, of La Grange, had his arm
shot off.
Hon. Thomas S. Richardson, judge of the Fifth
Judicial Circuit, was shot near bis rcsidenoc in
Scotland county, by one of tho officers of Colonel
Moore’s regiment, on Saturday last. His death is
a great loss to tbe rebels in Northeast Missouri, as
bis whole influence hfts been exerted since the com*
menccment of the war in favor of the rebellion*
and hag induced a large number of young men to
Jain the rebel Briny, and take up arms ttf destroy
that Constitution which he has often solemnly sworn
to observe and maintain.
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