THE PRESS. PUBLISHED DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. OFFICE No_ 417 CHESTNUT STREET THE DAILY PRESS, TWELTE CENTS PER WERE, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to Subscribere oat of the City at SIX DOLLARS Antrit,Pooa DOLLARS TON RIGHT MONTHS, THREE OLLARS FOR SEE Aforrns—invariahly in advance for time ordered. THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, Npiled to Subscribers out of the City at DINES DOI, ASS 'PEW. ANNum t in advance. MILITARY GOODS. ARMY GO Olg:- REESE YS. SATINETS, FLICNNELS, AND BLANKETS, Fulled and Finished bY IVIeNEELY FOURTH and GIRARD AVERDR delo-3t-k , ANDREWS' ORIGINAL CAMP J OR TRAVELLING BED TRUNK. (Patent applied for) For Bale by W. A. ANDREWS. nol6-2m 'No. 61.2 CHESTNUT Street, ATANIY. 61LT,PFLIE5, 50,000 pairs ARMY DRAWERS. 20,000 GRAY FLANNEL SHIRTS. 10,000 RED do. SHIRTS. 500 dozen FINE TRAVELLING SHIRTS For sale by BENNETT, RUCH E & CO., Ilittnifsoirtrer. of Army Coals, AOl3-2m 216 and 217 CHURCH Alley, Phila A RMY CONTRACTORS AND SUTLERS SUPPLIED WITH BRUSHES at the lowest rates. Always on band, a large sleek of CAVALRY BRUSHES, Government standard; WAGON IMA,T_ H - 45, Government standard; AM every Description of Brushes required for the Army. FEEMBLE & VAN HORN, 00/0-Brd X2l MBUET street, Philadelphia, ARMY FLANNELS. WELLING - , COFFIN, & CO., 116 CHESTNUT STREET, Ass prepared to make contrado, for immediate delivery, WHITE DOMET FLANNELS, AND ALL WOOL INDIGO BLUE FLANNELS, of Government standard. DRY -GOODS JOBBERS. 1861. TO CASH BU YEAS. 1.861. H. C. LAUGH_LIN & Co.. No. 803 MARKET STREET, Are receiving daily, from the PHILADICLPHIA. and 2/NW YORK AUCTIONS, a general assortment of REROHANDISIE, bought for CASH. CON BUYERS are capuchin,' invited to call and as. amine onr Stock. ses-tf DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO_ Fortheaat Corner FOURTH and BADE Streets, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS; •v 'IR R • I I' " FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. WAPTIFAZTURERII OF WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, 4g, ACIENTS PIM TIM CZLEBELTED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Peelers and comment !implied at VERY LOW PRICES FOR CAME. 0c.31-3m 111.1 ST RECEIVED, per " Annie Kim efl ball," from Liverpool, blander, Weaver, it Man der's preparations 25 be Extract Aeoniti, in 1 lb jars. 25 Es Extract Ilyoscryami, in 1 lb jars. 50 be Extract Belladonna, In 1 ji b jars. 100 Es Extract Taraxaci, in 1 lb jars. 60 lbs Yin Rat Colcbici, in 1 lb bottles. 100 be 01 Bticcini Rect., in lib bottles. 600 lbs Calomel, in 1 lb bottles. 100 be Pll Rydrarg., in lb jars. WETHERILL & BROTHER, 4.7 and 49 North SECOND Street. CABINET FURNITURE. nABINET FURNITURE AND BIL- L LIAM TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, No. 281 South SECOND Street, In connection with their extensive Cabinet Business are Pew saauafavbetiag , a superior article of BILLIARD TABLE'S, And have now on hand a full supply, finished with the MORE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, 111111ileh are pronounced, by all who have need them, to be imperior to all others. For the quality and finish of them Tables the mann ilacturere refer to their numerous patrons throughout the TWO% who are familiar with the character of their work. an24-8m LOOKING GLASSES. pXENSE REDUCTION u, I.Bool3aNa CI:LASSES. OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, inuTußE AND PHOTOGRAPH FRANZ& JAMES S. EARLE k SON, 816 CHESTNUT STEEBT, linnonnee the reduction of 25 per cent. In the prices of all sue] Manufactured Stock of Looking Glasses i also, in jengravings, PiOttlit And Photograph Frames, ON Pain-l bw. The largest and moat elegant assortment in the oonntry. A rare opportunity is now offered to make purl Mew In this line For Cash, at remarkably Low Prima 816 CHESTNUT Street. GROCERIES. MACKEREL, HERRING, SHAD, smatori, .10.-3.000 bbls Mess Nos. 1,2, and 8 EACHEBEL, large, medium, and small, in assorted linkages of choice, late-caught, fat fish. 6,000 bble. New Halifax, Eastport, and Labrador Mar ina, of choice miolitiol. 8,000 boxes extra new scaled Herrings. 8,000 boxes extra new No. 1 Herrings. 8,000 boxes large Magdaline Herrings. 960 bbls. Mackinac White Fish. 60 bble. new Economy Mese Shad. 16 bbl,. new Halifax Balmon. 1,000 quintals Grand Bank Codfish. 600 boxes Herkimer County Cheese. In store and landing, for sale by MURPHY & KOOllB, /To, 140 NORTH WIL&BVIEL FRESH MINCED MEAT. The subscriber begs leave to inform the public that b 0 is Wirt prepared to offer Me justly celebrated ATE PLUS ULTRA MINCED MEAT, In large or small quantities. Orders through De tiptttch Poet will be punctually attended to. JOSHUA WRIGHT'', SPRING GARDEN and FRANKLIN Streets, nolB-2at Philadelphia. COAL OIL! COAL OIL! GEORGE W. WOOTTEN, 38 SOUTH SECOND STREET, AGENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN OIL COMPANY. IIKANDFACTURERS OF ODAL OIL, AND BE. SINEW Or COAL AND CARBON OILS. WIC F. JOHNSTON, President, GEO. OGDEN, Secretary. Alm, Agent for BEERS, JUDSON, & BEERS, Patent Mato Cones for Lamps, and wholesale dealer in Mtn rides Patent Oval (fire -proof) and Eastern Flint-Glass pldraneys, Lamps, &c. Burners to burn Coal Oil with out Chimney/- Gish Warp or prompt payers are ' , impactions , invited Bo examine our stock. uo2l-1m PORTLAND KEROSENE OIL. We are now prepared to Selseli nib BTANDABD ILIAIMIETATMG 014 Aw GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Z. LOCKE & CO., SOLE Acne NTl, 1010 ABET OVINE% Del-em Pniledeloble. fIOTTON SAIL DUCK and CAN vAs, or all numbers and brand'. IffiTool DWI Awning Twills iof all dosoriotione, for 34mits, Awnings, Trunlui, and Wagon Clovers. Ales, Paper Manufacturers' Drier Fel% from Ito 0 *4 WM& Titraaulhlg, Belting, Sidi Twine, &o. JOHN W. INEIRMADI & 00., 2644 f 102 JON= Alley. RILL -HEAD PUNTING, BEST aPd Cheapeat in the city, at BUTGIWALT & VIIMEIS, 34 South THIRD Street. no2o 4tvrsA i 4.. .0 .L., , 1, 0 2 , •-'-: . , (..._ (... ~-.-.., -\.'S %A \ I , g ./ l 1. : •• • . N ' ' \,‘ . pe , ... _ -- - " ‘ , 1, , ,/: _.„,-. A ~,,., ,t;t,'",.. - -t" ~..Itett * ';(.. _ , • ;.-- - i- - -3 . 5.. 1 ,...,. ill :I . '" -- --:— . ssl‘... , ---1 - All --- ...Y:',..t - . 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He is manufacturing extensively a great variety of USEFUL AND FANCY ARTICLES OF SILVER, And gives special attention to getting up things suitable for BRIDAL AND HOLIDAY PRESENTS. PLATED WARE Got up under the proprietor's own inspection: in a great variety of atpla4. Will be warranted HEAVILY PLATED with pure silver, in a way to insure its wear. log well. Much of his JEWELRY Is manufactured on the premises, and his stock will be found to comprise a great variety of fashionable goods, from the smallest articles to SETS OF DIAMONDS. 'These are offered for sale at PRICES ADAPTED TO THE TIMES, And persons are invited. to call and examine them. dell-tuths lm HOLIDAY PRESENTS. - WATCH - ES, =JEWELRY, X 1. 1 4. 0.): MYER AND PLATED WABE I At REDUCED PRICES. JOS. H. WATSON , iler-stutblin 326 CHESTNUT STREET. GOODS FOR. THE HOLIDAYS! A choice and varied assortment of articles, suited to the coming season, which have been selected with much care from the latest importations, comprising: . . . WRITING AND FOLIO DESKS, WORK, GLOVE, JEWEL, AND DRESSING BOXES, POBTE-MONNAIES, CARD CASES, WATCH STANDS, THERMOMETERS, PARIAN, GLASS, LAVA, AND CHINA ARTICLES, FANS IN CRAPE; SILL AND LINEN, DOLLS, Speaking, Sleeping, Model, China, Wax, and Patcnt. DOLLS' SHOES, HOSE, MITTS, CAMAS, JEWELRY, PARASOLS, AND RATTLES. L=OiLljtUj.dMUlail THEATRES. THEATRES. -- STABLES. SOLDIER 'EQUIPMENTS. PANORAMAS, BOX AND BELLOWS TOYS Ornamentsfor Christmas Trees, Fairies, Belo, Fruit, PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES. EBRBARIMIS, SCRAP AND TOY BOOKS A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF GAMES AND PAPER DOLLS ENGLISH BOWS AND CRICKET BATS. BASE BALLS, &c. &c All the above articles can be bed, nt Reduced Priem, at MARTIN & QUAYLE'S Stationery, Toy, and Fancy Goods Emporium, 1035 WALNUT STREET, Below Eleventh, PHILADELPHIA. dc742.5.1p 11OLIDAY GIFTS. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIDES, AT CLARK'S $l. STORE, No. 602 CHESTNUT STREET. SILVER-PLATED WARE, JEWELRY and FANCY GOODS, in great Tariety. New and beautiful atrial re. ceived daily, and sold much below the usual prices. CLARK'S 81. STORE. de3-1m 602 CHESTNUT STREET. HOLIDAY CONFECTIONERY. THE FINEST QUALITY OF CONFECTIONERY, IN GREAT VARIETY, Prepared expreesly for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS FROM THE PUREST MATERIALS. At Wholesale and Retail, by J. J. RICHARDSON • No. 126 MARKET STREET. P. 5..--A fine assortment of fruit.* 6.45i19+Ai1d•• 6 hand. d 9-24 COMMISSION HOUSES. BLUE CLOTHS, DOESKINS, &c, A Full Assortment of JOHANNY'S, AND GIVERS & SCHMIDT'S (S & M) INDIGO - BLUE CLOTHS; FR. ERCKERS', (Little Ticket,) And other celebrated manufacturers. BLUE CLOTHS, DOESKINS, &a., VERY LOW PRICES. RIDGWAY, HEUSSNER, & CO., 206 CHESTNUT STREET_ dal-6t FROTHINGHAM & WELLS, 34 SOUTH MONT AND 35 'LETITIA STBBET, OMR rou BALE BROWN AND BLEACHED SHEETINGS, BBIRTINGS, DRILLS, JEANS, SILECIAS, CANTON FLANNELS, • FROM mum ." 4, KASSACHIMETTS, GREAT FALLS LACONIA, LYMAN, EVERETT, DWIGHT, LOWELL, CABOT, IPSWICH, CHICOPEE, and HAMPDEN, BARTLET MILLS. LDERWIBII, A FULL ASSORTMENT OF SHAWLS, BEAVER CLOTHS, TRICOTS, CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, TWEEDS, BLANKETS, AND ARMY GOODS, FROM THE WASEINOTON (LATE RAT BUM ? ) AND OTHER MILLS. 00/4nl SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, No. 111 CHESTNUT STREET, OORIXISSION M RONANTS SOZVHA BALI OV ETI.II.4493DELPHIA - MADE GOODS. se2B-6m FURS 1 GEORGE F. WOMRATH, NOS. 41.4 AND 417 ARCH STREET, HAS lOW OPER A FULL ASSORTMENT LADIES' FURS. To which the attention of the Public is invited. no22tjal LADIES' CHOICE runs, NVABRANTED WELL ffEABONED VERY REABOWLE PRICES, PARIS CLOAK AND FUR EMPORIUM, 708 CHESTNUT STREET. J. W. PROCTOR & CO. nol4-1m QTEAM-SCOURING AND TAILOR ING done at the shortest notice. HENRY B. BASCOM, 3.37 SEVENTH Street, above Walnut. IL BASCOM'S plan for tho times is to mamma Cents to bring their old Clothing to him, and have them made new. Also, their Cloths, and have them fashion. ably made Ur. de10•ly G REAT ATTRACTIONS. FROM WEDNESDAY, the 11th inst. Comprising all the most recently imported novelties in this CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS, BLACK CLOTHS FOR CLOAKS AND COATS, FROM $1 TO Its PEI YARD, CASSIMERES FOR MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR. COOPER 8c CONARD, S. E. corner NM= and MARKET &roots. nol4-2m - "IMMORAL SKIRTS - BALIIIO- 1 RAL SKIRTS. Just received, direct from tho manufactriier, 1 LOT BALMORAL SKIRTS, Largest Sizes and Choicest Colors. Also, one lot of Black end Whito Plaid Blitaaet 2 truilirrsi - Long Blanket Shawls, 84 to $l2. Square Blanket Shawls, $1.75 to $6. CHEAPEST BLANKET SHAWS IN THE CI 'IC, We offer great Inducements to ladies in BEAVER AND TRICOT CIRCULARS, BEAVER AND TRICOT SACQUES, HABIT CLt)TH CIRCULARS AND SACQUES, as we manufacture them ourselves, and are able to sell them 53 PERCENT_ LESS THAN itttAtt. PItIOES. NEW DRESS GOODS OPENING DAILY. H. STEEL & SON, del° No. 713 North TENTH Street, above Ocates. AT 1013 MARKET STREET, YOU can buy the best 25-cent Flannel in the city; very fine pink-edge, all wool, at 25; very heavy, all wool, at 25; full yard-wide Domet, at 25 ; very fine, all wool, red, at 25. These are extra cheap, and very desirable. Fine Ballardvale Flannel at 313; full yard-wide do. 37%, usually sold at 50; very fine do. 50, and every other qua lity in tbeßallardvale Goods that comes. The celelerated Shaker Flannel, warranted unshrinkable, 37x; liner do. 50, and the beet at 75. These are full yard..wide, and very heavy. Plain Gray, all wool, at 28; finer dm au • and the finest, 37%; heavy gray, twilled, 31%, 37%, 40; 44, and very fine, at 50 ; blue twilled, 3736 and 44 ; heavy red twilled 31%, 35, 37%, 40, 44, and 50 cents. I will guarantee to sell these goods cheaper than they can be bought. Heavy Canton Flannel at 12K, and every qua lity there is in the market. Geed 13rown Muslin OA', and all the widths and qualities made. Societies in want of Flannels will find it to their advantage to call and ex amine. Also, a full line of Merrimack Calicoes, at 12% cents, suitable for Christmas presents ; good styles De tainee at 18%. GRANTILLE B. HAINES, delo-2t 1012 MARKER Street. above Tenth. pROCHE LONG SHAWLS RE. DUCED FOB CURISTBIAS. Scarlet-centre Long Shawls. Greon.centre Long Shards, Two-faced Long Shawls. EYRE & LANDELL, do 9 FOURTH and ARCH BLACK CLOTH FOR CLOAKS. Regain - nix Bearer Cioths. 6-4 Stout Black Doteakius. Hudson Bay Seal Skins. EYRE & LANDELL, de9 FOURTH and ARCH OTTOMAN VELOURS. Plain dark colors and figures. Rieh printed Epinglines. Woven styles Reps, very cheap. IMPORTED BALMORALS, Row designs, handsome colorings, nearly four mile wide. SCARLET FRENCH FLANNELS, Twilled and plain, of extra qualities, suitable for rheumatic underwear. LOW-PRICED DE LATHES. New designs, constantly arriving, of rich printed MoUseline De Laines. SHARPLESS BROTHERS, de7 CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets. HOUSE FURNISHING- DLW GOODS.—SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, ARRISON, Importers and Dealers in Linen, and HOMO Furnishing Dry Goods, etc. Have now on hand a full assortment of Linen Sheeting, Table Cloths, Napkins, Table,Diaper Towelling, etc., etc., imported under the old tariff, or bought a great MC tifice. N.B.—Five per cent. allowed on purchases as above, if paid for on delivery. no27tf LLADIES' BLACK CLOTHS. Men's heavy Overeating'. Ken's fine Dress Cloths. COOPER & CONAItD, no 7 NINTH and MARKET Streets FLANNELS- Yard wide, line white extra at FS cents. blinker Flannels, warranted genuine. COOPER & COWARD, no 7 NINTH and MARKET Streets FANCY CASSIMERES- Of every grade and style, from 02c to 81.50 per yard Black Cassimeres, some extra fine late.. COOPER & ooNA.BD, no 7 NINTH and MARKET Street& FURS! D RESS GOODS. Bepe, Merinoes, Poplins, Detainee, &c. Black Poplins, Helium% Detainee, Bombazine% ecc COMM COWARD, no? NINTH and Zit Mums. CLOAKS— N./ Ready made or made to order. COOPER & COWARD, no 7 NINTH and MABEET Strata. J(ENNEDY'S FRENCH AND GENERAL MILLINERY GOODS. No. 729 CIDIRTNUT STREET, BELOW MOUTH ocl-3m AND RELIABLE, CHEAP BUG-ABS.-0. DONOGHUE, 23 South Vann Street, is now selling Steam- Refined Sugars, Syrups, Coffee, and Adamantine Candles at low prices, to prompt cash buyers. dell-3t* TERRAPINS, OYSTERS STEWED AND FRIED, AND CHICKEN Union Cards and other notices will be distributed in ell Darts of the city, with punctuality. The undersigned is at all thrice prepared to present, for the inspection of Ladies and Gentlemen, a list of the things necessary for a large or small entertainment, as the case may be, thereby avoiding all unnecessary profusion sad waste i and tatters blrasoli, that by bin tong cape deuce is businees, be will be able at all times to give, aa heretofore, entire satisfaction to all who favor him with their patronage. HENRY JONES, Caterer, No. 260 South TWELFTH Street, above BFILHOE. oel-em A QUARITJMS, FERN CASES, A A Noriety of Fish and Plants, N 0.141 North SIXTH Shoot. d2-int* RETAIL DRY GOODS. FOB. TUE HOLIDAYS 0 NIL Y. Most suitable for PRESENTS. will be offered at No. 1024 CHESTNUT STREET, No. lon CHESTNUT STREET, No. 1024 CHESTNUT STREET, No. 1024 CHESTNUT STREET, DURING THE HOLIDAYS ONLY, A fresh and carefully selected stock of LACES, EMBROIDERIES, LINENS, IYHIT GrOODO, Those wishing to make acceptable, as well as useful Would do Nell to call at 1024 CHESTNUT ST., Eldora proceoling olaewilere 200 VALENCIENNE TRIMMED LACE SETTS, $2.50 7 worth $5 100 VALENCIENIZE Irltitnltb LACE SETTS, $5, worth $lO. 400 VALENCIENNE TRIMMED LACE COL- LARS, $lB2, and upwarde, 200 DOZ. HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS, 13, 16,18, 20 cts., and upwards. 500 DOZ. CORDED BORDERED HANDKER CHIEFS, sc, and upwards. 60 DOZ. PINE APPLE HANDKERCHIEFS, 226, and upwards. SOO REAL THREAD VEILS, nto $25, worth double. 100 POINTE LACE SETTS, $0 to 535 100 POINTE LACE COLLARS, $2 to 520 VALENCIENNE, POINTE APPLIQUE, HONI TON, 'MALTESE, and other LACE COLLARS, SETTS, HANDKER CHIEFS, CAPES, BERTHES, Acc. And also in LACES, EDGINGS, and INSERT INGS, Ly the yard. FRENCH EMBROIDERED COLLARS and SETTS, SKIRTS, INFANTS' WAISTS and ROBES, ,tc. CAMBRIC, SWISS, and LINEN EDGINGS, IN SERTING, and FLOUNCING, Ste. Comprising a great variety of GOODS in the above line, suitable for HOLIDAY PRE RUNTS, all fresh, desirable, and at IlfiCP3 defying competition. JOHN A. MULLEN, MILLINERY GOODS. FLOWERS, FEATHERS, PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1861. ;11 rtss. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1861. Adnihalty Facts It is stated that the Secretary of the Navy is in favor of raising Commodore ChARLES STEWART to the rank of Admiral. Properly speaking, the distinguished veteran, whom it is thus proposed to promote, is only Captain. lie who commands a squadron of ships upon particular service, his own ship having a broad pennant at the main, bears the title of Commo dore; but, in our navy, Captain is the highest rank, the title of Commodore being one of courtesy only, given pro tem., to a captain Commanding a squadron. In January, 1857, an Aet of Congresq, provided that alders dOlti manding squadrons should thenceforth be called flag-ofileers ; thus abolishing even the courtesy title of Commodore. The Secretary of the Navy proposes to hi crease the efficiency of the service by establish ing new grades, including the Flag Officer, to command a squadron, and Commodore. To all intents and purposes 61* Piaa-, Officer will hold rank equivalent to that of Admiral, in the naval service of other civilized nations, nor is there the shOQIY Qf a reason why the title of Admiral should not be given, in our naval ser vice, to the officer who holds the responsibility and performs the duties of the office. . Perhaps some of our readers may desire some information on this Admiral question. Here, in brief, we shall give it, Admiral is the title of thelighest rank in almost every navy except that of the United States. The Sicilians, Genoese, and Vene tians are said to have introduced it into Eu rope, from the East, about the time of the Crusades, and the word is said to be derived from the Arabic Emir, or tamin a lord or chief. The Greeks of the Lower Empire also used .Bmir to mean shipping. The early English form was .Rmiral or Anunircd, and MILTON has Pre!nrireti the latter in the lines; ci Ills spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, wore but a wand." In FTRACe 3 to this clay, the word is used. In Spanish it is sldmirante or .121mi rante ; in Italian, Anuniregho. The first English Admiral of the Seas (Ant ral de la Mer du Roy d'Angleterre,) of whom there is record, was WILLIAM DE LEYBOURNE S in 1286. His duties were those of Lord High Admiral, an office last filled in 1827-28, by the Duke of CLARENCE, afterwards IVILLLot IV. Since the latter date, it has been in commis sion, its duties performed by six Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, of whom the Duke of SO3IERSET is now First Lord. In the French navy there are two Admirals, ten Vice-admirals, and the same number' of Rear Admirals. The Prince DE jOINVILLE was an Admiral of France during the later years of his father's reign. In England, by an Order in COUCH, in 1851, the number of Admirals (flag-officers) in the British navy was limited to 99, exclusive of Admirals of the Fleet, of which there now is one. Of these 90, we find that 21 are Admirala, 27 Vice-admirals, and 51 Rear Admirals. On half-pay and on the retired list are over 280 Admirals. The Admirals of the British navy are dis tiuguighed into three classes—Red, White, and Blue, according to the color of their flag; hence the title, common to all, of Hag-officer. In a fleet, in battle array, an Admiral of the Red, as of the highest grade, holds the centre; an Admiral of the White, the van ; and Admi ral of Blue, the rear. In each of these divi. Bina there arc three grades.... Admiral, Vice admiral, and, Rear Admiral. The Admiral carries his color at the main, the Vice-admiral at the fore, the Rear Admiral at the mizzen top-gallant-mast head. Thus, by the color and position of the flag, one can always know what rank of Admiral is on board. The high. eat rank is Admiral of the Fleet, an honorary distinction, carrying with it some - Increase. SO! The Admiral and Commander of the Fleet ranks with a Field Marshal; Admirals with Generals, Vice-Admirals with Lieutenant- Generals, Rear-Admirals with Major Generals, Commodores with Brigadier Generals, Post Captains after three years' service with Colonels, other Captains, with Lieut.-Colonels, Commanders with Majors, and Lieutenants, Masters, Chief Engineers, Chaplains, Secre taries, Surgeons, and paymasters of the navy, with Captains of the army. The daily pay of officers in the British Navy is as follows: Admiral of the fleet $3O; Ad miral $25 ; Vice-Admiral $2O ; Rear-Admiral and Commodore of the first-class $l5; Com modore of the second class, from two dollars and a half to five dollars above his captain's pay; first-class Captains of ships-of-the-line, $lO ; second-class $8 ; third-class, $7 ; fourth class, $5 ; Commander, $4 ; Lieutenant, com manding a ship, or of seven years' standing, from $2.04 to $2.40. As for rations, the rule in the British Navy is that every one on board ship, from the Admiral of the Fleet to the smallest powder-monkey or loblolly-boy, shall receive the same 3iligle rations every day. If the officers want other food, they have to pro vide it out of their own means. It will be seen, from the above statements, that the pay and emoluments of officers in the British Navy are very low. By bestowing the title of Admiral on flag officers on duty, the American navy would be spared the annoyance often caused by foreign national vessels refusing the full salute to the American flag. A Card—Repudiation of Bonds From the fact that my remarks at the special meeting of the stookhelders of the Little 60huyt kill Isiavigation Railroad and Coal Company, held yesterday, were not published in full, and from the further fact that there is a disposition, on the part of certain parties, to have it understood that I am in favor of the repudiation of certain bonds, is sued by the board of managers of that corporation, it is proper to state that such is not the fact. lam utterly and entirely opposed to the repudiation of any of the bonds of that corporation, or of any other corporation of which I may be a stoekholdin. I stated, or Intended to state, that the bonds used, in the transaction to which my resolution refers, are still held by the parties who took them, and whether they are, or are not, must be paid in full by the corporation. I Maintain that they were, through error, illegally used, and if the parties who took them under sueh error will not return them, and take back the stock, the bonds must nevertheless be paid, and the com pany must look to those parties for their value. Some protection must be throws .around the pro; party of the stockholders. If it is once admitted that a board of managers of any corporation can do acts not contemplated in their charter, all safety to the stockholders is forever gone. It is due to Mr. Charles U. Fisher to say that I explained in my remarks that he was, in my opi nion, as free from intentional error as any of the other managers, and that all acted under a misap prehension of their powers. JAMES MILLIKEN. Philada., December 11, 1861. THE GRAIN ELEVATOR,—TIw con structing the new grain elevator at Weshington•street wharf, by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is being pushed rapidly forward. The ground has been ren dered firm by driving piles close together. On them are placed large blocks of granite, which anpport the iron columns on which rest the building and the immense Iron bins. The sides of the building are being filled with brickwork of an ornamental style. The lot has a front of 170 feet on Washington avenue, and 120 feet on Swanson street, and the building will ho sufficiently capacious to store 475,000 bushels of grain, and when increased to the size it is expected the business will require, it will hold 750,000 bushels. The railroad tracks are laid so as to allow the cars to pass into the building, cad the grain is taken from them and placed in large hoppers, from whence it plisses on an endless band to a large pit in the bottom of the tower; and from here the grain is carried up by a series of buckets to a point about halfway up the tower, and from -.woe° through hopper-, where the grain is screened, measured, and weighed, to a pit, connected with a series of buckets, which convey it to the top of the tower. From this point it is distributed to the various bins. The main bins are 11) fe,et, hl diameter, and (We raging 45 feet high, constructed of boiler iron, being circular in form. The spaces between these bins are also to be need for storing grain. There are, in all, 00 circular bins, and 72 of the smaller bine. Tho large ones aro calcu lated to hold about 4,500 bushels each, and the smaller ores 1,000 liglahele each. The Lotto:nu of these bins are about 15 feet above the railroad track. In conveying the grain from the elevator to vessels in the docks along side of the new wharf, it is drawn out through a valve, and falls on a small conveyer, carrying it into another pit in the tower, from whence it is elevated into a large hopper. riUM hero it passes through an Iron cylinder, about 2,ti feet in diameter, propelled by a mew into dis tributing hoppers, trout which It Is conveyed through spouting into the ield of the vessels. The full capacity of the elevator for moving grain may be estimated at 5,000 bushels per hour, in which limo 10 eight-vrheoled care, each bolding 300 bushels, can be readily UldeadOt and the grain stored in the bins. There will be an engine, of 40-horse power on the eastern side of the main build. fug, to move the machinery. A portion of the necessary buildings have already* been erected. THE REBELLION. LATE SOUTHERN NEWS. THE MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA. TEE CONDITION OP TEE FINANCES OF THAT STATE. FROM FORT PICKENN. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. GOOD NEWS FROM KENTUCKY. A BRIDGE AT EIISSELVILLE BURNED BY THE UNION TROOPS. Communication between Bowling Green and Memphis Cut OM 21.4).THER -PARTICULARS OF TILE SHELL ING AT FREESTONE POINT. THE MISSISSIPPI NAVAL FLEET. Condition of the AtaDOl Army in Virginia. • &c., &c., Sec. INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS. Late Southern papers contain the following items Message of the Governor of Louisiana. The New Orleans Picayune, of the 29th, makes a synopsis of the late message of Governor Moore, of Leninism, from which we ektreet the following; The State taxes are payable annually, on or be fore the first day of December. The auditor's ac counts, up to the 15th, show For taxes collected, ;614,816; duo and still MI. paid, $1.113,948. The collections have been only one-third of the assessment. On the same day, there were funds in the treasu ry amounting to $283,622.27. We group together the statements of military cx,- peralltiiie for this year, as follows The appropriations for military purposes made by the last Legislature amounted to.. $960,000 OD The Governor has expended of this gum, froth the Treasury TAM 15 He has expended of the sum of $670,- 000 borrowed from the banks. 646,761 60 The total military expenditures have, therefore, been 1,415.207 81 There are debts for same objects, un paid, amounting to 181,600 00 Total cost of military 51,506,807 81 in these, the Governor adds' an estimate for $lOO,OOO for the equipment and subsistence of 5,000 men, for thirty days, in case of invasion. The whole war expense of the State for the year will, therefore, be ascertained and estimated at $1,00,- 807 81. This sum forms a charge against the Confederate States, and is now before the Confederate authori ties, at Richmond, to be audited and paid. The amount, when allowed ; will be an offset !Taoist the Confederate tax laid upon the State, and will help the State to settle with the Confederate authorities, and assume the collection of the quota of Louisiana, through her own officers, and at her own eonve pieneq. In making these expenditures, the Governor has obtained a loan of $670,000 from the banks of the city (excepting the Bank of Orleans and the Cres cent City Bank), of which sum he has on hand $106,101. The debts to the banks for advances to the quar termasters and for estimated military expenditures, reach $951,000. Thera is of this unexpended $106,- 101.33 on hand, and authority to pay $191,553.85, the unexpended ~portion of the appropriation of $960,000. NOW appropriations will therefore be required for $653 ; 944, and new means to the amount of $845,499.33. The reader will observe that these are for mili tary advances to the Confederate Government, The cash in the treasury, belongin# to the seve ral branches of domestic administration, is ~,R383,622.27, of which only a trifle of $12,800 be longs to the general fund, applicable to appropria tions. This is the aspect of the State Treasury, which trill tax the wisdom and sagacity of the Legislature to find means for supplying public credit. The wil lingness of the people to contribute unstintingly to the public wants, is constrained only by the lack of ways in which to make their property and means serviceable to the cause in which we are all em barked. The measures suggested by the Governor as palliatives for the disorders of finance are 1. An extension by the Legislature of the time for 4 - 011 toting taxes. 2. eta.......uh. b --vf goAfeciorato monikv rap_alvahla for State taxes. 3. The authority to planters to issue “supply notes," or notes negotiable for the purchase of plantation supplies, which shall be a lien oa crops. 4. The suspension by the Legislature of the duty imposed on the Attorney General to institute pro ceedmgs for a forfeiture of the hank charters for Suspension of specie payment, with provision to sub. laic their action to a Convention of the people, held after the conclusion of peace. 5. The issuing of small notes by the banks, for the purpose of abating the nuisance of illegal pri vate circulations. On the much-mooted subject of a stay law, the Governor advises extreme caution ; dissuades from all interference with the regular coulee Of probate and aduciar7 proceedings; and favors, generally, such legislation in regard to judgments as shall merely stay executions, and secure the lien of cre ditors on the property of debtors. These are topics we can only enumerate now; we shall speak of them more 171 extenso hereafter. The Governor reports the number of Louisiana troops now in service to be as follows : Eight regi ments and two battalions .itt Virginia ; three in Kentucky, and one in Missouri, and five more within the State, Besides these volunteers, fourteen companies of infantry and five of artillery have been mustered directly into the Confederate service. There are thirteen companies in clamp at Camp Lewis; and, by estimate, 3 ; 891 men have been raised in this State, and mustered into the Confederate service directly by the War Department. The aggregate of soldiers furnished by Louisiana is, therefore, 24,093 men, which is half of the usual voting popu lation of the State. The Alabama Legislature A bill has been passed authorizing the State to assume the war tax authorized by the Confederate Congress. Other important measures of finance, relief, etc., reported in a series of bills a few days since, are also being considered. The bill uto re duce the salaries, pay and perquisites of office of the several civil officers of this State during the continuance of the war," is also being considered. It provides that " the annual salary of all persons holding office under the authority of this State, the pay and mileage of members of the General As• sembly, and the fees and perquisites of all persons holding office under the authority of this State, whose fees may be fixed by any law of the State, shall be reduced twenty-five per cent. on the amounttbereof as now fixed by law." Its passage is considered doubtful. The Mississippi Stay Law The New Orleans Crescent thus comments on the Mississippi stay law .! Pass the Mississippi law, and keep it in force two years, and the banks of New Orleans, now impreg nable Gibraltars of financial solvency, will become as insolvent as the Brandon Bank, or any if wild cat" institution in the Northwestern States. Why ? Because few, comparatively speaking, will attempt to meet their obligations—such, we understand, has been the invariable rule in Mississippi, not even the rights of widows and orphanS forming an eXCeP. {lon, on accounkof the passage of the statute in con troversy—and the debtors having full power to dis pose of their property, the Legislature having not only prevented the creditor from collect ing his just dues but prohibited him from ostablisblhg the legal lzpo of a judgment which would make his claim good after the war, the chances are, to use the language of Mr. Freeman, that when peace resumes her sway, " the debtors of the State will become rich and the creditors will be paupers in the land." And, as with public institutions, so with landlords and tenants, so with those who have hired their negroes and live upon the income so derived, so with those who have rented their lands, loaned their money , on mortgage, or credited anybody, in any manner, in good faith. At one fell swoop, they are stripped of everything , deprived of the privi lege of collecting even ortion of their debts ) and told that they shall not m the present establish a valid title for payment in the far-off future ! In other words, they may be starved, pitilessly, while those who owe them money, and enjoy their property, may go on owing and enoying in con sequence of the immunity granted by the Legis lature. The Alarm at Memphis The Avalanche of the 7th has an article on ci The Military Organization of Memphis)? The Ava lanche says It is discreditable to our city that the work of military organization has been delayed thus long. What impression must it make on the minds of the thousands of brave men who pass through Memphis on their way to camps and fortresses intended for her defence, to see her streets crowded with stal wart men, and not a company drilling, not a flag flying, and not a note of martial music saluting the ear'_ It must discourage their zeal and dampen their ardor, to see such an exhibition of apathy where they had a right to expect the liveliest dis play of martial enthusiasm. They have read the proceedings of our grand mass meeting—our strong resolutions, breathing . war and stern resolve—our eloquent address, depicting the danger of Memphis, and calling the entire valley to arms for her de fence ; but, on coming hero and witnessing the per fect nonchalance with - which we seem to regard the dreadful perils which 'we said environod us, they must be forced to the conclusion that our mass meeting, resolutions, and address were but "sound and fury, signifying nothing." * * * Our citizens shouldlook at NOW Orleans, and blush. There, every afternoon, at three o'clock, every shop and store is closed, and all, eld and young, are seen actively drilling. Where is the patriotism, where lathe pride, where is the spunk of Memphis, that she does not imitate so noble an example ? Between the extortions of remorseless specula tors end the apathy of the citizens, who have re mained at home, in preference to giving their per sonal services to the public defence, Memphis is already auguring in public eptialation• Attack on St. Louts. The Memphis Argus argues that Mt. Louis, not Memphis, will be the point of attack. It says : We notice in some of our cotemporaries, warn ings that Columbus would be attacked this week, talk about necessity far arming to give the fee " one fight" ere surrendering this city, , tc- Now, this is simply nonsense. It is true that those with whom our brave soldiery has bees entrusted have done as little in or for the Mississippi valley as the mammoth hosts we have beet' supporting in Vir ginia, whose sole occupation seems watching Me- CleHan, who feels and knows that with him time is strength, while with us it is exactly the reverse. * * And yet the Mississippi valley is to-day as safe as it ever was since this war, which la net Saying much. Such as it is, however, its safety is due, not to generals, but to the State army and State hero of Missouri. St. Louis is a city of a magnitude too vast to be exchanged by the Federals for Memphis ; and for two or three months to come they will within-omen enough in this department to take the latter with out sacrificing the former. * ltt 6 f(- If "action, action, action" be indeed the key to success in oratory, it is no less so in military strate gy ; anti this was never more amply proved than by the contrast that torces itself on every Southern mind between the materially profitless career of our Confederate generals and the vast interests saved by the ever-acting energy of General Price. Missouri, then, saves us from immediate danger, but does not at oil relieve us from the necessity of preparing fOr that which is looming utt in Cl smao =UM. the protected by the Federals froth da.:teouni:will of - their ...quering legions of Price, but it necessitates a w ! intended army of inroSlon along the Illissiraippi. Our generalg in Kentucky. judging from the past, will stay idle where they are ; the vast resources of the North will find time to act in, and a larger army of invasion will soon be on our borders, while the present one effectually accuses St. Louis from the unaided !erica. We say our people should: prepare, by assiduous drill, by every possible effort, to meet, in two or three months . from now, an invading Lincoln host twice as large to that now being withdrawn from this portion of the valley to save St. Louis. Let every man arm and every man drill. Cease de sponding on West Pointism or Miss Naneyism in or out of Richmond. Lot the Missouri lesaon of cou rage and sacrifice be a watchword unto Tennessee. AFFAIRS AT FORT fICKEN6. The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle thus comments on the present condition of affairs at Fort Pickens, Pensacola : If anything could surprise us in relation to the conduct of affairs by both sides near Pensacola, the proceedings of the last few days would certainly excite our astonishment, and will, unless explained, be a puzzle hereafter to historians. There has ex isted, for eight months. neither a siege nor a block ade—no encounter destined for the capture of the fort has taken place, and each party, after having once or twice announced to their respective Go vernments their readiness to begin operations, have nevertheless remained idly looking at each other. The whole course of proceedings, or rather want of proceedings, seems to indicate that there is a 6( cir tundectitleh (Ricci' attached to each Government, whose continual study it is "how not to do it." The late brush increases the mystery. What can the Federals mean by suddenly opening their fire, then as suddenly ceasing, is the universal question ; and why should our fire be so courteous ly. discontinued when theirs was? One cannot help thinking that as long as the ball had opened, it would have been better to have finished up the matter at once, without. by ceasing fire, giving the enemy time to repair damages. Our brave soldiers there are tired of inaction, and would gladly be released from a position in which it would seem there is no glory to be won or service to be rendered. They do not fear the consequences of a combat. Delay in that quarter, as hi others, appears to result only in advantage to the enemy, and our soldiers, doubtless, hoped that the time was near for their release from the sand banks of Pensacola. They are impatient for ac tion, and will not be better contented when they discover, as they have in the last few days, that they are only to be permitted to strike in self-de fence, and when old Harvey Brown stops hitting at them they are to do the same by him. It may be true, as whispered, that there are many and vast interests in tha Oonfeilereey .sglPoaeci to any vigorous assault on Pickens—that Pensacola, whose town property has increased in value beyond example, would return to its original insignificance —that the Florida and Alabama railroad is making enormous profits by maintaining the present status. But it is not to be supposed that these considera tions have any influence with our Government. In deed, the conduct of the Federal Government is fully as inexplicable. We can only imagine that the causes of the en both Sides will be re. vealed when the history of this war comes to be written. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS, Good News from Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Dee. 10.—The ?apart that Captain Nevitt, with forty men from Colonel Burbridge's Regiment, burned a bridge at Whippoorwill, five miles from Russellville, on the Memphis Branch Railroad, is confirmed. They attacked the rebels guarding the bridgPl llUllebering thirteen, killed two, and took the remainder prisoners. Russellville is southwest of the rebel forces at Bowling Green, and tho destruction or this bridge cuts off their direct communication with Memphis-1 Important from Havana and Mexico. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The steamer Columbia, has arrived from Havana, with dates to the Pith inst. The rebel steamer Vanderbilt, a boat of 303 tons, arrived at Havana on the 3d, in five days from New Orleans. Charles Anderson (the brother of Gen. Ander son) and his family are passengers on board tha Columbia. He escaped from the rebels at San Antonio, Texas, and walked to Monterey, Mexico. He was treated with great kindness by, the Mexi cans at Monterey and Tampico, whence he sailed. on the British steamer Clyde to Havana. He reports that, although British subjects were violently indignant at the gam.% of Mason and Slidell on the Trent, he and his family were treated with the kindness of personal friendship. Mr. Anderson's family were sent originally by the rebels to the Mexican frontier, while he was held as a prisoner of war. The steamer Clyde met the Spanish fleet and army within thirty-six hours' sail of Vera Cruz, with fine weather. The Mexicans are daily ex pecting the allied fleet. The general feeling ap pears to be hatred of Spain. All feuds are giving way to a sentiment of united resistance to the common enemy, and the frequent remark was that if the Spaniards came along they would be warmly welcomed. No resistance will, however, be made at Vera Cruz or Tampico. The guns of the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa are being carried inland. If any NUICALI reports can be trusted, the most determined resistance will be made to the army of Spanish invasion. At Havana, sugars were dull. No. 126, 8 reels ; the stock on hand is 25,000 boxes. Molasses, no steak on hand. One Araericatk vess el has been en gaged to carry 1,000 boxes to New York or Boston, at 20 cents per box. No other business. Many vessels are leaving in ballast. Exchange on London 144a15, on New York 4.1a5i. Release of Mr. Faulkner BosToN, Dec. 11. -- Ex-Minister Faulkner has been released from Fort Warren on parole, and has gone to Richmond to endeavor to exchange hit4looli for the Mon. Mr. Ely. The Shelling of the Rebels at Freestone Point. The correspondent of the New 'Veit Herald with General Hooker's division, near Budd's Ferry, writes under date of December 9 : The lower Potomac was enlivened this morning by gunboats of the upper flotilla shelling the woods and burning the buildings at Freestone Debit, while about the same time there was a fine review of New Jersey troops on the Maryland side. At nine o'clock in the morning the New Jersey brigade, recently arrived in General Hooker's division, was reviewed and inspected by hint. The day was one of the finest over known in Maryland at this season. It was like a delightful day in the early Indian summer. The brigade, consisting of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Regiments, is under command of Colonel Starr, of the Fifth, an otfieor of extensive experience in the regular army. Tho appearance of the men was highly commendable, eliciting complimentary encomiums from the com manding general, who never praises those who are undeserving. After the YeitieW he proceeded to carefully inspect the different regiments. The morning being calm and clear, I made an as cension in the balloon to draw a sketch of the rebel camps on the Virginia side of the river. Six steam boats belonging to the upper flotilla were seen near the mouth of Matawoman creek. Presently, at half-past ten &clock, the Jacob Bell, Lieutenant McCrea commanding, got under weigh and went within about a thousand yards of Freestone Point. She fired five ten-second shells into the woods, and then put about. Several wagons were seen ap proaching the buildings near the shore, where the rebels had some stores. Lieutenant McCrea, of the Jacob Bell, communicated with captain Math), commanding the Anacostia, and both vessels then stood off Freestone Point, where they commenced shelling the woods and buildings. The Harriet Lane, flagship of 'the flotilla, Capt. R. H Wyman commanding, was stationed a mile or more behind. She fired two ninety-six pound shots. On a line with her, a little lower down the river, were the Reliance and the Herbert, with the Stepping Stones immediately behind, all in the mouth of Ilintawoman creek. This was the posi tion of the steamers, with 'a sloop lying near, when the cannonade commenced. For an hour and a half the two steamers poured shell into the woods. From the balloon I could see the shells burst over the tops, of the trees and near the surrounding buildings. Some struck the residence of Mr. Fair fax, situated in a grove upon the hill. Fairfax is said to be a colonel in the rebel army. The wagons moved away as quick as possible, and several mounted officers scampered off as well, The booming of the cannon aroused the camps, and hundreds of our men covered the hills on the Maryland side, from which the whole action could be seen. While the vessels were firing into the woods, our guns at Budd's Ferry sent a few shells items. The rebel batteries directly opposite, at Shipping Point, returned the fire. Several of their shells exploded on this side without doing any damage, and one of ours burst right in their upper battery. The rebels ran in every direction. In the meantime I hail amended in the balloon, and embarked in a boat which Lieutenant Colonel Wells, commanding the First Massachusetts Regi merit, had ithully place* et my disposal, with a TWO CENTS. crew under Lieutenant Carruth, and was on my way up to the flotilla. The Anaeostirt fired twenty shrapnel, one five second and two ten-second shell. The Jacob Bell fired seventeen six-inch and fifteen eight-inch shell. Fifty-seven were fired altogether. The -Torah Bell then went close to the shore, and Lieut. McCrea, with four men in a small boat, accompanied by another boat from the Anaemia, landed and set fire to the buildings near the water's edge, which they said contained stores belonging to the rebels. One, containing empty barrels, was not burned. The other buildings Vt4te , eon enveloped in a shook of flame. They were formerly used as fish houses, and rented for three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The boats presently returned to their respective steamers, which then fell bank and au ehored near the IThrrint - . - - The reflection of the setting sun on the Potomao, which was placid as a lake on a summer evening, together with that of the burning buildings, ren dered the scene exceedingly beautiful. In the evening a light breeze came up, and to• night a number of small vessels, mostly oyster boats, are passing up the river. It is now a quarter to nine o'clock : and the rebel batteries at Shipping Point have just opened on two of the lerger enes—the Oriental and the Shithur Light, tfaptain Walker—which the rebels can easily distinguish by reason of the clearness of the night and the brightness of the moon. Both batte ries are keeping up a rapid fire anon thein, oyhe flashes cof two, three, and foto' ere • N ei s k ald , ifirtslOUs/Y . 811.311 :, ;run the burning gurur . fuse, are baking graceful curves through the air like shoot ing stars, and then come the loud reports of their bursting. We have a fine view of this magnificent night Cannonade from the 'tear verandah of Mr. Posay s a residence. Some of the shells have struck the water, several are bursting in the air, and some have come over here to the Maryland shore. One shot which richoehetted along the water touched the side of the 'Shining Light about the water mark, but being spent did not do any damage. About forty shots were fired by the rebels, but none of the vessels sustained any injury. The Bring goon emed, end everything was quiet during the remainder of the night. The Campaign in the West. Tho St. Louis Rep:Allem) le by KO MOW OM-hied by the rebel rumors of an attack upon St. Leah. It says : Perhaps we ought to feel frightened by the news from Bt. Louis via New Madrid and Memphis, which is given in our batch of Southern items to day. Montgemery cut to pieces; Sigel surrounded at Sedalia ; Cairo and Paducah evacuated ; Price this side of the Gasconade, marching on our city with sixty thousand hien; Cairo, Cape Girardeau, and Bird's Point, about to fall into the hands of the Confederates—these are a few of the dread ful things which the Memphis papers serve up to the breathless and gaping world. But we are not much scared, for we know our rebel coteinpo varies have been imposed upon as usual. Mont ;ornery is, we believe and hope, in Kansas. Sigel is just now in St. Louis, ill with rheumatism, but his brigade is at Sedalia, and not surrounded. Cairo and Paducah have been reinforced, not evacuated. Price, at last accounts, was at Osceola, and lacked about fifty-five thousand of having sixty thousand men. He has not yet crossed the Gas eonado, though from the recent proclamation issued over his signature, it might appear that he had been wading in a stream of some such name. In short, and in point of fact, St. Louis is not on the eve of being invested (or infested) by any Confede rate soldiers whatsoever and the rebel cause in Missouri, instead of exhibiting a "glorious prospect," as the Avalanche says it does, shows, on the con trary, quite the reverse. We make no question of' the anxiety of the Me mphis people to see the battle-ground of the impend ing conflict transferred to the vicinity of St. Louis. It would suit them precisely to have theapprobend ed Mississippi expedition postponed and abandoned, in order to meet and oppose an attach upon this They would gladly leave the glory of . whip ping the Pederals to Price and his generals, if they could only be spared the prospect of having the war brought to the doors of those who, at a distance, so valorously urge it on. But our Memphis neigh bors are too fast. Their calculations are ,prema turo Lot thoiu tinker and, quake a lime while longer. When the rebels get possession of St. Louis it will be time enough for rejoicing down in Tennes see. Till then we remain not theirs, truly. The Rebel Army 111 vgroutt—lntervitilic On Monday morning an intelligent colored boy came within the lines, near Washington, and stated that he left Centreville on Saturday morning, and succeeded 41 avoiding the rebel pickets by keeping in the woods. Ile says he is a free boy, bormand raised in New Orleans. He has been eight months in the rebel army, as the servant of Citptaim Mi. B. Miller, of the Washington Artillery. He was at the battles of Bull Run and Ball's Muff, and gives minute and correct accounts of the principal events. Ho has received no pay for his services save a few shinplasters; and upon being refused' on Saturday his pay. determined to come within our lines. He cap that on the 28th of November General Beauregard gave orders to prepare for winter quar ters' and on the 29th they commenced cutting logs for houses. President Davis came two• or three days after and countermanded the orders, because, he said, the Union forces would soon be there, and they might have to destroy them. They have at Centreville a fort or earthwork for every letter in the alphabet, and designated by the letters, also a strong fort called Beauregard and one culled Davis, besides another not yet finished, and unnamed.• The forts are connected by rifle pits, and the embankments are so prepared that the Zirttriery hao- wilkdrated ;atm, •t.e oramoneuaaa, the caissons being disposed in the rear. There is a drill of the artillery every day in placing,the guns and caissons in position. There arc four guns to each fort. In Fort Beauregard there are three rifled guns pointing down the Fairfax road. Colonel Jenkins was in command at Hawkhurst's mill on Friday, and was to be court martialed for his eonduct. Colonel Stewart came with the force to the mill, but had returned to Centreville before the retreat commenced. The retreating infantry reached Cen treville about dark. The four•pound howitzers were a present to the company by President Davis. There ore two regiments of colored. men at Centreville, under the"command of Jordan, an old colored veteran of 1812, having been a drummer boy under °tn. Jackson. One of these numbers eleven hundred, and the other fourteen. hundred. Two other colored regiments were sent to Missouri since the last battle there. These reglinonte are composed of both free and slave. They are not allowed to do picket duty, but are drilled and encamped separate from the white men. Their officers are all colored. At Bull Run, he says, the rebels thought them selves beaten, and were surprised at the retreat of the Union forces. They thought the retreat was a feint to draw them out, and fully expected the battle to be renewed the next day. He says a• shot from Captain Ayres' battery on the 19th dis mounted one of their gllllB, and killed six and. wounded four men ; that the loss of the rebels at Ball's Bluff, in killed and wounded, was about four hundred and fifty. The fortifications at Centre ville have been built by impreesed negro labor. This boy cap there is much dissatisfaction among the private soldiers of the army ; that great num bers are sick ; that they have no salt, nor saitmeat, but live almost entirely on fresh beef and hard bread. The officers alone have salt, but neither tea nor coffee. That the COMM talk among the officers is that if they are beatenat Centreville they will fall back to Manaasas, where their flanks are well protected. The shoes for the soldiersaremade of oiled cotton cloth, with rawhide soles. This boy has stood a most searching examination for over three hours by competent persons. further states that a new flag has been fur nished each regiment—a cherry or violet-colored ground, with black bars crossing diagonally from the corners, and white stars on the bars. He says the bars are broad strips of silk or ribbon, This is called the "fighting flag." He says. further, that the talk among the officers was, that if we did not attack them soon, they would take Alexandria first, and Washington afterwards ; that the Yankees thought they would frees* them out at Centreville and Manassas, but they would find them safely housed in Alexandria and Washington for the win ter. He says that at the Lewinsville skirmish Lieutenant Sloeuinb, of Company 8., Washington Artillery, and two privates, 19C1:0 killed, Lieut. Sloctunb was a wealthy young man from Now Orleans. The Mississippi Fleet The St. Louis correspondent of the New York Times, writing under date of Dee. 4, says Yesterday the last of the national gunboats, the _Benton, Commodore Foote's flag-ship, departed for Cairo—none too early, as to-day the river is full of ice. Capt. IV. D. Porter left for the same destina tion on Monday, with his gunboat. The despatch with which the naval officers here have built and equipped the gunboat fleet exceeds any thing in our naval history. It was the boast or Commodore Perry that ho built some of his vessels 811 Lake Erie is Wierity : six days. Capt. Porter took the ferry-boat New Et-, completely stripped her of everything but the framework of her hull, and entirely remodeled, rebuilt, and planked her, strengthened her with additional timbers and knees, caulked her, put in bulkheads, built strong and ample gun decks, cased her hull with iron plates—in fact, constructed anew vessel, carrying nine heavy guns, and floated her out of her dock, in fourteell days. The mechanics tell with considerable zest how, on the fourteenth day, Capt. Porter, who had been crowding the work night and day, without giving notice opened the gates of the floating dock, let on the water, and, to the astonishment of the industrious artisans aboard, the craft was in her element. The captain christened his boat the Essex, after his father's renowned vessel, and, judging from precedent, Capt. Porter is the " bulldog" or fighting man of this expedition, He has chosen Dahigren guns tor his armament, and delights in "shelling." Commodore Foote is a very affable gentleman, is known in the navy as one of its most efficient officers, and distinguished himself in China by the bombardment and breaching of a Chinese fort—the fort in all respects h. Stir/oiler work of masonry. The feat called forth the praise of all foreign naval officers on that coast. His fiag-ship, the Benton, is a remarkably powerful iron-clad boat, carrying eighteen heavy rifled and shell guns ; in strength and effectiveness equal to any frigate in the navy. A few days more will put the entire fleet in working order, and too much praise cannot be bestowed upon all the naval officers hero for the great -work they have accomplished in an unpre eedentedly short time, and, too, without the con veniences- and appliances of a navy yard. The great work of opening this river has no doubt got mainly to be done by the gunboats. That they will accomplish it, aA believe, for the gallant navy has alwaysibeen equal to the demands of the coun try upon it. the work is difficult and extremely perilous, and will add some bright names to oar already glorious naval record. Appended is a list of naval officers on this sta tion, termed the Flotilla Weetetil Watere: Flag-officer A. H. Foote, Capt. Stelmbel, Capt. W. D. Porter, Lieut. Phelps, Capt. A. H. Kelty, Lieut. Shirk, Capt. Dove, Lieut. Wilson, Capt. 11 , 40, Lieut. Paulding, Capt. Pennock, Lieut. Bishop, Capt. Winslow, Midshipman Lord, Capt, Boger ferry. Master's Butler YoUre, 045: THE WAR PRESS. Tar Wan Prom will be Bent to subscribers by mail (Der annum in advance) at 82.00 Three Clo Dies I, IL 5.00 Five " " Ten ee Se Larger Clubs will be charged at the same rate, thus : cepielt will Cost $24 ;60 capita] will cost SOO and 100 copies sm. For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send SO Extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club. W rontoloiltd% tiro requested to act eta Agouti for Tole Wm( PRESS. THE CITY. f FOR ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS SEE INSIDE PAGES. AMUSEMENT 4 WHIN AMERICAN Aoanaler OF Musty—Broad and Lonnie Etreetta—Grand Cabrai sight,— ,, Lend the Vivo La Folio."-- 4 ; To Paris and Bark for Five Paimak." WALNUT-STREIT IMEATEN—Ninth and Walnut NUL—. 4, Fano and IML•uguerite." ARCHATBART Tit Lins—Akoh Area, above 6la - th,•- '4 The Buisy Body"—•r Jack Sheppard." WHEATLXY'S CONTINENTAL TeEATag—Welent street. above Eighth.—" The Southern Rebellion by Bela and Land"—The Cataract of the Gangee." TEMPLE nr L corner Tenth and Ohne. nut streete.--Signor Blitz's Entertain/mt. THE Poon AND Ul WirrEn.—lf the pre sent winter should be a severe one, as we have reason to fe ar it maYi the "PR* of Our etalion.hoUse4for the oc. rommodation of 'miners, and the ability of our various benevolent societies to comply with the demands upon their treasuries, will alike be severely tested, The first particular we have already referred to at length in The Press. Daring the ',recent year over 0,000 lodgers have been accommodated at the Onetime—HA greatest number. being in February, when 420 were ad mitted. During the month of November A3lodgers were admitted, In the month of June there were - but Se apron- Canis ; En that it will be seen that the ratio of increase oe decrease is - a matter to be aettled by the therm - on:4er, in the adjacent comities the provision for the &comma , • or lodgers requires to be upon almost as extensive d - *•-• lbuttug the last month 1110 went_ a scale as in the _ ostion•hoUSer„. furnished with quarters at the Norrastoe,.... In the "feeding of the hungry," our soup societies will be Moly to have their hands full. Encouraged by the benevolenee of out eitlabhi, k moo. tl, lens, le accomplish their Illiadon. The annual meeting of the board of managers of the Meyamensing soup Society was bell the evening before last. On account of repair:4, 3:c., hosing been rendered ne cessary to the present house, aitd on the ettpruiltiou lhdt the war will increase the number or, pettms tj be BM. slated, the society need additional support. The present building is furnished with all the Conve niences, inclnditg the cooking apparatus, Sze., necessary 19T surceenfhulY carrying, out the object designed. The structure cost the association about 82,300. By their present modus operandi, they furnish about 2,100 per sons daily with such food as has been designated. The operation of distribution ix C, O 4 4 11109 ti GO the rut. krbelivi; Oan g.cl6 &varying applicant ix furnished With a ticket by one of the members of the board of managers; these the 'recipients preeent to another person in the song home and reedit their allowance of food. The so ciety's first place of distribution was situated in Tenth etrret, below Christian front there it was removed to the old Haneoek Hall, fit ghippen street, below Tentb, , and subsequently to the House of Indrtstry, Catharine Street, below Seventh. It was lastlfremorod to the society's new hall, corner of Eighth street and Matra's fans. The eociety has been orgunized about twonty.fiva years, and hail been in active operation Up' to the present time. It is but one of many similar orVittitations woithy the beneficence of the charitable. THE NATIONAL LOAN OPPICR.--Jay Cooke, the Government agent to receive Phfindelphiasubscrip tions to the national loan, has collected nearly three mil lions of dollars, and the moneys still come in at a fair rate daily. Much of these moneys has beswforwarded by the toiling and the ob, , cure ! 'The parhw-fuhtia abud town brAcomp at the beginning of the war, and'hundroda of the depositors Lave withdrawn their savings; and cast about them for some new place of deposit. Or course, they needed no surety so stable as the promise QT Thiftctl glatffii. Corporations likewise willing to troSt rather to a good per centage and a sure borrower than: to magnificent speculations, have subscribed liberally at the Pldiadelrhia office. The banks is the interior halm come up nobly, and one, located, we believe, in West Chester, gave the large subscription or WM*. Thu clerks at the Aka of Jay tooke have been working 'dal , and night since the agency was opened, and the utmost care has been manifested in disposing of the MOWS. Not a single dollar has been mislaid. THE ANNUAL FAnts,--As the Chriatmaa season approaches, our Churches and Catholic institu tions are all preparing to have their annual fairs. St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum will commence a sale of fancy and useful articles, opening on. Monday next, and con tinuing for a few days. The orphans in charge of ties Sisters are all females, and are well taken care ef. St. Joseph's Church will hold its anneal fair and festival, commencing on theldth instant, and continuing through out the entire holidays. It is always well attended. The church is under the charge of the Jesuit Fathers. The pastor, the Itev. Felix Barbelin, S. J., has been attached to the church for over twenty 1.41 W, 6.ful is beloved by the whole congregation. The preparations fur the fair to be held during Christ mas week, in aid of St. Paul's Church, are nearly com pitted. Nearly 56,000 have been already collected for the pnrpose of rebuilding the church. Several MEET of the slotyehes Will hoict their 'airs in the basements of their different churches, commencing about the same lime. CLOSING OF THE CANALS.—The weather-wiser are not to be ' l OlO O 4 by the fickle c h arms of Indian ante mer. The Delaware and Raritan canal will be closed for navigation on Friday, the 20th instant, unless abruptly closed at an earlier day by a " freezing spell." The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's coal Un airless has been entirely prosperous during the season hOt eiwoing, The amount of coal shipped has, we think, exceeded by about 200,000 tons the largest amount pre viously forwarded in one season, and it has been done in the most satisfactory manner to all concerned. It boa been a good season for miners, for laborers, for mechanics in all departments, and for the company. ?lining is eitv petted to bo remmled at tarbondule early in January. Pennsylvania has about 042 miles of canals, the average cost of which per mile is estimated at $26,000. The ave rage cost per mile of Canadian canals is over mama, abeut tglx times as grcal ARREST OF AN ALLEGED HOTEL THIEF AND DESERTER.---011 Tuesday evening, Officer Rawlings, of the Reserve Corps, arrested au individual named Joseph Barber. on The double charge- of being a deserter from Colonel Williams' regiment, encamped near Washington, and of having cominitted the larceny of a watch. Barber resisted very violently, and the officer had his clothes considerably tort in the struggle which moaned. The prisoner was taken to the Central Station. It was then towns tnat 1141 was &Umbra or ueing ruocernea to to,- berg - of a betel at Trenton, New Jersey, some weeks mince, when about 1:4800 Worth of Jewelry was stolen.. A number of pawn tickets, by which a portion of the jewelry was recovered, were found upon the person of the defendant. He had a - bearing yesterday afternoon at the Central Station, and was held to answer. Ftsumers Crry.—The following are the euree varich have been paid into the City Treasury by the several departments, from January Ist to De ember Ist, 1861: ItEoElf.Ts rnot Tax cluplicatea or /556 1858.. 1857.. 1858.. 1880.. 1860.. 1861.. =EI Water (Implicates Market Bents.... ... . .. Wharces and Landings Health Department... Pawnbrokers' licenses City Property..... Pr6on Law Department._ Highway Department Poor Department, ...$345,484 61 44,118 00 20,813 12 11,581 81 4,200 00 21.960 62 ... 1,70 a 99 10,366 11' 14,121 92 12,714 33 Total Do. Doi. euNc6, as attore... Grand total THE. CITY Lokx.—We are informed that, in all probabllitY, the ordinance ereathog a 161 d, of 81,200,- 000, which passed Common Council on Thursday last, will be brought before Select Council, this afternoon, for consideration. Furthermore, the necessity for its pita sage being generally conceded by all parties, we antici pate but little opposition to it. The passage th bill by COMM Council had the effect, of bringing Harrill:de nearly to par. If it should pass Select Council, the speculation in warrants would be entirely prevented, as the city would then ho in funds to meet all the demands made upon it. AN INTESTIGATION DEMANnED.--It is filtitt that General Patterson has, at length, demanded a court of inquiry, and we are informed that the necessary papers were sent to Washington more than a month since. It is said that no response Mean yet been received. Recently the matter has again been agitated by the General, but, as before, without pity tictinitc unite, As a reason far this delay, a wasbington correspondent states that an in• cestigation might affect the character of Gen. Scott. The friends of General Patterson, on the other hand, allege that the demand for a court was preferred before Gen. Scott left the country, and declare that an official report of the campaign must be obtained A BURGLAR ENTRAPPED.—A man, who gave the name of George Droore, was found, on Tuesday night, in the counting-house of Dolby's saw mill, at tin. lock on the door. Moore then ransacked the draw. Mend-street wharf. 14.0 had entered the place by nicking ers and made an unsuccessful attempt to open the fire proof. When he was about leaving, he found his way blocked. The door had a spring -luck upon it, and Moore could not discover the means of opening it. Ile Wein found by the watchman °PlPloyed awn the promise& and tiers in confinement during the eight. Yesterday' morn jug tie prisoner 1111 handed over to the Second district police, and held for a bearing. DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF A PRISONER TO DCA PY..-The police of the Fifteenth weed aiicbted a young woman named Josephine Hibbs, on Tuesday night, on the charge of larceny. The prisoner wart taken to the station-house, and placed In a cell upon the second story of the building. About eleven o'clock Jo sephine attempted to escape. She lowered the tipper Bask of the Window and leaped to the ground, a distance of twenty-five feet. In the fall her back was severely injured, and one of her ankles was sprained. She tree again taken into the station•house, and a physician sttm• molted to her aid. RELIGIOUS.—Rev. J. Walker Jackson preached an effective discourse last evening at Sansom. street Hall, where Interesting services are being held. under the superintendence of Rev. A. Manship, corre ationding f4M•efiti.y and agent of the , kidiadeiphin Con ference Tract Society. The hall was well fated. Song of the marines from the sloop-of-war Hartford were pre sent, one of whom was appointed by Mr. Manship a tract distributor, and a large package of tracts handed to him. The camp-meeting hymn-book is LIAM, and the hymns AO choruses arc very stirring. A copy was presented to each soldier and saikr. NEW MINING COMPANY.—A number of ,our enterprising fellow-citizens have formed themselves Into an organization known ea the lieldlßMillg MiIIIIIMPC4II - and have recently purchased the farm of gemyel C. MIMI% E,4., in New Britain township, lying contiguous to an extensive lead-mine. This locality, it is :said, lias opened up rich mineral resources during the past two years, and skill and capital will undenbtedir secure their successful development. The etamitmy SOW oieraileins as 500 n as frBCtiCtos 5414 iq flip course of a few mouths, perhaps, the fertile valley of tha North Branch will yield largely of the precious mineral,. TILE FERRYPILLE DEPOT.—A, cowesp9Neig turorm3 ne dint Bli the horses at the aoTsmaent depot at Perryville, except those not tit for eery*, of any kind. are being vent to Washington. The lan% the lox% and tba blind, it is said, will to put out to winker , The Eleynth and k'durteuntli Bra:42mb of Volum. tears stationed here have erected barrooko_ to go.iuto . winter quarters. lIANDSONE SWORD YON cOLONEL A very handsome dress sword 104,,,been made for presen latiou to Celenei J, A. IloltokoA tho Sorouty.third.Penu. sylvanin Regiment, and will. be presented to Min. to. morrow, at his camp, 'Rueter:a Chapel,yirgssia, The sword is a Damascus blade, middle scabbard Is beauti fully executed, the materialbeing partly oilver and, pia); gold. _ eddtOtttit l a CASE.--Th 6 Way. 41' a non named Henry Darragh was found yesterday morning, in a wagon back of the Girard House. Lying by the. side of the deceased was an empty whisky bottle. Coroner Conrad held an leanest in the ease; the jury rendered a verdict of death from intemperance. Darragh was about fifty yew of age. THE VOAVNTEER. RE/itEr Foie ~.During the past week the commission for The relict of familiar of Chitedelpids volunteers expended the OUR et 111.42A.T2. 0.00 12.00 1,232 04 ... 2,037 15 rrrrrrr 9,041 04 ...• rr ....... v. 40,110 90 274,407 45 1 '00,220 34 704,90 0 .2,02 5,699 tif 2 732,62 T 44.
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