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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2S, 1861
EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.—" The conspiracy
to break up the Union is a fact now known to
Aroiter Lpizag raised, and woe levied
to accomplish it. There ran he but two sides
to the controversy. Every man mist be on the
side of the United States or against it. There
can be no neutrals in this war. There cam be
nom but patriots and troilior...”
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THE LATEST WAR NEWS.
Idr. Randolph Clay, formerly charge d'affaires of
the - United States at a. Peterabarg and Vienna,
and minister to Peru, has written an able letter to
the London 7i9nes of December 11th, in which
ho discusses-Ist. Was the commander of the San
Jaeiwto justified hi visiting the Trent on the high
seas? Second. Can the prisoners taken out of the
Trent be legitimately considered as contraband of
war ? In conclusion, he states that the justice
of regarding the forbearance and good will on
the part of the American commander, in permit
ting the Trent to proceed on her journey, as an
encroachment on the neutral rights of Great Bri
tain, or of making it the ground of a formal recla
mation against the United States, may very wall
be doubted. It would seem, indeed, that the
real wrong was in the captain of the mer-
chant steamer receiving on board persons note
ripusty in the employment of the revolted
States, thereby committing a flagrant breach of
neutrallty! and acting in direct cvara T o.ii...£
the injunctions of his sovereign. Surely, if the
captain of a British steamer chose to receive such
passengers on board, neither his o w ners nee LI4
Government can reasonably complain of their ex
tradition by a national vessel of the United States.
It Iw novel, says kr. Oiny, to see the British Go
vernment appear as the staunch advocate of neu
tral rights after so many years of contrary policy ;
and it will be equally laconsiaent, after 5.6 /natty
years of cruising and so great an amount of trea
sure being spent in the suppression of the slave
{»-ado, to see the et,thdasd a St- George wave side
by side with the Palmetto flag, for the protection
and encouragement of the " demoralizing insti-
yawn, ''
General Burnside's expedition to one of the points
on the Southern Coast will soon leave Annapolis
for itt- deetlootion. Most of Use vends that will
compose the fleet have arrived at Annapolis, and
all the land forces are making busy preparation for
their departure. ft is worthy of aola -that two or
the brigades will be under the command of Penn
sylvania Generals, Parka and Reno.
The dc-et/Ilea - en of the privateer Royal l r aela 7
and the capture of her crew, near Galveston, Texas,
by a part of the officers and crew of the United
States frigate :j , rntee--St actatica uoeauat of Which
will be found on our first page—was one of the most
gallant exploits Ilnit have taken place since the pre.
.36at rebellion broke out, end reflects credit not
only upon the officers and crew engaged in the
affair, but also on the whole American navy. All
hands did their work well, and we are glad to SeC
that a gunner named Win. Carter, of Philadelphia,
was among the bravest of the bravo.
The news from New Alexiao is peculiarly grati
fying : There is a strong Union feeling prevalent
throughout the Territory, and at the latest dates all
was q uiet. Colonel Canby, is eammand of the de=
partment of New Mexico, has retaken Forts Craig
and Stanton, on the Mesilla border, and at last ac
counts he wssion his way to dispossess the rebels of
Fort Fillmore, which was traitorously surrendered
to them by' Major Lynde. There are about six
thousand indium on the Dig of the Arkan
sas, consisting of different tribes, who are anxious
and willing to fight in defence of the Union.
The Washington correspondent of tho New York
EreuimgPo.rt states that there were flying rumors
at the capital yesterday dt a new phase of the trou
bles with England. The story runs that Lord Lyons ?
Instead of making a direct issue of the seizure of
Mason and Slidell, on board the Trent, has revived
the question of the Maine boundary demanding
The relinquishment of a part of that State to
areas - uiat the boundary
line ha: i:erel been definitely drawn. Connected
.glib +hi* ourinns rumor are some Tulle hints
concerning a revival of the Oregon dispute.
The common report in-the streets in regard to
this new complication is said to have emanated
from high authority. The correspondent gives it
as one of the floating rumors of the day, without
Touching for it truth. , It is added, with some
show of authority, that the President and the Cabi
net entertain no apprehensions of a war with Eng
land on the Mason-Slidell glle4ii9P) believing that
that affair can be satisfactorily adjusted. The
Maine trouble, however, is reported to have caused
some uneasiness in official circles.
Per contra, it is asserted in a telegraphic despatch
from the Associated Press that it is generally be
lieved in Washington that the Trent affair has been
adjusted.
THE Irish race, in the present awful crisis,
have displayed a constancy and a courage that
ought never to be forgotten by the American
people. The German and the Frenchman
come here animated by an undying attachment
to their fatherlands, and while they, too, have
manifested heroic devotion to the cause of
their adopted country, it is the Irishman alone
Who becomes a thorough American. British
rapacity, British insolence, and British aristo
cracy have made him so much a subject in
Ireland, Thal he low to he a freeman in
America, and when he reaches our soil, his
first and constant thought is to gather around
him the relatives and friends that he has left
at home. When-England strikes at the Ame
rican Union, without provocation, and in the
face of the concessions of this Government,
is there an Irishman anywhere, here, In Gana•
da, in Australia, or in Ireland itself, that will
not feel that this new evidence of the audacity
Of England is Irelmara opportunity
WHEN Lieutenant General Sepia. left the
United States, after his resignation of the ac ,
tive duties of his high command, a disposition
was exhibited in certain quarters to impress
the public mind that he was over-anxious to
be relieved from the coming complications or
the times. Ile had voluntarily retired; but
malevolent hypercriticism suggested that he
bad been compelled to retire, and his own
glorious self-abnegation was misconstrued as
the result of a destiny he could not avoid.
At his great age, however, brealiing equally
with years and with-wounds, he had a right to
suppose that his countrymen would accord to
him the repose he sought, and no doubt it was
his or er-eonfalenee in the triumphant success
of our arms that induced him to leave the
management of the army to younger and more
vigorous mend But he had scarcely touched
- a foreign soil, hardly rested from a trying sea
voyage, When he heard the cry from over the
Atlantic that a new danger had settled upon
OUT common cause, and he comes back to use
no doubt to remain in the iimerican Union
until he is called to the bosotil of his fathers.
"What the object of his mission may be none
but those high in authority can tell. It is
enough for us to know that he returns to give
anew evidence of his devotion to his country.
Before such an act of sacrifice and patriotism
all disinterested and Union-loving men will
agree that he could not have adopted a better
way to crown the column of his long life with
a wreath of enduring glory.
Ix THE eViAlt, of war with England, what by
candid men has commonly been considered
and regretted as a vulgar prejudice, may
prue n saving virtue. The masses have
never ceased to hate England. The history
of the War of Independence, related in the
plain and vigorous Saxon of our grandfathers,
sunk deep into the - popul4t hOtt, m'sl still
nourishes that hatred, which, though latent in
some instances, is universal. The popular
pulse had not subsided into a healthy beat
before wanton acts of aggression on the part
of the British Government brought on the
irar of 1812, Since that time the public ha*
valued the friendly professions of the mother
country at a low figure. The masses behold
in her only a moneyed institution, seeking to
control the world. They believe her to be
subject to but two moving influences—jealousy
and lust for dominion.
Wl tkig ah.alefit and hitter grudge as a
basis of operation, war with England would
cause such another uprising in the loy-al States
as the world never saw. But, grand as such
an exhibition of patriotism would be, no true
patriot desires the occasion for it to arise in
this period of home trouble.
THE INgA! , 7E ANXIETY of the British aris-
tocracy to involve England and the United
States in a war is strangely contrasted with
their badly-concealed jealousy and tear in
regard to the present attitude and future de
signs of the silent and vigilant Emperor of
the French_ Never, at any period of his
checkered life, has NAPOLEON displayed a
snore dangerous reticence or a more herculean
energy_ What his intimations may have been
to mil - venerable citizen, WINFIELD SCOTT, WC
are not permitted to know, but that he has
allowed certain hopes to be encouraged in the
English. Ministry of his disposition to co
operate with that Power in all future con
quests or conflicts, and that he has thus fitr
preserved a careful neutrality in reference to
the Southern Confederacy, and even tolerated,
if not stimulated, a series of assaults upon
the present Administration of the Federal Go
vernment, is certain. Ordinarily, and from an
ordinary man, such manifestations would be
gratefully g reeted by the British aNiatamey,
and it would seem that, up to a certain point".
they have served to induce the belief that.
Loris NinOrEoll really intended to stand by
the side of England in whatever purposes she
may contemplate on the great American ques
tion, 1310 it is now more than probable that
all the suspicions of the English rulers are
being rapidly revived. A very little reflection
will, indeed, show that they cannot be too
cautious in trusting themselves to the tenitet‘
embraces of the head of the French empire.
A little more than ten years ago he was the
(Meet of the ridlettle and contempt of the
British governing classes. Their organs, from
the London Times to the London Punch, slan
dered, satirized, and infamously caricatured
him after his escape from the prison of Ham,
as a baffled and disgraced impostor ; as a self
constituted aspirant to position for which he
had neither qualities nor claims ; as the ((Eagle
Emperor," (alluding to a well-known incident
in his career ;) as an adventurer, almost de
pendent upon the bounty or Count biOnsAy,
another adventurer ; as a volunteer policemen;
and even when, after all these taunts and
seoles, he threw himself area the French peo
ple, and closed a bloody revolution, after the
example of his own illustrious relative, by
vaulting into the seat of empire, amid the ac
clamations of eight millions of Frenchmen,
who gave him their votes, with an alac
rity and an enthusiasm unprecedented
in French history,—even after this tri
umph, the English aristocracy, the Eng
lish statesmen, and the English press, con
tinned to depreciate, to denounce, and to
labor for his annoyance and his destruction.
So cordially did he respond to this persistent
hatred that his whole policy, since "116
to, the
_throne, has been to humble that
aristocracy of England, and to deal exact and
even-handed justice upon the betray-ei-6 and
murderers of his uncle. Nor has this, his
fixed purpose, been changed. Kind words,
couched in diplomatic style, have been vouch.
safed to England ; but all his deeds have
tended to subordinate England to France:
Whether in the council or in the field, the
superiority of the judgment and the cou
rage of French statesmen and French sol
diers has always been made prominent.
Acting with England in the great Crimean
campaign ; identified , with her in most of
the international diplomatic disputes with
other nations, he has alined. intrereeptudr
taken the lead, until at this moment he may
be called the master of the destinies of Europe,
end if need be, can at any time asshmO id
dictate terms to England herself. The manner
in which this part of his programme has been
earried out is almost sublime, When he
finished the great docks at Cherbourg—that
stupendous work, which had for two hundred
years excited the dread of Great Britain, and
even induced the First Consul to pause in his
intentions with regard to it—LOUIS NAPOLEON
invited Queen VICTORIA and both Houses
cf rarliament to be prsent at the magnificent
fete which celebrated its completion.
Few people are, perhaps, aware that this is
the French Gibraltar of the British chan
nel, and that if ever a great military ex
pedition is undertaken by France against
Great Britain, it would be fitted out at
and started from Cherbourg. In fact this
great fortification almost looks down upon the
British capital. It was to this place, originally
intended as a mantles to Great Britain, that
Louis
NAPOLEON ostentatiously in 't the
British Legislators, and they came like sup
pliants, because they could not refuse his
royal summons. He welcomed them as a
monarch would welcome subjects, and, by the
august reception, proclaimed to mankind that
he had brought to his feet the daughter of that
house which had gloried over an act of
treachery to the greatest soldier of any age—
that NAroLeoN, in whose name and for whose
sake he was chosen to preside over the French
people.
gain, when he stood in the palace of the Bri•
tish Kings, he was more the conqueror than
the guest, and he could not have restrained
the estulting reflection which recalled the pe•
riod when, almost a fugitive, and, in a great
degree, a dependent, in London, he was the
target - of British ridicule and British insult,
He left England in 1847, amid the jeers and
scoffs of, the English nobility—he returned to
find them his almost abject worshippers. Him
self the escort- Of het gracious Majesty the
Queen, he consigned to the care of Prince
ALBERT his own parvenu Empress, EUGENIE,
thins inflicting a double wound by reopening a
double memory. Grandly exultant in the pre
sence of the uncovered nobility of England,
' those who rejoiced over the capture, the cap
tivity, and the death of the First Consul, he
was not yet satisfied even with the additional
thought that a ruler chosen by the people
should be thus honored and courted by the
creatures of a haughty nobility. In the Cri
mean war Englisii incapacity, English red
tape and English fanaticism, so well tinder-
stood by NAPOLEON, enabled him to inflict
another humiliation on English pride. The
historian will assign to kiaroLEox the credit
of having directed the movements of the en
tire campaign. Seated in his own palace, and
constantly informed by telegraph of the inove
ments of the allied forces, it was in his brain
that the plan was conceived, and by his orders
that that plan was eveented. In proportion
as the British generals proved their unfitness
for command the soldiers of Louis NAcoLEON,
Men bent Of the people, acting under his in
structions, pushed the British aristocracy from
the lead and themsell-es won the glory of the
fight. We recur to these incidents to show
that it is impossible for France to become the
cordial ally of England in the designs of the
latter against this country. Apart from these
recollections ; which have enlisted so much of
the grateful sympathy of our own people,
beginning with the signal aid rendered to the
cause of the Colonies in the Revolution,
under the generous reign of Louts the Six.
teenth, followed by the transfer of Loui
siana to >the United States, by order of
the First NAPOLEON, who gave it to us,
that England might not seize it, and
ending with the election of Louis NAPOLEON
as President—in itself a recognition of the
popular element in our own system;—apaTt
from these recollections, if there were no
living prejudices against England in the mind
of the French Emperor and the Freneh peopl4,
there is undoubtedly no practical French in
terest that can be subserved by such an
anee as England seems to desire, in order to
make her attack upon this Republic irresisti
ble. If England, in characteristic and de
grading Violation of all her anti-slavery prQ
fessiona and prejeAces, and for a selfish com
mercial reason, chooses to throw her weight
in favor of the repudiating robbers and in
grates of the. Southern Confederacy, the instinct
of France, political, commercial, and social,
will undoubtedly induce her to sympathize
with the Northern and loyal States_ The best
and most profitable customer of France in the
purchase of her great fabrics are the people of
the free States, India, China, and Italy are
all silk-growing and silk-inanufactuting mitt
tries, and the chief dependence for the ex
tensive silk establishments at Lyons and other
French towns is upon our population. While
England maintains markets for her cotton
fabrics in all the countries which are the
known rivals of France in the manufacture of
silk, the boast of the Southern people that
they are the groat consumers of French goods
is turned to ridicule by the single fact that the
servant girls of the free States consume more
silks and French goods than the whole
Southern aristocracy. If England is content
to trust Louis NAPOLEON, so are we. If they
!,hare confidence in his disposition to sacrifice
all tbe memories of the past and all the in
, terests of the present and future we may be
pardoned for saying that we have equal confi
dence in the tenacity with which he remembers
the one and cherishes the other.
Increase the Post,Office Revenue.
Ever since the reduction in the rates of
postage the Post Office Department has not
paid its own expenses. In England, on the
contrary, where the uniform cheap postage
originated, a large annual contribution to the
notional I`BVOllllO is the result, and, year after
year, this contribution increases in amount.
There the postage is two cents, while it is
three cents with us—exclusive of the in
creased rate for California letters. It is true
that the population of the United States con
siderabiy exceeds that of Great Britain and
Ireland, but our postal expenses are also
greater from the straggling distribution of
our population, the vast extent of territory
which our mails have to travel, and the aug
mented cost, arising from both of these causes,
of convoying letters.
With a larger population than England,
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, it may appear
singular that, in the United States, fewer let
tei a,e circulated_ Dow is this 1 The dif
ference may be counted in millions. Do wo
communicate less with each other? or are our
people not so well able to perform the mecha
nical portion of letter-writing ? Not so, for
the proportion of people in this country able
to read and write vastly exceeds that in the
old country. The fact, which post-office sta
tisticians have hitherto left unnoticed, is, that.
the Telegraph has largely usurped the duty
and largely appropriated the receipts of the
Post Office. If there were no telegraphic
messages, letter-writing would flourish more
than it does_ We are too (t fastP 7 to wait for
the comparatively slow transmission through
the Post Office. The messages which keep
passing over the wires, from daylight to mid
night, are to be counted, we believe, in mil
lions upon millions all over the land, and each
message, doing duty for a letter, deprives the
Post Office revenue of ono postal rate. Say
that only two hundred million telegrams an-.
nually are despatched—we exclude those
which communicate intelligence to the press—
and here is $6,000,000 a year, which (or the
greater portion) ought to go into tho till of
the Post It must be considered, too,
that the Telegraphs actually contribute no
thing whatever to the public revenue.
Our suggestion is, place a tax of five cents
upon each message sent by telegraph; the
amount to _be ascertained, every month, by
returns from the Telegraph Companies, a few
Government Inspectors being legally empow
ered to ascertain what amount may be due.
No doubt, this small tax would be added on,
by the Telegraph Companies, to the current
price of the message. But the tax would
have the advantage of being payable only by
the parties specially using " the wires"
in
stead of the mails.
It may be observed—there is no such im
-15.514 5.§ filiti in England') W 4 eisn't knew, that
we are bound to take England as an universal
exemplar ; but, we say that, in England, the
telegraph does not supersede the post office,
as it does here. For every hundred messages
over the wires here, there is only one in Eng
land g we doubt whether the proportion is not
Qur proposition, which has never before
been made in any journal, is simply—increase
tin Peat Met: ICTUIIIe of the 'Untied States
by collecting a small tax of five cents, or there
abouts, on every. message sent over the tele
graph wires_ It will yield, at least, a clear
revenue of $5,000,000 per annum..
LETTER FROM LL OCCASIONAL."
WasameTox, Dec. 27, 1861.
The steamer that sails from New York on
Saturday will carry forward to Mr. Adams,
in London; and Mr. Dayton, in Paris, a full
account of the decision of the Administration
in the Cabinet meeting en Chrlstmas day,
Conflicting reports as to the action of this
meeting will, of course, accompany the au
thorized despatches_ The sympathisers with.
Secession in Philadelphia and New York,
taking advantage of the leniency of the Go
vernment, will address the agents of the trai
tors at London and Paris for the purpose of
inspiring them with still greater hatred against
our country, as well as to stimulate them to re
newed intrigues to secure tne speedy recogni
tion of the Southern Confederacy. Now it is
that we begin to feel the sting inflicted by the
men in our great Eastern capitals, who sustain
illiit9tlo-4P.C.ll'dkreinisiaties of the Confede
racy at work against the Union in the Old
World. If the 4143411 mi. by the marked
and known traitors in Philadelphia and
New York, to London and Paris, by to
morrow's steamer, against the good cause,
could be exposed, I predict that They would
contain more aid and comfort to the foreign
enemy than these crafty and industrious agi
tators have ever given to the domestic enemy.
Thus the pacific policy of the Administration
may be defeated, and the design of England,
viz the recognition of the Southern Con
federacy, consummated. For here is our
great danger. Should Great Britain deter
mine either to make a condition with Mr,
Lincoln that the blockade must be raised,
or, this concession refuted, that she will break
it, war is inevitable, Happily, however, the
Administration has not been inoetite itl View
of this appalling catastrophe, and the same
steamer that will carry the encouraging coun
sel of our traitors will also bear evidences - of the
earnest and eager and sincere anxiety of our
rulers to keep the peace with Great Britain.
i'fothing will do more to prevent the recognition
of the rebellion than a series of bold and in
stantaneous forward movements of our armies,
here and elsewhere. At no pekiod within the
last five months would such demonstrations
have been more decisive of great issues. If
within the next three weeks the returning mes
sengers of the English Government shall find
the 'Secessionists routed in Virginia, destroy
ed in Kentucky, annihilated in South Carolina,
Florida, and Texas, and driven out of Mis•
souri, there will be no recognition of the South
ern Confederacy. OCCASIONAL.
ENGLISR PICTORIALS.—From Mr. Upham, 310
Chestnut street, we have the Mils/rated London
Netc,7 and Ei?(SOVON Pi r eg's of fig World ! of De
cember 7, containing variety of engravingg.
Also, ilarper's Weekly, the new number com
mencing the sixth annual volume, with Charles
Dickens' We* Chriatmas glerica, in advance, by
purchase of copyright, of all other American jour
nals. Admirable stories these are, too—especially
the las.t, which is American in subject and adven
ture, commencing at San rraucisco, and preevedtug
by the overland route to New York.
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.-J. E. 410LTLD, Seventh
and Chestnut streets, is selling his elegant rianos
and Melodeons at greatly reduced prices. Such
inducements were never before offered to per-
Chasers.
SALE OF VALUABLE FARM, STOCKS, Lte.--Tues
day next, 31st inst., at the Exchange.
SUPERIOR FunxyrunE—Monday, at 905 Pine st.
Virme..4: 7 BBIEBIF.O. kn -Closing sale of Harris,
Hey!, .1 - Co.'s stock, on Monday, at the auction
store.
See Thomas 4• Sous' catalogues and advertise
'MOUS of the three salts.
Proposed Extension of the Vininditin
Telegraph.
11Town - LEAL, Deo. 2 7 ---IsTo decision has yob boon
made by the authorities as to building a military
telegraph line to Quebec. The existing telegraph
company of Canada seriously contemplate extend
ing the line some 200 miles to Cape St. Rosier ; on
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, via Campbellstown, at
the head of the Bay of Chalons. If this enterprise
is carried out, the news by the Canadian line of
steamers will be MOTO et least one day sooner
than by the way of Father Point. Should the lino
be extended to Cape Rosier, it is expected that the
steamers to and from Quebec will make that a port
of call next season.
The Europa at Halifax
HALIFAX, Dec. 27.—The steamer ritroe ar
rived at 5, and sailed at 7 o'clock this morning for
Liverpool, Messrs. Masa and Slidell were not on
board.
The steamer Asia reached here yesterday.
The Austra/arian, with troops, attempted to go
pp the St. Lawrence, but came back on account of
the ice. She will not Medi her treerro here, but
sails for New Brunswick to-day. The Sixty-second
Re g iment will be sells to St. John in the Delta to
morrow.
Excitement in the StOCIL market
NEW YonE, Dec. 27.—There was quite an ex.
eitement in the dock market this afternoon, with
an advance in priceib iirhieh is attributed to the
impression that a suspension of extensive payments
in specie by the banks will precede the next large
treasury negotiations.
Death of Judge McClure.
Prrrserno, Dee. 27.—The Hon. W. B. Mature,
for many years president judge of the Court of
Quarter Sessions of this county, died early this
morning. Ha was highly esteemed by the whole
community as an upright judge.
Arrival of the Edinburgh
NEw y o m, Elm 27.—The steamer Edinburgh
is Rignalled below, and will be up about ti o'clock,
hier ads • ices have been anticipated. She brings the
mails that the Arago should have brought.
The New TftritrilLll signed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.,—The President has ap
proved the bill to increase the duties on tea, coffee,
and sugar.
THE PRESS.
Captain Powans, assistant adjutant general to
-General MAI/MID/LE, was seriously injured on
Wednesday, while riding through the woods near
Falls Church. He was thrown from his horse by
coming in contact with the limb of a tree, and lay
insensible for several Lours, He is now is u fair
way of recovery.
The Defences of Philadelphia.
Lieut. Hume, who so boldly sold the New York
rapers about his escape from Charleston, is an IM
pokstor. Tiro fellow passed tli.
Georgetown Hospital as a wounded soldiev, but
there is no doubt he was never in Charleston, and
ilia whole story is a tor fOrieetim
Winter Quarters.
General CASEY'S division are building wooden
barracks on Meridian Hill, in the form of a Spanish
town. They are to be one awry high, and v4toud
along four sides, each side capable of containing a
regiment. In the centre will be an open space, or
grand plan, forming an excellent parade ground
for brigade movements. It is noteworthy, as illus
trative of Northern ingenuity, that they are all
put together by the soldiers, and cost the Govern
, .
Govern
m_ nothing. eweeptler the hunker.
Certain officers of each brigade are now being
instructed in a now signal code, the invention of
Maj_ METERS; formerly surgeon in the nityyt
They are said to be neither to simple for the ene
my to discover easily, nor too complicated to em
barrass the movements of our own army. It is
said that the eeimiettiga gleanl was betrayed to the
enemy before it was in nse over three days, and it
is therefore necessary to use some device that may
pot be easily understood, except by the signal offi
cers instructed for that purpose.
-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1861.
LATEST NEWS
BY TELEeItAPI-X,
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to 4 , The Press.,,
WASHINGTON ) Deo. 27, 1.261,
General IlleCall's Report of the Dames-
villt Fight.
General lifeCarm's report has been issued, but
does not very from the intelligence already oem
municated to the press.
Hon. Alfred Ely.
lion, ALFRED ELY has arrived here from Rich
mond, and details a very interesting &count of his
experience among the rebels.
Colonel Windham,
The English rifleman, who distinguished himself
during the late Italian war, under GARIBALDI,
and who served in the Sardinian army See six
years, Baring offered his reileteea to the Vatted
States Government, has been appointed to a po
sition in the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment.
A Rene YAW,
Formed from detachments of the regular cavalry,
has been established in this city., These grim
sentinels are now seen, armed cap-a-pie, seated in
their 91141[16A, 91 21105 t lIS 3110Lit.MIC:,0 as statues, at
every corner along Pennsylvania Avenue. Their
duty is to prevent the frantic style of riding, lately
exhibited by officers and others, along that tho
roughfare. They also soo that every soldier pro•
duces his pass, when demanded. if suspected of not
being legitimately absent from camp.
A Sailor Wedding
Took place on Tuesday evening, at the Church of
the Epiphany, the bridegroom being Lieut. Tnos.
J. PASTMAN, DOW in command of the steamer
Yalikee, of the Potomac flotilla, and the bride Miss
ANNA MAXWELL, daughter of Dr. Maxwm.L,
U. B. N. There was a large attendance of naval
alders .and others present. Mad. SIISINI Ode
M'lle Isom, HINCKLEY ) assisV, as the French
say, the choir with her splendid vocal powers.
Battle of Bull Run
A sketch of the battle of Bull Run has just been
published in Richmond by W. Hanene.vn WHITE,
being lithographed by F. W. BOERNEILINE in
Cikarleeton. It was dr.wil by Captain gAMIIP.L P.
MITCHELL, of the First Virginia Regiment. It is
not much in the matter of art, being but poorly
printed ; but it illustrates the plan of the battle
and confirms the feet that General MeDowELL's
plan was both admirably formed and executed.
The Confederates acknowledge that they wore
attaakad an their weak part and outflanked, when
some unaccountable panic seized upon the Federal
lei:. Asa matter of justice to an able general, this
evlclence from the enemy is invaluable.
Elias Howe,
The sewing-machine inventor, is now hero, visit
ing the camps of the regiments which he helped to
fit out, to continuo his good offices, and contribute
to the comfort of the men.
• Americans Leaving Paris.
Intelligence recoivcd to-day by tho Atuorkett
mails states that Americans on the Continent aro
flocking to Paris, preparing for an immediate de
parture for their homes, The current impression
in Paris is that, in ease of a war between England
and America, Franco will unite with England.
This is shared by many Americans from whom
icttors haro been received.
Accident to Captain Powers
A committee of the Philadelphia city oounetts
arrived here to-day, and visited the Navy and War
Departments on business connected with the de
fence of that city.
Lieutenant Hurd.
Colonel McClean,
of the Cameron Light Guard, or Eighty-eighth
Pcouisylvanits Yoluntnors, now siotivisvd
dria, of which place he is provost marshal, will
probably be court-martialed. Charges have been
preferred against him for disobeying the commands
of his superior officers, and conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman.
Affairs in General MeCall's Division.
signal lights 9fib9 9R9P7yiCtr? 099 ,2,
several nights past by General Ilicatia.'s division
at no considerable distance from Camp Pierpont.
Mother nisPici9l4s character has been brought
blindfolded by our pickets into Camp Pierpont on
suspicion of being a spy.
Company B, Captain COOrER, of Colonel CAMP
art4.ll6iy manumit, hos loft Camp Pierpont
with his splendid battery to assist Creneral Bas
in crossing the Potomac.
LAM NQce of the rebels have been seen within
a short distance from the outside pickets from
DleCaLL's division.
The glorious victory achieved at Dranesville has
inspired the Pennsylvania Reserves with additional
confidence, and the defeat of the rebels has pro
bably whetted them for fresh scenes of brutality
and vengeance.
Thu Reserves are ready fora 1,911.161 ftalic i and
would like to see the enemy dance to their music.
A Foraging Party.
A foraging party, consisting of Generals IYADS.
wonvn's and Karns' brigades, from Upton's Hill,
left their camps at two o'clock this morning with
one hundred wagons. They went to within a mile
Of Falrfax j but saw no rebels, and retwiaed le the
evening with the wagons filled with corn and hay.
The Burning of the Government Stables.
Twv hviackva and thir. kedges Were burned in
the fire last evening.
Miscellaneous
President LINCOLN ] accompanied by Capt. Dem.
clam, visited the Pensacolajo•day, and went on
her trial trip down the river.
Colonels MEAGHER and Anions have been nomi
anted to the Senate as brigadier general&
General Roszene:xs arrivid here from Western
Virginia today.
The President has approved the bill providing
foe the appointment of three commissioners from
each State to visit the camps to receive ana for
ward to the friends and families of tne soldiers the
latter's allotment of pay. -
The North Carolina_ loaded with forage Con ,
signed to Colonel INGALLS, of the Quartermaster's
Department, Alexandria, arrived at Liverpool Point
to-day, from Nei York, in a leaky conditiom She,
in connection with a number of inhere ) is, expeeted
to pass the rebel batteries hitherward to-night.
The steamboat Tfauctr, Captain IL S. Writanr,
arrived here yesterday from Flitittdolphia l having
passed the blockade without a %hot being fired at
her. She is intended for the new Government
ferry at Georgetown, and will probably commence
her trips en Monday next. This is one of the
greatest improvements made by the Government,
and will greatly facilitate the transportation of the
heavy army wagons, which are constantly passing
between this city and 'Virginia, and will rolitrre thy
Long Bridge from the pressure of teams which have
heretofore been forced npon it.
Nowtz from tho‘South:
The Richmond Examiner of Tuesday says it
greatly fears that the United States will surrender
MASON Bad SLIDELL to the British authorities, and
will thereby submit to a shame yet unrecorded in
the annals of any nation, rather than disturb the
infernal purpose to grind into the earth the liberties
of the people of the South. By the abject submis
sion demanded, they may, but only for n while,
avert the war between Great Britain and the United
States.
The Examiner goys a acct h Pew the most exi
gent desideratum with the South, and senores the
rebel Government and officers of the navy for their
singular torpidity in all matters pertaining to the
1,,u11 , 11.d of ships during the whole progriai of the
SW.
The Examiner contains copious extracts from
the New ,York paper§ of the 22 4. '
The general appropriation bill, which has bean
approved by Jure' DAVIS, appropriates for the
army about sixty millions of dollars ; for the navy
about four millions,
A naturalization law has been passed by the rebel
Congress, extending its provisions to all persons,
not citizens of the rebel States, who are engaged in
the nasal g erviae of the rebel States during the
war.
The Nashville Despatch, of the 24th, says gold
was sold there, the day before, nt 25 par oeut.
premium, which is a decline of 1.5 9outa an the
former prices. Some days ago it sold at 40 per
cent. premium
The Trent Altair Adjusted. rerA,
It is reported, and generally believed, that the
Trout affair has boon adjusted.
Thy Vonteticrotes are giant ni Drantes-
The Confederates, aggrieved at their defeat at
Dranesville, are anxious to draw our forces into
another ongttgentent, in the hope of bettor MOO fag .
They have been largely reinfbreed, and are using
means to draw out the Federal troops. There is no
disposition on tbo part of son. 14°CA r.r. to avoid an
encounter, and any advance on the part of the re
bels will certainly result in another engagement.
The recent engagement at Dranesvillo is ac
knowledged, es the Nets new been reeeiveil
from both sides, to have byen one of the best-con
tested encounters we have yet had with the ene
my. Gem fimuinm and some of his officers
showed a heroic spirit, and Colonel Kasig says
that he could distinctly hear the officers urging
the rebel army on to battle.
One officer, he says, implored the men to rush
forward ; but, after using every argument in his
power, they failed to obey, when the officer, in a
last desperate effort t 4 make his men advance
upon our troops, rushed forward himself, when he
was shot down, and his men were immediately dis
persed. Colonel KANE says that a prompt obedi
ease to the commands and entreaties of that
officer, on the part of his men, would probably
have turned the fortunes of the day against
us. So near wore the two armies together, that
Colonel Ka - aT, distinctly heard the order givou by
that rebel officer, to aim at the officer (Col. Kim)
leading on the Euelitails ; and he attributes his
Own entiP4 frol death on the field wholly to the
bravery of his own men in striking terror into the
ranks of the enemy and causing them to refuse to
obey the orders of their commander.
It will effuse no surprise to hoar of another on•
pigment at any moment in the vicinity of Drams
ville. Our pickets in that direction were driven
in yesterday, and the rebels have been largely
strengthened. General hIcCALT, is prepared for
any emergency; and if the Confederates desire to
meet the Pennsylvania Reserves in a fair field, a
very trifling advance on their Part will be received
by General Mean as an intimation to move for
ward to an engagement.
Colonel Kane
Colonel of the Buchtaite, under the - very
excellent care of his wife, is improving. lie is,
however, confined closely to his 'bed, and is very
weak. Colonel KANE is not wounded in the fore
head, and deprived of his reason in consequence,
as currently reported. His wound is on the cheek,
the ball having passed through the cheek, and, car
rying away a tooth and a portion of the jaw-hone,
lodged in his mouth. He is in full possession of his
reason, and recounts with minute detail the inci
dents of the lute engagoimut and brilliant success
of the Pennsylvania troops.
General Hemtzehnan's Command—An
Engagement Probable
General lIEINTZELKAN IS in 00111niancl of the loft
wing of the army, and the rebels just beyond his
lines attempt to hold their ground with considerable
tenacity. Within tan days he has made three
several attempts to bring them into an engagement,
but in each case they turned their backs upon the
Meng troops after the first fire The General is
determined to make a movement that will
either bring them to an engagement, or
drive them permanently back from their present
Etdoutiag grounds. In his command there are, as
in the right wing of the army, a very large proper
hail of Pennsylvania troops, and they are eager for
an opportunity " to let slip the dogs of war" upon
their foes. Generals LLEINTZELNAIT! OUNNER, and
Ricuennsoa are in :command of the left wing of
the army of the Potomac, and, composed as it is of
many of the finest mime/7W to tll9 army, they will
not fall to do honor to themselves whenever oppor•
tunity occurs.
Soldiers' Pay and their Families.
The President tins morning signed the bill re
cently passed by Congress, to provide a more con
venient mode of allotments of soldiers' pay to their
families, It gives the Pr.ieldei.k. the 1561.V44` 40 ap
point from each State three persons as commis
sioners, who shall not be entitled to any compensa
tion from the Government, who shall receive by
draft from the paymasters the order of such per
sons to whom allotments of soldiers' pay may be
made• The third section of this law takes from
the sutlers their lion on the sehlier4' pay The
bill, as it Is signed, refers only to the volunteer
force.
THE CAMPAIGN IN MISSOURI.
2,500 PRISONERS CAPTURED.
Ten Bridge-Burners Shot
rains of TOM RAILSOADO,
T. Loris, Deo. 27.—The following is a resume
ofjha want military nneratinna in Mimmtri,
. _ .
Within the last two weeks the Federal army has
captured 2,500 rebels, including about 70 commis
sioned officers ; 1,200 horses and mules, 1,100 stand
of aims, two teas of rawaar, 100 eralam, ea lei_
mense amount of commissary stores, camp equi
page; the large foundry at Lexington, used by the
rebels for casting cannon, shot, and shells, burned ;
most of the rebel craft on the Missouri river, in.
eluding the ferry boats, have been either destroyed
or captured, and a Olean sweep has been made of
the whole country between the Missouri and the
Osage rivers, and Gen. Prier, cut off from all sup
plies and recruits from North Missouri, and is in
full retreat for Arkansas with his whole army,
having parsed through Springfield on Monday - last.
Our loss in accomplishing these important results
has not exceeded 100 in killed and wounded.
These are the fruits of the brilliant strategical
combinations of General lialleck, which have been
so ably executed by Generals Pope, Prentiss, and
McLean, Colonels Jeff. C. Davis (of Fort Sumpter
fame); Fred. Steele, of the Eleventh Regular In•
teary, and the brave officers and soldiers of oitr
army regulars and volunteers.
Price's emissaries, sent out to stir up rebellion in
North Missouri, and sipacilt4avouoly burn all the
lailroad bridges, stations, and rolling stook, on the
11th of this month, in accordance with the plan
lies/magi:tea from the lON omp, bovci been foiled
tea great extent in their plans, by the energy of
tineral Halleck, and the activity of our forces,
'eh are kept in constant motion, notwithstanding
VeTerity a the weather.
the damage done to the North Missouri and
Ihnibal and St. Joseph railroads has been much
ex Berated. The repairs are rapidly being made,
=both the North Missouri railroad and the tele•
grate wires will be in working order to Wellsville
to•niht.
bridge•burners hare already been shot, and
fifty tlaers are in close confinement, to be summari
ly dilt with under Gen. ollalleck's stringent
order
fovr Jaya it is cpadontly oxpectecl tla.t our
movincolumns will as effectually break up bridge•
bnrninnorth of the Missouri as the rebellion has
been castled south of the river. No mercy will be
shown Ithe scoundrels. Gen. Halleek's emphatic
orders I .th reference to all bridge-burners are to
shoot dm every one making the attempt.
Maki_Clever hes just returned from a smut
in Gauen county with ten wagon loads of sub
sistence, rebel captain, and thirteen men, who
left Puri's army since his retreat was com
menced.
Gen. Fe's official report of the expedition to
central Mouri is received, but it contains nothing
importantAt bas pot boon previously reported,
Ti Rout of Price's Army.
OTTERVLE, Ilia_, Dee. 27.—A prisoner who
escaped , fro the rebel camp at Huruansville last
Raturday, *rt.* that when the tie W.l that Geliat'ai
Pope's cam, had driven General Rains' pickets
at JohnstowWas received by Price's army, the
greatest contnation prevailed in the rebel camp.
The eavalpartillery, and infantry, and raw,
ragged, and armed recruits were mixed up in
inextricable ,nfusion, and many hours elapsed
before anythl like order was restored.
The retrW the whole army commenced as
soon afterwas is possible, and so fearful were they
of pursuit th hey burned the bridges and placed
every obstaelfithe way of the fancied pursuers.
Even the catalpa bridge built by Gen. Fremont
across the °s pans not spared by the flying re
bels. It is repid that one regiment was loft on
the Osage as a ossuartl, and that several small
bodies are seated through the counties about
Warrensburg, ing supplies. A cavalry force
has been sent ulps pursuit of them, but our
horses are so wiripi weary by other long forced
marches that bells little prospect of capturing
these rebels. The \t report from Price is that he
passed through isPgfield GU route, for Arkansas,
and it is pretty cart th a t he will no t at tempt t o
return this winter.
Sr. Louts, Dec. l —ln accordance with orders
from General ilallethe Provost Marshal Gene
ralii has directed th e sixteen slaves now con
fined in the St. Le ounty jail, and advertised
for sale under the S statute, be released from
priers, ,a be ply - oder the ventrel vt tiiko
chief quartermaster is department, for labor,
till further orders—th slaves being the
pre
perty of rebels, end h been used for insurrec
tionary purposes. 1
SKIRMI
LouiStrILLE,
tint, from Loni
1,500 rebels at
their sick to K 3
fiTe =llO5 ibis
front Somerset
Mr. Duff, jui
day night, at Ji
between ono '
forty-seven Ut
pletely routed,
ral force lost to
The rebels to
and Boethill et
Union men to
THE CITY.
AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING
AM ERMAN AO/DIO4T OF Filututi—Draval and Loans*
atreeta--Afternoca Grand Dlatinua—Evuoing—•• Jack
Cada."
WEINATLEVEI COSTINXICTAL TRWATRi—Walunt street,
above E!Attu—. The &Whom Rebellion by Sea and
Land"-- 6 . The Forty Uneven, —
ARCII-STAMXT Tagents—Arob street, above Sixth.—
LOVO'N Labor Lost."
'DATING:OK TEMPLE or LIVING WoxoenB-1009 Chest•
oirtet,
L.
Wm:mm-3 mum—Ninth end Watont sta.—
"Turning the Tables"—.. Tricks of LoYe"-- , . The Bid
den Mold."
THEM or Woronino—N, L corner Tenth and VW:I4-
mm istreete.—signor Blitz's Entertainment.
MLISICAL FUND HALL, Locust street, above Eighth.—
Grand Concert.
Lexington and its llero—A Vivid Picture.
The announcement that Col. dames. A. Mulligan—the
"Hero of Lexington," in popular parlance—world ed
dress our citizens, at National 14111 7 last evening, would
in lOW have. filled the edifice to its Muted capacity,
even though the benevolent purpose of thus lecture hail
not been publicly stated. The claim of St. John's Or
-0,„„ Aksliesi tteims the aympathieu of our entitle has,
in every instance, asserted lie influence with marked
and gratifying remits. From this reason, we anticipated
—and truly—that National Han would be filled.
Upon the platform were seated Bight 11ev. Bishop
Wood and a number of prominent Catholic divines.
Beck's Philadelphia Band was also upon the platform,
end did itself Infinite credit.
Punctually - at eight o'clock Col, Mulligan Was intro
duced to the anditmee, and hi reply to its cheers of
udn
tatlon bowed courteously. The Colonel is of medium.
height, and well knit and sinewy in frame. - 1 . 11 his bear
ing there is a striking unity of the polished grace and
miss - of the gentleman with the sturdy manliness of the
soldier. eountenance is noble, handsome, and (we
say it not in compliment) but Alight', indicative of his
type of nationelitY.
Nebo.. Weed introduced the Colonel as follows: I am
pleased, beloved friends, to sail you all here this even.
ing ; in the first_ Oleo, because yen slew a kind sympa.
thy for the orphan, and in the second place, became it is it
demonstration of your loyalty to the Union. [Applause.]
will give . further reforms, but will ietroduce to
yen Colonel James A, Mulligan. [Loud applause.]
Colonel Pan Maim stoke as fellows:
LArneis AND UP:NM:NKR : I did hot erpect to find
myself here tomight, lint I was asked to visit your city
in the Man., of the orphan, awl ally man WllO is in the
perilous troth: of war, anil who MP him little *Me
HIM Muffin him end little lips that pros inn own, and
knows not how soon they may be thrown upon the cold
charities of the world, is not likely to refuse the call of
the orphan. [Applause.] The audience I ace before me
- to-night is my humble cup of cold water for title object.
Let Mr now plainly and briefly [Mute the circumstancen
of a little affair that happened to es in Miesouri. duet
outside the limits of dettereon City, overlierking the
Broad Missouri, were encamped two regiments, over
SThlfh fleeted twfp beepers—banners which have been
twine to the pest, and may they ever bo ao in the future—
the tarp of Ireland and the stars or America, [Applaneed
Under these twin banners lay as rollicking and happy it
regiment as was ever collected together. It wits the Irish
Brigade of Chicago. At the hour of midnight it received
an order to march to the relief MOM. Marshall), cavalry,
then threatened by the enemy, and with them to emit their
way through to Lexington, and hold it at all hazards.
The next morning saw the Irish Brigade with its face set
towiinle Lexington, We stated with forty retinas of
ammunition and three flays' ratienin add advenced BA
nine days without meeting the enemy, foraging upon the
country in the meantime for support. As we moved along,
war smoothed his wrinkled brow. The chaplain mixed
his admonitions with iiii occasional snatch of alt Moll
melody, The major was a married man, and chanted—
" Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming."
The lieutenant colonel was a married man, and,
not to be formal, I was a married into, and lot,
lowed the major. [Laughter.] Thus we went on, until
at length we arrived within two miles of Lexington. 'rho
brigade eat down, - pitched its camp, the men rested, and
preparations were made for advancing into the city. We
taut in; with our eatery six= pounder moiled in rotes
and breeched with evergreens. The mon had travelled
nine days, by forced marchee, as it is called in the regu
lar army, yet they, never looked better. On arriving at
Lexington we found Colonel Marshall's cavalry and a
few Hems (Maeda, and I. wish, for our sakes, there had
been fewer. I Lave a very poor opinion of Home Guards.
I have found them invincible hi peace, and invisible
in war. [Laughter.] Thee are generally content to
stay at hone under the shadow of the paternal mansion
and let the eountry take care of itself. 1 say Ire found a
few of those Homo Gtmtds there. On the 10th of September
n letter arrived from Colonel Peabody, saying that he
was retreating front Warrensburg, twenty-five miles dis
tant, and that Price was pureeing him with ten thousand
nun. A few hours afterwards Colonel Peabody, with the
Thirteenth Missouri, entered Lexington. We then had
2,780 men in garrison and forty rounds of cartridges. At
noon of the llth, we commenced throwing up our
first entrenchments. In Six hOnrS afterwards the enemy
opened their fire. Cob Peabody was ordered out to Inert
them. The camp then presented a lively scone; officers
were hurrying hither and thither, drawing the troops up
in line and giving orders, and the comnutmler was riding
with his staff to the bridge to encourage his men and to
plant M. artillery. Two silo-rounders werb Plaided to
oppose the enemy, and placed in charge of Capt. Dan.
Quirk, who remained at his poet till daybreak. It was
night of fearful anxiety. None knew at what moment
the enemy would be upon the little band, and the hours
peened to silence and amOlOna Watiliha_ go It &militias,'
- until morning, when the chaplain rushed info headquar
tare; saying that the enemy were pushing forward.
Two companies of the Missouri Thirteenth were
ordered out, and the Colonel, with the aid
of Ms elate, SRN General Price urging his mall to the
fight. They were met by Company H, of the Irish
Brigade, tinder Captain Quirk. who held them in check
until Capt. Lillon's company of the Missouri Thirteenth,
drove them back, and burned the Midge. That closed
our work before breakfast, Immediately mix companieu
of the Missouri Thirteenth, and two companies of Illinois
cavalry, were despatched in search of the retreating
enemy. They engaged them in a corn-field, fought with
them gallantly, and harassed them to such an extent as
to delay their progress, in order to give time for OM.
structing entrenchments around the campen College
Hill. This hag the desired effect, and we succeeded in
throwing np earthworks three or four feet in height.
This consumed the night, and was continued during the
twat day, the outposts still opening the mows
and keeping them back as far As pafisible. AC
three o'clock in the afternoon of the 12th the en
gagement opened with artillery. A volley of grape
shot was thrown among the officers, who stood in front
trpfint limn a ThgOrg WillCh COMM ted the
scene into one of the wildest description. We had five
six-pounders, and the musketry were firing at every
angle. - Those who were not shooting at the moon were
shooting above rt.. [Laughter.] The men were ordered
IP MR/ firing, anti they were arranged in ranks, kneel,
the front rank shooting and tit' others loading, The
artillery were served with more care, and within an hour
a shot front one - of our guns dismounted their largest
piece, a twelve-pounder, and exploded a powder caisson.
This achievement Was received with shouts of exultation
by the beleaguered garrison, The enemy retired a Ribtallro
of 3 miles. At 7 o'clock the engagement had ceased and
Lexington was ours again. [Applause.] Next morning
General Parsons, with ten thousand men at his back,
sent in a flag of truce to a little garrison of twenty-seven
handfed =;C2I, askin g permission to enter the town and
tairs - his dead, claiming that when the noble Lyon went
down, his corpse had fallen into his hands, and he had
granted every privilege to the Federal officers sent after
it, It Wee 1 3 .9 t necessary to thle fee e reason why
lie 611011111 Or permitted toperform an act - which humanity
would dictate. [Cheers.] The request was willingly
granted, and we cheerfully assisted in burying the fallen
foe. On Friday, the work of throwing up entrenchments
went on. It rained all day, and the men stood knee-deep
in the mud, building therm Tracing were cent eat to
forage, and returned with large quantities of provisions
and fodder.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we stole seven
days' provisions for tw enty-seven? hundred men. We
had . i.:.'CA4.l.ona at Las.d.seite,
pelted to get our rations as best We could. A quantity
of powder was obtained, and then large cisterns were
filled with water. The men made cartridges mm the cellar
of the college building, and cast one hundred and fifty
rotunda of shot far the awns at the fahratelee of Lesdag
. ton. Earthworks had been reared breast-high, enclosing
an area of fifteen to eighteen acres, and surrounded by
a ditch. Outside of this was a circle of twenty-ono
mines, and still further down were pits to embarrass
the i,i , egiees or the Dui.ti.4. the 404 of }ho
17th we were getting ready for the defence, and heard
the sounds of preparation in the ramp of the enemy
for the attack on the morrow. Father Butler went
around among the men and blessed them, and they
reverently onewrerea thole heads matt 1-I:soloed his 'acne
diction, and then turned round and cocked tbefrmtiskcts.
[Applause.] At nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th
the drums beat to arms, and the terrible struggle com
menced. The enemy'eforce had been increased to twen
ty_eieht ft,,,,,issma sass aiA i.bie6 - 4 of
They came as one dark, Moving mass; men armed to the
teeth—as far as the eye could reach men, men, men, were
visible. They planted two batteries in ront, one on the
left, one on the right, and one in the rear, and opened
with a terrible fire, which was angwered with the utmost
I bravery and determination. ,Cfur spies had informed us
that the rebels intended to stake one grand rout, and bury
us in the trenches of Lexington. The batteries opened
at nine o'clock, and for three days they never ceased to
Niue deadly that upon us. Aber& noon the Monad wee
taken. It Was situated on the left, outside of the en
trenchments. I had never thought it necessary to build
fortifications around the sick man's couch. I had thought
that, among civilized nations, the soldier sickened and
wounded in the tweeter, of his country, would, at
least, be Meted. Ent I was Inexperienced, and had yet
to learn that such wee not the case with the rebels.
They besieged the hospital, took it, and from the balcony
and roof their sharpshooters poured a deadly fire within
our antrenehmente_ It contained SUN 81161116111 and
sur
geen,and one hundred and twenty - wounded men. It
could not be allowed to remain in the possession of the
enemy. A company of the Missouri Thirteenth. was or.
dered forward to retake the hospital. They started on
their errand, but stopped at the breastworks, so going not
out because it Was bad to go out." [Laughteel A coin ,
pony of the Missouri Fourteenth was sent forward, but
it also shrank from the task, and refused to move outside
the entrenchments. The. Montgomery Guard, captain
Gleason, of the Irish Brigade, were then brought out.
The commander admonished them titift the others had
failed ; and with a brief exhortation to uphold the
name they bore, gave the word to " charge." The
distance was eight hundred yards, They started out
- from the entrenchments, first quick, then don Ale quiche,
then on a run, then fester. The enemy ponied a deadly
shower - of bullets upon them, but on they went, a wild
line of steel, and what is better than steel, human will.
[Cheers.] They stormed up the slope to the hospital
door, and, with irresistible bravery, drove the enemy be
ton them, and hurled them far delay the hill heyend,
[vociferous cheers.] At the bend of those brave fellows,
pale RS marble, but not pale from fear, stood the gallant
officer, Captain Gleason. He said "Conde on, my brave
boys," and they rushed. But when their brave captain
returned, It was with a - allot throngli the cheek, RIM
another through the arm, and with but 45 of the 50 he
had led forth. [Applause.] The hospital was in their
possession.
We were in a terrible situation. Toward night the
fire increased, and in the evening.word came from the
rebels that if The nistriwn did not Currvader irstory the
next day, they would heist the black flag at their can
non, and give us no quarter. Word was sent back that
"when we asked for quarter it would lie time to settle
that " (Cheers.] It was a terrible thing to see those
heave &Hawk with 116 betide to bind
their gaping wounds. Our surgeon was held with the
enemy, againft all rules of war, and that, too, when we
had released a surgeon of theirs on hie mere pledge that
be was such. Captain Moriarty went into the hos
ettal, said, with betide. but a remse. - acted the
part . of a surgeon.. We could not be without a chap.
lain or surgeon any longer. There was in our ranks
a Lieutenant Hickey, a rollicking, jolly fellow, who
was despatched from the hospital to procure the surgeon
and cheetah' at all haearde- Forty minutes later and the
brave lieutenant was borne by' severely wounded. As
he was borne past I heard him exclaim, ' , God have
mercy on my little once." And God did hear hie prayers,
for the gay lieutenant Is up, as rollicking as ever, and is
now forming his brigade to return to the field. [Ap
pianse,] On the morning of the 11th the 'firing was re
sumed and continued all day, We recovered our sur
geon and chaplain. The day Mils signalized by a lierco
bayonet charge upon a regiment of the enemy, which
erryed to show them that our men were not yet com
pletely worried out. The offirers Ural told them to bell out
until the nth, when they would certainly be reinforced.
Through that day our little garrison stood with straining
eyes, watching to ENO if some friondiy flea Wes bearing aid
to them—with :draining ear, awaiting the sound of
Mop.* coxinO n wle But ito AtlDOll7l , ll,
and, with the energy of despair, they determined _ to do
their duty at all hazards. [Prolonged cheers.] The 19th
was a horrid day. Onr water cisterns had been drained,
and tee dared not leave the crown of the hill, and make
oils z.ittianclatente on the batik of the river, for the enc.
my could have planted their cannon out the hilt and butted
115. The day was blurting hot, and the men bit their car
tridges; their lips were parched and !distend. - But not
a word of murmuring. [Applause.]
the night 1 pa.ed the field,. mouthed
back d '
e clotted nair, aid hy the - Of the
moon, shining through the trees, - I - revognized hero
and there the countenances of my brave men who
had fallen. Some were our favorites in days gone past,
who bed Skald by me these hours of terror, and had
!alien 011 the hard-feught field. Badly we buried them in
the trenches. The morning of the 20th broke, but no re
inforcement apPeared, and still the men fought on. Thb
rebels had constructed movable breastworks of hemp
halts, rolled thrill up the hill, and dirttneed their batte
ries in It manner to command the mrtificatimi, mated
shot were tired at them, but they had taken the precau.
tion to souk the bales in the Missouri. The attack was
urged with renewed vigor, knil during the forenoon the
miter breaetworke wet e taken by charge of the rebates lit
roTre. The whole ithe was broken, reel the tliVI/11 T11 , 13'.
ed i in upon us. Captain Fitzgerald, when. I had known
inlay younger days, and whom we had been wash:lined
A REBEL
to the DJi3.l6-
there aro only
They have sent
pickets extend
>re 14 no nevr4
fight, on Tiles-
Perry county,
len rebels and
wels were com
l.:I. The Pode
'erry, Leto".=,
1 swearing the
Confederacy,
to call by the familiar nickname, " fiaxv," was then or
del ed to oppose his company to ❑le Il mallard:. As t gain
the ardor, "sexy, go in," the gallant Fitzgerald, at the
bead of Company 1, with a wild yell, rtushod in 111Y011 the
enemy, who were driven out. [AlM:tune.] Many of our
geed follows u ore lying dead, our cartridges had MUM,
and it was erident Hunt the light aollid Mon OPIIO. It
WEIR now three o'clock, and all on a sudden an orderly
saying the enemy had sent a flag of truce. With
flue flog roam the following onte from General Price :
"Colonel, NVhitt him tensed the refolotkyn or tho
fight t"
The Cohew, returned it with the Ulan - lug reply writ
ten on the buck :
" General, I hardly know, unless you have mu-ren
dered," [Laughter.]
•lie took pains to amers me, however, tint such wits
not the case. I learned soon after that the Home Guard
had hoisted the white Ilag. 'lire lieutenant who lard thus
hoisted the flag was threatened with instant death MINN
he pulled it down, The men all said, oWe have no
cartridges, and a vast horde rd the enemy is ithotrb us."
They were told to go to the line and stand there,
end use the charge at the turezzle of their guns or
perish there. They grasped their weapons the fiercer,
turned calmly till/01114,«ndstoat firmly ai 41.. it poet,,.
And there they stood witinatit a murmur, praying its they
waver prayed before that the rebel horde would show
themselves at the earthworks. An officer remarked,
“Tide is butchery." The conviction became general
Mid a caneril or war wit., held. Am} wiaen, timany, Ur,
white flag was rained, Adjutant Cosgrove shot bitter
tears. [Applause.] The place was given up, upon what
conditions, to this day, I hardly know or care. The.
trimly clone pouring in. One foppish officer, dressed in
kit Plink. strata/I , fip and dawn
through tire camp, sfeppeti before our :nen, took out
pair of band-cuffs, and, holding thern up, said, a J o your
know what these are for 'I" We were placed• in file, and
a figure on horseback, looking lunch like "Itenth on the
PlllolloVllo,ll lad au through the streets of Lexington: As
WO passed, the Secession ladies of Lexington name from
their hones, and from the fence tops Jeered at at. We•
were then taken to a boud r with no rations and no pro
prietor. After we had boarded there for SWIM' time, we
steeled with General Price, oh the morning of till , 30tbe
toe ' , the land el Dixie." lily Imprisonment thorn I
IA ill say nothing. WC all feel, every in u, of us, that we
have been lighting fora great (muse; that we were not
spnred from Lexington to sit idly in our houses while our
ffillliffY is in danger. [('liners,] We fill feel that that
Itenniiiic which was cemented by the blood of our tattlers
is to be again baptized and made stronger with our blood.
They believe, as I do, (list this Republic will emerge
strong, conquering aLd _tuibroken, through all tire tur
moils of iiitehtlne discord, or against nny exterior foe,
[A pole iire,l They stand ready, as far as in their power,
to hear her honor, proud and beautiful allelic is, on their
loyal litres of steel, until she has emerged, as she will
emerge, victorious, bearing, indeed, the warrior's
pia CTOWlitti with till' victor'o cf9llll, [APP/illied
THE NEW FIRE-ALARM AND POLICE TELE
GRAM] OFFIOE.—The old °Ake of the Department of
Highways, which is now being filled up for the lire
:J.:cc...n.l R.kkeaph,wlll he co n ic for ticeiteltdost
about Elie Mb of January. Tbe office, when completed,
will afford every accommodation and ample room for
the transaction of business. During the past year about
50,000 messages have been transmitted through the old
ofilea_a moth, !UMW rued. poorly ventilated, and with
a leaky roof, threatening destractien during raittY
weather b, the Instruments, Ac., which are crowded into
it. This is the only office r ßer occupied by this depart
ment since its organization, as at that time the business
Latimaeted Woe tlyeefelitllth , Sineo the Ladino of
our local telegraph, however, ntnnerons wires have been
laid, and the amount of business increased to such a
great extent that, after considerably delay, attended with
much boring, Councils lucre agreed to give the rooms
occiuded Ly the Iflghway Deportment to the police tele
'graph, and remove the former to the building at the
southwest corner of Fifth and Walnut streets, whore thsy
are at present I mated.
The work of fitting up the new office was entrusted to
Wes_ J_ Phillips, the entievintandent of the Memel',
and his gentlemanly ast.istat,t, David R. Walker, Egth
Both of these gentlemen have used every exertion to
have Om same done at the lowest figura, and we aro in
formed that the total expense will not exceed :91,000—a
eoid for the hrettAttit of !MOW prtrreVll.l4A_ The
place given as a battery room Ise cellar directly under
the office. This cellar has been fitted up in such a man
ner as to preserve - the instruments, wire, &c., that may
be placrd therein, and thus effect a considerable waving
to the city la the coorse of h. year: Thu old sells& at pre
sent used for the batteries is about the same eizeas the
°Rice, and, owing to its dampness and ill ventilation,
answers very poorly the purposes for which it WAR origi
nally intended. The new battery-room has been so con
,
structed as to 1w Bard Oleo for etorege feerpottes.
The Highway Department formerly occupied two
rooms, the front one, and the largest of which, facing on
Chestnut street, will 'taw be ,teed for the telegraph in
struments. The morn back will be occupied by the su
perintendent 4114 his assisi.trt, as a private ofilve. Th
will be two doors leading into Chestnut street. As usual,
there will be two oporators detailed for day duty, and the
same number for night. Messrs. Theophilus Hartley
and George Collin are at present performing day
linty, Find Metiers. Prank trarnar, and Ws..
night duty. The annual report, showing the workings
of the department, is each year compiled by Operator
Heins, whose politeness and intelligence have won for him
the respect and esteem of all. The other operators at
litablia the hest in the amides. of
the city, as the sesponsibility of the post requires it.
Strange to say, however, their pay is the same as those
who are detailed for duty at the station-houses, where
the amount of labor performed is one-tenth less. The
new si-hen c.midete.l, will he Mille en Inctltution,
and will reflect credit on the city aria the genfiemanly
Akers having it in charge.
H~ aria 81. Itener.A.P.s.—Yesterday after--
noon John Houghton and George Wright were arraigned
before Alderman Beitler on a charge of burglary. Mrs.
Sommers, residing at 1345 Hancock street, testified that
her house was broken open and robbed about six weeks
lance. euirance iwas effected bP !Awl.ltlag seen IL
back shutter, and v 32.50 was taken from a trunk which
was broken open with a soldering iron.
The robbery was effected about five o'clock in the af
ternoon.
Robert Dye; a mall buy, testified that on the afternoon
of the tobbery he saw Houghton in the yard of Mrs,
Sommer's house; wituete asked him what he was doing
there, when he replied that ho had got over the fence
after a ball.
John Kirk, another boy, testified that he had sees the
prisoner, HoneMTh in tile alley leading to Piro, Soinniere
house on the afternoon of the robbery.
Mrs. Llewellen, resoling in Perry street, testified that
her house was entered by thieves on the 27th of Novem
ber while she was absent at a finieral- The thieves took
a watch, a pair or gold epectnoieN and tome 111011 C)) in all
about $llO.
Win. Kelley, a little boy, said that on the day of the
robbery he saw Houghton and Wright standing together
in Perry street_ One of them aNked him to ring the bell
of Mrs. Llewelleu's house and see if any one was at home,
The prisoners were conunitted to answer in default of
burrosEn t'oer, Pra - i.—A man, named Cor
nelius blurphy, was found dead in bed on Thursday, at
his residence, Anita and Ellsworth streets, in the First
ward, lie had a severe contusion on his right temple,
a scar upon the side of his iseck, and several bruises
about the head. From these circumstances it was sup
po,,ed that tho liectwwd hawl nuct with rod yloy. Hit wire
states that she got up about noon on Thursday, and went
down stairs without discovering that her husband was
dead. Shortly afterwards a woman, who occupies an
other portion of the house, went to take some soup to
31,n.p1,,,, and, ut.on ehterlag Ids eobea found hint
corpse. Coroner Conrad was summoned to bold an in
quest in the ease. Nothing very definite could be ascer
tained, and the investigation was postponed until yester
day, in order to allow a post-mortem examination to be
made_ At the inquest, however, it was ascertained that
the cause of the death WiR from natural causes. The
deceased was about forty-five years of age, and was the
proprietor of a liquor store.
TrIZ AR:YEA - NZ:TT Ca FORTS VET0.17. - 11th AM)
MIFFLIN.—Mayor Henry, yesterday morning, received
the following note from the Hon. Wm. M. Meredith, At
torney General of the Commonwealth, relative to the de
fensive condition of Forts Delaware and Main:
ro.6ilmittu Re, lgal.
MY DEAR SIR I I have to thank you for your note of
t1i:1 morning.
I have, this moment received a telegraphic despatch
from the Governor at Harrisburg. Ile has been in corn
:with It fic..ilem T the
Department at Washington, and has just received from
him an assurance that one hundred and thirty-five large
guns (now ready), and twenty flanking?}-pound howit
zers will be mounted on Fort Delaware, and forty-seven
i.c•Li4) Pea Ilitfithi. Aa st. 4
Congress acts, the new fort opposite Fort Delaware - wilt
be erected, and the defensive capacity of Fort Mittlin in
creased. With great esteem, very truly yours,
non. Ax.m.x.,..nzr. rtn,grt÷
PASSAGE or • TROOPS.—Yesterday morning
the first battalion of the First Regiment of Cavalry of
Massachusetts passed through the city. They numbered
four hundred men and horses, and were under the com
mand of Major Greedy Curtis. The men were all fully
equipped. The Ninth New Jersey Regiment, under Col.
William Bryan, passed through our city on Thursday
Ciening, en route for Washington, They were hand,
mutely entertained at the Union - Volunteer and Cooper
Shop Refreshment Saloons. The men were treated to a
full supply of mince pie. They left about 12 o'clock,
and at daylight yesterday morning a regiment eleven
hundred strong was breakfasted, and sent on their way
South,
INTERESTING CELEBRATION.—Kensington M.
E. Church presented a most beautiful scene on Thursday
evening butt, bale. the eesamien of 111 ARM sill su at slue_
lugand speaking by the children of the Sabbath school.
The church was handsomely fitted up, and was crowded
to its utmost capacity. The order was excellent. The
feature most worthy of remark was the singing of the
t(Stee-flpengltel by the 6hildteh_ The as
rangements produced an effect such as we hare seldom
witnessed. The Rev. Mr. Lightbmarn deserves credit for
the energy and skill he has displayed in giving such a fine
treat to the friends of the a Old Brick," as this church is
skill fambliai•ts, &died. We leiirn that the exhibities, le
shortly to be repeated.
HANDSOME TESTIMONIAL. —On Christmas
day the friends of Mr. George W. Case, master painter
at 1 119 - WITT 761 - 61 Presentol io his caiinis>aie osir a eel - -
Tice of diver, consisting of six pieces and a waiter. The
latter was inscribed as follows: "To Mrs. George W.
Case, by the friends of her husband, December 25, 1861."
The testimonial was a handsome one, and was manufac
-hired by ittc,,,gr f 3. Wilson h eon, wrner Vitth
and Cherry streets. The donors were all employees of
the navy yard.
AT HIS OLD POST.—Lieutenant William C.
Haines) or Colonel Oman's regiment ) has ruined hle pO.
Wien on account of ill health, and resumed his duties as
assistant clerk at the Mayor's °nice. Lieutenant Haines
brought with him two 68-pound shells and several pieces
of the projectiles which had been thrown from the rebel
battery near :Cockpit Point at our troops. conning
General Ifoolt - etoe division, nn the Maryland shore. The
shot fell short—abont three-I uarters of a mile—and the
two which Lieutenant Haines has failed to explode.
Mitai•Awt Pum,tft.t.t.The fonopal of Llauf.
Henry Hoehnstine, of Company I, Ninety-eighth Regi
ment of Pennsylvania volunteers, will take place on to
morrow afternoon. It will be attended by the German
battalion of the Home' Guards. The interment will be
in the vault nt* the geatt LeMon. of which the de
ceased was a member, having served in tie Mexican
war, in Captain Binder's company. He was 37 years of
age, and died of heart disease. The body reached the
city on Thursday.
RECOVERY DE A DROWNED BODY. Ott
Thursday afternoon, when the Neater was drawn from
the locks of the canal at Man:wank, time lamb' of a man
named William Sharpless was found at the bottom. Mr.
Chprplee residea .11 , 6514,0EribliS1 sennte,aprissite ALIAS.
yank, and has tu•en missing since Monday. flow lie gut
into the water is not known. He was fifty years of age.
NAVAL MATTERS.—YeSterday morning the
rail it rslitoma called from
is under command of Lientenant J. C. Howell. The
TaliomajA a new boat. Her armament consists of a ten
inch pivot shell-gum a Ix may-pound Parrott-gun, rifled,
and two twenty-fonr-pontt 'Dahlgren howitzers.
. .
. .
i)oo.loilf of the soIIOODVT &Ira, b1)101Vilig 20 Wlll, H.
Amltago, of Virginia, bus oven sold Tor 8535.
. .
The irizu stsaiuer Salvor has also been disposed of
Site brought about $12,000.
eii-iicdr.TS WITH nol.SdVt.-
son and George Wright have been held in $2,500 bail by
Alderman Shoemaker, to answer the charge of breaking
into and robbing the dwelling of Wm. C. Jone.:, 1305
North Seventh street.
MumanAN.—Col. James A. Mulligan,
filo hero of Lexington, arrived ❑i this city yesterday
afternoon. He is stopping at the Continental Hotel.
II sTALLATIox,--Tlic annual communication
of the Grand Lodge, A. Y. Di., of the State of Pentisyl-
Tailill. WAR held yesterday morning, at the flail on Chest.
nut street. The officers elect for the ensuing year were
lhaalhid with tha usual caromaniag.
FATAL RESULT.—Yatrick McLaughlin, about
forty years of age, died on Thursday, at the St. Joer.Th's
Hospital. Irian Iho effect-of injuries received by being
...ese hp a sat ae the thiMillklitoWil Vimamens Hail:
way.
IMPORTS AND Exi.awrs.—Durhig the week,
ending on the 25th instant, our imports reached $126,9.18,
unit eur esturme
_ .
During the same weak in 18/.10. the. , linports stood
$117,646, and the exports $2,31,87r...
FOPRTEENTM LEOIALATIVE
laas eloctod delogislo to
the 4th-of-March Com - option, from the rourtemitli Legis•
la ?Aye district.
The Mrenn etthor Society gives re grand concert. on
the evening of December 30. The proceeds are to
be applied to benevolent purposes. A number of
leading artists have volunteered, The idermauht
Orchestra will be in attendance.
At Barnum's Museum, Chestnut street, above
Tenth, the crowd is daily augmenting, and the sea
lion, Albinos, and whatds•it, are objects of
creasing curiosity and delight.
The Academy dramatic performance was wen at
tended last evening. Wa have alluded in preview
articles to Mr. Fon - cat's Hamlet. It was, as be
fore, a bold and vigorous delineation, well sustain
ed, particularly by Miss Athena, whose clear na
tural voice and careful attention made she part of
Ophelire a great feature of the performrrace. Mrs.
Farren has no rival in her role of ties Queen
Mother. There is a majeety in her _surfs a-A Man
ner that, enhanced by a strong but flexible voice,
renders her the best representative of the moiler of
Bitmlet, Messrs, Harrigan, James Martin, Mier,
and ethers, were capable and efficient. Johri Mc-
Cullough has much improved under Mr. Forrest's
tuition. With a little less of the elocutionist, and
more manner, Mr. McCullough would have isw
equals among the young actors of the time. lie
has an exnressivo face, and is always careful anti
anxious. his figure is good, but his movements
gloiAMOmi conetraine.l7 bough strong
and musical, requires a judicious variation of pitch.
His Edgar, De Mairprai, and Teil re, were all
models of neat acting.
Mr. Daniel Setehell concludes his Academy en.
gagerneat this afternoon, and goes hack to Boston,
where the people remise to tolerate hie absence.
Mr. Satchell hoe a fine mule lib and kart, tt keen
perception of the ridiculous, and a purity of speech
and manner unusual among the "low comedians"
of our time. lie is an unrivalled punster, wad in
terlards his parte with preiviting d o d, i o G .
frequently suggested upon the moment. Most
comedians depend for FailteßS upon the play of
their features but Mr Setchell's face is a comic
study even in repose. Ile was born to make men
laugh.
Olarke—untiring, ambitious, rising—is crowding
the Walnut of nighty, and the roam of laughter
that follow Ws mantes aro almost fearful. The
" Forty Thieves "is attracting half the city to the
Continental, and Blitz, at the Temple of Wondor;,
le ehirkteB to the oehailes ivitl the gusto of thirty
years ago. Blitz is a remarkable man, and his his•
tory would make a series of marvels.
9ubnN, at the Amlcmy thirt pftilmon, will dance
for the benefit of the Volunteer Refreshment Fie•
loons. Colonel Mulligan, the hero of Lexington,
will attend the Academy this evening to ',rancid
Mr. Forrest es JIW: ado. Proscenium box No.
4 was secured yesterday for the gallant Colonel and
suite.
SIGNOR BLITZ . S performances at the Temple of
Wondore are witnessed by troops of children and
their parents. We know of no amusement so inno
cent as the Signor's - magic, ventriloquism, and the
'unary birds: He appears every afternoon anti
evening.
Thr, Pwtr
CAMP Cox, Western Virginia, Dee. 23, 1861
Richard Gatewood, a private, belonging to Com
pany c", First, Kentucky Regiment, was shot, on
Friday last, the 20thinst., in preaenee of our whole
brigade—composed of the First and Second Ken
tucky and Twelfth Ohio Regiments—by order of a
general court martial, for assaulting a sentinel.
The prisoner threw a stone at the guard, which
struck him and broke two of his ribs. The victim,
I believe, is still in the hospital. Gatewood after
ward deserted, was arrested, triell t and couvirtet,
lie was a desperate character. V.
REASONS FOR RIO SUDDEN DEPARTURE
FROM PARIS,
[Front the New Torii Post ()flan evening]
General Winfield Scott returned home last night.
in the steamer Arago, after an absence of but
forty-seven days. The larger part of this short
period was spent on the ocean. Neer all the re
mainder of the time he was at Paris, where he ar
rived on the 26th ultimo. His departure from that
city took place on the 10th instant.
/t is /Glen that the general intended tc remain
abroad several months, and to extend his journey
to Italy, but the plan of his tour was changed
solely for reasons connected with the present rela
tions of our Government with foreign Powers.
Wlthotit eefeeersee to the listeeviewe whisk teek
place between the General and Prince Napoleon,
and afterwards with Minister Thouvenel, it is sta
ted that he would, in any event, have embarked
for home at a very early period, in view of the
possibility of a war between the United states and
England, in which France might eventually be in
volved. , The General felt that, so long as he re
mained in Europe. his free communication with this
.
country alight De interrupted, and that.bis epoody
return might be prevented.
T b e d mese.' oppertuultieA
ox bAPretraglb h c a o s nvictions of eminent men
abroad, and of judging what course will be taken
by England and Frantic, is profoundly impressed
with the danger of the breaking out of hostilities
between England and the United States at a very
early period, and believes in the necessity of prompt
fiatim 611 the post of aloe aocerrsracnt to averi.
collision. He is satisfied (in what manner and for
what causes will be explained hereafter) that in no
case can we expect any aid or even countenance
from Educes, EMI believes that whatever action
may be taken by the latter, will at least operate
"against us in the event of an appeal to arms.
The General, it may be added, is much gratified
with what now appears to be the position of our
Goverrntent, and regards the peerpeet e peace _
able tidjustment or the difficulty as much better
than it had seemed to be in Europe.
THE CE.NERAL'S JOURNEY'.
It Pa be roomolnsint that Cloneral Scott's em
barkation for Europe in the Arago, (the same
steamer in which he has returned) occurred almost
immediately after his arrival here from Washing
ton, on the 3d of November.
After a rough passage of nearly fifteen days the
Arago arrived at Cowes, England ; but the General
and his party remained on board the steamer, and
during his whole absence from this country he did
sot set his f, of 9P. PdttA lauded el !fares
on the 25th of November, and remained in that city
one night, starting for Paris the next day. His
stay in Paris was but fifteen days. Soon after his
arrival the news of the Troia affair was received,
and a whirlwind of emeitetnent Was occasioned by
it, breaking in upon the General's anticipated
quiet. lie did not at first intend to return ; and it
was but a few hours before he actually set out for
iitivre, on the 10th /net , that ho decided to relin
quish his tour. His health had rapidly improved
during the brief recreation he allowed himself.
His return was so sudden that the captain of the
Arerse gale knew of the feet that the General wee
to be his passenger when he actually arrived on
board that vessel at Havre.
THE INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE NAPOLEON.
Among the visitors received hg the General ilk
Paris was Prince Napoleon, with whom the General
became acquainted in Washington. The interview
was protracted and very cordial. It occurred after
the news of the Mason-Slidell capture had reached
Europe i and when the temper of the British nation
had been developed. The Prince expressed his well
known friendly feelings towards the United States ;
and, under the circumstances, believed that the
wisest souses in !VIM la the n 4,1 matter tree for
our Government to disavow the responsibility of
the seizure, a course which, in his opinion, could
alone prevent war. It is •understood that the
Prince's conviction was, that England would de
mand the restitution of the rebel ambassadors, and
would not accept any other result. He could give
no encouragement as to the position France would
be likely to assume.
N. THOETENEL'S VISIT TO THE GENERAL.
After the arrival of General Scott on board the
Arago, he had an interview with M. Thouvenel,
French Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Minister
Minailia.l With the General rieerly half an hoer_
It is understood that the subjects discussed were
principally of a private character; M. Thouvenel
conducting the conversation in English In re
gard Of the Nopu-51idel! affair, Ai Thouvonol ex
pressed no opinion except a brief allusion to the
course that England was likely to pursue. The
interview terminated with the expression of the
best wishes of the Minister towards General Scott,
lersonally. and for the prosperity of the United
States in the future.
W. M. MEREDITH
There was no communication whatever between
the Emperor Napoleon and the General Napoleon
weiat Oenspifine, sail was niepeeted in Palls .111.
the llhh instant—two days atter General Scott left.
General Scott intended to seek an audience with
the Emperor on his return to Paris, but his sudden
departure prevented it.
The General's health is much improved. Ile
walks with comparative ease in his room, and he
is often, very cheerful, coLversingwith his friends
With greet animation, Thu tliiiienne with which
he was afflicted when he departed has almost en
tirely left him, troubling him only when he con
centrates his attention for a considerable period
of time. or when he overexerts his mental
minks.
On his arrival last evening the General de
spatched a letter to Secretary Seward announcing
his return, and tendering his services in any man
ner in which 1110 , could be made uJeful. Thid
proffer is understood to refer particularly to the
Information which the General is able to communi
cate in relation to the threatened difficulties abroad.
General Scott will not immediately repair to
Washington, unless his presence shall be specially
requested ; but it is understood that he intends, to
visit the capital at an early day, probably as soon
as ha shall have recovered from the fatigues :of his
journey.
Colonel Bcott, who accompanied the General on
his voyage, will remain in Paris with his family
until spring.
The following paragraph, from the London
Times of the 11th, shows to what petty slanders
thetjoureel depends to Mame the English peOple
egfilliat the AtlioidAll3:
"RETURN or Be renaivrs —A party of returned
emigrants from America, passengers by the Ni
agara, arrived yesterday at the Euston termintteof
the London end Northwentern Bailway from ITalr
York via Liverpool. They consisted chietile of
persons of small means, who had lull this eottu,try
four or five years ago, and established themselves
as shopleepeve inl , l' 0W %MR. thVil
cause of their return is stated to hare beelt the
annoyance the British. miclents were enkieWed to
by the lower class of the population since th.•
(liar of the Trent. They say that numorous
English families art) about to wave the Northern
States, in apprehension of a war breaking out with
England."
A 11;_urott Ratidolph, tLoularod.
man, Whh yeslerdng committed for trial by Alderma
Healer, on the charge of haring stolen thirteen watches,
from a matt named 'Hecht, in Patterson, Juniata COM atf.
PencsArttnitl. &•,veral of the matches were recovotro
64. Th. A 601444.1 wax lilitY eon,
milled for trial,. He wna arreated l,y.° Meet jolm tint
nora of th 4 rain] dititrict police
Public Ammements.
Another Deserter Shot.
GEN. SCOTT'S RETURN HOME.
HIS INTERVIEW WITH M. THOUVENEL
MS Hl!' i.I.TH
A London Hoax.