E.e Vuess. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1861. EXTRACT PEON THE LAST SPEECH OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.—" The conspiracy so break up the Union is a fact now knoWit to all. Armies are being raised, and war levied to accomplish it. There can be but two sides to the controversy. Every man must be on the side of the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war. There can be none but patriots and traitors." Our Foreign Relations. Accompanying the President's Message was a volume of several hundred pages refer- ring to the relations of this country with foreign Powera. Immediately after his en trance into office, as Secretary of State, Mr. SEWARD addressed a circular to all the minis- tors sent to foreign countries by the thaw States: The volume referred to presents that circular, with the various replies which this letter and others elicited from our representa tives abroad. Mr. SEWARD'S letter, we mad• say, oet forth the policy of this Govermitent, and strongly Ileelared the purpose of the Executive—namely, under the Constitution, to maintain the rnion in its full and un- elgtugoablo intetn•ity, Thelrnited States Ministers, responding to Mr. SEWARD . S missives, are the gentlemen respe etiveb deputed to represent the United States in Prussia, Belgium, Mexico, Great Britain, Austria, France, Spain, 'Rome, Rus sia, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Turkey, Sweden, Portugal, Guatemala, Nica ragua; Dart, Venezuela, Chili, and the I fa- waiian I.slluuls. More or less, a thoroughly- friendly feeling for this country has been pro fessed by all the above-named Powers. The twat European sovereigptie: (France,England, Austria, Prussia, Italy, and - Russia) are more friendly to us than the smaller, and, some- how or other, there seems a general ignoring of any proposition for diplomatic relations with " the Southern Confederation." As usual in her diplomatic relations with this Country. France bas been friendl - and frank. England appears careful, far from hostile, but, if we may use a familiar phrase, also not a little on the feace. Prussia shows itself thoroughly Unionist, promising to take efficient steps to sustain the Government of the rnited States in the protection of pro perty and commerce, and will do all she can consistently with her obligations to other Governments to sustain the vigorous action of our Government in maintaining law and My, as might be anticipated, has the sym pathy of her ruler and his Ministers strongly on the side of the President and the consti tuted authorities of the Union. RuSsip, which had already proclaimed its re gard for good government here, has repeated the avowal to our Minister. In a word, whether their secret wishes do or do not go with us in this struggle, the leading towers of Europe have declared themselves upon our side—be cause it is the side of justice and law, of rea- Aon and good government. France, we must say, under her present ruler, has invariably been loyal to the United States. Before this country had won her in dependent nationality—before Great Britain bad acknowledged the strength of this infant Hercules of empires—France had gallantly come forward, the first ally of the future So vereign Republic. For the most part, one relations with France have continued friendly —strongly so since President JACKSON brought Lours PHILIPPE to book, over a quarter-cen tury ago. The reigning Emperor, who has a personal knowledge of this country, has always been friendly, frank, and genial in his relations with us. The change was marked in his enunciation of the Our political system is decidedly the anti- different parts of the following passages : pode of that of Austria—a free Republic, "What should be hoped from a degenerate, corrupted, opposed to an imperial and irresponsible auto- r iTild•liViiiipetlioetsll44oolC m C ;t ll . - r hel f l r i e l e ini n f i tl r rr a i a4d o n t ie m an a l l 3 o - ; craey—yet Austria goes with us, in this con- , foot, and sell their country for a smile. test, because no other Power can so clearly "Oh rSyrscuse*,l am at last fared 5' despair * of thee! appreciate, at this moment, the terrible evil of : Alitd !:et thou all ray land of birth—thou art mr country still; and like an unkind mother, thou hest left, the rerellion. "------ .4' holiest hature.in my heart.' Russia has already anticipated any demand The speech of i1wer....... ;.., a 1... lae.-.._, __ ....... -- as to her policy_ Some months ago the Czar passages appropriate to our crisis, was deliverea expressed his opinions in favor of the Consti. •with dignity, Wipes verging upon passion, and tutional cause in this country, without having ' often sinking to low, earliest cadences that were been required to do so—required, we mean, heard by a silent house. As examples of Mr. ForreSt's ability to stir the by red-tape policy—but drawn forth by the, 1 tenon croations, - . we may cite the interviews in generous impulse of a great ruler, fettered by ; the dungeon, at the afore of the third act; and in his position, but, as we - have seen, risking : his garden, at the last parting With his wife and empire and life itself to emancipate its heredi- child. The agony depicted upon his ftemai-e, was Lary white slaves, ' steed has been slain b:rill'-`" oration of passion with ,-.. : Of course, the personal sympathies of Vic- ; terribly . . g i tern o re offender. The passage . :4..ar standing here to see if the great gods will, TOR EMMANUEL are on the side of the Union in . •tY l ,' wita their lightning, execute my prayer upon thee," this country. He knows how war** -- s' °- . was not shouted vociferously, but uttered in a tone is mpathised with him in tl—v ' Livia the user- of half grief, aed half arnezeraent, _...„, and he must feel—none So, at the close, the redemption of his friend, his ous ends -_ pi .. ....,Tiy—tliat even worse than foreign ' exhaustion, and the sudden bounding upon the — rule is domestic treason. f scaffold, were in keeping with the dictates of nature Whatever difficulties may have arisen from . and the play. He seemed, literally, to giow taller the aristocratical organization of the British • in the view of the spectators when he said— sta!ilntmonhner: i tz n n e !!e sea GorernMeni—and it wouldbe uncandid to deny 6 field l look at me—l am that 'difficulties hare sprung up—we continue _ The tragedian was well sustained by Mr. John It, think, as we have thought all along, that the i McCullough, who conceived properly whatever of great British People are well-disposed towards character Pythzas may hare, and played the part us, and desire to witness the maintenance of with great spirit and effect. In the last act his our high position among the nations of the management was admirable, and many of his in world. Tired as we are of the eternal and tonatione in the highest degree muslin]. Mr. Leak - made the best of Dyonysizes. Hermione was en stereotyped twaddle, mostly from American trusted to Miss Athena, a very creditable lady , and lips in England, about identity_ of language, : Mrs. Gladstaffe looked well as Calanthe. laws, and literature, still we frankly admit that there ore connecting links between the Anglo- Celtic and the Anglo-Saxon people of the old country and the new. It hasbecome a proverb Among those who struggle for existence, in Great Britain, and who revolt at becoming pauperized in a work-house, that, after all; there is subsistence, if not competence and The chief steward of the IranderLik furnished fortune, for the honest laborers who seek a . us with an interesting statement of the movements . of the troops and the condition of the nogroes: He new home with us. If Lancashire and Lanark- ' states that a few days before the steamer left Port shire were twenty times the cottonocraeies . Royal. Captain Falkner, with a scouting phrty of i tf o t a e u er t i oi nr n vil p e r r o e e e t e h d e e y d about discovered sevena that they are, thoughtful England, canny" miles beyond n o d n Scotland, warm-hearted Walee, and impulsive Ladies Island. The party opened a brisk fire for Ireland never could, and never will, forget how 1 the purpose discovering if of i the stro o neolt was a many of their children have found industry ' garrisoned s i o t-. 11 e A rapid reply nm was e soon receivedin the and ability sureguides to success here, whereas , shape of a large shell which burst near the party, , and seen after the troops hi the feet Were diseeVered . they only procured the barest living there. retreating. When we decidedly express the opinion , There were about 300 soldiers, including still's that the People, as distinguished from the . rists, in the, fort. and its evacuation created some surprise from Capt. Falkner and his command ; but Gorernment 3 of England, are with us in this ' s it soon appeared that the rebels luulbolieved that great world's contest—it embraces a far wider the scouts were but the advance guard of a large range than ordinary politicians would assign force, and the evacuation was thus accounted for. Capt. Falkner then cautiously took possession of it—we would add that Queen Vieronit her- i the fort ; but subsequently considering that there self undoubtedly sympathizes with the cause was no military necessity to hold it, withdrew his of our [mien. command; after bevies spiked the guns. The Se• Prussia, which probably looks for the Impe7: i 144,742 Highlanders are now located at Fort ._ rial diadem of Germany, on the not improba- ` ' The negroes are represented to be •in a most ble event of Hungary and Venetia beingdemoralized condition. On St. Helena Island— de- ,. . one of Ole mamas group near Port Royal— ladled, by revolution, from Austria—Truss/a, • there - are two large plantations, which recently we say, has behaved with mingled magnanimi- ' belonged to Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Coffin. formerly of Savannah. On those plantations are 'about two ty:and wisdom, in deputing its Foreign Minister thousand negroes, who refuse to work, and claim to express the earnest sympathy of his Go- that, as their masters bad left, the property be vernment with the American people in their longed to them_ present troubles, not only because of the cf- j pe T ul h tg, h ini e d e oe k r en etri e b e i s ees ss i i v e :ic f h w a t! l re t h a e b abundant Pof such disturbances upon the Commerce . on the island, and now sell ' them to the troops, So of Europe, but also on account of the intimate many have been their sales already that in about a relations between the two countries, owing to nboitinllgilelteoenittheleislearieneudbatt ereimtchoettionth.ere will be the presence of a larze German population in ' .A few days before the Vanderbilt left two the United States. ;clic gave me," Mr. Woo: HT In fl it u ef Beaufort river, gunboats sailed on a cruise up the itv.tehra, they d i n iis t c h a e l i .a r r a rc i tt l iz e th , g a ile a eis e r o e t. - says, " the most positive assurances that his PO ' rtt d r tha r Government, Iron! the principle of unrelenting ' ton ' already stored for removal, at about four miles opposition to revolutionary movements, would distant from the city. Gunboats were again sent bad e been a m the cotton, but it was found that a torch be one of the last to recognize any de facto Go- applied to it during the night, and the vernment of the disaffected States of the ,me- ' u bele crop was consumed. s,,.. r ‘ l.. o l .y r b a le j n el it e e n t il was tat still under to direct control e rican trnion." Prussia and England, so far as the personal feelings of their respective rulers not advisable to lan e d e tlo u o n ps e o e n e lt deemed ti t il i r t- ei w nf ne orcements are concerned ; are one in this question. ! arrived. There are gunboats and other vessels in t t b rc e op , a in t i l t i l to s a ft o c o ie t n a t t r o m eo h n o v n ey dr fi a( cte m e Another day, we shall state why we think so, n ile r s h-ou w sf rol reinforcements are received, it is considered ?relia ble that the great expedition, previously intended, will be undertaken, and that they , will proceed up the river to Savannah, if possible, after a successful engagement with Fort Pulaski. That fort, it is stated, is the only ono capable of defending Savan nah, and there is a large rebel force at present in it. It is also stated that a branch of the expedi tion will be sent to Brunswick, Ga., as an easily ac cessible port. One of the passengers in the steamer Vanderbilt. which arrived this (Friday) morning from Port Royal, states that on the 28th of November a sol dier of the Pennsylvania Roundhead Regiment, while on guard near a pile of 10-inch bombshells, amused himself by sticking his bayonet into the fuse of one of them. The friction caused the shell to explode, whereby the soldier was so frightfully lacerated that he died in two hours afterwards. A comrade, who was standing by, bad his knee pan shattered, and a third Midler had a large gash inflicted on his neck. Hon. H. W. _Batmen and James L. Orr, two of the most rabid rebel, in South Carolina, have been elected to repruent that State in the Veda/rate Congress. The Richmond Dispatch., of Thursday, says that the Convention on the 4th inst. passed the subjoined ordinance, authorizing the auditor to issue treasury enter, to beer ac interest, which will relieve the treasury of a very considerable liability. The plates and piper are ready for printing, and the notes will be put in circulation without delay : Be it ordained, That the auditor of public me- Counts be, and be is hereby, authorized-to Issue tree miry notes, which shall bear no interest, to an amount not exceeding four millions of dollars, for the-purpose of redeeming at maturity, or at such other time as they may be presented for payment, the interest bearing trilAury notes which were . stied under the ordinaneesof this Convention, passed as aforesaid, respectively on the 30th day of April, 1861, and on the 28th day of June, 1861.. The said cotes shall be of denominations not less than five ' dollars—be payable to hearer at the Treasury on demand—and a ben presented for payment in sums of five hundred dollars, or any multiple of one hun dred dollars above that sum, they may be converted into registered bonds of the State, bearing six per cent= per annum interest. All the provisions of SALEin - EXECUTOR'S; TRUSTEES, Onriburs' said ordinance, numbers thirty-five and seventy one, in this ordinance referred to, and the ordinance Conn' AND COMMON PLEAS—FIRST-CLASS REAL entitled an ordinance requiring the banks to re- ESTATE.—Thomas & Sons' sale, on Tuesday next, eeive the Treasury notes of this Commonwealth,' will comprise, not only the largest amount, but the pawed July 1, 1601, shall be held to apply to the most valuable Real Estate offered this season. Wee authorized to be issued by this ordinance, except so far only as they may be inconsistent ' . „- , . , , er pamphlet catatogne zs 6.o ea cost-ay reTZ (rat therewith." tisement, auction /lead. LE'rrER FROM OCCASIONAL." WASIIINfiTON, December 0 3 1861. It is announced, ilk the Charleston papers of the gOth instant, g , that the patriotic planters on the seaboard arc daily applying the torch to t'•eir crops, and that there is one sheet of smoke and flame along the whole coast." From these two sentences, a most instructive admonition can be drawn. When the war broke out, the Southern people were happy beyond all precedent. Their rich men were tun er richer ; their middle classes never more comfortable their slaves never more con tented. They had, indeed, lost the control of the Government: but everybody was so anxious to conciliate them, that if they had patiently submitted to an election, decided more by the ambition of their own politicians than by the votes of the free States, they would soon have recovered their vantage ground as the masters and managers of the political situation. First, let us re collect that the war in which we are now engaged was not only provoked and pre cipitated by the Southern leaders, but was brought on by them with a deliberation and preparation exhibited through many years. As Judge Douglas expressed it immediately before his death, ci there never was a time front the day Washington was inaugurated when the rights of the South stood firmer under the laws of the land than they do now and again, "there never was a time when the South had not as good a cause for Disunion as it has to-day.'.' But the traitors filled the Southern mind with the falsehood that it was right to attack the Federal GoVernment, and that the consequence of that attack would con - - fer upon the Southern people certain innu merable and indescribable blessings. The two sentences at the head of this letter give us but a faint idea of a portion of : the suffer ings of' the Southern people in cOnsenteneo of this war and of the utter failure of the promi ses of their leaders, It has conferred no single real advantage upon their character Or Utah' aandition. They have - lost political power, moral power, and commercial power. The red hoof of war has mangled the bosom of the South alone. It is not the Northern fields_that have been blasted by conflagration, drained by hungry 'armies, desolated in the battle storm, or turned into graveyards. Northern ports have not been closed to foreign trade, Northern manufac tories have not been deserted, Northern me chanics and laborers are not starvingL--saiddst the almost universal scarcity of the necessa ries of life. But all these things may be said of the South. It is there that all the calami ties of the :conflict have concentrated. How long can a rebellion maintain itself that stands upon a lie and is surrounded by the just cen sures of the civilized world and the com plaints of a starving and people ? Edwin Forrest as Damon. The Academy of Music was most uncomfortably crowded last evening, No eligible seats could be procured after Friday noon, and the lobbies and aisles were beset during the performance by some hundreds of ladies and men, who remained per slstently until half past ten o'clock. Mr. Forrest's Damon—a part with which he has been identified for many years—was marked by evidences of careful study. The play has been in possession of the stage sine 1821, and before that time there were several dramatic versions of the incident upon which it is founded. Mr.. Forrest is fitted to the representation of Damon by temperament. The " Pythagorean," equally intense in his hatred and his affection; dauntless in spirit, and in body powerful ; a little cynical in his philosophy, particularly where the wrong was to be discussed; and resolute in his de nunciation as he was melting in his tenderness ; these are the tragedian's characteristics, and Da mon is therefore one of his greatest successes. The opening remarks of Damon were rendered by Mr. Forrest with all that biting sarcasm of which D io n ?pins speaks: "In frowns, closed lips, sad pithy sentences." The play will be repeated to-night with the same east. Cubas appears in ballet this afternoon. Late News from Port Royal. The New York Ea:press, of lest evening ; contains the following additional intelligence from Poil Royal,-received by the steamer Vanderbilt. The Express says: Sis son Bun announces his afternoon and evening entertainment to-day at the Temple of Wonders, Tenth atid Chestnut. The canary and Bobby will be present and perform, and the Signor promises great illusions in magic, besides the ventriloquial scenes. LATEST NEWS BY TB LECtRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. EXPEDITIONS SENT OUT TO CAPTURE REBEL A RESIDENT AGENT APPOINTED FOR PORT ROYAL. IMPORTANT FROM OUR FORCES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. A RECONNOISSANCE TO WITHIN TWENTY THREE BATTERIES CAPTURED AND TILE GUNS SPIKED. LATEST FROM MISSOURI. A SPEECH FROM GEN. PRENTISS Secessionists must take the Oath or Work in the Entrenchments. PRICE'S HEADQUARTERS NEAR OSCEOLA Special Despatches to "The Press." WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 1861. Expeditions Sent Out to Capture Rebel The second and third brigades from General Mc- CALL'S division, with the General in command, to gether with a brigade from Gen. &rpm's division, with two days' rations, went out this morning to scour the country in the vicinity of Dranesville, and towards Leesburg, where a body of rebel cavalry have been seen in large force for some days past. Ex-Colonel CHARLES J. BIDDLE and other members of Congress accompanied the army. The reserve brigades, in SMITH'S and McC.A.Lr.'s divisions, were under arms during the day. ready to move forward if it should be found necessary to in crease the force sent out. The army will probably not return before to-morrow evening. Simultaneously with this movement on the right wing of the army, General IlEturznotAN sent out three regiments from the left wing, in pursuit of three hundred cavalry that were seen, for several days, in the vicinity of Accotink creek, below Alexandria. These expeditious are composed of infantry, ca valry, and artillery, and they will not return until they have made captives of these rebel scouting parties, or ettuaed them to retire from the position where they have been discovered. A Resident Agent for Port Royal. Lieutenant Colonel REYNOLDS has been ap pointed roident- agent at Port Royal, under the general regulations relative to securing and dis posing of the property found or brought within the territory now or hereafter to be occupied by the United States in the disloyal States. Re has been ordered to report to the Secretary of the treasury. Ote.tglOt4.-kt A bill will soon be introduced in Congress autho rizing the organization of a steam fire engine brigade. As a large amount of Government pro perty has recently been destroyed, for the want of some such organization, there can scarcely be a doubt of tho passage of the measure, Contrabands in the County Jail There are forty-six persons from Maryland and Virginia in the county jail, arrested by the consta- Mes on the presumption that they are fugitive slaves. A difficulty exists, in the way of their im mediate discharge, from the fact that it cannot yet be ascertained whether they are all contrabands, as the loyal citizens have the right to claim a sur render of their property. Sickness in the Army. Though not generally of a serious character, there is a good deal of sickness in the army, in Virginia. It arias from the differenee in the habits of the soldiers from that to which they have been ROOM touted, and with care to diet and cleanliness soon disappears. A Church Converted into a Theatre, The Baptist Church on Tenth street is to be con verted into a theatre, under the superintendence of Mr. FORD. This movement is not saying much for the monde of Washington, The church is, how ever, old and nearly out of use for religious pur poses. Newspapers Among the Soldiers The soldiers in the Army of the Potomac are in veterate tiertSlSWl , readers. There is net A regi ment, probably, that does not buy from two to three SZigirfliler.aPtr.a..d.glsj The nictorielq..... of The Press daily across the Potomac, all of whioh are 'bought up in the Pennsylvania Reserves, while other dealers supply the different sections of the rainy in great number!... _ .,„ , neampinents. Chlu!Siate regiments in Generals hIcCALL AJSilti;t's divisions are to• day striking their tents and removing to new localities, nearer to forests, where they can obtain wood for building cabins conveniently, and for their fires. They do ot, however, require to go far from their former loca lities. It is a duty of the officer's of the army, and one that is tee often negleeted, to insist upon a rigid system of cleanliness in the army. Bathing of the body .and clean underclothing, at least "twice a week, are absolutely necessary to the preservation of health and comfort. I know that, in may re giments, cleanliness of the person is wholly disre:. garded. Literary Exercises and Amusements in the Army. Some of-the regiments are putting up commodi ous cabins for holding meetings for intellectual improvement during the winter evenings. This praiseworthy movement will, it le hoped, be adopted by every regiment in the army. The buildings put up for this purpose can be used on the Sabbath for religious exercises, and, during the week : for literary entertainments in the eve nings, Our Hospitals. The official report to-dal gives 1,083 as the number of sick and wounded in the hospitals in Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria. The sick have every. comfort and attention that their cases require. Now hospitals are being erected, in anticipation of a larger demand for accommodg tioias. The Released Colored Prisoners The colored prisoners, numbering over sixty, as Indicated in The Press of yesterday, wilt obtain papers to-day that will exempt them from arrest. The females are much in demand as cooks and do mestics, while the males will be engaged as waiters in restaurants, teamsters, They rejoice in be ing liberated from their recent eanfinement in jail. The Pennsylvania Reserves were out nearly all day yesterday in battalion and regimental drill. The day was fine, and Gen. fdcOara was on horse back during a large portion of the time, closely watching the movements of the army under his command. The movement of the troops in drill and dress parade is equal to that of veterans, The Report of the Secretary of War. The report of the Secretary of War receives very general approval by all classes of our citizens. Dir. CAMERON'S course is securing to him the fullest confidence of eminent minds of every shade of politicians. LEAVENWORTH, KILIMPRP, Dad. G. Drigadiee Generid J. W. Denver has arrived, and has been assigned to the command of all the Kansas regi ments. A portion of General Laae's brigade tomalas ak Fort Scott. The Fourth Regiment is ordered to Wyandotte The First Cavalry, known as Jamison's regiment, is stationed at Johnny Lake ; in the Delaware 10- serration, nearly opposite Parksville. The second Regiment is nearly recruited, and will occupy the village of Kickapoo, ten miles above this city. The river remains open, but trouble with ma rauding parties is anticipated when it freezes over. Trains are again running on the Platte county road, and our mail communications east are re-es tablished. BARGAINS IN PIANOS AND MELODEONS--There being a large temporary reduction in the cost of manufacture of the above, J. E. Govr,o, Seventh and Chestnut streets!, offers the full banafit to hie customers See advertisement. FRANKFORT, Ny., Dec. 0 —ln the House to-day, Mr. R. P. Burns (Disunionlet), of Owen county, offered a series of resolutions, including a demand on the Federal Government for a return to Ken tucky of Ex-Governor Morehead and other political prisoners, and affirming that the President's mes sage foreshadows the impossibility of preserviug or reconstructing the Federal Union. Referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. The Union members are holding a CaUna to night for the purpose of framing aseries of resolu tions regarding the present state 9f mutil, will prob - atdy be 9frCred to-morrow. From St. Thomas—The Chase of the Sumpter. BwroN, pee 4,—The old') Dolphin, from Oalcutta, via bt. Thomas NOT. MI, has arrived hero.' The British mil steamer from Martinique arrived at St. Thomas on the 12th, and reported the pirate Sumpter at Martinique. The U. S. gunboat Iroquois got up steam and started in pursuit. PORTLAND, Dec. defalcation is reported in the bagadabock Bank of /Bath, and Mel bills hare been thrown out by our banks. From Key West. New YORK, Dec. B.—The ahip Pampero and tho gun boats De Soto, AnderSon, and &anon, were at HAY W est on the 24th ult. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1861. SCOUTING PARTIES MILES OF CHARLESTON Scouting Parties. The Steam Fire Brigade Cleanliness in the Army The Pennsylvania Reserve From Kansas The Kentucky Legislature Bank Defalcation. FROM PORT ROYAL. RECONNOISSANCE WITKIN wz.ecil" DIMES OF CHARLESTON. THREE BATTERIES CAPTURED AND THE GUNS SPIKED. NEW YOMIC, Dec. 6.—A letter from Port Royal, received by the Reamer Vandcrhi LOWY that the Seventy-Ninth New York Regiment made a recon noissance towards Charleston, capturing three bat teries, and, after spiking the guns, they returned, having approached within twenty tulles of Charles ton. A large amount of cotton was found ready fur shipment, but the rebels were destroying much of it. About n thousand contrabands wore employed about the forts, and others were coming in. FROM MISSOURI. SNUG-EPIC SPEECH BY GEN. PRENTISS. SECESSIONISTS TO TAKE THE 0/ITII OR. DIG IN THE TRENCHES. Sr. JOSF.I.II, Missouri, December s.—General Prentiss made a speech to a large crowd of citizens yesterday, in which he said : "As God is my judge, every Secessionist in this city shall take an oath of allegiance to the united States Government and support the stars and stripes, or I will send them to work in the trenches of Fort Smith. All persons who are hereafter found expressing Secession senti ments stall take the oath," %..! This speech caused great consternation among the Secessionists, and was received with applause by the loyal citizens. Troops wore sent down to Platt county last night to look after L. I. Gordon's band of rebels. SEDALIA, Dec. 6.—Our latest intelligence from the south is that General Price has moved a part of his force from Osceola to a point five miles distant, where he hes established his headquarters. General Rains commands the remainder, at Os ceola. A train of fifty wagons, from Lexington, laden with supplies for Price's army, passed unmolested within fifteen miles of this place, on Monday last. There aro four rebel recruiting eirice.?. 9P911 in Lexington. enlisting recruits for Price's army. A meeting was held there last Friday, at which several prominent rebels spoke, urging a united effort in behalf of the rebel cause. Similar meet ings have been held in Clay, Ray, and other river counties, and subscriptions for money, clothing, &c., are in circulation. It is not perhaps generally known, but it is be lieved to be a fact, that the county court of Saline county, Claiborne Jackson's residence, in July last authorized the commissioners to raise $1.00,000, to be expended for the benefit of Price's army. Other counties along the Missouri river are believed to huardone the same thing. It is itoted on good Authority that when Price was besieging Lexington, a deputation of citizens was sent to him from Saline county with an urgent request that ho would not allow his army to enter that county, which was complied with. The rea son for the request wns that groat droad was enter tained by the inbabitanta of that county of the plundering propensities of Price's rebels. The country along the Missouri, west of Jefferson City. is the richest in the State, and has furnished nearly as many men, and as much means, in behalf of the rebellion, as the balance of the State, while they have been almost entirely . exempt from ma rauders, and have rarely been visited by the cede. ral troops. LATER FROM EUROPE, i i. ~' . ~ + t C ~'. - The Burning of the Tratvey Birch by the Pirate Nashville. PORTLAND, Dee. 6.—The steamship North. American has arrived from Liverpool, with dates to the 21st ult., and by telegraph, via Londonderry, to the 224. The steamer Glasgow, from New York, arrived out on the 22d. The case of the rebel steamer Nashville and ship Har vey Birch attracts great attention. The Nashville re mained at Southampton on the 22d for repairs. The cap min of the Harvey Birch had gone to London to consult the American minister. The crew of the captured ship were vowing vengeance against the pirates, as they were placed in irons for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the rebels. The officers of the Harvey Birch declare that she was on soundings when the Nashville bore down on her. Col. Peyton was on board the Nashville on a mission from North Carolina, and with Commander PexTrfun had gone to London. The latter wants the MidtrarC Ilifttle into a ahip• pf war at Southampton, bat legal difficulties are raised. Questions are also raised whether the neutrality procla mation has not been iufracted by the landing of the pri soners of war. It is reported that the Nashville has spare officers on board for rebel ships preparing in Eng land. The London Times, in alluding to the case, points to the recent visit of the James Adger, and says that it would be to the interest of England to keep them both out of her harbors, but, if this cannot be done, they must both be let in alike. The Star, although wishing the commander of the 2c,stki4l/e to he punished, saps if ha can produce a nom- , mission from the Confederate States, the Government must let jnnxgo.aa..t_hnK.hakh - tht'Adi , rdtiCTlTCo b,n veld, and is fitting out for the West Indies, but there is a strong presumption that she is destined for the Confederate States. Coilliill4l.6inet4 MA4611 Mid Slidell W 61.41. e1h.e4,41 SOUthaltritall in the steamer La. Plata, due on the 29th. It is reported that the 'United States steamer .Tagnes Ad ger is cruising to intercept the British steamer and cap ture her as Lasing contraband of war on board. • • . The underwriters were raising the war 03UP Int AtAtlti can 1 eB9OlB. There were no tidings of the North Briton and the Anglo Saxon is now overdue. The insurance has been advanced on the former to thirty guineas, and on the talr ter thirty shillings were demanded. A telegram from Hong Kong, to October 13, reports tea firm ; imports drill. Exchange 4,40511., and at Shanghae fid, Canton has been evacuated by the British ITALY. The Italian Parliament has opened. Rims°li pre sented a project for the arrangement of the Roman ques tion. There is the utmost activity in the Navy Department. FitilliCE - The Bank of Prance hits reduced the rate of discount to 5 per cent. A reduction of from 80,000 to 100,000 men was spoken of in the army : the men to return home on a furlougk of one year. It is reported that the Minister of Marine declares that hs eannat anise to a Yetillelloiri af hit dalaitioaht of is single centime. The Government would not ridge a loan at present Gen. CiaMini had arrived at Paris. PRUSSIA. The preliminary elections in Prussia favor the Lib rale. TURKEY. Heavy snows bad compelled Nuir Poslui to go into winter quarters. SOITTH AMBRICA The arrival of the French math: confirm the report that the town of Rosi.ano surrendered to Gen. Mitre without an attempt at defence. The American minister had presented his credentials to the Goviketimmit. Commercial Intelligence. lavEnPoot, Nov. 22.—Sales of cotton for the weak, 44.000 bales. Prices have declined .3.0. Sales to specit lators, 20,500 bales, nod to exporters, 6,500 bales. The sale: , to-day, Friday, have been 6,000 bales, the market closing auiet but stemly. salsa to 51.5 , outintot'i and ex porters, 2,000 bales. The closing quotations are as fol lows: Fair. Middling. New °derma 12,11,4 Mobiles 121 11% Uplands 12 j 11% The stock of cotton in or tis 587,000 bales, including 273,000 681E43 American. DREADSTUFFS.—The market is quiet but steady - . Prior isioxs.—The market doses dull. L°N, n"? Nay. 22.—Consols are pic.tfil Itt 93740-l. ADIEHIC, AN ShiCIIIIITIES.—Erie Railroad, 27) n. linois Central, 40039,14 The increase in bullion in the Bank of England is £151,000. MARINE INTELLIGENCE.—Arrived at Liverpool, from Philadelphia, ship Irmapiingt TEE VERY LATEST CONSTANTINOPLE, Noy. 20.—At the suggestion of Sir Henry Buiwer, the Porte has informed the foreign repre. sentatives that he consents to a union of the Principali- ties ,luting the life of Prince tlarnat. There is a general disposition to accept the offer as a thual solution of the uuestion. Riza Pasha, refusing to accept the government of K. mak, will be exiled to Cyprus Negotiations have been opened between Omar Pasha and the Prince of Montenegro, which gives a prospect of a settlement or the difference between pricey and Pm . . , tenegro. FROM CALIFORNIA. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE RECEIVED BY TELEGRAPH, A SNOW STORM SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNES . DAy, DeC. 4.—A very Severe snow storm, extending eastward to , Salt Lake, has pre vailed for the past four days. The weather is now plea— sant. About 4401009 buye been subscribed to the National Loan in this State. ,The steamer Cortez, from Oregoii, brings $120,000 in gold. The ship War Hawk, from New York, arrived at this port to-day. vVAN FRANCISCO, Thursdah Doc. 5 . -- T49 Warder o/de. Odlc has arriveti, to-day, from Parimna. Moo, the ships Hoge, from Now York.: Peinjata., from ditty Otseonfhe and Belvidere front The United States frigate ,St. Marys has atrivelhere from a cruise. The President's Tilesmge iu full Wilfi received hors tly telegraph, and published at 8 o'clock this morning. The Shm-of-theLine Vermont BOSTON, Dec. O.—Orders Imre been received at the Charlestown Nary Yard to tit out the line-of-battle Ali, J'ermont intmediately. Arrival of Arms. NEW Watt, Dee. o.—The steamer Bavaria, arrived to-tluy, !Ringing 60,000 Pit4Yl of arms fOr the United States Ciorerurncur, purchased Irtlgium. Marine Disaster NEir YORK, Dec. 6.—The British hark Calm& we abandoned at sea, in a sinking condition, Ott the 2d ~IIAG, She was e nd hence fcr Bork. the captain and crew have arrived hero on board the bark Chroales. The Continental Monthly With a bold trust in the future of our Republie of Letters, two experiencea publishers have arranged for the establishment of a new Magazine, to appear at Boston. The publishers are G. P. Putnam and J. R. Gilmore, in conjunction with Crosby and Nichols, of Boston, and T. B. Poteftsti and Brothers, of this city. The magazine will be the Continental Monthly, devoted to National Polities and Litera ture, (we hope there will be very little politiald and the editor will be Mr. C. G. Leland, a Phila.. delphian, who his won renown in various forms of journalism and authorship. The undertaking has our best•wisbes. The details of the publication are advertised in_The:krese of this day, andlubseribers' names will be -received by Messrs. Peterson, 808 Chestnut street - who will . also supply the Trade at Boston rates. TILE CITY. AMogrNitlel TS THIS EVININO AMERICAN AoE.r)r or MAISIO—Broad and Locust street. Afternpn, g. linbam Matinee" Evening, "Damon and PS hias." WALNUT-STA= THatrsz—r(inth and Walnut was.— The Tricks of Love"— 4, MY Neighhor'n P. P."— , Three of the li'lloye." AROH-STRERT !HEATER—Arch btreet, above " Up at the 11i114-..-" Jack Sheppard." WHEATLEY'S ONTINENTAL THEATRE—WaInut street, above Eighth. -- 1 The Cataract of tho Gangoa"—The Adopted 01,11 , 1"_ii Thu 10-81,1 en Fanner), TRIMPLF OF VONOERS-N. E. corner Tenth and Chest nut streets.-81/tor Blitz's Entertainment. FRESENTATRN OF FLAGS BY GOV. CURTIN. GRAND MILITARY DISPLAY. SPEECHES, INCIDENTS, ETC Yetierday afOrneen, a grand review of four regi ments of itfantry and one of cavalry earner off upon the field oposito the Odd !Fellows' Cemetery, on Is ingwo lent east of Ridge avenue_ The field wag large, l,•yri and *all Adapted le the pliejomo. The in terest of tie occasion was in a groat degree heightened by the presotation of - flags to - the regiments participating. Before tip hour fixed upon in the pmgramme for pre senting tie flags had arrived, several thousand persons h a d . 0 ,1.1.1 On the grounds. Ridge avenue and the biro woe !Adult with pririlto vehicles and passenger ears. The hat regiment to roach the ground was Colonel Rush's Light Cavalry. They came in at the eastern en trance ,n the lot, about eleven o'clock, and were drawn up in aline about a hundred yards from the stand which WO hem erected for the Governor, staff; and invited guests. 'Chin regiment was accompanied by a fin ii band of must,, inomited. Tho Ninety-first Regiment, Colonel Gregory, was the next to enter, and were followed by the other rgiments Iu FIICCPSI3IOII. Colonel Lyle's regiment did no' arrive until after twelve o'clock. Goy, Curtin and staff reached the ground about noon. The Governor was escorted to the AMA by ![.j. eon. Robert Patterson. The platform was occupied by a num ber of prominent military gentlemen. The Society of the Cincinnati, which had presented $5OO towards arm ing and equipping tho volunteers of the State, were pre sent by special incitation, and occupied places mpon the ,land. The humbug were dietinguialted by a MOS and white badge. Several ladles, among whom were the wives of some of the colonels, were also upon the plat form. At twAve o'clock the scene bad become at once pretty and impressive. The broad expanse of uniformed men extending as far as the eye could reach, and dotted with the flaunting guidons of the cavalry : the music of favorite tunes floating over the field until lost h 1 the tramp of horses; the gaily caparisoned orderlies speed ing front line to line, made up a panorama of life and beauty not to be witnessed often in one's lifetime. The regiments to which the colors were to be presented were drawn op 111 line, in front of the platform, in the fallowing order! Ninety-first Regiment, Colonel Gregory. Sixty-seventh Regiment, Colonel Stanton. Nineteenth Regiment, Colonel Lyle. rifty-eiglith Regiment, Colonel Jones. Sixth Regiment of Carldr3 - , Colonel Mist'. AcnenJ Plessonton and staff, of tho Howie Guilt*, oc cupied a position on the right of the stand, and the field officers of the Gray Reserves the left. IRAs soon as the regiments were drawn up in the ilhOvo Older. the colonels of each halted in front of the platform, and were then :1111.c...ea by Governor Curtin as folloWsi GOVERNOR CURTIN'S ADDRESS I appear before you in obedience to law, to present to you, before your departure in the service of your country, the etleini.dal standards provides] by the State. The duty hi not now to me, nor have I grown 1111117 from its frequent performance. It is always impressive to contemplate the separation of our friends and fellow citizens from their homes ; but all the feelings which such occasions excite am intensified when those about to leave are under arms and prepared to encounter the vicissitudes and trhilg of actual war. We are, in Penn sylvania, truly a peaceful people, Our genial climate, our geographical position, and our vast material re sources, have led us to cultivate those arts and occupa tions, and those relations of social life which are not in harmony with military discipline and pursuits, or with antagonisms and hostilities. llMih Peareely a military organization in the RAN and our eitizetnt having had no expectation of any at tempt being made to distort , the nation, and as we were at peace with all the world, this rebellion found us in a measure without military preparation. But we have what is infinitely better than mere military training—a people, devoted to the Government; and ready at any moment to take up arms in its defence. This is no time to trace events iu the history of this country, which led to the most causeless and wicked re bellion of ancient or modern times. When the vast eon itifftty veliteli had been formed by Medina men of the South, and covered by pretext without foundation of truth, develOped itself, they expected with a united South and a divided North to crown their folly and ambition with sureess. They at hoist expected that public opinion in Pennsylvania would be divided. Their designs and I:Lol6P:dim of outcast, based as they were on sinister cud selfish motives, and directed to the destruction of our Government, could find no response from the people of Pennsylvania but one of condemnation, and of active and determined opposition. When, they seized the public property, besieged our forts, resisted the execution of the loWth and uhf muster spirits of the conspiracy had retired from the counsels or the nation. Pennsylvania was first among the loyal States to declare officially her fidelity to the Government. Her soldiers were first at the capital when its security was threatened, and when their peaceful passage to it was interrupted, and they were subjected to insult and in jury, her people declared, tie with dhO ebiee, that tai tit extent of her blood and treasure, the treason and rebel lion should be suppressed and the Government sustained. We may now point with pride to the record which shows how faithfully she has redeemed her pledges. Before the expiration of the terms of service of the voluideett 6iitelled for Giro monthsfer the National Go. vernment, anticipating the necessity for troop's to be en listed for a longer term of service, and in conformity with an act of the Legislature, an army of fifteen thousand men was organized in the State, fully equipped and pre pared for service. When the greatarmy of the Govern ment met with a repulse at ManaSSas, and Washington was again threatened, and the President himself main tained his occupancy Of the White House. for a time, un der circumstances threatening his safety, who has for gotten the gratitude expressed by the Government at Washington, the praises that were freely awarded by Other 19/ 1 4 States, and the thrill of pride and pleasure which ran through the hearts of every Petmaylvantan, ftivtilloy hat fifteen of h ned er men c a , n rm wze .. i . n it mo tit became . known that within four days eleven thousand of this army, thoroughly armed and equipped, had passed the border of our State in their march to Washington I need not enlarge on this WNW; I speak to Penn. sylvanians, and every man in my presence must have preserved the record deeply written in his heart, as day by day thousands of our brave into have been added to the number, mail now nearly one hundred thousand of our people are in the field. They are at Washington, in Virginia,in Mary land, in Kentucky, in Korth Carolina, and in outh Carolina. And it is proper that I should here declare, that since the beginning of this rebellion, no demand has been made upon this State by the Federal. Government, that has not been promptly obeyed ; no re quisition that hits not been filled, Mt pledge that hat not been redeemed. The man in Pennsylvania who can sympathize with this wicked rebellion, and who will not give hinted)! and all his powers—intellectual and physi cal—who will not devote his property, and, if need be, his life itself, to the cause of his foundry, has not the true loyal heart of one of this great people ; hat no sympathy with sentiments of True patriotism, belongs not here, and should seek an abiding place amid traitors and rebels. You soon go to swell still further the great army oldie Govern ment, and to join your friends who have gone before you from Pennsylvania. You are about to separate your selves front homes, front parents, wives and children, the coinforts and pleasures of social life, and from those pursuits to which you hare been trained—pursuits of peace and industry, which tend to moral and physical progress. You go to vindicate the history of the past, and make that of the present—and, as you shall save our great Government from destruction, to insure a still brighter page for its future, that liberty, civilization, and Christianity may continue to grow and epread In the world. All mankind have an interest in your success— all loyal men will give you countenance and support, and all good men will send up their constant prayers f o r y , olic prc'sreliti fTrn iti mwtevictor - 11101iitinds and tons or thousands of our fellow-citizens at home will watch your progress, and front every part of this great Common. wealth, from all its homes and firesides, front the family altar of the high and the low, the rieh nod the will go up supplications in the evening and in the morning, that the God of Battles may strengthen and protect you by His almighty- power. This is no time, my friends, for antagonisms or dis agreements; the one great idea of the re-establishment of this Government by is union of all our strength is big enough for the mind of any loyal man. You go with the Constitution, pure and unadulterated as it came front the bands of the framers, to offer its blessings sud its benefits to all the loyal citizens of the rebellious States, and to the disloyal the sword and the scaffold. ton go to aid in re- establishing the Government upon its origi nal basis isu all the "gletes of the. Coro lardy. aiel to assert now and forever the principle that there is in our form of government an inherent power to enforce obedi ence to its laws. We desire to secure stability in the Government, and not at this juncture to agitate reforms. With those who sustain this rebellion we are at war, and are justified in the use of YOCAgfilttki in Civil ized countries for the suppression of insurrection and the punishment of traitors. It is the duty of all good and true men to maintain le gitimate authority, independent of ditferenees,pf opinion or personal relations, It is for the maintenance of the Cenetitution and the Ceeeetinient, and fee the euppeet of its duly-constituted agents in the discharge of their duty, that you have taken up arms; it is for this that thou sonde have gone before you, and thousands will follow, as demands are made by the Government, until peace and order prevail througlrmt the land, and the Government satablialyed by one fathom and nudge shish WIN hair been blessed with so many years of prosperity, shell be re-established hi all its original power. It is our duty to transmit to our posterity the precious legacy given to its by our fathers, perfect and unimpair ed. Under it we have enjoyed seventy-three years of continued enlargement of national power and individual happinees and prosperity. If you, mid the breve men associated with yon, shall re-establish and maintain it, future genera , ions will rise up and call you blessed. This struggle, my friends, involves the existence of the CoVerlanetat and, if the history of the part taken by Pennsylvania in this rebellion filial/ ever be faithfully written, its proudest page will be that on which is por travo3 the uniti Of her people in the support of the Con . ante win at ti We _Tt Is not Improper that I should TO , fer here to the fact that, in Pennsylvania ain't in Phila delphia, the greet idea that man was capable of self-go vernment was, through the Declaration of Independence, first promulgated to the world ; that It was here that the Continental Congress laid its sessions during the Revo lution,- except when driven out by the enemy; and that after the struggle was over, here the Convention of Dale. gates was hem, which framed our matchless Constitution end gave to num great _Teeple the most beneficent form of Government ever conceived by the mind of man; and as memories of the past crowd upon era, when within the precincts of the. , classic locality, we may not forget that the Faticeed Flag, with its stars and stripes, now known and honored throughout the world as the emblem of liberty, nationality, awl power, was lint un folded here. And it is in perfect hammy with all the proceedings of the day and the occasion, as with the me mories and traditions of the past, that we are honored by the presence of the remnant of the members of the Soci ety of the Cincinnati, an association established by the immortal Washington himself, and which constitutes a link betwom the lit-leg 4thd the dead, the present and the past, the dawn of liberty in the world, and the perfect Prlity of all good men to maintain it against the combine- Von of bad men to destroy it. The Society of the Cin cinnati, eerly in this straggle, presented me with a stun of money, to be used at my diseretion in arming and equipping the volunteers of the Mate. The suleeet was referred by me to the Legislature, then in session ; they directed the Covernor to procure and present standards to the volunteers as they Passed lute the service of the United Slides. • it is written in the law that when yoll return, the names of the actions in which yen distinguish yourselves shun be inscribed upon these standards, and that they shell be carefully preserved by the fitote, us part of its military liistorY. f now deliver to you those standards, and confide to you tin la;lier of your great State. It will in! well to remember our history and traditioini, and sunlit the privations and the dangers you are about to encoun ter, that Pennsylvania expects you all to perform your duty. And now as representing the people of the State,l prey that that Providence which has so long upheld this great nuttier, may maintain and support you in the con test in which you are about to engage, and shield you by the divine power, that you may safely return to your friends and families. THE•: SIXTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY RE . GIMENT. IiF:PLY OF C 01.: RI76LT. GOVIIMOR ifflN i On behalf of the officers and men of the Sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Cavalry, I thank you, and, through you, the Society of the Cincinnati, to whose liberality in part, and to that of the people of the State of Pennsylvania, we owe these colors. We have heard the elonnent, patriotic, and forcibly-expressed sentiments that you have Met uttered. You have ex• pressed the hope that these colors will be restored to the State, in accordance with the law, unstained and unsul lied, with the promise that those actions in which it may be the good fortune of tide regiment to merit distinction Shall be engraved upon this color, I trust that this wish MY not be found to have been misplaced. I trust that the regiment will be proved worthy of the hopes that have been expressed of it in anticipation. Nevertheless, Its a regiment of cavalry, I trust I may be forgiven for saying that it will require some little time before we can earn mush diatiaction. The cam. bination of horse and rider renders the attainment of proficiency more difficult than in the case of the foot soldier. - If we shall not, at an early day, give a good ohocrunt of ourselves, I therefore hope that due allow ance may be made—that we may not be ;Judged too borNbly, mid that it may not be unppoord that our Whole hearts are not in the caner in which wo are now going to do battle. [Apulauso.] In behalf of the nfit c•ere and Men of my rvgiment 1 thank you. [Applause.] THE Nl:it:l'l4 4 lllST INPANTUV. REPLY OF COLONEL GRE4ORY. Govithimit el:11715; Wl', the Ninety-first Regiment, tender to Son our hearty I li‘uks for thin bettnliinl Ter. We hail it, sir, as the banner of freemen. We Lyre knoll before yon, tl.O head of our 01111111.011Wfillith, to hold [him banner high—to keep it up against all enemies wherever we move. I speak, air, the senti ments of the men and officers of the Ninety-first Regi ment, when I may they will stand by their banner to the lout. [A oplunue.] Bir, thin bountiful linnoor sneaks to UN of the mot. It speaks to us of our fathers in the Revolution. Sir, we know whotthin homier meutn. We love it for its beauty; we love it for the principles it represents to our country, and to the world. Sir, we take this bountiful haulier, knowing the responsibility that rests mum us a:: sniffier.% as Americans, as lovers of freedom, ex loyers of the liber ties of our children. We thank you for this bAnncr , We will pledge ourselves to stand by it, and when it falls moray of um will fall to rise no more. (A ppla use.] SIXTY-SEVENTH REM KENT—COI.. : 4 TANTON. Colonel Stanton not being precent, thr lieutenant colonel replied 11.44 itaii)Veg IiOVERNOR CURTIN; On behalf of the lot al 11111 i patri otie men here to-day, sir, I return to you their most hearty thanks. We know, sir, the dangers and the diffi culties that are before as, sail as you have feelingly and sympathizingly alluded to them our hearts hare re. sponded, mid have warmed in gratitude to our people,to the fathers transmitted to us kite great. anti ~able institutions we enjoy. And while we feel tide, we think of the past, and we pledge our vow for the future that the banner you have given us shall never be trailed in the dust until the Sixty-seventh shall be extinguished, anti the last man has struck his last blow in its defence. And when it is returned to the ne!!!Yeg of the state — if it ever shall be returned—we hope it may come covered with honorable mention of the deeds we have performed under its bright folds. FUT IrsE !GUTH ARIiIIIIENT. navur OF Gm., JONES. ICiOVFMNon Oi7nTIN: On holed!' of the And men of the Fifty-eighth Regiment, I tender to you their thanks for this most splendid banner. Words would be utterly inadequate to express the fecitug with which I gaze upon it. You have well alluded to the fact that it was first raised in this vicinity. A grandfather of mine stood by that banner the first time it was reb..e.l. Meh of ray blood and kin have followed it M overy battle-field of the Republic. It has, therefore, sir, a hereditary claim on my devotion—it has a hereditary claim on my life; if need be, that life must be given in its defence. But, tar, in addition to all these mere feelings of personal emotion, there nra feelings arising now before Ton which shall estal.ltsh the happiness of the citizens of this great Re public. That banner is the symbol of our great Ameri can nationality, under which Are have grown and lived, which represents to our country a word that involves all that is dear and sacred to our hearts—a word which involves wile anti children, happiness anti bone,, all our future, all that we have skeleen foe, and all that we have hoped for. It is a symbol of nationality, of hope, not only to our own nation, but to the world; and it is a symbol of the progress of man. But, sir, in this crisis„ all the reminiscences clustering around it are oc euptedwitit the sal thought that those who impose on its the naKeedtr of standing by its Chi are the lanthren of our own house. I, sir, for one, look upon this a tit neces sity without flinching, without unwillingness, and I may say without any sadness. I uphold this banner as un hesitatingly against domestic enemy as against foreign foe. Here, sir, to you, I pledge my honor, and that of the gallant men under my Coininand, that it shall never ho trailed in the dust, and that we never shall return it to the archives of our State until the rebellion is sup pressed—until the great Republic shall be once more one united and indivisible—until we shall be hereafter as we have been in days past. Allow- me, slr, to express, as far as words can, the feeling with which I shall bear it in the face of our domestic enemies, and to pledge that I, for one, shall never consent to drop this banner until the sound of rebellious arms shall have ceased within the limits of the American Republic. [Loud applause.] NINETIETH REM - WENT. ItEeLY Or COL. LYLE. Allow me, sir. to thank you for thikmagnifieent pre sent. If we shall ever retorts this hag it shall be in scribed with a roll of the regiment honorable to itself, to the _Wit, a n d to the toinstry. {A.pplatue.l To YOU, personally, sir, I pledge you my lire in its defence. I again thank you on behalf of my regiment. REMARKS OF VICE PRESIDENT ACHWEN, OF Tim STATE IM=ll GovEnNon Oricrix : I stand here as the representative of the Rt.to ilooloti , of the Oitscinuati. That society wag founded amid the darkness of the Revolution upon the day succeeding the discovery that an attempt had been mode to sow rebellion among our troops on the Hudson. Our officers and men founded this society before leaving their cantonments, and it Its continued in existence to thisday. A fund Was create(' for the celebration of the event. This lima has been bonded down from generation to generation. That portion which has nut been Used for philanthropic purposes has been used with our fellow citizens to celebrate the almiversary of the reoliwattou of Imk.i.e-tßience. We have, therefore, thought our. selves entitled to appropriate it to this purpose also. That these men will bear their colors nobly we have no reason to doubt, and I trust that they will restore them to the archives of the Commonwealth covered with renown of their deeds of valor. These flags are, in a measure, the gift of the herner of the Revolution to the withers of Pennsylvania. [Loud applause.] THE REVIEW. After the remarks of Mr. McEwen were concluded, a grand review of the infantry and cavalry came off upon the open field fronting the PpcalsPrs' stand. It was wit nessed by Governor Curtin, Brig. Gen. Patterson and staff, Gen. Pleasonton and staff, of the Home Guard; Maj. Gen; Heim, Maj. Gen. Cadwallader, Maj. gen. Robert Patterson, Quartermaster Gen. Bale, Col. Ell maker, Col. Russell, Col. Meredith, Col. Parker, and 711111W/1)110 other military officers. The movements of the Teiiotit4 es l droenta were very creditable ; and elicited much applause. They exhibited a degree of proficiency indicating a thorough acquaintance with military tactics. The manceuvres of Cul. Rush's cavalry, the only cavalry regiment present, attracted considerable attention, and its commanding officer Wail the recipient of many high compliments. The review lasted upwards of half an heur, and included all the movements of the drill. At the conclusion of the review the vast crowd slowly dis persed, and the different regiments repaired to their en campments. Owing to the excellence of the police arrangers its, previously made by Chief Ruggles, the ;dung lleffia nagerible crowd was kept at a .proper distance, and from interfering with the movements of the troops. During the review a number of persons mounted the stage, and the structure not being sufficiently strong to resist the immense weight, one of the aupports gave way with a crash. A screens went up from all the ladies, but, as usual, no one was injured. At different stages of the weceedinas limbs of_ teueu_seau 14 -coma wthi "zt, qayiffa ring youths, who had taken refuge thereon for the pur pose of having a better view. No one was hurt. HtIpQRTED VOLLISION QN THE rilfhAPkiftrtlid. AND BM:MORE short time before we went to press we hesid a painful rumor, that a collision had occurred on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, between the train that left the depot in this city, at 11 o'clock I'. M., and the 6 o'clock I'. M. Washington train. It is said that they met at Gray's Ferry bridge. The trains were travelling very slowly. The engineers and fireman jumped from the engines, and ; thus saved their HAW. The eYprega car on the down train was altrioat completely destroyed. It is reported that two of the mail agents were slightly injured. The fog was Very dense, and it was not certainly known whether any of the passengers were hurt. AILING Or TJT TrscAnOw.l,--The United States steamer Tuscarora lefLthe navy yard on Friday morning at 8.30 for New York, where she is to receive the remaining pieces of her armament. The extraordi nary despatch manifested in constructing awl oonipif,,, g fhb erdmidid Ain deaerrea more than paealag notim, anal reflects great credit on the anthOrlties of the yard anti the constructors of her machinery. The keel Neat laid and contracts made on the 27th of June, sf ' that 'Attie over live mouths have elapsed from hoe commencement till her departure on sit serving , . For so large and pow erful 4 Ymal tIIIB IBPi t iy of execution it believed to be without precedent. Tte Tuscarora is almost identical with the Wpm big built here in 1859, anti by the same constructors. The hull is in length on gun deck 209 feet 9 inches ; extreme belga F . B feet; depth of hold 15 feet 10 inches; disphtee ni,"tiut Let% tidal§ at load draft of 13 feet—tonnage 997. She is bark rigged, spreads 9,800 square feet of canvas, is armed with eleven-inch pivot guns, rifled, and a bat tery of 32. pounders. Iler machinery is of 1,000-horse power, by Merrick C Pons, of ibis cityi consisting of two horizontal direct-acting engines; cylinders fifty inches diameter, thirty inches striate; four-bladed propeller, twelve feet nine inches diameter, of brass. Three boilers having in all fifty feet of frontage, fourteen furnaces, and eight thou sand square et of beating surface. The engines have surface condensers, returning fresh water to the boilers. The whole machinery is of the most substantial charac ter, highly finished, and has performed at the dock for several days and nights consecutively in the most perfect manner. The Tuscarora is (as usual with Philadelphia vessels) the first of her class at sea, being at least six weeks in advance of any of the four ordered at the same time in Riflery, Boston, New York, end this place. INQUESTS lit TILE CORONER. Yesterday morning. Coroner Conrad held an inquest on the body of an unknown man, who died at the Third.ward station. house, during the night. The deceased was picked up, on Thursday evening, in Shinny:l street, above Eighth, and died subsequently at the station house. He was about thirty years of age, apparently an Irishman, and be had the appearance of being a laboring man. An in was also held yesterday morning, in the case of the death of Thomas IllcGranagan. The deceased was the proprietor of a coal yard at Iteed-street wharf. On Thursday morning he was found lying in nn insensi ble condition, in the bottom of a coal boat. at the wharf. It is supposed that he fell into the hold of the vessel the evening Dreviouth CHARGE or ROBBERY.—Last evening, Jas. Allen, a waiter at the Continental Hotel, was charged before Alderman settler with having stolen a sum of mo ney from Alfred Wooden, of Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Wooden alleges that ho was taken sick on ThursdaY evening, at the Continental Hotel, and was assisted to his room by the prisoner and that he fell asleep while the prisoner was arranging his clothes. In the morning, Mr. Wooden found that $llB, in notes. had been taken from his pocket-book. Tke prisoner was held in $BOO for a further hearing. Singular enough ; two *'loo notes were left in Mr. Wouden'N pocket. ClA9Wing is the list of ionisers nilnelied to ti,e gutibeat Paseo , now On Com mission waiting orders to sail. She loss been put in fine order, and will do Rood service whon 1;7 114 1 4 ' 9 P C. H. B. Caldwell, lieutenant nuu , l e°r g c Bacon, lieutenant ; James H. Morrison, senior engine.,' - Edmund Jones. master; Amos Johnson, master; Albert Cook, master; Arthur J. Pritchard, paymister ; Bober Smith, assistant surgeon ; James M. Benekert, 3d assist. ant engineer; Trmnan Jones, do.; John Berthwicit, do.; Fits Jimmy Price, captain's clerk ; G. C. Bannister, pay clerk; William E. Bridges, master's mate; Neil Alexan der, do.; Beuj. F: Caswell, do. THE CREW OF THE lIARTFORD.—The teer Refreshment Committee have extended an invitation to the crew of the 'United States sloop Hanyord, to dine their saloon this afternoon, after the presentation of their magnificent thug to the city of Philadelphia. The flag is made of the finest silk, and is forty feet long. ft is one of the finest and most handsome flags ever presented to the city. HEAnD YAWL—Another missing soldier, Henry Ihurgelend, a member of Company C, colonel Baker's reginamt, who was reported among the . missing flic batik of Bo bluff, has been heard from its being among the prisoners at Richmond. There are doubtleis others, whose friends have been made anitimis by not bearing from them since that unfortunate:affair, who will yet a heard from in the same way. - WINTER MAIL An R ANil EMENTS.—Wepublish mi our third page Om advertisement of Postmaster Wnl horn giving notice of [lto time of the arrival and depar ture of the Inas during the winter. Our business com munity, by cutting it oul and puttia7 it in ..na, coo grietioug riser, will find it convenient fur reference. A Bor.n RAscAL.-Abotit six o'clock on Thursday, a colored man entered the toy stare of Alrg. Martin, on Walnut street, below Eleventh, and, while pretending to he oboot to rorcitoso a lt eighteen-cent toy, Le etruelc Mrs. 31. a violent blow with hie fiat, and made oil with the toy. FECAL HEAnnia, or Bunn',Ans.—Yesterday nfternoom Henry Wilson 111111 John Walter, charged With ovcri!l Iltrglar_leg, Aver(' finally committed to tm mvor ot court, by Aiderman Peltier. COUNTERFEIT NOTE.—Thigh Murphy was charged hefore Alderman Peltier, yesterday afternoon, with passing n counterfeit *3 note on the Dank of Orange. fawn, Now York, and wan hold for a farther hearing. DONATION.—The Cooper Shop Volunteer liefretiliment Committee acknowledge the receipt of twenty dollars from the Iliad Ainiembly, being the pro ceede of their Lull. NAVAL MATTEM—Yesterday morning the Tuscarora left the Nary Yard for New York, where elm will be fitted for Neu. The steamer Miami 1$ mi placed on the dry.dock you tordey for copprring. The Powhafate is being strippist of an tier old "rig. ging." The Keystone State, Mystic, and Itasca, are stilt out in the stream, awaiting sailing ordere. Drew York Items. MAYOR WOOD ON TIIP RESULT Or THE: LAT!? ELECTION.—Mayor Wood addressed the Mozart General Committee on Thursday evening, on the result of the late emotion. Ile seta that, personally and individually, he bad no cause to regret the re sult of the late election, and had no complaints to make, but politically he regretted it. Although he had a right to feel aggrieved at the many frauds which were practised in different wards of the city by his opponents, to procure his defeat, yet he did not mean to reproach anybody or anything. He hoped that the next Legislature would confer the necessary power on the office of mayor, to make it efficient for the good of the city. To the true friends of the National Democracy who had supported him, be said they should remember and feel proud that they had shown themselves to be one-third of the city of New York, and he urged them to stand firm to their organization, bring the best men into it, make it more efficieni and powerful, and thus pre pare for the next contest. Again reverting to the subject of the necessity for investing the Mayor with more power, he reiterated his former hope that the new incumbent of the office would have his hands so strengthened that he might do more good than he (Mayor 1Vood) had been enabled to do. Personally, he had uo doubt that the gentlemen succeeding him was every way qualified for the discharge of all the duties of the office, and that he was entirely deserving of the eonliderice of the people lie had not opposed the gentleman personally, but had opposed the party supporting him, which he believed diametrically opposite to the liberal. principles of our Govern ment. Again, ho wished it understood that he had every confidence in the capacity and integrity of his sticoussor. MCRDER IN A. CONCERT S.tr.oov.—An alterca tion occurred last night in one of the free concert saloons on Broadway, near Bleecker street, be tween Thomas McCormick and a member of the Fire ZOURCOP, named Thomas O'Brien. O'Brien drew a revolver and fired several shots at Mc- Cormick, one of which took effect in the loft breast, killing him almost instantly. O'Brien was arrested and locked up to await the coroner's in peat ,—Expre.hs. SALE or A CONDEMNED PRIZE BRIG.—The prize brig Henry G. Brooks, which was captured while trying to run the blockade at Charleston, was sold yesterday to a Ur. John King for $2,83D. PPIPADNEIIIg RELEARIM PROM Follr LATAVETTR. —This morning the United States Marshal received orders to release from Fort Lafayette William Hunt, Isaac Nelson, Geo. Forrester, B. F. Thomas, James Hall, and William F. Casio. The prisoners were committed November 5, and will be reloaded to-day, upon taking the Oath of allegiance. One of the released prisoners, Mr. Thomas, is the well-known "French lady." The other prisoners were sent here by Brigadier General Hill, com manding the Ohio volunteers at Camp Chase.— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. THE MONEY MARKET. PIIILADZI.PHIA, December 0,11361 Prices at the stock board to-day showed much firm nose, exeopting for Reading Railroad shams which fell to 17. The whole loudness of the day was quite light. Petersone Deteetor sends us the following description of a new and dangerous counterfeit two-dollar note on the Fanners' Dank, Pott,rille, : Twos—Vignette, Ley WithhiSVAN6 ABA 9. on sight and; female with trumpet on left end. Shipment - 4 of coal over the Huntingdon and Broad Top Illountain Railroad during;the week ending Wedne,day, December 4, 1861, and since January 1, 1861 Week. Pi2k.1.56A4 , . Tons. Tons. Tons. ....6,332 241,132 247,464 ....4,550 172,7213 177,278 Increase... PittsburgTlio Gazette of Decombor a Ruh' The decision of Judge Grier, of the Circuit Court, re fusing to set aside a mandamus execution issued upon a judgment obtained against Calcify for interest upon rail road bonds, has created the impression that- the bond holders have at length found a key to unlock the city tremnry. There are others; however; who entertain ,suite a different Gpin n. - In this case, the plaintiff pre sented a petition, setting forth a judgment of the Circuit Court against the city for a sum of money which re mained unpaid that the only remedy for the enforce ment of said judgment was by writ of mandomni, and prayed for a mandatory writ compelling the controller to certify a warrant upon the treasurer for the amount, which WAS granted. The decision of the court, refusing to set aside the mandamus execution, at first created the impression that all moneys than in the Treasury must beheld sub: ject to the executions already issued, amounting to some $lO,OOO. The Controller was not sure that he had power to certify warrants for any other purpose. This being the case, e course the Treasurer would be unable to pay, and holders of city warrants would have to dispose of them as hest they could, We are pleased to state, however, that matters hare not yet reached this deplorable crisis. The City Solicitor has advised the Treasurer and Controller to perform their duties as heretofore, paying such warrants as are due, and are necessary to carry on the business of the city. By an act of Assembly, the City Councils are required to ftWold'iide. (I,MP l'eVehtie, to the month of February, far specific purposes, and hence the Solicitor holds that these special appropriations cannot be touched. Judge Williams, of the District Court, in a case relating to Al. legheny city, decided that this appropriation by Coun cils was -valid. At all events, this question must arise before any of then mandamus executions are satisfied; and between this and February next, (the time of making the annual appropriation,) the business of the city will be conducted as usual. If, at that time, it should be ne cessary to include these railroad judgments in the annual appropriation, then 'payment may be reasonably I'llth:i -rked, but not till them In the meantime, active eliorta should be made to effect an equitable compromise with the bondholders, as this seems to be the only method by which our railroad indebtedness can or trill be settled. The Chicago Tribune has just published its grain sta— tistics for MO. It says: Notwlth.,tendlug the ei:elletat.tit tfthlwe thtelccilfillt flat: tfeeiiTsteasly increase in this branch of the business of Chicago. Indeed, the blockade of the Mississippi river served greatly to stimulate the trade of our city, and nothing but the exorbitant rates of freight, and the consequent extremely low price of all kinds of produce, prevented it from reaching double the figures or last year. Our trade and commerce have been measured this year exactly by our capacity to receive and ship, Every railroad was pressed to its utmost capacity, and was not a single bottom on the lakes fit to patch up Fla was in service, pushing forward the products of the great Northwest to the seaboard. Although we are just at the end of the eleventh month of 1861, our receipts of all kinds of grain (Liehiding flour, reduced,) amount to 54,099,212 bushels. In 1800 the receipts amounted to 36,504 7 772 inn,h4e 7 and they were thought to be enormous, as they exceeded those of any previous year of our history by thirteen milions of bushels. But during the past eleven months we have re. ceived 17,583,447 bushels mote than we received in the entire year of 1980. hod even then we had to tell the farm. era and Pradn'..eeis to keep back their grain, as wo had neither Oat+ room foi ii uov Vt6s4l6 to;ae, it away. The iirning,s of the Erie Railway for the past year hare been very gratifying, especially the receipts of Oc tober, which are $178,000 larger than for any previous month tide year. At this rote of increase, the current fiscal year will show an increase on the last of about $1,400,01 milli but moderate increase of expense. The road will also have, this winter, the advantage of the Long Dock improvement, which, in deep water, and without embarrassment from ice, gives them additional facilities for loading and unloading freight. The saving in rail transportation between the west and tide-water, lii WM/4. Foiitt, it teat 100 at,,l the freight is discharged directly into vessels for export to Europe. The banking capital of Vermont amounts to 83,910,000, which is an increase of 540,000 over last year. The di- Thiends on this sum si,croge a trifle less than 7 pet cent. B. B. Williams, Esq., has been elected president of the Traders' flank of Boston, in place of A. W. ThaNtec, ru t resigned, The friends of Mr, Thaxter, who are many in this city, will be sorry to learn that he has felt compelled to resign in consequence of ill health, to the re gret of the Board of Directors, and the corporation gene rally, by whom he was highly respected for his rare busi ness intelligence and ability, and the courtesy and assi duity with which he dischurged the duties of his Ace,. Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sales, December 6, 1861. REPORTED BY S. E. SLAYMARER, Meadelpflift EXChaRg3 FIRST BOARD 2 Penna la 37 34 50 Reading R.... .ri 1-10 4 do 37M 20 do 17 2 do 3736 20 do 17 1000 Reading 65'70... AI% 2000 Penna 11 Ist mt.. 97,4 1000 do '70... Etim 1000 Peuna coup 6s .s 5 96 423.39 Ches S: Del tis. 09 BETWEEN BOARDS. 7912000 Penna. Os 79 79 11000 - do 79 . 79 11000 Reading 0$ '56 .. 73h' if.P.CIMP P9A/11), 10 Spring Garden Ins 30 13 Lehigh Nar 424 100 Penna Gs 79 3 do 484 6 Penna R 3 7% 0 do 48,4' 14 do 37ji• 3, do 4 8 .2 . 4: 1 do 37% 20 d 0 48' 7 Cam k Amboy R :120 500 NPa R 61i 2ou off 52J 50 Lehigh Nay 413413000 Leh Val R Os SjVal 01% 1300 Peoria 5s 200 d 0... 1000 d 0... CLOSING PRICES—STEADY. Ask. ErS 6s, 'Bl Phila ne".... . 84 81,. , Phila Be It .84 84A Phila 8s new... 991 4 '. 91 Penna. 66 79 791, - Readingll-16 15-16 17 1.16 Beading Bde '7O 81,i t e, 82 fi'dg NC 68 'BO '43 92 03 Rena AI Bs 'BB__ 7.2.g734 Penns R 37,V 37X Penns R 2(im Os 84X 85 Morris Cl Con.. 35 .. Morris Cl Pref.loo Bch Nav 6E1'82.. 132. 633; SCL Nav Imp 69 74 Bch Nay Stock pcia Nay Pref... 11 12 ItIARINE Sir HE FOURTH PAGE ARRIVED Steamship Benucher, noughts.ling, 24 hours !ron7. Now York, with 111,160 alld passengers to Jas 103 i A. Di., off the Buoy, on the Middle, sate Vrig Clarence, from Denmarara ; above the Middle, saw Irirk 1:11i011, from Pernambuco, coming up; schrs Westowr and Martha Nichols, were below Bombay Hook; Bombay Hook, aßr bark, in ballast, coming up; off Morris Lhtolis, Rehr Pilot Bride, bound up; off Rusty Natl, a light bark, at aueLor; bark TIIOIIIII4 Dallatt, for Laguayra, \MS oil' GVltilb'S Landing; off Cheater, saw ship Brazil for Liverpool, going down in tow of tug J 1' Starr. Edo.. Rio Grande, Paine, 7 days from Provlnct.b:wn, Vint fish to A S Hughes. Scht Elizabeth B Baker, 4 (rays front Wvst Wids, With fish to Crowell A Collins. Schr S B James, Hun, 3 days from Fan P.irar, in Imt ;Mt,. to D S Stetson & Co. Schr R S Dean, Cooli t 4 (lap from Taunton, in ballast to captain. Schr J Williamson, Jr, Whitmore. 6 days from Bos ton, in iiallast to Samickson ,S; Glover. Barge Cleo Mott, Tamell, 36 hours from Nee - York, with tease to W P Clyde. Mimi tug Atnerira, Virden, 12 Mum from Delaware 83,okwnivr, haviimt hi tow hot-ks rubs!, fens: bum and lavo, from a port unknown. CLEARED Bark American, Christian, T watts.!, bola. Schr w Carroll, Chipman, rdavagnoz, fort.) Giro, John Mason & Co. Bohr J Jr, Wins:more, Boston, Sionteltson & Ciover. Schr R S Penn, Cook, Taunton, Sinitiekiion St Glover. Schr Athert Mehl, Phinipp, Sinoicusou & Glover. Clark, Now Boilfortl, Siollickgtot Glover. Behr C Carroll, Pratt, Nora ich, L Andenried & Co. Schr C illoarc, Ingersoll, New - London, P Fish. Schr Ann Fickle), Macy, Washington, T Webster, Jr. Schr B J Hoyt, Cranmes, New lanr,m, & Cu. Schr Jarrw.s Neilson, Burt, Alexandria, Staple & Sir V o ltinterr, Wright, Wiw:hington, captain. Sty II I, Gam', fler, Baltimore A Groves, Jr. Ihirfto Ben Franklin, Ilttruplite, Albany, Datil earthy. MEMORANDA brill* P G Porter, Smith, hence, arrived at neuronal 'Want. &bra J J DiWill. Lydia/1 OFOlaar Fiiher, Dad J W Wooikon, Garrison, cleared at Baltimore 6ca idat. for Philadelphia. B c h, e; 0 Norris, Allis, elearo , l ea $047111 t sth 'twit, for Philadelphia. Bid. 40k. Elmira B 4% 4% Elmira IC Pref. 94 9,4 Elmira 75'73... 83 85 Long bland R. 9% 10 Leh CI & Nay.. 4S u' 48g Lela Cl & N Scrp 33 33% N Fauna 5 6% N Penna R 6.4.. 56 67 N Ponna 101 71 78 Catawissa It Con . , Catawiaaa Prof. 4 IN Frkfd & South It 37 39 2.1 & 3d ate 1t.3. 45 47 W Phila R 60g, 51% SKIM a Pine.. 8 S. Green & Coates 16% 1.13 Chest & Walnut 23,4' 30 CITY ITEMS, Importation of Russia Sheet-iron Few persons are encore of tile mammon:, expend," end difficulties attending the importation of Bussia Sheet iron into this country, and the quantity consumed. The noes to ‘vhieli thla iron to applied are mainly in the manufacture of stoves, the difference in its favor, in Mint of durability, tieing very great. The imitations that ha,e been attempted in this country hare been hitherto WY Un• successful that a Mehl of discovery Hem still open in this department, in which some future inventor will art dmditless, realize n princely fgrtune, That much of American Itusmia Iron is sold for the genuine is true enough, the imitation in outward appeal snce be ing so close almost as to defy detectinn by any other than an experienced indge. The imitation in this respect has been very complete ; but the art Of making it 741(1r and not oxydier from exposure to dampness is still to Attleni , . van momitheturers a hidden secret. The helemtructible nality of the Russia-made sheet iron is really extraor dinary. We have seen stoves manufactured from it which had Minn in use for a period of thirty years, with the sheets almost imporceptildy reduced in thickness. From these no is it w obviollH that stoves made of the• genuine 'Russia iron are vastly cheaper, at :Almost any cost, than those manufactmed of the imitations, which burst out in n sermon ur two and !lire lees heat. Still, as chcaparn•n in a thing slimed at by many manu facturers in almost every branch, Itimmia iron storeg are the exception rather then the rude; though. what is still WIMP, the bogus are not nufreettentlp sold for the genuine, and at the price of the genuin• PilithlWerP 01/1111d guard against tide migtalze. Thy surest way to do this, probably, would be to buy of manufacturer who has a reputation for honesty, and who is known to use only the genuine Russian article, in aeemtraefar.'n9, as, for example, the leading Stove inventor and manufacturer in this city, Mr, Joined Spear, No. MS Market street. Although wo were aware that Mr. Spear uses only the genuine article its making the celebrated Stoves which hare made hid name known all over this continent, we had not mice, talhoti InS tit Veceiotly the ellerillettg Went to telifeh he is a consumer of this Important foreign article. In making tip our commercial statistics for the week, we aver tatted that him purchases of Ituysian Sheet-iron within the last ftw• days amount to several thottAand dollars, having exhausted all the deairahle number , ' of the lead• ling importing home in this city, and almost exhausted the entire market. Considering the facts that several months arc con sumed in bringing the iron from Russia, and that soma ten mouths in the year are required to make up a first class stock of Stoves, this movement on the part of kir. Spear is highly sagacious, especially as those who coma after him will, beyond question, be obliged to buy at a greatly advanced rate. Those of our readers, ther- , foie, who have not quite decided to select a stove from his present superior stock, may take comfort in the thought that his stock text season will be aquas good, and no higher in prices. His celebrated 6 , Anti• dust . ' gam-burning Parlor Store is literally one of the wohtlers of the age, and we shall not he surprised it hit another season Mr. Spear will be obliged to aerate the services of the lesser stove manufacturers, to assist him in supplying the public demand for it. It wilt herby •in mind that, in addition to the great "anti-dust" improvement of this stove, there are several other additions, of his own invention, of scarcely less importance, that are found in Mr. Spear's Parlor Store alone; as, for - instance, his Patent Urn, his new and superior gus-burtr‘ag improvement, and sundry ornate appendages, which render it at once the most beautiful and efficient stove in use, while its fuel -coq :Aiming qualities cureless than any other stove made. We bad designed caving a few words about the un neraticird onto - es: of Mr. I. 4 jacer'a popular, my, Auk; - dmt "- Gas-burning Cooking stove, hut must defer this fora future article. FINE SPECIbtENS or BOOKBINDING.—Messrs. Win, 1% ThirpliY h Soma the relftete4 Mal* Doak manufacturers of this city, hare just completed Bets a new blank books, for the year 1862, for several of out banks, and other public institutions, among which. are some of - the most massive and elegant specimens of the liookbinding art that wo have ever examined. Ltrnang others now attracting much attention at the salesroom of their establishment. No. Chestnut street, am a set of books for the Philadelphia Bank, the materials of which are all of the niatt (livable character, prepared t 9 their own exclusive order, and manufactured into beks iu their own establishment, under their own immediate so. pervision. One of the advantages enjoyed by this oh! and well-known home, over almost any other in the United states, it their facility for carrying on oil the de partments of their extensive bininos: , under their own direction. They bare also now ready blank books, of the same massive and elaborate character, made to order, for the Commercial Bank, Girard, City, and the Tradesmen's Bank of this city, These books are of mots mous size, have almost the solidity of metal, and are as strong that, unless subjected to extraordinary usage. ono should think they would last tor ages. We may also state, in ad, connection, that this house has the repute,. Hon of keeping the largest stock of letter and note paper, and stationery of every description, whilst their facilltie4 for Printing, and Lithograph work, such as checks, nettle, drafts, bills of exchange, Sce., are unrivalled. 14 - o us. tired especially, in passing through their establishment. 4 practical air about it, with. out w blab manufachring establishments of any kto rarely succeed in building up an extensive reputation. We presume Messrs. Murphy k Sons' books, in ordinary times, are used, more or less, in public institutions awl, private counting houses in oven State iu the Union. ANOTHER MEETING. IN BEHALF or THE SOL, Dm:S.—The twelfth meeting in behalf of the soldiers, under the auspices of the Army Committee of the Yom Men's Christian As - ,o,istion. will be held to-mosrou t.glludar 1 senninti. in the Tenth Baiiiist Church, Kighth street stove Green. As these meetings are purely th 4 expression of the deep interest felt by our people in the welfare of our soldiers, and as the sums collected depend very much upon the number., who attend their, we talcs the liberty of urging unon our readers the propriety of encouraging this praiseworthy increment by their pre sence. Let there be an immenes gathering at the meet, log to.morrow evening. Besides interesting statemanta that are to be made respecting the 'memo of this miter. prise, addresses will be avtiyered tly the pastor of the church, Hey. Joseph Kennard, A. D., Rev. M. E. Ram steed, chaplain of the Fourth beginient New Jersey Vol. unteera, Rev. Thomas Janenay, D. D., and Rev. Dam, min Wailers, D. 11_ OPENING or AntlCA.—By request, the Rev, Alexander Crurnmell, clergyman of the Protestant Elio copal Church in 'Liberia, will repeat in the Churrh of ne Epiphany, Chestnut and Fifteenth streets, Lis {Re v aims on the Atiyancentent, and Prospects of itiinAona, Commerce, Industry, anti Civilization along the West coast of Afrien, on to-morrow evening. This address, 'when delivered before in this city, was listen:xi to a ith much interest hi a large .‘ongregatiem. We •understand that Mr, CI =mien will introduce in his next a number of additional facts concerning Liberia, and the rice of AI high he h. a rnently.r, and for the irnprovement riflolich be bail for years past taken an intelligent out LECTURE 11T REV. J. INAPT .SMITIL—BS' an advertisement elsewhere, it will be seen that the Rev. J. Hyatt Smith will deliver n lecture in Handel and Haydn Hail on Monday evening neat, on "The Spirit of '76 and or, The First mat gocoral War of Traleponclonro." Frem the racy character of the lecturer's former disser tation; upon politico-patriotic affairs, we promise a rich treat to all who maY hear him on Monday night. BRIDAL WREATHS AND LADIES' HEAD DREit‘'SE.z.—We bare already had occasion to refer to the "Flow er and Feather Emporium" of the Ilfe , ,it. Kennedy, Ko. 729 Chestnut street, n 4 one of the most nt trftetiro painta far the Ladies an our molt fashionable business thoroughfare. The daily new additions to their splendid stock of these article:, and Millinery goods in general, render their salesrooms so continuously attrar. tire that many of our fair readers find if pleasant and de sirable to revisit their establishment atleast once a week. Their latest invoices of Bridal Wreaths and Head-dressoi arc the most exquisite that we have ever examined, he. ing the very cream of Parisian taele. Our lady readers should call and examine them as a matter of curiosity. CHRISTMAS CONFECTIONERY,IIOWaVer ill. disposed people may be to lavish money this season for Christmas Goods in general, we are not mistaken in p,e dieting that the consumption of tine Confectionery will be as go eat as ever—at least, if we final judge from the great preparallons and present sake of our koillog ma nufacturing house in this department, Messrs. E. G. Whitman S Co., Second street, below Chestnut. The stock of these gentlemen, now ready and daily preparing in anticipation V the approaching liolida)s, ii corrainly the richest and nicer varied that they have ever display ea, and the crowds of customers which daily throng their salierooma shows that the Christmas spirit is already abroad anionic the people. E. G. Whitman's is in fart a great Cliriatina, THE BENT LAMP OUT FOR BuRNINO CESE 0::. --As the nse of hero-ene Oil is becoming tho universal article for portable lighting purposes, on Iv a nut of its economy, surety, and general excellence, it is important to know exactly the best [snip to miss for burn • in it. This is, beyond question, the Fitters Ca . Lamp, manufactured and sold Ot the great Light Mop°. riuni, No. 85 North Eighth: ,trret, corner of Filbert. They have them in every voriety, made in the most ap proved btVI , , and sell them at I pry low prices, as they aro 1.8;:g.: . /y engaged in their whoieside manufacture. Chlukla Oa & Sons', unikr the Continental Ilutel, is Ilia vrly establiblanent of the hind in the Fnittsl Statei, if not in the world, It embraces in one magnificent bazaar, we may say, the most elegantly-stocked salesrooms in of the tolloring departments: Ladies' Fane; Furs ; Ctaitlemen's Ifitt. and CaDS Laclies' Shoes ; Gentlemen's Irurnixhing Goods; hats for tihi;Jrril and Nino, AO tine Military Goods. fa all of these departinent4 Hut p o pular styles may lie found, and at mode:vit.. pr:ce.L Clio:Cy TtiottlCAL FRUIT:4 AND FRENCH C 0 ,21- 1 - y!e• of OtlattE4 to , olifidh (.1„ , ,t0 articks, lit citoict,st variety and great:tit raicslittoce, is at the beautiful new etote of Dlr. A. L. Vansant, Chestnut street, co&tal door below Ninth, lie is also a largo manufacturer of the ,fine 4 Apieri,on Conic!' rimer!". II.? Ma's OHO Iftof sugar in mnimfacturilig, and tins fax (it- ing rooms heated with hot-sir. to insure the grentost ckantilless. Fifs bore a national reputation. A MATTER OF TAL+TE-...113 a gentleman! can bonny make a greater randirne io dross than to wear an unbecoming Neck-Tie, All 1004 taste to this respect is never more apparent than in tinier n ho buy their wears. hies for the Neck of Mr.J. A. Edhientan, the celebrated Crayat inventor, at &malt nail Clicittont streets, Ilia dtock of these a.00.1d is probably lire largest inch, worlj. lit. has also a splendid line of Ceuta' Furnishing Goods, to Tihich we turtle the attention of our readers. FINE TEAS AT MODERATE PItICES.—From bur own obterrationi tee incline to think that Mr, C. EL fine grueerleN at Arch and Tenth streets,—lme wrought a wholesome reform in the sale of Teas. Ile sells the bei:t Oolong, and till the other moat popular A arieties OM; indispensable baverage, at lau- PersPlilt wiollina Mt belt articita iu the grocery line ore always tiro to find them at thin FtOrr, rrldcli, WO may say, is patronized 'ae a largo num ber of the best families in this city. THE EDI - TON Or AN ILLPBTRATED• COTEMPO. rAlilt upon the receipt of the news of theocepture of Port 110 al, let off the following superfluities: Sound the Tornon ! Blow the Ilewgng! Agitate the Viol ! Stir the Organ! Polsate the Cymbal! Execute the Peal. tvry ! Blow the Trumpet! Wield. the Tetiret bisturb the Timbre' ! Flourish the Shemoneth I Flicker on the : , insulter ! Wriggle the Horse Fiddle 1 Jostle the Dell! Perturbete the Tin Instruments! Let the Can. non Thunder 1 Anti the Peorlo Shoot gOrr Halle lujah ! And all hands clothe theinselvee in the cheap 60 elegant winter gamients sold at the Mammoth Depot or Granville Stokes, 609 Chestnut street, who,* line stock of Clothing rsnut be surpassed.
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