THE PRESS. DUBLISDND DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXOEPTED.) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. OFFICE NO. 417 OWESTNIIT STREET_ THE DAILY PRESS, KLYE CENTS rim WERE, payable to the Carrier. landedto Subscribers out of the City at Sit rotaann R ANNUM, FOUR DoLtans FOR Rion: MONTHS, THRZII CILLAIU3 FOR SIX Dicomis—inyariably in advance for me ordered. THE TRIWEEKLY PRESS, Mailed to Subscribers out Or ;110 OM at VIRZI DOL. AIIS PER ANNUM, in advance. HOLIDAY GOODS GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS! A choirs and gariod asaortmant of artists& snits/ to the coming season. which have lawn seises' with much care front the latest importations, comprising: WRITING AND FOLK' DESKS. WORK, GLOVE, JEWEL, AND DIX6BIiG BOXES, CABAS, PORTE-MIA HAM, CARD CASNS, WATCH STAN Its, THER3IOM NT ERS, PARIAH, GLASS, LAVA, AND CHINA ARTICLES, VANS IN CRAPE, SILK, AND LINEN, DOLLS, Speaking, Sleeping, Model, China, Wax, and Patent. DOLLS' SHOES, HOSE, MITT 5, cAnas, JEWELRY, PARASOLS, AND RATTLES. DOLLS' FURNITURE IN EVitRY VARIETY 'MEAT LIES. STABLES. SOLDIER EQUIPHENT3. PANORAMAS, BOX AND BELLOWS TOYS. Ormattirmia far OhriaHxeec Trrra, Plii4e.+, Mills, 15.1.4 PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES HERBARIUMS, SCRAP AND TOY BOOKS. .I!.!MT!!MWMPri!'s- ENGLISH BOWS AND CRICKET BATS BASE BALLS, Lc. &c. Ail the above articles can be had, at Reduced Prices, at 3IARTIN & QUAYLE'S Stationery. Toy, and Palley Gooch EmPolinm, .1.153.5 WALNUT STREET, 1L.1.-..- Rh.v....th, PRILADELPIIIA, H. OLIDAY BOOKS OF OUR OW 14 , BLICATION.-13efore buring elee.ikkere, call and examine our E plentild new Fielldny Books. I. ED litiLDS, THE HOLY; rose [hated paper, and vignette eugraving. 11. 'FRUITS AND LOW kill OF PALESTINE. CItY OP Ttne. GI-CEA 1 KING. V. PALESTINE, PAST AND PRESENT. T. SEELETON HONK. Also, Juvenile Books, Photographs, Albums, ac., &c. JAME:. CIIALL KN 6. SON, Publialtara, Itaoltsollsra, 110 AtatioileeN, 1308 011 EST NUT street. HOLIDAY GOOFS FOR HOLI., DAY PRESENTS. What - would mal:e ,tmom usoful present thus. A HANDSOME DRESS, A HANDSOME siftwt, or HANDSOME CLOAK? Just received from New York, a large assortment of New Cootie, mania for HOLIDAY PRESENTS. 1 LOT MOIRE ANTIQUES, at 50c., An enormous loss to the importer. Beautiful Fancy Silks for the H..lidays. 1 lot lutnelcomo I:clva Flounced Rube., nt leAs thou -Am cost of importation. 1 lot double-width Printed Cashmeres 37X c., never before sold lees than 50c. CHOICE DRESS•GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Nmnest and most duffle/m.14« style.. of' CLOAKS AND - SACQUES. 300 pieces Merrimack and English Chintzes at 123 e., worth 13x c. in first bands. EAP BLANKETS AND FLANNELS. Neiv Fancy Ciniaimarea and Rich Velvet Yeatino at Vow rrfces, H. riTtibb dr ants de/0 No. 713 North TENTH Street. above goatee. USEFUL .21. ND AB.CEPTABLE 'HOLIDAY PRESENT, •U well Inacic ts,Rci tutilT-fial§bo UMBRELLA. 'For aala by WM. A. DROWN & CO., 246 XARKET STREET. Gel4-12t .CHRISTDIA.b AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS. We have just received a moat splendid assortment of GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, of all kinds, suitable for LADIES, GENTLEMEN, or BOYS' WEAR. 41. a, a tar- v and heasstlfsgl sussortmene of new sod fash ionable JEWELRY, GOLD OlitAlNd, PENCILS, with a complete assortment of SILVER WARE, such ns KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS, NAPKIN RINGS, CUPS, Sc.. besides a great variety of FANCY ii.ILVE suitable for Holiday or Bridal Presents. Also, on hand a moat beautiful a.sortrnent of SITIVIER PLATED TEA bliTel C/OTNIAS' (AAA. tiiiiWrai dC.i all otwlticli MAIN No see be purchased. in-ttda moir.Old Gold, Slicer, or Jewelry taken in exchange. LEWIS LADOMUS So Co., del4-12t 130:6 ITHIGiTg UT &root. ita HOLIDAY P KES ENTS ! lic new glitr % Pm and tft' 4 utVid 9 9 '94 of GOLD MCP Ofit'ffili WA TtiiilG -, , FINE BOLD JEWELRY, SILVER WARE, AND SILVER-Po.A TEO WARE, Selected expressly for 110 LIDA V PRESENTS. All pada warranted * to be as represented. TAU/TER ce fIARLIIT, delB-12t 622 'MARKEL' Street, Philadelphia. HOLIDAY PRES ANTS. ETEUSCA:s7, CORAL, sad 13TAVIYARD STUBS WAYst -r..4 a general ws sortpent of rich and tasteful articlee, duitablo for HOLI DAY PLESENTS. A call implies no obligation to purchase All goods warranted as represented G. RI_TSSELL, 22 NORTH SIXTH ISTRIERT. 11OLIDAY CON MOTION ER Y. TUE fIiCEBT QVAL/Tir OF CON 14'ECTIt /N IN GREAT VARIETY, Prepared expressly for the 10/1.1111 - 3TNI AN HcY 1.1 - D AYS FROM THE PUREST MATERIALS. At Wholesale and Retail, by J. J. RI( .11-1 A R DSO N i 1.26 111217.1iFir fiTIVBST. P. S.—A fine assortment of Milts constantly on band. d9-G24 GENTILEAIEN'S WitA_PPERS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. The 1;on. of R_ CL WALBORN NOS. 15 and 7 Nunn > X II Street, Now presents a PRINCELY STOCK or the,* graceful and comfortable articles of apparel for Gentlemen. LADIES SLIOPPI.NG FOR PRESENTS Should bear this in mind. They have them in every style of material, and AT ALL PRICES. Their st,ck of PURNISMING GOoDS, also, corn priest. /navy neat and suitable articles as rIiESE NTS FOE GENTLE ITEN, de13.12t H OLIDAY CONFECTION E HY. Fine French and Piaiti COIQFF.Q'4'iI)K►; rcutrault fIZID LIVOIFiaTIU FIiIJIT3. Atso, FANCY BOXES AND OTHER ARTICLES Suiteble for CHRISTMAS PR ESE ITS. W. A. MOM AP.7I/Efie 124 ARM' Street, de14424 HOLIDAY GIFTS. P.BIUEB TO SUIT TIIII TIMES, AT CLARK'S $l. STORE, 601.1 QUEST:Kir STREET, SILVER-PLATED WARE, JEWELRY and FANCY GOODS, in Mat ifiriety, New And beintiful etiles civet' daily, and sold much below the usual prices. CLARK'S bTORE, doS.lm 602 CHESTNUT STREET. uSF4FUL PRESENTS FOR THE sEmioff. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS IN EVE -Y vA utET f, CAMS WYI3ITE FuliTli& NAME • - • • • STEREOSCOPES, MAGIC LANTERNS, PICTURES OF THE REBELLION FOR THE MA GIC LANTERN, MATHEMATICAL DRAWING INSTRUMENTS, AIR PUMPS, ELECTRI CAL MACHINES, BIAGNF,TS, 0,/FENE 4LAdelbs, Eit . NuTAGLEN EYE GLASSES, tamiuduorss, And Every article in the Mathematical and Optical line. For gale at Reasonable Prices % by JAMES W. QUEEN & CO., del4-4t 924 CR EsTNIIT Street. T_TANGING: VASES, Ornamental Flowsr Pots. Parlor Vases for Growing Flowers. Baskets for Jardiniers. Pedestals with Vase for Flowers. Anthills Vat= for Mantels. Vases Itedaissance for Parlor. Rustic awl Terra Cotta Vases. Lava Flower Pots and Vases. Garden Valais and Pedestals. Bracket& for Busts and 'figures, With a great Variety of articles suitable for Christ mas prersonts, for sale retail and to the trade. Wareroonis 1010 CHESTNUT btreet, Philadelphia. dc-Il S. A.. HA RItIfiGN, H AMPTON'S SPLENDID LEHIGH 1-1- NUT. Hampton's splendid Stove Coal. Rampton'a Eiplerdid Ecz end ifitrtl t southeast corner FRONT and POPLAR. 1116.12t* I=Z! del-t25-1y SOLID GOLD JEWELRY s . •.. - - %\\l .1 I /// -,_.,... 1 • •o r ve., , t , • ."‘,.• "\.,. \\ ,--,-% . , //,, .." .. , . , • - .. -,. :-. 4 ' , ..•-=•- , - --.- z _. ,‘;;' ' l'l ' i l , I , ift• ,ae-f' I . f ,-___ , -... ',--,-; ~.--y .- .-:,-- rt*,•„.i+4- 4 . (--_,.. 4.6- .4,,,i.h. ,_ :.,_.:.,,....„.:,....,_...... 11,....„_.„.....•0.„_,.....„---itt -;-_-.....t..,_,-:::!........ t .b.ir- It . . re' ::. -- -., ........N. , ::,... • ,--:- , 25...i...._. 0,, _... ~ : -:_-:,.',.,. :: V _ ~. " . ~- .•.._ t . ~ 5 _..,iz ,__ ~. , w . ...:... 7 , . ~.:(_,___„_..; __, , ~'...T 4' _,,____4 . "_ . . • . ,7 . ..: 3 : 1 r. '':; .. .. 4. -e , • w :*:. -.,., 'i ".,-,.,.... . :",1-_.7, ~'f• , •, : . i,l 2 , w' . I_:, , ':T- '- .' !.,- . ' T. _ .:. • 'c .:: ,;...:.,...W.7. •:".. ---'- ".: . ''..._-';,''.i.. , -. :.„.;-..--.•:,_4-' - I - :_ -t " - :4 • , "v I L •. I i : i 1: 1 . , ; , •, ( ._,.•- . I t 'o .- - 61.- • ... ' . 7 2.4..-1. _ --•" • ._ ; . - . . - ". :1 . : I',l -,:1.T :' "' -,•, • ' - . \ , ,L • -2 0 ,r . , . r, . 1 ,f0-- r i l '.,:,- ' . ' k ' ' . . . .'_ ,'l? ., l y _.?•4_ . `:- . _,_' -:- ._.:,-:',„. ~.-T•- : . '' .7 ._ . • -:7-7--....,;-1,.. . „4..:‘ :•0 4- - .-7:-.-.4-„.'. • -..• 7... '±..k.•7, t; =_.?._.:. - -> ------,• "-_--__l- .••._4•. ,‘— I _ . '1,.1 11 ' 1411 - • • ,rl L, - .. ..- . a ____,_ t14:00,.:i_,:0 — , T- -- -1 ~1" ,a. , __ —._ .. ,• -_• ___l (~, VOL. 5.-NO. 120. HOLIDAY GOODS. FOR PRESENTS. MEERSCHAUM PIPES, GOLD MOUNTED. MEERSCHAUM PIPES, SILVER MOUNTED. MEERSCHAUM PIPER, AMBER STEMS. MEERSCHAUM PIPES, CHERRY STEMS. MRltkaatienst Press, PA - ragt SramA. Itimesou.sum PirES, WITHOUT STBME. All warranted genuine and first quality ALSO, Pitti# Itdar Ptorg, eittrar, tfrieg. FRIAR RooT PIPES, SILERR CAPPED. BRIAR RUOT PIPES, PLAIN BOWLS. BRIAR RUoT PITHS, ALTER STEMS, IN CASES BRIAR ROOT PIPES, CHERRY STEIN. BRIAN ROUT PIPES, PATENT STEMS. ALSO, • INDIA BUDDER PIPES AND STEMS? . . A New Article. SILK, BLADDER, INDIA RUBBER, AND LEITIIER TO- yrAcco Pirs CLEANERS, CIGAR TVBES, CIGAR CASES. In groat variety B, d; G. A. WRIGHT, 624 CHESTNUT STREET FOR THE HOLIDAYS! GENTS' FL•RNISDING GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Consisting of DlifiS2ING BODES, SHAWLS, MERINO AND SILK SHIRTS AND DRAWERS, HOSIERY Or EVERY DESCRIPTION', OLvym, STOCKS, TIES, ac., &C. CHARLES OAKFORD & SONS. del9-12t HOLIDAY PREENT3 OF INTRINSIC VALUE. SILVER WARE. WM. WILSON & SON Would invite pedal attention to their very large tie. sortment of •- , PLAIN AND FANCY SILVER WARE, Manufactured by them exclusively for 1-10LIDAY GIFTS. Comprising many new and original designs, of the HIGHUT WTAIWARD OF SILVER. Owing 'to our greatly increased facilities, by the in troduction of new and improved machinery, the public win Mid many styles not to be found at any other estab lishment in the country. IMPORTERS AND DEALERS • IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND AMERICAN - PLATED WARES. S. W. COE. FIFTH AND CHERRY STREETS. delB.dtjal G_OODS FOR ritEs.ENTa— NOW OPESING AT REDUCED PRICES. FRENCH EMBROIDERED HDKFS., SETS, COLLARS, SLEEVES, Sze_ AIso—LADIES', GENTS', and CHILDREN'S Hem stitched and Corded Bordezed TICKFS, with plain and colored borders, ixk new style., and ItDR.Pg. great 'variety. $OO FINE DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS, in a great variety of new and choice pattern& MOO TARES EXTRA lIKA VP and WIDE LINEN SHEETINGS, 250 DOZEN TABLE NAPKINS, from $1.50 to 89 per dozen ALSO, Large assoreanoni of Z.ValtAttsl 9 22l, PIANO AND TABLE COVERS, LACE AND MUSLIN CURTAINS, GOLD-BORDERED SHADES, GILT CORNICES, TASSELS, RANDS, de. UPHOLSTERY and CURTAIN 11),TERI3LS, SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, & .414_ tide , , 0/242 1008 CHESTNUT Street. CH_ItibTMAS AND HOLIDAY PRESENTS: JOHN W. THOMAS, 405. _OM 101 NORTH gECOND lIT_P.P.V.T, Would invite attention to the large and varied assort ment he has now open of Goods suitable for CHIC:MUMS PRESENTS, COMPRISING PLAIN AND FIGURED REPS AND POPLINS, MERINOES, SHAWLS, .. "ii(AND His usual stock of STAPLE AND FURNISHING GOODS, MEN AND BOYS' WEAR, HOSIERY ; GLOVEg,'Itc Persons desirous of presenting their friends with some thing useful and durable will find it to their advantage to cell. de2o-9t H OLIDAY BOOKS H OLIDAY AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS • SELLING AT VERY LOW PRICES. W. PRRRV, WO-1m R.W. Corner FOURTH and RAC'S CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS. CLOAKS I 'MAGNIFICENT FRENCH SILK PLUSH CLOAKS JUST RECEIVED PER LAST STEAMER. FROSTED BEAVER CLOAKS In endless variety. Aleo, the largest and boot assorted Mock of _ SEAL SKIN CLOAKS In Um Qty, EVERY NEW STYLE; EVERY NEW MATERIAL The very best work, at PRICES THAT ASTONISH EVERT ONE IVEN 23 SOUTH NINTH STREET WINTER OLOAK6 IN SABLE CLOTHS, FROSTED BEAVERS, SEALSKIN CLOTHS, BLACK BEAVERS, LYONS VELVETS; 411 A - LARUE AsSOBTMENT, AT MODERATE PRICES, AT TUT PARIS CLOAK EMPORIUM, 708 CHESTNUT STREET J. W. PROCTOR Re Co_ nolta CLOAKS! CLOAKS! CLOAKS WATER PROOF CLOTH CL94)01 la =idiom variety i LIMIT AND DARK CLOTH CLOAKS, of every shade; BLACK CLOTH CL OAKS, of every quality ; • - BLACK SIIK•VELYET CLOAKS, EVERY NEW STYLI!, EVERY NEW MATERIAL; THE LARGEST STOOK /ND TEM men REASONABLE PRICES IN THE CITY oela IVENS, No. 23 South NINTH Street CL 0 .A. B Tno Largest, Gliespeid, and Beet-assorted Stoek In the city. HOITGH & No. 26 South TENTH Strad, Oppwite 71 . 5111E1 1B Market ?TIRE ARCH-STREET CLOAK AND MANTILLA STONE. NEW FALL CLOAKS. WATED-PBOOIr TWEED CLOAK& SLAVE CLOTH CLOAKS. EVERY NOVELTY AT MODERATE PRICES. JACOB 1101OMPALL, suBl-6m N. W. corner TENTH and ATOM SG MILLINERY GOODS. K ENNEDY'S; FRENCH Mai caw Di. Analoreiou...m: GENERAL MILLINERY GOODS. No. 729 VBEBTNIFT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH 0c9.3m (YARD PRINTING, BEST AND ()honed 11, tha lOW, ntRINOWALT DROWN 11, U South TURD Street. no2o HOLIDAY BOOKS. AT LESS THAN LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, 25 SOUTH SI3TH STREET, ABOVE CHESTNUT, Aro determined to close out their Stock of SUITABLE FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS, AT LESS THAN WRCLESALE PRICES Their Stock of li.i.titl'itAlTls .5042P1iA Includes JAMES MONTGOMERY'S POETICAL WORKS CA1'0L11511: MAW AMETLICAN YIIMALR POETS W i~~Utii ]~OaN•iM>f @l9natfltUfs[ eflwn•if~tK~)r.A WELD'S SACRED POETICAL QUOTATIONS, TES' 'PARABLES OP KRUMMACRER, 25 fflustra's AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER CAMP-FIRES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES JUVENILE BOOKS IN GREAT VARIETY JUVENILE LIBRAIIIES. FAMILY AND OTHER BIBLES, IN VARIOUS BINDING. AN ASSORTMENT OP ALBUMS. LINDSAY & BLAKISTON. PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND IMPORTERS, S 5 SMITH SIXTH STREET, ABOVE CHESTNUT de2o-3t-if H AZARD'S BOOKSTORE. A ,SUPERB STOCK or ILLUSTRATED ROOKS, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, BIBLES AND PRAYER BOORS, CIIILDREIPS BOORS, A 3, Elegantly Bound and Illustrated • •••• • ALSO, AMBROTYPE PICTURES AND CARTES DE VISITE PECTOG4ILAPTIS, Are now displayed on our Counters and forming an an. rivalled display of cams BOOKS for HOLIDAY PRESENTS, AT MODERATE PRICES. HAZARD'S del3-12t 721 CHESTNUT STREET. NOW READY, CONCLUDING PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF liRB One Handsome Volume. 12um Mergard Maitland! WhatdelidlitFnlassoeiationedune the mention of tnis book recall ! Few of its many thou eat d tew ens will evrr forget the pleasurable ensottone ex cited by its perusal and hero we have One concluding reissue& full of the same touching grace which won Ow heart:, of eo many people, young anti 0. for better or more 11 n n a a t t e h "t to i" a lady a y s cn ' could not be found. It may be read with equal pleasure by all, for though it introduces io us many Of the charactore of the former book. it in yet complete In Itself. Sent by mail, poet-paid, on receipt of the price. T. 0. H. P. HIIRNHAII2, Publisher, de21.24,25-3k &Ann, A NEW AND ELEGANT NA TIoNAL GIFT-BOOK. THE FALLEN BRAVE OF OFFICEES KILLED IN DEFENCE OF THE UNION. EDITED 73T JUN tart/MARY A beautiful - quarto volatile., containing Mogenlilac of teeno -four officers, and fine Portraits on steel by J. A. O'Neill of lit Ig. Gen. LYON, U. S. A., Col. Lou - E. of Ohio. Ma THEO, WINTHROP' Mai SULLIVAN BALLOII,R.I. CPI 4. ILiRD, U. S. N.' Col. E. D. Li. J. T. URRIILE, U. S. A. Col E. E. ELLSWORTH. Cloth, plain $3. ArabeNue, hilt edged 4. Wilt} 610coCco 8, C. B. Biunaiii/SON A CO., Publishere, No. 14 BIBLE HOLTiE, N. Y. JOHN DITTARLAN, Agent for Philadelphia. Office of Appleton's New Cyclopedia' 33 South SIXTH. Street, up Stairs. 00,1-4 t CLOATVZ CHOICE ENGLISH BOOKS FOR eft lawn, AS PRESENI S.—The subscribers are new • tiering their large and well-selected assortment of b-r<nch anm sae . r..Fravtuss, at greatly reduced prices for cash, in order to reduce their sock prier to the let of J enuary. Their collection comprises the hest editions of the standard Ent lish authors, splendidly illustrat-d Books in fine irinctiuss, to.s..thrr aith a large anti yatuanie nook of EI:R.I'IIHW and Olieeellaneoue Literature in every depart ment of science and art. New English Illustrated Books for the coming Holi. days. Books for the Young, and every novelty published in England received regularly by steamer_ Detailed Catalogues furnished gratis on application, or mailed to any address. hIcELROY lc CO., Importers of English Books, &c., d2l-2t No. 27 south SIXTH St., above Chafed!. MOTEERS, MILLINERS, DRESS MAKERS, and LADIES GENERALLY—Do pot fail to secure the splendid Winter Number of .11.31 E. DEMOREST'6 QUARTERLY MIRROR OF /ASH -1011 ; now ready. Contaiaa magnificent Fashion Kates, three useful. plain, full-sized Patterns; valuable inform, tion, and nearly 100 elegant Engravings. Yearlv $l, will a valuable premium. Postage on the premium three cents; extra single copies twenty-five cents• ' without the pletee and fullorizsd pattern ten emits. Mishit/1d No. 473 BR(IithWAY, New York, and sold everywhere, or sent II mail. Largest, latest, and beet Fashion Naga zinc in the world, and worth more than ten times its cost. de2l--tt CLOAKS 1 pooKB, - LAW AND MISUELLA.- NBOUS, new and old, bought, sold, and ex changed, at the PHILADELPHIA-BANK BOOK STORE, No. 419 CHESTNUT Street. Libraries at a diatanas putehassA. Thus haelug Rooks to sell, at • distance, will elate their names, sizes, bindings, dates, editions, prices, and conditions. WANTED—Books printed by Benjamin Franklin, as well as early Books printed in and upon America. Autograph Letters and Poi-tsalts posok“s.L Paeoi,blet Lome of P.0.0.04va010 for Hale. Catalogues., In prece, sent free. Librariee ap nraieed by ife24-tfl SOHN CAMPBELL. BLANK ACCOITNT BOOKS, IN EVART VARIETY, AND OF TICE BEST STOCK, SELLING - .4 T LOW PRICES. Buy at Um Manufactory. PENNY, BLANK-BIOS MANUYACTURER, do2o-]m S. W. Corner FOURTH and RACE. POjK BODING -LP OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EXECUTED IN THE BEST MANNER, AT VERY LOW PRICES, At W. G. PENRY'R, ROOKIiiiOEk ae2o Im S. W. Corner 1(1E11111mM RACE. COAL OIL! COAL OILI GEORGE W. WOOTTEN, 38 SOUTH SECOND STREET, ACENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN OIL COMPANY. lIA.NUFACTUREIIII OF COAL OIL, AMP RE FINERS OF COAL AND CARBON OILS. WM. P. JOHNSTON, President, GEO. OGDEN, Secretary. Also, Agent for BEERS, JUDSON, A BEERS, Patent Glass Cones for Lamps, and wholesale dealer in Mb ridge's Patent Oval (fire -proof) and Eastern Flint-Glass 131,1i..i.ey, Lamp, la. ..hi.- Alt Obanuoys. Cash buyers or prompt payers are respectfully Invited o examin. our stock. Do2l-1m PORTLAND KEROSENE OIL. We are now ;wavered to amply *Mr STANDARD ILLUMINATING 011 AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Z. LOCKE & CO., SOLE AGENTS, 1010 MARKET STREET. le.rwinafaohia. PAMPHLET PR IN TIN G, AND every other description of Printing, of the most nmerior gllttlity, et the most namable rates, S BlND troAtt' d ar.9*zi - b i vroure Building, M Mutt TR= Street. pplp NEW PUBLICATIONS WHOLESALE PRICES HOOKS, IN FINE BINDING, AT RETAIL, MRS. SIGOURNEY'S POEMS BETHUNE'S BRITISH FEMALE POETS WATSON'S POETICAL QUOTATIONS TUE Qll/1/sTal.rs PAII4I . PELIWIT, AND OTHER WORKS OF A 6741 , 1DARD CITAIcAcTrfA, THE TRULY DELIGHTFUL BOOK, LILLIES LEAF ; MARGARET MAITLAbID, OP BUNNYPIDE WRITTEN 73Y HERiELF I==l PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1861. g4t 41Irtss, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1861 THE REBELLION. ENGAGEMENT AT DRANEGVILLE. OFFICIAL REPORT OF GEN. ➢IcCALI.. LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. THE WAR IN KENTUCKY. Number of Troops in the Union FURTHER PARTICULARS OF ME SKIRMISH AT IdIINFORDVILLE, SITUATION OF AFFAIRS AT SOMERSET THE MASON AND SLIDELL AFFAIR. SHIM O'BRIEN ON THE INASSTION Strange Report from a SBcession Paper. LATE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. OATT.IIICKETTS' ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON. CONDITION OF THE UNION-PRISONERS IN RICHMOND. Tilt FLUE IN VILABLESTON. AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. The - Stone Fleet at Charleston. &c., &c., &e. THE FIGHT AT DRANESVILLE WASIFINGToN, Dec. 20.—We haVe tad a splendid little affair in front of Washington this afternoon, which will furnish food for the " Onward to Rich ruefl" pArty fee akm dno, until cord MoQiol lan is ready for a more formidable movement. The following is the official despatch from Gene ral McCall to General Marcy, recounting tho facto Official Report from Gen. McCall. DRANEBVILLE, Dee. 20, 4 P. 114.—00 n. Ord's brigade, with the First Regiment of Pawylesrias, Mee and Eeston's battery of artillery, bad a brisk affair wish the enemy, consisting of four regiments and a battery of artillery, near tide place at 12 M. ta-day. I arrived during the action, and sent for Gen. Reynolds, who was left at Difficult Run. The enemy was defeated, and fled before Geri. Rey nolde arrived. We found forty killed of the enemend ten wounded on the field. Our loss is two kftleti and three wounded. We have taken cwo.cgijough with the harness, the horses having been killed.. The regiment of Rifles behaved finely. 7,ieut, Colonel Kane was very slightly wounded, bat is still in the field. I have oolleeted the dead aild wounded, and am about to move back to camp. General Ord started at six &cloak this morning. His command consisted of four full regiments, the Buektitil Rifles." Lieutenant Colons' Kait; Easton's battery. consisting of two twsnty:4l44 two twelve pound howitzers. Thoy.pOodecitid_..tin a foraging expedition in tbe_directi of Dranes villa. °unarm McCall, anticipating thay aGstit bo attacked. ordered First and Scoond brigades to fol low at eight A. M. Tho First Brigade, General Reynolds, advanced on the Leesburg turnpike, and took - a- position on DiMoult Creek, to await further orders. Two hours later General McCall, with his staff and escort of cavalry, followed by the Same n uto. E=Ell Meantime General Ord advanced to the Thorn ton Douse. near Dranesville, when his command was suddenly fired upon by a force lying in ant 1bu.,1. hin wee t h e s i gnal for battle, stud a brisk engagement promptly en sued. General McCall, who arrived a row minutes pre , Tinesly, took command. In a moment's time, Rts ton's battery was planted alongside the Thornton House, and fired rapidly and with terrible effect in the enemy's ambush. Colonel ICauelb a Daekiall Riflemen" were placed in advance, and fired upon the enemy wherever they made their appearance. The rebels, who had a battery of six pieces, re . 4-4-,a the eneknormains, and repliegil to the Rollos with muskets. The fire was kept up some threa t:platters of an hour, when the enemy retreated ra pidly, the fire of the whole brigade, Rifles tot hat, tory, being too hot lor them. Our troops stood up bravely under the sharp vol leys of the rebel.. Their steadiness was praised by 134.1 a. McCall sad his 6s'o . The rebels took the direction of Fairfax Court House, leaving on the field a number of their killed and wounded. Our troops pursued, %km A taut distance, and returned. The scene in the woods presented all the horrors of a sanguinary battle-field, with the dead and dying lying strewn in various directions. Forty cloud tolio of the rebels were picked up, and fifteen wounded prisoners were taken and placed in Hunter's and other houses in Dranesville. General Ord captured eight wounded prilonere and two caissons with ammunition. In their haste the enemy loft behind arum of all descriptions clothing. Vic. Their lambi eetimated at 150 hilted and itioe.a.lo.l. Among their killed was Colonel Tom Taylor, of Frankfort., Kentucky. and commander of the First Kentucky Regiment of rebels. The forces of the enemy contested or three infantry regiments... First and El e vetth Kentucky and Tenth Alabama—with a cavalry regiment and a battery, all under cots mend of Colonel John H. Forney, of the Tenth Alabama, acting brigadier general. The dead re bels were left on the field. The loss on our side was six killed and eight wauuds<l, i.ost or beic. 9s .a b tJ,e n‘ick tails." Colonel Kane received a slight wound. At nine o'clock our troops bad returned tc emp, 'Winging in fifty wagon loads of thraga. The regiments of General Ord's brigade were Pennsylvania Reservrs : Thirty-fifth, Colonel W. W. Biddle: Tbirty.eightli, Colonel C. F_ Jeeknon Thirty-ninth, Colonel John L. hfcCalmont, and Forty-first, Colonel John El Taggart, with the Forty-second, or " .13qcktail," Ligntepapt Magi Thomas L. Kano. The prisoners belong to the different regiments engaged in the.action Neither is dressed alike. The clothes they had en MO :egged and tltl y. Each was without any overcoat, and their general looks betray anything but nutritious fare. Three prisoners, belonging to the Tenth Alabama, state that their regiment was organised seven months ago. formerly, they were under command of Gen. Johnston, but after the battle of Bull Run were transferred to Genesi! Beauregard'a division_ Of the condition of the rebel array they gave the most deplorable account, confirming the pfetions state meats received) as W the want et proper clothing and food, and the general discontent prevailing among the men. The greater part of the army, they say, has gone into winter quarters, at Marnoaaa• dace their con nection with the army they have only been paid twice, and the prospect of a third . payment was so dimly obscure that nearly all had given up Impel of any further enlargement of their exchequers at the hands of their commanders. General Hancock's division, under orders of Gen. McClellan, marched Seward the battle•ground to support General McCall, but their services were not needed. When General MoClellan learned that General McCall's troops were engaging the enemy, ho jumped into his saddle, and, accompanied by Col. Colbourn, proceeded to Minersville, where he learned the result, as given above, and returned. HILLED AND WOUNDED WAS/I INGTON, Deo. 21.—The following is a list of the killed and wounded in the. battle fought at Sixth Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, Thirty-fifth. KILLED. Octunivi v, Walter, Company A Daniel Darling, Company C. WOUNDED. 11. Lathrop, Company C, in the breast, supposed mortally. Vv. 11. Jayne, Company C, in the hip severely. James Surene, Company 0, in the hip, severely. William Van Dyke, Company D, in the thigh, severely. Ouptain Daniel lirtulbury, Vompauy F, in tha leg, severely. Army_ Further Particulars, Ciao. A. MCCALL, Brigadier General Comnmag, Details of the Battle W. 11. Dinsmore, Company F, in the thigh, ight. Edgar Smith, Company G, in the shoulder, ee. only. Thomas Conway, Company 11, in the forehead, [slightly. Charles Yahn, Company 11, severely. Benjamin Seeley, Company 11, in the face, se verely. John W. Brown, Company K, in the legose verely. George Brown, Company K. in the arm, slightly. Edwin Demander, in the bronet; severely. The above regiment wee Mithmended during the action by Captain Ent. Ninth Pennsylvania . RePerve Regiment ( 3 8th), Commanded by Colonel Jack eon. KILLED. John W. Stoekdalo, Company F John Sexton, Company E. WOUNDED. Alexander Smith, Company A, in the neck. John Schmidt, Company B, in the arm. Win, Earnest, Company C, in the leg. Capt. Robert Galway, Company 1), leg. George Morter, Company 11, in the thigh anti arm. Joshua McMaster, Company D. in the thigh. Wm. C. Witcher. Company 1), in the loins. John Raymond, Company D, in the arm. C. E, Patten, Company I), in the thigh. Wlll, Linsey, Company D, in the hip. John F. Bume 's Cozripany D, in the arm. Corporal Plan!!il,c,Ceinpany D, in the head, slightly. Iph Whit., Coospony 2, ilop Reek. Capt. S. W. Dick, Company 14 to the thigh. . - Win. McGill. - Company F.: : ilutlintibilcsien: -. John ot-es,pany I', in the arm. John friiiiii6o, - COmpetty in the hip. Edwin liatriA, Company It, in the leg. Silas B. Newell, Company If, in the hip. John H. Weber, Company 1, in the thigh. The major of this reginisht ha his h.. shot under him. The Bucktaal Rifles, Forty-Second Penn sylvania. Lieutenant Colonel Kane, who was in command, was wounded in the cheek. George 0004, Coulpany ; Corporal Bfunuel Gal. braith, Company B; George Raup, Company B. WOUNDED H. G. Wolfe, Company B. severely. John Panel, Company B, severely, Oargia it, B. riles, Company severely, John Bolt, Company F, severely. John F. Barns, Company K, severely. James Glenn, Company K, severely. Besides these several ethers were slightly wbutalec.l. Tvvellth Pennsylvania. Reserve Regiment, (41st,) under Command , of Col T . Taggart. Only one man was wounded, Tisi; WElgir It r ex, of Company K, in the leg. Colonel Tom Taylor, commanding the Kentucky (rebel) iiffiegi wag killed, and Ilia saddle brought away by Colonel Easton. Taylor, it will he recol lected, occasioned much excitement, at the com mencement of the war, by unexpectedly appearing at Arlington with a flag of truce, and.was , afterwards brought to headquarters at Washington blindfolded, and subsequently conveyed outside of our lines— the object of his mission, an exchange of prisoners, being unaceomplished. The detachment from General McCall s S division which took part in the battle did not arrive at Dranesville until about noon, and remained there till .21 o`elook 7 when the enemy appeareaAA forgo, coming from the direction of Centreville. Previous to this, General Ord had placed his forces in position to repel en antielpateci. eAtevii, The fire was heat opened by the rebel battery, throwing solid shot, shell and canister. This was immediately responded to by Easton's battery with marked efteo. The infantry on each eido-soon en. gaged in the conflict, and at times they were not more than sixty yards-apart. After fighting about an hour, a shell.from our side exploded the ammunition of ono of the robot caissons, making fearful havoc, three of the rebels having theirheadscompletely blown off, And others being horribly mutilated. .At tui lima the wavered at—w.aa disposition to run, when Gen. Ord gave the com mand to charge, which was gallantly obeyed, and at once the rebels- precipitately fled. They were pursued for upwards of a mile, when then. arriving on the ground, ordered a recall to be Sounded. Our troops then fell batik to the position just vacated by the gnaw_ Twenty-one of the wounded rebels received sur gical treatmentfsem Dr. Lowman and his.assistants, having been taken into a neighboring house for that Thci would have been brought to thou. likc e .tott cutup nue ate mulllittnes unwed In propor time. All of onr Men killed and wounded; were, how ever, 6r0u5111 uvrey. A large number of trophies were secured by our tioops, such as swords, pistols, and sans. In the pOaketB of ti4e 444 MTN fQIII4 Richmond papers of the 19th inst. They contained ho items of particular interest. Set - eral letters were found on the bodies of the rebel officers, showing the feeling of Intense L.. tility prevailing in the South. In one of them dated Centreville, Dee. 19th, addressed to a friend, and but partly finished, it was said that it was impos sible for Inn Fodurals to remain much longer in their present position. It said that the effect of the news from England and the pressure of Congress would necessarily emm. pel General McClellan to advance, and that in such an event a victory on the part of the Confederates in their present position would be certain. Duiltig the stampede of the rebels, eight of them were taken prisoners and brought to Washington to-day. They state that they left Centreville very early on Friday morning, in order to obtain forage, and very uncapeotedly met witn our troops, who had proceeded to the same point on similar busi ness. They also said that there was a larger num lief of killed on the part of the rebels than wo sup. posed. Three of the prisoners, who had become bewil dered in the retreat, came up to one of our regi ment., not knowing that they were r entre' troops, and inquired the direction to Centreville; but, instead of being taken prisoners, they were shown the way to Wastiingten. The victory on the part of our troops is considered the more brilliant, as they had never before been in action. They have been highly complimented, both by Major General McClellan and amoral McCall. Four companies of the First Pennsylvania Caval ry were also with the brigade, but the condition of the country was such, being thickly wooded, that they could not render service to the extent they desired. General Ord, while 'passing through the woods Outing the tatian, last swot& but wai supplied with another, which had been taken from a dead rebel officer. I - THE WAR IN KENTUCKY. The Grand Army of Kentucky It 4t h t estimated, from e attettce t are reliable, that General Buell has to-day an army in the field of not less than 110,000 men, to which the States of Indiana and Ohio are adding about 2,00 D daily, and to which they will add, by the consolidation and despatch of regiments, fully 30,000 men between this and the first of January. We believe, there fore, that, with the beginning of the new year, General Buell will have an army of 150,0c9 paeg, or no largo n force as General iYloOtollan confesses to have on the Potomac. It will be the army of the West, and upon it will depend, iu no slight de gree, the issue of this war. General Buell has now been in command about a month, and has thus Las been occupied in "massing " the troops, after the Rotomac pattern They have boon organized into brigades and divisions, and so quietly that we aro only able to gather, from saatosed Mats la holig paper correspondence, who are the division and brigade commanders, and to what portion of the grand army different regiments have been assigned. We believe s however, there are sevekgrand divi• sines, each containing three 'brigades, and the brigades made up of front three to five regiments, with artillery and cavalry attached. Tho brigades will average 8.000 men throughout. The division carammailare arc as we have I)Cen able to asgerCam them : 1. General Alexander McDowell McCook, at Lebanon. 2_ Getlevel Clews, II Thermo, et :3. General Ormsby M. Mitchel at Elizabeth town. 4 General William .114 80 14 at Now Haven. g. C101131%1 Theme L. Oritientien, at Calhoun. 6. General Richard W. Johnson, at Nona river. 7. General Albin Seheeptf, at Somerset. The commanders of brigades inolude General Nagley, of Pennsylvania: Generate Dumont and Manson, of Indiana; General Boyle, of Iteatucky; Colonels Turebin, Carrington (18th regulars), Sill, Lytle, eta. The troops are mainly concentrated in the central pertiee of rbe State, M gligobethtewn, New Matsu, Lebanony /UM river, etc., which are all within a radius of twenty miles. General Scboepff's oorps, at Sinberset, forms the left wing of the army, and just beyond it, at London, is the Timone brigade of General Carter, who hare been let loose from other restraint and permitted to follow their own instincts. The right wing of the army occupies the country along Green river, with headquarters at Calhoun, and fills the gap between the accts.!. and FaeFid izzatlaiiii at Pa.inech and Cairo. Regiments are also stationed at Lexington and along the Lexington and Covington Railroad, and at points on the Ohio river below Louisville. Piero ore new but few troop remaining in /omit . ifille.—Chicago Tribune. The Skirmish at Manfordsfille. The Louisville Journal, of the 19th inst., says we have seen and conversed with seTend IF:mato men who arrived lest evening from Munfordaville, the scene of the skirmish on Tuesday, some particu lars of which we have already given. Among those with whom we have conversed are the ear, geon of Gen. Roumania brigade (who was at the scene of the fight) and Mr. Henry Myers, who par ticipated in the fight, both of whom uro gentlemen of unquestioned veracity. Their statements are hOth to the same °treat, aml present tbg skirmish of Tuesday as one of the moat brilliant exploits of the campaign on the part of the Federal troops. The skirmish lasted about forty-five minutes from the commencement of the attack by the rebels to the MOW ) et which time the rebel cavalry tied pre cipitately, leaving their dead on the Add. It should be butts is mind that the four compa nies from the T9itty•hecond Indiana Regiment, Colonel Willieh, en 4 hr ecammand of the lieutenant Metd, crossed to tV7lsinikh bank of Green river upon the bridge nem. 4 Mutlfordsville, and wore thrown out as pickets in ;quails of eight or ten upon an open meadow, at a dittance of about one hun dred yards from the river bask. At the Mun forflville depot there was a concealed battery of three guns, and there was Mather battery of actual force about a mile distant in a southerly direet!en. There was a belt of timber skSting the position. of the four companies from Indian*. When the bat teries opened the Texas Rangers- made a charge far the timber, and about the same time an order wile given for the Federal infantry ts. rally upon the same point. Thb Indianians executed the order tinder a galling fire from the batteries. They thus reached the wood, and uncles cored of the tread 4d fearful execution in the rank of the rebel ca valry. The few sustained by the Federnf troops was incurred under the effect of the first fire, The rebel cavalry dashed in among their ranks before our troops had found time to form. Ohre formed, however, they gallantly advanced to the wood against fearful 'odds. The fight for a few minutes is described by an eye-witness as a desperate encounter. The gallant Indianians resorted to their sabre bayonets, forcing a hand-to.hand combat upon their enemies so long as the rebels could be induced to stand up and face cold steel, When the Indianians finally gained themood, they opened a fire upon the Rangers, who fled precipitately, leaving that prof upontlm.. field, including the body of Colo • etswaliools i g o. was killed by a y mugcl. 4 trall y , wll eidered 'his 10wee.1...e1w' , ,4- - Terryle body wee sent back to tiiikebel camp yesterday morning under a flag of true°. The rebel loss is even greater than at first sup gond, There were found upon the field gist,- three dead bodies and the bodies of twelve or four teen horses. In addition to the bill of mortality, a large number of the rebels are known to have been wounded. The Federal loss was thirteen killed and an equal number wounded. Two regiments of Federal troops, the Thirty sixth Indiana and the Sixteenth Ohio, came fromup to the relief of the Ng companies from the Thirty-eocond Indiana, but the rebels had Do taste for a renewal of the fight. Some instances of desperate daring are related of various members of the Thirty-second Indiana Re. giment. An informant assures us that he was a witness to the fact that a youth of seventeen, who joined the regiment at Cincinnati, but whose name he could not Learn, threw off the restraint of the company drill for the time, and stationed himself hehibd a lima- Prom that point he Arad 651T4ccla times during the engagement, loading and firing with as much coolness as if he were out ducking, every shot bearing a message of death to some mis pidcd rebel, The body of the gallant Lieut. Saxe, of the Thirty.second Indiana, was interred near Mun fordsville yesterday morning. The remains of Tbeo. Schmidt were rimeived in this city last eve ntng. Lieut. 's - Jos was formerly of Louisville, but his wife resides at present in Cincinnati. Mr. Schmidt was the brother of Mr. George Schmidt, of Fifth street. Our troop are exultant over the mutt of the skirmish of Tuesday, and are eager to renew the fray. The Situation at Somerset. From a gentleman who left Somerset, Ken . tooky., yesterday, we have reli4ble WITIM 115 Lo the situation at that place. Zullicoffer, with six thousand men, had thrown up fortifications this side the Cumberland, about ten miles above the pcibt wbich he crusted, and six miles from So menet, At the crossing-plane below, there were two thousand rebels, on the south side; guarding the boats It took Zollicoffer four days to get his six thousand men across. Tho ferries are. there fere, not eitei.elvet and 6 eftee of a £l6l/t and de feat, he could not reoross, with the Federal troops at his heels. General Schoepff marched out of Somerset yes tvriltiy nit/ruing with three Ohio and two Tennessee regiments, four companies of Hoskin's regiment, and a battery. The Thirty•eighth Ohio, with one battery, remained in Somerset. It was the object of General Schoepff to draw out Zollicoffer, and fight him. Ile would not attack the fortification. If the enemy refused to come out, his camp would probably be shelled from the opposite side of the river. This would be practicable. Our informant says the two thousand men left below to guard the boat could not, owing to the impassable character of the intervening ground, interfere with the cross ing or working of our artillery. If reinforcements should arrive from London, Zollicoffer would be bagged, end t in any event, he is regarded as in a critical position. A fight may have taken piece on Wednesday. General Schoepff was confident of success. Ho had altogether six thousand men and two batteries. One of the latter was deficient, the hien not being well drilled.-o;neinzwa matte. THE MASON AND SLIDELL AFFAIR. Important from Washington—Mason anti Slidell to be Delivered up if Demanded. The New York Herald of Saturday says : to on r u.tobt,actvic9o from Waslaingtom all apprehensions of a rupture with England upon the late affair of the Trent may be dismissed. Our Cabinet, we aro informed, looking to the absorbing and paramount issue—the ouppreesion of this -Smith ern rebellion—will yield to the present demands of England as the conditions of her neutrality, even if these demands involve the restoration of Mason and Slidell to the protection of the British flag, and a wowed sf, sad l'or, +6,lr gclAwc 1, 7 - oapt . Wilkes In adopting this alternative of submission to these peremptory demands, the Administration runs the hazard of disappointing the popular sentiment of our loyal States. But a little relleetion will satisfy every intelligent mind of the wisdom of deferring a final settlement with England until we shalt have made an end of, this Southern rebellion. Thole have Luvi. svtnv 9911jc01/10 that 411M1141911 may be resorted to; but it is bettor gracefully to yield to the exigencies of the crisis, and promptly relieve England of her convenient pretext for a quarrel, Without the intervention of any third party Lat our Government, then, meet the requisitions-of Lord Lyons, in the restitution of Mason and Slidell to British protection. and in an acknowledgment that. while Captain Wilkes weeld hen boon right in seizing the Trent' steamer and bringing herb& fore a prize court for adjudication, he was wrong in limiting his proceeding to the seizure of his-prison ers ; and that we regret bat his controlling con. siderations of international courtesy and leniently should have resulted in the very offence which it was his particular object to avoid. An explanation of this character, we presume, will be considered amply satisfactory, aafLII atone meet to the Insulted dig of Ilugland, It may be painful and humiliating to us. But who will re proach the surprised traveller for yielding to the demand of Your money or your life," with the highwaymen's pistol at. 616 ',sad o,se merit will be amply justified in this• reparation by the public opinion of our loyal. States, considering the rejoicings of our rebellious States at the pros pect of nearing the aid of England's fleets and ar. mies in the enterprise of the occupation of Wash ington. We are called upon now to exhibit the virtues of patience and moderation towards a domi neering foreign Power, and to submit to its arrogant demands and pretensions, in order to grapple more effectively with an insolent domeetio enemy beleaguering our national oapital. But as Rome remembered Carthage from the invasion of Hanni bal, and as France remembers St. Helena, so will the people of the United Sista remember and trea sure up for the future this little affair of the Trent. Nor do we suppose that the pacific solution of this difficulty, upon the basis of England's offensive tiltiP4tlfol will 49 Vithcilte Villtivalont or °Knout ration. We expect that it will secure a more de , cent regard hereafter for England's professions of neutrality than she has heretofore exhibited ; that such scandalous neutral hoepitalities as those lately sr/tattled to as pleatisal Southampton, will not be repeated; and that such commercial ventures as that of the steamer Bermu da to Savannah will cease to be made by British subjects from English porta, under the connivance of her Majesty's Government. Granted that these demands of England in this matter of Mason and Slidell were framed for war and not for peace, we have the right to call for a faithful adherence to pesos whl.6 hae been concode4 where war was expected and designed. But we are asked why these humiliating concessions upon a quibble and a prettxt? If England's purpose is war, will she not find some other pretext upon which Lore can be no concession ? We answer, that by yielding to the arrogant demands of England upon this pretext of to-day we shell have reduced her to bends of peace from which she cannot escape except as n realm Mitturter, liable to be outlawed by miry other European Power. Meantime, with the re-establishment of our peaceable relations with England we shall bo at liberty to bring our ramie military power to boar by land and sea upon this domestic rebellion. We hope, too. that, admonished by the restless im patience of England and France for cotton, Presi dent LibOolis iiisa h s Cobh et will vi g orously- push forward the movements of our fleets and armies, and put an end to all European notions of an in evitable Southern Confederacy by the speedy over throw of the epuriees TeYelletieleary league of DeVie and hie confederates. Then. with this rebellion suppressed, with our revolted States restored, with an army of a million men in the field, with a powerful navy, including a good proportion of /MR - plated ships, and with uurovaVonot and frontier defences upon a war footing, we shall have the power to settle, not only our outstanding accounts against England, but the power to proscribe the es..teet and the limitailone of Rili9p.:ol/ 11114111/lUjr on this continent. The British 'Ultimatum —The British Xcorlh Anie.ncon rict Qrsicred t4 ,F#4- Lou. [Special Correepoudenee of the Maryland News Sheet.] WASHINGTON, Dec 20.—1 t is eurrentlyreported, among the English residents here, that the tenor of Lord Lyons' despatches, received by the E arms, is very simple. De is instruoted to demand the abso lute delivery of Messrs. Mason and Slidell. and their secretaries. Other questions will be discussed eftvrwarda. The gunboat Landrail, which sailed yesterday from New York, bore despatches to Admiral Milne, directing him to repair at once with a large fleet to Boston harbor, to receive the Southern sammiscianars. The fleet will be aaropasad of about forty-he vessels. Smith O'Brien on a War with England. THE PERFIDY OF GREAT BRITAIN TOWARDS THE EXITED STATLEII AAR THE DITTY 01 IRISHMEN [From the Dublin Freeman, Dec. 5.] In a letter addressed by Mr. William Smith O'Brien to Mr. Seward, Secretary_of *me craw Vnited States, we Sad the following allusions to recent events: By the recent seizure of the Con federate commissioners on board of a British mail steamer, the Government of Mr. Lincoln has in curred a tearful reaponaibility. I take for granted that this act will not be disavowed. I take, for granted that it was intended as a deliberate affront to the English nation. I take for granted that it was designed es a bold and defiant answer to the Lemlenue - vrtiteli has been directed against the Ame rican nation by every organ of British opinion ever since the civil war broke out in the United States. However this may be, it is assuredly an act which le fraught with COUSegilciNcti that may hereafter become most disastrous to both parties who are now contending with each other. Unless England TWO CENTS. consent to foregto all claims to manhood or national honor, she must resent this seizure, and, if the Sereth be disposed to accept kter emoperation. the sucoestord of Wediiigton must be prepared to encounter hazards fibre dangerous than have over menaced the Western Republic. United, the States of Amerkt might defy the world ; but, wilige they are divided, the- interposition of a pt erful arbiter must rule' their dosti , nice. Title navy of Noland', iesUing from the ports of frelifhr, St. Johns; Bermuda - , and of the Westlndict, and co-operating with a land force which apperzu to be little short of half a million of Steil, Will bet only raise the lalockaele of every Southern port-hat will sweep the American coast from New l3ntrwriele to the Potomac, burning every town anessity which lies within reach' of the formidable projectiles of moderxtartirlery, pod'oap• ltiflaP every commercial 'vowel Wit mity•vevtare to Cit the protectiul of a Federal fortress. As for anada, the modern statesmen f England' care Tittle whether it exit British'' or Anierbsen IR.; if an attempt Lerma& by the Federal &areal° forte the Canadians - into an inoorptraition with Ido Northern section of the Republic that' will simply briegt upon themselves an addithinral foe. They will be attacked on t2: 4 31r northern an 'well as on their _leathern frontlet and, that o , ferinateiled, they will' be compelled yield to'the dictates of necessity and submit to =lgnominious roam This is the conned' event/ whitile'British °Orson now anticipates. Scarcely a single Englishman. or Irish West Briton is to be found %he did not rejcfee when the civil Mr broke out in I Atherica, hooelso the ' people have been made to feel tlmt the Ended States was becoming a Piiiver with whose ascendency they would soon be unaVe t g cope, For the same reason I am °affixed that they would now rejoice to obtain an opportunity of destroying the Northern sec tion of the Republic, by forming an alli ance with the Southern. They weed thus es,solce, without Impediment, the cotton and other raw ma terials with which the Southern States have been accustomed to supply them, whilst they would 82- tin ankh. the paiirien/ hod M4fl.3.9Ptidi gre,bsacs of a fioinidarde Oit#al. lii vie* of the- , e contin gencies do I ask you to lower the "Stars and Stripes," and to humble yourself to England ? By no means; but I earnestly agi'vet , you to renew re latione of amity, if not of affection, with those who are your natural friends, who ought to be your brothers in affection as they are your brothers by the relation of kindred. Answer the British demands in the language of difsionney. Quote authorities and precedents to show that you are justified by the law of nations, and specially by the example of England, in the seizure of these commissioners. Such discussions will give you time for .1.116... tics and tor properationi pus Jose not an hour in liberating the commissioners. Send them to the Confederate- headquarters, and tell them to return to Washington as plenipotentiaries duly au thorized to treat respecting the terms of an Mime- Mate suspension of RIM, and respecting an early adjustment of the questions at issue between the Northern and Southern States. If this be the language of common to tO9, do not despise it because it comes front an Wann which has for ages been the victim of misgovernment. I Its licve that the language which I now hold bespeaks the sentiments of a large majority of my fellow eonntrymen ; and there is eat among the nations of the earth a people who entertain towards the United States of Americas° much affection as is felt by the Irish. They have not forgotten that they were received and fostered by the Americans at a tiase when they were driven from +.6eir homes by English misgovernment, and when their death, proscription, end exile were hailed by England with a shout of exultation, which was not confined to the prejudiced masses for whom were mime' the pica:torsi:de words, The Vend are gone, Thank tied ! the Celts are gene—gone with a vengeance." They are even still reminded that this exultation was shared, and is shared, by the leading statesman of England—by mintater3 end viceroys who ere still in the habit of finding in every decrease of the population of Ireland a subject of congratulation. If you make peace with the South there will be no war with gar doma cou'rePi9lo MA 'plausible pretext will bo discovered for forbearing to resent the affront which has been offered to the British nag. England would not hesitate to assail you, as she as sailed the Chinese, if you were unable to defend yourselves; but when she shall find that the shores of America are to be protected by a million of armed men ' who have . profited by. the experience of at least one campaign ; when she shall find that every 1141FISAY And etietV "river" fro...the frontier or Maine to the extremity of Texas is about to send out pri vateers which will intercept, even in Australia, the gold-laden vessels of England ; when she recollects that if she pittecs a regiment ea the borders of Quauda, Clarge portion of that regiment will desert to the United States; when she reflects that if she goes to war with united America, she will be met by two hundred thousand Irish soldiers who pant for en opportunity of avenging the wieder their race; when she is conscious that five millions of Irishmen, inhabiting an island which lies by her side, will sympathize with America rather than with England in such a struggle.; when else forebo4as, with gloomy forecast, that the glory of England will forever pass away, and become matter of his tory, if ever France and. America shall unite in hostility to her;,when she knows, that the ruler of Prance re wetekkg, like au .00610, for en opportu .nity to pounce upon his prey, and that France will be supported by the sympathy of Spain, and the gratitude of Italy, she will be slow to encounter these hazards, even in defteige of the flag that " has braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze." Solemn Advice to Irishmen in the North and South (From the Dublin Fineman. Doe_ 4.] At a meeting of the 'National Brotherhood of St. Patrick. held at their rooms, No. 2 Marlborough street, on Tuesday evening, Neilson Underwood. barrieter, in the chair, the fallowing regulation wee moved and tarried by acclamation: That we have viewed with the deepest sorrow the fratricidal war in which the States of America Save been ensased r end that., in 1112 Tommy of, ittg p e bility of war between groat. Britain and the United States, we implore our fellow-country men on the American contencot to remember the, deep obligation under whieh they lie to the friendly and compassionate Government of the United gukt.a, and the debt which, they owe to the Governmentwhich, which permitted their homes in Ireland to be levelled—which drove them into exile by Oppgear. sign. NEWS FROM THE SOUTIt Cart. Rielmtitt---kmif Priolkeirs 1.12. mond. Capt. and Mrs. Ricketts, whose arrival from Richmond was. announced on Friday, are still at Major Palmer s. in Washington, and knee me rood a large ninill?aii of visitors. The Os.ptain's health is improving,rapidly, and there is a prospect of his entire recoveu at an early day. His principal wound was in the leg: though he was shot in the arm. and otherwise injured. He was not Laken until fifty eight of fr:,a company were dead., on the field, and his wounds had overpowered hiin, HA) was.joined at. Manassas by Mrs. Ricketts three tjays agter the 13w -ft, sod she has been with him ever since, ad- ministering to his comfort with,a noble devotion. Held.. as a prisoner, she has...suffered great pri vations- and tells a sorry tab of,robel treatment. NiP949l l3 aPa. TOO pstivnt/ two in rho public hos! pitala of - Richmond and under.privitto care. In deed, nearly every house has its. sick ar wounded soldier. There is a great lack,. of medleines, and, in many of the Secession regiments, a disease called She "tamp fever" provuils to an alarming extent. The soldiers are sadly destitute of shoes. Good brute sell in Ricbmond at $25 a pair ; ladies' do at $lO ; and ladies' shoes.at from s4.to VI Provisions of all kinds are scarce and command exorbitant iprieee. Army Btorea, of certain kinds Sty 34144 needed, and a supply is confidently expected from Washington by way of the Potomac. Mrs Ricketts thinks there are native agents of Secession and nor respondents of President Davie still in Washington_ On Sunday evening, the 15th inst., a ilieNetiger arrived in Pdcbsiond with the intelligence from, England regarding the Mason and Slidell affair. President Davis was roused out of bed at an tine eeesonable haur, and delighted with the news. 9n. Monday morning it appeared in the papers of the city. The rebels do not talk of an attack upon Washington, but are eager for a movement into ]Hartland by the tanner Potoman. Lectures 114(.4 been delivered advising such a step, and strenuous efforts are made to create Secession sympathy in that State. At large force is gathered near coosavratchie, be tween Glierloston and 15avannab, ready to repel in. VtiMOD. Gen. Pemberton is in command, and Gen. Evans, lately at Leesburg. has gone thither, and a number of wounded officers, West Point graduates, are also there_ The system of dPatif.. 4 bo-uu Richmond 0 0 is exceedingly unpopular. It c Als late active service the entire militia. Boys of 15 years are often enrolled. Those who desire to remain at borne have 1..5 1 rid& glihAltiiios, who onn oni,F bo had with great difficulty.. Mr. Ely is in good health and spirits, and it is understood that he is to be released the moment Mr. Faulkner arrives in Richmond. The rebel soldiers are very abusive of the Yankees. The heads of two of our men, killed at the skirmish at Pohiek Church, were severed from the bodies, car ried on bayonets to the camp. and there exposed until some Aims objected. for the _ecosoo that ; if known, it might cause remark in Europe. Captain R. and Mrs. Rickett s left Richmond on Wednesday morning, at 5 o'clock, and were taken by train to Norfolk. where they were kindly treated by Gene ral Huger, and at once sent by boat to meet our steamer near Sewell's Point. They will proceed, in a few days, to Elizabeth, Now Jersey, and thence to New York, of which city the Captain is a native. The Rev. John F. Mines, chaplain of the Second Maine Regiment, left for Hartford, Connecticut, this afternoon, where he will join his family. Tho lads, elm cam from Richmond with him, were the sons of a captain in one of the regiments of General Sickles' Brigade, and were recently taken from a small boat on the Potomac. They were sent to their father to-day. Mr. Minas states ibat the iseitiment atiown the trmon priounora at first was very harsh—several men were shot as previously reported for simply looking from the windows, and the cruel practice was not stopped until Colonel Corcoran sent for (lon. Winder and protested against , it, saying that if the prisoners were to be shot they preferred to be taken into an open field and killed according to military usage. For many weeks the Rev. Mr. Mines was not per mitted to pm& oven to his foilow•prisonora; bat tubteguently he was given such perminion, and also allowed to preach in the prisons and the hospi tals Miscellaneous The recent great firs at Charleston, full details of which appear in the Courier of the 16th instant, is even more calamitous and destructive than it Pas at first supposed to be. The cyggrult." of property in buildings, goods, ito is almost incredi ble. The Courier roughly estimates it at not less than ten millions of dollars, on which the insurance was comparatively limited. Some establishments, with their contents, estimated to be worth thirty to fifty thousand dollars, are insured for only three to six thousand dollars. Many of the finest residences destroyed bad insurance only upon the furniture. Most of the policies were in Charleston, Augusta, gsvaonab, and ether Soutikorn companies, many of which will be unable to pay one-fourth the amounts insured. There is also considerable insurance in Northern eompanies, which, under existing difficul ties, is not expected t 9 ke paid, The Royal Emu, ranee Company also lost heavily, and it is appre hended there may arise some demurrers to its pap- THE WAR PRESS. TRIS WAR /WAR will be Rout t 9 p u b ncr ibm by mail (per annum in advance) at Titre° Copies is It Five ft Ton 4. 44 Larger Mahe will be charged at the same rate, thug 201161314 g V.lll coat 4 A i 66 coiisco will cost IWO 1 9.4 100 copies 8120 For n Club of Twenty-ono or over, we will send st Extra Copy to the getter -tip of tlio ClOrb. Sr Poarnanters are reoebted te art as Agents fon Tns Wiz PRESS. log In consequ""""ence ° !certain stipolaticni in the r The eitizerir Norfolk, up to yesterday, had nab e 8 Xi kOtl it/ Voifolicnill Whey, which wai forty, vded to 1110 mayor of Charleston for the suf- ferers. Fire thousand dollars bad alao been raised in Riermend, and $5OO in Petersburg for a similar purpose. Liberal donations wore being made el.3e where, bu Ineatly in Confederate and State paper money. It is belie .red' a ernisideruble number of the Con federate troo7s heretofore in the vicinity of Nor folk h ave b ee r/ °Mere* eliowbere. The steamer In lying at the Ports mouth dock, antt has not been removed from that poitiem she writ rut dr.wn some five or Mx feet, and strongly vt , vcred with imn. Several testa and ex periments mere been made to ascertain her re :slags - Pea to canniou balk :hell, ice. it is n ow feared, with the iii.nherree metal upon her, ehe will not be et fo at. • sea, or Leigh% Mule even in an ordinary storm. !lore are Anard ihe boa boon rendered nieless e1.001.11a 'a 'mire Muter defence. The Legislature elf pamoti a law to prevent extortion in ea 3; Which had berm selling at very high prices. A t eller a zur.incl had been demanded for it in mile imterwes. Tim,. is g KAvelL . l.'Or• shocr cud clothing -material in tine-part oS The Federal jelaone&t. ef 'war lu'liehmcmd aro bleginalag to feel tho wade , of'proper ckithing. Can greenuan Ely bas Tory gayer lusty offered; Bays tho expot,l $5,000 prlfrato moans, - SeMoh are quite ' urripie, in ordtleto pureheao theta' the. necemary clothibg, but .hia fellovv-prlsonora do elinc d to permit b im to do it, • illolegrapbio dompaeh wilt ninived by Jeff Da. via on Tuesday murnhg abraitt.l6itig the Bitgliak news brought by the Oil liaturdzy last tho liustillg YC'Onrt, w:f Rich mond; entered an order that all ti're trnegroee 36 661c1 who•do =06 1 , 7 theirto;: I y tltc ryittittry tocitrof the colm. Confederate State bonds, of the Si :094;000ieene, Ike quoted at 9Petigl. The or bo . logatotri a-re pawed an act authorizing the Sokernor tos seize all salt held at exorbitant, rates, and place in the heed& of en agent, who shall. c lrit to thea people at reasonable rates. The 11 , Ismond 7J t.apatck says that Wr•.,11 mho has fee some tune past been carvi 'in 'the , county jail . , will probably be released i . 7'..•tt short time. .Vl6.le.&..rs.c_Jun bas 1111 aocount at r Es 44 ju tha oxacuti-ro office at Jacktion, Miyn., betstren 006 vernor Pettte and Mayor (ex-Cungreastnan; Batts dale. SeY9/14•Iitt2mpto boyo ban mado to fire ttolotty orDiOntgomeryi Ala. ne WAR IN MISSOURI. Captain Wood s Scouting Party. WASH nerro:r, Dec. 21.—The following doupatchrz was received yesterday from ,51, lonia ; "&r, Lon 1 7 3 i ‘ 21.—T0 Major tieneral George B. McClellan : Captain Wood's scouting party hes— returned to Rolla. It purrued the enemy south of Houston, killed one captain, and brought in one tro.jor a i:rirtaber.of war. About a hundred of Price's men were cap tured and released on parole, not being able to bring them in. H. W. HALLecK, C: Major General Comman4mg," Sketch :01 General John rope. General John .Pope is a man about forty years or age, a native of Kentucky, and a graduate of West, Point, which atolderny he entered in the year 18.3‘. Lie graduated .is. Ip.ld , aad ti.o army from the.:3tate of Illinois, entering that ser vice as a brevet aecond henteaant of Topographical Engineers. .I.le.teas engaged in Mexico, and was IncYOPti flii3 - 1191.11viusat fur gallant and uteri• toritnie conducts n several contacts at Monterey, the brevet bearing. date from September 23, 1846. Oa the 2111 of February, 1847. he was breveted cap- Win for gallant and.moriterieus conduct in the bat tle of Buena Vista_ Oa the la of Jol i , MU. 6 1 , took the actual rank of captain in the corps of To pogrnplaiotil Eugincore, and on the 17th of May, .IS6I, was made a brigadier general of volunteers. General Pope is bound to make 4i i Pugh during ihilt war. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. The Eeport.of General Phelps. WASHINSTON, Dec. 21.--Ailintant General Tho mas has received a letter from Major General Bet ler, now here, accompanied by a copy of the repack of. Brigadier General rlikelps. General Butler says he has not received an official copy of General Phelps' proolamation, but haa in formsallo Which rondos t pw..-t i lig thot, 6 1 jig Fm k. lisped copies are correct. General Butler concludes his letter as follows: " i necd hardly say that tho leaving of any proald• motion on such an occasion was neither suggested nor autorized by me, and. most certainly nut such a one. With that important eseeption, I commend the raw!. and lek attention to its slog sad Loal nees-liito statement.'' Gen. Phelps, in his report, says that he "searched Ship Yaland, in the harbor of Iklississippi Sound, oa the enerliffig of the thied of lil..ootaboe, whoa kt o dc epatelea with which: ho was entrusted for Flag Officer McKean weresent byLieutenant Winslow, of the steamer C.7a3rlcrr who procec4eil ty Fonz.incolai where tlio flag officer than Was, and General Phelps' arrival at that time made known. "We found in the harbor on our arrival the United States warrship. Massachusetts and the steamer R. R. Cu:4er, besides several prizes, and net long afterward.the steam gunboat New London and an armed sr.hooner, being part of the Gulf squadrot, "On the westend, of the island is a partially lhaished fort. The island bears evidence of having been overflowed 4 1 4 some catrovrdinny otorm ; large trunks of trees having been drifted on Mile of the higher hummoelse." General Phelps also says : Deeming it proper to Itllit4 known to the p.oopla thig bgtun LI.. re moter objects of this expedition, I have prepared a proolamaticn, which I shall endeavor to have dis seminated as early and as widely as possible, eon alvlvl2% %LIPsIW a pressing demands. — He concludes by saying that while preparing the report the ..D8 SOtO and IVOIO London have been engaging the enemy's boats in the directing /gaff Orleans. From New York NEW Yormi, Dec. 21.—Flag (Meer. Bell sailed id-tiny in tke utentnee for P 'A F .., a aro. 6 oquadcon. The steamer Ocean Queen will leave to-morrow with stores for Beaufort. Forthtt from Port Royal—Departure of tho,btone Fleet for Charleston NBW 7pau, Dec. 21.—The transport Daniel Webster, from Port Royal on the evening of the lith, reports that sixteen Teasels of the Mile fleet sailed op that day for Charloam, under escort of three gmaboats, thought to be the Mohicasti.EyNt hontas, and Seneca. A portion of the stone fleet for SAvitnnnk had ra. turned to Ilitton Fire of the vessels had beached near Tybea: Maud. ing gimumig, the name of which is not given, lied gone to recon noitre the shores of Edisto Island, and the mouth of South Edisto river. The Fiftieth rennsylvania Regiment had bee& transferred to a camp on St. Helena Souza No advance had been made by General Stevens' bri gade into the Gen rtiteClellan's Expeetattonti.. The Ilon. Schuyler Colfax, writing to the ilbuth Bend firgisti;r, says that Gen. McClellan has re routed to him, with autpli,t.tia, that the war would bo abort, though it probably might he desperate, and that ho saw the way clearly throb to success m conquering the rebellion. Tha Five! aff FortrAPl MdISMR.L.L. UNITED STATES BTEAMER. DELAWARE, 011 Fortress Monroe, 1)(313.2i)th, 1861. [Comgp,Ldown of The PreisF. ] The -weather here, the F ist - week, LEA been Imre ly, the thermometer ranging from 50 to G 5 degrees, and Old Sol, though far to the southward, yot sand ing his rays upon us kindly and genially, him inada everything appear like epriag i anti cheerful would be our hearts under its influence, wore it not for the thought of the bitter warfare in which we are cvgagell, True, no are endeavoring' to subdue a rebellion, which had its rise in wild ambition, dis appointed hopes, and hatred without cause; and when, a day or two ago, I gaz,ecl upon the miff in 'tampion valley, the gay soldiery Marching in the distance, their polished vreapons dashing in the sun, I fervently wished the day close at hand when alias Hotly mu`-is 5 41=tt...- ing bayonets, would be for idle show—not the dread reality. AB you are aware, our Amor left ridladelphia On the afternoon of the 11th, anehoring off Pork Mifflin the same evening to procure powder and shell, which we did the following morning; getting under weigh at 0.36 A. M., we tw r ly ei l t avro at noon the nextday, making the run inside of twenty seven hours, and using but half steam the whole The Delqriro to capable of extraordi nary speed, is quick of movement, and, for a Mall craft, has a heavy armament on board. Iler crew, through the exertions or Commander Quaekenbush end hio officern, aro already in a kg stato of ethe cieney and discipline, and I have no doubt our gal lant little craft will prove a formidable foe to the rebel batteries lined along the Potomac and else where_ Our destination is, as yet, unknown. Transport steamers, gunboats, do., of all classes, arrive and depart daily. The Constitution, Con necticut, Illinois, Monticello, and others have come and gone, yet 'plenty usurp their places' and in conjunction with the numerous merchantmen plying around, liatnpton Roads oft presents an ani mated appearance, Occasionally a rebel eteamer frein Norfolk will appear in sight off SeWe Point, take a reconnoissance, and turn back at the ap proach of one of our gunboats. Prom Sowell'a Point to Norfolk, the batteries of the rebels era heavy, and daily increasing in strength, as they are Constantly in fear of an attack from us; and a can nonade from this quarter,l surmise, will commence ere many daTe. The 410 15 air-axe° boat from Nor folk came up yesterday and returned back, with but, tew passengers either way. The steamers Quaker City and S. P. Sradi n and uchooutn 117i!or 7 lcrrc Ilreeken arrived in yea terday. • lhattiox. ....52.00 .... 5.00 .... 8,00 ....12.00
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