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MILITARY GOODS.
ANDREWS' ORIGINAL CAMP, OR
TRAVE LLING
BED T RUNK.
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W. A. ANDREWS.
(Patent applied for)
No. 612 CHESTNUT Street
nol6-2m
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AND SUTLERS
SUPPLIED WITH BRUSHES at the lomat rates.
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NJ/overtime:oA standard;
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WELLING, COFFIN, & CO.,
116 GITIGSTICUT STKEIGT,
AM prepared to make contracts, for immediate delivery,
of
DOMET FLANNELS,
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MENTS.—We have just made to order a lot of su
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are light and neat, such as every parent would wish to
place in the hands of their sons, affording healthful ex
ercise v. - Ithout being - so heavy as to 'inure the spine.
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tern. PHILIP WILSON ar CO.,
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FURS I
GEORGE F. WOMRATH.
NOB. 414 AND 417 ARCH STREET,
EAS NOW OPEN
A FULL ASSORTMENT
LADIES' FURS.
To which the attention of the Public in invited. no22tial
MILLINERY GOODS.
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g. 729 ORESTEBT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH
oc6-3m
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& CO.,
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oc3l-3m
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den greparationa :
119
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25 be Extract Hyoecryami, in 1 lb jars.
AO be Extract Belladonna, in 1 lb jars.
109 Da Extract Taraxaci, in 1 lb jars.
, Vin Ral Ooloblol in 1 lb bottles.
s 100 Ss 01. Succint Reck, in lib bottles.
600 be Calomel, in 1 lb bottles.
/ Soo lbs Pil Hydrarg., in lib jars.
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LOOKING GLASSES.
SENSE ILEDITOTION
LOOKING GLASSE S ,
, OIL PA.MINO9, NNOBA.I7INOB,
IHOTtIRR AND PHOTOGRAPH FRANZ&
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818 CELEBTNIIT
m of 26 per tent. in the of all
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end Photograph Frames, Oil Paint
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ntunity is Row offered to make per
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T FURNITURE.
ITRNITURE AND 811-
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their ostensive Cabinet SWAMIS 21311
'superior article of
MAIM TABLES,
land a full supply, finished with the
lON'S IMPEOVED CUSHIONS,
by ell who hoyo use& them, to be
and finish of these Tables the mann
dr numerous patrons throughout the
tar with the character of their wort.
GRCH-ERIES.
MA KEREL, HERRING, SHAD,
: MON, &0.-1060 bbl. Mass Nos. 1,2, and
[ACRE XL, large, medium, and mall, in assorted
llCkages .f choice, late-caught, fat deb.
1,000 b :New Halifax, Rastport, and Labrador Bor
ings, of ~oice dualities.
8,000 ,es extra new scaled Herrings. _
- amo taxes extra new No. 1. Herrings.
8,000 lima large Magdaline Herrings.
960 irbls. Mackinac White Fish.
50 OW new Economy Mesa Want
25 sbls. new Halifax Salmon:
1,000 Ottawa Grand Bank Codfish.
500 dozes Herkimer County Oheeem
In Al and leading, for sale by
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nob No. 146 NORTH WHARVES.
COAL OILI UOAL OIL!
GEORGE W. WOOTTEN.
35 SOUTH. SECOND STREET,
AGENT FOR THE
NORTE AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.
NANIIPACTUBEES OF COAL OIL, AND 88.
FIXERS OR COAL AND CARBON OILS.
WM. F. JOHNSTON, President,
GEO. OGDEN, Secretary.
Also, Alent for BEERS, JUDSON, & BEERS, Patent
Glass Conq for Lamps, and wholesale dealer in Dith
ridge's Pattnt Oval (fire -proof) and Eastern Flint-Glass
Chimneys, ! l amps, &c. Burners to burn Coal Oil with
nut Obnunew,
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to examlai our stock.. no2l-1m
pOATLAND REROSENE
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/to
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- 1010 MAIM= MEET,
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ITERILAPOS, OYSTERS STEWED
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the undesigued is at all times prepared to mreeent, for
the inaPeOon of Ladies and Gentlemen, a list of the
things nesary for a large or small entertainment, as the
rase may le, thereby avoiding all unnecessary refold=
and waste a nd dallere himself, that by ide long expo
glance in mess, be will be able at all times to give, as
Jeeretofo . entire satisfaction to all who favor him with
their pa • age. HENRY JONES, Caterer,
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VOL. 5.-NO. 114.
G REAT ATTRACTIONS.
HOLIDAYS ONLY_
Most suitable for
will be offered et
FROM WEDNESDAY, the 11th inst.
A fresh and carefully selected stock of
Comprising all the most recently imported novelties in
this Ih.e.
Those wishing to make acceptable, fib well as useful
CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS,
Would do well to call at
Before proceeding elsewhere
FURS!
FRENCH EMBROIDERED COLLARS and BETTS ?
INFANTS' WAISTS
and ROBES, ad.
HEAVY CLOAKINGS.
Brown and black Sealskin, 75c to $1.50
Di4 3^ 7n D be!Lst A vlu l . N j E tis%ce*.
suitable for Christmas Prosents.
60 pieces best Americas Prints at 12%
terns for Presents. COOPER It .CO,
del4 S. E. cor. NINTH and
(ILOAKS--
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Handsome styles of well-made, servi,
'meats. Tbsbeg,mad_ e t _the-barti c .,
materials Ite - tWvilels: lirge-V/Yek
'select. wormsuoi
a<l4Runs wad
-
- WOMB 'LONG SHAWLS RE-
A, DIICED FOR CHRISTMAS.
Scarlet-centre Long Shawle.
Green-centre Long Shawle.
Two-faced Long Shawle.
EYRE it LANDELL,
de9 FOURTH and ARCS
BLACK CLOTH FOR CLOAKS.
Eequinutx ]leaver Clothe.
6-4 Stout Els& Pasde
Hudson Bay Seal Skins.
EYRE .t LINDELL,
de9 FOURTH and ARCH
OTTOMAN VELOURS.
Plain dark colors and figures.
Rich printed Eninglines.
Woven styles .Reps, very cheap.
"IMPORTED RALMORALC,
New designs, handsome colorings, nearly four
yards wide.
SCARLET PRENCILFLANNELS,
Twilled and plain, of extra qualities, suitable for
rheumatic underwear.
LOW-PRICED DE LAINES.
New designs, constantly arriving, of rich printed
llfouseline De Laines.
SHARPLESS BROTHERS,
de7 CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets.
H OUSE FURNISHING DRY
GOODS.—SHE.PPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, &
ARRISON, Inaporters.and Dealers in Linen, and House
Furnishing Dry Goode, etc.
Have now on hand a full assortment of Linen Simting,
Table Cloths, Napkins, Table, Diaper Towelling, etc.,
etc., imported under the old tariff, or bought a great sac
rifice.
N.B.—Five per cent. allowed on pnrchates as above, if
paid for on delivery. nO27tf
WILL CONTINUE TO SELL UN
TIL JANUARY Ist, our entire stock of
BLANKETS at the old prices.
Will open THIS DAY a large stock of all Wool iiaxt
uple. _
Our 24 cent white Flannels are the best in the city.
Yery handsome neat styles DeLaines at 13%c; hand
some dark grounds, all Wool, at 31 and 37 cents.
. . . .
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•
HOLIDAY GOODS.
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WRITING AND FOLIO DESKS,
WORE, GLOVE, JEWEL, AND DRESSING BONES,
CABAS,
FORTE-MONNAIES,
CARD CASES,
WATCH STANDS,
'THERMOMETERS,
FABIAN, GLASS, LAVA, AND CHINA ARTICLES,
FANS IN CRAPE, SILK, AND LINER,
DOLLS,
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DOLLS? SHOES,
ROSE,
.111 IT TS,
CABAS,
JEWELRY,
•
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AND RATTLES..
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THEATRES. THEATRES.
STABLES.
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_PANORAMAS, BOX AND BELLOWS TOYS.
OrnaMentafor Christntas Trees, Fairies, Balls, Fruit,
PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES.
HERBARIUMS, SCRAP AND TOY BOONS
A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF GAMES AND PAPER DOLLS.
All the above articles can be had, at Reduced Prices, at
MARTIN & QUAYLE'S
Stationery, Toy, and Fancy Goods Emporium,
1035 WALNUT STREET,
Beiow Etc - youth,
PHILADELPHIA. de7425-1p
it*TS -LT 14 t
AND ACCEPTABLE
HOLIDAY PRESENT,
well-made and tastily-finished
I.JMBREIAL A.
For sale by
WM. A. DROWN & CO.,
240 MARKET STREET.
del4-12t •
CHRISTMAS AND NEW
/ 11 " YEAR'S PRESENTS. _
" e have just received a most splendid assortment of
GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES,
of all kinds,imitable for LADIES, GENTLEMEN, or
SOYA , WEAR.
Also a large and beautiful assortment of new and fash
ionable JEWELRY, GOLD CHAINS, PENCILS, &c.,
with a complete assortment W 4 nE,
such as KNIVE S, FORM, EIPOONB, NAPKIN
RINGS, ours FANCY
SILVER besides a great
GOODS, variety of
suitable for Holiday or Bridal Presents.
Also, on hand a most beautiful assortment of SILVER
PLATED TEA SETS, bASTORS, CARE BASKETS,
Ac., all of which will be sold at less prices than can be
purchased in this city.
1/9" Old Gold, Silver, or Jewelry taken in exchange.
LEWIS LADOMUS & CO.,
c1e14.12t 802 CHESTNUT &rut.
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EMBIWIDERIES,
LINENS, , 4
•-• WHITE GOODS,
1024 CHESTNUT ST.,
200 VALENCIENNE TRIMMED LACE SETTS,
$2.50, worth $5.
100 VAVENCIPSI.TE Tra . slblED LACE 'SETTS,
$5, worth $lO
400 VALENCIENNE TRIMIED LACE COL
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200 DOZ. REMSTITCHED IigiDEBROFITEF3s
13, 10, 18, I.'o cm, and upwards.
500 DOZ. CORDED BORDERED HANDICER-
CIIIEFB, sc, and upwards.
60 DOZ. PINE APPLE HANDKERCHIEFS, 22c.
and upwards.
200 REAL THREAD VEILS, nto $25, worth
double.
100 POINTE LACE SETTS, 65 to $35
NO POINTE LACE COLLARS, S 2 to 820.
VALENOIENNE, POINTE APPLIQUE, HONI
TON, MALTESE, and other LACE
COLLARS, SETTS, HAIiDRER
CHIEFS, CbPE3, DERTRES,
And also in LACES, EDGINGS, and INSERT-
INGS, by tho yard
CAMBRIC, SWISS, and LINEN EDGINGS, IN
SERTING, and FLOUNCING, ,Sic.
Comprising a great variety of GOODS in the above
line, suitable far HOLIDAY PRE
SENTS, all fresh, desirable, and at
prices defying competWon.
•
JOHN A. MULLEN,
Cheap heavy Coatings and Claakings
_Fineßlack Cloths and Bearers,
Good stock Cassimeres at old prices.
COOPER & 00.
S. E. cor. NINTH and:
ENGLISH BOWS AND CRICKET BATS
BASE Et&LLS, &c
MONDAY, DECEDIBER 16, 1861.
Books and Authors.
SHANSPFARE'S FINANCIAL PAMPHLET
It is not generally known, apparently not
known by any of his biographers, that 4 prose
work on political economy, or rather upon
national finance, was attributed to Shakspeare,
in the reign of Queen /I nne. Many years ago,
a schoolmaster named Northall, who resided
in Birmingham, (England,) where the writer
of these lines, then entering into journalism,
was editing a newspaper, possessed and was
fond of showing au octavo pamphlet, entitled
" Suggestions on Money, a Letter to her most
high and Mighty Sovereign Lady, Elizabeth ;
by Mr. IV. S." The imprint was at London,
and the date was 1587, at which time great
preparations were on foot to oppose the
Spanish Armada, then fitting out, by direction
of Philip the Second. The pamphlet which
Mr. Nerthall possessed was only a reprint, in
1709, and, in a Preface addressed to Queen
Anne, in which she was complimented- by
being compared with and exalted far above
Queen Elizabeth, the editor or pub
lisher declared that " Mr. W. S." was
Shakspeare ; that his suggestions were made
when the realm was in imminent danger;
and that they were applicable at that moment,
when a war was being waged, in the Law
Countries, by Great Britain, and money was
scarce. The suggestion of "Mr. W. S." was
that Queen Elizabeth Should issue paper
money, as a representative of valne, which
would take the place of gold, and be redeem
able in gold at public offices in London and
other large cities, besides being accepted as
cash when tendered in payment of taxes. He
alluded to the fact that the Carthagonians had
stamped pieces of leather, as money; that,
"iii fat' Cathey, 3s the bark of a tree, stamped
with the sovereign's effigies and title, was a
substitute for the precious metals; and that,
in Africa, certain shells, called Katcrts (cow,
ries?) served the same purpose. In fact,
Shakspeare, who was considerably in advance
of his time, suggested the formation of a
national bank and the issue of paper money.
These, so far as we recollect, after the lapse
of a quarter of a century since we read the
pamphlet, are the leading points of the £C sug
gestions" of Mr. W. S. The style was very
plain,—exactly as suited a production suggest
ing a practical proposition.
11Al•foi6 i3m)oft , i AND WILLIAM BIIAKSPEARE
The second volume of ‘ 4 The Works of
Francis Bacon," published by Brown and
Taggard, Boston, contains further portions of
the Philosophical - Works, with a very valuable
preface by Mr. Spedding, one of the editors,
who, with Mr. F.llis, has also supplied neces
sary notes to the Latin text. One of these
communicates a singular fact upon the tradi
tion of Columbus breaking the egg—which
has so frequently afforded a subject to paint
ers : Hogartb, it may be remembered; gave an
etching of this as a receipt to the subscribers
to his "Analysis of Boattty." The annotater
says: " The story of Columbus's egg is one
of those popular anecdotes which no refutation
can get rid of. It was first told by Benzoni,
and then greatly embellished by Theodore de
Br), and is in reality a reproduction of a story
perhaps not more authentic tel of Brunelles
co, the architect, who erected the dome of the
. of
Ba
ng
dns
Sir
of
Ong
be,
although Bacon's remarks, on the character
Of the modern drama., were probably written,
and certainly first published in tile same year
(103) which saw the first collection of Shak-,
speare's plays, which had been filling the thea
tre for the last thirty years, he never alludes
to them, and it is doubtful whether Bacon had
ever heard of them. As works of literary pre
tension they attracted little notice. Mr. Sped
ding says, cc Though numbers of contemporary
newsletters, filled with literary and fashiona
ble intelligence, have been preserved, it is
only in tho Stationer's register and the ac.
counts kept by the Master of the Revels that
we find any notice of the publication or acting.
of. Shakspeare's plays. In the long series of
letters from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carl
ton, scattered over the whole period from 1598
to 1623—letters full of the news of the month;
news of the court, the city, the pulpit, and the
bookseller's shop ; In which court-masques
are described in minute detail, author, actors,
plot, performance, reception and all ; we look
in vain for the name of Shakapeare or any of
his plays. And yet during that period Ham
let, Twelfth Night, Othello, Measure for Mea
sure, the "Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Lear,
the Tempest, the Winter's Tale, Coriolanus,
and several more, must have appeared as
novelties." Another curious statement in
these notes, quoted from Yon Hammer's His
tory of the Ottoman Empire, is that the
ish practice of having the near male relations
of each Sultan put to death on his accession
was established as a fundamental law of the
State by Mahomet the Second, who said that
the majority of legistes had declared-the mur
der of the Sultan's brothers was justified by
the necessity of securing the repose of the
world, and, subsequently, included not only
the brothers of the Sultan, but their nephews
and grandsons. The custom has been dis
continued. Pope, it may be remembered,
alluded to this when, describing Addison, he
spoke of him as one who could
"Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne."
The publication of cc Woolfort's Roost,"
which - very much reminds one of The
Sketch-Book," completes the National edition
of Washington Irving's works, in twenty-one
volumes, issued by G. P. Putnam, of New
York, who was at once the business-man
and beloved friend of gentle and genial
Geoffrey Crayon. The writings of Irving
will live, with his land's languan but
they will be held in different degrees of esti- .
mation. The Sketch-Book, Bracebridge
Knickerbocker's New York, and the Alham
bra, will always be most popular. Next to
these will rank Columbus and Goldsmith,
though the latter too obviously draws upon
the charming biography by John-ForSter—in
deed nearly all the illustrations, in this edition,
are copied from it. The Crayon Miscellany
will be read, because of its recollections of Sir
Walter Scott, and its description of Nowstead
Abbey. The Tales of a Traveller and Wool
fort's Roost will be welcomed, because
they are so much in Irving's first and
better style. The Life of Washington,
which cost Irving more trouble than any other
of his writings, is scarcely equal to what was,
expected. Had he written it thirty years
earlier, when his mind was fresh and his capa
city for labor great, it would probably have
been a model biography. As it is, it is as honest
a memoir as was ever written. Mahomet,
Granada, Astoria, and Captain Bonneville, are
the least readable of Irving's books. Two
other editions are announced—one in large
paper, with extra illustrations ; the other, to
be called the Aldine edition, to be printed on
superfine white paper, uncut, similar to the
Grant White's Shakspeare. Thebiography of,
Irving, by his nephew, may soon be expected.
Looking through Cardinal Wiseman% " Re
collections of the Last Four Popes and of
Rome in their Times," which we lately picked ;
up .at John Campbell's, we found a charge
brought against Irving by his Eminence. In
the third part of the "Tales of a Traveller,"
are several robber stories, among which a very
striking oils is J , The Young Painter's Adven
ture." It is related, in the book, as by a
French artist, and Irving tells, in his preface,
that it was taken almost entirely from an
authentic narrative in manuscript." Cardinal
Wiseman says cg True : and astonished and
disappointed was the poor - French urtiAl, who
WASHINGTON IRVING
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1861.
he found that the manuscripts which he used
to, lend freply to his friends had been trans
lated and published without his permission or
knowledge by M. Wassinton, as he called his
literary pirate." The artist, M. Chatinon, was
not a young painter, but a lean and slippered
pantaloon, when he was taken, as he describes,
from the Villa Ruffmella, in 1818, by brigands,
in mistake for its owner, Prince Lucien Bona
parte. The Cardinal says that, when he was at
the English College at Rome, M. Chatillon lent
the manuscript to himself and other students,
and adds cc I believe I was the first to discover
and inform him, that it was already published
in English, with such alterations as made the
account apocryphal; but with such a charm as
would deprive the original, if printed, of
all chance of success." Cardinal Wiseman's
book was published, in this country, as well as
in London, in IM, some eighteen months
before Irving died, but it is very probable that
he never sass it. By an odd coincidence,
another of the cc Tales of a Traveller" bears
the title of cc Buekthorne, or the Young Man
of Great Expectations." Could this have
suggested the story or the name of Dickens's
last work?
In ccimpliance with a request from a cor
respondent, we conclude this notice by men
tioning that 'Washington Irving, born in Now
York, April 3, 1783, died at his residence,
Sunnyside, near Warrytown, N, y., Novem
ber 28, 1859, and was interred, in the grave
yard of Christ Church, Tarrytown, on Decem
ber :1, the effielating clergymen being the Rev.
Dr. Creighton and the Rev. far. spencer.
TEE REBELLION.
IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH.
DestruCtive Fire in Charleston.
MOUE MAN . 'HALF TILE CITY IN
ASHES
THE EIRE THE WORE OP AN INCENDIARY.
A REPORTED NEGRO INSURRECTION,
A REBEL ADDRESS TO THE EAST TEN
NESSEANS.
THE FIGHT AT FORT PICKENS.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF COL. BROWN.
THE BRAVERY OF OUR SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS
WHAT FACTS WERE ELICITED BY THE BOMBARDMENT.
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
LATE DEWS FROM SCRUMP'S BRIGADE.
THE PROSPECTS OF A BATTLE.
MORE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION or THE
BRIDGE OVER THE WHIPPOORWILL.
AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI.
JEALOUSY BETWEEN GENERAL PRICE
AND GOVERNOR JACKSON.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
HON. CALEB CUSHING ON THE IMUSON,
F li r t-her Fart/ell/ars abotit
Burnside's "xpedition.
&e., &c., &e.
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
Great Fire in Charleston—A Large Por
k 4104. of the Vity ut Ashes—A Reported
Slave Insurrection.
FORTRESS Mozinoa, Dee. 13, via Baltimore.—A
Bag of truce under command of Captain Millward
took Mr. Eddy, of North Carolina, to Crauey Island
to-day.
From Norfolk we have intelligence of a most dis
astrous fire at Charleston, S. C. A despatoh to the
Norfolk :Day Booe of to-day, from Charleston,
states that a fire broke out in that city on Wednes
day night, which was supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary. At the date of the last de.
spatch, b o'clock Thursday afternoon, the fire was
still burning. The Round Church, the theatre, the
Institute, and other public buildings, are stated to
have been destroyed. The fire swept germ &pad
street, . ,
Assistance had been sent for from Augusta.
• The Grand Lodge of the - Free and Accepted_
MUM met at Richmond on Monday and elected
Lewis B. Williams, of Orange, Grand Master fur
the ensuing year.
Further in Reference to the Charleston
Fire—A Slave Insurrection Reported
Nzw YORK, Dec. 14.—The special despatches re
ceived here from Old Point say that the fire at
Charleston was the work of the negroes.
The Baltimore AMY:" of Saturday says : Oar
private advioes from Norfolk do not make any
mention connecting the slaves with the conflagra
tion, further than that it was supposed to be the
work of an incendiary. The fire is said to have
originated in a sash factory, near the junction of
King and Broad streets; that it crossed Broad
street, and to have reached the Institute Hall, the
Round Church and the Theatre, on Meeting street,
must bave passed diagonally across Clifford, Beau
fort, Cumberland, Princess, Queen, and Chalmers
streets, a distance of nearly a half mile through the
very heart of the city. As no mention is made of
the destruction of the City -Hall, Court House,
Guard House, and Christ Church, at the four eor•
ners of Broad and Meeting streets, it is to be pre
sumed they have escaped
The Mills House, ore of the principal hotels of
the city, about a half-sq!.are from the Round
Church, on Meeting street, is also said to have been
burned, together with the Catholic Cathedral, and
Asylum, on Archdale street.
The fire was said to be still raging on Thursday
evening, having continued for forty-eight hours.
The theatre, which is said to have been burned, is
the extreme point on Meeting street, that we are
enabled to locale vhe extent of the conflagration,
and its destruction would necessarily involve seve
ral squares of closely-built frame buildings in its
FVolki ae ekitiolhatiota of the map, we think
it likely that the Charleston Hotel has escaped,
though it is not more than a square beyond the
theatre.
There is another statement brought by passen
prg that the Catholic. Cathedral - is burnt. This,
if true, would extend the fire across King street.
a distance of four or five squares west of the
Institute Hall and the theatre, and would warrant
the rumor that ono half of the pity has been de
stroyed.
We learn that the fire was °hooked on Meeting
street before it reached the largo building of Adams'
Express Company, on the corner of North Market
street, though most of the storehouses on the other
side of Meeting street were destroyed or dam
aged.
LATER.
We learn that the passengers by the flag of truce
from Norfolk state that the greateSt eNeitement
prevailed there on Friday morning, and that-a
great variety of rumors were afloat as to the origin
of the conflagration. It was stated that the sash
'factory was fired by a free negro, who bad been
arrested, and confessed that it was intended as the
first move for an extended slave insurrection.
It was also rumored at Norfolk that a large num
ber of negroes bad been arrested, who had been
found in possession of arms and knives,_ and that
the confession of the incendiary had been fully
corroborated. These, however, are mere rumors,
such as would likely be in circulation under all the
circumstances, and may or may not be well found
ed. The despatch in the Norfolk papers, dated at
Charieeten, as d o'oloek on Thursday evening,
makes no mention of a servile insurrection.
Mcßae.
The Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile Ad
vertiser and Register gives a description of a visit
to Fort Mcßae, from whioh we take the following
extract
The trip to Fort Mcßae was very tedious, but I
felt well compensated after looking over the fort
and hearing the men redount the. dangers from fort
and fleet. The court, or inner portion of the fort,
was in the same condition as the bombardment left
it, the garrison having been employed incessantly
in repairing other injuries. The outer walls bear
evidence of having been roughly handled by the
fleet and Pickens, but no serious injury was effected.
The west. Ale seems to` i imive a - eared most, as It was
here the fleet, for six hours, poured in broadside
after broadside.,
The Boundary of Texas.
It will be seen by the following from the Hotts•
ton (Texas) Telegraph, of the 19th ult., that Texas
claims her original boundaries :
A bill hes boon introdieed into the Senatorial
branch of the Legislature, by John T. Harcourt,
Eaq., restoring the original boundaries of the
Slate. It declares that Texan yielded assent to the .
settlement of-her boundary because the question
waft UAW with the , got* of moues naming
the Compromise of ISSO, and for the sake of peace
and the preservation of the Union ; that the United
States has been guilty of bad faith in all the ques
tions enabraccd in the Compromise of 1850, resulting
in the dismemberment of that Union, for the sake
of which Texas WOS willing to sacrifice her immense
territory; that, finally, the United States has
broken and violated her part of the compact, and
therefore it is annulled and cancelled. The bill
then reasserts title to the boundaries, embracing
New Mexico, ac., and authgrizes the Government
to take military possession. The TM:gray/Os cor
respondent says the bill meets with much favor,
and will probably pass,
THE LATE FIGHT AT FORT PICKENS.
TEE OFFICIAL REPORT OF COL, BROWN.
What Facts were Elicited by the Boni-
bardment of the Rebels.
CoL Hervey Brown has made the following oL
cia! report of the late fight :
ILEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA,
FORT PICKENS, NOV 21, 1801.
GENERAL ; That Fort Pickens has been be
leaguered by the rebels for the lest nine metal:la,
and that it was daily threatened with the fate of
Sumpter, is a fact notorious to the whole world.
Since its occupancy by Lieut. Stemmer, the rebels
have been surrounding it with batteries, and daily
arming them with the heaviest and melt, etrwient
guns known to our service—guns stolen from the
United States—until they considered this fort as
virtually their own, its occupancy Whig, only a
question of time.
I have been in cos mend since the 16th of April,
and during the whole of that time their force hag
averaged, so far as I can learn, from eight to ton
times the number of mine. The position in which
I have thus been placed has been sufficiently try
ing, and I have at three separate times intended
to free myself from It by opening my batteries on
them, but imperious circumstances, over which I
bed no control, have unexpectedly in each instance
prevented.
Affairs were in this state on the morning of the
tell of October, when the enemy, fifteen hundred
strong, attacked by surprise a portion of my com
mand on an intensely dark night. They were de
feated and driven from the island with great loss
by 109 than two hundred regulars and fifty volun
teers---all the efficient force I had disposable for
the purpose. An insult so gross to the flag of my
country could not by me be passed unnotiocd, sad
I designed immediately to take appropriate notice
of it but, as I said before, circumstances over
which I had no control prevented. I make these
prefatory remarks to explain why I have now
opened my batteries on the enemy, when, from
the smallness of my forces, about ono-sixth of his,
thirteen hundred to eight thousand. I have not the
means of producing
. any decisive results, and as
evidence of my having accomplished what I de
signed—the punishing the perpetrators of an insult
on my country's flag.
Having invited Fleg Officer McKean to coope
rate with me in attacking the rebels, and to which
he gave a ready and cordial assent, I, on the morn
ing of the 22d, opened my batteries on the enemy,
to which, in the course of half an hour, he responds
ed from his numerous forts and batteries extending
from the navy yard to Fort Mcßae, a distance of
about four miles, the whole nearly equi-distaut from
this fort, and on which line he has two forts— de-
Rte and DarranCtle—and fourteen separate batte
ries, containing . from ono to four guns, many of
them being ten-inch columbiads, and some twelve
and thirteen-inch sea-coast mortars, the distance
varying from two thousand one hundred to two
thousand nine hundred yards from the fort. At
the same time of my opening, Flag Officer McKean,
in the Niagara, and Captain Ellison. in the Rich
mond, took position as near to Fort Mcßae as the
depth of water would permit, but which unfortu
nately wee not Stiffidently deep togive full effect to
their powerful batteries. They, however ' kept up
a spirited fire on the fort and adjacent batteries.
during the whole day. fire was incessant from
the time of opening until it was too dark to see, at
the rate of a shot for each gun every 15 or 2.o.mi
nutes, the fire of the enemy being somewhat slower..
By noon the guns of Fort Mcßae were all silenced
but one, and three hours before sunset this fort and
the adjoining battery ceased fire. I directed the guns
ofßatieriesLineoln, Cameron, and Totten principal
ly on the batteries adjacent to the navy yard, those
of Battery Scott to Fort Melee and the lighthouse
batteries, and those of the fort to all. We reduced
very perceptibly the Ere of Barrancas, entirely si
lenced that in the navy yard, and in one or two of
the other batteries; the efficiency of our fire, at the
close of the day, not being the least impaired.
The next morning I again opened about the same.
hour ' the navy, unfortunately, owing ton reduction
in the depth of water, caused by a change of wind,
not being able to get as near as yesterday, cease
jequyenfirtlye th rh e ie d d is e t y aitaz e w l as eee t r o e o pi g o r , ea a t u t d o
I. b
t e ll
n ff k e e m t u o a r l e .
efficient, than that of yesterday. Fort Mcßae, so
effectually ellenced yesterday, did not fire again to
day. We silenced entirely one or two guns, and
bad one of ours disabled by a shot coming threngti
the embrasure. .
Abouethree ritelock fire was communicated to one
'ltensepriaWrickgton, and alertly afterwards
o the chitu'th l ee tv,—the church and the whole'
village being InMediately -fear of some af the
rebel batteries, . they appv~ttly
them ruirete.cry directly in front of the largest and
most valuable buildings. The fire rapidly commu
nicated to other buildings along the street until
probably two-thirds of it was consumed, and about
the same time fire was discovered issuing from the
back part of the navy yard, probably in Wolcott,
a village to the north and immediately adjoining
the yard, as Warrington does on the west. Finally
it penetrated to the yard, and as it continued to
burn brightly all night I concluded that either in it
or in Wolcott many 4 1 4iiiiiags were destroyed, Very
heavy damage was also done to the buildings of the
yard by the avalanche of shot, shell, and splinters
showered unceasingly on them for two days, and
being nearly fireproof, being built of brick and
covered with. slate, I could not succeed in thing
them, my hot shot or shells not having any power
of igniting them.
The steamer Time, which was at the wharf at the
time, was abandoned on the first day and exposed
to our fire, which probably entirely disabled her.
The fire was again continued till dark, and with
mortars occasionally until 2 o'clock the next morn
ing, when the combat ceased.
This fort, at its conclusion, though it has received
a great many shot and shell, is, in every respect,
save the disabling of one gun carriage and the loss
of service of six men, as efficient as it was at the
commencement of the combat, but the ends I pro
posed in commencing having been attained, except
one, which I find to be impracticable with my pre
sent means,
I do not deem it advisable further to
continue it unless the enemy think it proper to do
so, when I shall meet him with alacrity.
The attack on "Billy Wilson's" camp, the at
tempted attack on my batteries, and the insult to
our glorious flag have been fully and fearfully ,
avenged. I have no means of knowing the loss of
the enemy, and have no disposition to guess nt it.
The firing ox his batteries was very heavy, well
directed, and continuous fur two days, and could
hardly fail to have important results.
Our loss would have been heavy but for the fore
sight which, with great labor, caused us to erect
elaborate means of protection, and which saved
many lives. I lost one private killed, one sergeant,
one corpora], and bur men (privates) wounded,
only one severely.
My officers, non-commissioned officers and pri
vates were everything I could desire. They one
and all performed their duty with the greatest
cheerfulness, and in the moat able and efficient
manner, am mob indebted to Major Arnold,
my executive officer, for 'his valuable assistance—
his whole conduct was admirable ; and Captains
Allen, Chaffin, Blunt, Robertson, Bildt and Dur
yea, and Lieutenants McFarland, Langdon, Clog
sin,Shivley, Jackson, Penninston, Seeley,44l4. Tay
lor, moral Jig warmest encomiums for the coolness
and deliberation with which they performed, with
out one exception, their duty under a heavy and
continuous shower of shot, shells, and splinters for
two successive days. Lieutenant Todd, ordnance
officer, had full supplies of all required articles,
which were on hand at the post, and the depart
ment was conducted with system and efficiency.
Major Tower, Surieon Campbell, and Assistant Sur
geon Swherland, in their respective duties, sus
tained their high reputations. Captains Robertson,
Duryea and Blunt, and Lieutenants Pennington
and Seeley respectively commanded Batteries Lin
coln, Stott, Totten ,and Cameron, and a small bat
tery atSpanish Forth and the other aura' bane.
ries in the fort, with distinguished ability. Cap
tains Dillies and Bailey's companies were with the
batteriss at Lincoln and Cameron, and • did their
duty Willfully and efficiently. The companies of
Captains Ilenberer and Duffy ; of the Sixth regi
ment New York Volunteers, were successively on
duty it the fort, and rendered cheerfully'important
assistance to me. The regular companies engaged
at the batteries, all of whom performed their duty
so &dotty as to preclude my making a distinc
tion, are Companies A, F, and L, First Artillery ;
C, Y and IC, Second Artillery, and C and E, Third
Infantry, and Companies Gl and I, Sixth Regiment
New York Volunteers. •
In closing, I tender to nag &Ler klefiean and
Captain Ellison, of the navy, and to their officers
and crews, my best thnnks for their able co-opera
tion, which would have had the happiest results but
for the unfortunate fact that great draft of water
prevented their sufficiently near Approach to the
works of the rebels.
I ant General, very respectfully;
Your obedient servant,
li, nvrx PRovN, c9193n1 Commanding.
Brigadier General L. Yuman, Adjutant Usneral
United Stites Army, Washington, D
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OD FLORIDA,
FORT DICKENS, November 25, 1861.
: The bombardment of Wei 22d and 23d
has elicited some facts that aro of importance,and
I notice them that we may in future bent by
them.
First That with the most efficient guns of the
largest calibre, and served in the best manner, no
serious injury can be done, to atone or brick walls,
or to guns in sand batteries, or to troops serving
them, unless probably by rifled guns, if properly
pioteeted, at a distance of front two thousand to
tires thousand yards.
,Second. That shells and hot shot aro not to be de
prided on for firing even wooden buildings, unless
having in them incendiary composition.
Third. That pieces of port fire are nearly useless
as such incendiary composition.
Fourth. That brick buildings movered with slate
cannot be fired by either hot shot or shells at the
distance named, unless by aeoident, unless the shells
have rock fires.
Fifth. That the trouble and expense incurred in
retaining forts by sand-bag traverses, ! to., is far
pore than repaid by the saving or the lives of the
tefenders.
Sixth. That no dependence is to balipsed on
James' rifle projectile, either as it respo accuracy
fr raPg9, ,If X had had gene to 100 depended on,
4ould have silenced the most of the enemy's sand
batteries and the guns in Barranoas. • Liti
Seventh. That ships with their present armament
cannot for an hour contend against rifled gnus, and
that if our navy is not at once supplied liberally
'with good rifled guns it will be very likely to be
disgraced.
Eighth. That on service here, and I believe the
remark appliee with mud force to very rivet awl
harbor in the Gulf, a gunboat drawing six feet
water and well armed with good rifled guns can do
more and better service than a forty-gun ship, or
than Buell ships as the Niagara, and Riehmeod.
Ninth. That sail vessels are utterly useless in en
forcing a blockade.
Tenth. That Parrott's rifled guns are efficient,
and that forts should be immediately supplied with
them and with a full supply o. f
afinaltialtion.
I would strongly urge that a dozen of Parrott's
thirty-pounders, or, if to be bad, of larger calibre,
be sent to this post, with a good supply of-ammu
nition, as early as possifle. I had ono which I
found to ho exoellent, but when the navy met with
such a mishap in the Mississippi, I was compelled
to let Flag Officer Meliean have it and one of my
twelve-pounder Parrott guns to put on one of his
ships, to Miro them from being driven out of tho
waters by a littlo steamer having a rifled gun on
board.
I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient
servant,Artrur BROWN,
Colonel Commanding.
Brigadier General L. Thomas, Assistant Adjutant
General United States Army, Washington, D. C.
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
News from Gen. Scheel)lf's Brigade
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writing from Somerset, under date of Dec. 7, says :
Part of the Wildcat Brigade arrived at Somerset
after another march almost equal to the retreat
werefro e L n on ro d u o t n e ,
f t o l r oy l g4
Imuonnle
when
hothere wauspices.ereoderlaVde
to take the back track. On the 29th ult. we coun
termarched through drenching rain, which turned.
to snow, through which we marched uncomfortably.
The first half day, the Seventeenth Ohio made 14
miles, the neat day 18, and 20 each on the two
succeeding days—the reads being desperately
muddy after the first day. We halted on the
night of the Ist inst. at a point on Fishing Creek,
and, as usual with the Seventeenth, we proceeded
to fortify, and wo worl;etf all Welt on a point
named Stincbcomb's Bill, in honor of Capt. J. W.
Siinchcolub, Co. B, who commanded the fatigue
party. The work was continued without intermis
sion all next day, and the troops slept next night
in the trenehee, although it was excessively sold.
On the following morning, Colonel Connell
started with the regiment and a detachment of
Standart's battery, with two guns, to take position
at Mill Spring Ford, on Cumberland river. At two
o'clock that afternoon, we halted within two mites
of that point. Colonel Connell, with Captain Rick
etts' Company F, and the first and second lieute
nants of Standart's artillery company, moved for
ward near the ford with an advanced guard to re-
C9llllOlO for a petition. suddenly, they discovered
a rebel camp in which they counted four regiments
besides cavalry encamped near the ford, and a bat
tery was planted commanding it.
Through the thoughtlessness of an officer, Colonel
Council narrowly escaped capture. A party of
rebel cavalry galloped up the hill from the Ford,
when the officer referred to warned our pickets to
retire rapidly, as the rebel party was too strong for
them. Having neglected to warn Colonel C. and
Captain Ricketts, they pushed forward, and the
rebels approached within a hundred and fifty yards
before the Co!onel discovered them. He had no
alternative but flight or surrender, and he chose the
former, the rebels calling on him to halt. opening
fire on him at the same time. In endeavoring to
clear a stump the saddle-girth broke and the horse
fell with Colonel C. under him, bruising the latter
so that he-was unable to run. Calling on Captain
Wakens, who was just in advance, to permit hint
to get on behind, that officer gallantly dismounted
and insisted that the Colonel should take his horse,
while he would take to the woods. It was no time
to parley, as the rebels—about thirty strong—fired
upon them rapidly, and Captain li., after assisting
the Colonel to mount, drew his revolver and fired
among the rebels and ran; but finding the enemy
gained upon him he concluded to die fighting, and
halted to deliver another fire, when the rebels,
tom% to his satisfaction, also halted, when he made
good his escape. The party returned safely to
camp, meeting
with no loss but a wagon saddle
upon which the Colonel rode, his cap, and a pocket
revolver.
No desirable position could be found. Every point
in that vicinity was commanded by rebel batte
ries, and' the enemy being 8,000 strong, a council
of war composed of all the officers of the regimeet,
unanitymily decided fo retire to a better position.
-We accordingly took the bank track through the
mud; although we had already marched twelve
miles: After an exhausting march, we finally got
back to our fortifications at three o'clock next morn
ing. We do not understand why Zollicoffor did
not pursue us, as he was amply strong enough to
have done so successfully. But at daylight, next
morning, we resumed our march, and at ten o'clock
we were at Fishing Creek Hill again—thankful that
it was no worse with us. The balance of the day
was spent by fatigue parties under Capt. Stinch
comb, in clearing another hill for a battery, and at
sunset it was planted.
The Twelfth Kentucky Regiment, Col, Hoskins,
soon afterwards reinforced us; but soon after dark
we received positive information that the rebels
were marching on us in two directions with a force
of 4,000 -in front and 3,000 in Ole rear, General
Sehoopff ordered us to fall back on Somerset; and
here we are, having marched all night. The
Thirty-fifth Ohio, Col. Vandivier, came up this
We are now informed that the enemy is crossing
the river in force, but we cannot ascertain defi - -
rummy. zv LL trelviti of Gen.
Seheeptrs staff, (major of Kentucky ,
Capt. Prime, of Gen. Buell's staff, have been cap
tured. B.
The Burning of the • Bridge over Whip-
poorwill Creek.
The Louisville Journal has the following letter
in its columns:
Yon_probably have not learned as yet what
Med Dreehinridge, with his four thousand rebels,
to depart so suddenly from the vicinity of Roches
ter. He was frightened by a detachment from
Colonel Burbridge's Regiment, under Major David
son, which he (Breckenridge) doubtless supposed
was the advance guard of General Crittenden'S
whole forco. Major Davidson reached Ceralvo on
the 22d of November, and on the 23d Breekinridge
sent about one hundred men 44W/1 the river alb
miles, to Paradise, for the purpose of robbing the
Union men in that vicinity. Our gallant major,
becoming apprised of this fact, sent Captain Netter
with a small force to the aforesaid place, when
be completely routed them, killing one man anti
wounding several others. Before Captain Netter
reached the scene of action they crossed the river,
robbed the house of a Mr. Wise, taking forty dol
lars in money, a gold watch, all of his bed-clothes,
and, in short, everything portable, finally winding
up the trataaCtiOti by tearing down his fences and
driving his stock in his corn-field.
The rebels have been carrying out of the State a
large amount of provisions of late on the Memphis
Branch Railroad, and it has been thought advisable,
by the friends of the Government, to put a stop to
it ; consequently Capt. Netter, of Col. Burbridge's
Regiment, was detailed, with forty men, to destroy
the bridge across Whippoorwill, at Ferguson Station,
seven miles southwest of Russellville, in the very
bean of Secession. Men were detailed front the
companies of Captains Netter, Page, aed Belt—
brave, tried, and true men. They reached the
bridge Thursday morning, about daylight, and sur
rounded the pickets. Capt. Netter ordered them
to surrender, at tae saute time telling them re
sistance would be useless ; but they fired upon our
men immediately.
Our men returned the fire vigorously, killing two
men and wounding a third mortalli. They then
returned in good order to camp, bnnging in nine
prisoners. Sergeant Grable and privates Cartright
add Armstrong, of Captain Pago's company, were
wounded severely, though not mortally. Also, pri.
vates Everly and Mahan—the former of Captain
Belt's, and the latter of Captain Netter's oom
pony.
The fight at Woodbury and the ekirmishes of
Captain Netter at Morgantown, R o Q.4okr, Para
dise, and Ferguson's Station, are but an earnest of
what Colonel Burbridge and his gallant men will do
before the close of the rebellion.
The Prospects of a Battle,
The Louisville correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune gives this news, confirmatory of previous
rumors:
Indications of the early advance of the forces of
General Buell are numerous humorous, and signi
ficant. The influx of cavalry and artillery, so
great for several days past, has almost entirely
ceased ; a regiment occasionally comes to the city
and immediately departs. The camps of the twenty
ittotaseral men, situated about four miles from the
city, have been broken up. General Nelson's bri
gade of eight regiments marched yesterday morn
ing, to strengthen the left wing of the army. They
are to be pushed on to Columbia; and, should Gen.
2011166 Ra advahee from Somerset, the brigade of
Nelson will probably be pushed towards Monticello.
The brigade of General Dumont had marching or
ders on Sunday last. The destination of this brigade
is towards the central position of Bacon Creek.
General Crittenden has assumed a strong position
on the south side of Green River, opposite his for
mer position, and has thrown forward his advance
in the direction of Russellville. It is stated here,
on what is considered reliable authority, that a
company of men of the Crittenden brigade had ad
vanced as far south as the line of the Russellville
and Bowling Green Railroad, and had succeeded in
burning a bridge on that road. But this is probably
untrue. The feet is known, however, of the ad
vance or the right wing. General McCook is al
ready upon the banks of Green River, and every
preparation making to cross at an early day. The
rebels are expecting us, and are making prepara
tions."
Bowling Green can be Flanked
The Cincinnati Commercial says
A despatch from Louisville announces that three
brigades of General Buell's army have pros 494
Green river. It has been expected the rebels
would attempt to maintain themselves on the south
bank of that stream ; but it is evident they pro
pose to fall back on Bowling Green, which they
have been busily engaged in rendering a Manassas
in strength. Persons familiar with the topography
of that motion say Bowling Green can be readily
turned by a flank movement, and that the rebels
will have to come out and try a fair fight, or run.
Ready to Give up Slavery Rather than the
Wovernmint.
The oomopoodsot of tito Vinoinnoti Gazette,
writing from Frankfort, says :
The caucus, the other night, on Federal rela
tions, resulted as I predicted in my despatch that
evening. The general tone was temperate ; there
was a disposition to ignore the vexations of the
Message and the War Report as far as possible,
and to uphold the Government at all hazarils. The
resolutions condemn the policy of arming the slaves,
but make no other allusion to cameron.
A little incident that occurred during the caucus
debate illustrates the temper of the members. The
probability that the war would end in the destruc
tion of slavery was alluded to. The strongest pro
slavery man i n the Lngifintnrth 4n41 one of the
largest elaveholders in Kentucky, arose and said,
"As to that, sir, I wish to say, hero in my place ,
that if the question comes to that, though think
it need not, but, if it comes to that, I will willingly
lose every slave in my possession rather than see
Kentucky . prove false to the Government ! Perish
slavery, sir! long live the Government!" And the
declaration was received by that Kentucky caucus
Vlb, a salvo of Tegifelinfl 91199111±
TWO CENT•
THE WAR IN MISSOURI.
General Price and Governer Jackson.
The St. Louis Republican of Saturday says :
We hear from the camp of the rebel army in
Missouri, that the rumor of the appointment of a
Confederate major general to euporeedo General
Price in the command of the Missouri . forces, !
was known there some time before it was an
nounced here. It had its origin, it would seem,
in the intrigues of the deposed Governor C. P. Jack
son, hellifgen whom nud Price unfriendly rola ,
lions have for some time existed. When Price
suddenly issued his order for a retrograde move
ment from Lexington, Jackson was asked what
it meant, and he tartly replied that be did not
know—that Price nevir communicated to him any
of' his plans. All his late Excellency could do
was to follow the army and per fornethe part assigned
to him. But Jackson is a good hater, and, as soon
as PQPSib/C, contrived to get away from the camp
and " on to Richmond," with the design of having
Price superseded in the command. Price sus
pected something of the kind, and sent Tom Mon
roe, a member of the Senate, to Richmond to got
for him from tho Confederate authorities a com
mission as major general, ho having been all the
while acting as major general of the Missouri
Guard. Jackson must have been too fast for him,
for the telegraph announces the appointment of a
Virginia colonel (Heath) to the command of the
rebel forces in Missouri. Jackson, meanwhile,
slides off to New Orleans, where heappeartliff Cho
-3d at a tableaux vivant spectacle. He does not
care, probably, about getting back to Missouri until
Price's wrath has exhausted
Price's array is still on the banks of the Osage,
quietly reposing, and waiting for supplies, and
whatever may turn up. Many of his troops are
quitting him—in some cases for good, and in others
to supply themselves at he= with comforts for
the winter. The men are badly furnished with
clothing, nanny of them without shoes, and being
compelled to wrap their feet up in old rags. But
the road from Independence is filled with wagons
conveying provisions and clothing to them, end the
men were told that a large supply of clothing was
daily expected from the Sopth for their use. At
Lexington, a full regiment of men has been raised,
and by this time they are on the way to the camp,
By these means his army is kept up to the number
which it had when Price crossed the Osage.
Skirmish in Cass County.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Consul:crave of the
9th instant says t On Friday last Mr. Etheridge,
with thirteen men, all of whom had been driven
out of Missouri, went back to Missouri to recover
his personal property. They met a superior rebel
force, and deemed it prudent to return to Kansas
for help. At Olathe their tiiThti cis were increased
to 150, and with these they went back to meet the
foe. Skirmishing began as soon as our men entered
Missouri, and lasted through that day and Satur
day. Three rebels were killed and five wounded.
The hardest fighting eras in Cass county, near the
Big Blue, and not far from the Kansas line. The
rebels were completely dispersed, and the Union
refugees succeeded in regaining all their property.
A cantonment has been established on Lamina
river, and Major Carr. of the Sixth lowa Regiment,
appointed provost marshal thereof.
Colonels of regiments are to be held responsible
for their regimental transportation ; and arc TO
%aired to keep it in effective order and ready for
the march at any moment. Any failure in this re
gard, when called out for march, or review and
inspection, will be considered and treated as gross
neglect of duty.
The Baled liquor is positively prohibited in every
camp, post, or station in the district, and all liquor
now at such points is ordered to be sent to some
distant place at the risk and expense of the owner.
From a copy of the Army Ar,focs, published in
the rebel camp at Osceola, and edited by John
Tucker, who is under $30,000 bonds for treason,
formerly
i of the State Journal, which was sup
nresaed n St. Louis, we learn that General Price
11 11 4 , igßtti an order from the headquarters of the
Missouri State Guard, in which he states that the
Confederate Government proposes, in accordance
with the terms of treaty between Cabello ei; Go,
and the rebel Government, to receive into its ser
vice as many troops from Missouri as may volun
teer for twelve months.
They are to be enlisted as State troops, and to bo
under the command of Major General Price.
The tniiatetlls are to he sent to the Secretary of
War of the Confederate States, and the President
will commission the officers and provide for and
pay the troops ; but, until the troops are transferred,
they will be paid by the State, the Confederate
States !guarantying, however, that they will be
paid. A bounty of S3O is offered to every non
commissioned officer and private who will enlist,
and ten cents a mile for travelling expenses from
the place of enlistment to the rendezvous.
Sr. Lous, Dee. 14.—Persous ai , riving here from
the seceded States are hereafter ordered to report
themselves at the office of the Provost Marshal,
and register their names and subsoribe to the oath
of allegiance there administered to relieve persons
who come here in good faith seeking the protection
of the. Government from suspicion, which naturally
attaches to all parties from the South, and prevent
their arrest or molestation.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
The Escape of the Sumpter.
[One of the best-informed gentlemen in naval
circles in this oountry sends us the following
COM/1111121CallUll KUuttu IS,
of the commander of the United States steamer
Iroquois ; J
The injustice which is done a meritorious officer
by such a statement as has been made by the mate
of the brig Rowland, just arrived in New York
from St;Thomas, is one of the severe trials to which
an (Amer of the naval service is Subjected in a time
of great excitement like the present. It carries
upon its face its own refutation, and is full of dis
crepancies and improbabilities. Captain Palmer,
brother of Major Palmer, of the army, is a Northern
man, and one of the most zealous and loyal officers
in the sellice• i<io is the only one of four or five
officers, who have been sent in pursuit of the
Siemper, who has not abandoned the chase ; who
has hung upon her track in hopes of capturing her
in the end. He has never bect4 schoolmate of
Captain Semmes; and he was his superior officer,
and a junior to him, when Captain Semmes was in
our service, as stated by the mate of this vessel.
When the statement of the officers of the Iro
quois shall appear in relation to the facts of the es
cape of the Sumpter, we venture to predict that
Captain Palmer will be thoroughly vindicated from
the gross charges alleged by this person.
We do not believe one word of the story about
the excitement in St. Thomas among the American
residents, at his conduct ; nor do we believe the
absurd story of the eagioritios in Martinique warn ,
ing him, if he entered that port while the Sumpter
was there, ho should be detained twenty-four hours
to effect the escape of that vessel. Such an act
would be a national insult.
If Captain Palmer is conniving at the escape of
the Sumpter, why is he cruising for her ? What is
he doing there at all ? His liu3t letter, to a friend
in this city, says " that although his provisions are
nearly exhausted, he intends to persevere to the
last in hopes of catching her." 'fhe armament of
the Iroquois is so superior to that of the Sumpter
that she would be eaptured at olio if he could got
alongside of her. The truth is, the whole West
Indies are in league with the Sumpter to elude the
vigilance of our cruisers, and it is a most difficult
matter to know her whereabouts when partly
thrown off the track by false reports of sympa
thizers with the rebellious States, who abound in
every part of that region.
The statement of this inaltlatel, with the com
ments of the press upon it, is inflicting a severe
wound upOn the feelings of a large circle of the
friends and relatives of Captain Palmer living in
our midst, and we ask in their behalf a suspension
of the judgment of the public until the Iroquois
shall be heard from. If, in the meantime, she
should capture and bring in the Sumpter, it would
be a 14 1 /009419 leaS9ll to warn US of the impropri
ety and cruelty of entertaining and circulating
grave charges against the character of an officer
who is not present to defend himself.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.
Hon. Caleb Cushing on the Seizure of
Mason and Slidell.
In reply to a note from Fernando Weed, gen,
Caleb Cushing has written a long and important
letter on the seizure of Mason and Slidell. Upon
a full examination of the question, Mr. Cushing
expresses himself without reservation in approval
of the seizure, and rests his opinion on the Idol that
Di men and Slidell were diplomatic ministers, commis
sioned as such and acknowledged to be such by Jef
ferson Davis ; and this he regards as " the true and
only tenable ground on which to maintain the act
of Captain Wilkes." The transportation of such
ministers, Mr. Cushing thinks, comes clearly within
the principle of contraband ; and in this connection
he aptly remarks that an insurgent ambassador is
far more important than a body of soldiers, fi q
"he goes abroad to negotiate, not loans only, or
purchase of arms, but alliances; which are soldiers,
arms, and money altogether ;" and so, he adds, in
the Revolutionarywar, Mr. Laurens was exchanged
against a Bridal:l. Commander-imehief. it is um:-
portent to observe that, in considering some of
objections to the authority claimed by Capt.
Wilkes, Mr. Cushing says that it is not material
that the Trent was proceeding from one neutral
port 4o another, "The responsibility of trans.
porting persons eontraband of war cannot be evad
ed by subdividing a voyae, and interposing in
termediate neutral term zn t '
The concluding passages of this important letter,
with some extremely interesting allusions to topics
connected in various degrees with the main ques
tion. we pint as follows
"It may be said, it has been, that to maintain
the rightfulness of the set of Captain Wilkes is to
set a precedent of possible inconvenience to our
selvea hereafter. That is to say, it would constrain
us to acquiesce in the arrest of an enemy embalms
dor on board of a vessel of our own ; nay, of our
own ambassador, by a cruiser of the insurgent Go
vernment. Be it so. As to the insurgent &Mee,
we are competent to protect ourselves.' As to other
Governments, the United States . have reached a
stage in our history, in which we are to think mud
speak of duties as well as rights, more than we
have hitherto done.
" Born of revolution, we have been accustomed
tb act as if rebellion bad rights, and gorern
ments none, and to welcome and applaud rebellion
in other countries because it wee reoellion' without
stopping to inquire into its rightfulness es between
the insurgents and the rest of thenation represented
by its Government. Hereafter, in meditation of
our own misfortunes, haply we may learn to be
charitable towards other idoecastoenta.
(c So, cultivating itatemality through many years
Of the wars of otitor cations, we have fallen into
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the habit of exaggerating neutral rights, and under
estimating neutral a obligations. Hereafter, wo shall
. 131/1 , 0 learned from the exigencies of our experience
li lutt !belligerency has its domain of rights as won as
net Afro! itti•
6 ; Finally, in the enjoyment of so much liberty
here in our geographical isolation in America, we
have i vcome, all it were, liberty-mad, We now see,
'ace, that liberty is
or shall not the only nor even the
greatest of the blessings.of nations and of men, but,
on th e cot itrary, that
Tot , • much iii,rty to dashed with woe;'
Mid that ord. %tr is the first mid highest law of nations
an d of w an , a a it is of heaven.
"My voice is • that of a political proscript for opi
nion,,, sak e . It may avail nothing at this hour.
sat, if I alight Orono% at this time, to address
m y c ou ntrymen,' would exhort them to CORSO from
caviling with forei:gn Governments as to the name
to be given to this portentous thing which rises
terrible before us, the•ewful fact of this great Btrug
gle lb the heart of the United States, on the ono
hand to disrupt, and on the other hand to uphold,
the integrity of the Urd.'m ; I would entreat them
to ascend to the mejeety ill . the eeeltaitni in the legal
and political relations of the times, as they have
nobly manifested their purposes to do in the mili
tary ones ; I would implore them to consider that
civil war is not the less scar, with its rights
and iteduties, on both aides—with its calamities,
but, nevertheless, its triumpke r , grandeur, lie
gallantry, am! Its ear Itwerilif,pray_lheat to be
'llll-rnipiesticable- schemes
of revolutionary social change, under the misap
plied name of the Union, and to lash , only le the
sanctity of the cslnotitution ; I wvild: adenoniall
them that, in such a crisis, it is the paramount ditty
of all men to rally around the President, as thw ne
cessary and only possible centre of political order,
and the young Commander.in.Chiel, as the single
existing centre of military order ; and I would
proclaim to them that the Union is to he rescued ,
from the perils which menace it, peace and happi
ness are to be restored-to the country, not by any
unconstitutional tampering with the subject races
of the insurgent States, but by winning Wks—
blades in the held of honor—bullies of brave men
to encounter bravo men—great battles, to pale in
the brightness of their fame that of the greatest
and holiest days of the New or the Old• World.
That would be something fit to live for—that would
be something for which it would be fitter still to
die.
"God forbid, at all events, that we should tread
in that fatal path which other great Governments
have trod in modern times, when
visited , hyeivil.
war and threatened by disruption; that. is, to
plunge wantonly into oonflict with neutral Govern
ments on minor and incidental questions, as Great
Britain and Spain did, in like circumstances, and
09 to 90011ThIllat9 the absolution of the Union.
"Lot us, on the contrary, think only to keep our
eelves spotless before the world ; that thus, come
what else may, our beloved country shall emerge
purified from the fire of affliction, sanctified by
suffering, with loftier and nobler throbs of national
life than heretofore, and ready to resume, reinvigo
rated, the career of greatness side by side with the
proudest of the Powers of Europe.
"To conclude, then ; Li my judgment, the act
of Captain Wilkes was one which any and every
self-respecting nation must and would have done, by
its own sovereign right and power, regardless of con
sequences. It was an act which, it cannot be
doubted, Great Britain would have done under the
same circumstances. At the same time, it was an
act amply justified by the principles and doctrines
of international jurisprudence. We may. well re
gret that occasion for the act hes occurred, and that
the seizure needed to be done from on board a yes•
sel, and still more a mail packet, of Great Britain,
with whom, for all possible reasons, we desire to
continue on the footing of cordial amity. Bat.
Messrs. Mason and Slidell not having been em
barked on board of the Trent by the British Go
vernment, that Government, as-such, has not bee*
offended by the seizure. The Trent, her officers
acting on their own responsibility, could have no
immunity from the ordinary laws of war, which ,
street the vessels of a great Power equally as of a
small one; and Great Britain cannot fail, I think.
to perceive that—as no offence was intended to her
in the matter, and as the rights of belligerency
were exercised by Captain Wilkes in the most mo
derate form, without seizure of mails, without bring
ing in as prize, without injury to private property—
her national pride and her national honor conspire
to dictate the most amicable construction of this ii.
evitable act of the sovereignty and belligerent right
of the United States."
The Late Engagement tn. Wirt. County,
Western Virginia.
The WhomMsg. Intelligencer of Saturday flap
We are indebted to Mr. Prince, postmaster at
Webb's Mills, in Ritchie county, for. some partiett
bars regarding the encounter between some of our
soldiers and a band of ropb, at a place called
&rater o ht creek, in Wirt county, on last Saturday.
Some ten miles from Webb's-Mills is the resi
dence of Mr. Levi Brummage, a conspicuous Union
man, and an exemplary citizen in every respect.
He had rendered himself very obnoxious to the
rebels by his charities and goodwill to the Union
troops and the Union cause, and. they determined to
make him suffer for it. Hearing that they intended
to attack his holm ) Had carry off hislaoperty, Mr_
Brummage sent word on Friday. last to Captains
Pierpont and Letsinger, who, with their companies,
were stationed at Webb's 'Mills. Accordingly,
these captains detailed some twenty-one men from
their joint commands, nine from .ttua—farmer
twelve from the latter, and sent them down se—
cretly, on Friday night, to Mr. Brummago's house.
Ten of them were put in the house, and the balance •
posted on the main roads leading to it. Saturday
iiotning otha_relels, some, forty in number, knowing
from the direction of Burning Opringaimmlaye.
peered on the hill above Bautumage'a house. The
first intimation the men in the house had of their
approach was the firing of a gun on the hill. Two
of the men ran up to the top of the hill to recon
noitre. As they gained the top ? they were fired e
by several of the rebels, but were not hit, The
firing alarmed the remainder of our men in the •
house, and they immediately came up the hill also.
There they were, the ten men confronting forty
armed rebels. Fortunately, the guns 6f the lat
ter were not effective at a long distance, although
they killed one of our men, Marion Osborne, as he
came up the hill. A sharpshooter among our men
seined Wilt, seeing a prominent rebel named Davis
taking deliberate aim at Corporal Mays, levelled
his rifle and shot him through the head. Another
of our men also shot Davis through the breast.
Both shots were fatal. In addition to Davis ? two
Others of the rebels were badly wounded, after
which the whole band took flight.
Davis, who was killed, was the worst possible
style of a man. He had once been a very reaped
able citizen of Wirt county, but of late years had
done badly, and naturally, of course, turned up a
rebel. We learned from Mr. Prince, that some 75
of the rebels are entrenched at a place called Big
Bend, in a tan house, some thirteen miles from his
place, in Calhoun county. They forage the country
all round like so many highwaymen, subsisting.
themselves altogether by plunder. They are a ter
ror to the Union people, from whom they have
taken almost everything that was eatable. The
prominent leaders aro Peter Sourbarn and George
Downes.
Gen. Burnside's Expedition—Further
Particulars
The New York P 6.54, 6f getiinday evening, says;
The preparations for the expedition under the
command of General Burnside have caused a great
increase of business at the Brooklyn navy yard,
and appearances indicate that the workman will
have their hands full for some time to come. Four
vessels have been put into commission at the navy
yard since Tuesday last—namely :
The new gunboat Winona, Lieutenant Com
mending G. P. Nichols ; armament, two thirty-two.
pounders, broadside ; ono eleven-inch columbiad,
and one rifled Parrott gun.
The new gunboat Chippewa, Lieutenant Com
mending Andrew Bryson ; armament same as the
Winona,
The steamer Quaker City, Commander James
M. Frailey ; armament eight , thirty-two pounders,.
broadside, and one rifled Parrott gun.
The schooner Hope, Master's Mste M, s, chug,
This vessel was formerly a private yacht, after
wards on coast-survey duty, and will now be used
as a despatch-boat, being a very quick sailer.
The purchased steamer Norwich, from Bridge
port, Connecticut, and the bark Restless arrived at
the yard yesterday, to be armed and put in com
mission. They have already received the altera
tions necessary to convert them into vessels of war.
The bark Pursuit has received her armament,
which consists of six thirty-two-pounders. The•
W 10,604 wiltletttle the $$ ithl to-day, and anchor of
the Battery, to receive her powder. She was pre
paring to leave yesterday, but had to be floated
into the dry-dock, which she has just left, in
consequence of her propellor getting entangled in.
it rape.
The United States vessels of war now at this
port, or at the navy yard, and ready for service,
are as follows:
No. Names of I - es . sels. Description. Guns
1. Vandalia, Sloop-of war, 22
2. Oneida, Sloop-of-war, 7
3. Tuscarora Sloop-of-war, 7 .
4. ..Winona Gunboat, 4
FL Chippewa, Gunboat, 1
6. Cayuga, Gunboat, 4.
7. Owasco. Gunboat, 4
S. Quaker City, Steamer, 9
9. Mereedita, Steamer, 6
10, Wyandotte, Steamer, 10.
11. Potomaka, Steamer, S.
12. Norwich, Steamer, 0
13. Nightingale, Ship, 6 .
14. Arthur, Bark, S.
15. Pursuit, Bark > &
16. Restless, Bark, a.
GENERAL BURNSIDE'S EXBED/TiON.
There it a probability that a part of the vesseba
named in the fortgohig list may be employed 'he
General Burnside 's expedition. In addition, Go
these, several gunboats have recently been pur
chased and fitted out, a few of which have sailed.
within a few dew fur Annapolis, while other& ass.
lying in our harbor awaiting orders.
Among these gunboats are the following
Bembehell .
Cadet
Chosen; formerly the .... St. Nicholas.
Cossack " Bindern City,
Dragon " • lienlinaton.
Grape Shot
Grenade
Guerilla
Guide
Highlander
fusser
Lamar
Picket
Pioneer
Banger
Reoruit
Rocket
Scout
C' Mary. & gimbal!.
+8 . Admiral.
. Davie.
. Dutaheas.
" ... .. Philadelphia.
Sherman.
•••••••••• Stampede:
Si
Cs ' George Davie.
Mayo.
Sentinel
Shrapnel
Shismisher Mary C. Ropkitut.
Vidette cg Reliance.
Voltiguer Jacob Merritt.
26111 We ( I Marshal Nay.
The Government ig constantly purohasing vessel'
suitable for transportation or for conversion into
gunboats, in order to provide a naval forge soli,
oient for all omorgenaioa.