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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