THE PRESS. rUBLISHIGD DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. OFFICE NO. 417 CHESTNUT STREET THE DAILY PRESS, 'TWELVE CENTS PER WERE, payable te tbo Carrier. Mailed to Subleribera mit of the City at Six DOLLARS 'PEN ANNUM, FOUR DOLLARS FOR EIGHT MONTHS, THREE OLLARS FOR SIX NONTllS—lnvariably in advance for Ordere4, THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, Hailed to Subscribers out of the City at Timms Doz.- 1 1 PER ANNUM, in advance. HOLIDAY GOODS OQDS THE DAYS ; 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 FuMu 11E110, WORK, UrlAirE t XEWEI, AND DRE6BING BOXEN CA B AS, PONTE.IIEON CARD CASNd, WATDD STAN VS, TriERTAVaniTEBS, PARI&N, GLASS, LAVA, AND CHINA ARTICLES, FANS IN ()NAPE, SILK, AND LINEN, a Sneaking, Steeping, Model, China, Wait and Patcnt. DOLLS' SHOES, HOSE, MITTS, OKBAS, JEWELRY, 1 0 A RASOI4S, AND RATTLES. DOLLS' FURNITURE IN EVERY VARIETY THEATRES. THEATRES. STABLES. SOLDIER EQUIDDIE NT PANORAMAS, BOX AND BELLOWS TOYS Ornamenisfor Christmas Trees, Fairies, Bails, Fruit, PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES HERBARIUMS, SCRAP AND TOY BOOKS 4 QQQP AUQEINNWT QY q'!:3 AND MYTH 'EMU. ENGLISH BOWS AND CRICKET BATS BASE BALLS, kc. kc AU the si,ore... - detas cm% %iv tmel, Timillicad r/ictit iii MARTIN tt QUAYLE'S Stationery, Toy, and Fancy Goods Emporium, 1.0.36 WALEUT STREET ' Below Eleventh, rutbatmixu/A. HOLIDAY BOOKS OF OUR OW C PUBLICATIOR—Beforo buying elsewhere, call our itltratia Esau/ 11.11.1ai B lam. L EL KHUDS, THE HOLY : rose tinted paper, and gig - OWe engraving. IL FRI:ITS AND FLOWRIti OF PALESTINE. 111. CITY OF THE GREAT KING. PALESTINE,. PAST AND Plat:MKT_ Y. SKELETON MONK. Also, JuTenile Books, Photographs, Albums, &c. JAMES CHALL Tai & SON, Publishers, Booksellers, and Stationers, 1205 CHESTNUT Sts. eL HOLIDAY GOODS FOR HOLE .R.J_ DAY PRESENTS. What N; ould make a more useful present than lIANDROME DllEl`.9, A lIANDSOME SIT ML, or i. HANDSOME CLOAK.? Just reeeivid from New York, a large assortment of Now Goods, suitable for riniltav DILEgENTIit 1 LOT MOIRE ANTIQUES, at Mc., An enormous toss to the importer. Beautiful Fancy Silks for the 11.1idays. 1 lot handsome Velvet Flounced Robed, at less than the COSI Of iMPortation. 1 lot double-width Printed Cashmeres attie., never before sold less than 50e. cnoier. DnESS GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Newest and most desirable styles of cLOA/in AHD Oa vq - c -- a5. tlOO pieces Merrimack and English. Chintzes at 12.30., worth IC.).‘ e. in first hands. CHEAP BLANKETS AND FLANNELS. New Fancy Cashmeres and Bich VeIPA Tvatingi at u,,, OTEND dG titiftg delis bro. •tv North TENTH Street, above Coates. USEFUL AND ACCEPTABLE HOLIDAY PRESENT, v,i-11-tivAde and tastily-finished UMBRELLA. IMM3II WM. A. DROWN Se CO., 246 MARKET STREET. dPI4-12t a CilitidTMakh AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS. We bare just received a most splendid assortment of GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, of all kinds, suitable for I.ADIES, GENTLEMEN, or BOYS' WEAR. Also, a large and beautiful assortment of new and lash• ionabte JEWELRY, GOLD.CUAINS, PENCILS, &V., Mith a complete assortment of SILVER WARE, -Nuch a; KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS, NAPKIN RINGS, CUPS, &c., besides a great variety of :VA E.'. I EKE ti G - 0 0 DS, fluitable for Holiday or Bridal Presents. Also. on hand a most beautiful assortment of SILVER PLATED TEA SETS, CASTORS, CAKE BAtKETd, lie.. all of which he .013 el lese prices Riau can be 1111Telit0a in this city. IQ" Old Gold, Silver, or Jewelry taken in exchange. LEWIS LADOMUS & Co., .101-1-101 en cam - a - xi:Tyr Otreet. HOLIDAY PRESENTS ! We new offer a large and beautiful stock of COLD AND WAYCHIC4, FINE GOLD JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, AND SILVER-PLATED WARE, Selected expressly for HOLIDAY PRESENTS. All goods warranted to be as represented. STA UPPER A HARLEY, del9.-12± 622 MARKET Street, Philadelphia. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. STBITSCA'ai, CORAL, and SOLID GOLD JEWELRY. STANDARD SILVER 'WARE. &c., and a genera! as. Ran/tent et rich and tasteful larticice, suitable for HOLI• DAY PRESENTS. cali implies no obligation to purchase gook warranted as represented G. RUSSELL, nn NORTH SIKTEE gTEP.P.T HOLIDAY CONFECTIONERY. THE FINEST QUALITY OF LJONFEOTI('N E'RY, IN GREAT VARIETY, I*repare4 expressly for the CHRISTMAS HnT,IDAYS FROM THE PUREST MATERIALS. At Wholesale and Retail, by J. J. BIOHARDSON. 126 MARKET STREET. P. S.—A fine assortment of fruits constantly on hand. d9-t24 GENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. The house of R. C. WAENortBORN & Co , C. a and 7 h SIXTH Street, Now presents a PRINCELY STOCK of these graceful , and comfortable articles of apparel for Gentlemen. LADIES SHOPPING FOR PRESENTS 'Should bear this in mind_ Tey have them in every style of material, and AT ALL PRICES. Their stock of FURNISHING GOODS, also, cora pri-st“, tunny neat and suitable articles as PRESENTS FOE GENTLEMEN. del3-12t H OLID4I7 CONFECTIONERY. Fine French and Plain CONFECTIONERY. FOREIGN AND DOME*TIG FRUITS. ALSO, FANCY FOXES AND OTHER ARTICLES Suitable for CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. W. A. ALEXANDER, 724 ARCH Street, HOLIDAY GIFTS. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES, AT CLARK'S $1 STORE, No. 602 CHESTNUT STREET BILYER-PLATED WARE, JEWELRY and FANCY GOODS. in amt. variety. New And ha/waif& styles re- ceived daily, and sold much below the natal prices CLARK'S STORE. 602 CHESTNUT STREET. "USEFUL PRESENTS FOR THE SEASON. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS IN EVE tY VARIETY, CARTES D'VISITE FOR THE SAME. STEREOSCOPES, MAGIC LANTERNS, PICTURES or THE REBELLION FOR THE MA QIC LANTERN, MATHEMATICAL DRAWIN INSTRUMENTS, AIR PU MPS, ELECTRI CAL MACHINES, MAGNETS, OPERA GLASSES, SPECTACLES, EVE GLASSES, MICROSCOPES, And EN ery article in the Mathematical and Optical line. For Sale at Reasonable Prices, by JAMES W. QUEEN & Co., del4-9t SWF CHESTNUT Street. UANGING VASES. 11.1 Ornamental Flower Pots. Parlor Vases for Growing Flowers. Ballets for Jardiniere. Petiolate With - Vase for Flowers. Antique Vases for Mantels. Vases Renaissance for Parlor. Ittr4tio and Terra ellttfl Vases. Lava Flower Pots and 'Vases. Garden Vases and Pedestals. Brackets for Busts and figures. With a great variety of articles suitable for Christ. was presents, for sale retail and to the trade, Warerooms 1010 CHESTNUT buret, Philadelphia. doll B. A. HARRISON. HAMPTON'S SPLENDID LEHIGH 'NUT. Ilampton's splendid Stove Coal. Iltunpton's splendid Egg Coal. Tut ...utlteast corner EitOET and POPLAR. dl(i-Eltie VOL. 5.-NO. 118. HOLIDAY GOODS. CLOSINsa OUT BALE OP HOLIDAY PRESENTS. The underaigned is now telling out a gook of FMCS Goods, embracing Gold Jewelry, Perfumer, Puff Boxes, Chess and Checker Men, Dolls, Gent's Dressing Cases, Ladies' „Work Boxes, Sachets, rocket-Books, Porte monolog, &c., Also, in store, an assorinientof Nobles, new and beau. tifel styles of Woollen Hoods and Sontags, to which the attention of the retail trade is invited. JOHN ZED LEY. Jr., No. 17 North FOURTH Street, delo-14,18,20,24,27 Above Market. PIPES FOR PRESENTS. MEERSCHAUM PIPES, GOLD MOUNTED. 14E012DH/12M PIPER., 13.6eMTRT, MEERSCHAUM PIPES, AMBER STEMS. MEERSCHAUM PIPES, CHERRY STEMS. MEERSCHAPM PIPES, PATENT STEMS. MEERSCHAUM PIPES, WITHOUT STEMS. AU warranted. F und., and Brat ALSO, BRIAR ROOT PIPES, CARVED IFTEAns. BRIAR ROOT PIPES, SILVER C APPRO. Nom PIPE E., Bawls_ BRIAR ROOT PIPES, AMBER STEMS, IN CASES BRIAR ROOT PIPES, CHERRY STEMS. BRIAR ROOT PIPES, PATENT STEMS. ALSO, 11:131.4. lIVISIU:rt PIPES AMD 5TP..115, . _ A New Article. SILK, BLADDER, INDIA BUDDER, AND LEATHER To- RACCO RAGS, 4IPP CIA0:111111, 01/11.11 Tonita, ellllll CMS. In groat variety B. & G. A. WRIGHT, d019.5t 1314 CHEfitTNUT STARTIV. tler-M-Ip FOR THE HOLIDAYS! GENTS' FURNISHING, GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, . . Consisting of Dltt*SltiG ROBES, BEEAWLS, MERINO AND SILK SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, HOSIERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, GLOVES, sirocKa, CHARLES OAR:FORD & SONS. delo-12t HOLIDAY PRk;',7-i.ENT6 SILVER WARE_ WM. WILSON & SON W9Ol Wile PPerhil illictition to their very larto sort vent of PLAIN AND FANCY SILVER WARE, Manufactured by them exclusively for HOLIDAY GIFTS, Comprising many new and original designs, of the ITANDARD OE SHAVE% Owing to our greatly increased facilities, by the in troduction of new and improved machinery, the public will find niany styles not to be found at nor other estab• lightnont fit the coup - tee_ .f•: 4 ;:.4' 1111PORTE.R'S AND DEALERS ENGLISH, AmEli/CAN PLATED WARES. S. W. COR. FIFTR AND CHERRY STREETS. delB•dtjal GOODS FOR PRESENTS-- REDUCED PRICES. FRENCH EMBROIDERED HDKFS., SETS, COLLARS, SLEEVES, Ike. AIso—LADIES', GENTS', and CHILDREN'S Hem ditched and Corded Bordetod lIDKFS. 4 with plain and colored bordere, in new styles, and SILK lIDKFS. in great variety 300 FLAW DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS, in a great variety of new anl choice patterns. I,tOt. P9ffß Fa TRA zrz.4 FY and WOE LINEN SHEETINGrS, 250 DOZEN TABLE NAPKINS, from *LW to $0 per dozen. Lords a artmau4 or E11112R0M.N.R22. PIANO AND TABLE COVERS, LACE AND MUSLIN CURTAINS, GOLD-BORDERED SHADES, GILT CORNICES, TASSELS, BANDS, d'e. UPHOLSTERY amt Otittairr MATER - raps, ere. SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, & ARRISON, 100 S CHESTNUT Street. (1012-12 CLOAKS AND MAN TtLLAO. WINTER CLOAKS SABLE CLOTHS, FROSTED BEAVERS, SEALSKIN CLOTHS, BLACK BEAVERS, LYONS VELVETS: LARGE ASSORTMENT, MODERATE PRIOES, AT THE PARIS CLOAK EMPORIUM, 70S CHESTNUT STREET, J. W. PROCTOR & Co. nol4-tf CLOAK'S ! CLOAKS ! CLOAKS! WATER PROOF CLOTH. CLOAKS, in endless variety ; LIGHT AND DARK CLOTH. CLOAKS, of every shade; BLACK CLOTH CLOAM, of every quality; BLACK SILK-VELVET 'CLOAKS, EVERY NEW STYLE, EVERY NEW MATERIAL; THE LARGEST STOCK AND THE MOST REASONABLE PRICES IN THE CITY IVENS, No. 23 South NINTH Street. CL 0 AK S! The Largest, Cheapest, and Best-assorted Stock in the city. . . THE ARCH-STREET CLOAK AND MANTILLA STORE. NEW FALL CLOAKS. WATER•PBOOF TWEED CLOAKS. • BLACK CLOTH CLOAKS. EVERY NOVELTY AT MODERATE PRICES. JACOB HORSFALL, 11131-6 m N. W. corner TENTH and ARCH SU FU" GEORGE F. WOMRATH. NOS. 416 AND 417 ARCH NUGENT, A FULL ASSORTMENT of LADIES' FURS, To which the attention of the Public is invited. no22tjal MILLINERY GOODS. KENNEDY'S FLOWERS. FEATHERS. AND GENERAL MILLINERY GOODE. No. 729 CHESTNITT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH oc6-3m AWNINGS. JOSEPH. H. FOSTER., AWNING- MAKER. AMERICAN FLAGS, TENTS, SAILS, WAGON COVERS, 110 AT C6VErc.-3, BAGS AND CANVAS. NO. 443 NORTH THIRD STREET. SERIDENOE 340 South FRONT Street. del9-6t E. OPPENHEDIER, AGENT AND DIANUFACTITREB Of all kinds of ARMY GOODS. A fine line of simples on band. Advances made. Contracts filled and guaranteed. Terms liberal. Office and Sample Room, northeast corner of FIFTH and CLIESTNUT Street;—Room No. 2, second floor. (10.8-12 t TillE NATIONAL HOSPITALS.- DEPOSITORY of "The United States Banner, Commission" is imee open at ,No. 1235 CHESTNUT Street. Philadelphia. Contributions received for the Hospitah., and for Sick pnd It oniale4ii2oldiers. deli-iw OF INTRINSIC VALUE FRENCH, NOW OPENING AT HOUGH & CO., No. 25 South TENTH Street, Onnomite Franklin Market prim FURS I HAS NOW OPEN FRENCH RETAIL DRY GOODS. ° N S CORNER EIGHTH AND CHERRY STS., Otter to the LADIES their stock of SOFA CUSHIONS AND CHAIR BRATS, AT UNPRECEDENTED LOW PRICES Just received— A NEW LOT OF COMMENCED SLIPPERS RAPSONS' TRIMMING ASD ZEPHSR STORE delo-tf or. of EIGHTH AND CHERRY STS YRE 8c LANDELL, E FOURTH AND HAVE RECEIVED SOME FINE 400DS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. RICH DARK SILKS. LIONS YELYETS. PRINTED REPS. CORDED REPS. FINE SHAWLS. SCARLET SCARFS. BLACK CLOAKS. CLOAK CLOTHS. BALMORAL SKIRTS, &c., &C. del-wfmlm TM. HAFLEIGH, • SUCCESSOR TO L. J. LEVY /6 CO. : 723 CHESTNUT STREET, WILL OFFER, TO-DAY, (MONDAY,) 10 - ra. AND VC* DURING TEE HOLIDAYS, HIS ENTIRE STOCK Or WINTER DRESS GrOODS. AT GREATLY REDUCED P.RICEB. ALSO, GREAT tiARGAINS LIKEN CAMBRIC lEDIrPS. EMWD cc (g AND EVERY VARIETY OF LACE GOODS AND VEILS, atitiT IiEGAIYED, A CIIOIOE ASSORTMENT OP BA L. - MORALS, or SCOTCH MANUFACTURtni.. delfi:fit CLOAKS ! CLOAKS ! mAqMICENT FRENCH SILK PLUSH CLOAKS JUST RECEIVED PER LAST STEAMER. FROSTED BEAVER CLOAKS In endless variety. Also, the largest and best assorted stock of SEAL SKIN CLOAKS In the OM EVERY NEW STYLE; EVERY NEW MATERIAL. The Teri best work, at PRICES THAT ASTONISH EVERT ONE. NO. 03 SOUTH NINTH STREET. HOLIDAY DRESS GOODS. The following goods are desirgblefor Christmas Gifts Low priced DeLaines and Calicoes. Wide English and French Chintzes. Brilliant Figures new American De Laines. Dressing Gown Stuffs of Gay Cashmeres. French Figured Do Lanes and Fancy Merinos.. Piale Poollas end Dietz Styles of tPleglines• Plaid Flannels, Bright !troche Dress Goods. Blankets, Table and Piano Corers, Quills. Bid Cloves, Warm Silk and Cloth Gloves. Embroidered Collars and Lace Goods. Silk Handkerchiefs. French Limn Cambric Black Silk Cravats, Scarfs, and Neck Tied. Plain and Fancy Silks, Rich Black Silks. Blanket Shawls, Brodie florin° Shawls. SHMIPLESS ISKVTORBS, del 8 CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets. NAPOLEON BLUE FRENCH MERINO. Dark Brown Merluors. Garnet Blue and Green Rem Magenta Figured Marines. EYRE a LANDELL, FOUR'XII and ARCM. ALL -WOOL FIGURED DR LAINES. Magenta Figured De Laines. Polka spot De Laines. Reserve Printed Do Laines. EYRE & talmrsz, FOLIATE' and ARCM aABNET BLUE AND GREEN u REPS. All-Wool Fine Reps. Rich Printed Reps. Solferino Figured Reps. EIRE & LANDELL, FOFR.CH & ARCH, HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Delaines, at DiX cents; Calicoes, 123 cents. Black and fancy Silk Handkerchiefs. • Neck-Ties, Cloves, Cents , Shawls. Misses' and Ladies' Shawls in variety. Nice assortment of Dress Goods. Balmoral Skirts in great variety, at J. H. STOKES', 702 ARCH Rroot, N. ft.—tin band, Sack-straws and Solitaires, made by and sold for an invalid. They are nice games as well as presents, and any one would confer a favor by purchas ing the same. HEAVY CLOAKINGS. Brown and Black Sealskin ' 75c to 51.50. Cheap heavy Coatings and Cloakings Fine Black Cloths and Beavers. Good stock Cassimeres at old prices. COOPER 4 VOKABD, del.l S. E cor. NINTH and HAM= 19, 3 -CENT DELAINES. AAA 37 pieces best styles, just received, at 18k, suitable for Christmas Presents. 60 pieces beat American Prints at 10) cts.; neat pat terns for Presents. COOPER & CONARD, del4 S. R. cor. NINTH and MARKET. CLOAKS— Enndsome styles of well-made, serviceable gar ments. The best made, the boot fitting, and the best materials for the price. A large stock from which to select. COOPER & CONAUD, del4 S. E. cor. NINTH and MARKET. HOUSE FURNISHING DRY GOODS.—SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, & ARRISON, Importers and Dealers in Linen, and House Furnishing Dry Goods, etc. Rave now on hand a full assortment of Linen Sheeting, Table Cloths, Napkins, - Table, biaper towelling, etc., tees, Imported under the old tariff, or bought a great sac rifice. NlL—Five per cent. allowed on purchases as above, if paid for on delivery. no27if ILL CONTINUE TO SELL UN TIL JANUARY let, our entire stock of BLANKETS at the old prices. Will (limn THIS DAY a large stock of all Wool Flan. nets. Our 25 cent White Flannels are the best in the city. Very 'handsome neat styles DeLaines at 18X e ; hand some dark grounds, all Weal, at 21 and 27 cents_ COWPERTIIWAIT A CO., des-tf N. W. corner EIGHTH and MARKET. COAL OIL! COAL OIL! GEORGE W. WOOTTEN. 38 SOUTH SECOND STREET, AGENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN OIL COMPANY. MANUFACTURERS OF COAL OIL, AND RE, FINEBS OF COAL AND CARBON OILS. WM. F. JOHtISTON, Presidents CEO. 011DlP.N, Secretary_ Also, Agent for BEERS, TUDSON, & BEERS, Patent Glass Cones for Lamps, and wholesale dealer in Pith- Meg Patent Oval (fire -proof) told Eastern Flint-Clean Chimneye, Lampe, &c. Burners to burn Coal Oil with out Chimneys. Cub buyers or prompt payers are respectfully invited to eassoloo our stock. uoti-tm AQUARIUMS, FERN CASES, A rarity of Fish and Plauta, N 0.144 North SIXTH [Arcot. 1/2-I.zit• PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1861. rtss. PRIDAY, DECEMBER 200861. The Rev. T. R. Siockton's Poems.* One of the ablest divines in the United States, as well as one of the most amiable men, is the Reverend Thomas Hewlings Stockton; Chaplain to Congress. Well known as a truly eloquent preacher, he also obtained no small reputation, not only by his editorial labors, but by his original productions in prose and verse, published sloe° 1313, as con tributions to periodicals and otherwise. He now comes tangibly before the critics with the volume of Poems, occupying 321 pages. The last thirty pages are occupied with a prose ap pendix, containing Autobiographic and other Notes. From those, written with candor and simplicity, we take leave to cull a few per sonal particulars respecting the author. Mr. Stockton was horn in Mount Holly, N. J., on the 4th June, 1808. His father was an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and an able writer on church matters, editing the Wesleyan Repository, and, exactly forty years ago, one of the earliest advocates of the Temperance Cause in the United States. For seventeen years he was Agent and Super- intendent of what is now called the Blockley Alms House. He died, in November, 1861, at. Burlington, where he first drew breath, seventy-five years before. His son pays an affectionate tribute to his labors, character, and T. H. Stockton received a good, plain edu cation, chiefly in New Jersey, and at the age of 16 first broke ground in authorship, by publishing a brief poem in a Philadelphia newspaper. Thenceforth, he tells us, "fre quent centriplltiell§ to various periodicals ; poems, tales, essays, criticisms, 84c." Up to this time he had admiringly studied the va rious aspects of Nature, and the Bible to him was the literary light of the world. He had also read serious books, including the Wes leyan Hymn Book, and Milton, Young, Thom son, Gray, Collins, Akeuside, and Cowper. He may be said to have devoured an illustrated book of Natural History, and the Indian Wars excited his spirit, with, of course, Robinson Crusoe, the boy's own book. He was fond, also, of the exercises and sports of youth, and, we dare sty, would still subscribe to the truth of the homely aphorism, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." At the age of 18, he lost his admirable mo ther, and about the same time occurred his cc hopeful conversion" and admission to the Church. The following year, he became a student in- medicine, attending lectures in Jef ferson College, one of the Professors being Dr. McClellan, the father of the present Major General of the army of the United States, who was then an infant with no visible forecast of his military destiny. In courage, energy, quickness, and thoroughness, it will be hard for the son to surpass the father. He lectured with unfailing spirit anti success on both anatomy= and surgery; and can never be forgotten by those who had the pleasure and advantage of hearing him." Ili Mardi, 1828, before he had completed his 20th year, Mr. Stockton married Anna Roe McCurdy, and, soon after, her father re moved cc to the Forks of the Tough,' be. tween the Youghiogheny and Monongahela rivers, in the western part of the State. His new home was on the west bank of the Youghiogheny-La wild, but healthy, fertile, and beautiful region, which it afterward be came a great pleasure to us occasionally to visit." The year after his marriage, Mr. Stockton became a preacher. He had previously made various efforts in other directions:—medicine s from the practice of which he shrunk; type setting; newspaper-writing and editing. At last, on the e suggestion of Dr. Dunn, Minister of the ABsociate Methodists, ho commenced preaching. His own record is gc 1829, May 31. Preached my first sermon, Sabbath af ternoon, at an unoccupied country-seat, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The next two Sab baths, a second and third followed—one in the city and the other at the place ffrat mentioned; and then, on the fourth Sabbath, a stranger in a strange land,' I officiated twice, as a cir cuit preacher, at Easton, Talbot county, on the Eastern shore of Maryland." Ho asks, 4 6 What was my preparation/ None at all the ordinary professional sense. But, by nature, providence, and grace; by home, school, and church; by the Bible, and the ge neral range of English literature, ao far as it came within my reach, and proved attractive, I had been made observant, thoughtful, YeVe rent, and prayerful—had been awakened to a consciousness of at least seeming adaptation, with some impression of duty, some impulse of desire, and some effort in self.culture.” Mr. Stockton says : c 4 There, too, was a fine circuit for a7oung man of tweuty-one, with a colleague of sixteen—the admirable and me morable Charles Jacobs : a circuit extending from St. Michael's to Rock Hall ; sweeping through the counties of Talbot, Caroline, Queen Anne, and Kent ; comprehending four cold side' circuits, as then called; and re quiring a ride of twc hundred miles or more to get round it. In a few years, we also had four circuits within the same limits. Occa sionally I rode twenty miles on the Sabbath, and preached three times, besides leading classes. Our places were the best we could get : court-houses, school-houses, farm-houses —some vacant church or vestry-room, or ball room ; or, in the summer, the tinted and tented forest." In 1830, Mr. Stockton was removed to Bal timore, and, in the year following, on account of delicate health, was Missionary at large, travelling North and West. Abelit this time, on the banks of the Youghiogeny, he com menced two of his chief poems, c; Snow" and c; Man"—pp. 43 and 59, in his book. In 1832 he returned to Maryland, and was nominated for the chaplaincy of the United States Senate. Next year, he was stationed in Georgetown, D. C., and was elected chaplain to the House of Representatives. Not re-elected in 1835, he was engaged in writing cc Faith and Sight," the poem which commences the volume befbre us. He says : 6 , The two merely introductory parts of it, as already stated, are here ; but the three main parts—the World of Sight and the World of Faith, or the Sense-World and Spirit-World, with the conclusion, sum ming up results of Truth and Duty—await due encouragements. The plan, as usual, is comprehensive of all the variety of earth and heaven." In the winter, he was re-elected to the chaplaincy ; had charge of St. John's Church, Baltimore, in 1836 and, in the suc ceeding year, as he records, tt finished the compilation of the Hymn-Book of the Metho dist Protestant Church, in fulfilment of com missions from the General Conference and Book Committee. This was a much more laborious work than would generally be sup posed. It Was the first Methodist Hymn- Book to give the names of authors." In 1838, in Baltimore, where he wrote the Poem, (almost as well known as any of mo dern time,) on the Duel of Graves and Cilley, —page 91, of the volume—and soon after re moved to Philadelphia, where he oat - dinned for nine years, engaged, with successful zeal, in promoting the cause of Religion in various ways. From 1847 to 1850, Mr. Stockton resi ded in Cincinnati, and declined the President ship of Miami University, Ohio, an institution endowed by the State, to which he had been unanimously elected. From 18b0 to 1856, again resided in Baltimore—chiefly at St. John's. In 1856, Mr. Stockton returned to Phi ladelphia, where he preached regularly, except when engaged, at 'Washington, in the discharge of his duties as Chaplain to the House. Out of eleven children, six are left to Mr. Stockton and wife: It may be proper to add that all of Mr. Stockton's labors, unceas ing as they have been, were promoted under the depressing circumstance of ill-health. It is as a Preacher that he is best known. His Sermons for the People," published in 1854, * poem: With Autoldograthic and other Noise. (il lustrated by Harley, Hoppin, and others.) By T. H. Stockton, Chaplain to Con& rese. 12n20, pp. 221. Phila. 4etphin. have gone through fire editions. But, tho roughly to comprehend his power in the pulpit, it is necessary to hear him preach. Ile is ono of the finest natural pulpit-orators we ever heard—and we have listened to the most emi nent. The volume of Poems, now given to the world by Er. Stockton, will insure him a high reputation. Two-thirds are in blank verse, under the head of " Rythm "—the remainder is in cc Rhyme." To our taste, the blank verse is far the best_ Indeed, nest to Cowper and Wordsworth, no modern poet exhibits so much command over the difti- CtlitiVS of this description of poetry. In nu merous instances, even when Tennyson has held the pen, instead of blank verse, the rea der has to put up with a sort o f measured prose—which, however printed, is a sorry substitute for poetry. To illustrate this, take the following : " Sir Walter Vivian all a sum mers day gave his broad lawns until the set of sun up to the people : thither flocked at noon his tenants, wife, and child, and thither half the neighboring borough with their Institute, of which he was the patron. I was there from college, visiting the son—the son a Walter, too—with others of our set, five others: we were seven at Vivian-place.” Or, take this description of the above-named Sir Walter: "No lily-banded Baronet he, a great broad shouldered genial Englishman, a lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep?' a raiser of huge melons and of pine, a• patron of some thirty charities, a pamphleteer on guano and on grain, a quarter-sessions chair man, abler none ; fair-haired and redder than a windy morn." These titlotation.§, the most prosaic prose, are printed as blank verse, (very !) the first commencing the prologue to TennyßOn'S famous poem, (i The Prineess, 7 ) and the second forming part of the conclusion of the same. Not so wrote Milton and Young, Aken44 and Thomson, Cowper and Southey— above all, not so wrote Wordsworth, and not so writes Stockton. lie is master of rythm, and If we print his blank verse as prose, it atilt - will read like the high-toned poetry it is. De has lived poetry—as so he writes it. The poetic faculty is strong in his family—his sister, the late Mrs. EFMIN was a poet, and so is his younger brother, John Drean Stockton. Faith and Sight : or, the Spirit-World and Sense-World," which commenceg Mr. Stockton's volume, is but a portion of a longer poem. The first part treats of the Divine go- Vei•Miient of the world—this is the ilieory—and the second, shows as the example, Abraham, friend of God, and father of the faithful. We Shall give a eon* of brief (potations from this. Here is the poet's conception of a sinless world : Bad not the gentle rice inclined her ears Touched with strange mueie, to the tempter's vole.? And had not Adam, fondly, husband-like, For weal or woe, his fair companion's fate Embraced, in luTe—though net the less in 6112 ; And bad their hallowed nature, never lost, Supremely ruled in all their rising train Of sons and daughters—as their eril, now , Then, in the universal reign of peace. The earth had beret known a curse, and man, With daily blessings, thick as sunbeams. polled In rich diffusion round him, had gone forth, Without a fear, to walk the world in joy. Then, haply, had the even balanced sphere Resolved in entik se Spring; and Eden still Beheld her Rowers in fadeless beauty fresh, And all her varied charms, of bloom or life, In rapid transit spread through every land; Till, from the rising to the setting sus, Earth had become one boundless Paradise; And eaintli nation, from the Trees of Lift, Waving their healthful boughs by every stream, Had pluck'd the fruit of immortality. Vision had then been harmless; sensual bliss Rightly restrain'd by nature, taught of God, With bonds that none had broken, none deplored, Had been the spirit's free inheritance : The bodily organs, perfect in their kind, Unerring ill Dertertiom all aglow With instant sympathies. had been allied To perfect objects, thronging heaven and earth: And the whole mall, among the works divine, Had seenid allying harp, so tenderly tuned, ihaVeTery breath, of power to-till a leaf, Tranced him with self enchanting harmony. The description of the Land of Promise is still more poetical : A goodly land—where countless water-brooks From valley depths and fountains welling up, And springing down from rocky hills sublime, Flow'd freilhil on. A land in moon rich With golden wheat reposing ripe and fully And earlier barley waved by vernal airs ; Where cloud-like Time luxuriantly drooped With clusters greater than a man could: bear; And shadowing fig-trees shower'd delicious fruit; While cool pomegranate, dusted with juicy seed ; And olive groves, distilling softest oil: And honey, sweetening all the balmy cliffs Enhanced the common festival; a land Not only thus with bounteous growth supplied Of varied food, but stored with means of art-- Where iron vein'd the stones, and rugged slopes Struck by a spear disclosed 'their copper hoards. The poem which has as Snow " for its sub ject views it under various aspects—in the country, amid the hills, in the farm. * in the city, and at sea—each change suggesting re ligious thought. In ""Man," too, we see the poet's life-long reverence for Nature, and "May in the Woods " is as exquisite an idyl as ever mind has yet produced. It is a suc cession of rural scenes, the locality, we sus pect, being the Eastern Shore of Maryland, traversed on horseback in the early summer. It exhibits the closest observation of natural objects, and, indeed, this composition alone would justify our calling Mr. Stockton the Millais of poetry. Here, from the opening, are a few lines,. which show the accuracy o f his observation, the truth of his touch: tn af es t 7ti o ie7weuld fall ; It was a close and cloudy And all the leaves on all tho branches hung, Au though with very And every tree appear'd to-bow its Lead In utmost awe; and all. the forest join'd In mute, imploring homage for a ahmi-er But onward weed the providential rain To answer greater need. And soon the grove, Befrosh'd leafy draughts unseen, but full, Drawurrom the moisten'd air; and briskly stinAl By their old partners in delight, the *lnds, Shook every limb and rustled every twig, Thankful that while their w•iehea were denied Their wants were granted; casting grief away And Wailing wide with universal joy Near to theroad side, little yellow cups Sprinkled the humid verdure; and, beyond, Tall, branchless stalks of cluster'd blue-bells rose, Showing the hue of heaven, and pointing there ; While, blending rose and lily, all around Wild honey-suckles the ground with bloom , And over these, half-reaching to the height Of venerable, all•Drotecting oaks, The taper dogwood's fragrant blossoms spreatl ; Cheering the green obscure with pyramids Of snowy beauty ; loveliest when the sun Broke from the clouds, and through the open roof, High waving and transparent, Quivering sent, Pure as the spotless flowers, ide gulden rays Other noticeable poems here (some of them well known) arc The Duel (Graves and Gil ley, February, 1838) ; Melting the Ice ; Sym pathies, on the death of Henry Clay; Sound of the Midnight Train; Thanksgiving for the Bible; The Pleasant Surprise, a delightful home-sketch; The Genius of Poetry; Ge nius; and, perhaps the very finest in the whole collection, a picture in words entitled Washington at Prayer. On another occasion, when the pressure of public intelligence abates, so as again to leave us a little space, we shall notice the rhymed portion of Mr. Stockton% efrustons. Our opinion of his poetical talent is high, indeed, when we repeat that Cowper Might have been proud to own a great deal of what he has writ ten ; and, like__ Cowper, he is essentially a Christian poet. The volume is illustrated with several wood cuts—some of them engraved, w•e believe, by Mr. Stockton's son. The Magazines. THE CONTINENTAL MAGAZINE.—The first IlUM ber of this monthly, edited by Charles G. Leland, a Philadelphian, of much learning, ability, and popularity, is this day published. It is very good —for a first number. Among its purely literary contents, the most striking, albeit the conduct of the hero is studded with nearly impossible incon sistencies, is the commencement of a story called "The Actress-Wife." The anecdotes of the Ed wards Family, and the description of the Grave yard at Princeton, are also good, in a different vein; and the sketch of Southern Life, entitled t" Among - the Pines," contrasts vividly with a posthumous account of the Green Corn Dance, (an Indian affair,) by J. IL Payne, author of "Sweat Home." Of the poetry, the best is a lively In goldsby-ish effusion, called "Rosin the Bow," founded on an incident in the orchestra of the Adel phi Theatre, related in one of Charles Reade's sto ries. Very striking is the account of the Slave Trade in .New York. Among the politioal articles, (there are several, but, fortunately, none of them long,) - is The Situation, a comprehensive and 091atiODAO4 Tioll of thine IQ divan in tki§ count; now. The Continental, we may add, is out-and out anti-51arery. The Editor's Table is an agreea ble melange. The ballast, in the present number, is a dissertation on Transcendentalism in general, and Ralph Waldo Emerson in particular, occupy ing fourteen mortal pg i tgs, ood boovy 0000gh sink a seventy-four. It is terribly diffuse an gene rally obscure, as well as wordy. realizing the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics, viz : " When the MOD who writes is not understood by those who read him. and when he does not ken his ain mean ing—that's meetaphisicks." We hope this awfu eulogy upon Emerson is the last ; as well 'lathe first Contribution to this periodical. T. B. Peterson 4.t. Brothers are agentg for the Halo of the Conrinenad Monthly in Philadelphia. THE KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE.—The Janu barmy d num n be h r as , co s m om m e en r c a in cy g v a o rt lu ic ie le e t_ s9 a , m h o as nit co w m h e ic t h o are a lively seketeh called Our Experience in House cleaning, The Haunted Mks°, and Jules Janin. A pleasant paper on Spectacles concludes with some very bad advise to ht.iii-sishtea people : to "wear glasses only to see, never to read with." On the contrary, we say to the near-sighted, " wear glasses at all times, to read with as well as to see," for the ers get weakened by occasionally dis- pensing with the glasses. The commencement of a series of papers by Charles Leland, called Sunshines in Thought, will mark an era, we pre dict, in the history of this magazine. The Editor's Table is very good this month. The paper on which this Magazine is now printed is so thin that the printing on one side is saes thiptiiiita on the other. THE REBELLION. GENERAL SCOTTO LETTER ON THE TRENT LEPATO. LATE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Gen. Floyd's Army Ordered to Bowling Green. FIFTY THOUSAND UNION MEN IN TANNV4*§ZE, MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. Interesting from Fortress Monroe. PAI7LENER on TO RICHMOND AT LAST. CAPTI - RE Of A PRIZE SCHOONER Our Troops in Full Possession of Beaufort. LARGE QUANTITTFR OF COTTON MIRO SEIZED IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. THE MEXICANS BESIEGING THE TO_V i or ma. - rAkonos, &c., -&e. THE DIFFICULTY WITH ENGLAND. General Scott's Letter on ;lig American biitivaity; MY DEAR Sin : You were right in doubting the declaration imputed to me—to wit : that the Cabi net at Washington had given orders tv niz t , mem Mason and Slidell even under a neutral nag; for I was not even aware that the Government had bad that point under consideration. At the time of my leaving New York It was not known that the Nan .Theanto had returned to the American seas, and it was generally supposed those persons had escaped to Cuba for the purpose of re-embark ing in the Nashville, in pursuit of which vessel the , raffif6 Mgcr and other =inn had been despatched. I think I can satisfy you in a few words that yen have no serious occasion to feel concerned about our relations with England, if, as her rulers pro fess, she has pp digpontion to encourage the dieme sions in America. Ili'the first place, it is almost superfluous to say to you that every instinct of prudence as well as of good neighborhood prompts our Government to re gard nu benOrablO sacrifice too great for the pre. serration of the friendship of Great Britain. This must be obvious to all the world. At no period of our history has her friendship been of more im portance to our people—at no period has our Go vert,n,ent Lee. In a ....didon to make greater con cessions to preserve it. The two nations are united by interests and sympatbies—commercial, social, political, and religions—almost as the two arms to One body, and DO one is so ignorant as not to know that what banns one must harm the other in a cor responding degree. I am persuaded that the British Government can entertain no doubt upon this point; bgt if ft dm', I fed that I may take it upon myself to say that the President of the United States, when made aware of its existence, will lose no opportunity of dispelling it. Nor is there any thing, I venture to affirtn, in the seizure of these rebel emissaries which ought to re ceive an unfriendly construction from England. Het statesmen will not question the legal right of an American vessel-of-war to search any ounimer eiel TOPS justly suspected of transporting contra. band of war. That right has never been surrendered by England; it was even guaranteed to her by the Treaty of Paris; and British guns, frowning down upon nearly every strait and inland sea upon the globe, are condi...salve evidence that she regards this right as one the efficacy of which may be not yet entirely extinguished. Of course , there is much that is irritating mid vexatious in the ex ercise of this right under the Moat favorable cir cumstances; and it is to be hoped the day is not far distant when the maritime States of the world will ree in placing neutral commerce beyond the reach agree of such Texati9ll4. the United States Government his been striving to this end for more than fifty years; to this end, early in the present century, and in its infancy as a nation, it embarked in a war with the greatest naval Power in the world ; and it is even now a persistent suitor at every maritime court in Europe for a more liberal recognition of the rights of neutrals than any of the other great maritime nations have yet been disposed to make. But till those rights are Roared by proper interna tional guarantees upon a comprehensive and endu ring basis, of course England cannot complain of an act for which in all its material bearings her own naval history affords such numerous precedents. Whether the captives from the Trent were con traband of war or not, is a question which the two Governments can have no serious difficulty in agree ing upon. If Mr. Seward cannot satisfy Earl Rus sell that they were, I have no doubt Earl Russell will be able to satisfy Mr. Seward that they were not. If they were, as all authorities concur in ad mitting, agents of the rebellion, it will be difficult to, satisfy impartial minds that they were any less contraband than a file of rebel soldiers or a battery of hostile cannon. But, even should there be a difference of opinion upon this point, it is very clear that our Govern ment had sufficient grounds for presuming itself in the right to escape the suspicion of having wanton• ly violated the relations of amity which the two countries profess a desire to preserve and cultivate. The pretence that we ought to have taken the Treat into port. and had her condemned by a prize court, in order to justify our seizure of her passen gers,furnishes a very narrow basis on which to fix a serious controversy between two great nations. Stated in other words, an offence would have been loss if it had been greater. The wrong done to the British flag would have been mitigated if, instead of seizbic , the four rebels, we had seized the ship, detained all her passengers for weeks, and confis cated her cargo. lam not surprised that Captain Wilkes took a different view of his duty, and of what was due to the friendly relations which sub sisted between the two Governments. The re nowned common sense of the English people, I be lieve, will approve of his effort to make the dis charge of a very unpleasant duty as little vexatious as possible to all innocent parties. If, under these circumstances, England should deem it her duty, in the interest of civilization, to insist upon the restoration of the men taken from under the protection of her flag,. it will be from a conviction, without doubt, that the law of nations in regard to the rights of neutrals, which she has taken the leading part in establishing, requires re vision, and with a suitable disposition on her part to establish those rights upon a jest, humane, wrid philosophic basis. Indeed, lam happy to see an intimation in one of the leading metropolitin jour nals! which goes far to justify this inference. Re ferring to the decisions of the English Admiralty Courts now quoted in defence of the seizure of the American rebels on board the Trent, the London TI . WS of the 28th of November says " So far as the authorities go, tho testimony of inter national law-writers is all one way, that a bellige rent war cruiser has the right to stop and visit and search any merchant ship upon the high seas. * If kat it must be remembered that these decisions were given under circumstances very different from those which now occur. Steam ers in those days did not exist, and mail vessels carrying letters wherein all the nations of the world have immediate Interest were unknown. We were fighting for existence, and we did in those days what we should neither do nor allow °them' to. do, nor expect ourselves to be allowed to do, intheso dap." If England ; as we are here encouraged to hope, is disposed to do her part in stripping war of half its honors, by accepting the policy long and per sistently urged upon her by our Government, and commended by every principle of justice and he. Inanity, she will find no ground, in the visit of the Trent, for controversy with our Government. I am sure the President and pee* of the 'United States would be but too happy to let these Jaen go free, unnatural and unpardonable as their offences have been, If by it they could emancipate the commerce of the world. Greatly as it would he to our disadvantage at this present crisis to manila any of those maritime privileges of belligerents which, sanctioned by the laws of nations, I feel that I take no responsibility in saying that the United States will be faithful to her traditional policy upon this subject, and to the spirit of her political insti tutions. On the other band. should England be unpre pared to make a corresponding sacrifice ; should olaq feel that she could UV et affart4 t 9 fiumuctskr TWO CENTS. the advantages which the present maritime code give ton dominant naval Power, of course she will not put herself In a false position by asking us to do it. In either ease, therefore, Ido not see how the friendly relations of the two Governments are in any immediate danger of being disturbed. Thikt the over-prompirecoirliion, ee belligerents, of a body of man, however large, so long as they constituted a manifest minority of the nation, wounded the feelings of my countrymen deeply, I will not affect to deny, nor that that ant, with some of its logical consequences which have already oc curred, has planted in the breasts of many the sus picion that their kindred in England wish them evil rather than good ; but the stgtornon to whom the political interests of these two great people aro con• fided act upon higher responsibilities and with bet ter lights, and you may rest assured that an event so mutually disastrous as a war between England and America cannel et , sus othvv and graver provocation than has yet been given by either nation. WINI'IELD SCOTT. HOTEL WENTMINSTER, Paris, Dec. 2, 1801. TO --! Esq, General Scott's Letter. [From the London Daily News, Dec. 5.] General Scott has not simply contradicted a mis chievous report he has given a deliberate opinion, worthy of his high reputation and of the services he has rendered his country. Ile says : It is ne cessary that the good relations between England and America should be preserved." It is most unlikely Gad ha would, have 6en at the trouble to say this if he had become accustomed to different sentiments and opinions within the circle of the Government which he has just quitted at Wit.shing- OP- "I hope," he continues. - that Earl Russell and Mr. Seward will agree on a solution of the ques tion whether the persons who were arrested on board the Trent were contraband of war or not. If they were agents of the rebels, it will be diffi cult . ewikyloacoviss -1/witai--misatiarikar - were less contraband of war than rebel soldiers or cannons." • The veteran dismisses law like a sol dier, and evidently has no taste for the precedents Of Hautefeuille or Philimore. But although the matter cannot be disposed!of exactly as the General imagines, we may confidently say that, if the Wash ington Government is prepared to treat the affair of the Trent in the candid and straightforward spirit (Atte most illustrious Meer, it ought not to be dith.• cult to arrive at a result which shall spare us a war from which we instinctively recoil, deliver us from the horrible necessity of subserving the slave cause, which we abominate, and enable the two atiiiisiEt meats to settle the law of the sea on a basis more in accordance with the needs of the extended com mercial intercourse of our times. This would be a better is of the Trent 'Repute than the bout list of ships burnt, sunk. and destroyed, and at present we see no reason to despair of such an agreement, NEWS FROM THE SOUTH, Rebel Accounts of the Situation in Ken tucky. tottitte.sm itosßoE, Dec. lb.--By the flag of truce ate have the Richmond Examiner of this morning. We extract the following news szur.u.a..-E I Tenn., Dec, id, Tin New Orient's, Dec. 17.—The Bowling Green oorrespondent of the Union and American says that the Yankee ad- TriPc9 9ift9l/1 fiye to eis illol/281113 men are fathom river, with some artillery. They have shown no dieposition to cross the river, but they are repair ing, the bridge, Paducah advises represent that Ilmuphrey shall is steadily advancing toward Lexington, Ky., and meeting with little or no opposition. A gentleman who left Paducah on the 11th ingt, statoi that Inc - Funerals had only six thousand there, ten thousand at Cairo and Bird's Point, and seven hundred at Smithland. A despatch from Frankfort, Kentucky, of the 9th pays that Gen. Crittenden was at Cumberland Gap on Saturday, with a large force, and five thousand were at Morristown, and would join him. It Is feared that Crittenden n4ll hiyactu hciatuuhy from thatpoint. Gen. Floyd's army has been ordered to Bowling Green, Kentucky. The removal of this army to the Far West, says the Richmond Dtspatch, leaves a very large portion of Virginia exposed to the enemy. The effect on the temper of the people in the entitled eountiee will he extremely mil toward. The Richmond Examiner of the 16th says : We are assured that resolutions have been introduced into Congress eferiag sympathy to the people of Maryland, and urging such a policy in the conduct of the war as to open the way to her admission into the Confederacy. On Saturday last the 'dustings Court entered an order directing all free negroes to be sold who de not pay their taxes by the January term of the . court. Confederate State bonds- of the fifteen-illion issue are quoted. at 9Sa Fifty Thousand Union Men in Tennessee. The Washington correartscietit of the DieW York Times sap• : I learn from a source in which the utmost confi dence may be reposed, that the rebel cabal at Rich mond are in great alarm because of the dernonatra tions making in Kentucky to push a strong national columns into Tennessee. Jeff. Davis and his asso ciates feel that to be their point of greatest and meat immediate danger. They admit, among thin selTee, that itiore arc 00,000 atrial fighting men 111 East Tennessee, who will rose mad throw off the traitor's yoke the instant that our army penetrates to their locality ; and that once accomplished, all the rebel defames in Virginia. era turned sacl dared useless. The bill just passed by the House, authorizing Kentucky to raise 20,000 , additional vo lunteers for operations in that quarter, should be speedily enacted into illYr fez , the comfort of the rebel chief and his co-conspirators. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. Later from Fortress Monroe, Hatteras, and Port Royal. FORTRESS MONROE, Dec. 18, via Baltimore,— The steamer Grorgiama brought down frees Balti more this morning the Hon. Charles JvFaulkner, released on parole from Fort Warren, Reston: en route for Richmond, where he is confident of being able to exchange himself for the Hon. Mr.•lfly, RepresentatiTe from New York, taken prisoner at 801 Rua. Mr. Faulkner spent the forenoon at Gen. Wool , a headquarters, and was sent by a flag. of truce to Craney island at noon. Captain Alillward, omhia return, brought down Captain J. IL Ricketts,of the First Artillery, who was wounded and taken prisoner at Ball Run. He is released on parole, and will be exchanged, if possible, for Captain J. A. Delagnel. Captain laigketts was serenaded by the band of the Second Artillery, on the wharf, before the boat started for Baltimore, and numbers availed them solvos of the ofportunity to get a look at the Cap tain. Be is still very weak, and suffering from the effect of hie wounds. The tteatner.T. R. Spaulding, Captain S. llovres r which laft Port Royal last Sunday, arrived here-at an early hour this morning. She stopped at Hatte ras, leaving that place yesterday, and bringing a mail and, passengers. Everything iu quiet at E c t * teras, and nothing happens to disturb the monotony except the usual storms. The schooner Charity, Capt. Whito, said. to. be owned by Senator Simmons, of Rho(lo Diad v , at rived at Hatteras on the 15th, with an assorted cargo, including a large proportion of whisky. Sho also took a collector to Hatteras, and on arriving, he procured a building from the commissary, which he proposed using as a custom house. Capt. White's papers were very irregular, how ever, and on tho 17th Capt. Worden of the &ars and Strapes, seized tho schooner as a prize, and has sent hor to Now York. The collector,, captain, and crew of the Charity. arrived here in the Syaxtding to-day. They are very indignant at their treatment. Among, the other passengers from Hatteras is Corendationor John Clark. There is very little news of interest from Port Royal. The United States troops have fully occupied Beaufort. Large quantities of cotton Con tinue to be gathered and brought to the cowl. Importmat from Mexico, BALTIMORE, Dee. B.—The Richmond . papers, received by the Old Point bent, have an no,tonnt an attack on the town of Matamoros by General Carvajal, copied from the Brownsville FLeg of the 21st ult. The General appeared befere thy city an the 15th, and commenced the attack on. the 20th. Great car nage took place, and, at the hour of the Flag's going to press, both partieselaimed to be sueoossiul. The United States Sloop. John Adanis. NEW YORK, Dee. 10.—The United States sloop-. of-war John Adani-c, C)3111. Berrien, about which , there ha& been some anxiety, pascal the straits cf Sunda on the 26th of September. She had sot previeuely been heard from. silk% July, when, die left the coast of Mike.. Arrival of a Prize. Maw YORK, Dec.l9.—The British ship VlA:shire, taken off Savannah as a prize while ottoreptbag to sun the blockade, has arrived, herb. The prize-ship Cheshire was seized by the gun boat Augusta, air Saviunial. t She was from Liver pool, and is leaded with coffee, salt,, and army blankets. The British gunboat Racer, arrived hare, is from Port Royal. She passed, on the 15th, of Hatteras, the United States ships Jamestown and Orlanda, oruising. Tke War Fever in eanadia, The hostile attitude of Great Britain respeolhag the Treut affair Is received with an unaccountable joy in Canada. The people of that province seem to have engirt the war fever laity most virulent form, and fairly ache to save their soil Made the scene of a Woody warfaxe. Xt is remarkable diet the jptarlals most bitter in their attacks upon the "• Tanueca " aro the ministerial—those in the in• terest and pay of the Government---and it is they who all along have keen foremost in this bad work of creating ill-blood toward the national cause among the prejudioed and ignorant people of Upper Canada. The latest Canada papers which have reached us are filled with calls for volunteers to turn out, and militia men to arm and Map, The provinotTh are in a ferment, and, if these ill regulated newspa- pers were to be believed, war would be inevitable and close at' hand. As we have said, the people seem rather to like the prospect, and it is sincerely t 9 44 4cliti that, it a War 11001 aine, tho THE WAR PRESS. TEIR WAR ritREIB will be sent to enbeeribere by mail (ear =RUM In advance) at 91.00 Three Copies " ti +5.00 Five " " 4 $ 8.00 Tez t , u 12.99 Larger Clubs will be charged at the same rate, thus 20 copies will cost $U 60 copies will coat $BO ; rad 100 copies $l2O. Fora Club or Twenty-one or over t we will iwed tat Ritz% Coer to the getter-ay of the Club, rfir Postmasters aro requtbted to act as Agents be Tea Wi.a Pang tants of Upper Canada will have enough of it. Making due allowance for the Mal jealousy whisk hats always prevailed in Canada at the superior prosperity of the American side of the lakes, and to Government influences that are undoubtedly at work, we really cannot account for the passiQß and balm cwpivoued toward this nation in the tour or its great peril and trial. The tt whirligig of time" brings its revenge, and this nation is only at the beginning of its career. Whatever may betide us now, we are ultimately ViCE/SHOlia, and Canada will do well to remember ,t. The Transmission of Soldiers' ray to their Families. In response to a sasolutlon of the Senate, tint Secretary of War has transmitted the following re port of the Paymaster General as to whether any aid, and what aid, is rendered by the pay depart- Iner4 of 419 inlY til enable volunteers to transmit home any part of their pay, And What additional facilities may be extended for that object : PAYMASTER GENERAL'S Onrine., bee. 16, 1861. SIR : I hare the honor to return herewith the i•esolatten or the Senate or the United States, of December 11, 1861, requesting the Secretary of War to communicate to the Senate whether any, and what, aid is rendered by the pay department of the army, to enable volunteers to tros.a.,,lt home any part of their pay, anti what additional facilities may be extended for that object, and to report thereon as follows: By a general order from the War Department, Adjutant' ( 1 049V01's °Mee, dated September 13, 1801, a system of allotment rolls was adopted, to be used by the s•oluateers for the purpose of transmit ting portions of their pay to their hornet, free Of Mena° to them, This system. if faithfully car ried out, Will, it is believed ; afford all the faeilities required. A copy of the general order, No. Si, current se ries, is herewith eneloged,,e4ibigps ibe plan • ..Wrong-gloomearawiaspilawsperria WOW' strenlion is respectfully called. Budse_mjsersg lairds sutler ban a prim" Midst on the pay of the men before the allotment, and this often sweeps off a portion or all of the share sllawad l the soldier for the use of his family. A soldier makes his allot ment on entering the service, and before contract ing a debt to the sutler; and the money so maligned ought not to be OWN to be diverted from the %I/amenity proper purpose for which it is intended. to satisfy the claims of sutlers, especially when these latter are so notoriously exorbitant and unjust. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Peer. P. la A.III , ED, Paymaster General United States Army. To Hon. SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War. For The 'Pross.] Mammal Freedom, Union, And Urea* Washington, BY REV. WILLIAM nAnNs, Let Freedom, from her God•built tower. Her loittlekt elation Lion , And, urged by Ileav'n's eternal power, To farther conquests go. Unfurl her banner to the skies Let foreign nations know That freedom is the highest prize Columbia can bestow. Her principles_ of mighty fame, Our independence spread, And bade them blaze, in sun-bright flame, , Around each freeman's head ; The ticep•toued thunder of her voice Rolled loud hosannas round, Where haste. of freemen now rejoice To raise the heartfelt sound. me/ cur forflimcsi "'Union" stand ; To bid our eagle soar Above this blest and happy land Till time shall be no more. Let sovereign States, by proper laws, Fask 611.65'.4 it a ht3 And glory in Columbia's cause, Where Freedom's sons shall reign. Then, should a dark and daring foe Oar peaceful rights Invade, His blood in torrents soon would flow On Freedom's reeking blade. Though hosts of tyrants might combine To tear our standard down, The Stars and Stripes would brightly satinet Above their darkest frown. Should foreign hosts, with trumpete loud, Blow the red storm of war. And blood-stain'd despots, grimly proud, ' Ride in their crimson car ; Their triumphs, black as midnight storms, Would swiftly pass away, A n d all tbal Oda" their gliestly Orme Die with their lifeless olay. Rut Freedom', still with glory erownl. Her star-deek'd head would raise, And mallow", olreling nil around, Would sound her highest praise. The honors of her deathless name, While rolling ages run, Shall wreathe, with erer.during fame. Columbia's favorite son. He stood on victory's hard-fought field, Amidst his Spartan bandy And made earth's proudest edition yield To Freedom's loud command. Old England's Lion trembling stood As our grand Eagle rose, When Washington, the great and good, Had oonquer'd foreign few. His fume shall float, on whirlwind's wing, From cloud-capp'd mountains. high, And make the distant valleys ring Beneath the blue-arched sky. Nis eterry Vesper stilt shall 71170 - Ter liver, sea, and shore, Till Freedom ransoms every slaver, And tyrants reign no more. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. THE MONEY MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, December 19, 18111. A better feeling prevailed to-day, bottuat the Stock Board and in the Money Market. Peuusylvagla knd sold at 77, and City sizes at Si for the new iSSUeS. Pena. sylvania Railroad stock declined to 37, and the second mortgage bonds sold at 84. North Pennsylvania shares sold at 5, and the six-per-cent. bonds at 553 Cate wissa preferred sold at 4K, Reading at 18g. At the Second Board there was very little done, and prices did not change. It will be seen,. by our telegraphic despatches, that Secretary Chase, who id in ?fdlY 13 eenanitition with the Dank ollicersrempects deciaire military. results to be achieved within thirty days, and that the Trent affair will be amicably adjusted. The amount of specie shined by the Itirt . fel three hundred thousand dollars)- le much lees titan was ea. peeled. The New York Erening.Pasi ofto-day says: A more hopeful feeling. pervades the §tock Emittange to-day. The - violence or the - fall yesterday memo to have placed the market in a pssition to respond-to the slight est favorable inkling from Washington, relative to the issue which must take plate there before the Africa is allowed to proceed to Europe. The tone of th e earktt, Lowever, though greatly better Shea yesterday, to mill feverish and uncertain, prices of the speculative etockca being irregular and fluctuating at the anyance. The rebound from the lowest points of yesterday is equal to lelh• per cent. ,liew York Central rose to 7t3if • Pacific Stall to itilk aftuatna to 107 g , Illehigett Central to 43k, and other stocks in a corresponding de gree. Bolted States sixes of 1984 were weak at 850.8.; for the registered, and 119.690 for the coopeue t Other &actg. lions were withont mach alteration. s i There is less flurry in the money market to-day, though we see little or no relaxation in the rate,which.ie fully seven per cent. on first-class collaterals. Exchange on London remains eery firm at 110,1i6+111, fin 4 there are hilt (mew' two bankers who ere willing to draw at 1103, and then only for odd balances. The leading bankers Hell very cautioursty at 111. The banks are paying into the Sub-Treasnry the $3,500,000 called for yesterday on the forty millions due of the new funded dock. Ms. Chases yeatst l / 4 10 , agreed with the banks to reimburse the $42,000,000 due-them on account of public sales of the 7.30 notes, part.in gold and part in treasury notes. The terms of pat bribe above can, we understand, have been further modified by 31r. Chase tltla merahig, he permitting ille use. ;,d past-At m- treasury notes (loot two year notes) as well as demand notes and gold. 7he National Bunk Note Company has forwarded to Washington about ten millions of the registered certlfi. rates of the 6 per cent. stock.. Tho American Bank Note Vompsny has fs , rWilided in ell.thirtY , firc millions of ae. mend treasury notes, and a large amount of the 0 ..tober 1 7.30 per cent. notes. Philadelphia Stook Exchange Sales, December 10,1831. RICPORTSD 1111 S. E. SUeginno., PhiladelVota Exchange FIRST BOARD. 50 Beading It, . cash 16.L51 128 Lehi 5h..7.:. 1 420; 05...100 25 do cash 16 '- 500 do 100 25 do bswn 13 .-; ki 500 d 0,.., „„„ „leo 50 d 0.... .. .. • ~ 15,ti 2000 Anna, its 71 15 Camay 11 pref.... 4,4 2000 do 77 10 Spr ,t: Pine R.1)5 8A( 4000 Penne-II 2dm ..,c 84 20 Lehigh Viii R... 31 I 900 City Sa, es 5 Corn Etch Bk.. 20, 5 Pettna. R. _. „ 27 2 Illiii,ehill It 47 4 titc, ... .. sr 5 < do . 47 10 d 0....... 37 10 do 47. ' 10 ito 37 20 N.Yeinia It 5 C. Moidatilies 8k... 20 hto N icons it tis... 5:44 BETWEEN 130k3itiE. 1000.3 e u 1 66 '11....., . 02 1600 Clio: 6., DOW C&l' 87 SECOND BOARD. 77 I 282:423 Penna 5s 77. ,700• City 6s new C ..1: 1 , 87 "Olni do 87. IRS VIRAL 1063 Penns 5s 100 a 77 t ) dor ~ ~ 1,1 77 6b081140 P Bid. Ask. Phile.l3B 81s 832 T. 111114 Os A 51x 83X Phila 8a new_ 87 81'14 Pennaie, 77 77 ' Readingß..- 16u' 1c 36 Beading 834'70 81 82 /Pdg M Os 'Bo'4B 92yp Seal M. so Ise.. 7944 7.c1 ; v . 1 Penns LI 86, 1 4 S, Pene.a 24 m !lorele Pre1.107).4 109 N dot, 14... WU.. 44 ' da Ea Nay Imp 86 .. 74 Sob Nay Stock. 2 5 SchNitv Pref.,. 9 11 Bid. Ask. Elmira R Pref. 9 934 Nlx.tra 7e '78... .. 66 Long Island Oji 101 Leh Cl de Nay.. 43. - 48g Lek 01 & N Scrp 63. 83g N Penna R..... .14,.‘ 6 , N Penne R 6e.. 53 56 N PAiina 10e , Prkfd & Sonthß 67 39 31 Bt act eta a.. 3; 47;1. , W Plate, hi re Spruce & FM.. Bk , 188, Green & Goatee .. 16x . Ckest t Walnut 30 .. Philadelphia Mwiteu. There is no change in the Flour market, and secy. tie demand either POr export or home one j saluaineltule.. about i,ioe bbls at t 4 .4.25a4.0: , f0r superfine , the former for common WeMern ; $5.75 for extre4—part Leripalder. county—and N. for extra iltudlY ;. the sales to the trade are moderate, within the scane, Conga of prices f5l . super- Ann and table, and gt1.2540.7.11r1th1f0r filmy khkitdd,. to odity. .2Po Flour la soiling:OA a small w.ao; WA" bbl. Corn Meal is BC4reft, ata Penunlvaas is wanted. at $3 411' aniipwimiNday, llitYsra me hating en - , but AlaOlit 10,001 bus Rohl at 1070)125c, Musing at tbol latter rate Tor prime reds, M store and aced white is quiet at ]46®160,1, the Miler for prime Southern. Rya is' Want , t lilllos stl,Bol l tt st 10e for interior, Hitt 'Me. 4jr bus far good Pennnylvatiin. Corn conies in slowly. and new yellow meets with ready sal e at tamaoc, as to condition. A. sale of old yellow was made at BSc, and 2,000 bus damaged white at 50'. Oats are unchanged about 4,000 bus Pennsylvania sold at 40e, in store. Bar ley is scarce, and wanted at fOc. BAan.—There is nothing doing': first No 1 Quereitron is offered at SW 4IY ton. COTTON.—The market is very quiet, tke firmness of hi/Idris liniillsE 9Prnti9nti. 1:500551ES .5:c13 PrroxisioNs.--There is no change in either, and a limited business doing in the way of sales. SREDS.—The marl:et Is very quiet, and the price of clover nominal at $4.02,4 a 4.75 V bus. 1: inset is in steady demand; Z.OO pkas sold at . 200.2d.c. anddrUdge at 19%6 1 20e ? DECIX/3ER 151-EVE.I4AS
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